Richard III's Death: Betrayal At The Battle Of Bosworth | The Man Who Killed Richard III | Chronicle
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- Опубліковано 29 лип 2021
- King Richard III's death, immortalised by Shakespeare's eponymous play, has been a hotbed of debate over the last few decades. The death at the Battle of Bosworth Field signified the end of the Plantagenets, and signalled the beginning of the reign of the Tudors. However, the cause of his death has been debated by historians for years. With new evidence, this documentary peels back the curtain on Henry's true murderer, and explores the life of the man who ended an entire dynasty.
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Richard III was a okay guy , used to park my car next to him. never had any trouble.
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I laughed harder than I should have.😂
Well... He didn't have the hump for you. Drum 🥁 symbol
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Don’t you mean cart?
I like documentaries done like this one. Because of good narration, interviews, reenactments, clips and graphics, I've been learning about history on UA-cam, more than I ever did in school.
Same. As an American we don’t get to learn about any of this. All we learn is Britain was mean and we revolted - the end.
I absolutely love history but, specifically british
@@Nellsbells79 I had an eight grade history teacher who taught us six weeks of European history, it was the best six weeks o my public school life.
Agreed, I love this stuff
So true
And the time of the wars of the roses was a big mess, even if you have learned about it in school. All these Richards, Johns and Henrys😳 and there are several Elizabeths, too. And people changing sides, and being exiled and coming back...crazy.
Richard III was not known as Richard of York, that was his father who died in the Battle of Wakefield. Richard III was previously Duke of Gloucester.
Also Richard of Shrewsbury, the younger "prince in the Tower" was Richard, duke of York
That's haunting..
Did he not assume the title of Duke of York after his nephew disappeared? I was thinking about this after watching “The Crown”- there was a scene where Prince Andrew made a remark about how former Dukes of York killed the King to replace him….he named Richard III & I thought….but wasn’t he the Duke of Glouster ?
Richard III son of York, Richard of York, Richard of Shrewsbury Duke of York. It is all so very confusing. It's like the only names available back then were Henry, Richard, Edward, Elizabeth, and Margaret. If you've ever had to write a report on the Wars of the Roses, you understand how confusing it gets.
@@juliancain3872 Don't forget Thomas and Mary 😂
I respect reenactors so much. Their passion gives onlookers an idea for what these historical events would’ve looked like to the beet of their knowledge. Its really appreciated 👌
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I cannot imagine how hot that armor must be. I reenacted American Civil War for many years. Wool was hot enough. It provides a reason to fight at first light, or as early as possible.
These were truly Metal Men!
Agreed. Makes it easier to digest the information
@@gabriellesmith5661 to the beetroot of their knowledge, in the olden days people associated beetroots with knowledge, the more beetroots you owned, the more knowledge you had.
An idea. Except for the missing mud, blood, body parts strewn across the field and horses crying upon death. Other than that it’s gives an isea
The focus in history is always on the men. Henry Tudor was no warrior and relied on his henchmen to do his dirty work. His mother Margaret was cunning, clever devious, power hungry manipulative, and I know there is only circumstantial evidence but I believe she orchestrated Richard’s downfall with the aid of Stanley and his private army. She directly benefited from the death of the 2 princes and execution of Richard’s closest advisor, after arranging a whispering campaign to dupe Richard into believing him to be a traitor, despite him being Edward’s most trusted confidante. I also think she waged a propaganda campaign to make people believe Richard was behind the death of the princes. It was no coincidence that she married Stanley, knowing that he would back her son. Had Stanley moved to support Richard, Henry would have been defeated and we would have been spared the ghastly Tudor dynasty which nearly brought the country to its knees, particularly the psycho Henry Viii. I’m very glad that Richard has been given a suitable burial which he deserved. Thank goodness Henry Eighths line died out.
well said
Margaret did ultimately bring about Richard's downfall with her actions. Henry wouldn't have gotten anywhere near the crown without her help.
I can’t even imagine fighting for hours to the death in 60 pounds of armour. Any wrong move, the slightest mistake means death. And even if you have been the better fighter and last to the end you could still lose depending on how well the other men around you fought.
Facts. You're damn right. Imagine the exhaustion and the light headedness of wearing that armor and swinging that weapon around for hours.... You survive it all and slay many enemies, just to get your good arm cut off by someone's lucky swing before he gets his skull caved in anyway by someone else.... Now you have to live the rest of your life that way. How are you gonna farm your fields, ride a horse or defend your family.. etc etc etc..? I think about that stuff too. Brutal existence.
I can do 1 push up
Doubt they fought in contact for that long more like 5-10 minutes then step back to allow next rank in this way they kept up their strength, the change may have occurred several times over an hour.
These people had unimaginable hard lives compared to us they amaze me how tough they was . Richard deserved all he got a child killer Margaret was the most incredible women understand if u ask me . I would rather had a bastard on the throne than a tyrant like him . U had to make sure u was on the right side we should be thankful to wales . But I don’t think Margaret would have been proud how her Grandson turned out the biggest tyrant of them all Henry V111 . But proud of her Grandaughter Elizebeth 1 how history could have been so different if Richard had won the mind boggles great documentary 😊
They trained at such a young age this is one of my favourite period in history so many intelligent strong women through the reign of Plantagenet and Tudors !!!
Rhys ap Thomas' story really highlights how much the "little guys" of history are often forgotten, but *they* are the ones who built our history.
He's my dad. Sad no one talks about him anymore.
They say a man cant fly, a man cannot breath in water...they dont no my dad...
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Absolutely brilliant! I have read all of Philippa Gregory's books (and re-read many times) of the Plantagents and Tudor history and dynasty. This is remarkable information to add to that time in history and further my knowledge. Thank you.
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From what ive heard and read, Richard III seems like one of those rare kings that actually cares about his people and he was badass by charging Henry by himself before falling of his horse and engaging Henrys bodyguards alone. If i remember correctly he killed 1-2 of them before dying.
Despite the scoliosis Richard wasn't going to run away - he fought in what would be considered valiant for a man in his position.
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I never feel like I get a straight scoop on Richard III. Some hate him, some like him, and both claim to have 'facts' that contradict each other. He certainly is polarizing.
He was a man.Doing his best in a pretty crappy time. He wasn't a saint, he did do some nasty things, but no more than people before or after him. It was his times He did, however do good stuff,which is forgotten.He was immensely loyal,which makes me doubt he 'usurped' the throne without good reason.There is No evidence that he killed the kids, or in fact Anyone did. They were more of a threat to Henry 7th than him.After all,he married their sis! If she was legit ,so were they,and his Very tenuous link to the throne was blown straight out of the water.
We will never know,but I think Richard was a good man, who maybe lost it a little after the grief of losing his son and his wife and dealing with the stress of kingship and everyone conspiring against him.
I think he really did believe the kids were illegitimate, which left him the only heir.
If you look at Richard's story everything he did to that point was honourable By their standards Why would he suddenly turn?
This guy, by comparison,sounds like a POS
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@@hogwashmcturnip8930 I would agree, except for the part where he feared for his four year old son being held hostage. That muddles things in two ways, one for the child and the other in that it showed a heart-breaking lack of trust.
In a way, Richard III did it to himself, driving this guy to betrayal with his own paranoia.
@@PtolemyJones Fair comment. I have always thought we have 2 Richards. The loyal brother, who would follow his King to Hell and back if he thought it was right. The man totally wedded to the Throne the Country and his family..
Then when he actually has the throne in his own right he seems to break down. He lost both his son and his wife during this time, so who knows what the Man Richard was going through?
King Richard, as you say ,becomes increasingly paranoid and makes enemies out of friends. It is almost like he was on a self destruct mission.He did not need to charge at Henry like that, for instance; it seems utterly futile, not to say suicidal That is not the Old Richard, the one who led his brother's Vanguard as a teenager,and knew every trick in the warfare book. It makes no sense whatsoever.
Do I think he killed those kids? Most fervently NO. Anyone who has studied Richard as a human being, not a Shakespearian cardboard cut out, would see that he would be incapable of harming a child. What happens in the last few years of his life, I am not so sure.
Rather like Henry VIII goes from Everyone's Bessie Mate to a total tyrant; something seems to have happened to Richard. Or maybe it is just the way the Chroniclers like to write things!
I honestly believe that if he had lived, and been Old Richard, he would have been one of the Best Kings. Instead we got stuck with the Tudors and have been on a downward spiral ever since! Lol Not that we wereon an upward one before.Most Kings are pretty Horrible. Comes with the job. Maybe that is what drove Richard over the Edge. But then again,he was pretty Ruthless to start with. Battle of Tewkesbury? Not running around doling out bread and bandages there,was he?
It's a cliche, but Different Times. Hell ,we hardly understand ourselves and what is happening Now; how can we sit in Judgement on someone from 600 years ago?
@@hogwashmcturnip8930 One thing for certain, people are more complex than can be possible committed to history, and when people with a reason to darken your legacy write the history, it's even worse. I've heard some suggestion the same thing happened to Nero.
There's a great deal of anti-Ricardian propaganda because Henry VII needed to justify his dubious and tyrannical reign. Henry Tudor had no blood right to the throne. His very tenuous assertion to the throne was through his mother, whose family, the Beauforts, were bastard descendants of John of Gaunt and thereby relations to John's son, Henry IV (who usurped the throne, mind). Henry did not want these half-siblings and their descendants to threaten his own son and heirs' claim to the throne, so he allowed for the solemnization of his father's relationship with his mistress, with the proviso that the Beauforts were not in the line of royal succession. Henry Tudor's father wasn't even a Tudor, probably, because that man's mother (Henry V's widow) was known to be close to Edmund Beaufort, Duke of Somerset. Is it more likely that the daughter, wife, and mother of kings would involve herself with the pillar and stalwart of her son's throne or a Welsh groomsman of piddling status? Henry Tudor's father, was named Edmund, too. Was Edmund named for his true father? So, Henry Tudor's parents were both Beauforts (first cousins, in fact) and the Tudor Dynasty was founded on bastardy. Henry's wife was also a bastard, because her parents weren't free to marry: Edward IV was already married when he and Elizabeth Woodville were secretly married, as his former confessor and chancellor testified. Edward IV kept his marriage a secret for four months after the fact, when his councilors were already negotiating for a bride with the French court. Why would Edward keep his marriage a secret unless there was something wrong with it - or unless he was considering disowning the marriage? Henry Tudor destroyed all copies of the Titulus Regius, the parliamentary document detailing the flaw in Edward's proclaimed marriage. A lost copy was found around the turn of the 16th Century. There was no basis for Henry's assuming the throne. Right of conquest was how he justified it. However, if he was able to seize the crown by force, why couldn't someone else do the same? Damning Richard's memory was part of the effort to destroy the truth and solidify the Tudor regime. Those with an actual blood claim to the throne were killed in battle, like John, Earl of Lincoln (Richard's nephew and declared heir); executed in the Tower of London, like Edward, Earl of Warwick, Edmund, Duke of Suffolk, and Sir William de la Pole (all Richard's nephews); or exiled to the continent, like Richard de la Pole (Richard's other nephew). Furthermore, Yorkist females like Margaret, brother of the young Earl of Warwick, and Cecily, sister of Elizabeth of York, were married to low-ranking members of Henry Tudor's family - simultaneously diminishing their standing and enfolding them into the Tudor clan. It was so necessary to demonize Richard III, that the famous portraits of him were actually painted over to give him a non-existent hunchback and facial lines, to make it look like he was a worrywart or some kind of schemer. Edward IV wanted his brother to be the Lord Protector after his, Edward's, death. Edward IV's ambitious in-laws, who had raised Edward's heir, wanted to overthrow this will. Edward's wife allied herself with the enemies of her husband's house in pledging her daughter's hand to Henry Tudor. The Tudor narrative is that Richard usurped the throne and killed his nephews. Richard had been his brother's right hand. He had never shown himself ambitious, divesting himself of rich properties to his brother (George, Duke of Clarence, father of Edward and Margaret above) and refusing a pension from the French king, unlike other members of Edward's court (including the king himself). There is no logic to executing Edward's sons on Richard's part - it would have been viewed as a monstrous act (as was the implication that he had had them executed), and it would have further demonstrated that Richard was so insecure in his claim to the throne, that he needed to eliminate his rivals.
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So is the "diary" voiceover entirely fictitious or based on some source material?
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I heard in a documentary about Margaret Beaufort, that her last husband had powerful armies and was known to be originally a York crown loyalist but showed up "late" to the Battle of Bosworth
Thomas Stanley knew the art of survival. He and his brother were often on 'opposite' sides. But they were always only on the Stanley side. Lord Stanley survived in the reigns of Henry and Margaret, Edwards IV+V, Richard and finally Henry Tudor. His brother kinda got into trouble with the last one. Clearly the wilder younger brother.
Margaret was the mother of Henry Tudor: her third husband was Lord Stanley... Who joined Henry just in the nick of time.
Truish. He was not “late” for the battle. He and his men were there. They stayed where they were and watched the battle unfold. He did not engage his men until Richard personally attacked Henry.
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I think Hastings rather than Bosworth would be the battle most would say was the most famous and known even by
people who hate history!
but Bosworth was fought on the site known which cannot be said for Hastings.
The king cannot have blood on his hands.
Richard had because of killing the two princes, Henry did not because of Sir Rhys
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Imagine claiming Bosworth was the most famous battle in Britain. Hastings and the Battle of Britain are far more notable
Bannockburn!
@@alancoe1002 For Scottish people perhaps, and those interested in history, but the average person has no idea of Bannockburn, or Falkirk, or Louden Hill. If anything Stirling Bridge is the most famous of all the battles in the first war of independence
@@danielmoncaster3216 I see your point, and it's a shame that the battle was shown without even an attempt at authenticity in That Movie.
Agreed Bosworth wasn’t the most famous battle, and I’m from Leicester, and used to live nr king Richards road. In fact I even used the parking lot where they found him.
@@derrickstableford8152 I've only been to Leicester once, back in 1978, and I can remember being where I thought Greyfriars was, and went to Bow Bridge and thought, well, that's where they probably dumped him and who knows how many others. Couldn't believe it when they found him. Same with the battlefield. The Visitors Centre was closed and I was alone on Ambion Hill at sunset. Pretty cool, but now we know that's where he camped, not fought. But, yeah, the average person doesn't know/care about Bosworth.
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The Wars of the roses were between the Yorks and the Lancastrians. ...The “ Tudors only came to be known AFTER the Battle of Bosworth. ..personally I thought the Tudors were the Kardashians of their day. ..Tasteless and common. 🙄
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I would just like to add that according to accounts Henry was further back from the main battle lines with his bodyguard and if Thomas was with Henry which I doubt due to his own men being engaged heavily with the Yorkist infantry and losing , We do know is that Richard rode around the battle lines and hit Henry in the flank at this point Stanley had already reacted and counter charged Richard hitting him in the rear , We know Richard was still mounted and managed to ride away where at some point his horse got bogged down or threw him.
It was more likely a common soldier that killed Richard three of the mortal wounds have been identified as two Daggers and a Bill and daggers were used normally when your foe is on the ground like can openers the bill would explain the head wound.
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This is nothing new is it? If someone wanted power they just found a way to take it. Power corrupts absolutely.
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I personally consider the most important battle of all England was the battle of Hastings in 1066. This battle was important yes, but most important? Not in comparison, no.
You have a point but still this was the battle that pinched out the plantagenet line. Though there was still some plantagenet blood that passed to Henry 8, Richard 3 screwed up the family line by killing his own nephews.
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The resentment of the english people towards their English lords was just as bad as any animosity the welsh might have felt towards them.
Exactly the Welsh got nothing from the Tudors only more stepping on.
gloria commenting;..'most faithful subject and servant.." If Richared were certain of the man's loyalty, he would not ask for the son as hostage. BUT the man was Lancastrian was he not???
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This is an excellent doc, & is that writer/narrator Tony Walker reading Rhys ap Thomas's lines??? The credits aren't legible on this video. I'm a fan of Tony's & it sounds so much like him.
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I just stumbled upon this documentary and I found it fascinating yet my opinion of Rhys ap Thomas is the same as it's always been that he put himself over his word and oath.
You mean he put his life and his family’s life over his oath
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I know that King Richard III was not a nice person but did derserve to get treated like this.
Actually Richard was a very nice person. Read something about his years as Governor of the North. He was loved and respected because he cared about all people not only the rich and powerful ones. He made some very progressive law changes and cancelled taxis on everything regarding printing and reading. Due to taxation he also supported/protected domestic trade. Records of his only Parliament were written in English (for the very first time in history) so everyone knows what the guys up there are doing. His passion for justice (see above) caused him his life at Bosworth.
Richard was inlove with chivalry and took idea seriously, why would he risk his own belief.
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It was bound to happen after the battle his brother fought to acquire the crown. It is not as though they got their hands on the crown through detente or diplomacy because greed and avarice were involved, not to mention psychopathy.
Lancastrians did the same though, plus Tudor’s claim was really dubious, like he was a descendant of bastard lancastrians that couldn’t even legally hold the throne. Really Edward III fault for being a good dad and loving his sons, giving them a bunch of lands and making them powerful dukes
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At around 22:00 the narrator started naming things in Welsh and I really thought for a second that she had sneezed. Welsh is so interesting but I don’t think my mouth can make those sounds
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It seems harsh to call Rhys a 'turncoat who knew which side his bread was buttered' when he acted as he did only after Richard III demanded his son as a hostage.