In Memoriam
This day, '...King Richard, late mercifully reigning over us, was through the great treason of the Duke of Norfolk* and many others that turned against him, with many other lords and nobility of these northern parts piteously slain and murdered, to the great heaviness of this city...'
From York Civil Records, August, 1485.
The last Plantagenet king, the last English king to die in battle, his achievements as ruler unjustly lost with his reputation down the long years since.
Richard III.
Killed at Bosworth, 22 August 1485.
Loyaulte me lie.
*This was a report from the battlefield, and in the turmoil and terror of the moment the reporter got it wrong. Norfolk was loyal; it was Northumberland and the cursed Stanleys who were the traitors.
Truth is the daughter of time!
From York Civil Records, August, 1485.
The last Plantagenet king, the last English king to die in battle, his achievements as ruler unjustly lost with his reputation down the long years since.
Richard III.
Killed at Bosworth, 22 August 1485.
Loyaulte me lie.
*This was a report from the battlefield, and in the turmoil and terror of the moment the reporter got it wrong. Norfolk was loyal; it was Northumberland and the cursed Stanleys who were the traitors.
Truth is the daughter of time!