Sir Edmund Verney was an English politician, soldier and favourite of King Charles I. At the outbreak of the English Civil War he supported the Royalist cause and was killed at the Battle of Edgehill.
Portrait of Sir Edmund Verney, circa 1640, by Sir Anthony van Dyck
Memorial to Edmund Verney in the church next to Claydon House, the Verney family home
The Battle of Edgehill was a pitched battle of the First English Civil War. It was fought near Edge Hill and Kineton in southern Warwickshire on Sunday, 23 October 1642.
The Prince of Wales and the Duke of York sheltering during the Battle of Edgehill
Interpretation of Charles I holding a council of war before the Battle of Edgehill, by Charles Landseer (1845)
Prince Rupert leads the Royalist cavalry