The heavy casualties suffered by Pembroke's Welsh forces made it a popular topic for Welsh poets.Ĭlass=notpageimage| Key locations, Edgcote campaign July 1469Ĭlose allies in deposing Henry VI in 1461, by 1469 Warwick and Edward IV had fallen out. Details in accounts diverge in terms of numbers, leaders, casualties, and the course of the fighting, but not all of these 'divergences' are contradictory.

Edward could no longer trust him fully and he was inexorably moving towards becoming a Lancastrian.Įdgcote has a reputation for being one of the least well-documented battles of the period, though numerous contemporary, or near contemporary, records and chronicles refer to it. By September, though, Edward IV of England was back in control, and Warwick found himself in a situation similar to the one before the battle, prompting him to plan a second rebellion. The battle took place 6 miles (9.7 km) northeast of Banbury in Oxfordshire it resulted in a rebel victory which temporarily handed power over to the Earl of Warwick. It was fought between a Royal army, commanded by the earls of Pembroke and Devon, and a rebel force led by supporters of the Earl of Warwick.

The Battle of Edgcote (also known as the Battle of Banbury or the Battle of Danes Moor) took place on 24 July 1469, during the Wars of the Roses.

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