On this day: 30 December

Posted: December 30, 2011 in Edmund Earl of Rutland, On this day..., Richard, Duke of York, Thomas Nevill, Wakefield, William Bonville, Lord Harrington
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Battle of Wakefield.

Richard duke of York and his son Edmund, earl of Rutland are killed. Thomas Nevill, son of Richard Nevill earl of Salisbury is killed, as are William Bonville lord Harrington, husband of Salisbury’s daughter, Katheryn, and Edward Bourchier, son of York’s sister Isabel.

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