The version that became part of the first English statute in 1297 was the one signed by King Henry III in 1225.

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They looked back reverently at King Henry V, who defeated France in 1415, and with contempt on King Richard III conquered in 1485 by Henry Tudor, who later founded his own dynasty as Henry VII.

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He was king from 1272 on the death of his father Henry III.

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Pope Gregory VII may have humiliated the Emperor Henry IV, as Innocent III later humiliated Philip Augustus of France and King John of England.

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In 1483, Britain's Henry Stafford, Duke of Buckingham, was beheaded at Salisbury for his rebellion against King Richard III.

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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.

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