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House of York |
House
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Richard
III was the last monarch to die in battle when he
was killed at the Battle
of Bosworth in 1485. Having become King in 1483, his death
brought to an end the short rule of the House of York. He was
buried in Greyfriars
Friary in Leicester but during the Reformation his
bones were dug up and scattered in the nearby River Soar.
In 2012 excavations to find the burial site of Richard III located
the remnants of Greyfriars Abbey lying under a car park in Leicester.
Further digging uncovered the skeleton of a man who had suffered
severe battle injuries and also showed the spinal curvature
that the Yorkist king suffered from.
DNA analysis comparing DNA taken from a descendant of Richard's
sister Anne of York proved that these were the remains of Richard
III, solving one of the few remaining mysteries of the final
resting places of the monarchs of England since the Norman Conquest.
On the 26th March 2015 the bones of Richard III were reburied
in a tomb in Leicester
Cathedral.
Richard
III
Richard
III Society
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House of Tudor |
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House
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Lady
Jane Grey, who was Queen for nine days in July 1553, was
born at Bradgate Manor in 1537.
Although never crowned she was England's first female monarch
and she was followed by the rule of two more, the half-sisters
Mary I and Elizabeth I.
Lady
Jane Grey
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House of Plantagenet |
Mary de Bohun,
the first wife of the future Henry IV and mother of Henry
V
was buried in 1394 at the Church
of St Mary de Castro in Leicester.
Her husband ascended the throne in 1399.
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