Battle of Stoke Field
Battle of Stoke Field is in May 1485 Dec 1485 Bosworth.
Wriothesley's Chronicle 1485-1509. 16 Jun 1487. The Earle of Lincolne (age 25)1, the Lord Lovell (age 31), and one Martin Swarte, a straunger, slayne all in a feild that they made againste the Kinge.2
Note 1. John Earl of Lincoln (age 25) was son of John de la Pole (age 44), Duke of Suffolk, and of Elizabeth (age 43), eldest sister of Edward IV.
Note 2. This battle was fought at the village of Stoke [Map], near Newark [Map], 16th June, 1487, when Lambert Simnel (age 10) was made prisoner.
On 16 Jun 1487 a Lancastrian army defeated a Yorkist army at the Battle of Stoke Field; considered by many to be the last battle of the Wars of the Roses.
The Lancastrian army of Henry Tudor comprised:
John de Vere 13th Earl of Oxford (age 44).
Jasper Tudor 1st Duke Bedford (age 55).
George Talbot 4th Earl of Shrewsbury (age 19).
Henry Willoughby (age 36).
John Cheney 1st Baron Cheyne (age 45).
John Mordaunt (age 31).
Richard Neville 2nd Baron Latimer of Snape (age 19).
William Norreys (age 46).
Edward Norreys (age 23) wounded.
John Paston (age 43).
George Stanley 9th Baron Strange Knockin 5th Baron Mohun Dunster (age 27).
Edward Woodville Lord Scales (age 31).
Thomas Lovell, knighted.
Henry Marney 1st Baron Marney (age 40).
Edward Belknapp of Blackfriars in London
William Lyttelton (age 37) who was knighted after the battle.
The Yorksists:
John de la Pole 1st Earl Lincoln (age 25) was killed. Earl Lincoln extinct.
Thomas Fitzgerald (age 29) and Martin Schwartz were killed.
Lambert Simnel (age 10) fought and was captured. He was pardoned by King Henry VII and put to work in the in the royal kitchen as a spit-turner. When he grew older, he became a falconer. Almost no information about his later life is known.
Francis Lovell 1st Viscount Lovell (age 31) fought and escaped. He was attainted. Baron Deincourt, Baron Lovel of Titchmarsh, Baron Holand forfeit.