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Margaret of Anjou was a central figure in which faction during the Wars of the Roses?
Yorkist
Lancastrian
Plantagenet
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The Lancastrian faction, led by Margaret of Anjou, wife of King Henry VI, was one of the two main parties involved in the Wars of the Roses, a series of civil wars fought in England between 1455 and 1485. The conflict was primarily a dynastic struggle between the rival branches of the Plantagenet family, the Lancastrians and the Yorkists, each claiming the right to the English throne.
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