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,
King Richard III Stakes King Richard III Stakes The King Richard III Stakes is a Listed flat horse race in Great Britain open to horses aged four years or older. It is run over a distance of 7 furlongs at Leicester in April. During the late 1970s and early 1980s, the event was known as the Philip Cornes Trophy Stakes. It was renamed the Leicestershire Stakes in 1983. Holsten Brewery started to sponsor the race in 1984, and from this point it was called the Holsten Pils Trophy. It reverted to its previous title in 1988. For a period the Leicestershire Stakes held Listed