The Wars of the Roses: The Fall of the Plantagenets and the Rise of the Tudors

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Book: The War of the Roses: The Fall of the Plantagenets and the Rise of the Tudors/ The Hollow Crown Edward IV was equal to the task of kingship, but he made the disruptive mistake of marrying into the Woodville family. Richard III’s “ruthless usurpation” broke the rules of “political propriety”, opening the way for Henry Tudor, with his tenuous claim to the throne. “If Richard could seize the Crown, why should it not be seized from him?"

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The politics of blood has always amused me. The idea that someone is automatically deserving of something – a crown, for instance – because of who their father or mother was, is probably the most absurd, unjust thing ever thought up. So we have Dan Jones’ book “The War of the Roses” in which many characters run about claiming that this person has more of a right to wear the crown than that person because they’re supposedly a more direct descendant of a former king or queen. The author skips the story of Richard II being deposed by Henry IV, beginning instead with the marriage of the French princess Catherine of Valois to Henry V. He then describes the disastrous reign of their son Henry VI, “a highly impressionable and suggestible king, permanently childlike in his preference for allowing others to make decisions for him…. He may have been chaste, generous, pious and kind, but these were not very useful qualities in a king who was expected to direct government, keep the peace between his greatest subjects and sail across the ocean at regular intervals to slaughter the French.” Dan Jones (30 September 2012). "Blood Sisters: The Hidden Lives of the Women Behind the Wars of the Roses by Sarah Gristwood". The Sunday Times. London. Archived from the original on 28 July 2014.

Discover the real history behind The Hollow Crown: The Wars of the Roses, thePBS Great Performance series of Shakespeare’s plays, starring Judi Dench, Benedict Cumberbatch, Sofie Okenedo and Hugh Bonneville. Dan Jones (25 September 2012). "The history of Britain (in 15 minutes): from Stonehenge to the credit crunch". The Times. London. Jones is a journalist. He is a columnist at the London Evening Standard, where he writes regularly about sport. [22] He has written for The Times, [23] [24] [25] the Sunday Times, [26] [27] [28] The Telegraph, [29] [30] [31] [32] The Spectator, [33] The Daily Beast and Newsweek, [34] The Literary Review, The New Statesman, [35] GQ, BBC History Magazine and History Today.In this follow up to his book, The Plantagenets: The Warrior Kings and Queens Who Made England, I felt the author, Dan Jones, has done an admirable job of explaining the whys and wherefores of the struggle that became known as the Wars of the Roses. Starting with the death of Henry V, Mr. Jones looks at how the English experience in France, the end of the 100 Years War, and the inability of Henry’s son, Henry VI, to be an effective ruler led to the conditions that gave rise to the civil war. Summer of Blood: the Peasants' Revolt of 1381 by Dan Jones: review". The Daily Telegraph. London. 30 May 2009 . Retrieved 11 February 2012. His first historical fiction debut began with his 2022 book Essex Dogs which is part of a planned trilogy. It details the life of a platoon of archers and men-at-arms during the Hundred Years' War. [13] Children dressed as angels, with gold painted faces, sang ‘Hail flower of England, knight of Christendom’, as they greeted Henry V on his return to London following the great victory at Agincourt. Five years later, in 1420, the king was regent of France, heir to the French throne, and married to their princess, Catherine of Valois. ‘It is not recorded’ wrote one admiring chronicler, ‘that any king of England ever accomplished so much in so short a time’. A Clash of Kings, you say? Oh yes, George R. R. Martin definitely was inspired by the Wars of the Roses so much he basically took all the York brothers and put them in Westeros to become the Baratheon brothers. Oh, I was definitely enjoying my time trying to draw parallels to A Song of Ice and Fire characters and hoping the ending of one character would be the same as in the books.

The Wars of the Roses: The Fall of the Plantagenets and the Rise of the Tudors Dan Jones, far better title would be, the last warrior kings of England, so engaging masterful, reads like fiction but it isn't. Englands last line of warrior kings, follows on from the strongest ever king Henry 5th and his brutal victory at Agincourt 1415 near the end of the 100 year war against the weak and divided French, his early death as a warrior king of course in battle, a mere 7 years later left his kingdom on a dark deep precipice Henry 6th was only 9 months old and for 61 years the great noble families danced with each other in a deadly game of cut your throat and cut your head off politics. 7 kings 4 houses pretty much destroyed and a dark horse outsider house of Tudor came out on top. In real life, of course, Richard III was unheard to have muttered “my kingdom for a horse” when felled in battle, and deeds just as villainous as those which Shakespeare saddled the scoliosis-afflicted king with could easily be ascribed to just about every other king. Of course, Richard III’s attempt to wed his brother���s daughter isn’t something that will be looked upon positively in the history books – or even in those times apparently, as his, ahem, desires were thwarted. Throw in the possible murder of the aforementioned prepubescent boys and it's clear we're not exactly talking about Mr. Rogers here. The author of Powers and Thrones and presenter of Netflix’s Secrets of Great British Castles offers a vivid account of the events that inspired Game of Thrones and Shakespeare’s Henry IV and Richard III Yeah, I know it sound confusing, but don’t let it. Dan is wonderful at making a complicated matter really simple. He doesn’t write in what I would call a scholarly way. To me, Dan writes for the common person-meaning that if you don’t know anything about the War of the Roses, you will be able to understand what is going on right away. Jones has also made a four-part documentary series entitled Britain's Bloody Crown about the Wars of the Roses.

This is the story of a mighty family tree gone to war as notional `roses'. Plantagenet House Lancaster and House York simply annihilated themselves. Circumstances and peculiarity left an outsider standing. A 'Tudur' from Wales of low noble origin emerges as king. It's the time of the Tudors and the end of dynasty. The author's youthfulness helps to assure the inevitable comparison with the Anne Frank diary although over and above the sphere of suffering shared, and in this case extended to the death march itself, there is no spiritual or emotional legacy here to offset any reader reluctance.