Tutbury Castle — the principal Duchy of Lancaster fortress in the Midlands — was contested during the Wars of the Roses. As a Lancastrian dynastic stronghold it was an obvious target for Yorkist forces after Towton. The castle's later fame as Mary Queen of Scots' prison would come in the following century, but in the 1460s it was a significant Midlands military objective in the wider struggle for control of the north Midlands between the rival houses.
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