lancastrian in English

adjective
1
of or relating to Lancashire or Lancaster, or the House of Lancaster.
Henry Tudor, Earl of Richmond, claimed Lancastrian ancestry to the throne.
noun
1
a native of Lancashire or Lancaster in England.
He was born in 1981 in his mother's native Zambia, where his father, a Lancastrian , managed a coal mine.
2
a follower of the British House of Lancaster, especially during the Wars of the Roses.
Warwick, Clarence, Lancastrians , and dissident Yorkists returned to England and sent Edward IV fleeing to his ally, the duke of Burgundy.

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1. Henry knighted thirty Lancastrian soldiers immediately after the battle.

2. Her son Prince Edward, the Lancastrian heir to the throne, was killed.

3. Bolingbroke - the first Lancastrian king of England from 1399 to 1413; deposed Richard II and suppressed rebellions (1367-1413) Henry Bolingbroke , Henry IV House of Lancaster , Lancastrian line , Lancaster - the English royal house that reigned from 1399 to 1461; its emblem was a red rose

4. Henry Tudor, a distant relative of the Lancastrian kings who had inherited their claim, defeated Richard III at Bosworth in 1485.

5. Leading the Lancastrian army was Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick, who played a crucial role in the fate of each king.

6. The new queen was provided with a large wardrobe of clothes, and her crimson state bed curtains made of Italian sarcenet were embroidered with red Lancastrian roses.

7. Bolingbroke: 1 n the first Lancastrian king of England from 1399 to 1413; deposed Richard II and suppressed rebellions (1367-1413) Synonyms: Henry Bolingbroke , Henry IV Example of: King of England , King of Great Britain the sovereign ruler of England