It is April 14, 1471 – the Battle of Barnet. The place, a small village north of London, now called Chipping Barnet (or High Barnet, per Wikipedia), and the battle one of the most important of the Wars of the Roses. That’s for a few reasons, but for our purposes there are two that are especially significant: this is where Richard has his Romeo and Juliet moment with King Henry VI and this is where the Earl of Warwick, Richard Neville, meets his end. It would be worth mentioning that in the show Warwick is struck down by Buckingham, meaning that a Richard is killed by a Henry, but quite frankly all of the men in this story have one of maybe four names, so it’s probably best not to make too much of that. (And yes, Buckingham’s given name is Henry.) If it’s not quite the touching death that it sort of wants to be, it is at least a very dramatic one, offering us a glimpse of how…
