article_snippet: Leicester, England (CNN)Richard III, king found beneath a car parking lot, has been reburied in a solemn but celebratory service, 530 years after king death in battle.
article_snippet: Remains of Richard III were sensationally rediscovered beneath a blanket of tarmac in the center of Leicester in August 2012.
article_snippet: Remains of Richard III have been pored over by scientists at the city's university ever since, but after more than two years of legal wranglings, the bones were finally laid to rest Thursday in a coffin built by Richard III distant relative, Michael Ibsen, whose DNA helped prove whose DNA identity.
article_snippet: Back then, Richard III body was slung over a horse and carried back to Leicester -- legend has his body that Richard III head struck Bow Bridge on the way -- before being put on display for three days, to prove to friends and foes alike that Richard III really was dead, before being slung into a hastily-dug grave at the Church of the Grey Friars.
article_snippet: Now Richard's bones, accompanied by a specially-crafted rosary, recognizing Richard Catholic faith, rest in a lead-lined coffin of English oak, Richard grave marked by a 2.3 ton block of pale Swaledale fossil limestone resting on a plinth of black Kilkenny marble carved with Richard name, dates, coat of arms, and Richard symbol: a white boar.
highlights_snippet: Remains of Richard III were sensationally rediscovered 530 years after death .
  