HIST 290 Lecture Notes - House Of Tudor, Fosterage, House Of York
28 Nov 2012
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The normans didn"t simply come in and conquer ireland. Traditional idea: huge miss-matched of military technology normans were cutting edge and irish were primitive. Had this been the case they would have taken all of ireland but obviously that didn"t happen: henry ii of england came into ireland and began dominating the irish. Would send one of your sons to be raised with another noble family, and they would send one of their sons to you meant to tie the families closer together. Had won the war of the roses for the house of lancaster: not everyone was happy about this. Priest at oxford university hatched a plot. Raised a kid as if he were the york contender for the throne and took the kid to ireland (a yorkist area) and held a parliament, proclaiming this kid king of. They went to england and were defeated.
