Richard I I I Relatives Lose High Court Battle

[ChillDoubt]

over reburial of bones. No link yet, just breaking.

Looks like he will be finally laid to rest in Leicester Cathedral.

[treetops68]

As good a place as any, methinks, as I'm sure he won't care!

[ChillDoubt]

My initial stance was that he ought to be buried in Westminster Abbey, however I do have sympathy with those who wanted to see him laid to rest in York.

No treetops, he won't care but historians, scholars and tourists will have a vested interest, and thank heavens they do.

I found the recent BBC series on the Plantagenets utterly fascinating as I'd never covered any of that period of history when in school. Inexplicably, I'd never even heard of the Battle of Towton until the programme.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b042yyhx/clips

[paddywak]

I think it's the right place for him after all he's been near by since 1485 and nobody seemed interested in finding him till the recent investigations by Licester Uni and the Richard 111 Society,after which everybody seems to have come up with a claim for his remains.Also I believe they are continuing the archeological traditon that human remains are nearly alway re-interred as close as possible to where they are discovered.RIP Richard

[Ric.ror]

They should bury him where he wanted to be buried - which, I believe, is York

More importantly he should be buried according to the rites of the Roman Catholic Church

[mikey4444]

I am far from being a Royalist, and, to be honest, I could care less, but as an anointed King of England, shouldn't he be buried at Westminster Abbey, or Winchester ?

[ichkeria]

Richard III's relatives?
What Mr and Mrs York of York :-)

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/may/23/richard-iii-relatives-reburial-remains-leicester

[anotheoldgit]

Seems like a YORKIE bar to me.

[sunny-dave]

At least he can't just be stuck back where he was found ...

http://oi57.tinypic.com/o0qauu.jpg

[mikey4444]

LOL dave !

"Now is the winter of our discontent, made glorious summer by this fecking car park"

[WELSHYORKIE]

I resemble that remark AOG .... just saying ...........

Should have been taken home to York, not that I am biased, coming as I do from that fair city

[kvalidir]

Boooooo...should have been York :(

[maggiebee]

Does anyone really care about a bag of old bones? He was king of England for only 2 years and I'm sure he won't care.

[WELSHYORKIE]

Too right, Kval - bet the judges were from Essex and couldn't care less about 'Northern folk'

[carrust]

I gather his skeleton was found on a hunch.....

[ludwig]

// Should have been taken home to York, not that I am biased, coming as I do from that fair city //

York's got enough tourist attractions as it is. Leicester needs all the reasons it can get for people to want to go there.

[WELSHYORKIE]

Ludwig - Leicester has Gary Lineker - and Walkers Crisps........ plus an archaeological dig going on in Blackfriars ...........

[WELSHYORKIE]

http://wa-archaeology.com/1717-blackfriars-leicester-archaeological-dig/

[ChillDoubt]

Does anyone really care about a bag of old bones? He was king of England for only 2 years and I'm sure he won't care.
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I think the last King of England to die in battle (and manfully like a demon despite his stature and physique, by all accounts) is due a bit more deference than you give him maggie.

WELSHYORKIE,
I do have some sympathy for your argument. I have been trying to find out where he actually held court, but with little indication. Was it actually in York, or was his court always held in London?
His attachment to York is obvious, I'm just curious as to where he actually conducted most of the day to day business of monarchy.

[kvalidir]

After he was King he generally held court in London and the south but he lived in Middleham Yorkshire for the majority of his adult life and was very well beloved in the north, hence why he ought to be buried in flaming York.