Battle of Piperdean 1436
Marker: recorded battle location (no official boundary).
Key facts
| Date (year) | 1436 | Wikidata P585 point in time |
|---|---|---|
| Century | 15th century | derived |
| Period | Wars of the Roses & late medieval | derived |
| Country | Scotland | derived |
| War / conflict | Anglo-Scottish Wars | Wikidata |
About the battle
The Battle of Piperdean was an engagement in the Scottish Borders, fought on 10 September 1435 between the Kingdom of Scotland and the Kingdom of England.
An English force led by George de Dunbar, 11th Earl of March and Henry Percy, 2nd Earl of Northumberland attempted to take the forfeited Dunbar's Castle of Dunbar back from William Douglas, 2nd Earl of Angus, who as Warden of the Scottish Marches had invested the castle the previous summer. Percy and Dunbar came north with some 4,000 men.
Angus did not want to undergo a siege, and decided to pre-empt the English by attacking them en route. An army of roughly the same force surprised the English, under Angus, Adam Hepburn of Hailes, Alexander Elphinstone of that ilk, and Alexander Ramsay of Dalhousie.
Visiting the battlefield
George Ridpath (Border History - 1776) states
" The earl of Northumberland...advanced towards the Scottish marches but was met within his own territories at a place called Pepperden on Brammish not far from the mountain of Cheviot.
Location
- Recorded location (Wikidata; may be approximate): 55.9206, -2.3017
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Text adapted from the Wikipedia article Battle of Piperdean (revision 1370586146), licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Changes: excerpted from the article lead section and section(s) “Site of battle”; condensed by selecting paragraphs and trimming at sentence boundaries; citations removed. No text added.
Battle location from Wikidata (CC0).