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Margaret's enemies, the Duke of York, his son, Edward, and nephew, the Earl of Warwick, scattered to Ireland and France. In their absence, Margaret seized her moment to declare her enemies guilty of treason. But they were not yet destroyed in person - and Margaret now found that the power base she'd built for herself in the North had alienated her husband's subjects in the South. And in July 1460, when York's son Edward and nephew Warwick returned with troops to face her army at Northampton, the result, for Margaret, was a calamity. She lost both the battle and the person of the king. Margaret was left helpless, as the Duke of York took her husband as a prisoner to London. The Pope later observed that the King was. More timorous than a woman, utterly devoid of wit and spirit. The contrast with his forceful wife was obvious. |
