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To help work out how Richard and his contemporaries might have sounded, Morley-Chisholm enlisted the help of professor David Crystal, a leading linguist and expert in 15th-century pronunciation.
Richard III (2 October 1452 – 22 August 1485) was King of England from 26 June 1483 until his death in 1485. He was the last king of the Plantagenet dynasty and its cadet branch the House of York.
Watch as King Richard III has been given a Yorkshire accent using state-of-the-art technology. The digital avatar of the medieval king went on display in front of history buffs at York Theatre ...
Richard II of England (1367–1400) Richard III of England (1452–1485) Although no monarch has assumed the title King Richard IV, this title can sometimes refer to: Richard of Shrewsbury, 1st Duke of York, one of the Princes in the Tower King Richard IV of England from Blackadder, a fictional version of the above
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The much-maligned Richard III finally gets the royal treatment in Stephen Frears’ The Lost King as amateur historian Philippa Langley unearths the monarch’s five-century-old remains in a ...
The Cathedral famously houses King Richard III's tomb. The church was built on the site of Roman ruins [ 10 ] and is dedicated to St Martin of Tours, a 4th-century Roman officer who became a Bishop. It is almost certainly one of six churches referred to in the Domesday Book (1086) and portions of the current building can be traced to a 12th ...
Henry Stafford, 2nd Duke of Buckingham KG (4 September 1455 [1] – 2 November 1483) was an English nobleman known as the namesake of Buckingham's rebellion, a failed but significant collection of uprisings in England and parts of Wales against Richard III of England in October 1483.