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Sep 11, 2026
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who brought it to Lord Stanley, and Lord Stanley placed it on the Earl of Richmond's head, while his men everywhere cries the cry, King Henry! King Henry! And the victor at once, exercising royal rights, knighted upon the field eleven of his most valiant followers, among whom were Gilbert Talbot and Rhys App Thomas.
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End of chapter 2 CHAPTER III SETTLEMENT IN THE KINGDOM The crowning of Henry upon Bosworth Field, although in itself but a piece of show,
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was the expression of a fact which could no longer be contested.
speaker_3NARRATOR
England lay at Henry's feet.
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Two great rebellions during his reign were crushed upon a Saturday.
speaker_3NARRATOR
The one at the Battle of Stoke, fought on the 16th of June, 1487.
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The other at the Battle of Blackheath, on the 17th of June, 1497. and Andre only began to write his history three years after the latter event, so that it is clear he was thinking of more recent occurrences when he told his reader that the victory of Bosworth Field was gained on a Saturday.
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But he is right, doubtless, that Henry's entry into London was on that day of the week, when, as he informs us, he himself was present, and sung a Latin ode of his own composition to greet the conqueror.
Kara ShallenbergNARRATOR
Noble after noble deserted Richard and joined the Red Rose party.
Kara ShallenbergNARRATOR
In 1485 AD, a great battle was fought called the Battle of Bosworth Field.
Kara ShallenbergNARRATOR
This was the last of the Wars of the Roses, and in it King Richard was killed.
Kara ShallenbergNARRATOR
He fought well, for although he was small and deformed, he could fight.
Jim MowatNARRATOR
For Henry VII., though a Plantagenet on his mother's side, was a Tudor on his father's side, and it was from his family that Henry took his name.
Jim MowatNARRATOR
The Tudors were Welsh, and claimed to be descended from the ancient British princes, who, you remember, were driven into Wales when the Saxons took possession of England.
Jim MowatNARRATOR
The Battle of Bosworth Field was the last of the Wars of the Roses.
Jim MowatNARRATOR
Henry Tudor, who was the Red Rose Prince, married Elizabeth, the daughter of Edward IV., and sister of the little princes who were murdered in the Tower.
Alex ShawHOST
Unlike, say, King Lear or Mc...
Alex ShawHOST
Ah! that Scotsman, Richard III really did exist, lost the Battle of Bosworth Field to Henry Tudor, Henry VII, whose son was Henry VIII, whose daughter was Queen Elizabeth I.
Alex ShawHOST
I noted during the opening montage that it goes back and forth between looking like footage from the news of riots, but also when it's introducing the parents in particular, it looks like Miami Vice or NYPD Blue or some other crime-related show you'd see on TV rather than in the cinema.
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Matt LewisGUEST
Bosworth Field or Stoke Field.
Matt LewisGUEST
The field bit really means battle.
Matt LewisGUEST
That's how medieval people referred to a battle.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
This LibriVox recording is in the public domain, read by Pamela Nagami.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
Chapter two, Henry of Richmond, Bosworth Field, The Coronation, The Sweating Sickness, 1485-1486, part one.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
It is desirable first to sketch the early life and the accession of the sovereign who was in so many ways to influence the history of England.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
Henry of Richmond could claim a twofold royal or quasi-royal descent.
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Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
At Stafford he heard that Stanley could not immediately join him without sacrificing the life of his son Lord Strange whom Richard had seized as a hostage but going almost alone in advance of his army to his camp at Atherstone he received from him the most encouraging promises of support.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
At almost the same moment he was joined by Sir Walter Hungerford and Sir Thomas Boursha, two of Richard's trusted officers with a body of choice troops.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
From Atherstone he turned eastward to meet Richard who was encamped between Hinckley and Market Bosworth.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
Even with the reinforcements just acquired he had scarcely five thousand men, barely half the number of Richard's forces, so that his chance of victory was small unless more leaders deserted to him in the battle.
KatHOST
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Matt LewisGUEST
Um, I think there, there is a big what if here, because we get, particularly in the Crowland Chronicler, who, who writes in kinda 1486, so with a, a healthy dose of hindsight after the Battle of Bosworth.
Matt LewisGUEST
But he talks about the three brothers York, and particularly when he talks about their very intense arguing at the start of the 1470s, um, which is only one of the incidents of them falling out and arguing with each other.
Matt LewisGUEST
But he talks about how, this is George and Richard arguing over the Warwick inheritance, essentially, with Edward as the adjudicator.
Marianne SpiegelNARRATOR
Bedsteads and other articles of furniture, too, were built in those days rather than made, for they were not expected to be moved about, and a heavy oak bedstead is still in existence which is said to have belonged to King Richard III.
Marianne SpiegelNARRATOR
It is curiously carved, and the king rested upon it the night before the Battle of Bosworth Field, where he was killed.
Marianne SpiegelNARRATOR
Clumsy as the bedstead was, he took it about with him from place to place, but after the fatal battle, it passed into the hands of various owners, and nothing remarkable was discovered about it until the king had been dead 100 years.
Marianne SpiegelNARRATOR
By that time, the bedstead had come into the possession of a woman who had found a fortune in it.
Alec MarshHOST
Hello and welcome to the Ricardian podcast, where this time we're casting the spotlight over the place of Richard III today.
Alec MarshHOST
Close on 540 years since his death, the Battle of Bosworth in August 1485.
Alec MarshHOST
What is his standing and what is his reputation today? A hundred years ago, back when Liverpool-based surgeon Samuel Saxon Barton founded the organisation that would become the Richard III Society to promote the reassessment of the last Plantagenet king, Richard was largely seen in the mould of Shakespeare's villain.
Alec MarshHOST
In other words, he was a hunchbacked baddie who murdered his way to the throne, knocking off, among others, his brother Clarence, his wife Anne, his nephews Edward V and Richard's Duke of War along the way.
Matt LewisGUEST
Everything happened to him and he was a very innocent, almost bystander carried along by all these things, the white knight kind of romantic hero.
Matt LewisGUEST
I don't think that version of Richard stacks up.
Matt LewisGUEST
There are equally people on the other extreme in the other trenches who are, you know, I literally, so History Hit posted Richard III documentary that I did for Bosworth.
Matt LewisGUEST
And there were literally people commenting on there saying he got what he deserved.
Kara ShallenbergNARRATOR
Noble after noble deserted Richard and joined the Red Rose party.
Kara ShallenbergNARRATOR
In 1485 AD, a great battle was fought, called the Battle of Bosworth Field.
Kara ShallenbergNARRATOR
This was the last of the Wars of the Roses, and in it King Richard was killed.
Kara ShallenbergNARRATOR
He fought well, for although he was small and deformed, he could fight.
Jim MowatNARRATOR
For Henry the Seventh, though a Plantagenet on his mother's side, was a Tudor on his father's side, and it was from his family that Henry took his name.
Jim MowatNARRATOR
The Tudors were Welsh, and claimed to be descended from the ancient British princes, who, you remember, were driven into Wales when the Saxons took possession of England.
Jim MowatNARRATOR
The Battle of Bosworth Field was the last of the Wars of the Roses.
Jim MowatNARRATOR
Henry Tudor, who was the Red Rose Prince, married Elizabeth, the daughter of Edward the Fourth, and sister of the little princes who were murdered in the Tower.
Clive CatterallNARRATOR
"'What think you, gentlemen?' he added, with a bitter smile.
Clive CatterallNARRATOR
"'I have heard news from London this morning that my uncle has clapped two hundred merchants and others who are suspected of being true to their creed into the Tower and the Fleet.' you will have one half of the nation mounting guard over the other half ere long or the whole your majesty mounting guard over him suggested wade he may himself see the traitor's gait some of these mornings ha ha think ye so think ye so cried monmouth rubbing his hands and brightening into a smile well mayhap you have nicked the truth who knows Henry's cause seemed a losing one until Bosworth Field settled the contention.
Clive CatterallNARRATOR
To your charges, gentlemen.
Clive CatterallNARRATOR
We shall march in half an hour.
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