Discovering Richard IIISection 1

What’s the connection?

Richard III, King of

England

1483-1485

A car park in

Leicester

Richard III• Richard became king when he took the crown

from his 12 year-old nephew, Edward V.

• Edward V and his brother disappeared. No-one

knows what happened to them.

• Richard was killed at the Battle of Bosworth in

1485, fighting against rebels led by Henry Tudor

(Henry VII)

• Richard was later described as a hunchback who

murdered his way to the throne.

Battle of Bosworth

After his death Richard’s

body was slung across a

horse and taken to

Leicester, the nearest town.

He was buried in the church

of Greyfriars, Leicester.

The church was demolished

in the 1530s during Henry

VIII’s reign.

No stone marked where

Richard was buried.

What’s the connection?

Centuries later the church site became a

car park

So, was Richard buried under this car

park?