Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
This page was last edited on 12 September 2023, at 01:25 (UTC).; Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License; additional terms may apply.
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.
The Children of Richard III 2018 Peter Hammond [13] The Family of Richard III 2017 Michael Hicks [14] The Mythology of Richard III 2016 John Ashdown-Hill [15] On the Trail of Richard III 2016 Kristie Dean [16] Richard III 2015 David Baldwin [17] Richard III: A Ruler and his reputation 2015 David Horspool [18] The Bones of a King 2015
Richard III of England (3 C, 34 P) Pages in category "Children of Richard of York, 3rd Duke of York" The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total.
This page was last edited on 15 February 2024, at 08:09 (UTC).; Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License; additional terms may apply.
The prologue describes the situation before Richard's birth, leading up to the Wars of the Roses. The first major part deals with Richard's early life as son of Richard, Duke of York and brother to Edward IV. It covers Richard's youth and his life as Duke of Gloucester (13 chapters) as well as his role as "Lord of the North" (6 chapters).
The Richard III Society is a Ricardian society dedicated to the re-assessement of the reputation of King Richard III, the last Plantagenet King of England and the last English King to be killed in battle, and whose reputation was widely maligned in the centuries since his death, in large part due to Tudor propaganda. [1] [2]
The Richard III Society was founded in 1924 by Liverpool surgeon Samuel Saxon Barton (1892-1957) as The Fellowship of the White Boar, Richard's badge and a symbol of the Yorkist army in the Wars of the Roses. Its membership was originally a small group of interested amateur historians whose aim was to bring about a re-assessment of the ...