Robert Devereux, the third earl of Essex, led the Parliamentarian army and met Prince Ruppert's Royalist force midway between Banbury and Warwick.

埃塞克斯第三代伯爵罗伯特·德弗罗率领议会军队，在班伯里和沃里克之间遭遇了鲁珀特亲王的保皇党军队。