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Journalists lamented that people were ignorant of the Battle of Towton and of its significance. [100] According to English Heritage the battle was of the "greatest importance": it was one of the largest, if not the largest, fought in England and resulted in the replacement of one royal dynasty by another. [54] Hill expressed a different opinion.
Lionel de Welles, 6th Baron Welles, KG (c. 1406 – 29 March 1461) was an English peer who served as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland and Joint Deputy of Calais.He was slain fighting on the Lancastrian side at the Battle of Towton, and was attainted on 21 December 1461.
At the Battle of Towton (29 March 1461) Trollope shared the command of the Lancastrian vanguard with Henry Percy, 3rd Earl of Northumberland, against the Yorkist army of Edward IV. [1] Considered the "opposite number" of his contemporary William Neville, 1st Earl of Kent , Trollope's death in the battle was "a damaging blow" for the future of ...
Humphrey Dacre, 1st Baron Dacre of Gilsland (c. 1424 – 30 May 1485), was an English soldier, Cumberland landowner and peer.. He remained loyal to the House of Lancaster when Henry VI was deposed by Edward IV and fought on the Lancastrian side at the Battle of Towton of 1461, after which he was attainted.
Elizabeth Clifford, who married firstly, Sir William Plumpton of Knaresborough, Yorkshire, [9] slain at the Battle of Towton, and secondly, John Hamerton. [4] [10] Maud Clifford, who married firstly Sir John Harrington of Hornby, Lancashire, slain at the Battle of Wakefield in 1460, and secondly, Sir Edmund Sutton of Dudley, Staffordshire. [4] [11]
John's father, Lionel de Welles, 6th Baron Welles, was slain at the Battle of Towton in 1461, and his elder half-brother, Richard Welles, 7th Baron Welles, inherited the Welles barony. Richard Welles and his son and heir, Robert Welles, 8th Baron Willoughby de Eresby , were both beheaded in March 1470 for involvement in an uprising against ...
The second son, Randolf, was childless, slain at the Battle of Towton in 1461. [9] Humphrey, the third son, married Mabel Parr, daughter of Sir Thomas Parr of Kendal and by her had issue. [10] The other sons – Ralph, Richard, George, and John – are thought to have died young. [7] The eldest daughter, Joan, married Thomas, Lord Clifford ...
The Battle of Towton was the "largest and bloodiest battle ever fought on English soil". The engagement took place near the village of the same name in Yorkshire on 29 March 1461, a Palm Sunday . It was part of the series of civil wars—the Wars of the Roses —fought between the Houses of Lancaster and York .