Editing Battle of Wakefield (section)

==In literature and folklore==
Many people are familiar with [[William Shakespeare]]'s melodramatic version of events in ''[[Henry VI, Part 3]]'', notably the murder of Edmund of Rutland, although Edmund is depicted as a small child, and following his unnecessary slaughter by Clifford, Margaret torments his father, York, before murdering him also. In fact, Rutland, at seventeen, was more than old enough to be an active participant in the fighting. Margaret was almost certainly still in Scotland at the time.{{sfn|Higginbotham|2010}}

The battle is said by some to be the source for the mnemonic for remembering the traditional colours of the [[rainbow]], [[ROYGBIV|Richard Of York Gave Battle in Vain]],{{sfn|Surdhar|2013|p=56}} and also the mocking [[nursery rhyme]], "[[The Grand Old Duke of York]]",{{sfn|Swinnerton|2005|p=149}} although this much more likely refers to the eighteenth-century [[Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany|Duke of York]], son of [[George III]].{{sfn|Opie|Opie|1997|pp=442–443}}

"Dicky's Meadow", a well-known Northern expression, is commonly believed to refer to Sandals Meadow, where the battle of Wakefield took place and where Richard met his end. The common view held that Richard was ill-advised to fight here. The expression is usually used to warn against risky action, as in "If you do that you'll end up in Dicky's Meadow." However, the first known usage of that phrase did not appear until the 1860s, around 400 years after the battle took place.{{sfn|Tréguer|2016}}