Thumbnails from Tewkesbury Medieval Festival 2018 Saturday July 14 and Sunday July 15

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Tewkesbury Medieval Festival was opened by its Patron, Professor Ronald Hutton. Historian Ruth Goodman is now Patron of Tewkesbury Battlefield Society.

Views of Tewkesbury showing some of the banners on display and the date of 1471.  

1471
in box hedging near the end of Lower Lode Lane.
The white boar
emblem of Richard Duke of Gloucester (later Richard III).
Coat of arms
of Richard Duke of Gloucester.
Coat of arms
of Sir Richard Ratcliffe, a key supporter of Richard.
 

The Berkeley Arms
displaying (left to right) the Berkeley arms, the royal arms of King Edward IV, and those of his brother Richard, Duke of Gloucester.
Coats of arms of
(left to right) Sir John Crocker, Sir Gervaise Clifton and Sir Gilbert Debenham. Crocker and Debenham were Yorkists but Clifton was a Lancastrian executed after the battle.
Coats of arms of
(left to right) Sir Edward Wodehouse and Sir Thomas Berkeley, both Yorkists.
Standards
outside Tewkesbury Library. Sir Thomas Burgh (left) and Sir John Butler (right).
 

Coat of arms of
Sir Thomas Berkeley, Yorkist.
Coat of arms of
Sir John Heveningham, Yorkist.
Coat of arms of
Sir Ralph Nicholas Longford, Yorkist.
Coat of arms of
Sir Simon Mountford, Yorkist.
The Worcestershire Branch of the Richard III Society display in the Exhibition Tent, thanks to Steve Goodchild, Chairman of the Tewkesbury Battlefield Society.  







Yew tree planted in memory of Robert Hardy CBE, Patron of Tewkesbury Medieval Festival and Tewkesbury Battlefield Society.

One of the cannon in the reenactors' camp.

Lever device to load a crossbow quickly.
Scenes from Saturday's mustering of the troops. The three final shots are of Saturday's battle reenactment.  





King Edward IV and Richard Duke of Gloucester.




King Edward IV and Richard Duke of Gloucester marching past the archery ground.

Edward of Lancaster.



Scenes from Sunday in the reenactors' camp, followed by the troops mustering for Sunday's battle reenactment.  


Too hot for this knight!
The white boar
of Richard Duke of Gloucester.
The white boar
of Richard Duke of Gloucester.
The white boar
of Richard Duke of Gloucester.






Margaret of Anjou with her son Edward of Lancaster.




King,
who carries a lone scurrier at the start of the battle.
King
and his rider.

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