Which 1470 battle defeated Lincolnshire rebels against Edward IV?

The 1470 battle that defeated Lincolnshire rebels against Edward IV was the Battle of Losecoat Field.

Also called the Battle of Empingham, it was fought on 12 March 1470 in Rutland. The rebellion was led by Sir Robert Welles, whose family had fallen out with Edward IV. Welles gathered substantial support in Lincolnshire, while Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick, and Edward’s brother George, Duke of Clarence, secretly encouraged the uprising.

Edward marched against the rebels and confronted them near Stamford. Before the battle, Edward ordered the execution of Welles’s captured father, Lord Welles, in sight of the rebel army. The rebels then advanced but quickly broke when faced by the king’s trained forces. Sir Robert Welles and his commander Richard Warren were captured and later executed.

The victory exposed Warwick and Clarence as participants in the rebellion, forcing them to flee England. Their defection to the Lancastrian cause helped produce the later reversal known as the Readeption of Henry VI. The popular story that fleeing rebels discarded coats bearing Warwick’s livery is probably a later explanation of the battle’s name.