The opposition was led by Duke Richard of York, who first demanded regency over the incompetent king, and later – the English crown.Ī flammable element was numerous professional soldiers who, after the defeat in the war with France, were out of work and, being in large numbers, posed a grave danger to the royal authority. The cause of the war was the dissatisfaction of a large part of English society with setbacks in the Hundred Years’ War and the policies pursued by King Henry VI’s wife, Queen Margarita (the king himself was a weak-willed man and became insane). During the conflict, a large number of representatives of the English feudal aristocracy died. The war brought considerable destruction and disaster to the people of England.
The war ended in the victory of Henry Tudor from the side branch of the Lancaster House, which founded a dynasty that ruled England and Wales for 117 years. The War of the Roses was the armed conflict between groups of the English nobility in the years 1455-1485 in the struggle for power between the supporters of the two Dynasty branches Plantagenet – Lancaster, and York.
