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    16 June 1332 - Birth of Isabella de Coucy, English princess

     

    1397 - Death of Philippe d' Artois

     

    1483- The coronation of Edward V was cancelled

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    1487-The Battle of Stoke Field (16 June 1487) may be considered the last battle of the Wars of the Roses, since it was the last major engagement in which a Lancastrian king faced an army of Yorkist supporters. The Battle of Bosworth, two years previously, had established Henry on the throne. The Battle of Stoke Field was the decisive engagement in an attempt by leading Yorkists to unseat him in favour of the pretender Lambert Simnel.

     

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    Though it is often portrayed as almost a coda to the major battles between York and Lancaster, it was fought between well-equipped armies of comparable size. Casualties on both sides were very much heavier than at Bosworth, in part because of the concentrated and attritional nature of the struggle. In the end, though, Henry's victory was crushing. Almost all the leading Yorkists were killed in the battle.

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    1567-Mary, Queen of Scots was imprisoned in Lochleven Castle (Scotland)

     

     

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