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On This Day In Royal History . 21 July 1403

The Battle of Shrewsbury

Lancastrian King Henry IV, faced a rebel army led by Henry “Harry Hotspur” Percy. The battle, the 1st in which English archers fought each other on English soil, reaffirmed the effectiveness of the longbow & ended the Percy challenge to King Henry IV of England.

About two hours before dusk, Henry IV raised his sword. The battle opened with a massive archery barrage, arrows killing or wounding many men before they could meet hand to hand in the field. Percy’s Cheshire bowmen proved generally superior.

Enough of the King’s men remained on the field, particularly on the left wing, which was under the command of the Prince of Wales (later king Henry V). . Hotspur led a charge aimed at killing the King himself, but was killed, reputedly shot in the face with an arrow when he opened his visor. The battle ended soon after.

Both armies were said to have numbered around 14,000 men. The king lost over 3,000 men, the rebels 2,000 +. . . . #royalfamily #royal #royalty #windsorcastle #HouseofLancaster #lancastrian #royals #EnglishHistory #Britishhistory #KingofEngland #thecrown #crown #britishmonarchy #history #windsor #RoyalHistory #HistoryFacts #henryv #Historic #historyblogger #historyinpictures #otd #OnThisDay #ThisDayInHistory #OnThisDayInHistory #d21jul #Shrewsbury #HenryIV #kinghenryiv #Medievalhistory (at Shrewsbury, Shropshire) https://www.instagram.com/p/CRmKuw7MpUl/?utm_medium=tumblr

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On This Day In History . 18th January 1486 . King Henry VII married Elizabeth of York . . ◼ As the eldest daughter of Edward IV with no surviving brothers, Elizabeth of York actually had a strong claim to the throne in her own right, but she did not take the throne as queen regnant. Such a convention would not truly come to England for another 67 years with the accession of Elizabeth of York’s granddaughter, Mary I. . ◼ After procuring papal dispensation, Cardinal Bourchier, Archbishop of Canterbury, officiated at the wedding of Henry VII & Elizabeth of York on 18 January 1486, in Westminster Abbey. . ◼ The marriage unified the warring houses & gave his children a strong claim to the throne. . ◼ The unification of the houses of York & Lancaster by this marriage is symbolised by the heraldic emblem of the Tudor rose, a combination of the white rose of York & the red rose of Lancaster. . , , #OnThisDayinHistory #thisdayinhistory #TheYear1486 #HenryVIIofEngland #HenryVII #KingHenryVII #ElizabethOfYork #HouseofYork #HouseofTudor #TheTudors #History #WhiteRose #TudorRose #RedRoseofLancaster #HouseofLancaster #EnglishHistory #D18Jan #BritishMonarchy #Medieval #Medievalhistory #otd #Royalhistory #kingandqueen #KingofEngland #QueenofEngland #royalwedding #onthisday #WestminsterAbbey (at Westminster Abbey) https://www.instagram.com/p/CKLicieDzw0/?igshid=1klk36mdn4krk

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On This Day In Royal History . 25 August 1482 . Margaret of Anjou died . . ◼ Margaret died in Anjou on 25 August 1482 at the age of 52. She was entombed next to her parents in Angers Cathedral, but her remains were removed & scattered by revolutionaries who ransacked the cathedral during the French Revolution. . ◼ Margaret of Anjou (b. 23 March 1430) was the wife of King Henry VI of England. She was Queen of England from 1445 to 1461 & again from 1470 to 1471. . ◼ Born in the Duchy of Lorraine, into the House of Valois-Anjou, Margaret was the second eldest daughter of René I of Naples and Isabella, Duchess of Lorraine. . ◼ She was one of the principal figures in the series of dynastic civil wars known as the Wars of the Roses & at times personally led the Lancastrian faction. . ▪️ Due to her husband’s frequent bouts of insanity, Margaret ruled the kingdom in his place. It was she who called for a Great Council in May 1455 that excluded the Yorkist faction headed by Richard, Duke of York, & thus provided the spark that ignited a civil conflict that lasted for over thirty years, decimated the old nobility of England, & caused the deaths of thousands of men, including her only son Edward of Westminster, Prince of Wales (aged 17), at the Battle of Tewkesbury in 1471. . ◼ Margaret was taken prisoner by the victorious Yorkists after the Lancastrian defeat at Tewkesbury. In 1475, she was ransomed by her cousin, King Louis XI of France. She went to live in France as a poor relation of the French king, & she died there at the age of 52. . . . #OnThisDayInHistory #ThisDayInHistory #TheYear1482 #MargaretofAnjou #QueenofEngland #HouseofValoisAnjou #OnThisDay #RoyalHistory #Otd #Thisday #TitchfieldAbbey #HenryVI #KingHenryVI #Plantagenets #thequeen #HouseofLancaster #Medieval #MedievalHistory #Anjou #warsoftheroses #HouseofPlantagenet #History #Royalty #EnglishMonarchy #BritishMonarchy #D25Aug (at Anjou) https://www.instagram.com/p/CEUyvQlDFEv/?igshid=xpi56bvte8iq

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On This Day In Royal History . 2 June 1420 . King Henry V married Catherine of Valois . . ◼ Henry V had been king for seven years when he married Catherine of Valois, daughter of King Charles VI of France. . ▪️ On 2 June 1420, Henry married Catherine at the Parish Church of St John or at Troyes Cathedral. . ◼ It was a supremely triumphant affair, attended by nobles & royalty from both England & France, & King James I of Scotland, a long-term but honoured prisoner in England, was also present. . ◼ Henry, now aged thirty-two, was at the height of his popularity & the coronation of his attractive nineteen year old queen was a cause for great rejoicing. A contemporary French chronicler, Enguerrand de Monstrelet, remarked that from the time that Catherine arrived at Dover ‘she was received as if she had been an angel of God.’ . ◼ Catherine gave birth to a son named Henry (later King Henry VI of England) on 6 December 1421 at Windsor. Her husband never saw their child. During the siege of Meaux, he became sick with dysentery & died on 31 August 1422, just before his 36th birthday. . ◼ Catherine was not quite 21 & was left a queen dowager. Charles VI died a couple of months after Henry V, making the young Henry VI king of England & English-occupied northern France. Catherine doted on her son during his early childhood. . . . #OnThisDayInHistory #ThisDayInHistory #TheYear1420 #d2jun #RoyalWedding #HenryV #KingHenryV #HenryVofEngland #KingHenryVofEngland #CatherineofValoise #History #HouseofPlantagenet #HouseofLancaster #EnglishMonarchy #OTD #BritishMonarchy #Historyfacts #Instahistory #Royalhistory #Wedding #Medieval #Weddingceremony #Troyes #France #Historyfacts (at Troyes, France) https://www.instagram.com/p/CA8WyyyjDo1/?igshid=1rvpmymg60h83

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On This Day In Royal History . Philippa of England was born . (d. 5 January 1430), also known as Philippa of Lancaster, was Queen of Denmark, Norway & Sweden from 1406 to 1430 by marriage to King Eric of the Kalmar Union. . She was the daughter of King Henry IV of England by his first spouse Mary de Bohun & the younger sister of King Henry V. Her mother died during the birth. . As Queen, Philippa participated significantly in state affairs during the reign of her spouse, & served as regent of Denmark from 1423 to 1425. . For more information about her life visit my latest blog, link in the bio 👑 . . . #philippa #England #HouseofLancaster #queenofdenmark #QueenofNorway #QueenofSweden #RoyalFamily #Monarchy #otd #history #RoyalHistory #royalty #OnThisDay #Onthisdayinhistory #ThisDayInHistory #D4jun #historyinpictures #historyfact #interestingfacts #Heritage #historyfacts #englishroyalty #portraitpainting #portraitpaintings #medievalhistory #medieval #medievaltimes #English (at Peterborough) https://www.instagram.com/p/CBBIvVwDbWi/?igshid=wnoo3zg4tcrc

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On This Day In Royal History . 23 March 1430 . Margaret of Anjou was born . . ◼ Margaret was born on 23 March 1430 at Pont-à-Mousson in the Duchy of Lorraine, an imperial fief east of France ruled by a cadet branch of the French kings, the House of Valois-Anjou. . 👑 Margaret of Anjou was the wife of King Henry VI of England. . ◼ As such, she was Queen of England from 1445 to 1461 & again from 1470 to 1471. Born in the Duchy of Lorraine, into the House of Valois-Anjou, Margaret was the second eldest daughter of René I of Naples & Isabella, Duchess of Lorraine. . ◼ She was one of the principal figures in the series of dynastic civil wars known as the Wars of the Roses & at times personally led the Lancastrian faction. . ◼ Due to her husband’s frequent bouts of insanity, Margaret ruled the kingdom in his place. It was she who called for a Great Council in May 1455 that excluded the Yorkist faction headed by Richard, Duke of York, & thus provided the spark that ignited a civil conflict that lasted for over thirty years, decimated the old nobility of England, & caused the deaths of thousands of men, including her only son Edward of Westminster, Prince of Wales, at the Battle of Tewkesbury in 1471. . ◼ Margaret was taken prisoner by the victorious Yorkists after the Lancastrian defeat at Tewkesbury. In 1475, she was ransomed by her cousin, King Louis XI of France. She went to live in France as a poor relation of the French king, & she died there at the age of 52 on 25 August 1482. . . . #Onthisdayinhistory #Thisdayinhistory #TheYear1430 #MargaretofAnjou #QueenMargaret #QueenConsort #QueenofEngland #KingHenryVI #HenryVI #waroftheroses #HouseofValoisAnjou #thequeen #RoyalFamily #historyfacts #HouseofLancaster #History #England #EnglishMonarchy #BritishMonarchy #D23Mar #OnThisDay #RoyalHistory #TheQueen #HistoricEngland #historyfacts #warsoftheroses #Consort #Anjou #Angevins #KingofEngland (at Lorraine, France) https://www.instagram.com/p/B-Fu2fPD-Dr/?igshid=1b2qc5duzef6m

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On This Day In Royal History . 15 April 1367 . King Henry IV was born . . ◼ Henry was born at Bolingbroke Castle in Lincolnshire. His father, John of Gaunt, was the fourth son of Edward III & the third son to survive to adulthood, & enjoyed a position of considerable influence during much of the reign of Henry’s cousin Richard II, whom Henry eventually deposed. . ◼ Henry’s mother was Blanche, heiress to the considerable Lancaster estates, & thus he became the first King of England from the Lancaster branch of the Plantagenets & the first King of England since the Norman Conquest whose mother tongue was English rather than French. . ◼ Henry deposed his cousin Richard II in 1399 to claim the throne as Henry IV. He faced numerous rebellions, the most serious of which aimed to install the Earl of March, the legitimate heir, as king. He was compelled by Parliament (1406) to nominate a constitutional council, to submit to an audit of accounts, & to reform his household. He married firstly Mary de Bohun (mother of Henry V) & later Joanna of Navarre. . . . #OnThisDayInHistory #ThisDayInHistory #TheYear1367 #HenryIV #KingHenryIV #Bolingbrokecastle #KingofEngland #HenryIVofEngland #KingHenryIVofEngland #Lancastrian #Plantagents #EnglishHeritage #Bolingbroke #HouseofPlantagenet #HouseofLancaster #theking #EnglishMonarchy #RoyalFamily #BritishMonarchy #d15Apr #Lancaster #kingsandqueens #heritage #castles #Onthisday #Plantagenet #lincolnshire #RoyalHistory #OnThisDay (at Bolingbroke Castle) https://www.instagram.com/p/B_A4nuSDH3T/?igshid=11yb8o45hcny2

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On This Day In History . 18th January 1486 . King Henry VII married Elizabeth of York . . ◼ As the eldest daughter of Edward IV with no surviving brothers, Elizabeth of York actually had a strong claim to the throne in her own right, but she did not take the throne as queen regnant. Such a convention would not truly come to England for another 67 years with the accession of Elizabeth of York's granddaughter, Mary I. . ◼ After procuring papal dispensation, Cardinal Bourchier, Archbishop of Canterbury, officiated at the wedding of Henry VII & Elizabeth of York on 18 January 1486, in Westminster Abbey. . ◼ The marriage unified the warring houses & gave his children a strong claim to the throne. . . ◼ The unification of the houses of York & Lancaster by this marriage is symbolised by the heraldic emblem of the Tudor rose, a combination of the white rose of York & the red rose of Lancaster. . ◼ Henry & Elizabeth had a total of four sons, three of whom died before their father, leaving their brother, Henry VIII, to succeed his father as king. . Their children were; . ◼ Arthur, Prince of Wales (20 September 1486 – 2 April 1502) . ◼ Margaret, later Queen of Scotland (28 November 1489 – 18 October 1541) . ◼ Henry, later King Henry VIII of England (28 June 1491 – 28 January 1547) . ◼ Elizabeth Tudor (2 July 1492 – 14 September 1495) . ◼ Mary, later Queen of France (18 March 1496 – 25 June 1533) . ◼ Edward? (b. 1498 – d. 1499) Possibly confused with Edmund. . ◼ Edmund (21 February 1499 – 19 June 1500) . ◼ Katherine (2 February 1503 – 10 February 1503) . , , #OnThisDayinHistory #TheYear1486 #RoyalWedding #HenryVII #KingHenryVII #ElizabethOfYork #HouseofYork #HouseofTudor #TheTudors #History #WhiteRose #RedRose #TudorRose #Lancaster #London #WestminsterAbbey #England #HouseofLancaster #EnglishHistory #Monarchy #RoyaltyinArt #D18Jan #BritishMonarchy (at Westminster Abbey) https://www.instagram.com/p/BsyrrNBl-Tp/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=19sdu1txc2fz5