The Wars of the Roses: Endings

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🗓️ 21 May 2022

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

All things must end. This final special episode on the Wars of the Roses deals with a series of endings and considers what finding a date for the end of the conflict means for how we think about this critical period. Lancaster will be revived, only to meet a final end. The House of York seems secure, but would fall, replaced by an unknown Welshman who had lived half his life in exile.

Does the arrival of the Tudor dynasty really mark the end of the Wars of the Roses? Or is that just the story that wanted everyone to believe? What of Lambert Simnel, Perkin Warbeck, the White Roses, and the papal plot to destroy Henry VIII by restoring the House of York? All things must end. The question is how and when did the Wars of the Roses end.

The Senior Producer on this episode was Elena Guthrie. The Producer was Rob Weinberg. It was edited and sound designed by Aidan Lonergan.

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0:43.0	Welcome to the conclusion of my breakdown of the Wars of the Roses here on Gun Medieval.
0:48.4	I'm Matt Lewis. I hope you can stand one more round of me indulging my obsession.
0:54.8	After this we've got two fantastic episodes with expert guests to pick over some of the things
1:00.4	that I've covered. We left things last time with a rift between Edward IV and the earn of Warwick,
1:07.3	papered over somewhat unconvincingly. Now we'll witness the death throws of the House of Lancaster
1:14.2	and then the self-destruction of the House of York before we give some thought to how and when
1:20.8	the Wars of the Roses actually ended. Endings are never easy.
1:32.3	In an odd decision that smacks of lashing out at the Neville faction more broadly, Edward
1:37.7	deprived John Neville of the Northumberland Eldon and gave it back to Henry Percy.
1:43.6	John was nominally promoted to the rank of Marcus Montague but in reality was left with no land,
1:50.4	no income and no way to support his position. Given John's previously faultless loyalty it was
1:57.4	a bitter pill to swallow. Perhaps part of the point was to rub Warwick's nose in his brother's
2:03.2	promotion. Maybe another part was to distract Warwick with the return of the Percy faction to
2:08.8	power in the North. Whatever the intention, the result was escalation. In February 1470, Edward's
2:18.0	master of the horse, Sir Thomas DeBurr, was attacked by his Lincolnshire neighbour Lord Wells.
2:23.9	Lord Wells was summoned to London and after pleading ill health failed to excuse him,
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