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1444-61 Timeline Flashcards

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Battle of Mortimer’s Cross

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February 1461- March routs Lancastrians in revenge for York’s death (Parhelion)
Yorkist Victory

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Suffolk imprisoned

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January 1450- accused of manipulating king, unpopular due to losing French lands, his clique (Say, Moleyns) being granted land- Moleyns killed in Portsmuth

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Battle of Wakefield

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December 1460- York, Rutland and Salisbury killed- York succeeded by March (E4)
Lancastrian Victory

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York claims throne

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October 1460

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York’s first protectorate

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March 1454- appoints brother in law Salisbury chancellor, reforms navy, appoints himself captain of Calais, Somerset imprisoned in tower

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York reduces profligate expenditure from 24k in 1450 to 5k in

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1455

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H6’s illness begins

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August 1453- falls into unresponsive trance

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Rout of Ludford

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October 1459- Yorkists overrun after defections- York, Salisbury, Warwick and Edward Earl of March flee
Lancastrian Victory

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Henry VI £375,000 in debt

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1450

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Assassination attempt on Warwick

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1456

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Attack on Fougeres

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March 1449- Failed attack, Rouen lost, Suffolk charged with treason

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Parliament of Devils

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December 1459- Margaret orders death for Yorkists and Warwick- seizes land, goods, disinherits heirs- highly unpopular due to severity

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Warwick invades King’s council

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1458- having been accused of piracy after attacking Hansa Fleet of Lubeck, invades council with 600 armed men, flees to Calais, sacked as Captain, failed assassination attempt

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First Battle of St Albans

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May 1455- Somerset tried to avoid battle- killed along with Northumberland and Clifford
Yorkists capture Henry
Yorkist victory

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Act of Accord

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October 1460- York made heir to throne, Edward PoW disinherited

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Battle of Northampton

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July 1460- Buckingham defeated and killed by Warwick- Henry captured by Yorkists, Margaret and EPoW escape
Yorkist victory

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Suffolk made Lord Chancellor

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1447- evidence of favouritism of clique

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Battle of Towton

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March 1461- Yorkist victory with 50k troops- Margaret, H6 and EPoW flee to Scotland
Yorkist Victory

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York puts forward Act of Resumption

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1456- hated by nobles

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Somerset and York arrive in London

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September 1450- Somerset returns from France, York from Ireland- arrives in London with 3k retainers and Warwick- Somerset tries to arrest York, almost killed by mob, nobility split between two

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Loveday

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March 1458- Henry orchestrates useless ritual of ‘unity’

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Treaty of Tours

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1444- treaty with French, gave Maine, established 5 year peace. Unpopular, Suffolk criticised

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Normandy lost to French

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April 1450- following disastrous attack on Fougeres- Suffolk had failed to build defences, Somerset surrendered

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Battle of Ferrybridge

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March 1461- precursor to Towton, Clifford killed
Yorkist Victory

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York’s second protectorate

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1455-56- lowers debts, eases tensions between Bonvilles and Courtenays, stopped Exeter and Percys taking city of York

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Prince Edward born

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October 1453

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Cade’s Rebellion

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May & June 1450- started in Kent, pillaged London protesting against taxes and ‘evil councillors’- Say and Crowmer killed, Suffolk’s clique, in charge of Kent, which had been scapegoated for Suffolk’s death

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Second Battle of St Albans

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February 1461- Warwick defeated, Henry recaptured by Lancastrians
Lancastrian victory

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Somerset released from Tower

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February 1455

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Henry recovers

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January 1455

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Suffolk released

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May 1450- Released and exiled, executed by pirates in straits of Dover

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Harvest of Heads

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1451- execution of Cade’s rebels

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Edward IV sworn in as King

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March 1461- before Ferrybridge and Towton

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Dartford Coup

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March 1452- York- having sworn loyalty to H6- gathers army and nobility (Buckingham, Warwick, Salisbury) against Somerset- outnumbered at Dartford, fails to unseat Somerset
Lancastrian victory

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Somerset made Captain of Calais

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1451

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Battle of Blore Heath

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September 1459- Audley intercepts Salisbury and is killed- Yorkist victory

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Edward IV crowned

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June 1461

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