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Tomb of Richard III in Leicester Cathedral, with his motto Loyaulte me lie (loyalty binds me) at right The ledger stone memorial from Leicester Cathedral now resides in the King Richard III Visitor Centre. After his death in battle in 1485, Richard III's body was buried in Greyfriars Church in Leicester. [7]
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]
Richard II of England (1367–1400) Richard III of England (1452–1485) Although no monarch has assumed the title King Richard IV, this title can sometimes refer to: Richard of Shrewsbury, 1st Duke of York, one of the Princes in the Tower King Richard IV of England from Blackadder, a fictional version of the above
Watch as King Richard III has been given a Yorkshire accent using state-of-the-art technology. The digital avatar of the medieval king went on display in front of history buffs at York Theatre ...
LONDON — Britain’s King Richard III was immortalized with the Shakespeare line, “A horse, a horse, my kingdom for a horse.”. Now state-of-the-art technology has revealed what it may have ...
These are the approximate categories which present monarchies fall into: [citation needed]. Commonwealth realms.King Charles III is the monarch of fifteen Commonwealth realms (Antigua and Barbuda, Australia, The Bahamas, Belize, Canada, Grenada, Jamaica, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Solomon Islands, Tuvalu, and the United ...
In addition to the UK, the King is head of state for 14 Commonwealth realms – but the monarchy’s future role in some of these countries appears less certain after the Queen’s death.
Although the 9th Earl of Jersey had sons from a third marriage, he had been divorced from his first wife, who was still alive when he married his third. Under a strict adherence to the succession laws and customs as they existed in 1603 (for it is argued that no laws passed by Parliament since 1603 are legitimate, as the heirs did not summon ...