The re-interment for the Richard III – the last Plantagenet King - takes place in March 2015 in Leicester Cathedral. We will be bringing you the history of the man and his life and highlights ...

Richard, the 'Lionheart', was born on 8th September 1157 at Oxford, son of Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine. He joined the Third Crusade to the Holy Land but returned to England ... him while two ...

Richard was the second son of King John and Isabella and was born at Winchester Castle on 5th January 1209 ... He married on 22nd or 23rd November 1243 his second wife Sanchia Berengar in the Abbey.