Battle of Piltown

Battle of Piltown

Date	Summer 1462
Location	Piltown, Ireland
Result	Yorkist (FitzGerald) victory

Belligerents

House of York

House of Lancaster

Commanders and leaders

Earl of Desmond

Earl of Ormond

Strength

unknown

Casualties and losses

unknown

1,000+

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1st St Albans Blore Heath Ludford Bridge Sandwich London (1460) Northampton Worksop Wakefield Mortimer's Cross 2nd St Albans Ferrybridge Towton Piltown Hedgeley Moor Hexham Edgcote Losecoat Field Barnet Tewkesbury London (1471) Buckingham's rebellion Bosworth Field Stafford's & Lovell's rebellion Stoke Field

The Battle of Piltown took place near Piltown, County Kilkenny in 1462 as part of the Wars of the Roses. It was fought between the supporters of the two leading Irish magnates Thomas FitzGerald, 7th Earl of Desmond, head of the government in Dublin and a committed Yorkist, and John Butler, 6th Earl of Ormond who backed the Lancastrian cause. It ended in decisive victory for Desmond and his Yorkists, with Ormond's army suffering more than a thousand casualties. This effectively ended Lancastrian hopes in Ireland and bolstered FitzGerald control for a further half-century.^[1] The Ormonds departed into exile, although they were later pardoned by Edward IV.^[2]

It was the only major battle to be fought in the Lordship of Ireland during the Wars of the Roses. It is also part of the long-running feud between the FitzGerald dynasty and the Butler dynasty.

Wars of the Roses

Key figures

Monarchs	Henry VI Edward IV Edward V Richard III Henry VII
Lancaster Tudor	Margaret of Anjou, Queen of England Elizabeth Woodville, Queen of England⁴ Edward of Westminster, Prince of Wales Edmund Beaufort, 2nd Duke of Somerset Edmund Beaufort, 4th Duke of Somerset John Beaumont, Viscount Beaumont Henry Beaufort, Duke of Somerset James Butler, Earl of Ormond John Butler, Earl of Ormond John Clifford, Baron Clifford John Courtenay, Earl of Devon Henry Holland, Duke of Exeter John Neville, Baron Neville² John Neville, Marquess of Montagu³ Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick³ Thomas Neville, Bastard of Fauconberg³ Henry Percy, 2nd Earl of Northumberland Henry Percy, 3rd Earl of Northumberland Thomas Ros, Baron Ros Henry Stafford, Duke of Buckingham⁴ Humphrey Stafford, Duke of Buckingham Thomas Stanley, Earl of Derby George Stanley, Baron Strange William Stanley George Talbot, Earl of Shrewsbury John Talbot, Earl of Shrewsbury Andrew Trollope James Tuchet, Baron Audley Edmund Tudor, Earl of Richmond Jasper Tudor, Earl of Pembroke⁵ Margaret Beaufort Owen Tudor Edward Woodville, Lord Scales
York	Anne Neville, Queen of England John de la Pole, Earl of Lincoln Thomas FitzGerald, Earl of Desmond William Herbert, Earl of Pembroke William Hastings, Baron Hastings John Howard, Duke of Norfolk Francis Lovell, Viscount Lovell John Mowbray, Duke of Norfolk Richard Neville, Earl of Salisbury Thomas Neville of Salisbury William Neville, Earl of Kent Edmund Plantagenet, Earl of Rutland George Plantagenet, Duke of Clarence¹ Humphrey Stafford, Earl of Devon William Stanley Margaret of York Richard of York

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References

^ James
^ McCormack p.40

Bibliography

Jeffrey James. Edward IV: Glorious Son of York. Amberley Publishing, 2015.
Anthony M. McCormack. The Earldom of Desmond 1463-1583: The Decline and Crisis of a Feudal Lordship. Four Courts Press, 2005.

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