. Historical portraits ... ds reign was never for a moment quiet. Buckingham,urged on by John Morton, Bishop of Ely, raised the first flag ofrebellion on behalf of the exiled heir of the Lancastrian house, Henry,Earl of Richmond, but was caught and beheaded. Richard met hisonly Parliament in January 1484, and tried, by assuming a popularand constitutional attitude, to bid for favour; he even induced thewidowed Queen of Edward IV and her daughters to come outof sanctuary, and proposed, to the horror of every one, to marryhis own niece, Elizabeth, afterwards the Queen of Henry VII; hisown wife,
. Historical portraits ... ds reign was never for a moment quiet. Buckingham,urged on by John Morton, Bishop of Ely, raised the first flag ofrebellion on behalf of the exiled heir of the Lancastrian house, Henry,Earl of Richmond, but was caught and beheaded. Richard met hisonly Parliament in January 1484, and tried, by assuming a popularand constitutional attitude, to bid for favour; he even induced thewidowed Queen of Edward IV and her daughters to come outof sanctuary, and proposed, to the horror of every one, to marryhis own niece, Elizabeth, afterwards the Queen of Henry VII; hisown wife, Anne, was then ill, and it was not unnatural that peopleshould say that she was being poisoned, though she did not actuallydie till March 1485: his own only son was already dead, andhe proclaimed as his heir his sisters son, John, Earl of Lincoln,Meanwhile Henry of Richmond was preparing for an invasion,and Richard moved uneasily about England, uncertain where thelanding would take place. Milford Haven was the spot finally. RICHARD III From the portrait in the National Portrait GalleryPainter unknown Fact p. 24 RICHARD III 25 selected, and with strong Welsh reinforcements the Lancastriansadvanced to meet Richard ; the armies when they finally met atBosworth in August 1485 were small, but Richards was completelydefeated in spite of his own desperate valour, and the King himselffell in the heat of the battle. The tradition that Richard washumpbacked or in some way deformed is not unlikely to be true,but it rests on no certain evidence and none of his portraitsconfirm it. As for his character, though ridiculous attempts havebeen made to whitewash it, martial valour is the only virtue towhich he could lay any claim. 26 HENRY VII (1457-1509) son of Edmund Tudor, Earl of Richmond, and Margaret Beaufort, whowas heiress, after 1471, to the Lancastrian claim to the English Crown,was born at Pembroke Castle. He was presented to King Henry VIduring the brief Lancastrian Restoration of 147
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