Who are the Plantagenets?
Thursday 1st May, 2025.
7:00pm – 9:00pm.
Leicester Cathedral, Peacock Lane, Leicester LE1 5PZ.
£8.
Kevin Schurer will explore the consequences of a break in the Y chromosome, discovered when Richard III’s DNA was analysed, and where it might have occurred.
He is most well known for his genealogical research to find descendants of the immediate relatives of King Richard III, whose remains were found in a Leicester carpark in 2012. His research was instrumental in identifying the remains as that of the king, who was killed in 1485 at the Battle of Bosworth Field.
A British historian, genealogist and statistician, previously Pro-Vice Chancellor of Research and Enterprise at the University of Leicester, he specialised in historical demography and the history of the family and migration in nineteenth-century England and Wales,
