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Anglo-Scottish relations 1460 to 1465 The early 146(h saw the York-Lancaster ~Iruggle in England al its Lancastrians. But in her absence. Mary of Gueldres had already height. and English governmental '>'-cakness gave the Scots their entered into negotiations with Yorkist Warwid. 'the Kingmal..er' at best chance 10 recover their remaining border stronghold.. Dumfries. This pragmatic policy of playing off York and Lanca~ter Roxburgh and Berwick -still in English hands. James 11 wa)o killed ensured the retention of Scotland'.. border conquests: fnmraled the at the siege of Roxburgh (3 August 1460). but the siege W~ ullitreaty of 'Westminster-Ardtornish' of February 1462, whereby the mately successful. and the gm'cmmenl of James's eight-year old '\On Black Douglas 'fifth column' attempted to reco\ cr power in Scotland fell into the capable hands of his widow. Mary ofGucJdres. Inilially with the tlelp of the earl of Ross and Edward IV. and prevented 100 she favoured an alliance with the deposed Lancastrian king Henry VI. heavy a Scottish reliance on the Franco-Lancastrian axis. rapidly and his queen. Margarct of Anjou. who ceded Berwick 10 the Scol~ abandoned by the cynical Louis XI in 1463. Mary ofGueldres died in April 1461. The Lancastrian king and queen remained in Scotland on I December 1463: but her 'iuccessor at the head of government. a full year. dividing their lime between Linlithgow and the Dominiher arch·rival Bishop James Kcnnedy of SI. Andrews. a Lancastrian can convent in Edinburgh. Margarct of Anjou sailed from by conviction. who had forced her into conducting an abortivc siege Kirkcudbright to Brittany in April to plead her cau~e with Loui .. XI of Norham castle in the summer of 1463. was constrained by of France and on her return in the autumn succeeded in capturing the circum~tancesto follow her policie!>. Following the banles ofHedgcley northern castles of Alnwick, Bamburgh, and Dunslanburgh for the Moor and Hexham (April. May 14(4). the Yorkist triumph in England wascomplctc. lnJunc 1464 the Scot .. ncgOliatcd the fifleen· year truce of York with Edward IV: and this was ..pcctacularly extended-by a further 40 years· at Ncwcavi'''' c-.-'./ '~ Margaret of AnJOU and Prince Edward 10 Slu s July 1463 ...., Hedgeley Moor .,. %./: ) ""',,+ ....... /'''''~ ./ \'q:". .... " .' '.,1(,1-" Uncluden ...... '""" ... , ByweU Hexham x~NewcaStle ~Car1isle :~tagu'fT ne : May, 1464 Henry VI's Hight after Hexham (May 1464) 6. Negotiations, truces etc. x Battles Margaret of Anjou " • Caslles to Brittany, \.. Henry VI captured in, : o Other places April 1462 Lancashire 13 July : • Sieges 1465 ,:. kms AlDm Places in Lancastrian hands o 25 50 75 100 .... _ _ Route taken by Margaret of Anjou and Henry I ' 0 00 0 VI, Oct 1462 o 10 20 30 40 50 60 ...... ...-_.-Route taken by Henry VI , 1464-5 miles Route taken by other participants NATM Scotland and the civil wars in England 1460 to 1465 118

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