# The History of King Richard III is composed as a dated unfinished political narrative Date: 1513 ## The fact Around 1513–18 More composed the unfinished History of King Richard III in English and Latin. Later Shakespearean history plays are reception, not 1513 autograph. It is one event. ## Context The Yale edition tradition and the British Library’s Tudor manuscript world independently locate the Richard III history. It is not Utopia as a twin. Medium confidence on the exact year of composition. [Thomas More](/people/thomas-more)’s documented role is bounded by other offices and collaborators named in the sources below. Sharing a field with them is not a reason to drop a documented act, and it is not a reason to assign later consequences done in the name after death. Conventional years are 1478–1535. Surviving public files are later parliamentary biographies, TNA calendars, HRP Tower pages, the Yale More tradition, and encyclopedias. More did not typeset those later pages. 1935 canonisation is posthumous and is not a Fact. Named person as heading of the dated public instrument. Later editors, museums, printers, or offices share publication. Complex where later carriers are the surviving public file. ## Evidence and sources Essential More and the British Library independently describe the unfinished History of King Richard III as More’s narrative. Official or archival record: Essential Works of Thomas More — Yale-linked public site (https://essentialmore.org/; Yale University Press / Essential More). Independent record: British Library — Tudor print and manuscripts context (https://www.bl.uk/; British Library). What these sources establish is the occurrence, the date or dated edition, the instrument type, and the limit of personal authorship. What they do not establish is a complete private biography or a unique counterfactual for later welfare. ## Significance Knowledge-access path of medium confidence on year, high on authorship as received. Sign and weight live on the impact path, not as a positive/negative Fact type. ## What is established and what is not Established: More composed the Richard III history in the 1510s. Not established: that he typeset a later Folio play. What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions. This page is only about The History of King Richard III is composed as a dated unfinished political narrative on 1513-01-01. The official record used here is “Essential Works of Thomas More — Yale-linked public site” (Yale University Press / Essential More). The independent record is “British Library — Tudor print and manuscripts context” (British Library). The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit. Established here: a sourced, dated public instrument with a named contribution by Thomas More. The official URL path is `https://essentialmore.org/`. The independent URL path is `https://www.bl.uk/`. A reader checking this Fact should open both. If either page is a general homepage rather than a named instrument, that limit is already a reason to keep the stated confidence and not to invent a statistic. Date field 1513-01-01 is the date assigned to this instrument in this catalog. Contribution type is complex. Size 0.35, direction 1, responsibility 0.4, and influence 0.45 describe the contribution edge only. They are not a public rating. That tag marks the research direction of the attached path. Off-family padding is refused. Thomas More did not file a later UNESCO form, a later Loeb colophon, or a later museum label as a personal act. Where the surviving public file is a later edition, contribution_type stays complex and historical_context says so. A portrait or conventional bust is not this mechanism. Allegation, reconstruction, and established occurrence stay distinct. Reader check: the two URLs above are https://essentialmore.org/ and https://www.bl.uk/. A history is not a 1535 indictment. Keep July as the trial and death. Keep the carrier date of later English distinct from the received historical year stored in the date field. Do not read a later English edition as a recovered autograph of Thomas More. Off-family padding is refused. Thomas More did not file a later UNESCO form, a later Loeb colophon, or a later museum label as a personal act. Where the surviving public file is a later edition, contribution_type stays complex and historical_context says so. A portrait or conventional bust is not this mechanism. Allegation, reconstruction, and established occurrence stay distinct. Reader check: the two URLs above are https://essentialmore.org/ and https://www.bl.uk/. A history is not a 1535 indictment. Keep July as the trial and death. Keep the carrier date of later English distinct from the received historical year stored in the date field. Do not read a later English edition as a recovered autograph of Thomas More. ## People - Thomas More: https://factrail.ai/people/thomas-more ## Drivers - Digital Learning Access: https://factrail.ai/drivers/edu-digital-learning-access ## Sources - https://essentialmore.org/ - https://www.bl.uk/ ## Methodology https://factrail.ai/methodology Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/tm-richard-iii-history