Dan Jones
speaker
3,287 appearances
15 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 8 Sep
Dan Jones’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Somehow or other his helmet comes off, and with that vital protection lost, he's doomed.
Richard is struck by glancing blows from several weapons, which take chunks of his scalp and skull off.
Then a huge blow lands from a halbud, a long-handled bladed weapon, which takes off a piece of his head like it's a boiled egg.
In all likelihood, it kills him instantly.
No King of England has died fighting in battle since Hastings in ten sixty six, when King Harold went down.
And with Richard's death, the Battle of Bosworth, like Hastings, is over.
Once the fighting has come to a stop, Richard is stripped of his armor and slung over the back of a horse.
He's mutilated.
At some point, someone stabs him so hard in the buttocks that the blade chips his pelvis.
His bloodied body is taken to Leicester, and there it's slung in a hastily dug grave.
Richard said he wanted an end to war or life.
He got the latter.
God that is all merciful, writes one chronicler, forgive him his misdeeds.
Whether God's feeling merciful, only Richard now knows, but behind him at Bosworth, the relentless march of history continues.
Henry Tudor clambers up a hillside and addresses survivors of the battle.
He thanks those who fought for him and receives the acclaim of his troops, who shout, God save King Henry!
By regnal number, he'll be Henry VII.
By dynasty, he'll be the first of the Tudors.
Richard III's battered crown is found among the spoil on the churned-up ground of Bosworth Field.
Lord Stanley, husband of Henry's mother Margaret Beaufort, reserves the right to place it on his stepson's head.
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