Battlefield View
A tranquil view along the River Trent towards the site of the little known Battle of Stoke Field (1487), Nottinghamshire, UK.
Considered the last major engagement of the Wars of the Roses, the battle was a decisive Lancastrian Victory. 20,000 men are thought to have fought in the battle, which resulted in the deaths of anywhere up to 7,000. It was probably a larger, bloodier battle than the more famous Bosworth Field, which occurred two years earlier and failed, contrary to popular belief, to end Yorkist ambitions for the Throne.
Armies were led by King Henry VII (Henry Tudor) and the Earl of Lincoln, the latter hoping to depose Henry, and put a random ten-year-old boy on the throne. Lincoln claimed that the boy, Lambert Simnel, was actually the nephew of Richard III, and a legitimate Yorkist heir. The look-a-like child had been crowned King in Dublin, before arriving in England with a large army of largely Irish and Flemish troops.
They were defeated here, by the banks of the Trent just a few miles from the royal fortress of Newark Castle. The Earl of Lincoln died in the Battle, but the would-be usurper, Simnel was captured, pardoned by the King and employed as a servant in the Royal Household.
Battlefield View
A tranquil view along the River Trent towards the site of the little known Battle of Stoke Field (1487), Nottinghamshire, UK.
Considered the last major engagement of the Wars of the Roses, the battle was a decisive Lancastrian Victory. 20,000 men are thought to have fought in the battle, which resulted in the deaths of anywhere up to 7,000. It was probably a larger, bloodier battle than the more famous Bosworth Field, which occurred two years earlier and failed, contrary to popular belief, to end Yorkist ambitions for the Throne.
Armies were led by King Henry VII (Henry Tudor) and the Earl of Lincoln, the latter hoping to depose Henry, and put a random ten-year-old boy on the throne. Lincoln claimed that the boy, Lambert Simnel, was actually the nephew of Richard III, and a legitimate Yorkist heir. The look-a-like child had been crowned King in Dublin, before arriving in England with a large army of largely Irish and Flemish troops.
They were defeated here, by the banks of the Trent just a few miles from the royal fortress of Newark Castle. The Earl of Lincoln died in the Battle, but the would-be usurper, Simnel was captured, pardoned by the King and employed as a servant in the Royal Household.