| 词汇 | yorkist |
| 释义 | Yorkist noun[ C ] history specializeduk /ˈjɔː.kɪst/ us /ˈjɔːr.kɪst/ someone who was on the side of the House of York during the English Wars of the Roses (1455–1487), fought between the Houses of Lancaster and York: Henry VII married Elizabeth of York to heal the rift between the Yorkists and Lancastrians. Richard Duke of York was hailed by Yorkists as a legitimate pretender to the English throne. Compare Lancastrian James Tyrell had committed himself to the Yorkists by 1471, when he was knighted at Tewkesbury. By 1458 the flames of war were being fanned across England between the Yorkists on the one side, and the Lancastrians on the other. Four thousand Yorkists turned away from the city of Canterbury after being denied entry by the mayor. Middle Ages (medieval Period) 501-1500 alchemy Anglo-Saxon bestiary Black Death bubonic plague byzantine chivalric Hejira Hijrah joust Lancastrian mangonel mead hall Moorish Norman pre-Columbian pre-feudal the Norman Conquest troubadour Viking Yorkist adjective history specializeduk /ˈjɔː.kɪst/ us /ˈjɔːr.kɪst/ belonging or relating to the side of the House of York during the English Wars of the Roses (1455–1487) fought between the Houses of Lancaster and York: The dispute had its origins in the battle of Wakefield, at which Sir Thomas Harrington of Hornby was killed on the Yorkist side. A Lancastrian through his mother's descent from John of Gaunt, Henry VII reconciled the Yorkist faction by marrying Edward IV's daughter Elizabeth. Compare Lancastrian He allied himself with Richard, Duke of Gloucester (later Richard III), and accompanied a Yorkist army headed for Edinburgh. The town again rallied itself to the Yorkist cause when in 1470 it assisted King Edward IV in quelling a Lancastrian uprising at the battle of Loosecoat Field. The duke had been accepted as protector by most of the Yorkist establishment. Middle Ages (medieval Period) 501-1500 alchemy Anglo-Saxon bestiary Black Death bubonic plague byzantine chivalric Hejira Hijrah joust Lancastrian mangonel mead hall Moorish Norman pre-Columbian pre-feudal the Norman Conquest troubadour Viking |
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