Research Catalog

Title

Henry VI, Margaret of Anjou and the Wars of the Roses : a source book / Keith Dockray.

Author

Dockray, Keith

Publication

Stroud : Sutton Pub., 2000.

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Details

Description

xlvi, 146 p. : geneal. table; 24 cm.

Summary

"Henry VI (1422-61) was the third, and least successful, Lancastrian king of England; his wife Margaret of Anjou became a formidable political force in her own right; and the Wars of the Roses, so dramatically portrayed by William Shakespeare as bloody dynastic struggles fought for the possession of the crown, brought the usurpation of Edward IV (1461-83), the humiliation and exile of Margaret of Anjou, and the murder of her husband in the Tower of London." "Combining a framework of interpretation and a selection of passages from contemporary and near-contemporary sources, this compilation enables readers to appreciate just why the rule of Henry VI resulted in the outbreak of the Wars of the Roses, what these internecine conflicts were like, and how they culminated in the end of the House of Lancaster."--Jacket.

Series Statement

Sutton history paperbacks

Uniform Title

Sutton history paperbacks

Alternative Title

Henry the Sixth, Margaret of Anjou and the Wars of the Roses

Subject

• Henry VI, King of England, 1421-1471
• Henry VI, King of England, 1421-1471
• Margaret, of Anjou, Queen, consort of Henry VI, King of England, 1430-1482
• 1422-1485
• Great Britain > Kings and rulers > Biography
• Great Britain > History > Henry VI, 1422-1461
• Great Britain > History > Wars of the Roses, 1455-1485
• Great Britain > Kings and rulers > Biography
• Great Britain > History > Henry VI, 1422-1461
• Great Britain > History > Wars of the Roses, 1455-1485
• Great Britain > History > Henry VI, 1422-1461 > Sources
• Great Britain > History > Wars of the Roses, 1455-1485 > Sources

Genre/Form

• Biographies
• History
• Sources

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [141]-143) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Table: The Dynastic Dimension of the Wars of the Roses 1450-1471 -- Henry VI -- Margaret of Anjou -- Richard of York -- Origins of the Wars of the Roses -- Jack Cade's Rebellion, 1450 -- Dartford, 1452 -- St. Albans, 1455 -- Blore Heath and Ludford, 1459 -- Northampton and Wakefield, 1460 -- Mortimer's Cross, St. Albans and Towton, 1461 -- Hexham, 1464 -- Barnet, Tewkesbury and the End of the Lancastrian Dynasty, 1471.

ISBN

0750921633

OCLC

• 42913370
• SCSB-12556895

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library