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| Richard The Lionheart, By John Gillingham. Publisher Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1976. First Edition. Hardback Book with Dust Jacket. 338 pgs. 14.5 x22 cms. Included Historical Paintings, Engravings, Campaign and Battle Maps. Minor shelf wear to front cover. One top front board corner bumped behind wrapper. Does not show. Tiny tears on top and foot of spine. Contents very fine. Includes several pages on his marriage to Berengaria of Navarre and his conquest of Cyprus. Was Richard the Lionheart - Richard Plantagenet a man cast in the heroic mould, the epitome of the warrior king of the Age of Chivalry; or was he a brutal, self-seeking, homosexual absentee who allowed his kingdom to disintegrate towards anarchy? No monarch has generated more conflicting opinions or demanded more effort from the historian attempting to disentangle myth from reality. Richard the 1st was not an Englishman, like his mother Eleanor of Aquitaine, was brought up in western France and spent three-quarters of his life there. Strip away the legend and look at all the evidence, study Richard on his home ground in the turbulent Duchy of Aquitaine and a new picture of Richard emerges. He is still the crusading Knight, a capable ruler with the ability to conceive great enterprises – though no Englishman – was one of the ablest kings ever to sit upon the throne of England. Leaders, Sieges Campaigns and Battles discussed: Crusades 1st , 2nd, 3rd, Al-Mansurah, Assuf, Bouvines, Acre, Jaffa, Cyprus, Chalus-Chabrol, La Rochelle, Limoges, Gaillon, Gisors Castle, Henry II, Saladin, King John, Alice, Conrad of Montferret, Angevin Empire, Lord of Eu, John Lackland, Henry VI King of Germany, Louis VII King of France, Leopold Duke of Austria, William Marshall, Philip Augustus King of France, Roger of Howden, Talcreed of Leece, King of Sicily. Price: CyP 12.00 | |
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