23
Apr
23 APRIL 1445
Wedding of Henry VI and Margaret of Anjou
Tags: Henry VI, Margaret of Anjou
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4
May
4 MAY 1471
11
Apr
11 APRIL 1471
25
Mar
25 MARCH 1458
‘Love Day’ at St Paul’s. An attempt at reconciliation between the opposing Yorkists and Lancastrians, loyal to Henry VI, to resolve the feud resulting from the 1st Battle of St Albans (22 May 1455). Then, on Lady Day (25 March), the King led a “love day” procession to St. Paul’s Cathedral, with Lancastrian and Yorkist nobles following him, hand in hand, among them Richard, Duke of York, with Queen Margaret of Anjou.
Tags: Henry VI, House of York, Margaret of Anjou, Richard Duke of York, Wars of the Roses, Yorkists
23
Mar
23 MARCH 1430
Birth of Margaret of Anjou, daughter of Rene, Duke of Lorraine and Anjou, and niece of King Charles VII of France, at Pont-à-Mousson, Lorraine. Married to Henry VI of England.
Tags: Henry VI, Margaret of Anjou
16
Dec
16 DECEMBER 1431
Henry VI of England is crowned King of France at Notre Dame in Paris
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6
Dec
6 DECEMBER 1421
Birth of Henry VI of England at Windsor
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6
Nov
6 NOVEMBER 1429
Coronation of Henry VI
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25
Oct
Act of Accord
Richard, Duke of York (stained glass at St Laurence, Ludlow, © Worcestershire Branch, Richard III Society)
Act of Accord
After unsuccessfully claiming his right to the crown in parliament on 10 October 1460, Richard, duke of York, had to accept the Act of Accord on 25 October 1460, which stipulated that he would be the heir to the throne after King Henry VI’s death, instead of the king’s son, Edward of Lancaster.
His claim was that while on his father’s side he was descended from Edward III’s fourth son, on his mother’s side he was descended from Edward III’s son. The Lancastrian Kings including Henry VI, however, were descendents of the third son of Edward III.
While the Duke of York’s claim ultimately failed, it was the basis for his son Edward IV to succeed to the crown.
More on the Act of Accord here.
Tags: Edward IV, Henry VI, Parliament, Richard Duke of York
13
Oct
13 OCTOBER 1453
Birth of Edward of Lancaster, only son of King Henry VI of England and Margaret of Anjou, at Westminster. He was the Lancastrian Prince of Wales. He was baptised on 14 October by William Waynflete, Bishop of Winchester.
On 13 December 1470 he was married to Anne Neville, who was 14 at the time, as part of an agreement between his mother, Margaret of Anjou, and Anne’s father, Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick (“The Kingmaker”) to return Henry VI to the throne. Edward fell at the Battle of Tewkesbury on 4 May 1471.
The picture shows the Palace of Westminster, how it supposedly looked in the 16th century.
