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Exhumation of Richard III of England

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His body was originally buried in the Church of the Greyfriars but was lost through time.  In 2012, archaeologists rediscovered the body here and it will eventually be reburied in Leicester Cathedral.

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The earliest surviving portrait of Richard (c. 1520, after a lost original), formerly belonging to the Paston family(Society of Antiquaries, London)

Richard III (2 October 1452 – 22 August 1485) was King of England for two years, from 1483 until his death in 1485 in the Battle of Bosworth Field. He was the last king of the House of York and the last of the Plantagenet dynasty. His defeat at Bosworth Field, the decisive battle of the Wars of the Roses, is sometimes regarded as the end of the Middle Ages in England. He is the subject of the play Richard III by William Shakespeare.

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