For ten points name this last of the Plantagenet kings, who was housed in Pontefract Castle while the Lancastrians usurped his throne.
Because many people believed that he had been bludgeoned to death, his body was exhumed in the 17th century, but no marks of violence were seen. Henry IV claimed that he starved himself to death in shame, but more reliable records claim that his captors starved him death and that he was forced to tear off and eat his own skin. For ten points name this last of the Plantagenet kings, who was housed in Pontefract Castle while the Lancastrians usurped his throne.
Because many people believed that he had been bludgeoned to death, his body was exhumed in the 17th century, but no marks of violence were seen.
{Richard II}