Wars of the Roses: First Battle of St. Albans
A Collection of References and WWW Pages
The First Battle of St Albans, fought on 22 May 1455 at St Albans, 22
miles (35 km) north of London, traditionally marks the beginning of
the Wars of the Roses. Richard, Duke of York and his ally, Richard
Neville, Earl of Warwick, defeated the Lancastrians under Edmund, Duke
of Somerset, who was killed. York also captured Henry VI, who
appointed him Constable of England.
References and WWW Pages
First Battle of St. Albans
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Battle_of_St_Albans
Henry VI of England
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_VI_of_England
History of St Albans
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_St_Albans
Margaret of Anjou
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_of_Anjou
Earl of Warwick
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Neville,_Earl_of_Warwick
Richard 3rd Duke of York
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Plantagenet,_3rd_Duke_of_York
John Whethamstede
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Whethamstede
Wars of the Roses
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wars_of_the_Roses
The Battlefields of England
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=IzwOAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA75&dq=battlefields+of+england+albans&hl=en&sa=X&ei=-vcLT-vXBoOQ8QPKrvTcBQ&sqi=2&ved=0CD4Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=battlefields%20of%20england%20albans&f=true
A General History of Sieges and Battles
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=j5haAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA1-PA35&dq=battle+st+albans&hl=en&sa=X&ei=i28JT92xFISh8gOj8OTBAQ&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=battle%20st%20albans&f=true
Blore Heath web site
http://www.bloreheath.org/stalbans.php?ref=stalbans
Holinshed's Chronicles
Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland, Volume 3
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=I74_AAAAcAAJ&pg=PA238&dq=%22goselow%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=dHYJT8-6Os2i8gObkNDUBg&sqi=2&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22goselow%22&f=false
Edmund Beaufort, 2nd Duke of Somerset
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Beaufort,_2nd_Duke_of_Somerset
Encyclopaedia of the Wars of the Roses
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=ubXnWRMt6uoC&pg=PA241&dq=battle+st+albans&hl=en&sa=X&ei=i28JT92xFISh8gOj8OTBAQ&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=battle%20st%20albans&f=true
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=ubXnWRMt6uoC&pg=PA299&dq=Whethamstede+battle&hl=en&sa=X&ei=kZgMT--1G8LKsgbQwcTBBA&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=Whethamstede%20battle&f=false
English Historical Documents 1327-1485 By A. R. Myers
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=jRsLUVOCqbkC&pg=PA275&dq=battle+st+albans&hl=en&sa=X&ei=XGwLT7njH4in8QOHw7zWBQ&ved=0CE8Q6AEwBA#v=onepage&q=battle%20st%20albans&f=true
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=dL12K__XzoAC&pg=PA281&dq=battle+st+albans&hl=en&sa=X&ei=i28JT92xFISh8gOj8OTBAQ&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=battle%20st%20albans&f=false
History Today
http://www.historytoday.com/anthony-pollard/battle-st-albans-1455
http://www.historytoday.com/anthony-pollard/percies-nevilles-and-wars-roses
Waymark: Castle Inn St Albans
http://www.waymarking.com/waymarks/WM5CXD_The_Castle_Inn
Wars of the Roses Battle Map
http://www.btinternet.com/~timeref/warroses.htm
The history of England during the middle ages, Volume 3 By Sharon
Turner
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=WLRCAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA187#v=onepage&q&f=true
Map of St Albans 1893
http://www.flickr.com/photos/47716665@N02/4508350625/
All the year round: a weekly journal, Volume 2 By Charles Dickens
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=ZPFIAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA466&dq=keyfield+albans&hl=en&sa=X&ei=ODwMT6_uENT18QOFvOHeBQ&ved=0CEsQ6AEwBA#v=onepage&q=keyfield%20albans&f=false
Amazon:
BATTLES OF ST ALBANS (Battleground: Wars of the Roses)
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1844155692/luminariumA
Edward Stafford, third duke of Buckingham, 1478-1521 By Barbara Jean
Harris
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=ZDusAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA19&dq=bale\u0027s+chronicle+albans&hl=en&sa=X&ei=xMYMT_LbJ8nW8QPqq8ioBg&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=bale\u0027s%20chronicle%20albans&f=true
Watling Street Route Map
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Watling_Street_route.jpg
YouTube: Henry VI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRvsvjutUxQ&feature=watch_response_rev
Henry VI and the Politics of Kingship By John Watts
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=qTP4CF_boeoC&pg=PA321&dq=bale\u0027s+chronicle+albans&hl=en&sa=X&ei=xMYMT_LbJ8nW8QPqq8ioBg&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=bale\u0027s%20chronicle%20albans&f=true
The history of Victoria Street, St Albans
http://www.hertsmemories.org.uk/page_id__1131_path__0p34p51p.aspx
Holywell Hill St Albans
http://www.salbani.co.uk/Med%20Web/holywell_hill.htm#keyfield
Hume and Smollett's celebrated history of England, from its first
settlement ...
By David Hume, Tobias George Smollett, John Robinson
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=NPkKAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA140#v=onepage&q&f=false
John Cassell's Illustrated history of England, Volume 2
By William Howitt, John Cassell
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=5mcOAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA52&dq=Whethamstede+battle&hl=en&sa=X&ei=ppoMT7HEE4iChQfgk_yNBA&sqi=2&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=Whethamstede%20battle&f=true
Lancaster And York: The Wars of the Roses
By Alison Weir
http://books.google.lk/books?id=isN2jgYtHRcC&pg=PA198#v=onepage&q&f=false
Luminarium
http://www.luminarium.org/encyclopedia/albans1.htm
Map: First Battle of St Albans
http://www.multiwords.de/genealogy/Battles%20of%20the%20War%20of%20Roses.html#First%20Battle%20of%20St.%20Albans
Medieval St Albans Map - GIF image
http://www.salbani.co.uk/Med%20Web/medtown_gif
Registra quorundam abbatum monasterii S. Albani, qui sæculo XVmo.
floruere ...
St. Albans abbey, Henry Thomas Riley, John Whethamstede, William
Alban, William Wallingford
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=cygJAQAAIAAJ&q=Whethamstede+battle&dq=Whethamstede+battle&hl=en&sa=X&ei=kZgMT--1G8LKsgbQwcTBBA&redir_esc=y
History & Archaeology of St. Albans
http://www.salbani.co.uk/
St Albans Battle Plans
http://www.salbani.co.uk/battles.html
The Cambridge illustrated atlas of warfare: the Middle Ages
By Nicholas Hooper, Matthew Bennett
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=Sf8UIynR0koC&pg=PA140&dq=benet\u0027s+chronicle+albans&hl=en&sa=X&ei=qMcMT6qrF4fW8gPLivXdBQ&ved=0CGMQ6AEwBw#v=onepage&q=benet\u0027s%20chronicle%20albans&f=true
The First Battle of St. Albans: From Whethamstede’s Register
http://www.susanhigginbotham.com/blog/posts/the-first-battle-of-st-albans-from-whethamstedes-register/
The First Battle of St. Albans: More From Whethamstede
http://www.susanhigginbotham.com/blog/posts/the-first-battle-of-st-albans-more-from-whethamstede/
The Parliamentary history of England from the earliest period to ...,
Volume 1
By Great Britain. Parliament
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=sFoxAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA1455
The pictorial history of England: being a history of the people, as
well as ...
By George Lillie Craik, MacFarlane
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=6YdDAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA92#v=onepage&q&f=true
The posthumous works of Anne Radcliffe, Volume 4
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=didEAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA5#v=onepage&q&f=false
The Routledge Companion to Medieval Warfare
By Jim Bradbury
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=j6y0E6YO-oEC&pg=PA226&dq=battlefields+of+england+albans&hl=en&sa=X&ei=-vcLT-vXBoOQ8QPKrvTcBQ&sqi=2&ved=0CFEQ6AEwBA#v=onepage&q=battlefields%20of%20england%20albans&f=true
Traditions and transformations in late medieval England
By Douglas Biggs, Sharon D. Michalove, Albert Compton Reeves
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=ktgk7w0EpnoC&pg=PA31#v=onepage&q&f=false
Youtube: The Wars of The roses:1st battle of St albans:King HENRY VI
captured
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRp3huTMFXE