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To: ops33

Richard died in battle - the last English king to die in battle. He was killed by the soldiers of the usurper king, Henry VII (who did not fight - just hid behind his soldiers). When this kind of death took place, the body was put on display for several days to ensure the population knew that the king was dead. Richard, in very unusual fashion, was mutilated after death, displayed, and then thrown into a hastily-created ditch within a friary. We don’t know whether he had a Christian burial.


23 posted on 09/04/2013 9:54:32 AM PDT by miss marmelstein ( Richard Lives Yet!)
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To: miss marmelstein

Thanks, but I was wondering how his remains were reburied.


26 posted on 09/04/2013 10:16:00 AM PDT by ops33 (Senior Master Sergeant, USAF (Retired))
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