Richard III's Remains May Be Located

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The announcement was made on Sept 12, 2012 that bones were found.

John F Burns, Discovery of Skeleton Puts Richard III in Battle Once Again. New York Times, Sept 24, 2012.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/2 ... n-battle-again.html

Note:
(a) Leicester
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leicester
(in the East Midlands of England; county town of Leicestershire; It is believed the name "Leicester" is derived from the words castra (camp) [accounting for the "cester" part of the name] of the Ligore, meaning dwellers on the 'River Legro' (an early name for the [current name] River Soar))

* Midlands (England)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midlands_(England)

(b) Richard III of England
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_III_of_England
(1452-1485; reign 1483-1485; the last king of the House of York and the last of the Plantagenet dynasty; "When his [older] brother Edward IV died in April 1483, Richard was named Lord Protector of the realm for Edward's son and successor, the 12-year-old King Edward V. As the new king travelled to London from Ludlow, Richard met and escorted him to London where he was lodged in the Tower of London. Edward V's brother Richard later joined him there [and both nephews disappeared]")

(c) The report states Richard III's "death at 32 ended the War of the Roses and more than three centuries of Plantagenet rule, bookended England’s Middle Ages."
(i) House of Plantagenet
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Plantagenet
(1154 [when Henry II was crowned] -1485; in 1399 the dynasty splintered into two competing cadet branches: The House of Lancaster and The House of York; section 1.1 Etymology)
(ii) Middle Ages
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_Ages
(The Middle Ages is the period of European history encompassing the 5th to the 15th centuries, normally marked from the collapse of the Western Roman Empire until the beginning of the Renaissance and the Age of Discovery, the periods which ushered in the Modern Era)

(d) The report continues, "Richard was killed — poleaxed, according to witnesses — at the Battle of Bosworth Field in 1485."
(i) poleax
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pollaxe
(section 1 Etymology)
(ii) Battle of Bosworth Field
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Bosworth_Field
(the last significant battle of the Wars of the Roses; Aug 22, 1485; south of the town of Market Bosworth in Leicestershire; won by the Lancastrians [whose] leader Henry Tudor became the first English monarch [Henry VII] of the Tudor dynasty by his victory)

(e) Regarding archeologist Jo Appleby.
(i) Jo is short for Joan.
(ii) The English surname Appleby came from the same name of places, from Old English æppel ‘apple’ or Old Norse epli + Old Norse býr ‘farm.’
Dictionary of American Family Names. Oxford University Press, 2003.

(f) The report avers, "The remains were buried in the choir, an area of the priory church where Franciscan monks would have sat during ceremonies, close to the altar. * * * But that pointer proved moot when Henry VIII seized and ransacked the monasteries in 1538, leaving priories like Greyfriars to crumble into rubble, to the point where centuries later, nobody had any precise fix as to where they once stood."
(i) choir (n): "the part of a church occupied by the singers or by the clergy; also: the part of a church where the services are performed"
(ii) priory (n; ultimately from Latin prioria: from L. prior, monastic superior + -ia, -y): "a religious house that ranks next below an abbey and is either self-sustainingor dependent on an abbey"
(iii) fix (n): "the position (as of a ship or airplane) obtained by bearings of fixed objects, by observations of heavenly bodies, or by radio means; also: a determination of one's position."

* bearing (n): "relative situation or position: the situation of one point with respect to another or its direction from another"

(g) Greyfriars
(i) friar (n; from Old French frere, lietrally brother; from L. fratr, frater-]: "a member of a mendicant order"
(ii) mendicant order: "any of various religious orders (as the Franciscans, Dominicans, Carmelites, or Augustinians) in which monastic life and outside religious activity are combined and in which neither personal nor community tenure of property is allowed under original regulations though less stringent regulations regarding the ownership and use of property now usually prevail"
(iii) mendicant (adj; L. mendicant-, mendicans, present participle of mendicare, to beg, from mendicus, beggar)

All definitions are from Webster's Third New International Dictionary, 2002. It is surprising that www.m-w.com, an online dictionary of the same publisher, does not have the word priory, or definition of the noun "fix" other than a narcotic shot.
(iv) Greyfriars
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greyfriars
may refers to
(A) Greyfriars, Canterbury
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greyfriars,_Canterbury
("Greyfriars was a Franciscan friary in Canterbury, the first friary of that order in England. The first Franciscans arrived in the country in 1224 (during the lifetime of the order's founder Francis of Assisi) and the friary was set up soon afterwards. It was dissolved in 1538 and the only surviving building of the complex is the Greyfriars Chapel, now worshipped in by Anglican Franciscans since 2003")
(B) Greyfriars, Leicester, burial place of Richard III
(1255-late 1530s; Although a small monastery, its Church acquired national significance when Richard III was buried there following his death at Bosworth Field)
(v) Franciscan
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franciscan
("The branch of the order arriving in England became known as the greyfriars.[13] Beginning at Greyfriars at Canterbury, the ecclesiastical capital, they moved on to London, the political capital and Oxford, the intellectual capital. From these three bases the Franciscans swiftly expanded to embrace the principal towns of England")

(h) The report mentions "Fotheringhay Castle in Northamptonshire."

Fotheringhay Castle
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fotheringhay_Castle
(in the village of Fotheringhay; 1100-1627)