kingmaker

After Edward IV landed near Ravenspur in 1471 to reclaim the throne of England, he began to assemble an army and March south with volunteers and defectors, namely his brother George of Clarence. Finally he went on to besiege Warwick's castle at Coventry. However, Warwick had far greater...

So I recently learned that Warwick and Richard Woodvile’s animosity predated Edward eloping with Elizabeth. Richard Woodville was lieutenant of Calais from 1454 to 1455 or 56. During his time there, there were some issues with parliament sending funds to pay the soldiers. He would refuse to...

In Life and Death a Kingmaker - A Lancaster Survival TL “No part of English history since the Conquest is so obscure, so uncertain, so little authentic or consistent, as that of the Wars between the two Roses.” - Edward Buwler Lytton The Succession Crisis known as the War of the Roses is...