One side fought to stay alive until the reinforcements commanded by Jasper, the Earl of Pembroke, would arrive.
One side fought to stay alive until the reinforcements commanded by Jasper, the Earl of Pembroke, would arrive. The dispatching of 200 mounted spearman into the trees, a few hours before the battle began, proved to be the undoing of the Duke of Somerset, whose charge at the King's left right was not supported by Wenlock. Soon the latter's head was on a pike near the namesake location, an abbey on the Severn river, and the forces of Edward, Prince of Wales, were scattered on the so-called "Bloody Meadow." Precipitated by the defeat of Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick, at Barnet two months earlier, FTP, name this 1471 battle which saw Margaret of Anjou's failed attempt to restore the Lancastrians to the throne, a victory by Edward IV that secured Yorkist claims and resulted in the murder of Henry VI three weeks later.
One side fought to stay alive until the reinforcements commanded by Jasper, the Earl of Pembroke, would arrive.
Tewkesbury