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From: A Channing <>
Subject: Re: The Wars Of The Roses (Was: Naming Wars...) [Version 1.1]
Date: Sun, 1 Apr 2001 06:19:26 -0500

>
> Good post. It reminds me of something I had not really considered before
it
> was brought up recently in another newsgroup, which is, that one of the
> roses was a well-used emblem, while the other was not. (Awfully silly, I
> know, but I can't remember which was which!) The other seems to have
> materialised well after the events, perhaps invented by Shakespeare.
>
> Rneia
>

The red rose was adopted by Henry of Richmond (later Hy VII) after the
death of Hy VI. He adopted the tudor rose (white rose on red) after his
marriage with Elizabeth of York (1486). The term "...the wars of the White
and Red Rose" appeared in 'Anne of Geierstein' by Walter Scott in 1829 -
or so it says in Brewer's Dictionary of Phrases & Fable


Adrian

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