Late Middle Age England

On becoming King, Edward I rebuilt the status of the monarchy, restoring and extending key castle had fallen into despair. During the 1340s the black that arrived in England. The losses from the epidemic and the recurring plague that followed it, significantly affected events in England for many years.

Black Death
The black death was the second disaster affecting Europe during the late middle age ( the first one being the great famine of 1315-1317) and is estimated to have killed 30% to 60% of the European population. In total, the plague may have reduced the world’s population from an estimate of 475 million in the 14th century. Over the next century, English forces what many campaigns in the long-running conflict that became known as 100 years’ War. The hundred years’ war was a series of conflicts in western Europe from 1337 to 1453, waged between the house of Plantagenet and the house of Lancaster, rulers of the kingdom of France. It was one of the most notable conflicts of the Middle Age, in which five generations of Kings from two rival dynasties fought for the throne of the largest Kingdom in western Europe.

Peasants Revolt
The peasant revolt broke out across the south of England in 1381. There were various causes of the revolt, including the socio-economic and political tensions generated by the Black Death pandemic in the 1340s. The high taxes resulting from the conflict with France during the 100 years’ war and instability within the local leadership of London. This war is also named Wat Tyler’s rebellion or the great Rising.

War of Roses
A sequence of bloody civil wars later termed the war of the roses finally broke out in 1455, spurred on by an economic crisis and a widespread feeling of poor government. The war of roses where a series of English wars for control of the throne of England fought between supporters of two Revival cadet branches of the royal house of the Plantagenet and the house of Lancaster. The conflict lasted through many periodic episodes between 1455 and 1487, but there was related fighting before and after this period between parties. The power struggle ignited around the social and financial troubles following the 100 years war stirred with the mental infirmity and weak rule of Henry VI which revived interest in the house of York claims to the throne by Richard of York.