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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 17 September 2024. Part of the Wars of the Roses Battle of Bosworth Part of the Wars of the Roses Battle of Bosworth, as depicted by Philip James de Loutherbourg (1740–1812); the painting dates to 1804 and the engraving dates to c. 1857 Date 22 August 1485 Location Near Ambion Hill, south of Market ...
Private life. Born at Latham, Ormskirk, Lancashire, Sir William was the younger son of Thomas Stanley, 1st Baron Stanley. [2] In 1465 he married Joan (d. 1469), daughter of John Beaumont, 1st Viscount Beaumont, and widow of John, Lord Lovel. They had three children: William, Joan and Catherine. Following the execution of her second husband the ...
Arms of Brandon: Barry of ten argent and gules, a lion rampant or ducally crowned per pale of the first and second. Sir William Brandon (1456 [1] – 22 August 1485) of Soham, Cambridgeshire was Henry Tudor 's standard-bearer at the Battle of Bosworth, where he was killed by King Richard III. [2] He was the father of Charles Brandon, 1st Duke ...
The grave of Richard III from 1485. In 1495, ten years after the burial, Henry VII paid for a marble and alabaster monument to mark Richard's grave. [9] Its cost is recorded in surviving legal papers relating to a dispute over payment showing that two men received payments of £50 and £10.1s, respectively, to make and transport the tomb from Nottingham to Leicester. [10]
Elizabeth Merbury. Walter Devereux, 8th Baron Ferrers of Chartley, KG (c. 1432 – 22 August 1485) was an English nobleman and a loyal supporter of the House of York during the Wars of the Roses. He was a member of the inner circle of King Edward IV, and died fighting for Edward's younger brother, King Richard III, at the Battle of Bosworth in ...
Market Bosworth. Market Bosworth (/ ˈbɒzwərθ / BOZ-wərth) is a market town and civil parish in Leicestershire, England. At the 2001 Census, it had a population of 1,906, [1] increasing to 2,097 at the 2011 census. [2] It is most famously near to the site of the decisive final battle of the Wars of the Roses.
Glenn R. Foard (born c.1953) is an English landscape archaeologist, best known for discovering the location of the final phases of the Battle of Bosworth Field (1485). He is Reader in Battlefield Archaeology at the University of Huddersfield.
Rhys Fawr ap Maredudd ( fl. 1485–1510) was a Welsh nobleman chiefly known for his valour at the Battle of Bosworth Field in 1485, where he fought on the side of Henry VII. [1] After Henry's landing at Milford Haven in early August 1485, his army was bolstered by contingents from across Wales. One of these contingents was that of Rhys, who had ...