Death found Towton 25 on Palm Sunday 1461

    On a bitterly cold Palm Sunday, brutal winds and intense snow showers saw the savage end to thousands medieval warriors. Yorkist forces under Henry IV fought with Lancastrian forces of Henry Beaufort 3rd Duke of Somerset. Towton would become the bloodiest battle in the War of the Roses. Towton 25 was no stranger to battle or being wounded during battle.He would have stood in the Lancastrian line of battle as Yorkist forces under King Henry IV unleashed a lethal volley of bodkin pointed arrows. The men not wounded by this first volley of missiles would begin their advance. Volley after volley would crash into the knights and men-at-arms as they advanced. Those reaching the Yorkist line of battle would be in the most brutal warfare imaginable. Henry IV had given the orders "No quarter is to be given." It would be a brutal blade to blade duel of death.

    Towton 25 reached the enemy lines shield and blade ready to administer death to those before him. He blocked the enemies blade with his shield and swung his blade as well. Metal blades crashed against wood, metal, and bone maiming and killing thousands. Towton 25 continued in his combat toe to toe with his enemy. A blade would strike the left side of his head several times yet he would continue to fight perhaps surrounded. A blade crashed down upon the back of his head fracturing it all the way to the base of his skull. The force was so great that fragments of his skull embedded into his brain and left a large gash in his head. His body, now limp would fall on to the snow dusted battlefield. Dust of the pure white snow would melt as his blood flowed from the open wound. His lifeless body would be struck perhaps by a hammer to the back of his head on the right side. This smaller blow may have been enough to turn his body face up. Snow flurries would fall upon his face looking almost as tears as they melted on contact. A final blade perhaps that of a battle axe crashed into his face. The blade reached the back of his throat and stretched the length of his left eye to the right jaw. His clothing and armor would be removed and his body thrown into a mass grave. On a cold snowy Palm Sunday in the year of our Lord 1461 death found Towton 25. May he RIP!

 The Battle of Towton fought between the House of York and the House of Lancaster on 29-March-1461.

Towton 25 was a medieval warrior in the House of Lancaster during the War of the Roses. His body was one of many removed from a mass grave at the site of the Battle of Towton. He was assigned the number 25 because he was the 25th exhumed from the grave. His skull showed signs of a previous fracture that had healed. He was no stranger to combat and was between 36 and 45 years old.