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Capture of Queen Margaret
Days after the Battle of Tewkesbury in 1471, the Lancastrian queen Margaret of Anjou was captured by Yorkist forces near the Forest of Dean in Glouce…
Timeline
- 1471Forest of Dean · GloucestershireAfter the disastrous defeat at Tewkesbury, Queen Margaret fled south from the battlefield with a small retinue, seeking refuge in the Forest of Dean. Her son Edward of Westminster had already been killed in the battle, and the Lancastrian cause was beyond saving.
- 1471Little Dean · Forest of DeanYorkist cavalry overtook Margaret's party in the Forest of Dean; the queen was captured and sent to London. She was thereafter long imprisoned, and the Lancastrians lost their last core political leader, effectively ending the Lancastrian side of the Wars of the Roses.
Sources
- Margaret of Anjou https://www.britannica.com/biography/Margaret-of-Anjou
- The Queen's Consort: Margaret of Anjou and the Wars of the Roses — Helen E. Maurer (2003)