Wow—filed under the heading of reporting the bloody
obvious, apparently it’s big news that Richard III, last of the Yorkist kings
of England, “died
brutally during battle.”
Viz.: he sustained 11 wounds from knife, sword and/or
battle axe spike.
We know this because scientists have been examining his
remains in the past couple of years, since they were uncovered in a parking lot
in Leicester.
Hello? Battle fought in 1485? Weapons basically swords,
daggers, battle axes and pikes? And leader of the opposing (losing) army?
Of course Henry
Tudor’s men were going to make sure the man was dead. Everyone would have
wanted to take a hack at him, like Caesar at the Forum.
But, I’ll tell you, what this does is underscore the
description of their loss that the people of York put
on record at the time:
“King Richard, late mercifully reigning over us, was
through great treason…piteously slain and murdered, to the great heaviness of
this city.”
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