The Wars of the Roses
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Edgar John George. The Wars of the Roses
INTRODUCTION. The Plantagenets
CHAPTER I. THE MONK-MONARCH AND HIS MISLEADERS
CHAPTER II. THE DUKE OF YORK AND THE KING-MAKER
CHAPTER III. THE CAPTAIN OF KENT
CHAPTER IV. THE RIVAL DUKES
CHAPTER V. THE KING'S MALADY
CHAPTER VI. THE BATTLE OF ST. ALBANS
CHAPTER VII. THE QUEEN AND THE YORKIST CHIEFS
CHAPTER VIII. THE CITY AND THE COURT
CHAPTER IX. A YORKIST VICTORY AND A LANCASTRIAN REVENGE
CHAPTER X. THE BATTLE OF NORTHAMPTON
CHAPTER XI. YORK'S CLAIM TO THE CROWN
CHAPTER XII. THE QUEEN'S FLIGHT AND RETURN
CHAPTER XIII. THE ANJOUITE'S VENGEANCE
CHAPTER XIV. A PLANTAGENET AND THE TUDORS
CHAPTER XV. BEFORE TOWTON
CHAPTER XVI. TOWTON FIELD
CHAPTER XVII. THE QUEEN'S STRUGGLES WITH ADVERSITY
CHAPTER XVIII. THE WOODVILLES
CHAPTER XIX. THE LANCASTRIANS IN EXILE
CHAPTER XX. WARWICK AND THE WOODVILLES
CHAPTER XXI. DESPOTISM, DISCONTENT, AND DISORDER
CHAPTER XXII. THE SIEGE OF EXETER
CHAPTER XXIII. LOUIS THE CRAFTY
CHAPTER XXIV "THE STOUT EARL" AND "THE FOREIGN WOMAN."
CHAPTER XXV. THE EARL'S RETURN AND EDWARD'S FLIGHT
CHAPTER XXVI. THE EARL OF WORCESTER
CHAPTER XXVII. THE BANISHED KING
CHAPTER XXVIII. QUEEN MARGARET'S VOYAGE
CHAPTER XXIX. THE BATTLE OF BARNET
CHAPTER XXX. BEFORE TEWKESBURY
CHAPTER XXXI. THE FIELD OF TEWKESBURY
CHAPTER XXXII. THE VICTOR AND THE VANQUISHED
CHAPTER XXXIII. WARWICK'S VICE-ADMIRAL
CHAPTER XXXIV. ESCAPE OF THE TUDORS
CHAPTER XXXV. ADVENTURES OF JOHN DE VERE
CHAPTER XXXVI. A DUKE IN RAGS
CHAPTER XXXVII. LOUIS DE BRUGES AT WINDSOR
CHAPTER XXXVIII. THE TREATY OF PICQUIGNY
CHAPTER XXXIX. A DOMESTIC TRAGEDY
CHAPTER XL. KING EDWARD'S DEATH
CHAPTER XLI. THE DUKE OF GLOUCESTER
CHAPTER XLII. THE PROTECTOR AND THE PROTECTORATE
CHAPTER XLIII. THE USURPATION
CHAPTER XLIV. RICHARD'S CORONATION
CHAPTER XLV. THE PRINCES IN THE TOWER
CHAPTER XLVI. A MOCK KING-MAKER
CHAPTER XLVII. THE COMING MAN
CHAPTER XLVIII. FROM BRITTANY TO BOSWORTH
CHAPTER XLIX. RICHARD BEFORE BOSWORTH
CHAPTER L. BOSWORTH FIELD
CHAPTER LI. AFTER BOSWORTH
CHAPTER LII. THE UNION OF THE TWO ROSES
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About the middle of the ninth century a warrior named Tertullus, having rendered signal services to the King of France, married Petronella, the king's cousin, and had a son who flourished as Count of Anjou. The descendants of Tertullus and Petronella rose rapidly, and exercised much influence on French affairs. At length, in the twelfth century, Geoffrey, Count of Anjou, surnamed Plantagenet, from wearing a sprig of flowering broom instead of a feather, espoused Maude, daughter of Henry Beauclerc, King of England; and Henry Plantagenet, their son, succeeded, on the death of Stephen, to the English throne.
Having married Eleanor, heiress of Aquitaine, and extended his continental empire from the Channel to the Pyrenees, Henry ranked as the most potent of European princes. But, though enabled to render great services to England, he was not an Englishman; and, indeed, it was not till the death of John, at Swinehead, that the English had a king who could be regarded as one of themselves. That king was Henry the Third, born and educated in England, and sympathizing with the traditions of the people over whom he reigned.
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Gloucester was never brought to trial; and it was said that Suffolk and the cardinal, finding that every body ridiculed the charge of conspiracy, caused "The Good Duke" to be assassinated. Appearances rather strengthened the popular suspicion. One evening, about the close of February, Gloucester was in perfect health: next morning he was found dead in bed. The indecent haste with which Suffolk seized upon the duke's estates was commented on with severity; and Margaret of Anjou shared the suspicion that had been excited.
The cardinal did not long survive the man who was believed to have been his victim. Early in the month of April, Beaufort died in despair, bitterly reproaching his riches, that they could not prolong his life; and Suffolk, now without a rival, so conducted himself as to incur the perfect hatred of the nation. The English people had a peculiar aversion to favorites, and remembered that while weak sovereigns, like the third Henry and the second Edward, had been ruined by such creatures, great kings, like the first and third Edward, had done excellently well without them. Suffolk was every day more and more disliked; and in 1449 his unpopularity reached the highest point.
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