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Battle of Empingham (Losecoat Field)

1470
Rutland, England
Era
Medieval
Battle Type
Pitched Battle
Location
Rutland, England
Status
Unregistered
The Combatants

Who Fought

Defeated
House of Lancaster (Welles Uprising rebels)
VS
Victor
House of York
Outcome
Decisive Yorkist victory; the Welles Uprising was crushed, Sir Robert Welles and Richard Warren were captured and executed, and evidence implicating the Earl of Warwick and the Duke of Clarence forced them to flee to France.
The Battle

History & Significance

Battle of Empingham (Losecoat Field) was a medieval pitched battle between opposing field armies, fought in the area of Rutland, England in 1470. House of York prevailed over House of Lancaster (Welles Uprising rebels). Decisive Yorkist victory; the Welles Uprising was crushed, Sir Robert Welles and Richard Warren were captured and executed, and evidence implicating the Earl of Warwick and the Duke of Clarence forced them to flee to France.

The ground

The ground they fought on

The site of Battle of Empingham (Losecoat Field) lies on Inferior Oolite Group, bedrock that formed in the Bathonian. The rock here is limestone, sandstone, siltstone and mudstone.

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Protected heritage nearby

Scheduled Monuments near Battle of Empingham (Losecoat Field)

Barnhill moated site at Hambleton
Barnhill moated site at Hambleton
Scheduled monument · ~0.9 mi

Barnhill moated site at Hambleton is a medieval moated enclosure situated in Rutland, England. The site comprises a substantial moat surrounding a rectangular platform, a characteristic defensive and status-bearing feature of medieval settlement that dates to the 12th to 16th centuries. Such moat…

Kate Jewell / CC BY-SA 2.0 / Wikimedia Commons
Church Bridge
Church Bridge
Scheduled monument · ~1 mi

Church Bridge is a medieval bridge located in Rutland, England. The structure dates from the medieval period and forms part of the local infrastructure serving the parish. As a listed ancient monument, it represents an important example of vernacular bridge construction from its era. The bridge's…

Alan Murray-Rust / CC BY-SA 2.0 / Wikimedia Commons
Village cross at junction of Well Cross and King Edward's Way
Village cross at junction of Well Cross and King Edward's Way
Scheduled monument · ~1.8 mi

Village cross at junction of Well Cross and King Edward's Way is a medieval market cross located in Rutland, England. The monument serves as a focal point of the historic settlement and represents the commercial and social infrastructure of the medieval period. The cross's position at a principal…

Alan Murray-Rust / CC BY-SA 2.0 / Wikimedia Commons
Earthwork in Morcott Spinney
Earthwork in Morcott Spinney
Scheduled monument · ~3.5 mi

Earthwork in Morcott Spinney is a scheduled ancient monument located in Rutland, England. The site comprises an earthwork of uncertain date and original function, though its morphology suggests possible Iron Age or Romano-British origins. The monument survives as a bank and ditch feature within t…

Alan Murray-Rust / CC BY-SA 2.0 / Wikimedia Commons
Maze 220m south east of St Peter and St Paul's Church
Maze 220m south east of St Peter and St Paul's Church
Scheduled monument · ~4 mi

Maze 220m south east of St Peter and St Paul's Church is a turf maze located in Rutland, England. The monument represents a form of recreational or possibly ritual landscape feature, though the precise historical origins and date of this particular example remain uncertain from available scholarl…

No machine-readable author provided. SiGarb assumed (based on copyright claims). / Public domain / Wikimedia Commons
Oakham motte and bailey castle and medieval gardens
Oakham motte and bailey castle and medieval gardens
Scheduled monument · ~4.6 mi

Oakham motte and bailey castle is a Norman fortification in Rutland, established in the late eleventh century following the conquest of 1066. The castle comprises a substantial motte, or earthen mound, surrounded by a bailey, or defended enclosure, typical of the earliest Norman military architec…

Simon Garbutt. SiGarb 21:25, 12 November 2006 (UTC) / CC BY-SA 3.0 / Wikimedia Commons
Moated site with fishponds and enclosures at Empingham
Scheduled monument · ~0.8 miles
Dovecote 170m north east of the junction between Main Street and Exton Road
Scheduled monument · ~1 miles
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