England's Richard III: a Catholic king, buried in a Protestant cathedral?

September 18, 2014

Writing in the Catholic Herald, columnist William Oddie protests the plans to rebury the remains of England's King Richard III in a Protestant cathedral.

Richard III, Oddie observes, "was the last of the Plantagenets and therefore a Catholic King, almost the last (only his usurper remained nominally faithful before the great apostasy): so he ought to be being reinterred in a Catholic cathedral."

Oddie suggests that Richard III "was not the villain depicted by Tudor propaganda," suggesting that history has skewed the public image of the Plantagenet king.

 

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Further information:

• The reinterment of Richard III in a Protestant cathedral demonstrates how firmly in place still is the anti-Catholic ascendancy his defeat at Bosworth made possible (Catholic Herald)