The Red Rose of Lancaster was the heraldic badge adopted by the royal House of Lancaster in the 14th century. In the modern era, it symbolises the county of Lancashire. The exact species or cultivar w
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A cobblestone mosaic showing the Red Rose of Lancaster in Williamson Park, Lancaster
Arms of the Anglo-Catholic Church of the Good Shepherd (Rosemont, Pennsylvania), including the Red Rose of Lancaster
The Wars of the Roses, known at the time and in the following centuries as the Civil Wars, were a series of armed confrontations, machinations, battles and campaigns fought for control of the English
Red Rose of Lancaster
…as his heraldic badge. His descendants fought for control of the throne of England during several decades of civil warfare, which became known as the Wars of the Roses, after the heraldry of the House of York. Adopted after the civil wars of the fifteenth century had ended, the red rose was the symbol of the English…
Plucking the Red and White Roses, by Henry Payne
Battle of Bosworth by Philip James de Loutherbourg