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Richard III, the final ruler of the Plantagenet dynasty, was killed on 22 August 1485 in the Battle of Bosworth Field, the last significant battle of the Wars of the Roses. His body was taken to Greyfriars, Leicester, where it was buried in a crude grave in the friary church.
The remains of Richard III, the last English king killed in battle and last king of the House of York, were discovered within the site of the former Grey Friars Priory in Leicester, England, in September 2012. Following extensive anthropological and genetic testing, the remains were reinterred at Leicester Cathedral on 26 March 2015. The ...
Jun 17, 2014 · Their exhumation in 1476, funeral procession and reburial in the Yorkist mausoleum at Fotheringhay came at a pause in the civil war between Lancaster and York. It was a time when other noble...
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Reinterring Richard III. It is not every day you have to rebury a king, let alone one who died in a different age, over five centuries ago. A person whose life is still debated today, whose death marked the end of medieval England and the start of the English Renaissance, and whose discovery in 2012 sparked worldwide interest on a scale rarely ...
Burying defeated and deposed monarchs in religious houses away from the political hub of London had precedent. Fourteen years earlier, Henry VI was initially buried at Chertsey Abbey in Surrey, before Richard III himself had him reburied at St George’s Chapel, Windsor.
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Mar 22, 2015 · Sun 22 Mar 2015 16.00 EDT. In the long shadows of a golden evening, after an extraordinary day when the cortege of a man who died more than 500 years ago passed through country lanes and suburban...
