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2 February 1461
Battle of Mortimer’s Cross, Herefordshire. The Yorkists were led by 18-year-old Edward, Earl of March (later Edward IV) against Lancastrian forces led by Owen Tudor and his son Jasper. Owen Tudor was killed. The Lancastrians outnumbered the Yorkists considerably and were better mounted and armed. The Yorkists were encouraged by a parhelion, a meteorological phenomenon in which three suns appear. This is the origin of Edward’s badge ‘The Sun in Splendour’.
Tags: Edward IV, Wars of the Roses, Yorkists
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