Download or read book The Battle of Northampton 1460 written by MR Mike Ingram and published by . This book was released on 2015-12-04 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It should have been the battle that ended Richard of York's rebellions. With the Yorkists politically destroyed and the estates confiscated, all that remained was to carry out the punishment for treason - death. On 10 July 1460 King Henry VI and his army waited for the Yorkists in a heavily fortified camp in fields outside Northampton. However, they did not count on the treachery of Lord Grey of Ruthin. For the first time, this is the full story of the Battle of Northampton which took place during the turbulent period now known as the Wars of the Roses. It was the first and only time that a fortified camp was assaulted and was the last time protracted negotiations took place before a battle. In its immediate aftermath the House of York laid claim to the throne of England for the first time and so began the bloodiest phase of the Wars of the Roses - the war of succession. As well as the battle itself, the book looks at Northamptonshire's medieval history and its involvement in the Wars of the Roses. Northampton today is, frankly, an under-appreciated, often overlooked, town. The joke is, people only know of Northamptonshire because they shoot through it on the M1: they note the name of the county town on notice boards from exits 15 to 16. But this was, once, one of the great centres of power and influence in early and Medieval England. It was also, with Oxford, home to one of the first two universities in the land. Mike Ingram brings fine scholastic research to play, in reminding people of Northampton's past importance - strategic and social. His energetic prose gives colour to every page, while his revelations intrigue and entertain. He helps us appreciate why one of the great battles of English history took place in this Midland town, and he skilfully resurrects the generals and ordinary soldiers who clashed in an engagement that helped lay the foundations of this nation's past. You don't need to be a champion or resident of Northampton to appreciate this overdue appraisal of the battle that bears its name. This is a book that everyone who loves History - particularly the almost forgotten kind - will savour. Earl Charles Spencer
Download or read book The Battle of Northampton 1460 written by Rupert Matthews and published by Bretwalda Books. This book was released on 2013-04-01 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is dedicated to the Battle of Northampton during the Wars of the Roses. It details the reasons for and the course of the war, and features detailed analysis of weapons, tactics and strategies.
Download or read book Encyclopedia of the Wars of the Roses written by John A. Wagner and published by ABC-CLIO. This book was released on 2001-07-12 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This authoritative A–Z encyclopedia of the Wars of the Roses provides accurate and concise descriptions of the major battles and events and the principal historical figures and issues involved. For centuries, historians agreed about the Wars of the Roses, seeing them as four decades of medieval darkness and chaos, when the royal family and the nobility destroyed themselves fighting for control of the royal government. Even Shakespeare got into the act, dramatizing, popularizing, and darkening this viewpoint in eight plays. Today, based on new research, this has become one of the most hotly controversial periods in English history. Historians disagree on fundamental issues, such as dates and facts, as well as interpretation. Most argue that the effects of the wars were not as widespread as once thought, and some see the traditional view of the era as merely Tudor propaganda. A few even claim that England during the late 15th century was "a society organized for peace." Historian John A. Wagner brings readers up to date on the latest research and thinking about this crucial period of England's history.
Download or read book The Story of England written by Samuel Harding and published by Perennial Press. This book was released on 2018-03-10 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the city of Calais, on the northern coast of France, one may look over the water on a clear day and see the white cliffs of Dover, in England. At this point the English Channel is only twenty-one miles wide. But this narrow water has dangerous currents, and often fierce winds sweep over it, so that small ships find it hard to cross. This rough Channel has more than once spoiled the plans of England's enemies, and the English people have many times thanked God for their protecting seas.
Download or read book The Knight Who Saved England written by Richard Brooks and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2014-04-20 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The life and times of the greatest knight of the high middle ages, who saved England from the French. In 1217 England was facing her darkest hour, with foreign troops pillaging the country and defeat close at hand. But, at the battle of Lincoln, the seventy-year-old William Marshal led his men to a victory that would secure the future of his nation. Earl of Pembroke, right-hand man to three kings and regent for a fourth, Marshal was one of the most celebrated men in Europe, yet is virtually unknown today, his impact and influence largely forgotten In this vivid account, Richard Brooks blends colourful contemporary source material with new insights to uncover the tale of this unheralded icon. He traces the rise of Marshal from penniless younger son to renowned knight, national hero and defender of the Magna Carta. What emerges is a fascinating story of a man negotiating the brutal realities of medieval warfare and the conflicting demands of chivalric ideals, and who against the odds defeated the joint French and rebel forces in arguably the most important battle in medieval English history – overshadowing even Agincourt.
Download or read book On this Day in the Wars of the Roses written by Dan Moorhouse and published by . This book was released on 2021-03-29 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn about everyday life in the Wars of the Roses through easy to access day by day accounts. The book explores the glamour of the court alongside battles, plots, uprisings, and reprisals.
Download or read book Richard III and the Battle of Bosworth written by Mike Ingram and published by Retinue to Regiment. This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Battle of Bosworth along with Hastings and Naseby is one of the most important battles in English history and on the death of Richard, ushered in the age of the Tudors. This is the story of two very different men, Richard III, the last Plantagenet King of England and Henry Tudor and how they met in battle on 22 August 1485 at Bosworth Field.
Download or read book The Battles of St Albans written by Peter Burley and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2013-09-09 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: St Albans is unique in having been the site of two pivotal battles during the Wars of the Roses, yet this is the first book-length account to have been published. It offers a gripping account of the fighting, and of the politics and intrigue that led to it, and it incorporates the results of the latest research. The authors also plot the events of over 500 years ago onto the twenty-first century landscape of St Albans so that the visitor can retrace the course of each battle on the present-day ground.
Download or read book The Wars of the Roses written by Michael Hicks and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2014-06-06 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Wars of the Roses raged from 1455 to 1485 - the longest period of civil war in English history. They barely affected the daily routine of the civilian population, yet for the leaders of the opposing houses of York and Lancaster, the wars were devastating. First hand accounts reveal how the lives of their women and children were blighted during three decades of war, as many of their male relatives met with violent deaths. This book examines in detail the causes, course and results of each of the main wars and concludes with a fascinating insight into why the wars ended so abruptly.
Download or read book Lewes and Evesham 1264 65 written by Richard Brooks and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-07-20 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the crescendo of the Second Barons' War were the battles of Lewes and Evesham. It was an era of high drama and intrigue, as tensions between crown and aristocracy had boiled over and a civil war erupted that would shape the future of English government. In this detailed study, Richard Brooks unravels the remarkable events of the battles of Lewes and Evesham, revealing the unusually tactical nature of the fighting, in sharp contrast to most medieval conflicts which were habitually settled by burning and ravaging. At Lewes, Simon de Montfort, the powerful renegade leader of the Baronial faction, won a vital victory, smashing the Royalist forces and capturing Henry III and Prince Edward. Edward escaped, however, to lead the Royalist armies to a crushing victory just a year later at Evesham. Using full colour illustrations, bird's-eye views and detailed maps to generate an arresting visual perspective of the fighting, this book tells the full story of the battles of Lewes and Evesham, the only pitched battles to be fought by English armies in the mid-13th century.
Download or read book The Battle of Towton written by Andrew W. Boardman and published by Sutton Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On Palm Sunday 1461, a bitterly contested battle was fought by two massive medieval armies for the prize of the crown of England. This work explores what drove the contending armies of York and Lancaster to fight at Towton in the longest, biggest and bloodiest battle ever staged on British soil, and examines the legends surrounding the terrible encounter, including that of the rivers running red with blood.
Download or read book The Battlefields of England written by A.H Burne and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: England's battlefields bear witness to dramatic turning-points in the country's history. At Hastings, Bosworth Field, Flodden and Naseby, the battles fought were to have an enormous effect on English life. This double volume, containing Burne's famous "Battlefields of England" and "More Battlefields of England" make it possible for readers to follow the course of 39 battles from AD 51 to 1685, as if they were on the battlefields themselves.
Download or read book Parliament and Politics in Late Medieval England written by John S. Roskell and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 1983-01-01 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Eleanor of Castile written by Sara Cockerill and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2014-09-15 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The untold story of the remarkable woman behind England's greatest medieval king, Edward I
Download or read book The Battle of Edgcote 1469 written by Graham Evans and published by . This book was released on 2019-03-25 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In July 1469 two armies, one drawn from Wales and the West Country, and the other from the North of England, faced each other across Danes Moor, outside the small village of Edgcote in south Northamptonshire. The North men were marching to meet Richard Neville, the Earl of Warwick, who, impatient with his waning influence with King Edward IV, had decided on drastic measures to regain his power. The Welsh and West Country men were loyal to their King, and had been summoned to his aid. Meeting by chance the armies clashed bloodily in the green Northamptonshire countryside. Historical accounts of the battle are full of exciting characters, misdeeds, betrayals and bloody retribution. One of the 15th century's most overlooked and misunderstood battles, Edgcote had a long lasting impact in both England and Wales. The campaign ended with the King a prisoner, large numbers of the Welsh nobility dead and Warwick "The Kingmaker" apparently holding the reins of power. Warwick's failure to drive home his advantage over his captive monarch would lead to the re-igniting of the Wars of the Roses and ultimately to the battles of Barnet and Tewkesbury .This new study from the Northamptonshire Battlefields Society looks at the key aspects of the campaign and the battle, taking a fresh look at the evidence to determine where and when the armies fought, how large the armies were and the actual course of the battle. Working with experts in Welsh poetry and drawing on a completely new translation of one of the key contemporary sources, this book throws new light on all of the major aspects of the campaign and battle.
Download or read book The Wars of the Roses written by Anthony Goodman and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1990 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1990. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Download or read book The Castle in the Wars of the Roses written by Dan Spencer and published by Pen and Sword Military. This book was released on 2020-12-02 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fascinating study of medieval warfare examines the vital role of castles during the English civil wars of the 15th century. The Wars of the Roses comprise one of the most fascinating periods in medieval history. Much has been written about the leading personalities, bitter dynastic rivalries, political intrigues, and the rapid change of fortune on the battlefields of England and Wales. However, there is one aspect that has been often overlooked, the role of castles in the conflict. Dan Spencer’s original study traces the use of castles from the outbreak of civil war in the 1450s during the reign of Henry VI to the triumph of Henry VII some thirty years later. Using a wide range of narrative, architectural, financial, and administrative sources, Spencer sheds new light on the place of castles within the conflict, demonstrating their importance as strategic and logistical centers, bases for marshaling troops, and as fortresses.
