Richard III
Richard III was the last king of the 330-year Plantagenet dynasty. He was kind of England from 1483 to 1485; he was portrayed as a tyrannical dictator in the titular Shakespeare play. At the Battle of Bosworth Field in 1495, Richard led a cavalry charge straight into Henry Tudor's army and witnessed the total annihilation of his men before he himself met the same fate. "A horse! A horse! My kingdom for a horse!" wrote Shakespeare.