Richard died at the hands of forces of Henry Tudor near Market Bosworth, Leicestershire.
Challenged by Henry Tudor, Richard was killed at Bosworth in 1485 after only two years on the throne.
Richard III died in 1485, aged 32, at the hands of forces of Henry Tudor near Market Bosworth, Leicestershire.
Others say this description is fictional, and one spread by Henry Tudor, Richard's successor, whose army killed Richard in battle.
Richard's reign ended when Henry Tudor's army killed him during the Wars of the Roses, a decadeslong series of battles between the Houses of Lancaster and York for the throne.
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Ms. Benathan first became interested in Richard when she read a novel that contradicted accounts of Richard's villainous ways, taught in school history, and decided these were lies propagated by Henry Tudor, Richard's successor.
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Richard III, the last Plantagenet King of England, was killed in battle by the armies of rival noble Henry Tudor at the Battle of Bosworth, which took place in a field just outside Leicester in 1485.
Edward IV went on to rule, with a brief interruption, until his death 22 years later a death that triggered the final stage of the conflict and the rise of a new dynasty under Henry Tudor.
Some ancestors went under the axe, including Henry Howard, a Tudor poet much admired by the duke.
His death at Bosworth - the last English king to be killed in battle - ushered in the Tudor dynasty beginning with Henry VII.
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The Archbishop of York's Palace, next to Southwell Minster, is the former home of Tudor statesman Cardinal Thomas Wolsey, who served under Henry VIII.
Community engagement officer Trevor Sapey takes his Tudor roadshow to special needs groups and day centres to teach people about life in the time of Henry VIII.
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