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The 31 pages that link to Wars of the Roses, each with the reason it gives.

• Hundred Years' WarCompared with: This English succession struggle followed the war and drew on its political aftermath.

• Henry VII of EnglandNarrower topic: Henry’s rise and accession emerged from this struggle for the throne.

• Ottoman InterregnumCompared with: It offers a later European comparison of rival dynastic claims fought through war.

• Henry VI of EnglandNarrower topic: Henry’s weak rule and competing claims to the crown helped ignite this dynastic conflict.

• Battle of Bosworth FieldNarrower topic: Bosworth was the conflict’s decisive final battle, though resistance continued afterward.

• House of YorkNarrower topic: The York branch became one of the rival dynasties in this struggle.

• John of GauntRelated: Gaunt’s descendants stood on both sides of later claims to the English crown.

• House of LancasterNarrower topic: The conflict over the crown grew from the rival dynastic claims and political crises of Lancastrian rule.

• Henry V of EnglandRelated: The weakened Lancastrian succession after Henry V contributed to later disputes over the crown.

• Richard II of EnglandRelated: The contested legitimacy of Henry IV’s accession fed later disputes over the crown.

• Battle of TewkesburyNarrower topic: The battle was a decisive Yorkist victory in this wider dynastic struggle.

• RoseRelated: The conflict's later name connects red and white roses with rival royal houses.

• Margaret of AnjouNarrower topic: Margaret’s campaigns formed a central part of the Lancastrian struggle in this wider conflict.

• Edward IVNarrower topic: Edward's rise, deposition, and restoration were major turns in this struggle.

• Richard IIINarrower topic: The conflict shaped Richard’s career and made control of the crown a matter of force as well as inheritance.

• Battle of BarnetNarrower topic: Barnet was a major battle in the struggle for the English crown.

• Battle of TowtonNarrower topic: Towton was among the bloodiest and most consequential battles in this dynastic conflict.

• Peter HallBroader topic: Hall’s landmark production helped establish the company’s reputation.

• Elizabeth of YorkNarrower topic: The conflict created the conditions that made her dynastic marriage a settlement.

• Henry IV of EnglandRelated: Henry’s deposition of Richard II helped make disputed succession a lasting political fault line.

• Richard III (play)Narrower topic: The play’s rival claims to the crown grow out of this prolonged civil war.

• Richard Neville, 16th Earl of WarwickNarrower topic: Warwick’s rise, defections, and death unfolded within this struggle between Yorkist and Lancastrian claims.

• House of PlantagenetRelated: The rival branches fought over the Plantagenet crown during the dynasty’s final decades.

• Tudor periodNarrower topic: The struggle for the crown created the conditions for Henry Tudor’s rise.

• Danny DeVitoRelated: DeVito directed this dark comedy and appeared as the couple's lawyer.

• House of TudorNarrower topic: The Tudor claim emerged from these conflicts and their rival lineages.

• A Song of Ice and FireRelated: Its rival claims and shifting alliances provide a historical parallel for Westerosi struggles.

• Kathleen TurnerBroader topic: Turner played Barbara Rose opposite Michael Douglas in a darkly comic marriage story.

• King's College ChapelRelated: The wars interrupted the chapel's construction after Henry VI's initial building campaign.

• Edward V of EnglandNarrower topic: Edward inherited a throne shaped by the Yorkist-Lancastrian struggle.

• First Battle of St AlbansNarrower topic: The battle opened the armed phase of this dynastic conflict.