Yorkists and Lancastrians taking white and red roses in the Inner Temple Garden: First Battle of St Albans, fought on 22nd May 1455 in the Wars of the Roses: allegorical picture from William Shakespeare by Henry Arthur Payneįirst Battle of St Albans: The First Battle of the Wars of the Roses, fought in the streets of St Albans on 22 nd May 1455.īattle of Blore Heath: The battle fought on 23 rd September 1459, at which the Earl of Salisbury’s Yorkist army defeated a larger Lancastrian army, enabling it to join the Duke of York at Ludlow.īattle of Northampton: King Henry VI, captured for a second time by the Yorkists, after the crushing defeat of the Lancastrians at the Battle of Northampton, fought on 10 th July 1460.īattle of Wakefield 1460: Queen Margaret of Anjou’s crushing defeat of the Yorkists on 30 th December 1460, with the death of the Yorkist leader, Richard, Duke of York and his young son, the Duke of Rutland.īattle of Mortimer’s Cross: Edward, Earl of March’s decisive defeat of Jasper Tudor, on 3 rd February 1461, on the Welsh Border

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