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1452 - 1485 (32 years)
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Name |
Richard III 'Plantagenet' King Of ENGLAND [1, 3] |
- Richard III Plantagenet, youngest son, born 2 Oct 1452, created Duke of Gloucester by his brother King Edward IV 1 Nov. 1461, Lord Protector 1483, deposed his nephew Edward V and usurped the throne 26 June 1483, crowned King of England 6 July 1483, slain at the Battle of Bosworth 22 Aug. 1485 fighting against the invader Henry Tudor, Earl of Richmond. [1]
- Richard III was king for barely two years, but once he was dead, historians, clerics and even playwrights fell over themselves to blacken his name. Most of the propaganda was designed to serve the Tudor dynasty, which began when Henry VII's army defeated and killed Richard at the Battle of Bosworth in 1485. However, in more recent time,s historians have questioned whether Richard III really deserves his evil reputation.
Tall, lean, and with slender limbs. Richard was a handsome man. Contrary to William Shakespeare's portrayal of the King in 'The Life and Death of King Richard III', there is no evidence that Richard was a hunchback, although he might have had one shoulder slightly higher than the other. Devoted to his brother Edward, and reliable in all the many tasks Edward asked him to do, Richard was undoubtedly courageous and proved in his very short reign to be an energetic, painstaking, and just ruler.
On 22 August 1485, the 8,000-strong army of Henry Tudor faced Richard's 12,000-strong army in fields just outside the town of Market Bosworth in Leicestershire. Richard's support soon ebbed away, but he himself dived courageously into the thick of battle, coming within a sword's length of Henry Tudor before he was cut down. [2]
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Birth |
02 Oct 1452 |
Fotheinghay Castle [1, 3] |
Gender |
Male |
Reigned |
Between 1483 and 1485 [3] |
Death |
22 Aug 1485 |
Killed - Battle of Bosworth [3] |
Burial |
Grey Friars Abbey, Leicester [3] |
Person ID |
I21373 |
Main Tree |
Last Modified |
18 May 2018 |
Father |
Richard PLANTAGENET, b. 21 Sep 1411 d. 30 Dec 1460, Battle of Wakefield (Age 49 years) |
Relationship |
Birth |
Mother |
Cecily DE NEVILLE, b. 03 May 1415, Raby Castle d. 31 May 1495, Berkhamsted Castle (Age 80 years) |
Relationship |
Birth |
Married |
Bef 18 Oct 1424 [1, 4] |
Marriage |
Between 1437 and 1438 [3] |
Family ID |
F06840 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
Family |
Anne NEVILLE, b. 11 Jun 1456, Warwick Castle, England d. 16 Mar 1485, Westminster Palace (Age 28 years) |
Marriage |
12 Jul 1472 |
Westminster [1] |
Children |
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Family ID |
F06854 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
Last Modified |
17 May 2018 |
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| Burial - - Grey Friars Abbey, Leicester |
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Sources |
- [S5008] David Faris, "Plantagenet Ancestry of Seventeenth-Century Colonists", (Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc.).
- [S9498] Plantagenet Somerset Fry, Kings & Queens of England and Scotland.
- [S01910] Blood Royal, Issue of the Kings and Queens of Medieval England 1066-1399 by. T. Anna Leese.
- [S5840] Frederick Lewis Weis, Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonist Who Came to America before 1700.
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