1340 - 1403 (63 years)Memorial-Battlefield Church
The Battle of Shrewsbury was a battle fought on 21 July 1403, waged between an army led by the Lancastrian King, Henry IV, and a rebel army led by Henry "Harry Hotspur" Percy from Northumberland. The battle, the first in which English archers fought each other on English soil, demonstrated "the deadliness of the longbow" and ended the Percy challenge to Henry IV. At least part of the fighting is believed to have taken place at what is now Battlefield in Shropshire, England, some three miles north of the centre of Shrewsbury. It is marked today by Battlefield Church. Battlefield Church is said to have been erected over the site of the mass burial pit dug immediately after the battle. It was built initially as a memorial chapel, on the orders of King Henry IV and paid for by him, with prayers and masses being said continually for the dead on both sides.
| Date | 21 Jul 1403 |
| File name | Memorial-Battlefield Church.jpg |
| File Size | 49.64k |
| Dimensions | 700 x 482 |
| Linked to | 2nd Baron of Clackmannan Sir Robert de Bruys; 2nd Baron of Clackmannan Sir Robert de Bruys (Death) |
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