Battle of Barnet
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The Battle of Barnet was a decisive Yorkist victory in the Wars of the Roses, a dynastic conflict of 15th-century England. The military action, along with the subsequent Battle of Tewkesbury, secured
Late 15th-century artistic portrayal of the battle: Edward IV (left), wearing a circlet and mounted on a horse, leads the Yorkist charge and pierces the Earl of Warwick (right) with his lance; in reality, Warwick was not killed by Edward.
The Earl of Warwick prepares for the battle in this diorama at Warwick Castle.
Nobles in the Battle of Barnet wore composite field armour like this suit exhibited at the Royal Armouries Museum.
1885 lithograph portraying the rout of Warwick's forces in the manner of Paolo Uccello
George Plantagenet, Duke of Clarence, was the sixth child and third surviving son of Richard Plantagenet, 3rd Duke of York, and Cecily Neville, and the brother of English kings Edward IV and Richard I
16th-century portrait after Lucas Cornelisz de Kock
The Duke and Duchess of Clarence, as portrayed at Cardiff Castle.
Margaret Pole, Countess of Salisbury
Edward Plantagenet, 17th Earl of Warwick