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The Wars of the Roses, known at the time and in following centuries as the Civil Wars, were a series of civil wars fought over control of the English throne from 1455 to 1487. The wars were fought between supporters of the House of Lancaster and House of York , two rival cadet branches of the royal House of Plantagenet .
Although Wenlock is often remembered for his military exploits (he fought in six of the major battles of the Wars of the Roses, as well as the sieges of the Tower of London and Dunstanburgh Castle), most of his public service was in the diplomatic field, and contemporary accounts record him as being regarded as "very clever". [2]
View of the Saloon at Buscot Park showing two of the major panels – The Garden Court and The Rose Bower – in their context between the adjoining panels The Legend of Briar Rose is the title of a series of paintings by the Pre-Raphaelite artist Edward Burne-Jones which were begun before 1874 but not completed until 1890.
The Wars of the Roses, 1455 to 1487, is the name generally given to the intermittent civil war fought over the throne of England between adherents of the House of Lancaster and the House of York Wikimedia Commons has media related to Wars of the Roses .
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The Battle of the Roses also known as The Rugby Match or The Roses Match is an 1895 portrait by artist William Barnes Wollen. It is based on the rugby union match between the representative sides of Yorkshire and Lancashire played at Fallowfield, Manchester on 24 November 1894. It depicts the Yorkshire team in the all-white strip attacking ...
The Battle of Piltown took place near Piltown, County Kilkenny in 1462 as part of the Wars of the Roses.It was fought between the supporters of the two leading Irish magnates Thomas FitzGerald, 7th Earl of Desmond, head of the government in Dublin and a committed Yorkist, and John Butler, 6th Earl of Ormond who backed the Lancastrian cause.