The above is taken from my website, you can read about this battle in context here:
meanderingthroughtime.weebly.com/chapter-two-the-beaufort-patronage.html
On this day in 1455, following their exclusion from court, Richard Duke of York, along with Richard Neville Earl of Warwick, assembled their forces in the north and marched south to confront the Lancastrian King Henry VI at St Albans. The roller coaster ride continued and the tension mounted but eventually it all came to blows at St Albans, considered by some, to be the first battle of the civil war. In a battle that lasted just one hour, a number of notable Lancastrian nobles including, Henry Percy, Thomas Clifford, and Thomas Vaughan’s patron, Edmund Beaufort were killed. After the battle Henry VI was captured, York assured Henry of his loyalty and along with Warwick accompanied the king to London. Just under two months later, at the beginning of July the king opened Parliament and following that Henry, along with Margaret and their son were moved to Hertford Castle. That November saw the Duke of York appointed as Protector for a second time, and just like the first protectorate it was short, it ended in the last week of February 1456, but York remained an important member of the Royal Council. Three very trouble years ensued and the end of which the Duke of York, with Richard Neville as his enforcer, would make his play for the crown of England.
The above is taken from my website, you can read about this battle in context here: meanderingthroughtime.weebly.com/chapter-two-the-beaufort-patronage.html
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13/12/2021 09:36:39 pm
I have just discovered your very interesting site. In your account if Sir Thomas Vaughan there are a number of errors about my home town of Pontefract which I would be happy to help you rectify. In a previous life I was secretary of the Local History Society there and my specialism here in Oxford is in later medieval English history
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Meandering Through Time
14/12/2021 10:34:21 am
Hello John.
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14/12/2021 04:36:07 pm
Dear Andrea,
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Meandering Through Time
20/12/2021 06:45:15 pm
Many thanks for taking the time to read my story of the life of Thomas Vaughan and making available the correct facts. I have altered the text accordingly. I have, however, left others such as the description of the execution of Vaughan as I feel it gives the reader an idea of the ordeal these men had to face.
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14/12/2021 05:24:49 pm
A further thought about Vaughan. In not a few ways his life and death are reminiscent of those of Sir Simon Burley in the reign of Richard II. Often seen as a loyal retainer Burley is now also seen as a msn on the make. The Appellants were determined to destroy him in 1388. Vaughan was in a similar position. With the boy King he would have likely become a figure of greater influence and one who as Chamberlain could control access to the King. If Hastings was despatched for similar reasons so Vaughan was likely to be executed as a potential threat to Gloucester. It was both that he would be assumed to be loyal to Edward V and seek to uphold his accession but that in the future he could be a threat to those seeking themselves to control the new King.
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