Wars of the Roses up to 1461

Agincourt win

1415

Henry VI born and becomes king

1422

Gloucester dies and York becomes new heir presumptive

1447

amount Cardinal Beaufort lent for France

over £200,000

Suffolk made Lord Chamberlain

1447

parliament of Suffolk's arrest

Nov 1449

Suffolk charged with treason

Jan 1450

Act of Resumption

1450

income from customs revenue 1421 and 1446-8

£40,000 to £28,000

death of Cardinal Beaufort

1447

attack on Fougeres

March 1449

Somerset made Lieutenant of France

1448

York leaves for Ireland

1449

York and Somerset paid back

1445 and 1444-51

Truce at Tours

1444

reactions to loss of Normandy

Jan 1450 Bishop of Chichester killed by unpaid soldiers
June 1450 Ascough killed by parish
Feb 1450 Somerset exiled

Cade's Rebellion

June 1450

Suffolk murdered

2 May 1450

rebels gathering

mid May 1450

rebels gathered at Blackheath

11 June 1450

failed military attempt against rebels

15-20 June 1450

Henry and nobles leave London (CR)

25 June 1450

Cade enters London

1 July 1450

Lord Saye executed

3 July 1450

battle between Londoners and rebels

5 July 1450

Cade killed

12 July 1450

York returns to North Wales

Sept 1450

amount owed to York by gov in 1450

£26,000

king's council in Coventry

Sept 1451

Coup of Dartford

2 March 1452

York isolated from court for

18 months

Henry's first bout of illness

Aug 1453-Jan 1455

York encouraged to return to council and London

23 Oct 1453

Battle of Castillion

17 July 1453

Percys attack Neville wedding party

24 Aug 1453

death of chancellor John Kemp

March 1454

York's first protectorate

27 March 1454 - early 1455

Edward, Prince of Wales, born

13 Oct 1453

Somerset put in tower

23 Nov 1453

York's reforms to royal household

cut expenditure from £24,000 to £5000

Battle of Stamford Bridge

Nov 1454

Percy rebellion on Neville property

May 1454

Battle of St Albans

22 May 1455

killed at St Albans

Somerset
Northumberland
Clifford

Loveday

24 March 1458

parliament after St Albans

9 July 1455

York's second protectorate

19 Nov 1455- Feb 1456

Warwick becomes Captain of Calais

1455

Queen and Prince go to Kenilworth

April 1456

Margaret's priv chancellor, made Keeper of the Privy Seal

Laurence Booth

Margaret's chancellor

Bishop of Winchester

Devon put in tower after Bonville feud

Dec 1455

Tudor & York's men hostility in North Wales

summer 1456

attempted murder of Warwick

1456

Warwick continued piracy, defying gov

Oct 1458

king and queen summon military to Leicester

May 1459

Warwick returns from Calais

Sept 1459

Battle of Blore Heath

23 Sept 1459

Battle of Ludford Bridge

12 Oct 1459

Parliament of Devils

Nov 1459

Warwick goes to Ireland

March 1460

Warwick, Salisbury and Earl of March land in Kent

June 1460

Battle of Northampton

10 July 1460

Yorkists reenter London

16 July 1460

York returns

8 Sept 1460

Act of Accord

24 Oct 1460

Battle of Wakefield

30 Dec 1460

Battle of Mortimer's Cross

2 Feb 1461

Second Battle of St Albans

17 Feb 1461

Edward arrives in London

26 Feb 1461

council of Archbishop, Norfolk and Warwick

3 March 1461

Towton and coronation

29 March 1461

Edward proclaimed king

4 March 1461

situation by Dec 1454

Somerset in Tower

Exeter in Pontefract Castle

Richard Percy and Lord Egremont in Newgate debtor’s prison

Henry orders release of Exeter, which Salisury ignores

Feb 1455

changes to positions when Henry recovered in 1455

Salisbury replaced by Thomas Bourchier (Archbishop of Canterbury) as Chancellor

Earl of Wiltshire became Treasurer

Somerset returned to positions

Percys take city of York for 5 days

May 1454