Richard would eventually become King after the death of his oldest brother, Edward IV. He only reigned for about 2 - 3 years and was killed by Henry Tudor (Henry VII) at Bosworth Field. Richard is, unfortunately, best remembered as the King who killed his two nephews in the Tower of London, though it has never been discovered what actually happened to the little Princes.
Friday, October 2, 2009
This Day in History...
October 2, 1452 - The future Richard III, England's last Plantagenet King, was born to the Duke of York and Cecily Neville, the youngest of seven children. 
Richard would eventually become King after the death of his oldest brother, Edward IV. He only reigned for about 2 - 3 years and was killed by Henry Tudor (Henry VII) at Bosworth Field. Richard is, unfortunately, best remembered as the King who killed his two nephews in the Tower of London, though it has never been discovered what actually happened to the little Princes.
Richard would eventually become King after the death of his oldest brother, Edward IV. He only reigned for about 2 - 3 years and was killed by Henry Tudor (Henry VII) at Bosworth Field. Richard is, unfortunately, best remembered as the King who killed his two nephews in the Tower of London, though it has never been discovered what actually happened to the little Princes.
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I don't know whether he did it or not...but love the guy!!
ReplyDeleteGreat post I am pretty sure you read the Reluctant Queen by Jean Plaidy. I loved how it showed the soft side of Richard. Every novel has a different spin on him.
ReplyDeleteI started Anne Easter Smith's Daughter of York a while back and it was very interesting reading the view point of his sister.
I really liked Plaidy's take on Anne and Richard. A very different perspective than we usually get in novels about R3.
ReplyDeleteI also read Daughter of York and liked seeing the events from Margaret's POV.