The Wars of the Roses (1455-1485) was a series of civil wars in England during the reigns of Henry VI, Edward IV, and Richard III. The thirty years of war are said to be more destructive to England than the Hundred Years War had been in the earlier century. The Wars of the Roses marked the struggle for the English throne between the families descended from Edward III and the families descended from Henry IV. King Richard II died without an heir; he had been overthrown and murdered by Henry IV. Henry IV's descendants and their supporters were the Lancastrian faction. The other branch descended from Edward IV. They were associated with families in the North of England, particularly the House of York and Richard of York. They are called the Yorkist faction. The house of York was represented by the badge of a white rose and the red rose adopted by the house of Lancaster. This is what led to the coming of the phase “The War of the Roses”. In the year of 1411 Richard Plantagenet, his father was the son of Edmund, the first Duke of York, who was in turn the fourth son of Edward III. “If …show more content…
Therefore, making Richard, King Richard III, who rules until 1485. The Battle of Bosworth Field took place in 1485. Henry Tudor, soon to be King Henry VII, lands in Wales in August of 1485 to challenge Richard III for the Crown. Richard moved to meet Henry’s army, which was south of the village of Market Bosworth. Henry VII defeated the Yorkist forces and Richard is killed. Henry VII then ushered in the rule of the house of Tudor finally ending the Wars of the Roses. Henry VII spent the next two years, wiping out any other claimants to the throne. After these thirty years of war only one monarch, Edward IV, actually died of natural causes. Although if it was not for his death and he lived much longer than the last few years of the wars probably would not have happened the way it all