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Yorkist
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Yorkist English history
a member or adherent of the royal house of York, esp during the Wars of the Roses


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Other, somewhat later, examples in England from the time of the Yorkists and Tudors can easily be found to parallel her assertions; and in Italy the humanist literary production of Humphrey's correspondents and clients, such as Bruni, Bracciolini, and Decembrio, equally reinforce Saygin's position.
Bergeron, "Pageants, masques, and history"; Dominique Goy-Blanquet, "Elizabethan historiography and Shakespeare's sources"; Phyllis Rackin, "Women's roles in the Elizabethan history plays"; Janis Lull, "Plantagenets, Lancastrians, Yorkists, and Tudors: 1-3 Henry VI, RichardlIL Edward III"; Marie-Helene Besnault and Michel Bitot, "Historical legacy and fiction: the poetical reinvention of King Richard IIl"; A.
Fleeing to Portugal after the defeat of the Yorkists, Brandon took with him a Flemish youth named Perkin Warbeck who used the information he learned from Brandon about life at the court to promote his own claim to being son to Edward IV and heir to the English throne.
 
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