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He was briefly restored as ruler from 1470 to 1471 but before the battle of Barnet in April he was captured by Edward and sent to the tower of London where he was murdered on May 21, 1471. In 1461 he lost the throne to Richard's son Edward IV.At the battle of Northampton in 1460 he was captured by the Yorkist forces and forced to acknowledge Richard as the rightful heir to the throne.The next year he recovered and clashed with Richard over who would rule England thus starting the Wars of the Roses. At the age of 32 (1453) he suffered his first attack of mental illness and control of the country was taken up by Richard, duke of York.During his reign his country lost the Hundred Year's War and all of its French territories except for Calais. Henry VI was crowned king of both England and France when he was an infant.The untimely episodes of mental illness by King Henry VI.

The civil unrest of much of the population the availability of many powerful lords with their own private armies The ruling Lancastrian king, Henry VI, surrounded himself with unpopular nobles All this divided York and Lancaster.“ William Shakespeare, Richard IIIīoth houses were direct descendents of king Edward III 'England hath long been mad, and scarr’d herself: The brother blindly shed the brother’s blood The father rashly slaughter’d his own son The son, compell’d, been butcher to the sire. Main Events First period : troubles Henry VI weak, Sommerset and Suffolk plunder the state funds-> Lancastrians unpopular 1449 His brothers : George, archbishop of York John, Lord Montagu (+1471).Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick (+1471) 'the King Maker'.Richard of Gloucester (1452-1485), becomes Richard III Reign : 1483-1485.His sons : Edward V (1470-1483) Richard of York.His father, Edward Duke of York (+1461).Henry, Earl of Richmond (1455-1509) becomes Henry VII Tudor Reign : 1485-1509.The War of the Roses Myth and Reality of the most epic period in English History

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