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ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY . 30 December 1460 . Richard, 3rd Duke of York died at the Battle of Wakefield. . . ◼ Richard Plantagenet, 3rd Duke of York, 6th Earl of March, 4th Earl of Cambridge, & 8th Earl of Ulster, conventionally called Richard of York (born. 21 September 1411) was a leading English magnate, a great-grandson of King Edward III through his father & a great-great-great-grandson of Edward III through his mother. . ◼ He inherited great estates, & served in various offices of state in France at the end of the Hundred Years' War, & in England, ultimately governing the country as Lord Protector during Henry VI's madness. . ◼ His conflicts with Henry's queen, Margaret of Anjou, & other members of Henry's court, as well as his extremely strong competing claim on the throne, were a leading factor in the political upheaval of mid-fifteenth-century England, & a major cause of the Wars of the Roses. . ◼ Richard eventually attempted to take the throne but was dissuaded, although it was agreed that he would become King on Henry's death. Within a few weeks of securing this agreement, he died in battle. . ◼ Although Richard never became king himself, he was the father of Kings Edward IV & Richard III. . . ▪ The main picture is of Richard Plantagenet, 3rd Duke of York, on stained glass window in St. Laurence's Church, Ludlow . . . #ONTHISDAYINHISTORY #thisdayinhistory #d30dec #TheYear1460, #RichardPlantagenet #DukeofYork #RichardDukeofYork #RichardofYork #LordProtector #History #EnglishHistory #BattleofWakefield #houseofyork #yorkist #waroftheroses (at Wakefield) https://www.instagram.com/p/BsBBnMAlFx9/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=zpw50v3tdrhz

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ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY . 30 December 1460 . Richard, 3rd Duke of York died at the Battle of Wakefield. . . ◼ Richard Plantagenet, 3rd Duke of York, 6th Earl of March, 4th Earl of Cambridge, & 8th Earl of Ulster, conventionally called Richard of York (born. 21 September 1411) was a leading English magnate, a great-grandson of King Edward III through his father & a great-great-great-grandson of Edward III through his mother. . ◼ He inherited great estates, & served in various offices of state in France at the end of the Hundred Years’ War, & in England, ultimately governing the country as Lord Protector during Henry VI’s madness. . ◼ His conflicts with Henry’s queen, Margaret of Anjou, & other members of Henry’s court, as well as his extremely strong competing claim on the throne, were a leading factor in the political upheaval of mid-fifteenth-century England, & a major cause of the Wars of the Roses. . ◼ Richard eventually attempted to take the throne but was dissuaded, although it was agreed that he would become King on Henry’s death. Within a few weeks of securing this agreement, he died in battle. . ◼ Although Richard never became king himself, he was the father of Kings Edward IV & Richard III. . . ▪ The main picture is of Richard Plantagenet, 3rd Duke of York, on stained glass window in St. Laurence’s Church, Ludlow . . . #ONTHISDAYINHISTORY #thisdayinhistory #d30dec #TheYear1460 #RichardPlantagenet #DukeofYork #RichardDukeofYork #RichardofYork #LordProtector #History #EnglishHistory #BattleofWakefield #houseofyork #yorkist #waroftheroses #royalhistory #Medieval #medievaltimes #Royalfamily #whiterose #onthisday #instahistory #England #Medievalengland #Richardiii #EdwardIV (at Wakefield) https://www.instagram.com/p/B6tbAV_gXyq/?igshid=nmr1h33i9rua

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ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY . 30 December 1460 . Wars of the Roses: The Battle of Wakefield . . ◼ The Battle of Wakefield took place in Sandal Magna near Wakefield, in West Yorkshire in Northern England, on 30 December 1460. It was a major battle of the Wars of the Roses. . ◼ For several years before the battle, the Duke of York had become increasingly opposed to the weak King Henry VI’s court. After King Henry became his prisoner for the second time, he laid claim to the throne, but lacked sufficient support. Instead, he accepted the title of Protector, & a promise that he or his heirs would succeed Henry. Margaret of Anjou & several prominent nobles were irreconcilably opposed to this accord, & massed their armies in the north. Richard of York marched north to deal with them, but found he was outnumbered.

◼ The opposing forces were an army led by nobles loyal to the captive King Henry VI of the House of Lancaster, his Queen Margaret of Anjou & their seven year-old son Edward, Prince of Wales on one side, & the army of Richard, Duke of York (father of Edward IV & Richard III), the rival claimant to the throne, on the other. . ◼ Although he occupied Sandal Castle, the Duke of York sortied from the castle on 30 December. His reasons for doing so have been variously ascribed to deception by the Lancastrian armies, or treachery by some nobles & Lancastrian officers who York thought were his allies, or simple rashness or miscalculation by York. The Duke of York was killed & his army was destroyed, many of the prominent Yorkist leaders & their family members died in the battle or were captured & executed. . ◼ One near-contemporary source (Gregory’s Chronicle) claimed that 2,500 Yorkists & 200 Lancastrians were killed, but other sources give wildly differing figures, from 2,200 to only 700 Yorkist dead. . . . . #ONTHISDAYINHISTORY #thisdayinhistory#TheYear1460, #History #EnglishHistory #BattleofWakefield #SandalMagna #Wakefield #WarsoftheRoses #KingHenryVI #HouseofLancaster #MargaretofAnjou #RichardDukeofYork #Yorkist #Lancastrian #HouseofPlantagenet #HouseofYork #HouseofLancaster #SandalCastle #Monarchy #medievaltimes #medieval #Dukeofyork #royalhistory (at Wakefield) https://www.instagram.com/p/B6tajRWg8ls/?igshid=1xt3tkfru85xd

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On This Day In History . 3 August 1460 . King James II of Scotland died . . ◼ James II enthusiastically promoted modern artillery. His ambitions to increase Scotland's standing saw him besiege Roxburgh Castle in 1460, one of the last Scottish castles still held by the English after the Wars of Independence. . ◼ For this siege, James took a large number of cannons imported from Flanders. On 3 August, he was attempting to fire one of these cannons, known as "the Lion", when it exploded & killed him. Robert Lindsay of Pitscottie stated in his history of James's reign that "as the King stood near a piece of artillery, his thigh bone was dug in two with a piece of misframed gun that brake in shooting, by which he was stricken to the ground & died hastily."  . ◼ James's son became king as James III & Mary of Guelders acted as regent until her own death three years later. . . 👑 James II, born 16 October 1430 reigned as king of Scots from 1437 on, was the son ofJames I & Joan Beaufort. Nothing is known of his early life, but by his first birthday his twin a& only brother, Alexander, who was also the older twin, had died, thus making James the heir apparent & Duke of Rothesay. On 21 February 1437, James I was assassinated & the six-year-old Duke of Rothesay immediately succeeded him as James II. . ◼ In 1449, nineteen-year-old James married fifteen-year-old Mary of Guelders, daughter of the Duke of Gelderland. She bore him seven children, six of whom survived into adulthood. James's nickname, Fiery Face, referred to a conspicuous vermilion birthmark on his face which appears to have been deemed by contemporaries an outward sign of a fiery temper. . . Visit our Amazon Uk STORE for our Kings and Queens of Scotland section, link in the bio 👑 . . . #onthisdayinhistory #thisdayinhistory #theyear1460 #KingJamesIIofScotland #Jamesiiofscotland #history #houseofstewart #scottishmonarchy #scottishhistory #BritishMonarchy #Onthisday #Royalhistory #Instahistory #Scotland #Roxburgh #Heritage #Scottish #Kingofscots (at Scotland) https://www.instagram.com/p/B0tNP_RgPk8/?igshid=5js4ujahrty5

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ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY . 30 December 1460 . Wars of the Roses: The Battle of Wakefield . . ◼ The Battle of Wakefield took place in Sandal Magna near Wakefield, in West Yorkshire in Northern England, on 30 December 1460. It was a major battle of the Wars of the Roses. . ◼ For several years before the battle, the Duke of York had become increasingly opposed to the weak King Henry VI's court. After King Henry became his prisoner for the second time, he laid claim to the throne, but lacked sufficient support. Instead, he accepted the title of Protector, & a promise that he or his heirs would succeed Henry. Margaret of Anjou & several prominent nobles were irreconcilably opposed to this accord, & massed their armies in the north. Richard of York marched north to deal with them, but found he was outnumbered. . ◼ The opposing forces were an army led by nobles loyal to the captive King Henry VI of the House of Lancaster, his Queen Margaret of Anjou & their seven year-old son Edward, Prince of Wales on one side, & the army of Richard, Duke of York (father of Edward IV & Richard III), the rival claimant to the throne, on the other. . ◼ Although he occupied Sandal Castle, the Duke of York sortied from the castle on 30 December. His reasons for doing so have been variously ascribed to deception by the Lancastrian armies, or treachery by some nobles & Lancastrian officers who York thought were his allies, or simple rashness or miscalculation by York. The Duke of York was killed & his army was destroyed, many of the prominent Yorkist leaders & their family members died in the battle or were captured & executed. . ◼ One near-contemporary source (Gregory's Chronicle) claimed that 2,500 Yorkists & 200 Lancastrians were killed, but other sources give wildly differing figures, from 2,200 to only 700 Yorkist dead. . . . . #ONTHISDAYINHISTORY #thisdayinhistory#TheYear1460, #History #EnglishHistory #BattleofWakefield #WarsoftheRoses #KingHenryVI #HouseofLancaster #MargaretofAnjou #RichardDukeofYork #HouseofPlantagenet #HouseofYork #HouseofLancaster #SandalCastle #d30dec (at Wakefield) https://www.instagram.com/p/BsBBWuQFTZh/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=11lpanvwhxs9a