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Author(s): The Grey Friars Research Team, Maev Kennedy, Lin Foxhall
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Bones
of a
King
The
Bones
of a
King
richard iii
rediscovered
The Greyfriars Research Team
with Maev Kennedy and Lin Foxhall
This edition first published 2015
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Contents
Illustrationsvi
The Greyfriars Research Team ix
Acknowledgementsxii
Appendix 1 191
Appendix 2 209
Index211
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Dr Jo Appleby (JA)
Lecturer in Human Bioarchaeology, School of Archaeology and
Ancient History, University of Leicester
Project osteoarchaeologist (human bones specialist)
This book is about the discovery of the grave of one of England’s most
notorious and enigmatic monarchs, Richard III. For five centuries he
lay buried under the dismantled remains of the church of the Greyfriars,
the Franciscans’ church in the centre of Leicester, in a location which
by the twenty‐first century had become a car park. The archaeological
excavation which recovered his remains was made possible by a joint
project between the Richard III Society, the University of Leicester
and the city of Leicester. However, as the story unfolds it will become
clear that many other people became involved in the subsequent
research on the bones of the king led by the University of Leicester. A
glance at the members of the team makes clear that only with the
expertise of researchers from a wide range of academic disciplines from
archaeology to art history, engineering, forensics, genetics, geology,
history, medicine and beyond, could the bones have revealed so much
about the life, death and burial of this man.
Even during his lifetime Richard attracted controversy, and from the
time of his death up to the present day, the nature of his deeds in life,
his moral character and the mode of his demise have all stimulated
public interest. He has been represented a villain, most famously, but
not exclusively, by Shakespeare, assisted in the twentieth century by
Laurence Olivier, whose iconic performance in film (Richard III,
1955) has become a benchmark in modern times. But, from George
Buck, writing in the seventeenth century, to the eighteenth‐century
essayist Horace Walpole and onward to his many modern enthusiasts,
he has been romanticised as a hero wronged by the Tudors and by the
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fate which relegated him to the losing side in history. The enormous
scale of public interest in the discovery of a skeleton in September
2012 that might possibly have been that of Richard III reflects these
longstanding controversies and the emotions they provoke even today.
In the first instance the identification was far from certain, and the
global response was overwhelming for the research team. This book
presents the reality behind the many months of complex, painstaking
research by highly trained experts from many different fields who sifted
through and evaluated the available evidence that allowed them to pin
down the identification ‘beyond reasonable doubt’.
We still cannot answer the question of whether Richard III was a
villain or a hero, probably because that is the wrong question to ask.
Although archaeology can uncover a huge amount of information
about his life, health, death and the manner of his burial it cannot tell
us anything about his personality, his morals or his character. Even
written historical documents and texts cannot reliably help us on this
most of the time, since even accounts from the time of Richard him-
self, or those written only shortly after his death, were certainly not
objective and were tainted by the turbulent morally and politically
charged environment in which they were written.
Compared to that given to the human remains normally recovered by
archaeologists, the time, effort and resources devoted to the bones of
Richard III has been exceptional. For the a cademic researchers involved
this was not because they were studying the body of a king. Rather, this
discovery presented an extraordinary opportunity to find out about the
life and death of a very well‐documented individual. This allowed the
team to set the information obtained from archaeological and scientific
analyses into an exceptionally rich and detailed historical context, ena-
bling them to achieve the most from scientific methodologies. It also
provides a body of evidence about the lifestyle of an elite, indeed royal,
individual, which can be compared to the information we can obtain
from the bodies of ordinary people to see what experiences they must
have shared and in what aspects their lives differed. This will lead to a
much better understanding of the impacts of social and political hierar-
chies on late medieval society more broadly.
This book is based on the research and publication of the academics
and other experts who carried out the investigations, and on c onversations
with them about how they followed the trails where the evidence led. It
covers the progress of the project from its inception to a period shortly
Investigating the Bones of a King 3
As the two men strolled down the garden path one afternoon in 1612,
Robert Herrick saw his guest staring at the terracotta tiles beneath his
feet, some beautifully decorated. ‘A splendid path, is it not?’ he said to his
friend.
‘Yes, indeed’, came the reply. ‘Where did you get them?’
‘Why they were here all the time,’ Herrick responded: ‘from the house of
the Grey Friars pulled down on the orders of our good King Henry. Here,
come this way and I’ll show you something worth seeing’.
And, he hurried his friend off the path, through the maturing gardens
toward the lowering sun as the wood pigeons cooed soothingly in the trees.
Leicester has been an urban centre since Roman times, and today the
centre of Leicester is densely occupied, like any other modern city. This
means that finding a place to excavate that does not have buildings on
top is a problem. Below the surface lurk 2,000 years of remains from
urban construction, demolition and rebuilding, so the archaeology is
very complicated as sites were constantly reused and materials from
abandoned buildings were recycled. It is difficult and costly to dig in
busy urban areas, and it can cause considerable inconvenience. Most
archaeological investigation in Britain is carried out as part of the
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lanning process and is paid for by the developers when new structures
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are built or modified in a way that could disturb archaeological remains
below ground level. This is where the expertise of the University of
Leicester Archaeological Services (ULAS) team, and their unparalleled
knowledge of the complex urban archaeology and history of Leicester,
was invaluable for tracking down with some precision the layout of the
church which held Richard III’s grave.
Before the university excavation, we knew very little about the layout
of Leicester’s ‘lost’ Franciscan friary, which had been decommissioned
during the reign of King Henry VIII, in 1538, as part of the dissolu-
tion of the monasteries. The buildings were demolished, and there are
records of useable building stone and timber beams being sold off as
‘architectural salvage’, for recycling in other structures. From the time
the friars left, the site had three owners before Robert Herrick acquired
it in the early seventeenth century. Herrick, a prosperous ironmonger
by trade, was also a prominent local politician who served as an alder-
man (a member of the local council) and was three times mayor of
Leicester (1584, 1593, 1603). He represented Leicester in Parliament
in 1588.
On the southern part of the land where the Greyfriars precinct had
been, close to what is now Friar Lane, Herrick erected a house (Grey
Friars House) and garden. Judging from his will, the property seems to
have contained a number of buildings. In 1612, Christopher Wren, the
father of the famous architect of St Paul’s, London, visited Herrick; he
wrote that in a part of the garden where the friary had been he was
shown ‘a handsome Stone Pillar, three Foot high, with this inscription,
“Here lies the Body of Richard III. some Time King of England,” This
he shewed me [Chr. Wren] walking in the Garden, Anno 1612’. We
have no idea how accurately placed this marker really was, and no trace
of it was found in the archaeological excavations carried out by the
University of Leicester.
Grey Friars House stayed in the Herrick family until it was sold in
1711. In the mid eighteenth century the owner at the time ran a new
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