I appear to have speed you appear to have speed yay but you're mostly assuming dead bodies these guys fictional or [Music] otherwise what's up guys Anthony here for D news I got Adam cesler here with me hello from rev 3 games and uh man you came you came running over when this story came out yeah it has nothing to do with games at all you're like I can talk about this here um Richard II third's remains were exhumed in England by the University of of leester last year in August and they just proved that it
is you know the the one king of England who not only never got a proper burial that befits a king but whose body had never been recovered and what's cool is they they proved this through a very intricate and expensive process where first they did like all these genealogical studies and they found the actual two living descendants but they also found some stuff that kind of cemented it more uh they found kind of like the Fatal blows they found scoliosis they found and it all leads into sort of this myth that surround orig III I
mean he dies at at at the end of the 15th century uh that really was considered also the end of the Middle Ages in England The War of the Roses you know the Waring houses of I believe the plant tangin it's very hard to pronounce it I know it's got a Frenchy sound to it but it was you know the houses of York and LAN that kind of at odds over who was going to be running England uh he was deposed by Henry iith and that brought in the tutor Dynasty and which then ushered in
Henry VII which obviously the great changes that happened in England by getting rid of the Catholic church and bringing in the Church of England so as a result they kind of um ran one of the most effective PR campaigns in all of history by casting him as this absolutely horrible evil man because people think about the Shakespeare play they think about you know this horrible punched back guy with like a withered arm and he's super evil but we don't know how much of that is true and there are some people exactly and this this study
was actually funded by these people the Ric cardians yeah who who would like to you know change the the image of Richard the third now there are some interesting things that he has this kind of mythological image of this guy who took the two young children who probably should have been next in line for the throne but whose a parents marriage was you know it was decided as illegitimate at the last minute and they brought into the Tower of London and they were never seen again so he's considered this guy who killed two kids and
became king yet actually while he was reigning he uh brought in the idea of bail into the system he also brought in the kind of like a sense of of the presumption of innocence these things that you would consider to be highly Progressive especially in the Middle Ages of England and you know but that you know because of the Shakespeare play and also uh Thomas Moore who was very close initially with Henry VII uh wrote Such this kind of you know Wonder wonderfully Rich evil portrayal of him that we've really come to see him as
like one of the worst of all the royalty that could be found in England so in the myths especially in the Shakespeare play um I you know I I love the play because it's such a wonderfully Wicked evil character but it always struck me as like one of the less deep plays that he did uh just just the whole symbolism of the man with a withered arm and a withered back you know it's supposed to me he has this this kind of Twisted and rotten Soul um but now it turns out that you know they
looked at the skeleton it does have the evidence of scol is that you began around the age of 10 that that wasn't myth also the probably one of the most famous elements of the rich of the third play is what happens at the end you know on the battlefield as you know as as as Henry is pretty much has him he's off his horse he says my kingdom my kingdom for a horse well what they noticed on the skull of of the bones well there were 10 blows to the head but two of them were
probably the Fatal or there were two potentially fatal blows one of them had to be the the the killing blow but to have actually gotten it on him his his helmet would have been off yeah so Not only was he probably not mounted on a horse in reality he didn't even have his helmet on he was in a moment of absolute desperation when he looks like he was pummeled to death then he has postmortem wounds while he was naked strapped to a horse you stab the buttocks is this kind of like final humiliation and then
he was just kind of handed over to The Franciscan monks given a barial that didn't even involve a a a coffin and so it's at this this small relatively small cathedral in the prie but then when Henry VII comes in obviously all there are no more monks yeah you know those Catholic churches are are are going to be taken out of England it's a parking lot now and now they lost where the body was and what happened it's really neat to suddenly have this connection to 1482 well what's funny to me is like now we
have all this new physical proof of all these things but history like forensic history is good at finding out things like oh well this is how he died this these two dinosaurs were actually one dinosaur we got that wrong we will never be able to find out really if he was a nice guy if he was bad guy yeah how much of this sler actually lasted it's crazy it is crazy things to think about there this is like a hole where if you dive down it today at work or at school you will be in
it forever but we're going to leave you the links so you can dive down that hole because it is really really awesome Adam thank you so much for coming by my pleas you ever need to find more dead bodies associated with Shakespeare I'm here that's his thing but when he's not Exum dead bodies he's over at rev 3 gam so go check that out and subscribe
