After multiple changes of hand, Alnwick Castle was finally and definitively taken by Yorkist forces in 1464. The castle had been a persistent thorn in Edward IV s side, repeatedly restored to Lancastrian control through Scottish intervention. The final Yorkist capture followed the battles of Hedgeley Moor and Hexham which destroyed the last organised Lancastrian field force in the north, leaving the garrison without hope of relief.
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