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5 unusual facts about Second Battle of St Albans


John Fogge

Fogge married firstly, by the early 1440s, Alice de Criol or Kyriell, daughter of the Yorkist Sir Thomas de Criol of Westenhanger, beheaded after the Second Battle of St Albans by order of Margaret of Anjou.

Robert Poynings

Poynings was slain on 17 February 1461 while fighting on the Yorkist side at the Second Battle of St Albans.

Sandridge

In February 1461 the final skirmishes of the Second Battle of St Albans took place in and around Sandridge as the Earl of Warwick, for the Yorkists, retreated towards Nomansland.

Second Battle of St Albans

Two knights (Lord Bonville and Sir Thomas Kyriell, a veteran leader of the Hundred Years War) had sworn to let him come to no harm, and remained with him throughout.

William Bonville, 6th Baron Harington

William survived the Yorkist defeat at the Battle of Wakefield, but was executed on 17th February 1461 immediately after the Second Battle of St Albans by the troops of the Queen consort, Margaret of Anjou, who headed the Lancastrian faction.


Margaret Grey, Lady Bonville

Margaret was the first wife of Sir William Bonville, later the 1st Baron Bonville who was decapitated by Queen consort Margaret of Anjou following the Yorkist defeat at the Second Battle of St Albans.


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