Image: Barnet Museum 07

Description: Barnet Museum. The Battle of Barnet (1471) was a decisive engagement in the Wars of the Roses, a dynastic conflict of 15th-century England. The military action, along with the subsequent Battle of Tewkesbury, secured the throne for Edward IV. On 14 April 1471 near Barnet, then a small Hertfordshire town north of London, Edward led the House of York in a fight against the House of Lancaster, which backed Henry VI for the throne. Arms bottom: Royal arms (Edward IV of England, formerly Duke of York). Top row left to right: w:Henry Holland, 3rd Duke of Exeter (1430-1475) was a Lancastrian leader during the English Wars of the Roses, at the Battle of Barnet, he commanded the Lancastrian left flank. Neville, with a label of Beaufort, borne as a difference to the paternal Neville arms (Gules, a saltire argent) by the descendants of the second marriage of w:Ralph Neville, 1st Earl of Westmorland (d.1425) to Joan Beaufort, a legitimised daughter of John of Gaunt, 4th son of King Edward III. George Plantagenet, Duke of Clarence, brother of Edward IV: Royal arms differenced by a label of three points argent each point charged with a canton gules; Hastings; Richard, Duke of Gloucester (later King Richard III). Royal arms differenced by a label of three points ermine each point charged with a canton gules. (Arms of Thomas of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Clarence, second son of King Henry IV. Blason: Arms of King Henry IV a label of three points argent each charged with three ermine spots and a canton gules. Later borne by Richard, Duke of Gloucester (later King Richard III).) Neville;
Title: Barnet Museum 07
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