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1485 ( MCDLXXXV) fue un año común comenzado en sábado del calendario juliano . Acontecimientos. En Inglaterra es coronado Enrique VII, primer rey de la dinastía Tudor. Termina la guerra de las Dos Rosas. 11 de junio, Fernando II de Aragón, reconquista Marbella. Cristóbal Colón en España.
March 16 – A solar eclipse crosses northern South America and Central Europe. [1] June 1 – Matthias of Hungary takes Vienna, in his conquest of Austria (from Frederick III ), and makes the city his capital. August 5 – 7 – The first outbreak of sweating sickness in England begins. August 22 – Battle of Bosworth: King Richard III of ...
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During the 15th century civil war raged across England as the Houses of York and Lancaster fought each other for the English throne. In 1471 the Yorkists defeated their rivals in the battles of Barnet and Tewkesbury. The Lancastrian King Henry VI and his only son, Edward of Westminster, died in the aftermath of the Battle of Tewkesbury. Their death...
By the 15th century, English chivalric ideas of selfless service to the king had been corrupted. Armed forces were raised mostly through musters in individual estates; every able-bodied man had to respond to his lord's call to arms, and each noble had authority over his militia. Although a king could raise personal militia from his lands, he could ...
Henry's initial force consisted of the English and Welsh exiles who had gathered around Henry, combined with a contingent of mercenaries put at his disposal by Charles VIII of France. The history of Scottish author John Major(published in 1521) claims that Charles had granted Henry 5,000 men, of whom 1,000 were Scots, headed by Sir Alexander Bruce....
Since 22 June Richard had been aware of Henry's impending invasion, and had ordered his lords to maintain a high level of readiness. News of Henry's landing reached Richard on 11 August, but it took three to four days for his messengers to notify his lords of their king's mobilisation. On 16 August, the Yorkist army started to gather; Norfolk set o...
The Yorkist army, variously estimated at between 7,500 and 12,000 men, deployed on the hilltop along the ridgeline from west to east. Norfolk's force (or "battle" in the parlance of the time) of spearmen stood on the right flank, protecting the cannon and about 1,200 archers. Richard's group, comprising 3,000 infantry, formed the centre. Northumber...
Although he claimed fourth-generation, maternal Lancastrian descendancy, Henry seized the crown by right of conquest. After the battle, Richard's circlet is said to have been found and brought to Henry, who was proclaimed king at the top of Crown Hill, near the village of Stoke Golding. According to Vergil, Henry's official historian, Lord Stanley ...
Contemporary accounts of the Battle of Bosworth can be found in four main sources, one of which is the English Croyland Chronicle, written by a senior Yorkist chronicler who relied on second-hand information from nobles and soldiers. The other accounts were written by foreigners—Vergil, Jean Molinet, and Diego de Valera. Whereas Molinet was sympath...
The site of the battle is deemed by Leicestershire County Council to be in the vicinity of the town of Market Bosworth. The council engaged historian Daniel Williams to research the battle, and in 1974 his findings were used to build the Bosworth Battlefield Heritage Centre and the presentation it houses. Williams's interpretation, however, has sin...
"Bosworth" . The New Student's Reference Work . 1914.Richard III Society Archived 9 February 2013 at the Wayback Machine: history society, which contains photos and articles that present several competing theories about the location of the battleBosworth Field – The Battle of 1485:on website The History Notes- 22 August 1485
Dinastía Tudor. Entre finales del siglo XV y principios del XVII ocurrieron grandes cambios en Inglaterra e Irlanda bajo el gobierno de la dinastía Tudor, que abarcó del año 1485 al 1603. Tras décadas de guerras dinásticas esta época supuso un paréntesis de prosperidad, a pesar de los conflictos internacionales en el ámbito religioso y ...
Sir William Brandon (1456 – 22 August 1485) of Soham, Cambridgeshire was Henry Tudor's standard-bearer at the Battle of Bosworth, where he was killed by King Richard III. He was the father of Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk.
1485 fue un año común comenzado en sábado del calendario juliano.
1485. 1485 was a common year. Millennium : 2nd millennium. Centuries : 14th century – 15th century – 16th century. Decades : 1450s 1460s 1470s – 1480s – 1490s 1500s 1510s. Years :
