The remains of King Richard 3rd Were found under a car park in which city?
"England scheduled the site of the former friary. King Richard III Visitor Centre King Richard III Visitor Centre is an establishment in Leicester, England, that showcases the story of King Richard III. It opened in 2014 on the site of the medieval friary where the King was buried. The visitor centre occupies a former school next to the car park where King Richard's remains were found during excavations in 2012/2013. Because of worldwide interest in the discovery, it was quickly decided to convert the Victorian school building into a visitor centre. The project cost £4 million and was designed by"
"century. A human skeleton was found beneath the Church's choir. Improbably, the excavators found the remains in the first location in which they dug at the car park. Coincidentally, they lay almost directly under a roughly painted ""R"" on the tarmac. This had existed since the early 2000s to signify a reserved parking space. On 12 September, it was announced that the skeleton discovered during the search might be that of Richard III. Several reasons were given: the body was of an adult male; it was buried beneath the choir of the church; and there was severe scoliosis of the"
"the remains of Richard III, who was killed at the Battle of Bosworth Field in 1485, being discovered underneath a Council car park in Leicester. The Ministry of Justice announced in February 2013 that the University had the authority to determine the location of Richard’s reburial under the terms of the licence it had been granted to carry out the archaeological exhumation. The University of Leicester subsequently confirmed that it had always been its intention that the remains should be re-interred in Leicester Cathedral. According to a BBC report and ""The Guardian"" journalist Joshua Rozenberg, Stephen Nicolay, a descendant of"
"suggested the three central car parks location as long ago as 1975 but an oversight in footnoting gave no evidence for it. According to Langley, ""the first time I stood in that car park, the strangest feeling just washed over me. I thought: 'I am standing on Richard's grave'."" She proceeded to fundraise, organise and commission the excavation of the site, leading to the eventual discovery of Richard III's remains. She later contributed to a documentary about the project, titled ""Richard III: The King in the Car Park"" based on her original ""Looking For Richard Project."" She is co-author, with"
"openly exhibited to prove that he was dead. Early accounts suggest that this was in the major Lancastrian collegiate foundation, the Church of the Annunciation of Our Lady of the Newarke. After two days, the corpse was interred in a plain tomb, within the church of the Greyfriars. The church was demolished following the friary's dissolution in 1538, and the location of Richard's tomb was long uncertain. On 12 September 2012 archaeologists announced the discovery of a buried skeleton with spinal abnormalities and head injuries under a car park in Leicester, and their suspicions that it might be Richard III."
"the former Greyfriars Church (demolished during Henry VIII's dissolution of the monasteries), and to discover whether his remains were still interred there. By comparing fixed points between maps in a historical sequence, the search located the Church of the Grey Friars, where Richard's body had been hastily buried without pomp in 1485, its foundations identifiable beneath a modern-day city centre car park. On 5 September 2012, the excavators announced that they had identified Greyfriars church and two days later that they had identified the location of Robert Herrick's garden, where the memorial to Richard III stood in the early 17th"
"the site of the former Greyfriars Church that was later confirmed to be that of the King. Philippa Langley, the secretary of the Scottish Branch of the Richard III Society, inaugurated the quest for King Richard's lost grave as part of her ongoing research into the controversial monarch. Her project marked the first-ever search for the grave of an anointed King of England, and in 2013 was made into an acclaimed TV documentary ""Richard III: King In A Car Park"" by Darlow Smithson Productions for Channel 4. Philippa Langley and Dr John Ashdown-Hill were awarded the MBE in recognition of"
"of the Social Services Department car park. On the first day of the dig (25 August 2012) bones which proved to be those of Richard III were found in the area predicted by Ashdown-Hill and Langley. Subsequent DNA research proved that the mtDNA of the bones matched the sequence from Richard III's descendants that Ashdown-Hill had discovered in 2004. On 5 September 2012, Ashdown-Hill had the honour of carrying the remains from the car park. He covered the box of bones with his modern copy of the House of Plantagenet Royal Standard. In May 2014 Ashdown-Hill’s key role in the"
"king's skeleton would be re-interred at Leicester Cathedral in early 2014, but a judicial review of that decision delayed the reinterment for a year. A museum to Richard III was opened in July 2014 in the Victorian school buildings next to the Greyfriars grave site. The proposal to have King Richard buried in Leicester attracted some controversy. Those who challenged the decision included fifteen ""collateral [non-direct] descendants of Richard III"", represented by the Plantagenet Alliance, who believed that the body should be reburied in York, as they claim the king wished. In August 2013, they filed a court case in"
"is used as a performance venue as well as a museum. It is managed by Leicester City Museums on behalf of Leicester City Council. It is currently also used as a venue for musical performances. At a press conference in the Guildhall on 4 February 2013, it was confirmed that Archaeologists had discovered Richard III's remain in the nearby Greyfriars 'Car Park'. The former Alderman Newton's Greencoat School building, close to the grave site, opened as a permanent Richard III museum, on 24 July 2014. During the year between the confirmation and the museum opening, an exhibition on the investigation"
"skeleton was that of Richard III. As a condition of being allowed to disinter the skeleton, the archaeologists agreed that, if Richard were found, his remains would be reburied in Leicester Cathedral. A controversy arose as to whether an alternative reburial site, York Minster or Westminster Abbey, would be more suitable. A legal challenge confirmed there were no public law grounds for the courts to be involved in that decision. Reinterment took place in Leicester on 26 March 2015, during a televised memorial service held in the presence of the Archbishop of Canterbury and senior members of other Christian denominations."
"Exhumation and reburial of Richard III of England The exhumation and reburial of Richard III of England began with the discovery of the king's remains within the site of the former Greyfriars Friary Church in Leicester, England, in September 2012. Following extensive anthropological and genetic testing, the remains of Richard III, the last English king killed in battle, were ultimately reinterred at Leicester Cathedral on 26 March 2015. Richard III, the final ruler of the Plantagenet dynasty, was killed on 22 August 1485 in the Battle of Bosworth Field, the last significant battle of the Wars of the Roses. His"
"Leicester City Council set up a temporary exhibition about Richard III in the city's medieval guildhall. The council announced it would create a permanent attraction and subsequently spent £850,000 to buy the freehold of St Martin's Place, formerly part of Leicester Grammar School, in Peacock Lane, across the road from the cathedral. The site adjoins the car park where the body was found, and overlies the chancel of Greyfriars Friary Church. It was converted into a £4.5 million visitor centre telling the story of Richard's life, death, burial and rediscovery, with artefacts from the dig including Philippa Langley's Wellington boots"
"be making a habit of this. First it was Richard III, whose bones were found under a car park in Leicester. Now it appears that Henry I may have met a similarly undignified fate. However, the borough council's press release stated, ""The graves are located behind the High Altar in an apse at the east end of the Abbey. They are located east of the area where King Henry I's grave is believed to be. No direct connection between these features and King Henry can be made using these results alone."" The ruins of Reading Abbey have a history of"
"VIII. However, in September 2012, an archaeological investigation of the car park revealed a skeleton which DNA testing helped verify to be related to two descendants of Richard III's sister. It was concluded that the skeleton was that of Richard III because of the DNA evidence and the shape of the spine. In 2015 Richard III was reburied in pride of place near the high altar in Leicester Cathedral. On 4 November 1530, Cardinal Thomas Wolsey was arrested on charges of treason and taken from York Place. On his way south to face dubious justice at the Tower of London,"
"to Friary Lane, on a site now buried under the modern Grey Friars Street, and turned the rest of the land into gardens. Although Richard's monument had evidently disappeared by this time, the site of his grave was still known. The antiquary Christopher Wren (father of Christopher Wren the architect) recorded that Herrick erected a monument on the site of the grave in the form of a stone pillar three feet (1 m) high carved with the words, ""Here lies the Body of Richard III, Some Time King of England."" The pillar was visible in 1612 but had disappeared by"
"Richard and his other confirmed living relative. However, Y chromosome DNA inherited via the male line found no link with five other claimed living relatives, indicating that at least one ""false-paternity event"" occurred in the generations between Richard and these men. One of these five was found to be unrelated to the other four, showing that another false-paternity event had occurred in the four generations separating them. The story of the excavation and subsequent scientific investigation was told in a Channel 4 documentary, ""Richard III: The King in the Car Park"", broadcast on 4 February 2013. It proved a ratings"
"several buildings in the area for the administration of social services. The buildings fronting onto Grey Friars, Friar Lane, New Street, and St Martins surround an area that for over a century has been car parks, back yards, and a school yard, and were gardens for 300 years before that. The identification of the exact site of the church and monastic buildings through the archaeological dig of 2012 has shown that much of the Greyfriars Church foundations, including the grave of Richard III, are within that area and lay undisturbed for the whole of that time. As well as discovering"
"A47 across the Soar at Leicester is known as ""King Richard's Bridge"". However, in 2013, it was confirmed that the skeleton discovered beneath a car park in 2012 was, in fact, that of Richard III and, in March 2015, the skeleton was re-interred in Leicester Cathedral. The Soar is now a hive of tourism rather than of industry. Holiday narrowboat cruises are extremely popular as it is a relaxing way to visit the country and get ‘in-touch’ with nature. The tow-paths next to the canal are used for “cycling, rambling, horse-riding and picnicking” (Leicester City Council, 2005). The waterway is"
"the Greyfriars Church at the north end of what was now the car park. In February 2009, Langley, Carson and Ashdown-Hill teamed up with Richard III Society members Dr David Johnson and his wife Wendy to launch a project with the working title ""Looking for Richard: In Search of a King"", which Langley envisaged as a ""landmark TV special"". Its premise was a search for Richard's grave ""while at the same time telling his real story"", with an objective ""to search for, recover and rebury his mortal remains with the honour, dignity and respect so conspicuously denied following his death"
"investigations suggest the occupant was a woman, and therefore probably a wealthy benefactor. With the confirmation in February 2013 that Richard III's burial place had been found, Leicester City Council announced plans to convert the former Alderman Newton's school buildings into a Richard III Visitor Centre called 'Richard III: Dynasty, Death and Discovery', with a covered area over the original grave site, and an upstairs viewing platform to show reconstructions of the Greyfriars site and other elements of medieval Leicester. A temporary exhibition in the Leicester Guildhall showed a range of the site artefacts until the permanent museum opened in"
"body was taken to Greyfriars Friary in Leicester, where it was buried in a crude grave in the friary church. Following the friary's dissolution in 1538 and subsequent demolition, Richard's tomb was lost. An erroneous account arose that Richard's bones had been thrown into the River Soar at the nearby Bow Bridge. A search for Richard's body began in August 2012, initiated by the ""Looking for Richard"" project with the support of the Richard III Society. The archaeological excavation was led by the University of Leicester Archaeological Services, working in partnership with Leicester City Council. On the first day a"
"in three trenches being dug across the parking area behind the buildings on Greyfriars. These excavations revealed walls of the cloisters and the Church, enabling a possible layout for the monastic buildings to be drawn. Also found was the complete skeleton of a male showing severe scoliosis and major head wounds. On 4 February 2013 the University of Leicester confirmed that the skeleton was that of Richard III, based on numerous tests. The mtDNA was compared with two known descendants of Richard III's older sister, Anne of York, and on 4 February 2013 it was confirmed that the mtDNA matched,"
"ground-penetrating radar (GPR). The first phase of the GPR survey, focusing on the Abbey Church, St. James Church, the Forbury Gardens, and the Reading Gaol car park, began in June 2016. Initial results indicate some potential grave sites behind the high altar in an apse at the east end of the Abbey. There are also some findings probably related to the Abbey's construction, as well as some other potential archaeological targets. News reports seized on the fact that the grave sites were found underneath the Ministry of Justice car park at Reading Gaol. Said the Telegraph: Britain’s kings appear to"
"to themselves as ""his Majesty's representatives and voice"". Their activities included initiating a judicial review of decisions taken by the Ministry of Justice relating to the proposed re-interment in Leicester. The Alliance lost the judicial review and the campaign to have Richard's remains buried in York failed. The group has not been publicly active since the turning down of its petition in 2014. Richard III's remains were finally re-interred within the interior of the Leicester Cathedral on 26 March 2015 amidst ceremonies marked with formal pageantry. In September 2012, an archaeological dig led by the University of Leicester resulted in"
"of Leicester, he served as the director of the UK Data Archive from 2000 to 2010. He is currently a senior member of Wolfson College, Cambridge, and is chair of the British Library's EThOS advisory committee, having previously served as a member of the British Library’s Advisory Council and the Research Libraries Network Advisory Committee. Schürer is most well known for his genealogical research to find descendants of the immediate relatives of King Richard III, whose remains were found in a Leicester carpark in 2012. Schürer's research was instrumental in identifying the remains as that of the king, who was"
"On 4 February 2013, it was announced that DNA testing had convinced Leicester University scientists and researchers ""beyond reasonable doubt"" that the remains were those of King Richard. On 26 March 2015, these remains were ceremonially buried in Leicester Cathedral On the following day Richard's tomb was unveiled. Henry dismissed the mercenaries in his force, retaining only a small core of local soldiers to form a ""Yeomen of his Garde"", and proceeded to establish his rule of England. Parliament reversed his attainder and recorded Richard's kingship as illegal, although the Yorkist king's reign remained officially in the annals of England"
"laid in a brick-lined vault below the floor, and below the plinth and tombstone. Leicester Cathedral The Cathedral Church of St Martin, Leicester, usually known as Leicester Cathedral, is a Church of England cathedral in the English city of Leicester and the seat of the Bishop of Leicester. The church was elevated to a collegiate church in 1922 and made a cathedral in 1927 following the establishment of a new Diocese of Leicester in 1926. The remains of Richard III were buried in the cathedral in 2015 after being discovered nearby. A church dedicated to St Martin has been on"
"1844. The cartographer and antiquarian John Speed wrote in his ""Historie of Great Britaine"" (1611) that local tradition held that Richard's body had been ""borne out of the City, and contemptuously bestowed under the end of Bow-Bridge, which giveth passage over a branch of Soare upon the west side of the town."" His account was widely accepted by later authors. In 1856 a memorial plaque to Richard III was erected next to Bow Bridge by a local builder, stating, ""Near this spot lie the remains of Richard III the last of the Plantagenets 1485"". The discovery of a skeleton in"
"Richard. The Duke of Gloucester was proclaimed King Richard III in June. The princes were last seen in public in June 1483; it has traditionally been thought that the most likely reason for their disappearance is that they were murdered late in the summer of 1483. Bones thought to belong to them were discovered in 1674 when the 12th-century forebuilding at the entrance to the White Tower was demolished; however, the reputed level at which the bones were found () would put the bones at a depth similar to that of the recently discovered Roman graveyard found underneath the Minories"
"of Prince Richard, Duke of Gloucester. In 2004 Ashdown-Hill was commissioned by the BBC to research a story that Richard III’s remains had been thrown into the River Soar. He concluded that the story was untrue. In 2009 Philippa Langley invited Ashdown-Hill to lead a study day for the Scottish Branch of the Richard III Society, as a result of which the ""Looking for Richard"" project was formally founded at the Crammond Inn, Edinburgh. In August 2012, after three years of work persuading the authorities in Leicester, the search for the lost remains of Richard III began with the excavation"
"idea that Richard had devised any clear plans for his own burial. The standing of the Plantagenet Alliance was challenged. Mathematician Rob Eastaway calculated that Richard III may have millions of living collateral descendants, saying that ""we should all have the chance to vote on Leicester versus York"". In August 2013 Justice Haddon-Cave granted permission for a judicial review since the original burial plans ignored the common law duty ""to consult widely as to how and where Richard III's remains should appropriately be reinterred"". The judicial review opened on 13 March 2014 and was expected to last two days but"
"within the cathedral. Initial plans for a flat ledger stone, perhaps modifying , proved unpopular. A table tomb was the most popular option among members of the Richard III Society and in polls of Leicester people. In June 2014 the design was announced, in the form of a table tomb of Swaledale fossil stone. That month, that had stood in Leicester's Castle Gardens was moved to the redesigned Cathedral Gardens, which were reopened on 5 July 2014. The reburial took place during a week of events between 22 and 27 March 2015. The sequence of events included: After the discovery,"