BattlefieldsNorthern Rising — Suppression Executions at Hexham and Border Villages 1570
Tudor

Northern Rising — Suppression Executions at Hexham and Border Villages 1570

1570
England
Era
Tudor
Battle Type
Pitched Battle
Location
England
Status
Unregistered
The Combatants

Who Fought

Defeated
Northern Rising Rebels
Forces
Northern rebels
VS
Victor
English Royal Forces
Forces
Royal army enforcement
Outcome
Northern rising permanently crushed; landscape of northern gentry permanently altered.
The Battle

History & Significance

Following the collapse of the Northern Rising, the Earl of Sussex oversaw mass executions across Northumberland and County Durham. Villages that had supplied men to the rebel earls saw their leading tenants hanged; Hexham and the border market towns lost dozens of men.

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