Posted on 02/04/2013 10:09:11 AM PST by AngieGal
He wore the English crown, but he ended up defeated, humiliated and reviled.
Now things are looking up for King Richard III. Scientists announced Monday that they had found the monarch's 500-year-old remains under a parking lot in the city of Leicester -- a discovery Richard's fans say will inspire new research into his maligned history.
University of Leicester researchers say tests on a battle-scarred skeleton unearthed last year prove "beyond reasonable doubt" that it is the king, who died at the Battle of Bosworth Field in 1485, and whose remains have been missing for centuries.
"Richard III, the last Plantagenet King of England, has been found," said the university's deputy registrar, Richard Taylor....
DNA from the skeleton matched a sample taken from a distant living relative of Richard's sister. Geneticist Turi King said Michael Ibsen, a Canadian carpenter living in London, shares with the skeleton a rare strain of mitochondrial DNA. She said combined with the archaeological evidence, that left little doubt the skeleton belonged to Richard.
Ibsen said he was "stunned" to discover he was related to the king -- he is a 17th great-grand-nephew of Richard's older sister.
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King Chadae (146-165 AD) continued to consolidate power even after rising to the throne. In the third year of his reign, he ordered the deaths of Taejo’s (his brother, previous king) two sons, forced one of his brothers to commit suicide, and persecuted his youngest brother Baekgo. (who later became King)
Just found this one while searching for that other. wow
King Richard: Speak peasant...
One Eyed Harold: Nice Kingdom you got there Richie, shame if anything happened to it...
Yeonsan-gun
1476-1506
considered worst tyrant of Joseon era
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still not the one I was thinking of though...
more looking
Well, what married man hasn’t wanted to kill his in-laws huh? ;d
Byzantine Empress Irene had her own son’s eyes gouged out (he died). They were way into political mutilation, usually blinding. Contrast her contemporary Charlemagne who merely had his rivals forcibly tonsured and confined to monasteries.
wow.
but at least these other guys weren’t buried under a parking lot I guess
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