What the records say
- When
- 30 Dec 1460
- Kind
- Battle
- Coordinates
- 53.68° N, 1.49° W
- Description
- 1460 battle
Battle of Wakefield
1460 Wars of the Roses battle
The 'Battle' of Wakefield has traditionally been said to have taken place in Sandal Magna near Wakefield in northern England, on 30 December 1460. Recent research demonstrates that it was not a battle in the proper sense of a word, but a small-scale skirmish that resulted in the capture and subsequent deaths of Richard of York, 3rd Duke of York, his second son, Edmund, Earl of Rutland, and Richard Neville, 5th Earl o…
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- Wikidata: battles and siegesWikidata contributorsCreative Commons CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Wars of the Roses – Richard of York, set to be the next King of England, is killed along with his son, Edmund, Earl of Rutland”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (German), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Margarets Heerführer Henry Beaufort, 2. Duke of Somerset, siegt in der Schlacht von Wakefield über die Yorkisten”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (French), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “victoire des Lancastre à la bataille de Wakefield”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Russian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “войска Белой Розы разбиты армией Маргариты Анжуйской при Уэйкфилде, наследник британского престола Ричард Йоркский погиб”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Japanese), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “（薔薇戦争）ウェイクフィールドの戦い、ランカスター派勝利、ヨーク公リチャードとソールズベリー伯リチャード・ネヴィルが殺害される。”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page