Angers history through heredity

Two historical characters, kings,  having links with Angers, who both died centuries ago, have just "resurfaced" in France and England news just before and just after the change of year.

In Leicester,  after excavations under a car park during August and September of last year, archeologists discovered the skeleton of a man who could be Richard III, the last Plantagenêt king of England, killed in 1485 by his Tudor rival, Henry VII, at the battle of Bosworth. The results of a "Crime scene investigation" style survey (a Dna sample from the skeleton will be compared to the one of a Canadian descendant) are due to be published in January, but already the caracterics of the remains match perfectly with historical accounts.

Another king, French that one, who had stayed in Angers at a critical period of his life and of the country history, dead in 1610, is back in the news. Henri IV, whose head and body were cut off in 1793 during the French revolutionnary terror, can be joined each other. Spanish biologists succeded to extract a Dna sample from the deepest part of the throat of the mummified head and compared it to another Adn coming from the blood of Louis XVI. The two were identical. Henry IV came in Angers just a single month (March-April 1598) to draft the famous Edit of Nantes, granting the religious freedom to French protestants.

Angers looks today closer to Richard III than Henry IV. The first, may vilified by William Shakespeare, has an eponymous way in Angers (the Plantagenêt street) while the other never got this "privilege"...