Battle of Mortimer's Cross
date | February 2nd or 3rd, 1461 |
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place | Wigmore , Herefordshire |
output | Victory of the house of York |
Parties to the conflict | |
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Commander | |
Edward, Earl of March , later Edward IV. |
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Troop strength | |
unknown | unknown |
losses | |
unknown |
unknown |
St Albans - Blore Heath - Ludlow - Northampton - Wakefield - Mortimer's Cross - St Albans - Ferrybridge - Towton - Hedgeley Moor - Hexham - Edgecote Moor - Losecote Field - Barnet - Tewkesbury - Bosworth Field - Stoke
The Battle of Mortimer's Cross was fought on February 2 or 3, 1461 near Wigmore in Herefordshire (between Hereford and Leominster ). She was part of the Wars of the Roses .
With the death of Richard Plantagenet, 3rd Duke of York at the Battle of Wakefield the previous December, the Yorkist army was led by his eighteen-year-old son Edward, Earl of March (later King Edward IV ). He wanted to prevent the Lancaster troops , led by Jasper and Owen Tudor , from advancing into Wales . Edward had frontier troops and a Welsh unit under Sir William Herbert .
The Yorkists were victorious. The Welsh suffered heavy losses and Jasper Tudor fled. Owen Tudor was captured and executed in Hereford. The victory paved the way to Edward's coronation that same year.
literature
- Ernest Fraser Jacob: The Fifteenth Century, 1399-1485 (Oxford History of England) . Clarendon Press, Oxford 1961, pp. 523f.
- Charles Ross: Edward IV. Methuen, London 1974, p. 31f.
- Philip A. Haigh: The Military Campaigns of the Wars of the Roses . Sutton Publishing, Stroud 1995, ISBN 0-7509-1430-0 .
Coordinates: 52 ° 16 '0.7 " N , 2 ° 50' 37.6" W.