What is recorded here
This black commemorative plaque records: Richard, the last Plantagenet King of England, was slain here 22nd August 1485
King Richard III of England, reigning from 1483 to 1485, is historically significant as the last English king to die in battle and his death marked the end of the Plantagenet dynasty and the War of the Roses.
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