![]() ![]() His sons having dubious legitimacy, his brothers try to take the throne and that’s the War of Five Kings. Robert Baratheon, before the show starts, has taken the crown by force from a mad king, then grows older whilst still living like a twenty-something. Sansa’s role is increasing far more than Elizabeth’s ever was but could she bear the baby who would become Westeros most famous king? She best not, she should sit on that throne herself.Ģ. ![]() Well the Lancaster family died out in the war and the York line was only carried on through Elizabeth, a girl batted about by politics in the capital and eventually becoming Queen and mother to Henry VIII. The families personal conflicts envelop the whole country and the king until a war is raged for years on end. So the Yorks like the Starks are northern lords famed for their honesty and the Lannisters, like the Lancasters, see this as naivety. Richard of York did commit treason and was also beheaded, worse still the queen put his head on a spike and his body on an anthill. The result for Ned is that Cersei and her faction get him accused of treason and he is beheaded. Richard of York stood in direct opposition to the ‘Lancaster faction’ based around Queen Margaret of Anjou, the king’s fierce wife who had accrued personal fortune by putting the crown in severe debt. Richard Duke of York, the one who made us think of the ‘House of York’ built up a faction around his personal integrity (although like Ned he was not wholly honest). Ned Stark has beef with the Lannister family, but they reluctantly co-operate over their shared respect for the king and desire to see Westeros prosper… In the same way the Kingdom of the North was ruled by the Starks since forever and its leaders disdained London. The North, like our north in the medieval times, was much more barren of people, crops and cultural exports and had bred hardy folk led by hardy leaders. #GAME OF THRONES THE SUMMER ISLANDS SERIES#It’s quite well known that George R R Martin’s books draw their lore from real medieval history but now the TV show is flying off the rails of George’s original plan it’s even harder to predict what will happen but if they are basing these things at least loosely on history maybe history can provide us with some answers we are all so frantically searching for…Ĭast your mind back to those heady days of the long summer in series 1 when Ned Stark was the honest man of the north coming down to the corrupt world of King’s Landing. The following contains SPOILERS for the show up to Series 8, episode 5.Īs we approach the final episode of Game of Thrones, there is still so much riding on the decisions of Jon, Daenerys, Sansa, Bran, Arya et al in their bid for the Iron Throne. In his latest and slightly longer than normal read, Luke takes an in-depth look at where we can draw comparisons between the two. We recently asked our regular blogger, Luke, to consider writing about how Game of Thrones compares to the Wars of The Roses. ![]()
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