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DID YOU KNOW? #6
The man who delivered the killing blow to Richard III – Sir William Gardynyr – was knighted on the battlefield by Henry VII the same day.
No other commoner in English history has ever received that honour for a single swing of a poleaxe.
Source: William Shaw, Knights of England, vol. 1 (1906), p. 144──────────────────────────────────────────────