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House of York
The House of York was a branch of the English royal House of Plantagenet, three members of which became English kings in the late 15th century. The House of York was descended in the paternal line from Edmund of Langley, 1st Duke of York, the fourth surviving son of Edward III, but also represented...
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Battle of Bosworth Field
The Battle of Bosworth Field was the penultimate battle of the Wars of the Roses, the civil war between the House of Lancaster and the House of York that raged across England in the latter half of the 15th century. Fought on 22 August 1485, the...
Battle of Wakefield
The Battle of Wakefield took place at Wakefield, in West Yorkshire, on 30 December 1460. It was one of the major battles of the Wars of the Roses. The opposing forces were a Lancastrian army, loyal to the captive King Henry VI, his Queen, Margaret...
Battle of Towton
The Battle of Towton (pronounced /ˈtaʊtən/) took place on a snowy 29 March 1461 (Palm Sunday) on a plateau between the villages of Towton and Saxton in Yorkshire (about 12 miles (19 km) southwest of York and about 2 miles (3.2 km) south of Tadcaster...
Battle of Stoke Field
The Battle of Stoke Field (16 June, 1487) was the last battle of the Wars of the Roses, since it was to be the last engagement in which a Lancastrian king faced an army of Yorkist supporters, under the pretender Lambert Simnel. However, there is...
Battle of Barnet
The Battle of Barnet was a decisive engagement in the Wars of the Roses, a dynastic conflict of 15th-century England. The military action, along with the subsequent Battle of Tewkesbury, secured the throne for Edward IV. On 14 April 1471 near Barnet...
Battle of Tewkesbury
The Battle of Tewkesbury in Gloucestershire, which took place on 4 May 1471, completed one phase of the Wars of the Roses.
It put a temporary end to Lancastrian hopes of regaining the throne of England. There would be fourteen years of peace before...
Battle of Mortimer's Cross
The Battle of Mortimer's Cross was fought on February 2, 1461 near Wigmore, Herefordshire (between Leominster and Leintwardine, by the River Lugg). It was part of the Wars of the Roses.
Upon the death of the Duke of York at Wakefield the previous...
Battle of Hexham
The Battle of Hexham (15 May 1464) marked the end of significant Lancastrian resistance in the north of England during the early part of the reign of Edward IV.
The battle was fought near the town of Hexham in Northumberland. John Neville, later to...
Second Battle of St Albans
The Second Battle of St Albans was a battle of the English Wars of the Roses fought on 12 February, 1461, at St Albans. The army of the Yorkist faction under the Earl of Warwick attempted to bar the road to London north of the town. The rival...
First Battle of St Albans
The First Battle of St Albans was the first battle of the Wars of the Roses and was fought on 22 May 1455 in the town of St Albans, 22 miles (35 km) north of London. Richard, Duke of York and his ally, Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick, defeated the...
Battle of Blore Heath
The Battle of Blore Heath was the first major battle in the English Wars of the Roses. It was fought on September 23, 1459, at Blore Heath in Staffordshire, two miles east of the town of Market Drayton in Shropshire, England.
After the First Battle...
Battle of Hedgeley Moor
The Battle of Hedgeley Moor, 25 April 1464, was a battle of the Wars of the Roses. It was fought at Hedgeley Moor, north of the village of Glanton in Northumberland, between a Yorkist army led by John Neville, 1st Marquess of Montagu and a...
Battle of Edgecote Moor
The Battle of Edgecote Moor took place 6 miles northeast of Banbury (Oxfordshire), England on 26 July 1469 during the Wars of the Roses. The site of the battle was actually Danes Moor in Northamptonshire, at a crossing of a tributary of the River...
Battle of Northampton
The Battle of Northampton was a battle in the Wars of the Roses, which took place on 10 July, 1460.
The Yorkist cause seemed finished after the previous disaster at Ludford Bridge. Some of the Yorkist commanders (the Earl of Warwick, his father the...
Battle of Ludford Bridge
The Battle of Ludford Bridge was a battle fought in the early years of the Wars of the Roses. It was fought on the 12th of October, 1459, and resulted in a disastrous defeat for the Yorkists.
After the victory at the Battle of Blore Heath on the...
Battle of Lose-coat Field
The Battle of Losecoat Field was fought on 12 March 1470, during the period known as the Wars of the Roses. Also known as the Battle of Empingham. Spellings of Losecoat vary with Losecote and Loose-coat also seen.
Almost a year earlier, in July 1469...
Battle of Ferrybridge
The Battle of Ferrybridge, 28 March 1461, was a small engagement between the houses of York and Lancaster before the larger battle of Towton, during the period known as the Wars of the Roses.
After proclaiming himself king, Edward IV gathered...
Wars of the Roses
The Wars of the Roses were a series of dynastic civil wars between supporters of the rival houses of Lancaster and York, for the throne of England. They are generally accepted to have been fought in several spasmodic episodes between 1455 and 1485 ...
