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  2. Exhumation and reburial of Richard III of England - Wikipedia

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    The grave of Richard III from 1485. In 1495, ten years after the burial, Henry VII paid for a marble and alabaster monument to mark Richard's grave. [9] Its cost is recorded in surviving legal papers relating to a dispute over payment showing that two men received payments of £50 and £10.1s, respectively, to make and transport the tomb from Nottingham to Leicester. [10]

  3. Philippa Langley - Wikipedia

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    In 2013, Langley co-authored with military historian Michael K. Jones, The King's Grave: The Search for Richard III (the first edition was published in New York with the title The King’s Grave: The Discovery of Richard III's Lost Burial Place and the Clues It Holds [58]). [59] [19] [60]

  4. 'The Lost King' highlights the buried history of the woman ...

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    The film reconstructs the search and discovery of Richard's remains by Philippa Langley, played by Sally Hawkins, which was nearly erased when a U.K. university took credit for the discovery.

  5. Leicester Cathedral - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  6. Elderly mystery woman found buried in coffin near Richard III

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    Finding King Richard III's grave was so 2012. We know how he died (in battle), when he died (1485) and, as of 2012, where he was buried (Grey Friars monastery). Old news.

  7. Philippa Langley On Digging Up ‘The Lost King’ Richard III ...

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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 ...

  8. Burial places of British royalty - Wikipedia

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    Richard III: 1485 Leicester Cathedral Originally buried across the street in Greyfriars, but the original tomb was lost when the friary was demolished in 1538. [4] The remains of Richard III were recovered by an archaeological dig in 2012 and re-interred in 2015. [5] Henry VII: 1509 Henry VII Lady Chapel, Westminster Abbey [6] Henry VIII: 1547

  9. What did King Richard III sound like? State-of-the-art ... - AOL

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    Richard made global headlines 12 years ago when his skeletal remains were found by British historian Philippa Langley in a parking lot in Leicester, a city around 100 miles north of the U.K.'s ...