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Richard I (8 September 1157 – 6 April 1199), 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 1189 until his death in 1199.
Richard Coeur de Lion is a Grade II listed equestrian statue of the 12th-century English monarch Richard I, also known as Richard the Lionheart, who reigned from 1189 to 1199. It stands on a granite pedestal in Old Palace Yard outside the Palace of Westminster in London, facing south towards the entrance to the House of Lords .
An illustration of King Richard I from a 12th-century codex. Richard Coer de Lyon is a Middle English romance which gives a fictionalised account of the life of Richard I, King of England, concentrating on his crusading exploits. It influenced Shakespeare's King John and Walter Scott's The Talisman. [1] [2]
The Adventures of King Richard Coeur-de-Lion (1791) by James White is a humorous historical novel about Richard's adventures. [2] In 1822, he was the subject of Eleanor Anne Porden's epic poem, Cœur de Lion.
Richard Cœur-de-lion played an important role in the development of opéra comique in its treatment of a serious, historical subject. It was also one of the first rescue operas . Significantly, one of the chief characters in the most famous rescue opera of all, Beethoven 's Fidelio , is called Florestan, though he is the prisoner not the jailor.
Richard the Lionheart inherited Normandy from his father, Henry II, in 1189 when he ascended the throne of England.There was a rivalry between the Capetians and the Plantagenets, Richard as the Plantagenet king of England was more powerful than the Capetian king of France, despite the fact that Richard was a vassal of the French king and paid homage for his lands in the country. [1]
Old Palace Yard and the Palace of Westminster, with the statue of Richard Coeur de Lion in the middle and the Peers' Entrance on the right. Old Palace Yard is a paved open space in the City of Westminster in Central London, England. It lies between the Palace of Westminster to its north and east and Westminster Abbey to its west.
Richard Coeur de Lion is an epithet of Richard I, King of England from 1189 to 1199. Richard Coeur de Lion may also refer to: Richard Coeur-de-lion, a French-language opéra comique by André Grétry first performed in 1784; Richard Coeur de Lion, a 1786 English-language semi-opera by John Burgoyne and Thomas Linley the Elder