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Richard III: Discovery and identification. In August 2012, the University of Leicester in collaboration with the Richard III Society and Leicester City Council, began one of the most ambitious archaeological projects ever attempted: no less than a search for the lost grave of King Richard III. The last English king to die in battle. Incredibly ...
Mar 26, 2015 · Richard III died 530 years ago during that war in the Battle of Bosworth Field outside Leicester. His family, the Yorks, were engaged in a 30-year conflict with the House of Lancaster, which ...
Jul 7, 2023 · Michael Hicks, Professor Emeritus of History, University of Winchester and author of Richard III: The Self-Made King (Yale University Press, 2019) For 500 years Richard III was a usurper and a wicked uncle, the murderer of his little nephews, the Princes in the Tower. He rightly suffered defeat and death at the Battle of Bosworth (1485).
Apr 27, 2022 · "Richard III (2 October 1452 – 22 August 1485) was King of England for two years, from 1483 until his death in 1485 during the Battle of Bosworth Field. He was the last king of the House of York and the last of the Plantagenet dynasty.
Richard III is a play by William Shakespeare. It was probably written c. 1592–1594. It is labelled a history in the First Folio, and is usually considered one, but it is sometimes called a tragedy, as in the quarto edition. Richard III concludes Shakespeare's first tetralogy (also containing Henry VI, Part 1, Henry VI, Part 2, and Henry VI ...
Feb 4, 2013 · Other interested parties had voiced their own opinions: The Richard III Foundation and the Society of Friends of Richard III, based in York, England, argue the remains should be reburied in York ...
Richard III was born on 2 October 1452 at Fotheringhay Castle in Northamptonshire to Richard, Duke of York and Lady Cecily Neville. York, a potential claimant to the throne, was frequently in opposition to the rule of Henry VI (descended from the Dukes of Lancaster). The following thirty years of instability and civil war between the Yorkists ...
