Following the war, the Houses of Lancaster and York were united, creating a new royal dynasty and thereby resolving their rival claims. The wars extinguished the male lines of the two branches, leading to the Tudor family inheriting the Lancastrian claim to the throne. These wars were fought between supporters of two rival cadet branches of the royal House of Plantagenet: Lancaster and York. The Wars of the Roses (1455–1487), known at the time and for more than a century after as the Civil Wars, were a series of civil wars fought over control of the English throne in the mid- to late fifteenth century.
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