Richard III of England was a king.
Richard III (play) . It depicts the Machiavellian rise to power and subsequent short reign of King Richard III of England . Richard III of England . He is the subject of the historical play Richard III by William Shakespeare . As the young king travelled to London from Ludlow , Richard met and escorted him to lodgings in the Tower of London , where Edward V 's own brother Richard of Shrewsbury joined him shortly afterwards . Richard was struck down in the conflict , making him the last English king to die in battle on home soil and the first since Harold Godwinson ( who was killed at the Battle of Hastings in 1066 ) .