The Act named five knights Sir John and Sir Thomas Neville (sons of Salisbury), Sir Thomas Harrington, Sir John Conyers and Sir Thomas Parr and gave the number of men in Salisbury’s army as 5,000. Salisbury’s Yorkist army was denounced in the Act of Attainder issued by Parliament at Leicester in 1459. The Yorkist army probably comprised some 5,000 men.īoth armies comprised substantial forces of archers, along with knights and men-at-arms (mounted men, but not knights). Size of the armies at the Battle of Blore Heath: The Lancastrian army probably comprised some 10,000 men. Salisbury, aged 60, a nobleman with substantial estates, principally in Yorkshire, saw military service in France and at the First Battle of St Albans. Richard Neville, Earl of Salisbury, commanded the Yorkist army. Place of the Battle of Blore Heath: In Staffordshire, near the Shropshire town of Market Drayton.Ĭombatants at the Battle of Blore Heath: Lancastrians against the Yorkists, in the civil war that wracked England in the 15 th Century.Ĭommanders at the Battle of Blore Heath: James Touchet, Lord Audley, a powerful nobleman with extensive lands in Staffordshire, Shropshire and Cheshire, commanded the Lancastrian army.Īudley served under King Henry V, in the Wars in France and pursued a long-standing grievance against the Yorkist leadership, arising from a dynastic quarrel. The next battle in the Wars of the Roses is the Battle of Northamptonĭate of the Battle of Blore Heath: 23 rd September 1459 The previous battle in the British Battles series is the First Battle of St Albans Battle of Blore Heath, fought on 23rd September 1459 in the Wars of the Roses
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