No horse was going to save him. Read the whole thing, as it’s very interesting, and jibes with what accounts of Bosworth I have read. Of course, it bears pointing out that Richard fought like a mad boar at Bosworth, killing Henry Tudor’s standard bearer and very nearly getting to Henry himself before he was… Read More Richard III was Attacked All At Once, Died Swiftly
A while back, I jumped off an article about one of the world’s remaining functional monarchies, that of Morocco, to an argument that survival was the key to success for a monarch. I used the Capetians as an example. Today I’m going to unsay a little of that, and use as an example a dynasty… Read More Medieval Dynastic Fail: The Normans
We’ve all heard the tune, even sung it absent-mindedly on this, the Feast of Stephen. And many of us have wondered: who in the sam-scratch is King Wenceslaus? There’s no King of England with that name, not even the old Anglo-Saxon kings who didn’t put handy numerals after their name to know which one they… Read More Good King Wenceslaus: The Untold Story
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