Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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]
King Richard III Visitor Centre is a museum in Leicester, England that showcases the life of King Richard III and the story of the discovery, exhumation, and reburial of his remains in 2012–2015. For a long time, the burial place of Richard III was uncertain, although the site of his burial was assumed to be in a Leicester car park.
The friary is best known as the burial place of King Richard III who was hastily buried in the friary church following his death at the Battle of Bosworth. An archaeological dig in 2012–13 successfully identified the site of the Greyfriars church and the location of Richard's burial. [4]
Richard III was the last English king to be killed in battle. [149] Henry Tudor succeeded Richard as King Henry VII. He married the Yorkist heiress Elizabeth of York, Edward IV's daughter and Richard III's niece. Richard III's grave in 2013
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
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 ...
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 ...
If your kid looks constipated in pictures, Pennsylvania dad Adam Perry has a hilarious solution. Dad shares the trick to getting a good photo. Hint: it’s just one word