Richard III of England of the rear of the skull. Richard III was the last English king to be killed in battle. Polydore Vergil, Henry Tudor's official historian, recorded that "King Richard, alone, was killed fighting manfully in the thickest press of his enemies". Richard's naked body was then carried back to Leicester tied to a horse, and early sources strongly suggest that it was displayed in the collegiate Church of the Annunciation of Our Lady of the Newarke, prior to being buried at Greyfriars Church in Leicester. In 1495, Henry VII paid for a marble and alabaster monument. According to a discredited tradition,
The Troublesome Reign of King John Peter Ackroyd have defended the Shakespearean attribution. Candidates put forward for the author of "The Troublesome Reign" include Christopher Marlowe, Robert Greene, Thomas Lodge, and George Peele, among others, alone or in various collaborative combinations; no scholarly consensus has been achieved. The main historical sources for "The Troublesome Reign" are thought to be the "Chronicles" of Raphael Holinshed and "Foxe's Book of Martyrs", and perhaps Richard Grafton's "Chronicle at Large", which recapitulates much of the material in John Foxe's book. The Troublesome Reign of King John The Troublesome Reign of John, King of England, commonly called The Troublesome Reign of