Battle Trails of Northumbria by Clive Kristen

Author:Clive Kristen
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: battle, skirmish, siege, castle, Northumberland, Flodden, Otterburn, Hexham, UK, history, war, military, england, britain, king, sword, knight, warrior, army, pikemen, pikeman, hastings, 1066, conquest
ISBN: 9781849894388
Publisher: Andrews UK Limited
Published: 2011-06-09T00:00:00+00:00

The battle will be forever associated with the famous escape of Queen Margaret although the provenance of the story is doubtful.

The Warrior Queen, Margaret of Anjou, was used to making a hasty exit. She and her husband, Henry VI, had been forced to escape to Scotland a second time in 1461 following defeat at the battle of Towton. They had been welcomed north of the border by the Queen-dowager, Mary of Gueldres, but when it was clear that local levies could not be relied on as front line fighting men, Margaret crossed to France to seek help for the Lancaster campaign. In the following year, her forces were so overwhelmed by a storm at sea she was forced to escape in an open boat to Berwick.

But no setback deterred her. By 1463 she was again raiding the Northumberland coast and met with many hardships and adventures. On one occasion she escaped and evaded capture through the generosity of a Yorkist squire who carried her to safety on her own horse. But it was following the Battle of Hexham that the legend of her greatest escape was born. Based on the much earlier accounts of historians Hume and Montstrelet, this is the way the story was retold in the Monthly Chronicle of 1888 :

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