He was the first Tudor monarch, the king who vanquished Richard III at the Battle of Bosworth Field. So when Henry VII died in 1509 after suffering from gout and asthma, he was fittingly buried in ...

Richard was a son of Richard Plantagenet, 3rd Duke of York, and his wife Cicely Neville and was born on 2nd October 1452. His brother Edward IV became King in 1461. On his death Richard was declared ...

The last time Richard III was buried in Leicester, England, he had been taken from a battlefield, slung naked over a horse, stabbed in the buttocks with a dagger and thrown into a shallow grave.

Henry VII - 1485-1509 Henry VIII - 1509-47 Edward VI - 1547-53 Mary I - 1553-58 Elizabeth I - 1558-1603 During the 118 years in which they ruled, huge political, religious, economic and social ...

Henry VII was the only child of Edmund Tudor, Earl of Richmond (son of Henry V's widow Catherine de Valois and Owen Tudor) and his 13-year old wife Lady Margaret Beaufort (who died in the Abbot of ...

NARRATOR: Ah, the Tudors, their awe inspiring name once feared and revered the world over, now the subject of many a primary school history lesson. The Tudor dynasty produced some of the most ...

This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Authentication of the king's bones sets Brits off on a heated discussion of his place in history 365 Bloor Street East ...

Richard, a deformed duke, plans to upturn the peace that has fallen on England, and seize the throne. Wooing the widowed Lady Anne, Richard orchestrates the deaths of numerous lords, including the ...