One of the last Kings of the House of Plantagenet and the first Yorkist Kings, Edward IV topped mad King Henry VI and his Queen Margaret of Anjou from their thrones during the Wars of the Roses and brought prosperity to England. However, Edward's death from heart failure left his two young sons, Edward of Wales and Richard of York at the heart of a three way power struggle between the heir to Lancaster Henry Tudor, the Yorkist Richard of Gloucester, and the Dowager Queen Elizabeth Woodville, which cost the Princes of the Tower their lives.

The oldest son of Elizabeth Woodville and Edward IV, Edward V is more commonly known as one of the "Princes of the Tower". Though he was never formally crowned or ever ruled England, Edward is counted as one of England's kings mainly to present his uncle, Richard III as a usurper. The causes of Edward's death are unknown, however, modern historians know believe it was Henry VII who murdered Edward and his younger brother Richard one dark night in the Tower of London and had their bodies buried under a set of stairs.

Wife and Queen of Edward IV and mother of Elizabeth of York as well as the Princes of the Tower. Elizabeth Woodville was the daughter of a provincial knight and the Dowager Duchess of Bedford and the widow of a Lancasterian Knight. Legand has it that Elizabeth refused to be Edward's mistress, stating the words Anne Boleyn would repeat two generations later, "I am not well born enough to be your wife, but I am too well born to be your mistress". Do to conflicts and her scheming after Henry VII took the throne, Elizabeth Woodville died in an abbey, exiled from court.

The War of the Roses pitted the descendants of John of Gaunt against the descendants of Edmund of Langley and his neice Phillippa who married the Earl of March. The house of Lancaster was embodied in Henry VI, his Queen Margaret of Anjou (of whom no portrait survives, and Margaret Beaufort, mother of Henry VI. The house of York was embodied in Edward IV, his Queen Elizabeth Woodville, parents of Elizabeth of York and the Princes of the Tower, and the last Plantagent Monarch, Richard III

Henry VI, son of Henry V and Catherine of France. Henry was crowned King as an infant, after his father died of an illness that was either malaria or dysentary. Unhappily, just before his own son was born, Henry was struck down with a mysterious illness that was frightenly similar to the illness that had inflicted his Valois grandfather. This illness, the popular dislike for his Queen, and the schemes of the nobility set off the opening shots of the War of the Roses.

Descendant of John of Gaunt and Catherine Swynford, Margaret was married to another bastard branch of the House of Lancaster, Edmund Tudor, the descendant of Catherine of France and Owen Tudor. At barely 13, Margaret bore her husband a son, who would unite the branches of the Royal House as the first Tudor Monarch, Henry VII.

Relive the End of a Dynasty with this magnificent pennant light. The battle flag of that glorious Plantagenet Edward IV will shine brightly in your castle or palace and display its white leopard and white rosettes when lit.

The battle pennant of Henry VI. Because Henry VI was king virtually from birth, he never used a personal device like Edward IV did as Duke of York and Richard III did as Duke of Gloucester. Therefore his banner shows the leopards of England and the fleur de lys of France, showing his claim to France due to his parent's marriage treaty.

Relive the War of the Roses and the Reign of the Last Plantagenet with this pennant light. A white boar and a rosette light up on this pennant which will also provide light to your home!

The last Plantagenet Monarch. No one really knows why Richard of Gloucester decided to have himself crowned instead of his nephew, it could be because the boys where under age and under the influence of their grasping Woodville relatives, or that Richard simply wanted to be King. What ever the reason, Richard has been made history's whipping boy, villianized in Shakespeare and the Tudor historians who wrote under the aegis of England's new monarchs.