Wars of the Roses Begin at St Albans: York vs Lancaster
Richard, Duke of York, defeats and captures King Henry VI at the First Battle of St Albans, igniting a thirty-year civil war that shatters the Lancastrian hold on the English throne. This violent rupture forces the nobility to choose sides, transforming political disputes into open warfare that reshapes the country's power structure for generations.
May 22, 1455
571 years ago
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Henry VI of England
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Richard Plantagenet, 3rd Duke of York
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Richard, Duke of York
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House of Lancaster
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England
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Henry VI of England
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Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick
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Richard of York, 3rd Duke of York
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Edmund Beaufort, 2nd Duke of Somerset
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