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To avoid being caught at a disadvantage a line of battle had to be hurriedly formed. By four in the afternoon battle was ready to commence. Description of the Battlefield. Although today known as Flodden, contemporary accounts dubbed the battle 'Branxton', which is rather more accurate.
Edmund Howard 35 years old in 1513, the Earl of Surrey’s youngest surviving son. He acted as the Marshall of the Army during the Flodden Campaign and commanded the English right flank.
Howard was Marshal of the Horse at the Battle of Flodden on 9 September 1513, and attended the King at the Field of the Cloth of Gold in 1520, where he was one of the challengers in the tournaments. In 1530 or 1531, with the assistance of Thomas Cromwell , Howard was made Controller of Calais .
La batalla de Flodden Field o batalla de Branxton tuvo lugar el 9 de septiembre de 1513, en el condado de Northumberland. Enfrentó al ejército inglés, liderados por la Reina regenta Catalina de Aragón, con el ejército escocés, comandado por el rey Jacobo IV.
The Battle of Flodden, Flodden Field, or occasionally Branxton or Brainston Moor [4] was fought on 9 September 1513 during the War of the League of Cambrai between the Kingdom of England and the Kingdom of Scotland and resulted in an English victory.
- 9 September 1513
- English victory
- Near Branxton, Northumberland, England
Whatever resolve the levies of young Edward Howard’s division might have had quickly vanished on the late afternoon of September 9, 1513, on the fields of Branxton Moor in Northumberland. The few on the English right who dared stand up to the pikes were either spitted on their steel tips or trampled beneath the feet of hundreds of pikemen.
Thomas Howard, the Lord Admiral of England, was responsible for the defeat and death of Barton: Battle of Flodden 9th September 1513 Surrey dispatched his challenge to King James from the area of Wooler, some 6 miles up the River Till from the Scots encampment.
