The plan is to attack the Nevilles during a wedding, but the Percys fail. We are thrust into the middle of the Percy family’s feud with the Nevilles. The Battle of Heworth Moor is a unique place to start.
I have not included a dozen minor skirmishes, but that feud played a key part in deciding where the Nevilles and the Percys stood in the first battle of St.
The ‘Battle of Heworth Moor’ failed in its main aim of slaughtering Richard Neville, Earl of Salisbury. That attack by Thomas Percy, Baron Egremont, was one of the most brutal actions in that private war, sparked by the marriage of Salisbury’s son to the niece of Ralph Cromwell, a union which placed estates claimed by the Percy family into Neville hands. It was a key event among years of low-level fighting between the families as they struggled to control the north and widen their holdings. The ambush by some seven hundred Percy retainers and servants on the Neville wedding party took place a little earlier than I have it here, in August 1453- around the same time King Henry VI fell into his senseless state. Iggulden explains why he chose this point to begin his story in his Historical Note: However, Conn Iggulden begins “Trinity” with a conflict between the Percys and the Nevilles, which is known as the Battle of Heworth Moor. Many who study the Wars of the Roses believe that it started in 1455 with the First Battle of St. Conn Iggulden decided to explore this tumultuous time after the Jack Cade rebellion, which he explored in his first book “Stormbird”, in the second book of his “Wars of the Roses” series called “Trinity”. Families like the Nevilles, the Percys, and the houses of York, Lancaster, and Tudor would gain fame and infamy during this time. This is the England of 1454 and the beginning of the period in English history that we know today as the Wars of the Roses. Mistrust runs rampant and sacrifices are made in order to gain the throne. Families with royal blood in their veins are fighting amongst each other as King Henry VI has fallen ill.
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