The city of York and the Archbishop's palace fell to the Pilgrim host without resistance. Royal officials fled; the Archbishop of York himself faced difficult choices. The occupation of York gave the Pilgrimage enormous symbolic importance — control of the northern capital signalled that the rebellion was not a local disturbance but a national crisis. Robert Aske used York as his headquarters during the confrontations at Doncaster.
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.
Research a location near Yorkshire