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A Long and Illustrious History › The Middle Ages
Which two families fought the Wars of the Roses from 1455 to decide who should be king of England?
- The Normans and the Saxons
- The Houses of Tudor and Hanover
- The Stuarts and the Plantagenets
- The Houses of Lancaster and York
Why this is the correct answer
The Wars of the Roses were a series of civil wars fought between 1455 and 1485 for the English throne between two branches of the royal House of Plantagenet — the House of Lancaster, whose symbol was a red rose, and the House of York, whose symbol was a white rose. The wars ended with Henry VII taking the throne and establishing the Tudor dynasty. The conflict is one of the most dramatic episodes in English medieval history.