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 Posted: Thu Jul 08, 2004 4:20 pm Post subject: Richard The Lionheart |
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One of my favourite historical figures was Richard the 1st and I would love to see hist adventures portrayed in a good movie.
RICHARD I COEUR DE LION ('THE LIONHEART') (r. 1189-1199)
Henry's elder son, Richard I (reigned 1189-99), fulfilled his main ambition by going on crusade in 1190, leaving the ruling of England to others. After his victories over Saladin at the siege of Acre and the battles of Arsuf and Jaffa, concluded by the treaty of Jaffa (1192), Richard was returning from the Holy Land when he was captured in Austria. In early 1193, Richard was transferred to Emperor Henry VI's custody.
In Richard's absence, King Philip of France failed to obtain Richard's French possessions through invasion or negotiation. In England, Richard's brother John occupied Windsor Castle and prepared an invasion of England by Flemish mercenaries, accompanied by armed uprisings. Their mother, Queen Eleanor, took firm action against John by strengthening garrisons and again exacting oaths of allegiance to the king. John's subversive activities were ended by the payment of a crushing ransom of 150,000 marks of silver to the emperor, for Richard's release in 1194. Warned by Philip's famous message 'look to yourself, the devil is loosed', John fled to the French court.
On his return to England, Richard was recrowned at Winchester in 1194. Five years later he died in France during a minor siege against a rebellious baron. By the time of his death, Richard had recovered all his lands. His success was short-lived. In 1199 his brother John became king and Philip successfully invaded Normandy. By 1203, John had retreated to England, losing his French lands of Normandy and Anjou by 1205.
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WHAAAA!!!!
SW YOU LEFT OUT THE MOST IMPORTANT PART!! WHAT ABOUT THE TIME THAT HE MEETS ROBIN HOOD AND THE MISCHIEFS OF THE SHERIFF OF NOTINGHAM!!! I MEAN IT WAS ON THE ROBIN HOOD MOVIE !! SHHEESSHHH!!! 
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And do you know that his ship wrecked on the shores of an island nearby (on the first picture up left corner!) my home town dubrovnik and that he gave the money to my town so they could build a chatedral (something like honorign the lord all mighty  ) but the cathedral was destroied in the earth quake of 1667, now there is a new (from 1667 lol) cathedral over it! Also here is a little picture of the DUBROVNIK... watch and admire:
And that in the back is the cathedral:
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Great pics m8!! Reminds me of the Drake estate in California, only his is larger. 
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Damn, that's a cool piccie!!!!  
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It s very nice, but not as impressive as the flemish city of Bruges used to be,' The Venice of North'! lol
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| [HWK]SittingBull wrote: | | It s very nice, but not as impressive as the flemish city of Bruges used to be,' The Venice of North'! lol |
Yes but this town IS a 'BIT' older... also his walls were almost never borken... once the vikings from south of Italy counqerd it for a year and was taken back after and before that no one entered the wall except its own citizens unitl napoleon arrived, and he promissed (well not him on of his generals) that the armie will just pass thourght the city into the harbour so they could get onto ships, and the govement accpeted cause if the declined they would ceartenly be destroied (the republic of DUbrovink didnt have a great armie, it was just a tradeing countrie and was getting land by buying it not counqering it) and after the french armie entered they ve broken the promise and taken the city without a single shot fired... it was in 1806 and in 1808 Republic of Dubrovnik was no more... that was the end of a millenium old countrie!
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Meik
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| Posted: Mon Jul 12, 2004 10:20 pm Post subject: ! |
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Well another interesting fact teh vikings managed to get into constantinople, it is said that many of the troops defending constantinople on its last days were vikings.....
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Bruges less old that Dubrovnik??? Man, Bruges excists since 7th century! Maybe that is a bit less old lol but not much! The walls of Bruges have unfortunately been teared down by now, all old city walls have torn down in Flanders, only a few gates here and there remain. or no maybe not, the walls of Ieper still stand (or at least part of the original wall, there wasn t much left of it after WWI) and i think the walls of Nieuwpoort still stand. lol
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