User:Waltgroot1314

Bold textBold textÇĘė==== Heading text ====  to the 'Waltgroot1314 ''Medieval History has always fascinated me and never really get bored by it as there are just so many decades and centuries of thrilling historical battles,dynasties,and crusades to look into. With the age of computer's it is far easier to find information about the past as it has ever been.Although I am deeply interested in the life and times of a bygone age,I would not like to live in a world like that,as this was a harsh, cruel time. Punishments were very harsh,food would be hard to come by, as would clothing and heating for the dwelling house.But still, the Knights and the poetry strikes a chord in me and all the quests were surely chivalrous.Really enjoy the music and songs with all the outdated instruments, but thankfully this kind of music,song and dance is kept alive with people like Shirley Collins,Maddy Prior,Jim Renbourn and Fairport Convention to name just a few. Great folk with great hearts and truly beautiful voices such as Jaqi Mcshee of the folk rock band Pentangle. Such songs are sometimes of war and tragedy,like 'High Germany',one of my own favourites.Never really had much history of this at school, probably because I grew up in Scotland.Our English brothers and sisters would be far more knowledgeable about 'British' history as they have no hang ups about being British. ''Could 'King Richard III' be a totally misunderstood King or the tyrant who killed his own nephews, the Princes in the Tower as depicted by 'William Shakespeare.Was it not strange that he was finally found in a Leicester car park, but this was not always a car park and in fact would have been a monastery of some sort. Myths have always swirled around Richard III and have multiplied over the years. But what a fantastic discovery and what a relief for John Ashdown Hill, a Fellow of the Society of Antuquaries and member of the '''Richard III Society. In '1585' the 'Franciscan Friars' were expelled from their religious house in Leicester where king 'Richard 111s' ''body was buried. At the dissolution of the monasteries and religious houses by 'King Henry V111', many grave sites were left undisturbed. As far as relitives moving their remains,this was very small. Richard's tomb would probably have remained in the Church for some time. He had been buried on '25 August 1485' in 'Greyfriar's Church Leicester' which is now the car park where his remains were found. Both classical and 'Christian' traditions had long associated physical deformity with the 'Black Arts. A 'Greek' black-figure-ware cup made in about 400BC''' depicts the witch 'Circe' with her victim 'Odysseus'. Both are shown as stunted and malformed. A lekythos of the same date bearing the head of Medea portrays an ugly woman with a long pointy nose, features found much later in witch depictions. A sixteenth century Flemish painting now in Babao museum shows witches served by dwarfs and hunchbacks. The latter is particularly interesting given that both dimminutive stature and a crooked back form a significant part of the standard Richard 111 mythology...''

''Richard was also reported to have had a withered arm. Although it is now been established by the examination of Richard 111s physical remains that there was never any truth in this, the story nevertheless needs to be considered. '' We find the following scene described both in 'Holinshed's Chronicle', and in 'Thomas Moore's History of King Richard 111.' The setting is in a council meeting in the 'Tower.'

Then said the Protector  Ye shall all see in what wise sorceress 'Elizabeth Woodville,' and that other witch of her council,Shore's wife  , with her affinity, have by their sorcery and witchcraft wasted my body. And therewith he plucked up his doublet sleeveelbow upon his left arm, where he showed a weerish withered arm, small, as was never other.''  Rex Richardus tercius- born in the Castle of Foderyngay a myghty prince in his days special gode to the town and lordship of Warrewyk' Italic text''wher  yn did gret of byldyng. In the which his most noble lady & wyf was born and at gret instance of her he of his bounteous grace with owt fee or graunt to the seyd borowh frely by charter as kyng William Conqueror his noble progenitor tym gret previlagis.ÀḀḀ

John Rous,The Rous Roll,1483-84. Richard 111The name will remind many people of the hunchback tyrant of William Shakespeare's play and although his remains did have scoliosis was it as bad as has been made out and did he really kill or order the killing of his own young nephews. Curiosity has been blown out of proportions by people or historians adding their own piece of history. But the fact that King Richard111s body was eventually discovered was truly astonishing and I wish the Richard 111 society all the very best for the future.