William Hastings rose from obscurity by displaying bravery on the battlefield. Desmond Seward has used Barbara Tuchman’s style from A Distant Mirror by telling this story through the eyes of five principle characters. It was frankly an amazing accomplishment that one family was able to keep control of an empire like England for that long of a span of time. The Plantagenets held the throne of England from 1154, with the beginning of the reign of Henry II, until 1485, with the death of Richard III. Richard III’s remains were discovered in 2012, buried beneath a parking lot. The Demise of Richard III at Bosworth Field. Although his sharp face was hidden by the helmet, he could nonetheless be heard shouting ‘TREASON! TREASON!’, over and over again.” In steel from head to foot, with a jewelled coronet on his helmet, he grasped a steel-handled battle-hammer. All around him lay his dead or dying supporters, while others could be seen fleeing for their lives. ”His horse had become bogged down in some marshy ground so that he had been forced to dismount.

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