The ancient historian Matthew Paris lived in this city.
A man who lived in the ancient version of this city was mythically beheaded on a hill, but one of his executioners' eyes popped out of his head so that the heathen could not rejoice. After Thomas Kyriell and William Bonville were captured in this city, a woman asked her seven-year-old son "what death shall these knights die?" despite pleas for mercy from her husband. The ancient historian Matthew Paris lived in this city. Once the Roman city of (*) Verulamium, it was where John Grey of Groby, the first husband of Elizabeth Woodville, was killed. At a battle fought in this city, Edmund Beaufort, the Duke of Somerset, was killed. During another battle fought here, a ruler sat under a tree, singing and ignoring the defeat of Warwick's forces. Henry VI was both captured and released at battles fought here. For 10 points, what city was the site of two battles in the Wars of the Roses?
A man who lived in the ancient version of this city was mythically beheaded on a hill, but one of his executioners' eyes popped out of his head so that the heathen could not rejoice.
St. Albans [or Verulamium until it is read]