In it, the Earl of Warwick, Captain of Calais, now on the Yorkist side, defeated and dispersed a Lancastrian fleet.

The Council of the North was an administrative body set up in 1484 by king Richard III of England, the third and last Yorkist monarch to hold the Crown of England Its purpose was to improve government control and economic prosperity, to benefit the entire area of Northern England.

During 1514, the stage was set for a Yorkist reclaiming of England under Richard.

A Yorkist force subsequently captured the castle and set about demolishing it with a team of 500 men.

The small Yorkist army of about 2000 men, having arrived from Calais ahead of March and Warwick, increased in number, joined by many followers as they proceeded by way of Canterbury ( and thus probably Wickhambreaux ).

* 1513 – Edmund de la Pole, Yorkist pretender to the English throne, is executed on the orders of Henry VIII.

Following the decisive Yorkist victory over the Lancastrians at the Battle of Tewkesbury, Richard had married the younger daughter of the Earl of Warwick, Anne Neville, on 12 July 1472.

* July 4 – The cannons of the Tower of London, still in Lancaster hands, are fired on the city of London, which is mostly in Yorkist hands.

After winning the Battle of Edgecote Moor on 26 July 1469, the earl found the Yorkist king deserted by his followers, and brought him to Warwick Castle for " protection ".

In 1464, he commanded a Yorkist force that turned the tables on a Lancastrian ambush at the Battle of Hedgeley Moor, and launched a surprise attack at the Battle of Hexham.

Henry VII of England held the throne for the House of Lancaster ( House of Tudor ), and had tried to gain the acceptance of the Yorkist faction by his marriage to their heiress, Elizabeth of York, but his hold on power was not entirely secure.

However, the fighting had slowed down the Yorkist advance sufficiently to allow King Henry to receive substantial reinforcements under the command of Lord Strange, on arriving at Nottingham on 14 June.

Around nine in the morning of 16 June, King Henry's forward troops, commanded by the Earl of Oxford, encountered the Yorkist army assembled in a single block, on a brow of a hill surrounded on three sides by the River Trent at the village of East Stoke.

His younger brother, Richard de la Pole, declared himself Earl of Suffolk and was the leading Yorkist pretender until his death at the Battle of Pavia on 24 February 1525.

But on the accession of the Yorkist King Edward IV in 1461 he was subject to an attainder for supporting his Lancastrian half-brother, the deposed king Henry, to whom Jasper was a tower of strength.

He was the founder of the House of York, but it was through the marriage of his younger son, Richard, that the Yorkist faction in the Wars of the Roses made its claim on the throne ( the other party in the Wars of the Roses, the Lancasters, being the male descendants of his elder brother, John of Gaunt ).

Like his father, he was originally a Lancastrian, fighting on that side at the Battle of Towton, but later became a Yorkist.

A Yorkist force under John Neville raced north in vanguard of Edward's larger force and the two sides met outside Hexham on 14 May 1464.

Edward had gathered troops from along the borders and there were also significant Welsh forces on the Yorkist side especially Sir William Herbert and his supporters.

Fearing a rout, Yorkist soldiers are reported to have kissed the ground beneath them, supposing that this would be the ground on which they would meet their deaths.

He commanded the Yorkist reserve at the Battle of Bosworth Field on 22 August 1485.

The first Baron's great-great-great-grandson, the fifth Baron, fought on the Yorkist side in the Wars of the Roses.

He fought on the Yorkist side at the Battle of Hexham in 1464.

Some of the Yorkist commanders ( the Earl of Warwick, his father the Earl of Salisbury and York's son Edward, Earl of March ) reached Calais on 2 November 1459, where Warwick found his uncle Lord Fauconberg.

At dawn on 13 October, the leaderless Yorkist troops knelt in submission before Henry, and were pardoned.

From 1465 – 9 he was an Esquire of the Body and he was knighted on the field after the huge Yorkist victory of the Battle of Tewkesbury in 1471 ( along with many others ).

But it is more likely, as suggested by Richard Chandler ( Life of Waynflete, 1811 ), that it was some Yorkist attack on him in progress in the papal court, to meet which he appointed next day 19 proctors to act for him.

At the Battle of Tewkesbury ( 4 May 1471 ), he commanded the right of the Lancastrian forces and led a fierce charge against the Yorkist Lord Hastings in Red Pierce Meadow.

It was she who called for a Great Council in May 1455 that excluded the Yorkist faction headed by Richard, Duke of York, and thus provided the spark that ignited a civil conflict that lasted for over thirty years, decimated the old nobility of England, and caused the deaths of thousands of men, including her only son Edward of Westminster, Prince of Wales, at the Battle of Tewkesbury in 1471.

The Battle of Stoke Field ( 16 June 1487 ) may be considered the last battle of the Wars of the Roses, since it was to be the last engagement in which a Lancastrian king faced an army of Yorkist supporters, under the pretender Lambert Simnel.

Sir Thomas Burgh of Gainsborough, a distinguished Yorkist, was summoned to the Parliament of 1487 under Henry VII of England ; there is no evidence he attended.

In 1487, during the English Wars of the Roses, the Fitzgeralds occupied the city with the aid of troops from Burgundy and proclaimed the Yorkist Lambert Simnel to be King of England.

* 1487 England – The Battle of Stoke is fought between Henry VII and Lambert Simnel a Yorkist claimant to the throne.

Lincoln was killed at the Battle of Stoke Field on 16 June 1487, at which the Yorkist army was conclusively defeated.

A Yorkist army with support of the Irish and Flemish but few English supporters invaded England in 1487, but was defeated at the Battle of Stoke Field.

The Lancastrian army occupied the town but the Yorkist forces broke in and a battle took place in the streets of the town.

* 1461 – Wars of the Roses in England: Lancastrian King Henry VI is deposed by his Yorkist cousin, who then becomes King Edward IV.

A grandchild of the Scudamores was Sir John Donne of Kidwelly, a successful Yorkist courtier, diplomat and soldier, who after 1485 made an accommodation with his fellow Welshman, Henry VII.

Henry Tudor succeeded Richard to become Henry VII and sought to cement the succession by marrying the Yorkist heiress Elizabeth of York, Edward IV's daughter and Richard III's niece.

By marrying Richard III's niece, Elizabeth of York, Henry VII successfully bolstered his own disputed claim to the throne, whilst moving to end the Wars of the Roses by presenting England with a new dynasty, of both Lancastrian and Yorkist descent.

In essence, the Tudors followed a composite of Lancastrian ( the court party ) and Yorkist ( the church party ) policies.

* Former King Henry VI of England is captured by Yorkist forces and imprisoned in the Tower of London.

* March – The Yorkist King Edward IV returns to England to reclaim his throne.

* February 2 – Battle of Mortimer's Cross: Yorkist troops led by Edward, Duke of York defeat Lancastrians under Owen Tudor and his son Jasper Tudor, Earl of Pembroke in Wales.

* April 25 – Battle of Hedgeley Moor: Yorkist forces under Lord Montague defeat Lancastrians under Sir Ralph Percy, who is killed.

* December 30 – Battle of Wakefield: A Lancastrian army under Henry Beaufort, Duke of Somerset and Henry Percy, Earl of Northumberland defeats a Yorkist army under the Duke of York and his son, Edmund, Earl of Rutland.

York's son Edward becomes leader of the Yorkist faction.

His mother, Elizabeth Woodville, had sought sanctuary there from Lancastrians who had deposed his father, the Yorkist King Edward IV, during the course of the Wars of the Roses.

In February 1477, he was sent by the Yorkist King Edward IV, together with Sir John Donne, as ambassador to the French court.

Morton was an important foe of the Yorkist regime of King Richard III and spent some time in captivity in Brecknock castle.

Whether Margaret genuinely believed in Warbeck's Yorkist credentials or considered him a fraud but supported him anyway is unknown.

She tutored him in the ways of the Yorkist court.

He was the first Yorkist King of England.

His younger brother Edmund, Earl of Rutland, died along with his father fighting for the Yorkist cause.

The main figures in Wales were the two Earls of Pembroke, the Yorkist Earl William Herbert and the Lancastrian Jasper Tudor.

This difficulty compounded when the Mortimer claim was merged with the Yorkist claim in the person of Richard Plantagenet, Duke of York.