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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 refuses to believe that King Arthur's sword, Excalibur, has been stolen from its place at Glastonbury Abbey. Accompanied by Sir Gilbert and Sir Geoffrey he visits the tomb, where he finds a mysterious knight awaiting him with a message.
It is actually a piece of solid history that Richard Lionheart made a gift of an alleged "Excalibur" to Tancred. I've known this for a while, but also came upon it in this brand new book [1], while editing Curtana. Jones cites Benedict of Peterborough's Gesta, but the identity of this pseudoauthor seems to be Roger of Howden as GNiko mentioned.--
Excalibur is the mythical sword of King Arthur that may possess magical powers or be associated with the rightful sovereignty of Britain. Its first reliably datable appearance is found in Geoffrey of Monmouth 's Historia Regum Britanniae .
Richard Coer de Lyon (‘Richard the Lionheart’) survives in 10 manuscripts, of which the most complete is Cambridge, Gonville and Caius MS 175. [10] The poem was printed in 1509 and 1528, both times by Wynkyn de Worde. An extended abstract of Richard appeared in George Ellis's Specimens of Early English Metrical Romances (1805).
Tancred (Italian: Tancredi; 1138 – 20 February 1194) was King of Sicily from 1189 to 1194. He was born in Lecce, an illegitimate son of Roger III, Duke of Apulia (the eldest son of King Roger II) by his mistress Emma, a daughter of Achard II, Count of Lecce.
The most important sources written during or shortly after the events are: The al-Nawādir al-Sultaniyya wa'l-Maḥāsin al-Yūsufiyya ("Anecdotes of the Sultan and Virtues of Yusuf", in 2001 translated by D. S. Richards as The Rare and Excellent History of Saladin), an Arabic biography of Saladin written by the Kurdish chronicler Baha ad-Din ibn Shaddad who served in Saladin's camp and was an ...
The conquest of Cyprus by Richard I in April-May 1191 was an accidental event during the Third Crusade. King Richard I of England , along with others, embarked on the Third Crusade in 1189. Early in 1191, Berengaria of Navarre , Richard's fiancée, and Joan of England , Richard's sister, were traveling together and their ship was wrecked on ...