The Lancastrian army occupied the town but the Yorkist forces broke in and a battle took place in the streets of the town.

* 1460 – Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick defeats the king's Lancastrian forces and takes King Henry VI prisoner in the Battle of Northampton.

Margaret was forced to lead her own army at the Battle of Tewkesbury on 4 May 1471, at which the Lancastrian forces were defeated and her seventeen-year old son was killed.

Other Lancastrian forces could be relied upon to distract King Edward ; in particular, a fleet under Warwick's relation, the Bastard of Fauconberg, was preparing to descend on Kent where the Nevilles and Warwick in particular had always been popular.

While the main forces struggled in battle, John de Vere, 13th Earl of Oxford, and his Lancastrian troops routed the Yorkists under Lord William Hastings, chasing them up to Barnet.

The Lancastrian forces captured Ludlow in 1459, but at the end of the conflict in 1461 the castle became property of the Crown and passed to Richard's son, Edward IV.

The Wars of the Roses had just broken out ; Edmund, a Lancastrian, was taken prisoner by Yorkist forces less than a year later.

Their reasons for doing so are not clear ; they were variously claimed to be a result of deception by the Lancastrian forces, or treachery, or simple rashness on York's part.

In the early 1460s he joined his brother-in-law, Warwick, in the campaigns against the Lancastrian forces and Stanley was confirmed in his fees and offices as the new King, Edward IV, needed him to secure the north-west.

Three armies followed each other into the midlands: Lord Stanley and his forces ; then Sir William Stanley ; and finally Henry Tudor and a host comprising Tudor retainers, dispossessed Lancastrian exiles and many men of Wales and Cheshire.

It is customary at formal dinners in Lancashire and in Lancastrian regiments of the armed forces for the Loyal Toast to the crown to be announced as " The Queen, Duke of Lancaster ".

On 2 February 1461, as a man of advanced years, Owen led the Lancastrian forces at the Battle of Mortimer's Cross against Edward, Earl of March.

Alnwick was one of three castles held by Lancastrian forces in 1461 and 1462, and it was there that the " only practical defence of a private castle " was made according to military historian D. J. Cathcart King.

At the Battle of Tewkesbury ( 4 May 1471 ), he commanded the right of the Lancastrian forces and led a fierce charge against the Yorkist Lord Hastings in Red Pierce Meadow.

He was the effective leader of the Neville family forces, based at Middleham Castle in Yorkshire, in their longrunning feud with the Lancastrian Percy family of Northumberland.

He sought to prevent Lancastrian forces from Wales, led by Owen Tudor and his son Jasper from joining up with the main body of Lancastrian forces.

He was surrounded by Lancastrian forces some three times that number, but chose to sally forth to fight.

Lord Audley, who commanded the Lancastrian forces was defeated and slain.

The defeat and dispersal of the Lancastrian forces made it possible for the Scottish negotiators to be safely escorted to York, where a peaceful solution was successfully negotiated.

The Yorkist army advanced upon Northampton to meet Henry VI and his Lancastrian army, and the two forces met at the Battle of Northampton on July 10.

In the aftermath of the 1461 Battle of Towton remnants of the Lancastrian forces fleeing the victorious Yorkists were forced to try to cross the Cock Beck, having already disposed of most of their arms.

The Lancastrian army moved through Northumberland in late April 1464 under the Duke of Somerset, and gathered support from Lancastrian garrisons until it camped near to Hexham in early May.

The Lancastrian camp was near Linnels Bridge over the Devil's Water found slightly to the south of Hexham.

They later proceeded by ship to Scotland, where Margaret gained troops and other aid for the Lancastrian cause from the Queen and Regent, Mary of Guelders, in return for the surrender of the town and castle of Berwick upon Tweed.

Tudor was the son of Welsh courtier Owen Tudor () and Katherine of Valois, widowed Queen Consort of the Lancastrian King Henry V. Edmund Tudor and his siblings were either illegitimate, or the product of a secret marriage, and owed their fortunes to the good will of their legitimate half-brother King Henry VI.

Yorkists were tied so much to the old order that Catholic rebellions ( such as the Pilgrimage of Grace ) and aspirations ( exemplified by William Allen ( cardinal )) were seen as continuing in their reactionary footsteps, when in opposition to the Tudors ' reformation policies, although the Tudors were not uniformly Protestant according to Continental definition — instead were true to their Lancastrian Beaufort allegiance, in the appointment of Reginald Pole.

And while the Lancastrian Henry VI and Queen Margaret of Anjou were campaigning in the north of England, Warwick gained control of the capital and had Edward declared king in London in 1461.

The main figures in Wales were the two Earls of Pembroke, the Yorkist Earl William Herbert and the Lancastrian Jasper Tudor.

The civilian Lancastrian and maritime reconnaissance Shackleton were derived from the successful Lancaster design.

The Lancastrian heir to the throne, Edward, Prince of Wales, and many prominent Lancastrian nobles were killed during the battle or were dragged from sanctuary two days later and immediately executed.

Lancastrian revolts in the far north of England were defeated in 1464, and the fugitive King Henry was captured and imprisoned the next year.

In November 1470, Parliament declared that Prince Edward and his descendants were Henry's heirs to the throne ; Clarence would become King only if the Lancastrian line of succession failed.

Queen Margaret nevertheless suspected York of wishing to supplant her infant son, Edward, as Henry's successor, and the heirs of the Lancastrian nobles who were killed at St Albans remained at deadly feud with York.

Lancastrian attempts to reassert their authority over Ireland and Calais failed, but York and his supporters were declared traitors and attainted.

At the Battle of Northampton, part of the Lancastrian army defected and the rest were decisively defeated.

In the aftermath of the battle, they had fled with many adventures with brigands and outlaws into Cheshire and subsequently to Harlech Castle in North Wales, where they joined Lancastrian nobles ( including Henry's half-brother Jasper Tudor and the Duke of Exeter ) who were recruiting armies in Wales and the West Country.

He sent probes towards the Lancastrian camp at Pontefract to the east, but these were repulsed.

In a stratagem possibly devised by the veteran Andrew Trollope, half the Lancastrian army under Somerset and Clifford advanced openly towards Sandal Castle, over the open space known as " Wakefield Green " between the castle and the River Calder, while the remainder under Ros and the Earl of Wiltshire were concealed in the woods surrounding the area.

Turbojet engines were trialled on piston engine airframes, such as the Avro Lancastrian and the Vickers VC. 1 Viking, the latter becoming the first jet engine passenger aircraft in April 1948.

The new queen was provided with a large wardrobe of clothes, and her crimson state bed curtains made of Italian sarcenet were embroidered with red Lancastrian roses.

During this time, Louis XI did all he could to prevent the marriage, demanding that the Pope refuse to give a dispensation for the marriage ( the pair were cousins in the fourth degree ), promising trade favours to the English, undermining Edward's credit with the international bankers to prevent him being able to pay for Margaret's dowry, encouraging a Lancastrian invasion of Wales, and slandering Margaret, claiming that she was not a virgin and had borne a bastard son.