Battle of Northampton

Overview

The Battle of Northampton was fought on 10 July 1460 near the River Nene, Northamptonshire. It was a major battle of the Wars of the Roses. The opposing forces were an army led by nobles loyal to King Henry VI of the House of Lancaster, his Queen Margaret of Anjou and their six-year-old son Edward, Prince of Wales, on one side, and the army of Edward, Earl of March, and Warwick the Kingmaker on the other. The battle was the first in which artillery was used in England.

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Significance

The Battle of Northampton, fought on 10 July 1460, was an engagement in the Wars of the Roses between Yorkist forces under the Earl of Warwick, the Earl of March, and Baron Fauconberg and a Lancastrian army of 5,000 commanded under the nominal presence of Henry VI, with senior Lancastrian lords including the Duke of Buckingham, the Earl of Shrewsbury, Viscount Beaumont, Baron Egremont, and Baron Grey. The concentration of senior Lancastrian commanders on the field indicates the strategic weight both sides attached to the engagement during this phase of the conflict.

Forces & casualties

Commanders (9)