He was knighted on the battlefield by the new King Henry VII and awarded titles in Brecknock, Carmarthen and Cardigan.

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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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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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