The War of the Roses Notes

• Richard III becomes king and there is much deceit and manipulation of political events
• An attempt on the part of Henry Tudor to taker over the kingship
• Richard II steps down and he is replaced by Henry IV
• Henry V dies and his son, Henry VI becomes king
• He was a weak king because he was only a child
• Because he is so young, people around him develop to vie for the throne
• Unleashes a war between the house of Lancaster and the house of York

• Peasants and lower class start to dislike the monarchs
• The rise of the Tudor family
• Gives us the England that we recognize in the Renaissance
• An early modern Europe
• Rise of strong monarchs

• Catholic England
• What happened to Catholic England?

• England
• From Henry VIII on is a fundamentally Anglican and Protestant country
• Generations of warfare, burning, and conflict between Protestantism and Catholicism

• Reformation
• People were burned if found reading a New Testament
• Catholic England turned into a Protestant nation

• Henry VIII became king at 17 when his father died
• Arthur is his brother but he dies so Henry becomes the heir apparent to the throne
• He becomes king when his father dies in 1509
• Starts the Reformation by divorcing his wife
• His first wife Catherine of Aragon was going to marry his older brother, but Henry marries her because his brother died
• This creates an alliance between England and Spain

• The Plantagenet line is replaced by the Tudor line
• When Henry V died young his wife remarried Owen Tudor which opened up the Tudor bloodline into the throne
• Henry VII Tudor defeats Richard III of York and takes the throne into the Tudor bloodline
• The Tudors would rule England for the next 200 years

• Lancaster and York are the two Plantagenet houses that compete during the War of the Roses