Biography richard lionheart

Despite being king of England for 10 years, King Richard inom only spent six months of his reign in England.

Richard inom of England is known for his strong connection to his kingdom and his ruthless pursuit of the protection of that land. However, the facts of Richard I show that the king spent barely 5% of his reign on that land.

Richard I tried to depose his father, Henry II, multiple times.

Richard the Lionheart and his father, King Henry II, did not agree on much in the ways of ruling, so it is no surprise that they came to blows several times before King Richard I eventually took the throne. The first of these conflicts was a rebellion, during which Richard inom actually joined his brothers in rising up against their father. The second conflict was when Richard I decided he wanted the throne and needed to take it from his father.

Despite it traditionally being the duty of a king to bära children, Richard I never had children.

King Richard I did marry Berengaria, the daughter

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Richard I of England

King of England from to

For other uses, see Richard I (disambiguation), Richard the Lionheart (disambiguation), and Richard Coeur de Lion (disambiguation).

Richard I (8 September &#;– 6 April ), known as Richard Cœur de Lion (Old Norman French: Quor de Lion)^[2][3] or Richard the Lionheart because of his reputation as a great military leader and warrior,^[4][b][5] was King of England from until his death in He also ruled as Duke of Normandy, Aquitaine, and Gascony; Lord of Cyprus; Count of Poitiers, Anjou, Maine, and Nantes; and was overlord of Brittany at various times during the same period. He was the third of fem sons of Henry II of England and Eleanor of Aquitaine and was therefore not expected to become king, but his two elder brothers predeceased their father.

By the age of 16, Richard had taken command of his own army, putting down rebellions in Poitou against his father.^[4] Richa

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Birth of Richard the Lionheart

It would have been hard to find a more driving, ambitious and fiercely competitive family to be born into, but Richard would hold his own. He was the third surviving child of Henry II, one of the most astute and formidable of all English kings and the ruler of more of France than the French king himself. Henry’s domains stretched from the Scottish border to the Pyrenees. He was 24 when the new baby was born and Richard’s mother, the ravishingly beautiful, accomplished and wilful Eleanor of Aquitaine, was around

Both of them were French and neither spoke English. Their first son, William, had died in infancy. Their second, Henry, later known as the Young King, was two when Richard was born, and their daughter Matilda was one. There would be two more daughters and two more sons.

Richard was born in Oxford, probably at Beaumont Palace which his grandfather Henry I had built thirty years or so before. There was no university yet at Oxford and the