#King Richard the Lionheart

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TODAY IN HISTORY

24 March 1603

Queen Elizabeth I passed away at the age of 69.

She had ruled England for 44 years and brought stability to the Empire after the tenuous rules of her siblings.

Her health unfortunately deteriorated after the deaths of several close friends.

Upon her death, she was placed in Westminster Abbey in a tomb shared with her half sister, Mary I.

24 March 1199

King Richard the Lionheart of England was wounded by a crossbow bolt at the Siege of Châlus Chabrol in France.

Despite thinking that it was a minor injury, the wound became infected and led to gangrene.

Richard succumbed to this wound and died on 6 April 1199. He was then succeeded by his brother, John.

24 March 1944

Over 75 Allied prisoners escaped from a POW camp in Sagan, Germany.

Despite the camp's high security, prisoners managed to dig three tunnels leading beyond the camp’s perimeter and named them Tom, Dick, and Harry.

Harry was the tunnel eventually used for the escape.

Of the escapees, 73 were recaptured and Hitler ordered 50 to be executed.

This escape attempt inspired the 1963 movie "The Great Escape," starring Steve McQueen.

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Danny Huston

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History Daily: September 3

CORONATION OF KING RICHARD THE LIONHEART Image: Richard I, King of England. (Wikimedia Commons.) SEPTEMBER 3, 1189 – King Richard the Lionheart is crowned in Westminster. 30 Jews are massacred after the coronation – Richard ordered the perpetrators to be executed. FRENCH CONSTITUTION PASSED Image: Georges Danton (Wikimedia Commons.) SEPTEMBER 3, 1791 –  French Revolution: The new French…

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Saber "Richard I, Lionheart, Wandering King" (セイバー) - Fate/strange Fake - Episode 1

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The Siege of Chaluz (Richard I fatally wounded) by Harry Payne

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All the blossoms in my garden 🪴

An Angevin-Plantagenets family tree I made for my medieval art collection zine, “If All The World Were Mine!” The physical edition is now available, so check it out if you can :D

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Listen to King and Lionheart and think about this scene and try not to cry. Fucking impossible.

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The Robin Hood stories have a lot to answer for because Richard the Lionheart is really one of the most useless kings in English history who achieved nothing during his short reign except lose a crusade, get taken hostage, leave his empire in the care of his useless brother who lost most of it, then died stupidly trying to take back what his useless brother lost, but because of those stories he became regarded as the absolute best, most noble king we've ever had, so revered we put up a statue of him outside parliament even though he saw England as nothing more than a source of money, spent almost no time here, and is buried in France.

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robin has to hate Richard, come on

so after peace in the holy land happens (like, presumably in terms of the show, after Guy ganks Marian) Richard finally leaves the holy land, and on his way home he gets captured by some guy who's mad about some crap that went on during the crusade.

and ultimately, the people holding Richard captive demand an absolutely fucking astronomical amount of money for his release

like a zillion dollars, basically. wikipedia says the amount demanded is "two to three times the annual income of the English Crown under Richard"

his mom is just like— fuck

so all property owners get taxed for a quarter of the value of their property, which is crazy, and that includes the church (which supposedly wasn't the done thing at the time). and then they just fucking take anything of value in all the churches coffers. like, all the gold & silver. they just… take it.

timeline bunk aside, bro no WONDER Nottingham's people can't fucking feed themselves when Robin shows up, they've already given everything they have so Richard can go fight a war, and now they gotta pay for this dude's bail??? are you kidding??? if I was the people of locksley I'd be like "thanks Robbie boy but also fuck the king" and immediately start brainstorming a new system of government

John sucked too but cmon man

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Liste de lecture sur les Plantagenêts.

Chose promise, chose due. Vous trouverez l'ensemble des docs historiques en français et en anglais portant sur la dynastie des Plantagenêts.

Pour information, des listes de romans en français, en anglais et des docs qui se concentrent sur les rois et les reines Plantagenêts devraient venir fin mai.

La liste est exhaustive.

Français :

Anglais :

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Richard I, England's warrior King, spent most of his reign in Europe.

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Round 1, Match 20

King Richard and Prince John (Robin Hood/English history) vs Cleopatra VII and Ptolemy XIII (Egyptian history)

Propaganda and history lesson under break.

King Richard and Prince John

Richard goes off to fight in the Crusades and John plots behind his back to steal and exploit the kingdom!

Poll Runner's Note: That's the Robin Hood legend, and there is some truth to it: While Richard was off on the crusade, John locked up Richard's chancellor Bishop Longchamp, set up his own royal court, and declared himself Richard's heir, over Richard's choice of their nephew Arthur (age 4). He even tried to have Richard declared legally dead so he could claim the throne (he had in fact been taken captive by the Duke of Austria and was then held for ransom by the Holy Roman Emperor). John left his wife to marry the King of France's sister so he'd support his claim, and basically started a civil war which lasted until Richard finally returned home. And that meant paying 100,000 pounds of silver in ransom. Everyone had to pay 25% of their property, on top of additional taxes.

Richard "forgave" John, in that he didn't have him killed and just confiscated most of his land, but he still officially declared his "hate and malevolence" towards John for over a year.

After Richard died five years later, John introduced yet more taxes, including England's first income tax. Why? To pay for a war with France to get back all the land that was lost when John asked the King of France to help him defeat Richard's supporters. A problem he himself caused by fighting with his brother!

Cleopatra VII and Ptolemy XIII

You know

Poll Runner's Note: I sure do, and now I'm going to tell everyone about it! Ptolemy XII, their father, had five children: Berenice, Cleopatra, Arsinoë, Ptolemy XIII, and Ptolemy XIV. Berenice had usurped Ptolemy XII's rule and was executed when he regained power, making Cleopatra his eldest living child. In his will, he declared that when he died Cleopatra and Ptolemy XIII should get married and reign as co-rulers of Egypt.

Ptolemy XII died when Cleopatra was about 18 and Ptolemy XIII was 11, and right from the start she was not interested in this co-ruler business. She started leaving his name off documents, leaving his face off the coins, and generally acting like she's the only ruler in Egypt. Unfortunately for her, Ptolemy's guardians weren't keen on being demoted from "power behind the throne" to "glorified babysitter", and they deposed Cleopatra and forced her to flee to Syria, where she raised an army and started a war against her brother. It didn't go well for her, and things were looking bad for her until Julius Caesar showed up with his army.

Caesar was 1) Already mad at Ptolemy's advisors for killing Pompey who he'd wanted to spare and 2) famously a huge slut so Cleopatra was pretty easily able to convince him to restore her to power.

It's at this point Arsinoë shows up with her army. She joins forces with Ptolemy XIII, declares herself Queen Arsinoë IV, and beseiges Cleopatra and Caesar in the palace complex. For five brutal months, they battled through the city. The fires are said to be how the Library of Alexandria was lost, which is probably a legend but it was still devastating. Ceasar himself almost drowned while fleeing Arsinoë's forces at the Battle of Pharos Island.

Finally Caesar's allies show up with their armies, and Ptolemy drowned trying to flee across the Nile while Arsinoë was taken prisoner. She was brought back to Rome as part of Caesar's triumph, but her life was spared and she lived out the rest of her days at the Temple of Artemis in Ephesus. This was about five years because Cleopatra later persuaded Mark Antony to have her murdered right there in the temple.

Cleopatra married her youngest brother Ptolemy XIV, before finally poisoning him so she could make her son Caesarion the new Pharaoh.

Cleopatra was at least partially responsible for the deaths of all her siblings except the one her father killed, and the struggles between them were devastating for Egypt and caused a lot of suffering. These are some legitimately awful siblings.

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Children of Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine

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Richard the Lionheart Answers Blondel de Nesle’s Singing

by Jean Antoine Laurent

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Burger King AU Richard and Johnny are off to do some brotherly trick or treating in their Disney Robin Hood costumes…hopefully they can stay out of trouble and get home before it’s too late, it’s Halloween but still a school night!

(he still went along with it…)

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once again thinking about how in disney's robin hood (1973), prince john and richard the lionheart are depicted as lions which obviously means that eleanor of aquitaine in that universe is a lioness.