Posted on 08/16/2013 6:49:10 AM PDT by xzins
Descendants of Richard III won a court battle on Friday over where to bury the medieval monarch, whose bones were found under a car park last year, but were urged not to embark on a legal version of the Wars of the Roses in which the king died.
In one of the most remarkable archaeological finds in English history, a skeleton with a cleaved skull and a curved spine was formally identified as Richard's remains by DNA testing in February this year.
Depicted by William Shakespeare as a deformed tyrant who murdered his two young nephews to strengthen his grip on power, Richard was killed in 1485 at the Battle of Bosworth, the last king of England to perish on a battlefield.
The University of Leicester, which led the quest to find, exhume and identify Richard's remains, obtained permission from the Ministry of Justice to reinter the king at the cathedral in Leicester, which is close to Bosworth in central England.
But descendants of the monarch, who was the last king of the Plantagenet dynasty, went to court arguing that Richard should instead be laid to rest in the cathedral in York, the northern English city with which he had close links during his life.
In a ruling delivered on Friday, High Court Judge Charles Haddon-Cave said the ministry had been wrong to give the green light to the Leicester burial plan without engaging in wider consultation on a matter of wide public interest.
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under a parking lot?
The parking lot had once been the Black Friars monestary where Richard was reputedly buried.
The parking lot had once been the Black Friars monestary where Richard was reputedly buried.
How fickle is history.
Richard I was the Lionheart.
Richard I was Lion heart, this is Richard III
Richard I (1157-1199) was the king called "lion heart."
Now is the winter of our discontent...
A horse, a horse ... my kingdom for a horse!
‘Lion Heart was Richard I. This is Richard III, much maligned. His brother Edward IV died with 2 sons. They were the appropriate heirs to the throne. The two sons wound up in the Tower of London....for their alleged protection, but disappeared, thus Richard III became King.
Many nefarious deeds were attributed to Richard III due to the influence of the Tudors who followed after Richard III was killed in Battle with Henry VII, father of Henry VIII.
Were not the remains of two young children found in/near the tower of london recently, and believed to be the two sons?
Did they not know that it was a former monastery and the place of Riii’s burial?
“two sons” Edward and Richard. I believe Edward’s legitimacy was challenged. But they were ‘disappeared’ alright. There’s a famous painting of the two that was done about 400 years after their death.
Yep, the Tudors made the saying real: ‘The winners write the history books.’
Here is a line from one of the Amazon reviews of the book:
"What thoughtful reader hasn't experienced Shakespeare's Richard III and wondered about the accuracy of the Bard's portrayal? Thus did Josephine Tey, near the close of her authorial career, delve into some of the lost nooks and crannies of English history in an effort to recover "the real Richard."
Then they figured out they should lead from behind.
FYI, Rowan Atkinson is NOT a British historian..
No wrong Richard..
This is Dick the Turd..
There is thought that the Queen (in sanctuary with her children) was asked to send the 2nd son to join the first at the tower....but instead substituted an impostor & ferreted her real son away into hiding.
Years later when Henry VII was king (after killing Richard 3rd), they 'found' someone, a grown version, claiming to be that very son.....and promptly hanged him.
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