Edward of March, barely eighteen years old, witnessed a parhelion (three suns in the sky) before the battle and used it to inspire his troops — it became the Yorkist symbol of the Sun in Splendour. He then destroyed a Lancastrian force including Jasper Tudor's Welsh contingent. The captured Lancastrian leaders were executed at Hereford. This victory, combined with Towton weeks later, made Edward IV king.
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