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Map i: England in the I5th century, showing the areas of influence of the great baronial families, and the main battle sites.
years bas been estimated as 428 days (Goodman,I pp. 227-8: sec Bibliography). Fightingerupted onl\l to subside quickly; the longest campaign lasted four
months (Wakeficld toTowton), and evcn Edward’sH
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campaign to seize the throne lasted only two1 months—from his landing at Ravenspur to the^^ battle of Tewkesbury.
From the above it may be seen that the images ol bloody and prolonged fighting, massacres and other|^| evils associated with civil wars, do not apply to thepP Wars of the Roses: today’s historians tend to believe
that the image of a land ravaged by civil war wałp
painted by Tudor propagandists in order tc contrast earlier reigns with the peace and prosperity J enjoyed under Henry VII.
But the aristocracy sulfercd dreadfully. Or did it?^T Although many nobles were killed, their families were not extinguished in great numbers, as is oftenl claimcd, and the old nobility in fact survived the wars. K. 13. MacFarlane gives the following figuresi to illustrate the ratę of extinction of noble families;!
1425_1449 existing new
1450-1474 existing new
1475“1499 existmg new
'It is the custom of the English that, once they have gained a battle, they do no morę killing, especially killing of common people; for each side seeks to please the commons . . . King Edward told me that in all the battles he had won, the moment he came to victory he mounted a horse and shouted that the commons were to be spared and the nobles slain. And of the latter, few or nonę escaped... The realm of England enjoys one favour above all other realms, that neither the countryside nor the people are destroyed nor are buildings burnt or demolished. Misfortune falls on soldiers and nobles in particular . .
The Wars of the Roses are generally dated as lasting from 1455 until 1485, a total of 30 years of war—though this figurę may be divided into three periods of actual confiict: 1455-64, 1469-71, and 1483-87. Actual campaigning time during thcse
95 - 24 extinctions
7'
(25:26 per cent) 7i 10
81-20 extinctions 61
(24.69 per cent)
Certainly 25 per cent is a high ratę of extinctionJ but by no means can it be argued that the nobility died out, and it must be remembered that even the recorded decline owed as much to failure to produce małe heirs as to death in war. Yet those at the top certainly did suffer severely: of the 16 great familiea (dukes and earls) which existed in the last decade ot Henry VI’s reign, only two were unscathed by the wars—William, Earl of Arundel, who took no part] in politics or the wars, and the second Ralph
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