Battle of Bosworth Field
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Oct 28, 2026
LizHOST
It's generally assumed their uncle had them killed so he can take the throne for himself.
LizHOST
Then it became a moot point because Richard III dies in Bosworth Field, and the next king is Henry Tudor.
LizHOST
Where Warbeck and Simnel come into the story is that the now King Henry VII is starting a new dynasty, and he doesn't have a solid rule yet.
LizHOST
He marries Elizabeth of York, Edward IV's daughter and sister to the presumed dead princes.
Nathen AminGUEST
So hopefully it's going to make some degree of sense and you're going to enjoy and hopefully take something away from this talk.
Nathen AminGUEST
Now, Henry VII famously became King of England by beating and defeating Richard III in battle at Bosworth.
Nathen AminGUEST
Come on, Henry VII.
Nathen AminGUEST
In doing so, what he does is he sweeps away the Plantagenet era and he ushers in the dawn of the Tudors.
Nathen AminGUEST
Now, three, probably four, I would argue, of those had suffered violent deaths.
Nathen AminGUEST
So Henry VII, you can understand, he was absolutely determined by any means necessary to not follow suit.
Nathen AminGUEST
And so, as the dust settled on his victory at the Battle of Bosworth, Henry VII had a singular objective, and that was to remain king long enough to complete an unchallenged succession and establish a lasting dynasty.
Nathen AminGUEST
This is his mission statement at the outset of his reign, just to remain king long enough to establish this dynasty.
Dan JonesHOST
He plays down a recent mishap, which was his ill-fated little invasion of England back in the summer.
Dan JonesHOST
He explains that his highest goal in life is still to take back the English throne that he thinks was stolen from his family at the Battle of Bosworth in 1485.
Dan JonesHOST
He cannot rest, he declares, until he's run Henry Tudor out of England.
Dan JonesHOST
He insists that the 42-year-old Henry is a bogus monarch, a usurper who has no proper place in ruling England.
Lindsay HolidayHOST
thus uniting the houses of York and Lancaster once and for all.
Lindsay HolidayHOST
In 1485, Henry Tudor defeated King Richard III at the Battle of Bosworth.
Lindsay HolidayHOST
He was crowned King Henry VII and launched the new Tudor dynasty.
Lindsay HolidayHOST
with her daughter Elizabeth of York now queen.
Spencer MizenHOST
Richard III is surely the most divisive king in all of English history.
Spencer MizenHOST
More than five centuries after he seized the English throne, took his young nephews into custody, and then rode to his doom at the Battle of Bosworth, The arguments continue to rage over his reputation, and they're showing little sign of abating.
Spencer MizenHOST
But what was Richard III really like? Was he the pitiless, scheming killer of the princes in the Tower, portrayed by William Shakespeare and others? Or was he a loyal, courageous, enlightened monarch, one who's had the misfortune to fall foul of one of history's great character assassinations? I'm Spencer Mizen, and I'm joined by Chris Skidmore, a leading historian of late medieval and early Tudor England, to discuss the controversial monarch's life and legacy.
Spencer MizenHOST
Chris is a former MP and Minister of State, and he's written a number of books on Richard III, including the forthcoming The Innocence in the Tower, An Anatomy of a Mystery.
Matt LewisGUEST
He's been in War Horse and all kinds of stuff before.
Matt LewisGUEST
And we've been adapting the first novel that I ever wrote, which is called Loyalty, which is kind of the life story of Richard III from the Battle of Barnet when he's 18 until his death at the Battle of Bosworth in 1485.
Matt LewisGUEST
And We've been working on this for a number of years and kind of last year, Thomas and I were just chatting and he was like, you know, how do we move the project forward? How do we get some momentum? And we sort of fell on this idea, Thomas's idea, to make a short film of kind of the start of the book as a proof of concept, really, to show what we wanted the medieval world to look like.
Matt LewisGUEST
So it doesn't look like what Hollywood tends to make the medieval world look like.
Tony RobinsonNARRATOR
The final and dramatic confrontation between the two houses of York and Lancaster took place on August 22nd, 1485 in central England.
Tony RobinsonNARRATOR
This flag marks the Battle of Bosworth Field, where 15,000 men fought for the future of England.
Tony RobinsonNARRATOR
On one side was 32-year-old King Richard III, and on the other, Henry Tudor, aged 28.
Tony RobinsonNARRATOR
Henry, having rallied an army of 5,000 soldiers, was still outnumbered two to one.
Tony RobinsonNARRATOR
But if the new king, Henry VII, thought he'd have a peaceful time when he came to the throne, he was mistaken.
Tony RobinsonNARRATOR
Powerful English lords controlled vast areas of the country from their imposing castles, which dominated the landscape.
Tony RobinsonNARRATOR
Many of these aristocratic families had had their castles and estates taken into royal hands following their defeat at the Battle of Bosworth Field.
Tony RobinsonNARRATOR
and so Henry had no shortage of enemies.
Dan JonesHOST
The English monarch is greeted with all the respect befitting his position, and he's acknowledged as a peer by the man who's going to be the new Holy Roman Emperor, Maximilian I.
Dan JonesHOST
The trouble is, the king of England being bowed and scraped to isn't Henry VII, who won his throne from the last Plantagenet, Richard III, at Bosworth in 1485.
Dan JonesHOST
It's a Flemish kid called Perkin Warbeck, who has latterly been set up as a pretender to the Tudor throne.
Dan JonesHOST
Perkin has been schooled by a circle of Henry's enemies, old loyalists to the House of York, to pose as Richard of Shrewsbury.
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Dan JonesHOST
You don't get much closer to the throne than that.
Dan JonesHOST
He's also brother to Lord Thomas Stanley, husband of Henry's mother, Margaret Beaufort.
Dan JonesHOST
And it was Thomas who directed his men to support Henry at Bosworth, securing the Tudor crown.
Dan JonesHOST
But now, the younger Stanley has been caught in a web of conspiracy, connected to none other than Margaret of Burgundy and her young pretender king, Perkin Warbeck, aka Richard IV.
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.
speaker_8NARRATOR
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.
speaker_8NARRATOR
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.
speaker_8NARRATOR
The Battle of Bosworth Field was the last of the Wars of the Roses.
speaker_8NARRATOR
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.
Rachel SweeneyGUEST
So it has a really deep history in Wales in particular that the Tudors are pulling on.
Rachel SweeneyGUEST
Um, the use of the red dragon on a green and white field was used by Henry VII at the Battle of Bosworth in 1485 after it was added as a supporter to the Tudor royal arms from its use in that battle.
Rachel SweeneyGUEST
And then during Henry VIII's reign, the red dragon on a green and white background becomes a favorite emblem on the royal navy ships.
Cassidy CashHOST
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