On this day in 1460, following the Battle of Wakefield, Richard Neville, 5th Earl of Salisbury was executed.

Of Richard Neville's death the English Chronicle writes:

....."The Earl of Salisbury was taken alive and led by the said Duke of Somerset to the castle of Pomfret, and for a great sum of money that he should have paid had grant of his life. But the common people of the country, which loved him not, took him out of the castle by violence and smote off his head."

Image: Richard Neville depicted in the Salisbury Roll.

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On the 30th of December in 1460 after the Battle of Wakefield, Edmund Earl of Rutland, the son of Richard Duke of York was executed in an act of revenge. It is said that he was captured on a bridge in the town where the Chantry Chapel of St Mary the Virgin stood.

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In the afternoon of the 30th December 1460, the Battle of Wakefield took place, this battle brought an end to the lives of Richard, Duke of York and his second eldest son Edmund, Earl of Rutland.

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