Battle of Wakefield
December 30, 1460
Richard of York, overconfident or betrayed, sallied from Sandal Castle and was killed by Lancastrian forces in the open. His severed head, wearing a paper crown, was mounted on Micklegate Bar at York. His son Edward, seventeen years old, inherited the Yorkist claim and began marching south in cold fury.
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Before and after in Europe
- Before: 1459: Bosnia Partitioned
- After: March 29, 1461: Battle of Towton
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Late Middle Ages (1301–1500), one of 874 events from that era on Saeculum.