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Why did Henry VI get deported?

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Anonymous

13y ago
Updated: 8/20/2019

He wasn't deported. Perhaps you mean deposed.

Henry VI was mentally incompetent and given to fits of insanity, so his government was dominated by his wife, Margaret of Anjou. She appointed her friends and relatives to offices of the state and court, to the exclusion of English nobles and members of the royal family. This combined with inefficient administration, military failures in France, extravagance, and a breakdown in Law and Order to make the government feeble and unpopular and the nobles disaffected. Disaffected nobles supported Henry VI's cousin Richard Duke of York in attempting to force Margaret's favorites out of office and establish a regency. Margaret and her favorites resisted with armed force, murdering Richard of York. Six years of civil war ensued, at the conclusion of which Edward Duke of York had won. He deposed Henry VI so as to make himself king.

Henry VI was then restored by Richard Neville Duke of Warwick and the King of France, then deposed again by Edward IV and the English nobles.

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13y ago

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