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Second Battle of St Albans
On February 17, 1461, the Lancastrian forces of Queen Margaret and the Duke of Somerset defeated the Yorkist Earl of Warwick at St Albans in Hertford…
Timeline
- 1461St Albans · HertfordshireQueen Margaret led the Lancastrian main force south from the north, while the Earl of Warwick was ordered to block them at St Albans; gaps in the Yorkist defensive deployment failed to effectively seal all routes.
- 1461St Albans battlefield · HertfordshireThe Lancastrian forces outflanked and broke through the Yorkist positions, forcing Warwick to retreat; the Lancastrians entered the town and reunited with the imprisoned Henry VI, achieving both a political and a military victory.
Sources
- Second Battle of St Albans https://historicengland.org.uk/research/current/heritage-research-results/wars-of-the-roses/
- The Oxford Companion to British History — John Cannon (ed.) (1997)