Battle of Stoke Field

Battle of Stoke Field
Part of the Wars of the Roses
Date 16 June 1487 Location East Stoke, Nottinghamshire, England 53°02′06″N 0°53′17″W / 53.035°N 0.888°W / 53.035; -0.888Coordinates: 53°02′06″N 0°53′17″W / 53.035°N 0.888°W / 53.035; -0.888 Result Decisive Tudor victory
Belligerents
House of York	House of Tudor (Lancastrian)
Commanders and leaders
John de la Pole, Earl of Lincoln † Thomas FitzGerald of Laccagh † Colonel Martin Schwartz †	Henry VII of England John de Vere, Earl of Oxford Jasper Tudor, Duke of Bedford
Strength
8,000	12,000
Casualties and losses
4,000	Unknown, estimates range from 300-3,000

Henry VII of England
John de Vere, Earl of Oxford

The Battle of Stoke Field on 16 June 1487 may be considered the last battle of the Wars of the Roses, since it was the last major engagement between contenders for the throne whose claims derived from descent from the houses of Lancaster and York respectively. The Battle of Bosworth, two years previously, had established King Henry VII on the throne, ending the last period of Yorkist rule and initiating that of the Tudors. The Battle of Stoke Field was the decisive engagement in an attempt by leading Yorkists to unseat him in favour of the pretender Lambert Simnel.

Though it is often portrayed as almost a footnote to the major battles between York and Lancaster, it may have been slightly larger than Bosworth, with much heavier casualties, possibly because of the terrain which forced the two sides into close, attritional combat. In the end, though, Henry's victory was crushing. Almost all the leading Yorkists were killed in the battle.

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