During the troubled reign of Edward II, the Percy and Neville families contested lordship in Yorkshire through a series of affrays, property seizures, and armed skirmishes. The weakness of royal authority under Edward II allowed magnate feuding to run unchecked. These disputes presaged the more famous feud of the 1450s and reflected endemic baronial violence in the north.
Aubrey generates in-depth historical research for any location in Britain — drawing on Domesday records, scheduled monuments, Victorian OS maps, geological data and archaeological archives to tell the full story of a place.
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