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The Battle of Shrewsbury was 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, reaffirmed the effectiveness of the longbow and ended the Percy challenge to ...
- 21 July 1403
- Decisive English royalist victory
To quash rumours that he had in fact survived the battle, the king had Hotspur quartered and put on display in various corners of the country, his head being impaled on York’s north gate. The brutal lesson learned in the effectiveness of the longbow would be remembered by Prince Henry, later Henry V, just a few years later on the battlefields ...
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The Battle of Shrewsbury was fought on July 21, 1403, near the town of Shrewsbury in Shropshire, England. The rebels had a larger army than the king’s forces, but the king’s army was better trained and more disciplined. The battle was fought on a sloping hillside, with the king’s army occupying the high ground. Shrewsbury.
- Amy Irvine
- Rebellion stemmed from the king’s failure to sufficiently reward the Percy family. The powerful Percy family from the north of England had supported the first Lancastrian king, King Henry IV – helping him seize power when he took the throne from Richard II in 1399.
- Sir Henry ‘Hotspur’ Percy was named after his fiery temperament. With his fiery temper, energetic leadership, and swiftness in approach to battle, Henry had been nicknamed ‘Hotspur’.
- Upon reaching Shrewsbury, Hotspur’s army had grown to around 5,000 men. Shrewsbury in Shropshire was a bustling transport hub and a centre for the wool trade from Wales – strategic to the royal cause, and a perfect place for the rebels to strike.
- The battle only began a few hours before dusk. Both King Henry IV and Hotspur were skilled military leaders, each with considerable support from nobles and soldiers.
Battle of Shrewsbury. The savage battle on 21st July 1403 that abruptly ended Harry Hotspur’s attempt to wrest the throne of England from King Henry IV. The previous battle of the Hundred Years War is the Battle of Homildon Hill. The next battle of the Hundred Years War is the Siege of Harfleur. To the 100 Years War index.
Historical Context. On Saturday 21 July 1403 the army of the Lancastrian king Henry IV and that of the rebellious Percy family met in battle to the north of the town of Shrewsbury in Shropshire. That the Percy family rebelled against Henry may be counted as surprising since the Percies had been instrumental in helping Henry to seize the throne ...
By Al Hemingway. By the middle of July 1403, a series of seemingly inevitable events had led two armies to a field near the small and hitherto unheralded village of Shrewsbury in Shropshire, approximately 150 miles northwest of London. The tiny hamlet was important for several reasons. It was the main town on the road that led south to the ...
