Battle of Mortimer's Cross

Battle of Mortimer's Cross

Part of: Wars of the Roses

date	February 2nd or 3rd, 1461
place	Wigmore , Herefordshire
output	Victory of the house of York

Parties to the conflict
York House	Lancaster house
Commander
Edward, Earl of March , later Edward IV.	Owen Tudor Jasper Tudor, 1st Duke of Bedford
Troop strength
unknown	unknown
losses
unknown	unknown

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.