There were three distinct phases of civil war: between 14 14 and 14. ![]() ![]() While the actual phrase ‘ Wars of the Roses’ did not appear until the 19th cent., the idea of the warring roses was rooted in Tudor propaganda. He claimed to be the heir of Lancaster and represented his marriage to Elizabeth of York, the heiress of Edward IV, as the union of the red and white roses, bringing peace and prosperity after the war and ruin of the preceding decades. In fact the idea of the warring roses was invented by Henry VII after he seized the throne in 1485. They are so called because of the notion that, fought between the dynasties of Lancaster and York, Lancaster was represented by a red rose, York by a white. Once applied to the whole of the 15th cent., the name is now given to the sequence of plots, rebellions, and battles that took place between 14.
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