The Last Warrior-Kings of England

Edward III solidified English identity by launching the Hundred Years War.

He empowered his sons by giving them duchies. Edward the Black Prince, Lionel, John of Gaunt, Edmund, and Thomas of Woodstock.

When Edward III's grandson Richard II became King at 10, his uncles overshadowed him.

A family spat turned into the Wars of the Roses. England's last great bloodfight.

The winner who emerged was Henry VII.

Henry VII took the throne on a battlefield against Richard III, a distant cousin (Uncle-in-Law after death) who fought until the very last.

• Henry VII would be the last conqueror-king of England.

• Richard III would be the last English king to die on the battlefield.