British History:
battle of Mortimer's Cross
Mortimer's Cross, battle of, 1461. The young earl of March (the future Edward IV) was at Gloucester when his father was defeated and killed at Wakefield. He marched north to intercept a strong Lancastrian force under the earl of Wiltshire and Jasper Tudor, earl of Pembroke, whom he defeated on 2 February at Mortimer's Cross, 4 miles south of Wigmore. This was Edward's first important victory. Owen Tudor, Pembroke's father and grandfather of the future Henry VII, was taken prisoner and beheaded in Hereford market-place.
