Unraveling the Wars of the Roses: Causes and Consequences

The Wars of the Roses was not just one war, it was a series of ongoing wars between two parties, The Lancaster Party and the York Party. They were fighting over the English throne. The Lancaster party had a red rose, York had a white rose, and the Tudor rose was both red and white. This is why the series of wars that were named the War of the Roses. They did not name the wars until several years later. Some might say that the marriage of Margaret and Henry Tudor had been why the War of the Roses ended, but is that the case?

The wars of the Roses resulted from social and financial troubles that followed the Hundred Years War. Combined with the mental infirmity and weak rule of Henry the fifth, which revived interest in the alternative claim to the throne of Richard, Duke of York (B). The wars were fought between the House of Lancaster and York for the English throne. The wars were named many years afterward, from the supposed badges of the contending parties, the white rose of the York and the red rose of Lancaster (D). In 1453, December. Henry the fifth had his first bout with mental illness. In 1454 around April was the start of York’s first protectorate. February was the end of York’s first protectorate (A).

The untimely episodes of mental illness of Henry the fifth was one of the main cause of the wars of the Roses. This left Richard the third to rule, who was the last Yorkist king. He was defeated at the Battle of Bosworth in 1485 by Henry Tudor founder of the House of Tudor. Both houses were in direct descendants of King Edward the third. The ruling Lancastrian king, Henry the fifth, surrounded himself with unpopular nobles. The availability of many powerful lords with their own private armies. The civil unrest of almost all of the population