Buckingham's rebellion

Buckingham's rebellion
Part of the Wars of the Roses
Date 10 October – 25 November 1483 Location England and Wales Result Yorkist victory
Belligerents
House of York	House of Tudor (Lancastrian) Supported by: Duchy of Brittany
Commanders and leaders
Richard III Duke of Norfolk	Duke of Buckingham  Henry Tudor

Buckingham's rebellion was a failed but significant uprising, or collection of uprisings, of October 1483 in England and parts of Wales against Richard III of England.

To the extent that these local risings had a central coordination, the plot revolved around Henry Stafford, 2nd Duke of Buckingham, who had become disaffected from Richard, and had backing from the exiled Henry Tudor (the future king Henry VII) and his mother Margaret Beaufort. Rebels took arms against the king, who had assumed power from Edward V in June of that year. They included many loyalists of Edward V, and others who had been Yorkist supporters of his father Edward IV.

Seven ships from Brittany carrying over 500 Breton soldiers, Henry Tudor, and many of his supporters were to have risen simultaneously against Richard III. A gale prevented this planned landing from being successfully carried out, and in England a premature uprising in Kent forewarned Richard that Buckingham had changed sides.