Though 32-year-old Richard III was badly injured during the battle at
Bosworth Field, the most fatal attack came after he dismounted from his horse and removed his helmet, suggests analysis by forensic experts.
(Both the deposed boy king and his brother disappeared--their murder remains a mystery.) Henry Tudor seized the moment to stake his own claim to the throne, and the hard-fought battle of
Bosworth Field ended with Richard III dead and Henry Tudor--now Henry VII--king.
With the Tudors on the throne after the War of the Roses ended that day on
Bosworth Field, there was no way that an aspiring playwright and poet, who wanted to keep his head on his shoulders a" literally, given the punishment for treason at the time a" would write as much as a positive comma about poor old Richard III.
Richard, depicted by William Shakespeare as a monstrous tyrant who murdered two princes in the Tower of London, was killed fighting his eventual successor Henry Tudor at the Battle of
Bosworth Field in central England in 1485.
This documentary looks at the search for the final resting place of Richard III, who was killed at the Battle of
Bosworth Field in 1485.
Contemporary sources say Richard's body was brought to Leicester after the king was killed in the Battle of
Bosworth Field in 1485.
Bosworth Field is around 14 miles (25 km) away from Leicester in central England and Richard is one of just a few English kings whose final resting place is unknown.
About two-thirds are revised and edited versions of material from two earlier ABC-CLIO publications (
Bosworth Field to Bloody Mary: An Encyclopedia of the Early Tudors (2003) and the Historical Dictionary of the Elizabethan World: Britain, Ireland, Europe, and American (1999).
FLAG DAY RUSSIA 1485: The Battle of
Bosworth Field was fought in Leicestershire and Richard III was butchered as he tried to reach usurper Henry Tudor.
Harry Levin's "Two Tents on
Bosworth Field: Richard III, V.iii, iv, v," reads very much like a lecture on Shakespeare's history plays, on Richard III, and on the flexibility of the stage that allowed Shakespeare to achieve his effects.
He wrote a drama for James I, The Theatre of Apollo (1625); a poem about the Battle of
Bosworth Field (fought in 1485) and other poems to James I and Charles I; and elegies on the poet's friends and relatives, published posthumously.
Richard was defeated and killed at the battle of
Bosworth Field by Henry Tudor, earl of Richmond (later Henry VII).