Entries for the tag ‘Wars of the Roses (1455-87)’
A series of civil wars fought for the English throne between two Plantagenet branches, the Houses of Lancaster and York. 
- 1 October 1399: Henry IV pardons the hermit Matthew Danthorpe, who he found building an unlicensed chapel when he landed at Ravenspurn on his way to dethroning Richard II
- 29 March 1461: The Wharfe runs red as the Yorkists destroy the Lancastrians at Towton (Tadcaster)
- 22 September 1465: A (perhaps exaggerated) menu for the enthronement at Cawood Castle of George Neville as Archbishop of York
- 27 March 1690: At the première of an ode celebrating the “chief agents” of the Glorious Revolution – “the city and county of York” – London Yorkshiremen hear of domestic decline since Roman rule
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