 Compared with its rival, the House of Lancaster, it had a superior claim to the throne of England according to cognatic primogeniture, but an inferior claim according to agnatic primogeniture.The reign of this dynasty ended with the death of Richard III of England at the Battle of Bosworth Field in 1485.It became extinct in the male line with the death of Edward Plantagenet, 17th Earl of Warwick, in 1499.