What was the conflict between the York and the Lancaster?

Question

What was the conflict between the York and the Lancaster?

Answer 1

The war of the roses.

The Wars of the Roses (1455–1487) were a series of dynastic civil wars fought in England between supporters of the Houses of Lancaster and York. Although armed clashes had occurred previously between supporters of Lancastrian King Henry VI and Richard, Duke of York, head of the rival House of York, the first open fighting broke out in 1455 and resumed more violently in 1459. Henry was captured and Richard became Protector of England, but was dissuaded from claiming the throne. Inspired by Henry's Queen, Margaret of Anjou, the Lancastrians resumed the conflict, and Richard was killed in battle at the end of 1460. His eldest son was proclaimed King Edward IV after a crushing victory at the Battle of Towton early in 1461.

After several years of minor Lancastrian revolts, Edward fell out with his chief supporter and advisor, the Earl of Warwick (known as the "Kingmaker"), who tried first to supplant him with his jealous younger brother George, and then to restore Henry VI to the throne. This resulted in two years of rapid changes of fortune, before Edward IV once again won a complete victory in 1471. Warwick and the Lancastrian heir Edward, Prince of Wales died in battle and Henry was murdered immediately afterwards.

A period of comparative peace followed, but Edward died unexpectedly in 1483. His surviving brother Richard of Gloucester first moved to prevent the unpopular family of Edward's widow, Queen Elizabeth, from participating in government during the minority of Edward's son, Edward V, and then seized the throne for himself, using the suspect legitimacy of Edward IV's marriage as pretext. This provoked several revolts, and Henry Tudor, a distant relative of the Lancastrian kings who had nevertheless inherited their claim, overcame and killed Richard in battle at Bosworth in 1485.

Yorkist revolts flared up in 1487, resulting in the last pitched battles. Sporadic rebellions continued to take place until the last (and fraudulent) Yorkist pretender was executed in 1499.

Fought largely by the landed aristocracy and armies of feudal retainers, support for each house largely depended upon dynastic factors, such as marriages within the nobility, feudal titles, and tenures. It is sometimes difficult to follow the shifts of power and allegiance because nobles acquired or lost titles through marriage, confiscation or attainture. For example, the Lancastrian patriarch John of Gaunt's first title was Earl of Richmond, the same title which Henry VII later held, while the Yorkist patriarch Edmund of Langley's first title was Earl of Cambridge. However it was not uncommon for nobles to switch sides and several battles were decided by treachery.

Answer 2

The Real ME's answer is correct as far as I can tell, but what sparked the whole thing off was the death of Edward III, leaving no clear successor.

If you have to write about it, make sure you keep your Richards and Richmonds in the right order.

Lancaster won on points, and the houses eventually cross-bred to become the Tudors (intermingled red and white rose).

Answer 3

war

Answer 4

War of the Roses

Answer 5

The War of the Roses: (1455 - 1487) a series of civil wars between Edmund Beaufort, Duke of Somerset (Henry VI cousin) and Richard Plantagenet, Duke of York.

Not only did York detest Somerset because of his favouritism with the king, he also detested the fact that he had been given the office he had previously held in France and the funds to support it

The name 'Wars of the Roses' is based on the badges used by the two sides, the red rose for the Lancastrians and the white rose for the Yorkists.