He led an abortive invasion of England in 1483 and won the. In this first episode of our two-part series, we’re joined by Curator of Collections and Interiors Dickon Whitewood to discuss what the Wars of the Roses were, how they started and the early battles that ended with Yorkist triumph. In 1471, after the Lancastrian defeat, he and his uncle Jasper Tudor were in exile in Brittany. The series of conflicts – which took place between 14 – spanned multiple different reigns, involved numerous foreign kingdoms, and heralded changes in English politics, social order and battlefield technology. Sophie (aged 7) and Ellie (aged 4) tell the story of climax of the Wars of the Roses. the reassertion of the Crown's superiority over the nobility by the war's. the destruction of half the nobility of England.

an increase in the use of violence and assassination as political tools. The Wars of the Roses, fought between the two powerful houses of York and Lancaster, pitted families against each other. The various consequences of the Wars of the Roses may be summarised as: an increase in the power of nobles compared to the Crown during the wars. Less than 100 years after the Black Death, England was again uprooted by dramatic upheaval.

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