Battle of Wakefield
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The 'Battle' of Wakefield has traditionally been said to have taken place in Sandal Magna near Wakefield in northern England, on 30 December 1460. Recent research demonstrates that it was not a battle
Last hours of Richard Plantagenet, father of Richard III (illustration from 1904)
Sandal Castle
Monument to Richard of York
The Murder of Rutland by Lord Clifford by Charles Robert Leslie, 1815
Richard of York, 3rd Duke of York, also named Richard Plantagenet, was a leading English magnate and claimant to the throne during the Wars of the Roses. He was a member of the ruling House of Plantag
Battle of Wakefield
…demonstrates that it was not a battle in the proper sense of a word, but a small-scale skirmish that resulted in the capture and subsequent deaths of Richard of York, 3rd Duke of York, his second son, Edmund, Earl of Rutland, and Richard Neville, 5th Earl of Salisbury. For several years before the battle, the Duke of York – a descendant…
Richard of York in the frontispiece of the Talbot Shrewsbury Book, 1445
Victorian depiction of Henry VI (right) sitting while the Dukes of York (left) and Somerset (centre) have an argument
Edward IV, King of England
Elizabeth, Duchess of Suffolk