Richard The Lion Hearted
Born: 8th September 1157 at Beaumont Palace, Oxford
Died: 6th April 1199 at Chalus, Aquitaine
Buried: Fontevrault Abbey, Anjou
Parents: Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine
Siblings: William, Henry, Matilda, Geoffrey, Eleanor, Joan & John
Crowned: 2nd September 1189 at Westminster Abbey, Middlesex
Married: 12th May 1191 at Limassol, Cyprus
Spouse: Berengia daughter of Sancho VI, King of Navarre
Offspring: None
Richard Plantagenet (also known as "Richard the lion hearted") was born on
September 8th in the year 1157 CE. Although born in Oxfordshire England,
Richard was a child of Aquitaine a part of Southern France. His language was
not English and ...
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the age of fourteen, Richard was named the Duke of Aquitane
in the church of St. Hillaire at Poitiers (one of the lands made homage to
the French King.) Henry's sons, who had been given lands but no real power
revolted against their King father aided by their mother. In retaliation King
Henry had Eleanor jailed. She remained there for many years.
Richard's Mother Eleanor
Eleanor was the daughter and heiress of William X, duke of Aquitaine and
count of Poitiers, who possessed one of the largest domains in
France--larger, in fact, than those held by the French king. Upon William's
death in 1137 she inherited the Duchy of Aquitaine and in July 1137 married
the heir to the French throne, who succeeded his father, Louis VI, the
following month. Eleanor became queen of France, a title she held for the
next 15 years. Beautiful, capricious, and adored by Louis, Eleanor exerted
considerable influence over him, often goading him into undertaking perilous
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married Alfonso VIII, king of Castile; and Joan, who married successively
William II, king of Sicily, and Raymond VI, count of Toulouse. Eleanor would
well have deserved to be named the "grandmother of Europe."
During her childbearing years, she participated actively in the
administration of the realm and even more actively in the management of her
own domains. She was instrumental in turning the court of Poitiers, then
frequented by the most famous troubadours of the time, into a centre of
poetry and a model of courtly life and manners. She was the great patron of
the two dominant poetic movements of the time. The courtly love tradition,
conveyed in the romantic ...
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