BattlefieldsSiege of Alnwick Castle 1461-1462
Medieval

Siege of Alnwick Castle 1461-1462

1461–1462
Northumberland, England
Also known as: Alnwick 1461 · Wars of the Roses Alnwick
Era
Medieval
Battle Type
Siege
Location
Northumberland, England
Status
Unregistered
The Combatants

Who Fought

Defeated
Lancastrians
Forces
Lancastrian garrison c.100-200. Centerpiece of three-year Northumberland campaign.
VS
Victor
Yorkists (Warwick)
Forces
Yorkist besiegers c.2,000-3,000
Outcome
Castle taken by Warwick; then retaken by Scots with Lancastrian support; alternated hands through 1464
The Battle

History & Significance

Alnwick Castle became the centrepiece of a bitter three-year campaign in Northumberland. Its repeated capture and recapture — sometimes by negotiation, sometimes by force — illustrated how fragile Yorkist control of the northeast was in the early 1460s

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