Which side would you have supported in the War of the Roses?

[Alabama_Indy10]

Which side would you have supported?

[Wikipedia delenda est]

Lancastrians, because I would've supported the peace faction in the 100 Years' War and I generally prefer France (who supported the Lancastrians) over Burgundy (who supported the Yorkists). Also, I usually prefer Scotland (who supported the Lancastrians) over England. Plus, Richard III really was a tyrant, and with the benefit of hindsight Henry VII and the whole Tudor dynasty were very important modernizers for England without whom there may have never been an English Reformation.

[Big Abraham]

Applying male-preference cognatic primogeniture from Edward III, the House of York was the correct line. The Lancastrians represented the interests of the large feudal barons in Wales and in the north where their estates were located. However, a victory for the Yorkists was ultimately a victory for absolute monarchy, which the War of the Roses strengthened, which is why Edward IV expelled all feudal masters. This was a very auspicious development, as it led to the extinction of the old feudal families, and paved the way for commercial interests to take root in England.

[Mr. Smith]

Whichever side was less of an a%^ to Scotland.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Whichever side was more liberal.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Whichever side was more liberal.

Applying that term to either side in this period would be rather difficult.

Whichever side was less of an a%^ to Scotland.

Lancastrians in that case, though considering what the Tudor's later did to Scotland, it hardly worked out well for them in the end.

[afleitch]

In Hawick ready to pike the bastards

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

Whichever side was more liberal.

Applying that term to either side in this period would be rather difficult.

imo the lancastrians were more fiscally conservative whereas the yorkists were more socially conservative

[CatoMinor]

Michael Douglas

[🦀🎂🦀🎂]

Whichever side was more liberal.

You'd probably be a Lancastrian solely because of Margaret D'Anjou.

[Lumine]

Yorkist to the bitter end.

[John Henry Eden]

Yorks, Richard the 3rd gets an unfair treatment in history

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Oliver Rose

[Obama-Biden Democrat]

Whichever side was more liberal.

Applying that term to either side in this period would be rather difficult.

imo the lancastrians were more fiscally conservative whereas the yorkists were more socially conservative

You win the thread.

[brucejoel99]

All English dynasties after 1066 are pretenders. House of Wessex FTW.

Edward the Confessor did nothing wrong.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

All English dynasties after 1066 are pretenders. House of Wessex FTW.

Edward the Confessor did nothing wrong.

No side was about repudiating the Edward The Confessor, save maybe for the Norwegians, and it should be pointed out that Harold Godwinson was not a member of the House of Wessex at all.

The only thing that Edward the Confessor did wrong was dying without an of-age, legitimate, male child to inherit the throne.

[Frodo]

Whichever side was more liberal.

LOL!

[OSR stands with Israel]

The Oregon Ducks

[Statilius the Epicurean]

Ricardians are intensely annoying, so Lancaster.