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    Towton /ˈtaʊtən/ is a small village and civil parish in the Selby District of North Yorkshire, England. It was historically part of the West Riding of...
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    The Battle of Towton took place on 29 March 1461 during the Wars of the Roses, near Towton in North Yorkshire, and "has the dubious distinction of being...
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    The Towton torcs are a pair of gold bracelets from Towton, North Yorkshire, England, dating from the later Iron Age. The torcs were found by metal detectorists...
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    Towton Hall is a mansion, a home, near the village of Towton in North Yorkshire, England. The building, known to been built as a residence in the seventeenth...
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    December 1460. After defeating Lancastrian armies at Mortimer’s Cross and Towton in early 1461, he deposed King Henry VI and took the throne. His marriage...
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    March 1461, Mowbray was instrumental in Edward's victory at the Battle of Towton, bringing reinforcements late in the combat. He was rewarded by the new...
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    engagement between the houses of York and Lancaster before the larger battle of Towton, during the period now known as the Wars of the Roses. After proclaiming...
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  • The G A Towton Cup is a Perth Racing Listed race Thoroughbred horse race held under quality handicap conditions, for horses aged three years old and upwards...
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  • The Towton Novices' Chase is a Grade 2 National Hunt steeplechase in Great Britain which is open to horses aged five years or older. It is run at Wetherby...
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    enemies of the House of York", which included Trollope. At the Battle of Towton (29 March 1461) Trollope shared the command of the Lancastrian vanguard...
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    of the battles took place in Yorkshire, such as those at Wakefield and Towton, the latter of which is known as the bloodiest battle ever fought on English...
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    Second Battle of St Albans, but defeated the Lancastrians at the Battle of Towton. The Yorkist Edward was formally crowned in June 1461. In 1464, Edward married...
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    'The Cock Beck'), past Pendas Fields, Scholes, Barwick-in-Elmet, Aberford, Towton, Stutton, and Tadcaster, where it flows into the River Wharfe. It is a tributary...
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    after Hawke as a sign of his gratitude. Hawke was created Baron Hawke "of Towton" (in which Yorkshire parish was situated his residence of Scarthingwell...
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    north to consolidate his title, and met with the Lancastrian forces at Towton in Yorkshire. Warwick had suffered an injury to the leg the day before,...
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    returned to England following the defeat of the Lancastrians at the Battle of Towton. They participated in the coronation of their eldest brother as King Edward...
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    Lancaster. However, following the emphatic Lancastrian defeat at the Battle of Towton, she and her second husband Richard Woodville sided closely with the House...
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  • was killed shortly thereafter in an ambush leading up to the Battle of Towton in 1461. His son later inherited the earldom of Westmorland. He was born...
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    Edward strengthened his claim with a decisive victory at the Battle of Towton in the same year, in the course of which the Lancastrian army was virtually...
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    not, however, to live to enjoy these gains, being killed at the Battle of Towton in 1461 on the defeated Lancastrian side. Percy was the son of Henry Percy...
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    Roses. He was beheaded by the victorious Yorkists following the Battle of Towton. James Butler, born on 24 November 1420, was the eldest son of James Butler...
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    weeks, the king and queen's forces were once more defeated at the Battle of Towton, 29 March 1461, by the Duke of York's son, Edward. Henry and Margaret together...
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  • bearer of Edward, Duke of York (later King Edward IV) at the Battle of Towton, and then William Brandon, standard bearer of Henry Tudor, Earl of Richmond...
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  • the Battle of Towton in 1461, eulogizing the Yorkist leader and later King Edward IV, Edward, Earl of March. Before the Battle of Towton took place on...
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    Beaufort Duke of Somerset Lancastrian  Tewkesbury Henry Percy Lancastrian  †Towton Humphrey Stafford John Neville Yorkist, then Lancastrian  †Barnet Richard...
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  • Northumberland, who himself died fighting in the Wars of the Roses, at the Battle of Towton on 29 March 1461. a. ^ Though the Dictionary of National Biography operates...
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    whole of Yorkshire. The site overlooked the battlefield for the Battle of Towton in 1461, and during the persecution of Catholics through the reign of Henry...
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    throne following a decisive victory over the Lancastrians at the Battle of Towton. After an occasionally tumultuous reign, he died in 1483 and was succeeded...
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    Beaufort Duke of Somerset Lancastrian  Tewkesbury Henry Percy Lancastrian  †Towton Humphrey Stafford John Neville Yorkist, then Lancastrian  †Barnet Richard...
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    Beaufort Duke of Somerset Lancastrian  Tewkesbury Henry Percy Lancastrian  †Towton Humphrey Stafford John Neville Yorkist, then Lancastrian  †Barnet Richard...
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