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Battle of Chesterfield

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41: 294:, in his "Chronicon Thomae Wykes" mentions the royalist forces using covered wagons to gain entry to the town. A reference also exists to explain how "the men of Brampton" (a suburb of Chesterfield) rushed to the church at the time of the battle and defended that part of the wall for which they were responsible. Presumably, it would fall to them to repair any damage and they were keen to avoid such costs. 297:
Wykes also explains how Ferrers was stricken by gout at the time of the battle and that the barons' leader was "taken ignobly". It is likely that he was captured in the church. Legend has it that he was betrayed by a woman of the town but there is no contemporary documentary evidence for this claim,
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nor is there contemporary evidence for the assertion that Ferrers was hiding under sacks of wool stored in the church. According to the chronicles of
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Pegge, Samuel (1769). "A succinct and authentic narrative of the Battle of Chesterfield, A.D 1266 in the reign of King Henry III".
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and, at the Westminster parliament later that year, was "totally disinherited". John d'Ayville was later at the
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before surrendering. Baldwin Wake also escaped the fighting and joined with other disinherited barons at the
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There are several references to aspects of the battle in chronicles from the period.
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The battle was part of the "mopping up" of baronial opposition that resisted
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Following his capture, Robert Ferrers was taken "in irons" to
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before eventually surrendering to Prince Edward, the future
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was a minor skirmish in the latter stages of 13th-century
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Index

Second Barons' War

Chesterfield
53°14′N 1°25′W / 53.233°N 1.417°W / 53.233; -1.417
Henry of Almain
John de Warenne
Robert de Ferrers
POW
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Second Barons' War
Northampton
Lewes
Evesham
Chesterfield
Kenilworth
England
Second Barons' War
Henry III
Battle of Evesham
Chesterfield
Robert Ferrers, Earl of Derby
Henry of Almain
Thomas Wykes
Walter of Guisborough
London
Siege of Kenilworth
Isle of Axholme
Edward I

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