Late Middle Ages · Europe · Politics

1470

Edward IV Flees to Burgundy

1470

Warwick the Kingmaker, now allied with the Lancastrians, chased the Yorkist king into exile in Flanders. For six months the mad old Henry VI was pulled from his Tower cell and placed back on the throne like a relic in a reliquary. It was the last gasp of the Lancastrian cause.