Dan Jones

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253 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 11 Jun

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Will she ever see old Henry again?

Does she ever want to?

She's got to have mixed feelings about that one.

Either way, this is very much round one to King Edward IV and the Earl of Warwick.

And they follow up round one by taking rounds two and three.

In the spring of 1464, there's another attempt by renegade Lancastrian nobles to incite rebellion in the north.

The instigator this time is one of Queen Margaret's closest allies, Henry Beaufort, Duke of Somerset.

He gets around 5,000 men together and starts raising hell in northern England.

Once again, Edward and Warwick have to respond.

And they do.

They're already working hard through diplomatic channels to persuade the French and Scots to stop backing their enemies.

And when it seems like diplomacy isn't getting the message through to the Lancastrians in England, they send an army out into the north.

It's led by Warwick's brother John, another old-school veteran of England's civil wars, which, by the looks of things, are still very much on.

John Neville wastes no time.

He runs the Lancastrian rebels to ground, engaging them in two battles, known as the Battle of Hedgley Moor and the Battle of Hexham.

At Hexham, in May 1464, John Neville scores a crushing victory.

He puts the Lancastrian army to flight and kills its leader, the Duke of Somerset.

And with that, the last embers of Lancastrian rebellion in the north of England are finally snuffed out.

Queen Margaret has no chance of rallying another insurgency any time soon.

And though King Henry is still a free man, the old duffer isn't much of a threat to anyone on his own.

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