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What do you feel about the house of york

I feel like it's a medieval dynasty that one a war. That's about it.

I also think that Richard Duke of York was nothing more than a jealous cousin that saw the perfect opportunity to climb the ladder and took it, justly paying the price. Edward IV's anger over his and his brother's death is understandable and so were his actions. Too bad that he didn't saw that the Duke of York's ruthless ambitions had trickled down to his sons Richard and George before they tried it with him. I think the Woodvilles were overtly greedy and took too much of the hand that fed them making the nobility hate them, and they also paid for it. I mean, arranging prestige marriages for every single Woodville? I get it, one of them was the Queen, but come on now, they clearly overplayed.

On the whole, I find this representation of the Yorks as this typical Good HeirsTM that took their rightful place on the throne and stepped up through harsh times that persists so much to this day lame and reductive. The truth of the matter is, they were never more just and GoodTM than the Lancasters. The Lancasters successfully organized a coup and sat the throne, the Yorks did the same, demonizing Henry VI and Queen Margaret of Anjou through propaganda as a freak and an overly ambitious femme fatale respectively, while casting their teenage son as a cruel bastard. All for defending fiercely what was by right theirs (we have Shakespeare to blame for that as well).

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♔ Houses that ruled the Kingdom of England (9th - 18th century)

𝘾𝙀𝙍𝙎𝙀𝙄 𝙇𝘼𝙉𝙉𝙄𝙎𝙏𝙀𝙍 & 𝙀𝙇𝙄𝙕𝘼𝘽𝙀𝙏𝙃 𝙒𝙊𝙊𝘿𝙑𝙄𝙇𝙇𝙀/ 𝙈𝘼𝙍𝙂𝘼𝙍𝙀𝙏 𝙊𝙁 𝘼𝙉𝙅𝙊𝙐

ᴀꜱᴏɪᴀꜰ ᴄʜᴀʀᴀᴄᴛᴇʀꜱ ᴀɴᴅ ᴛʜᴇɪʀ ᴡᴀʀ ᴏꜰ ᴛʜᴇ ʀᴏꜱᴇꜱ ᴄᴏᴜɴᴛᴇʀᴘᴀʀᴛꜱ 𝐏𝐀𝐑𝐓 𝟏/?

𝙲𝙴𝚁𝚂𝙴𝙸 𝙻𝙰𝙽𝙽𝙸𝚂𝚃𝙴𝚁 & 𝙴𝙻𝙸𝚉𝙰𝙱𝙴𝚃𝙷 𝚆𝙾𝙾𝙳𝚅𝙸𝙻𝙻𝙴

Known for their beauty (blonde hair, fair skin, enthrancing eyes)

Queen consort to a king who won his throne in battle (Robert/Edward IV).

Favoured the presence of their family at court and their increasing power.

Close to their brothers (Cersei waaay more than Elizabeth but you know).

Loathed but many people, even at court.

Their husbands were drunks and unfaithful to them.

Their children were declared (or accused of) being bastards.

Said to be cold and power seekers.

𝙲𝙴𝚁𝚂𝙴𝙸 𝙻𝙰𝙽𝙽𝙸𝚂𝚃𝙴𝚁 & MARGARET OF ANJOU

Known for their shrewd political mind.

Wives to incompetent kings in an arranged marriage.

Cersei's children and Margaret's son were said to be bastards fruit of adultery.

Their sons (Joffrey/Edward) were (or were rumored to be) psychopaths.

Had those who questioned their children's claim killed and put their heads on a spike.

Started a war in defense of their children's claims.

Reputation of being ambituous and ruthless

Were willing to marry their sons to the daughters of old foes (Warwick, Tyrell)

Their sons died before them.

Their allegiance was to House Lannister/Lancaster.

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On this day in History: England's first Lancastrian king, Henry IV, dies in 1413.

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Novelists love to paint Queen Margaret as the bad girl behind the “Wars of the Roses” when in reality she got along with Cecily Neville and attempted to mediate peace with Richard of York. But somebody has to play the role right?

#personal #Margaret of Anjou #she was not a bad bitch as some people like Philippa Gregory wants us to believe #she was more peacemaker than warmaker #justice for #queen Margaret #house lancaster #plantagenet dynasty #angevins

Philippa of Lancaster (31 March 1360 – 19 July 1415) was Queen of Portugal from 1387 until 1415 by marriage to King John I. Born into the royal family of England, her marriage secured the Treaty of Windsor and produced several children who became known as the "Illustrious Generation" in Portugal.