Some funny facts about Richard the Lionheart:
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Didn’t speak English, only two French dialects
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Rebelled against his father with some barons. When lost, reconciled with his father, and helped him fight the “rebellious” barons. That’s what gained him his title. Not his battles with Muslims.
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Loses a civil war against his elder brother and father. Then elder brother dies of dysentery, father Henry II dies of ulcer
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Captured near Vienna
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Richard’s father, Henry II, took Richard’s bride as his mistress, so Richard couldn’t marry her
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“He was a bad son, a bad husband, and a bad king, but a gallant and splendid soldier”
- Dies in France, quenching yet another rebellion