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Just want to commend the whole team for putting together one of the hands down, most excellent military history channels on any platform. Your passion for telling great, historically accurate stories really is evident, and I'll happily recommend this channel to anyone who is looking for great historical content. You guys/gals are doing truly great work! And for that, I thank you!
I enjoyed your video, in particular the battle reconstruction with the movements of the protagonists. As I am from Germany, the video was overlayed by a very obviously AI generated voice, unfortunately showing most of the current weaknesses of this technology. Among other shortcomings (not too severe, though), it butchered the pronounciation of the name ‚Plantagenet‘. At this point of time, I rather not have any AI voiceovers. It‘s more of a nuisance than a help or pleasure, it‘s noticable artificial and that diminishes the video from minute 1 onwards.
Popular joke at the time he was found: The next time you find yourself getting angry because you’re stuck in traffic, just remember. It took Richard III 500 years to get out of the car park!
If you're ever in Leicester take the time to visit the museum dedicated to the finding of his grave and the associated history. It's very much worth a visit. Very informative.
As he spent much of his life in Yorkshire, I always thought it would have been more fitting for Richard III to have been buried in the magnificent York Minster instead of an obscure cathedral a hundred miles away.
Well, when your chief patron is a descendant of Henry Tudor and a rather vindictive, ruthless Queen at that, you make damn well sure to portray Richard Plantagenent as a retched, deceitful bastard as much as possible. Even going so far to give Richard a hunchback, which he never had. This was done to make Richard more of a black-hearted villain. Back in those times, having a Hunchback and a Gammy Arm ment that you were marked by "The Evil One." In the end, William Shakespeare obviously liked his head where it was. On his shoulders and not on the pointy end of a Pike.😊
The history we have been taught all these years is from Henry Tudor 's point of view , so he would want Richard to look as a tyrant as they say history is written by the victors
Yep, Richard III, along with AH. Seen a recent documentary on the US President Abraham Lincoln: a deified individual who was a horrendous totalitarian leader.
Superb video! I like how this video had both military history and mystery (just like a true crime show/documentary about how a victim died). I did not know much about King Richard and learned more from this video. Kudos to the Battle Guide team! 😊 Have a nice day!
@@vicitoedemane1244 Yeah, well unless you, Mr. Know-it-all, have an accredited PhD in English Car Parks, I don't consider you as a car park expert qualified enough to make such a blanket assertion/assumption.
@@kevster2171don't think i don't see what you're doing here -- you're trying to entrap me with a straw man argument. I'm not falling for you dirty tricks.
I've always wondered how some buildings managed to be intact how they were when it was first built and how others got leveled and rebuilt to "current" styling and architecture throughout history. Thank you patreon supporters for making these incredible stories come to life, and to the battle guide team: keep up the phenomenal presentations with incredible graphics and overlay of the maps and terrain; absolutely love seeing the event maps overlaid the current landscape
My ex wife used to park on the car park spot where they found him when she used to go to Social Services with her son who has Cerebral Palsy. When they discovered Richard’s remains she was amazed.
Really enjoyed your video! However, I thought it is not entirely certain that Richard III murdered his nephews, the Princes in the Tower, and that some have suggested that he may have held them captive without killing them and that it is more likely that Henry VII Tudor had them killed as they posed a threat to his new Tudor dynasty?
The Tower of London has a long article about the Princes in the Tower on their website, including a list of prime suspects. Yes, Richard III is on it, but so are Henry VII and his mother, Margaret Beaufort
I really enjoyed the program where they found a man who had a similar deformity and had him set up with armor and tested out if such a person would be effective in a battle. Thanks for bringing up this detail on the actual battle. Charles
When I visited England a few years ago I visited Richard111 tomb. It was so moving, made me cry. I was always an admirer of his because he was well beloved in the north and was a wise lawmaker.
What a fantastically interesting video! Of course, all of us history nerds watched the dig and resulting findings over the years until the truth of the skeleton was revealed but to see the battle and the fall of Richard like this was thrilling. Thanks so much.
There's compelling entrance that his 2 nephews where not murdered in the tower but survived and tried to retake the thrown when they were old enough,there's a great doc. on channel 4
1:26 I think this is the first time I have ever heard a UK English speaker say skeletal and I was not prepared for the hard 'e' pronunciation. It makes it sound so.. whimsical 😂
I don't think the intelligence of the Stanley's is given enough praise. That move from the Stanley's is probably one of the most clever moves in Battle I've ever seen. They see that Richard is about to win, so you'd think they'd join on his side. But instead they save Henry's life, slay Richard, making Henry King and now they can ask for whatever they want. Whereas Richard would probably resent their late opportunist based arrival and what can they gain from it very little.
@boots869 didn't usurp anything the crown wasn't his to promise that's norman propaganda not how English kingship works. The English king was decided by the witan not the sitting king. Do some research cheers.
From Eupedia :On 12 September 2012, archeologists from the University of Leicester announced that they had discovered what they believed were the remains of King Richard III of England (1452-1485) within the former Greyfriars Friary Church in the city of Leicester (see Exhumation of Richard III). The skeleton's DNA matched exactly the mitochondiral haplogroup (J1c2c) of modern matrilineal descendants of Anne of York, Richard's elder sister, confirming the identity of the medieval king. Further tests published in December 2014 revealed that his Y-chromosomal haplogroup was G2 (not tested for downstream mutations, but statistically very likely to be G2a3 as a northern European). This however did not match the Y-DNA of three modern relatives (who were all R1b-U152 xL2) descended from Edward III, Richard III's great-great-grand-father. Richard descends from the House of York, while the modern relatives descend from the House of Lancaster via John of Gaunt. Therefore it cannot be determined at present when the non-paternity event occured in the Plantagenet lineage, and whether most of the Plantagenets monarchs belonged to haplogroup G2 or R1b-U152. Both haplogroups are considerably more common in France than in Britain, however, which is consistent with the French roots of the House of Plantagenets.
One cannot help but feel that either the most incredible instance of pure chance in history occurred the day they dug that hole, or God wanted Richard to have a more appropriate resting place. Even if that Catholic king was forced in the end to reside in a proteatant cathedral, One that had long been deaecrated to Catholicism. The church didn't even put up a fight on that matter. How could thwy o suppose. When you know the answer is going to be no, it's best not to ask.
Absolutely adore your content - but the use of AI art within a product as professional as the channel regularly puts out... it's a bit meh. AI art is notorious for getting details not just wrong, but often entirely misrepresenting the subject matter it's attempting to recreate. Ultimately it ends up polluting actual sources and historical reference imagery that exists (I do a lot of visual referencing for work and search engines are a cesspit of AI falsehood at present) Please reconsider the use AI imagery - or do try run a sanity pass with an artist/historian to check that things line up (i cursory issues - The flags in the image are incorrect and no one has a face, the Bow Bridge image is attempting to recreate a far later Georgian/Victorian illustration. The cavalry charge image - medieval fantasy) Regardless of this though, awesome stuff as always and thanks for the thoroughly enjoyable video.
Imagine getting your ass beat so bad you die in battle and hundreds of years later thousands of people spend 20 minutes eating snacks while they listen to all the details of your gruesome death 😂
And destined to be forever immortalised in cockney slang as a Richard, Richard the Third: Turd. Douglas Hurd came and went, that pathetic excuse Charles the Third has come and will go too, true relief will always be the dumping of a damn' good Richard !!!
One of my great grandmother's was kidnapped by Abenaki Indians. She was sold to the French in Quebec. One of her grandfather's killed that king, Sir Rhys ap Thomas.
The roundel dagger cranial injury is I believe incorrect. The evidence shows that he was killed minus his helmet the squarish puncture on the skull is attributed to a roundel dagger. The point at the back of a halberd is also square I propose that this part of the halberd was used to strike Richards helmet with enough force to piece the helmet and cranium forcing the helmet to be removed either by the direct force or removal by the wearer.
0:30 😮 omg the scoliosis is shocking The angle at l1 must have been causing herniated discs and impinged nerves surely 😢 if that’s moderate I’d hate to see severe
That Richard III had his nephews done away with has never been proven. An excellent piece of work, however. Richard III, of course, should have found his final resting place in York Minster and not in some obscure cathedral.
It's always interesting to me that we can go from battles in the Roman Republic times of battles being over 100k men to the medieval period where they don't even come close in most cases.
The reason why there is a Shakespeare of the north in Prescot and my local Council has as their emblom the eagle and chlld is that the lord Derby, and that Shakespeare was a ‘friend’ of the Stanley family,look it up, why turned against his family
Didn’t know in modern face restructure they could tell he had a squint in right eye ??? Thats taking it a bit far ! Good book to read re Richard Is ( The Daughter of Time ) by Josephine Tey ! A different take on the life and times of those around who lived at that time
This is the king who murdered his newfews to be king then gets a kings burial hundreds of years later how disgusting. Also im confused about how people felt wronged about Henery 7 and 8 being King i get there bloodline link was weak but as i understand fighting and killing a king on the battlefield in that time was a legitimate way to become king so whats the issue ?
He must have been poor as a king, Henry's claim to the thrown was week and yet he had significant support, that's telling I think. Henry would probably have not made such an attempt had Edward iv lived longer.
Actually, je was very popular where he was well-known, which was mostly in the north where he had been basically running for his brother Edward IV before his own very short reign. Good governance doesn't count for much among grey ariszocrats, though.
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Just want to commend the whole team for putting together one of the hands down, most excellent military history channels on any platform. Your passion for telling great, historically accurate stories really is evident, and I'll happily recommend this channel to anyone who is looking for great historical content. You guys/gals are doing truly great work! And for that, I thank you!
I enjoyed your video, in particular the battle reconstruction with the movements of the protagonists. As I am from Germany, the video was overlayed by a very obviously AI generated voice, unfortunately showing most of the current weaknesses of this technology. Among other shortcomings (not too severe, though), it butchered the pronounciation of the name ‚Plantagenet‘. At this point of time, I rather not have any AI voiceovers. It‘s more of a nuisance than a help or pleasure, it‘s noticable artificial and that diminishes the video from minute 1 onwards.
I told it to my professor in 2011, that he is under the car park 😄
He was a hunchback! That's how people saw him then. Scoliosis wasn't a term widely known. His hands were indeed 'dainty.' too.
Excellent work. Thank you.
Popular joke at the time he was found:
The next time you find yourself getting angry because you’re stuck in traffic, just remember. It took Richard III 500 years to get out of the car park!
If you're ever in Leicester take the time to visit the museum dedicated to the finding of his grave and the associated history. It's very much worth a visit. Very informative.
if you ever visit...try to find a guide cause its a foreign land
I was there in November it really is worth a visit, then go to the cathedral and see his tomb.
As he spent much of his life in Yorkshire, I always thought it would have been more fitting for Richard III to have been buried in the magnificent York Minster instead of an obscure cathedral a hundred miles away.
Interesting fact. Richard's coffin was made by Michael Ibsen, one of the descendants of his family line used to confirm the body was Richard's.
Relying on Shakespeare as a source is like relying on GRRM for a history of Europe during the Middle Ages.
Well, when your chief patron is a descendant of Henry Tudor and a rather vindictive, ruthless Queen at that, you make damn well sure to portray Richard Plantagenent as a retched, deceitful bastard as much as possible. Even going so far to give Richard a hunchback, which he never had. This was done to make Richard more of a black-hearted villain. Back in those times, having a Hunchback and a Gammy Arm ment that you were marked by "The Evil One."
In the end, William Shakespeare obviously liked his head where it was. On his shoulders and not on the pointy end of a Pike.😊
Still, the bard of Avon is still probably more reliable than the BBCtoday.
Excellent video sir
Many thanks
The history we have been taught all these years is from Henry Tudor 's point of view , so he would want Richard to look as a tyrant as they say history is written by the victors
Yep, Richard III, along with AH. Seen a recent documentary on the US President Abraham Lincoln: a deified individual who was a horrendous totalitarian leader.
That was fantastic, I'm so impressed at the depth of information. I've learnt a lot. Thank you.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Superb video! I like how this video had both military history and mystery (just like a true crime show/documentary about how a victim died). I did not know much about King Richard and learned more from this video. Kudos to the Battle Guide team! 😊 Have a nice day!
Crazy how bones can be preserved for almost 600 years under a car park!
Well it wasnt a car park for most of this time tho :D
@@vicitoedemane1244 Yeah, well unless you, Mr. Know-it-all, have an accredited PhD in English Car Parks, I don't consider you as a car park expert qualified enough to make such a blanket assertion/assumption.
@@leszekwolkowski9856so you are arguing there were carparks before 1755? Interesting, please explain your logic
@@kevster2171don't think i don't see what you're doing here -- you're trying to entrap me with a straw man argument. I'm not falling for you dirty tricks.
PHYSICS AND CHEMISTRY.
Out of all the history channels I watch, you guys are by far my most sincerely favorite.
No music is a plus
Awesome video guys, well done!
Glad you enjoyed it!
IMO - the actual battle site needs a couple monuments.
I've always wondered how some buildings managed to be intact how they were when it was first built and how others got leveled and rebuilt to "current" styling and architecture throughout history.
Thank you patreon supporters for making these incredible stories come to life, and to the battle guide team: keep up the phenomenal presentations with incredible graphics and overlay of the maps and terrain; absolutely love seeing the event maps overlaid the current landscape
What are you talking about?
Your comment makes absolutely no sense at all.
My ex wife used to park on the car park spot where they found him when she used to go to Social Services with her son who has Cerebral Palsy.
When they discovered Richard’s remains she was amazed.
Fantastic! Wonderful job.
Really enjoyed your video! However, I thought it is not entirely certain that Richard III murdered his nephews, the Princes in the Tower, and that some have suggested that he may have held them captive without killing them and that it is more likely that Henry VII Tudor had them killed as they posed a threat to his new Tudor dynasty?
😂😂😂 stop embarrassing yourself he killed his nephews and took the throne... he done it for the exact same reason you're trying to say henry did
The Tower of London has a long article about the Princes in the Tower on their website, including a list of prime suspects. Yes, Richard III is on it, but so are Henry VII and his mother, Margaret Beaufort
@@S.D._Amersfoort that's history for ya
@@blazet300 🤐
And there is a theory they were helped to escape
Thanks
Interesting! Thank you.
Goosebumps. Now find Alfred.
And Henry I!
Awesome story!!
Hello from Las Vegas Nevada 🇺🇸🫡
Thanks for watching!
Yet again another exceptional video..
I wish you’d have been my history teacher I’d have learnt way more than I actually did😳🤣
Wow, thank you!
Me encanta q hayan empezado a doblar sus videos al español.
Very interesting & quite informative; cheers to everyone involved in this fantastic video!🥂😃🇺🇸
Glad you enjoyed it
Wow, I grew up really close to mill bay and was unaware of its historical significance. Amazing video.
Great video very interesting thanks
Thanks Dan!
Can’t believe how many subs compared to quality of video, fair play !
Great video! I would have liked to see Richard buried in York Minster as he wished, with his wife, and indeed paid for.
Fascinating stuff ,i enjoyed this very much .Well done 😊 subscribed
Welcome aboard!
"Moderate scolicios" are you joking here?
His spine was like a U bend!
I was about to say if that’s moderate then severe must be insane
His vertebra in life may not have been as severely twisted as the reconstruction of its parts presented it in death.
I really enjoyed the program where they found a man who had a similar deformity and had him set up with armor and tested out if such a person would be effective in a battle. Thanks for bringing up this detail on the actual battle. Charles
Can you do a video on the Isle of Man as it has a rich history and you mentioned lord stanley whose family has a history there
When I visited England a few years ago I visited Richard111 tomb. It was so moving, made me cry. I was always an admirer of his because he was well beloved in the north and was a wise lawmaker.
What a fantastically interesting video! Of course, all of us history nerds watched the dig and resulting findings over the years until the truth of the skeleton was revealed but to see the battle and the fall of Richard like this was thrilling. Thanks so much.
There's compelling entrance that his 2 nephews where not murdered in the tower but survived and tried to retake the thrown when they were old enough,there's a great doc. on channel 4
Was Richard actually as bad as we have been told to believe? Did Richard have any kind of vision for the future of England other than his dynasty?
I think having your nephews killed that was your duty to protect, and taking the throne, counts as being a bad guy.
No because they ended up with the psychotic tuders
@@jamesmacpherson1182 That only means he is in “good”:company.
Don't think so, York vs Lancaster was pretty full on🤔
All this is because someone didn't sort out the drainage in the lower field...
He wants to be near his car! I have heard some stupid questions but that was top shelf!
Great video. I have subbed.
Thank you
Didn't they find Richard's remains under a parking space marked with an "R" for 'Reserved'?😏
May I have some more please?
Oh Oliver....., really......
@@ridgerunner5772 Caught me.
1:26
I think this is the first time I have ever heard a UK English speaker say skeletal and I was not prepared for the hard 'e' pronunciation.
It makes it sound so.. whimsical 😂
Oh so good👍👍
Thank you 😋
To quote The Immortal Bard: " Just some dude + a fancy hat + multiple stab wounds = just some dude."
I don't think the intelligence of the Stanley's is given enough praise. That move from the Stanley's is probably one of the most clever moves in Battle I've ever seen. They see that Richard is about to win, so you'd think they'd join on his side. But instead they save Henry's life, slay Richard, making Henry King and now they can ask for whatever they want. Whereas Richard would probably resent their late opportunist based arrival and what can they gain from it very little.
a cowardly act of betrayal... nothing more
Excellent video!
Thank you very much!
@boots869 didn't usurp anything the crown wasn't his to promise that's norman propaganda not how English kingship works. The English king was decided by the witan not the sitting king. Do some research cheers.
Great!
Well done, a great video. Any idea why the OS maps still show the original site people thought the battle was fought on?
God Bless Harold Godwinson the other English king that died in battle.
The narrator must be biased towards Norman blooded Kings.
Well, he tried to usurp the crown Edward had promised to William
. Big mistake!
No surprise he was buried in a parking lot. The Greyfriers need somewhere to park.
Very good!
So its not a mugging victim from
Watford !!!! R.
Still amazed they actually found him.
As a non doctor that doesn’t look like a slight curve of the spine to me I’m pretty sure you ain’t hiding that
Richard could've won if Stanley had not joined Henry.
Honestly if he had not gone after Henry's retinue would probably have still won
@glenchapman3899 Perhaps he thought he might as well risk it. Didn't he do something similar at Barnet?
From Eupedia :On 12 September 2012, archeologists from the University of Leicester announced that they had discovered what they believed were the remains of King Richard III of England (1452-1485) within the former Greyfriars Friary Church in the city of Leicester (see Exhumation of Richard III). The skeleton's DNA matched exactly the mitochondiral haplogroup (J1c2c) of modern matrilineal descendants of Anne of York, Richard's elder sister, confirming the identity of the medieval king. Further tests published in December 2014 revealed that his Y-chromosomal haplogroup was G2 (not tested for downstream mutations, but statistically very likely to be G2a3 as a northern European). This however did not match the Y-DNA of three modern relatives (who were all R1b-U152 xL2) descended from Edward III, Richard III's great-great-grand-father. Richard descends from the House of York, while the modern relatives descend from the House of Lancaster via John of Gaunt. Therefore it cannot be determined at present when the non-paternity event occured in the Plantagenet lineage, and whether most of the Plantagenets monarchs belonged to haplogroup G2 or R1b-U152. Both haplogroups are considerably more common in France than in Britain, however, which is consistent with the French roots of the House of Plantagenets.
One cannot help but feel that either the most incredible instance of pure chance in history occurred the day they dug that hole, or God wanted Richard to have a more appropriate resting place. Even if that Catholic king was forced in the end to reside in a proteatant cathedral, One that had long been deaecrated to Catholicism.
The church didn't even put up a fight on that matter. How could thwy o suppose. When you know the answer is going to be no, it's best not to ask.
Absolutely adore your content - but the use of AI art within a product as professional as the channel regularly puts out... it's a bit meh. AI art is notorious for getting details not just wrong, but often entirely misrepresenting the subject matter it's attempting to recreate. Ultimately it ends up polluting actual sources and historical reference imagery that exists (I do a lot of visual referencing for work and search engines are a cesspit of AI falsehood at present)
Please reconsider the use AI imagery - or do try run a sanity pass with an artist/historian to check that things line up (i cursory issues - The flags in the image are incorrect and no one has a face, the Bow Bridge image is attempting to recreate a far later Georgian/Victorian illustration. The cavalry charge image - medieval fantasy)
Regardless of this though, awesome stuff as always and thanks for the thoroughly enjoyable video.
TY 🙏🙏
Not a single mention to Philippa Langley, why?
Mentioned in the show notes.
I was sooooo lucky to discover that my 18th gt uncle was Sir Rhys ap Thomas 😮😊
Imagine getting your ass beat so bad you die in battle and hundreds of years later thousands of people spend 20 minutes eating snacks while they listen to all the details of your gruesome death 😂
It's not good, but still better than being remembered for dying a coward.
Mystery solved. Who’d a thought?
Had he not been a king and just a peasant he'd of been dug up, studied, and put on display without any burial or ceremony...
And destined to be forever immortalised in cockney slang as a Richard, Richard the Third: Turd. Douglas Hurd came and went, that pathetic excuse Charles the Third has come and will go too, true relief will always be the dumping of a damn' good Richard !!!
One of my great grandmother's was kidnapped by Abenaki Indians. She was sold to the French in Quebec. One of her grandfather's killed that king, Sir Rhys ap Thomas.
Can you imagine realizing you parked your car over a King? 🤯
Uma das descobertas mais importantes para a Inglaterra, não para o mundo
The roundel dagger cranial injury is I believe incorrect. The evidence shows that he was killed minus his helmet the squarish puncture on the skull is attributed to a roundel dagger. The point at the back of a halberd is also square I propose that this part of the halberd was used to strike Richards helmet with enough force to piece the helmet and cranium forcing the helmet to be removed either by the direct force or removal by the wearer.
18:41 worth noting that the research was largely done by a lay fan of Richard, not the university originally.
0:30 😮 omg the scoliosis is shocking
The angle at l1 must have been causing herniated discs and impinged nerves surely 😢 if that’s moderate I’d hate to see severe
It looks painful, doesn't it? Poor guy.
The Tooter's really had problems with gas!
The king was soo stinky!
Lol! The War of the Roses was the distant inspiration for GOT!
Brave man.
No mention of Philippa Langley. The amateur historian who led the discovery of King Richard III's remains in 2012.
The Battle of Bosworth Car-park.
That Richard III had his nephews done away with has never been proven. An excellent piece of work, however. Richard III, of course, should have found his final resting place in York Minster and not in some obscure cathedral.
How did the burial place of a king get forgotten?
It's always interesting to me that we can go from battles in the Roman Republic times of battles being over 100k men to the medieval period where they don't even come close in most cases.
"Never trust a Stanley".
Wahnsinn, eine Indiana Jones Story in real life
The Stanley’s betrayed Him!
hmm, MAYBE if more English kings died in battle- there would not be SO MANY BATTLES??? where have all the flowers gone?
LEICHTE Skoliose? Die endet per Definition bei 20° Wirbelsäulenneigung. Da liegt er aber deutlich drüber...
No, we said moderate 👍
SMH!!!!! Funeral service fit for a king? The bastard killed his own brothers' children. He's no king.
The reason why there is a Shakespeare of the north in Prescot and my local Council has as their emblom the eagle and chlld is that the lord Derby, and that Shakespeare was a ‘friend’ of the Stanley family,look it up, why turned against his family
His remains should be re- interred in York, and not kept by the bodysnatchers of Leicester.
Our kraut royal family didn’t even show up to his funeral,
Geezer got stabbed in the face.
More than once.
I'm sure that's Rachel Reeves 😅
Didn’t know in modern face restructure they could tell he had a squint in right eye ??? Thats taking it a bit far !
Good book to read re Richard Is
( The Daughter of Time ) by Josephine Tey ! A different take on the life and times of those around who lived at that time
This is the king who murdered his newfews to be king then gets a kings burial hundreds of years later how disgusting. Also im confused about how people felt wronged about Henery 7 and 8 being King i get there bloodline link was weak but as i understand fighting and killing a king on the battlefield in that time was a legitimate way to become king so whats the issue ?
Richard was abused by Tudor propaganda.
The entire working class of this planet has been abused by the British monarchy.
Trying to delineate the Royal family tree must be rather confusing with all the inbreeding and inter-marriages. It must be more of a family wreath?
its messy thats for sure!
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Trop de pub
I do not believe that 5'6" was below average height for the time. I would say it was above average, given the peasant diet and lifestyle.
5'7" was the average for this time period. Until about the late 1700's, where it grew to its current average of 5'9"
He must have been poor as a king, Henry's claim to the thrown was week and yet he had significant support, that's telling I think. Henry would probably have not made such an attempt had Edward iv lived longer.
Actually, je was very popular where he was well-known, which was mostly in the north where he had been basically running for his brother Edward IV before his own very short reign. Good governance doesn't count for much among grey ariszocrats, though.
I guess being a nephew-murdering usurper didn’t turn out well for him in the end \_(ツ)_/¯