Wars Of The Roses, Who was fight an why on earth would all that death be worth THAT?

The fight was for the crown of England basically, it was fought by the Lancastrians and the Yorkists. The Yorkists held the white rose as a symbol and the Lancastrians held the red rose as there symbol, personally I would want to carry a red rose because it would symbolize death and blood and scare terrify my enemy to no end. Henry VI did not hold the red rose as a symbol; the people who worked for Henry VII though used it and created a red and white Tudor rose, to try to symbolize the union of the two houses.

Turdor Rose

The war was a result of the recovery of the madness of the King Henry VI in the early 1455’s. King Henry VI was King Henry V’s infant son who was put on the throne, and sometimes suffered from fits of insanity, because of this the land owners found the King was not very stable and they could often do what they wanted to.While Henry VI was insane the nation was ruled by a council of nobles under the protection of Henry’s Kinsman, Richard, Duke of York. Some say that they believe that Richard was the rightful heir to the throne, not Henry. When Henry VI recovered from his insanity, the ‘old court party’ took over the monarch and government once again.