Battle of Deptford Bridge

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Memorial plaque in Cornish and English for Michael Joseph An Gof and Thomas Flamank on the north side of Blackheath-Angers, southeast of London, near the south entrance to Greenwich Park.

The Battle of Deptford Bridge marked the end of the Cornish Rebellion of 1497. It took place on June 17, 1497 near present-day Deptford in south-east London on the Ravensbourne River .

Insurgents under Michael An Gof and Thomas Flamank had marched to London with the support of rebels from Somerset under Lord Audley , but had not received the hoped-for support from Kent .

The Cornish rebels were surrounded and defeated by the troops of Henry VII under Lord Daubeney . In contrast to the royal troops, the rebels were inadequately equipped and had neither cavalry nor artillery. Since much of the battle took place on the east bank of the Ravensbourne on the edge of the Blackheath plateau , it is sometimes called the Battle of Blackheath . The numbers of casualties on the two sides are given differently, but the losses of the English troops appear to have been single digits, while the insurgents killed at least 200. The leaders of the rebels were executed as treason - Michael An Gof and Thomas Flamank were hanged and quartered , Lord Audley was only beheaded thanks to his noble rank .

literature

  • Anthony Fletcher, Diarmaid Maculloch: Tudor Rebellions . Routledge, New York 2014, ISBN 978-1-4058-7432-8 , p. 21 ff.

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