Richard III: The Maligned King

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Richard already excites more opinion than anyone who has been dead for so long has a right to, due to the global membership of the Richard III Society. “He is the only English king with a fan club and the society is passionate. But history is always reworked and this play is my view,” said Gregory, who is braced for dissent. “I have toughened myself after years of writing about history and religion. I write about saints as well as sinners, and people always have a view.” a b Martin, Dan (4 October 2022). "The Lost King subject says she fought to get story told". BBC News . Retrieved 23 January 2023. Warzynski, Peter A. (23 May 2014). "Richard III: Leicester wins the battle of the bones". Leicester Mercury. Local World. Archived from the original on 24 May 2014 . Retrieved 23 May 2014. Licence, Amy (2013). Anne Neville: Richard III's Tragic Queen. Stroud, England: Amberley. ISBN 978-1445611532.

What happened to the Princes in the Tower?

Hanbury, Harold G. (1962). "The Legislation of Richard III". American Journal of Legal History. 6 (2): 95–113. doi: 10.2307/844148. JSTOR 844148. Hammond, Peter W. (2013). Richard III: From Contemporary Chronicles, Letters and Records (rev.ed.). Stroud, England: Fonthill Media. ISBN 978-1-781-55313-8. Improbably, the excavators found the remains in the first dig at the car park. [273] [274] [275] Skeleton as discovered There are numerous contemporary, or near-contemporary, sources of information about the reign of Richard III. [194] These include the Croyland Chronicle, Commines' Mémoires, the report of Dominic Mancini, the Paston Letters, the Chronicles of Robert Fabyan and numerous court and official records, including a few letters by Richard himself. However, the debate about Richard's true character and motives continues, both because of the subjectivity of many of the written sources, reflecting the generally partisan nature of writers of this period, and because none was written by men with an intimate knowledge of Richard. [195]

Film and Heritage". Viking, Saxon and Medieval jewellery reproductions from Danegeld . Retrieved 7 October 2022.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, the last decisive battle of the Wars of the Roses, marked the end of the Middle Ages in England. Von Tunzelmann, Alex (1 April 2015). "Richard III: Laurence Olivier's melodramatic baddie is seriously limp". Reel History. The Guardian. London . Retrieved 24 December 2018. Kendall, Paul M. (1956) [1955]. Richard the Third. New York: W. W. Norton & Company. ISBN 978-0-393-00785-5. OL 7450809M. Scofield, Cora L. (2016) [1923]. The Life and Reign of Edward the Fourth: King of England and France and Lord of Ireland. Vol.1. London: Fonthill Media. ISBN 978-1781554753. So Shakespeare drew on the popular idea of Richard as a twisted and dastardly usurper. It was a line already taken by the influential Tudor statesman and historian Sir Thomas More in his History of Richard III, the basis of one of Shakespeare’s major sources, Holinshed’s Chronicles.