Birth of the Red Dragon
eBook - ePub

Birth of the Red Dragon

Wales and the Wars of the Roses

  1. English
  2. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  3. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Birth of the Red Dragon

Wales and the Wars of the Roses

About this book

  • The book reappraises the role of Wales and the Marches in the Wars of the Roses
  • Includes fascinating detail on the rivalries between houses of Lancaster, York and the Tudors
  • Author is an expert on medieval history and Richard III

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Introduction
  3. 1 The Duke of York, Offspring of Traitors
  4. 2 Richard, Duke of York in 1450
  5. 3 ‘The root is good’: The Tudor Brothers
  6. 4 York’s Bid for Mastery
  7. 5 Warwick’s Woes: Glamorgan, 1452
  8. 6 The Summer of the White Rose: York’s First Protectorate
  9. 7 The Battle of St Albans
  10. 8 ‘A spark was found from Anglesey’
  11. 9 Happy Nuptials
  12. 10 A Prisoner in His Own Dungeon
  13. 11 The Lord Jasper: ‘The trewe earl’
  14. 12 The Falcon Fettered
  15. 13 The Parliament of Devils
  16. 14 A King with a Paper Crown
  17. 15 ‘When the sky rained blood’: Mortimer’s Cross through to 1461
  18. 16 The Sun Rises
  19. 17 The Desolation of Iscennen
  20. 18 The King’s Masterlock on Wales: Sir William Herbert
  21. 19 A Prince of the Lilies
  22. 20 The Politics of Romance: Raglan and the Blooming of the White Rose
  23. 21 A New World of Opportunity
  24. 22 Warwick’s Discontents
  25. 23 Men of Harlech
  26. 24 ‘My nation is destroyed now that the earl is slain’
  27. 25 The Return of the King: Jasper Claims His Own
  28. 26 Edward’s Arrival
  29. 27 A Sting in the Tail
  30. 28 Family Affairs
  31. 29 In the Yorkist Sun
  32. 30 The Prince and His Principality
  33. 31 The Fall of the Herberts
  34. 32 ‘Thonely ympe now left of King Henry 6ths bloode’
  35. 33 The Grey Eminence
  36. 34 The White Boar
  37. 35 Coup d’état
  38. 36 ‘He who had best cause to be true’
  39. 37 ‘Twice bastardised Richmond’; the Road to Bosworth
  40. 38 ‘To give the hog a haircut’
  41. 39 Tudor Dominus
  42. 40 Arthur
  43. Epilogue
  44. Notes