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The Yorkist rose is used in the seal of the City of York, Pennsylvania, which is known as "White Rose City". The town's minor league baseball team, which played in different leagues for several decades, was called the York White Roses. The white rose appears on one of the hats for York's current minor league baseball team, the York Revolution.
Rosa × alba, the white rose of York, is a hybrid rose of unknown parentage [1] that has been cultivated in Europe since ancient times. [2] It may have originally been grown mainly for the sweet scent of the flowers, but is now also used as a winter-hardy garden shrub. [2] Cultivated forms have white or pink flowers, and most have many petals.
The people, divided in their affections, took different symbols of party: the partisans of the house of Lancaster chose the red rose as their mark of distinction; those of York were denominated from the white; and these civil wars were thus known over Europe by the name of the quarrel between the two roses.
The White Rose en soleil (imposed on a sun in splendour) of the House of York, upon the livery colours blue and murrey of the Yorkist dynasty, surrounded by the royal motto Dieu et mon droit. From a manuscript (1478-1480) of the Speculum historiale belonging to King Edward IV .
Richard de la Pole (died 24 February 1525) was a pretender to the English crown.Commonly nicknamed "White Rose", he was the last Yorkist claimant to actively and openly seek the crown of England.
The Tudor rose is a combination of the Red Rose of Lancaster and the White Rose of York. The Tudor rose (sometimes called the Union rose) is the traditional floral heraldic emblem of England and takes its name and origins from the House of Tudor, which united the House of Lancaster and the House of York. The Tudor rose consists of five white ...
The red rose of Lancaster and the white rose of York This map of Northern England shows the historic boundaries of the counties of Lancashire (centre-left) and Yorkshire (centre-right) The term "Roses rivalry" refers to the rivalry between the English counties of Lancashire and Yorkshire .
Cecily's husband, the Duke of York, was the leading contender for the throne of England from the House of York during the period of the Wars of the Roses until his death in 1460. Their son Edward actually assumed the throne as Edward IV in 1461, after the deposition of King Henry VI of the House of Lancaster .