What is recorded here
This blue commemorative plaque records: St. Richards. Site of Dominican Friary of St. Richard. Founded 1256 by Edmund de Lacey and dedicated to his former tutor Richard de la Wyche, Bishop of Chichester. Duke of York and Earls of Salisbury and Rutland buried here after the battle of Wakefield 1460. Dissolved 1538. Recorded plaque organisation: Rotary International.
St. Richards houses the former Dominican Friary where Duke Richard of York, Edmund, Earl of Rutland, and other notable figures were buried after their deaths in the Battle of Wakefield in 1460, marking it as a significant site for English medieval history.
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