Richard III

[Wowbagger]

I think we need a thread about him.

That is all.

[clarion]

Interesting that the skeleton they have found is reported to have a spinal problem.  While this would fit with the Tudor version, and the repainted portrait, it doesn't fit any contemporary descriptions of Good King Richard.  So what they are touting as a sort of proof it is him in fact turns out to be a proof that it isn't.

[redshift]

'Near-death head injuries' would also tie in with contemporary accounts that he was killed by William Gardener with a pole-arm which stove in his helmet.

[Zipperhead]

Am I the only one who thought this thread would be about ratemypoo.com?

[spesh]

Interesting that the skeleton they have found is reported to have a spinal problem.  While this would fit with the Tudor version, and the repainted portrait, it doesn't fit any contemporary descriptions of Good King Richard.  So what they are touting as a sort of proof it is him in fact turns out to be a proof that it isn't.

Are you sure you're not getting the spinal deformities confused? Richard III having a hunchback and a withered arm was Tudor propaganda, courtesy of the Bard. The unequal shoulder height, noted in contemporary descriptions, was indicative of scoliosis, which the recently-unearthed skeleton is showing signs thereof.

The archaeologists have a pretty good hunch that they have found his remains.

And yes, that's my coat over there...

[Wowbagger]

Am I the only one who thought this thread would be about ratemypoo.com?

No, the body is being disinterred.

Is it true that when this body was buried, Leicester was only a hamlet?

[spesh]

Am I the only one who thought this thread would be about ratemypoo.com?

No, the body is being disinterred.

Is it true that when this body was buried, Leicester was only a hamlet?

No, it was a reasonably-large settlement, being recorded as a city in the Domesday book, but it lost that status in the 11th century, only being re-made a city in 1919.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leicester#Medieval

[red marley]

Leicester Shakespearean factoid:

Leicester possibly has two Shakespearan kings buried there. The second being King Lear (Leir - the "founder" of Leicester).

[Biff]

Did he have a parking permit?

[tiermat]

And here was me thinking this was about the 2 Ronnies' sketch about a little brown Richard the third.

[PeteB99]

Did he have a parking permit?

"A space, a space, my Lexus for a space"

[Basil]

I wondered why one team in the pub quiz last night were called The Hunchback of Leicester Car Park.

(or something like that)

[Canardly]

Pretty good sleuthing by the arch team it seems. Will be really interesting to see how reality compares with reported history and persistant folklore. Would be amazing if there is a skull to be reconstructed.

[Wowbagger]

Alas, poor Yorlik. I knew him backwards.

[Canardly]

I did think along the I knew NCP Horatio lines but couldnt make it work.

[rogerzilla]

We thought, when they didn't initially find anything and the research grant was running out, they'd pop round to the local rural churchyard and ponce a few bones from the weedy  corner where the gravedigger stuffs them after a few hundred years, when the relatives have all moved away and they need the space for a new paying occupant.

"Make sure you get a full set, Steve, and FFS don't pick up a woman's skull."

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Richard-Third-Business-Remastered-Explicit/dp/B001NC08UQ