University of Leicester expert comments on Richard III's final resting place
Professor Norman Housley has responded to arguments from a number of scholarly voices who, citing the King’s strong links to the North, are claiming that the remains of Richard III should be interred in York.
The remains, as they were found at the Grey Friars site.
In addition to both Church law and archaeological practice, which both favour reburial in the church closest to the location where the remains were found, Professor Housley from the School of Historical Studies says in a blog for Leicester Exchanges that history also favours Leicester as the King’s final resting place:
The
question of what Richard might have wanted to happen to his remains is not just
improvable but rather beside the point. We should be guided by the course that
events took in 1485. It makes eminent
sense to follow the pattern of history, respect Leicester's Ricardian legacy,
and benefit from the serendipity of the cathedral's remarkable proximity to the
Grey Friars burial site.
St Martin’s Cathedral, where the Richard III's remains are to be reinterred, is situated less than 100 yards from where they lay for more than half a millennium.
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