Battle of Tewkesbury
May 4, 1471
Edward IV finished the Lancastrians in a brutal engagement beside the Severn. Queen Margaret's son Prince Edward was killed, perhaps in flight, perhaps by summary execution. That night Henry VI was quietly murdered in his Tower cell. The main Lancastrian bloodline was extinguished, and Edward IV ruled unchallenged until his own sudden death.
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Late Middle Ages (1301–1500), one of 874 events from that era on Saeculum.