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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. His defeat and death at the Battle of Bosworth Field marked the end of the Middle Ages in England.
Richard III is a biography of said King of England by American historian Paul Murray Kendall. The book, published in 1955, has remained the standard popular work on the controversial monarch. The book, published in 1955, has remained the standard popular work on the controversial monarch.
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]
The Richard III Experience at Monk Bar (formerly known as the Richard III Museum) was located in Monk Bar, the tallest of the four gatehouses in the historical city walls of York, England. It described the life of Richard III, the last king of the Plantagenet dynasty.
Philippa Jayne Langley MBE (born 29 June 1962) [6] is a British writer, producer, and Ricardian, who is best known for her role in the discovery and 2012 exhumation of Richard III, as part of the Looking for Richard project, for which she was awarded an MBE.
State-of-the-art technology has helped to create an avatar of the voice and face of Britain's Richard III over 500 years after his death in battle.
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.
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 ...