Bosworth
Richard III's defeat
Bosworth is a place name in England, most notably the site of the Battle of Bosworth Field (1485), where Richard III was defeated and killed by Henry Tudor, ending the Wars of the Roses.
The name appears in various English place names and as a surname: the Bosworth family, Market Bosworth.
Final Yorkist king
- Henry TudorFirst of his dynasty
- War of the RosesEnglish throne succession conflict
- LancastrianEnglish dynastic faction member
- YorkistHouse of York supporter
battlefield · cavalry · infantry · longbowmen · knights · archers · charge · flank
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- ancestryFamily line of descent
- heritageInherited cultural legacy
- lineageDescent from progenitors
- patronymicName from father's name
genealogy · descendants · forebears · bloodline · kinship · clan · dynasty · identity
Pre-Conquest British Germanic peoples
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- OxfordHistoric English university town
- professorSenior university teacher
- philologyStudy of historical texts
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Richard III
Final Yorkist king
- Henry TudorFirst of his dynasty
- War of the RosesEnglish throne succession conflict
- LancastrianEnglish dynastic faction member
Yorkist · battlefield · cavalry · infantry · longbowmen · knights · archers · charge · flank · tactics
family
Related people together
patronymic · genealogy · descendants · forebears · bloodline · kinship · clan · dynasty · identity · legacy
Anglo-Saxon
Pre-Conquest British Germanic peoples
- dictionaryAlphabetical word reference
- OxfordHistoric English university town
- professorSenior university teacher
philology · Old English · scholarship · academia · linguistics · lexicography · etymology · manuscript · Germanic