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Richard Coeur de Lion

noun

Son of Henry II and King of England from 1189 to 1199; a leader of the Third Crusade; on his way home from the crusade he was captured and held prisoner in the Holy Roman Empire until England ransomed him in 1194 (1157-1199). Synonyms: Richard I, Richard the Lion-Hearted, Richard the Lionheart.

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... night should fall before he could turn the defeat into a rout. It must have been a wonderful and uplifting day for the Israelites, after so many years of oppression. Through Beth-Horon, twenty-five centuries later, passed our own Richard Coeur de Lion on his last crusade; when, finding to his bitter mortification that his forces were so depleted by disease and death that he could not go on, he turned his back and refused even to look upon the City he ...

— With Our Army in Palestine • Antony Bluett

Words linked to "Richard Coeur de Lion" : Plantagenet, King of England, Plantagenet line, King of Great Britain, Richard the Lionheart, Richard I