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Battle of Bramham Moor is in 1400-1414 Epiphany Rising and Rebellions Against Henry IV.
On 19th February 1408 Thomas Rokeby's (age 15) force of Yorkshire levies defeated the Percy army during the Battle of Bramham Moor bringing to an end the Percy rebellion.
Henry Percy 1st Earl of Northumberland (age 66) was killed. His body was afterwards hanged, drawn and quartered, his head being sent to London bridge and his quarters to diverse places. Possibly captured hanged, drawn and quartered after the battle. Earl of Northumberland, Baron Percy of Alnwick and Baron Percy of Topcliffe forfeit.
Thomas Bardolf 5th Baron Bardolf (age 38) was killed. Baron Bardolf of Wormegay in Norfolk had been forfeited in 1406 when Thomas Bardolf 5th Baron Bardolf was declared a traitor. It was restored on the 19th of July 1408 to his two daughters Anne Bardolf Baroness Cobham Sternborough (age 18) and Joan Bardolf (age 17) and their husbands William Clifford (age 33) and William Phelip (age 25) respectively.
The Abbot of Hailes Abbey [Map] was executed following the battle since he was wearing armour. Bishop Griffin Yonge (age 38), Bishop of Bangor, was captured, but wearing his vestments, he avoided execution.
Chronicle of Gregory [1400-1467]. 1408. Ande that year the Erle of Northehumberlond (age 66) ande the Lord Bardoffe (age 38) were take in the Northe countre ande be-heddyd and quarteryd; and the hedde of the erle and the quartyr of the lord were brought unto Londyn Brygge.
Collectanea by John Leland [1502-1552]. [19th February 1408] This Yere Syr Henry Erle of Northumbreland (age 66), and the Lorde Bardolph (age 38), cumming agayn King Henry owte of Scotland, were taken yn the North, and behedid.
Chronicle of John Benet. In the year of our Lord 1407 [1408], the Earl of Northumberland (age 66) and Lord Bardolf (age 38) entered England with an army, and near York the sheriff of York took them, and there beheaded them, about the feast of Saint Matthias the Apostle [24 February].6
Anno Domini MlCCCCoVI[I]o Comes Northumbrie et dominus de Radolfe intraverunt Angliam cum exercitu et iuxta Eboracum vicecomes Eboraci cepit illos et ibi decapitavit circa festum sancti Mathie apostoli.
Note 6. Walsingham in Historia Anglicana, ed. H. T. Riley, ii (Rolls Series, 1864), p. 278, and The St Albans Chronicle, 1406-1420, ed. V. H. Galbraith (Oxford, 1937), p. 28, give ‘undecimo Kalendas Marcii’ (19th February) which is the correct date. The only other source to mention the Feast of St Matthias (24 February) is the Anonymi Chronicon Godstovianum, ed. T. Hearne (Oxford, 1716), p. 240.
Thomas Walsingham [-1422]. At that time, while the King was holding a great council at London with the magnates of the realm, the Earl of Northumberland (age 66) and Lord Thomas Bardolf (age 38), pressed by adverse fate, returned into England. After a long ride, when they came to the town of Thirsk, they caused proclamation to be made that whoever desired liberty should take up arms and eagerly follow them. And so many followed them, thinking all would turn out according to their wishes. But the sheriff of York, with the knights of the country, came against them; and near Haselwood, a fierce battle being joined, he slew the Earl, whose head was immediately cut off. Lord Bardolf, wounded from the blows he had received, was taken alive, but soon afterwards died of his wounds. These things, as far as concerned the battle, were done 11 days before the Kalends of March [19th February 1408]; and it was thought that the prophecy, which had been foretold earlier in this veiled form, was fulfilled;—
"The Percy line shall perish in a shattered ruin."
For this lord was the last stock of all of the name of Percy that survived, the others having ended by various disasters. Over whose misfortune the common people grieved not a little, recalling the man’s magnificence, favor, and glory, applying to him the mournful verse of Lucan, saying thus;—
But neither the blood nor the many wounds of our old man so deeply moved us,
as when we saw the face of the leader,
borne through the city, disfigured on the spear that transfixed it.
For his head, adorned with venerable gray hairs, was set upon a spear, carried publicly through the city of London, and was shamefully fixed upon the Bridge.
The Bishop of Bangor, taken with the aforesaid lords, obtained the grant of life, because he had been captured unarmed.
Eo tempore, Rege tenente Consilium grande Londoniis, cum regni magnatibus, Comes Northumbriæ Dominusque Thomas de Bardolf, fatis iniquis urgentibus, in Angliam rediere. Qui, post longam equitationem, cum pervenissent ad villam de Thrisk, proclamari fecerunt, ut quisquis libertatem cuperet, arreptis armis, eos alacriter sequeretur. Igitur secuti sunt eos plurimi, putantes sibi cuncta pro votis accidere. Vicecomes vero de Euerwyk, cum militibus patriee, illis occurrens, juxta Heselwode commisso gravi prœlio, Comitem interemit; cujus caput illico præcisum est. Dominus de Bardolf, ex vulneribus acceptis saucius, captus est vivus, sed cito postea defecit in mortem. Acta sunt hæc, quantum ad bellum, undecimo Kilendas Martii; completaque putabatur prophetia que preemissa preenunciaverat sub hoc involucro;—
"Stirps Persitina periet confusa ruina."
Nempe dominus iste stirps fuit cunctorum de nomine Percy superstitum, et aliorum plurimorum variis cladibus finitorum. De cujus infortimio vulgus non parum doluit, recolens viri magnificentiam, favorem, et gioriam, applicans sibi Lucani carmen lugubre, sic dicentis;—
"Sed nos nee sanguis, nee tantuni vulnera nostri
Affecere senis, quantum gestata per urbem
Ora ducis; quæ transfixo deformia pile
Vidimus. — "
Nam caput ejus, veneranda decoratum canitie, pilo superpositum, per urbem Londoniarum publice deportatum, super Pontem confusibiliter est locatum,
Pontifex Bangorensis, captus cum prasdictis dominis, donari vita meruit, eo quod inermis captus fuit.
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Chronicle of Adam of Usk. [19th February 1408] The aforesaid lords passed over into Scotland and thence with an armed band into England, trusting to have the kingdom for themselves. But the sheriff of York1, being well ware of their coming, crushed them in battle and beheaded them, and sent their heads to king Henry; which were afterwards set up beyond London bridge2. And when I heard these things, I, the writer of this history, gave thanks unto Him who foreseeth what is to come, for that I had stayed behind.
Note 1. Thomas Rokeby.
Note 2. They were defeated at Bramham Moor, 19th February, 1408. Bardolf died of his wounds. His body was quartered, and his head was set up over one of the gates of Lincoln. Northumberland fell on the field. His body was quartered and beheaded.