"New analysis of Richard III's death" Topic

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Cool link it seems to support he went down fighting but that many of the eleven wounds found on him where most likely inflicted after death as his body was abused afterwards. Also appears that two of the wounds to the head that would have caused his death show he was not wearing a helmet and and may have been prone or kneeling when they were delivered. He had curvature of the spine but was not "humpbacked" as depicted in Shakespere.

I regret to say that the head wounds do not prove he was not wearing a helmet also in battle it is possible his helmet became detached we cannot prove it one way or another. What we do know is that even according to his enemies he went down fighting, his reputation as a warrior and commander was already established, unlike the Tudor who seems to have skulked behind his bodyguard Do to his disability he may have tried harder than most. Also at the Battle of Barnet Warwick was only killed when a roundel dagger was driven through the slit in his visor, Warwick's armour like most great nobles was of the highest quality.

Head wounds. Point taken: he probably was not wearing his helmet. Neither was Wm the Conqueror at one point, and he is famously recorded as deliberately removing his helm and exposing his whole head while he rallied his troops. That was back in the day of simple helms that left the face exposed. Dickon's helmet would have been all enclosing. If his enemies were crowding around him in the final moments, he may have reacted to a natural impulse to face them literally, took off his own helmet and snarled defiance at them as he went down, certain in his own mind that they all knew him without any doubt….