Posted on Jul 26, 2021
UK Battlefields Resource Centre - Wars of the Roses - Edgcote Campaign - The Battle of Battle of...
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On July 26, 1469, during the Wars of the Roses, at the Battle of Edgecote Moor, the forces of Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick against those of King Edward IV took place. An excerpt from the article:
"They clashed on the morning of the 24th July, on Danes Moor in the parish of Edgcote, about 6 miles north east of the town of Banbury. Pembroke’s army had been dangerously weakened because, supposedly after an argument the night before, the Earl of Devon had withdrawn his troops. This left Pembroke without archers, a weakness that the rebels exploited. An initial attack by the rebel archers forced Pembroke to abandon a strong hilltop position and engage in hand to hand fighting on the valley floor.
After this initial setback, Pembroke’s army fought back and was on the brink of success when rebel reinforcements arrived. Thinking them the vanguard of Warwick’s whole army, Pembroke’s troops broke and fled. In the ensuing rout large numbers of the fleeing troops were killed, while Pembroke himself was captured and then executed several days later in Northampton. In the following days the king himself was taken prisoner and other of his major supporters captured and executed. With the king under his ‘protection’, Warwick was in effective control of the kingdom.
The sources for Edgcote and associated campaign encompass a wide variety, from local Corporation records, to information in State Papers, contemporary letters, poetry, chronicles and histories written after the battle. These range in content from a few dozen words in the most simple to over 2,000 in the most detailed. They are written in medieval French, Welsh, English and Latin. A careful examination of the sources allows a coherent narrative to be produced, and the location of the battle to be determined with a good degree of confidence. The landscape is undeveloped and pleasant and the area reasonably accessible on rights of way. It is thus a site well worth visiting to compare the alternative interpretations.
A leaflet describing a battlefield trail connecting Edgcote with the battlefields at Cropredy and Edgehill can be downloaded on the left. A report on the trail which will help guide walkers can be found HERE. A leaflet is also available from the Northamptonshire Battlefields Society."
"They clashed on the morning of the 24th July, on Danes Moor in the parish of Edgcote, about 6 miles north east of the town of Banbury. Pembroke’s army had been dangerously weakened because, supposedly after an argument the night before, the Earl of Devon had withdrawn his troops. This left Pembroke without archers, a weakness that the rebels exploited. An initial attack by the rebel archers forced Pembroke to abandon a strong hilltop position and engage in hand to hand fighting on the valley floor.
After this initial setback, Pembroke’s army fought back and was on the brink of success when rebel reinforcements arrived. Thinking them the vanguard of Warwick’s whole army, Pembroke’s troops broke and fled. In the ensuing rout large numbers of the fleeing troops were killed, while Pembroke himself was captured and then executed several days later in Northampton. In the following days the king himself was taken prisoner and other of his major supporters captured and executed. With the king under his ‘protection’, Warwick was in effective control of the kingdom.
The sources for Edgcote and associated campaign encompass a wide variety, from local Corporation records, to information in State Papers, contemporary letters, poetry, chronicles and histories written after the battle. These range in content from a few dozen words in the most simple to over 2,000 in the most detailed. They are written in medieval French, Welsh, English and Latin. A careful examination of the sources allows a coherent narrative to be produced, and the location of the battle to be determined with a good degree of confidence. The landscape is undeveloped and pleasant and the area reasonably accessible on rights of way. It is thus a site well worth visiting to compare the alternative interpretations.
A leaflet describing a battlefield trail connecting Edgcote with the battlefields at Cropredy and Edgehill can be downloaded on the left. A report on the trail which will help guide walkers can be found HERE. A leaflet is also available from the Northamptonshire Battlefields Society."
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Thanks SGT Reynolds for that history lesson on the War of the Roses. I had an English History prof at Texas A&M in 1962 who lectured without notes while perched on a table. For the final exam, he wrote one question on the blackboard and gave us three hours to answer it. He wrote, “Imagine you are a nobleman at the time. How will you manage to keep your head when so many are being captured and executed.” I wrote for three hours and filled up five little notebooks; when he graded our answers, he gave me an “F”, causing me to fail the course. I never learned of the correct answer but he obviously didn’t like what I wrote.
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LTC John Mohor
Chalk it up to another English Professor that was unable to ever work a real job like so many a number of us had to endure!
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