"The Battle of Edgcote 1469" Topic

"Edgcote has been a bit of a theme over the last year or so for me and the Northamptonshire Battlefields Society. Together with Phil we've given a presentation or two, we've walked the field and painted a few figures. We've even done a few games.

Why all the Edgcote activity? Well this year is the 550th anniversary, and the Society has been organising things under the umbrella of "Edgcote 550". As it is a not well understood battle it seemed like a good idea to use the anniversary to promote our understanding a little bit.

One of our aims was to publish a book on the battle, like we have already done on the Battle of Northampton. As I worked through the research for talks we were giving a number of questions came up that needed to be answered that it didn't seem that earlier writers had dealt with. What I ended up doing was writing a series of essays on things like the historiography, the size of the armies, the location of the battle and so on which then linked together to make a coherent description of the campaign, the battle and the aftermath. Whilst doing that I also assembled files of pretty much all of the primary sources (and go some of them re-translated) so I had a decent sized appendix of what we know…."

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Armand

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Armand

The Kingmaker was really not happy with his cousin the King.

He had plans and Edward kept on doing things his own way.

So Warrick took matters into his own hands.