The Heworth Moor affray of August 1453 was the most dramatic episode in the generation-long feud between the Percy and Neville families for dominance in northern England. The Percys, led by Thomas Percy Lord Egremont, ambushed the Neville family's wedding party returning from Tattershall near York. Hundreds of armed men clashed in the lanes east of York. No one was killed but the feud poisoned northern politics, drove both families into opposing factions, and fed directly into the outbreak of the Wars of the Roses.
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