King Richard III died at Bosworth

22th August 1485

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           Today, I told myself it wasn't totally bad Queen Anne and her beloved son Edward of Middleham were dead. Indeed, they have not to see Richard III being killed at the Battle of Bosworth against the Army of the House of Lancaster.

           On 22 August 1485, our greatest King Richard III fought against the forces of Henry Tudor with 8.000 soldiers. Even if the Lancastrian heir had 5.000 soldiers, the betrayal of Sir Thomas Stanley helped him. He had under his command 6.000 men. He reported, when the king was surrounded, he cried "Treason!". 

A traitor, that's what you are Sir.

           But Last King Richard III fought bravely and ably during the battle, he unhorsed Sir John Cheyne, a well-known jousting champion, and killed Sir William Brandon.

           

           The Burgundian chronicler Jean Molinet says that a Welshman struck the death-blow with a halberd while Richard's horse was stuck in the marshy ground. It was said that the blows were so violent that the king's helmet was driven into his skull. The contemporary Welsh poet Guto'r Glyn implies the leading Welsh Lancastrian Rhys ap Thomas, or one of his men, killed the king, writing that he "killed the boar, shaved his head".

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