Dominic Mancini, was an Italian who visited England, in 1482-3, he wrote a report, and called it, The Occupation of the Throne of England by Richard III, was a King of England from 1483 until his death in 1485, at the age of what number, in the Battle of Bosworth Field?
Dominic Mancini Dominic Mancini was an Italian who visited England in 1482-3. He witnessed the events leading up to Richard III being offered the English crown. He left in 1483 and wrote a report of what he had witnessed. He called it: "De Occupatione Regni Anglie per Riccardum Tercium" ("The Occupation of the Throne of England by Richard III"). The account is a major source of information about the period, but it sat unread in a French library until rediscovered in 1934.
Thomas Howard, 2nd Duke of Norfolk Thomas Howard, 2nd Duke of Norfolk (1443 – 21 May 1524), styled Earl of Surrey from 1483 to 1485 and again from 1489 to 1514, was an English nobleman and politician. He was the only son of John Howard, 1st Duke of Norfolk, by his first wife, Katherine Moleyns. The Duke was the grandfather of both Queen Anne Boleyn and Queen Catherine Howard and the great grandfather of Queen Elizabeth I. He served four monarchs as a soldier and statesman.