Mortimer's Cross, Battle of

In Wars of the Roses, victory of Edward, eldest son of Richard, duke of York, over a Lancastrian army on 2 February 1461 at Mortimer's Cross. Herefordshire. Richard had been killed in the battle Wakefield in December 1460 and the Yorkist position was at a low ebb. Edward attacked and defeated a Lancastrian army under the earls of Pembrokeshire and Wiltshire which was heading for London to meet up with the army of Margaret of Anjou. Owen Tudor was captured and executed and Edward marched on London, where he was crowned little over a month later.