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1464 - 1478: THE MIDDLE

The red rose and the white are on his face, The fatal colours of our striving houses: The one his purple blood right well resembles; The other his pale cheeks, methinks, presenteth: Wither one rose, and let the other flourish; If you contend, a thousand lives must wither.

Henry VI, Part 3 (2.5.97-102)

KEY LANCASTRIAN MALE FIGURES DURING THIS PERIOD:

❁ Henry VI of England - restored to the throne on the 30th of October 1470; deposed and imprisoned after Tewkesbury; probably murdered on Edward IV’s orders on the 21st of May 1471 ❁ Edward of Lancaster, Prince of Wales - heir apparent to the English throne under Lancaster; killed at the Battle of Tewkesbury ❁ Edmund Beaufort, 4th Duke of Somerset - title disputed as attainder had not been lifted on his brother; executed after the Battle of Tewkesbury ❁ Thomas Neville, Viscount Fauconberg - the Bastard of Fauconberg; executed after the Kentish Rebellion ❁ Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick - killed at the Battle of Barnet after turning coat to Lancaster and engineering Henry VI’s second reign ❁ George Plantagenet, 1st Duke of Clarence - turned coat to Lancaster and back to York during Henry VI’s second reign; executed in 1478 for treason, reportedly drowned in a butt of Malmsey wine ❁ John Neville, 1st Marquess of Montagu - killed at the Battle of Barnet ❁ John de Vere, 13th Earl of Oxford - escaped to the continent after the Battle of Barnet

BATTLES:

♔ Battle of Hedgeley Moor - 25th of April 1464 ♔ Battle of Hexham - 15th of May 1464 ♔ Battle of Edgecote Moor - 26th of July 1469 ♔ Battle of Losecoat Field - 12th of March 1470 ♔ Battle of Barnet - 14th of April 1471 ♔ Battle of Tewkesbury - 4th of May 1471

Aretha Franklin. Photographed by Don Hunstein. (1960)

MARIA DE SALINAS in SIX WIVES WITH LUCY WORSLEY (2016)

The Queens of Henry VIII from “Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth”.

Jane Seymour in her pink gowns → requested by @princessjune​