Although his house had a couple of strong monarchs (see Henry V), Henry VI (son of Henry V, and grandson of IV) turned out to be a strange boy with mental issues. Henry "Bolingbroke" of the House of Lancaster stole the throne from his cousin, Edward's first grandson Richard II. They originated in a struggle between descendants of two of King Edward III Plantagenet's eight sons. The Wars of the Roses were a series of dynastic civil wars set in England between 14.
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