Stoke Field — not Bosworth — was the true final battle of the Wars of the Roses, though history often overlooks it. Lambert Simnel, the ten-year-old pretender crowned "Edward VI" in Dublin, led a force of Irish kerne and German mercenaries under Martin Schwartz. They fought bravely but were destroyed. Simnel was captured and, in Henry VII's characteristic clemency, set to work in the royal kitchens. Lord Lovell vanished — legend says he walled himself into a room at Minster Lovell and starved.
c.4,000 rebel dead including Schwartz
This battlefield is listed on the Register of Historic Battlefields — a national designation identifying Britain's most significant battle sites for protection and further research. Reference: EHB19.
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