Battle of Barnet
Battle of Barnet
| date | April 14, 1471 |
|---|---|
| place | Barnet , now in the London Borough of Barnet |
| output | Victory of the house of York |
| Parties to the conflict | |
|---|---|
| Commander | |
| Troop strength | |
| 9,000 men | 12,000 men |
| losses | |
|
500 men |
1,000 men |
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 Barnet took place as part of the Wars of the Roses on April 14, 1471 between Edward IV and Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick , and ended with a victory for Edward.
Course of the battle
The battle was ultimately decided by a fatal error: right at the beginning, the Earl of Oxford's contingent fighting for Lancaster had overrun the left wing of the Yorkists and driven them back to Barnet , but none of the other participants in the battle noticed this because of the thick fog. When Oxford's men returned to the battlefield from Barnet, Warwick's men confused their emblem, the standard, a silver star, with the " Sun of York ", that of the opposing army under Edward IV, and attacked the allies. The resulting shambles were used by the now newly formed enemy to attack. Warwick was killed and his troops smashed.
Effects of the battle
Before the army of the Earl of Warwick and the troops of Queen Margaret , wife of Henry VI , who had just landed in England . , was able to unite, it was provided by Edward IV's army and defeated despite being outnumbered. With Warwick's death, the House of Lancaster lacked the influential and popular strategic head of the "kingmaker". So it was easier for the Yorkists to defeat Margaret's army at Tewkesbury three weeks later .
Commemoration
A 1741 initiated by Sir Jeremy Sambroke, originally about 200 meters south of the present stand on the presumed place of death of the Earl of Warwick erected obelisk is dedicated to the memory with the inscription : Here was fought the famous battle between Edward IV and the Earl of. Warwick on April 14th ANNO 1471, in which the Earl was defeated and killed.
Also reminiscent is in the upper part with white and red rose provided as well as two crossed swords emblem of 31 London County Borough of Barnet .
literature
- Philip A. Haigh: The Military Campaigns of the Wars of the Roses . Sutton Publishing, Stroud 1995, ISBN 0-7509-1430-0 .
- PW Hammond: The Battles of Barnet and Tewkesbury . St. Martin's Press, New York 1990.
- Geoffrey Regan : Military Blunders. ABC-Clio, Santa Barbara, CA 1991, ISBN 0-87436-668-2 .
- John A. Wagner: Encyclopedia of the Wars of the Roses. ABC-Clio, Santa Barbara, CA 2001, ISBN 1-85109-358-3 , pp. 17ff.
Web links
- Martin Reboul: The Battle of Barnet. on the Richard III Society website. (English)
Coordinates: 51 ° 39 ′ 44 ″ N , 0 ° 12 ′ 0 ″ W.