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Hace 5 días · Elizabeth was the elder daughter of Prince Albert, duke of York, and his wife, Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon.As the child of a younger son of King George V, the young Elizabeth had little prospect of acceding to the throne until her uncle, Edward VIII (afterward duke of Windsor), abdicated in her father’s favour on December 11, 1936, at which time her father became King George VI and she became ...
Hace 3 días · Wars of the Roses. 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.
Hace 4 días · Following his victory at the Battle of Bosworth Field (22 August 1485), he reinforced his position in 1486 by fulfilling his 1483 vow to marry Elizabeth of York, daughter of King Edward IV and the heiress of the Yorkist claim to the throne, thus symbolically uniting the former warring factions of Lancaster and York under the new dynasty (represented by the Tudor rose).
Hace 4 días · Elizabeth of York Tudor. When Henry VII, of England seized the throne there were eighteen Plantagenet descendants who might today be thought to have a stronger hereditary claim, and by 1510 this number had been increased further by the birth of sixteen Yorkist children. Henry mitigated this situation with his marriage to Elizabeth of York.
19 de abr. de 2024 · George VI (born December 14, 1895, Sandringham, Norfolk, England—died February 6, 1952, Sandringham) was the king of the United Kingdom from 1936 to 1952. (From left) Queen Elizabeth, King George VI, Princess Margaret, and Princess Elizabeth (later Elizabeth II), 1939. The second son of the future king George V, the prince served in the Royal ...
24 de abr. de 2024 · Edward IV (born April 28, 1442, Rouen, France—died April 9, 1483, Westminster, England) was the king of England from 1461 until October 1470 and again from April 1471 until his death. He was a leading participant in the Yorkist-Lancastrian conflict known as the Wars of the Roses. Edward was the eldest surviving son of Richard, duke of York ...
20 de abr. de 2024 · He promised that when he became king he would marry Edward IV’s eldest daughter, Elizabeth of York, uniting the houses of Lancaster and York and ending the Wars of the Roses. In August 1485, Henry Tudor landed at Milford Haven in Wales and marched inland. Meanwhile, Richard III summoned his army to muster at Leicester.
