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23 September – Wars of the Roses: at the Battle of Blore Heath in Staffordshire, Yorkists under Richard Neville, 5th Earl of Salisbury defeat a Lancastrian force. 12 October – Wars of the Roses: Lancastrian victory at the Battle of Ludford Bridge. Following the battle, the Duke of York flees to Ireland.
At the Battle of Blore Heath on 23 September 1459 he was again present, equally with his son Edmund Sutton, commanding a wing under Lord Audley. Dudley was wounded and again captured. At Towton (1461) he was rewarded after the battle for his participation on the side of Edward, Earl of March, son of Richard, Duke of York. On 28 June that year ...
It was these grievances which Richard of York had first used as pretext to take arms against Henry's court in the early 1450s. Within six months of the confrontation, Warwick was able to land at Sandwich in Kent, with popular support from London and the south east of England.
Audley chose the barren heathland of Blore Heath to set up an ambush. [9] On the morning of 23 September 1459 (Saint Thecla's day), a force of some 10,000 men took up a defensive position behind a 'great hedge' on the south-western edge of Blore Heath facing the direction of Newcastle-under-Lyme to the north-east, the direction from which Salisbury was approaching.
Arms of Richard of York, 3rd Duke of York: grand quarterly, 1st and 4th: royal arms of England differenced by a label of three points argent each charged with three torteaux (differenced arms of his great-grandfather King Edward III (father of Edmund of Langley, 1st Duke of York [2] [3])), 2nd: Castile and León, 3rd: Mortimer quartering de Burgh; overall an inescutcheon of Holland, Earl of Kent
March 27 – Richard Plantagenet, Duke of York, becomes Protector for King Henry VI of England, who is in a catatonic state. April 9 – Treaty of Lodi: Francesco Sforza forms a triple alliance between the Duchy of Milan, the Republic of Florence and Kingdom of Naples. [14] August – In Moldavia, Petru Aron retakes the throne from Alexăndrel.
Year 1459 was a common year ... Richard, Duke of York, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, ... Lord Deputy to King Henry VII of England (d. 1521)
James Tuchet, 5th Baron Audley, 2nd Baron Tuchet (c. 1398 – 23 September 1459) of Heleigh Castle was an English peer.. James Tuchet, 5th Baron Audley, son of Elizabeth Stafford and her husband John Tuchet, 4th Baron Audley, was a distinguished veteran of the Hundred Years' War.