tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8683681702039130081.post1178844959942149198..comments2023-12-06T09:36:49.503-08:00Comments on Defending the Crusader Kingdoms: Reflections on Richard the LionheartHelena P. Schraderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06535398166485310212noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8683681702039130081.post-26958043991622533442019-05-09T02:42:02.918-07:002019-05-09T02:42:02.918-07:00Key here....operation overlord.Key here....operation overlord.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04958368671874529839noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8683681702039130081.post-40946026600358024192019-05-09T02:41:30.020-07:002019-05-09T02:41:30.020-07:00Key here....operation overlird.Key here....operation overlird.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04958368671874529839noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8683681702039130081.post-60617017921112788422016-10-17T07:20:55.870-07:002016-10-17T07:20:55.870-07:00Have always thought it a testament, not only to Ri...Have always thought it a testament, not only to Richard, but to his father that England was able to function so well without Richard's constant presence. Henry's attention to administrative and legal reforms helped establish a very stable base that was handed on to Richard. Could be his political savvy allowed him to notice that point and use it to handle situations beyond England that he deemed more critical. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08368749019735539762noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8683681702039130081.post-5553434707875826032016-10-08T15:06:48.804-07:002016-10-08T15:06:48.804-07:00Was it not Philippe Auguste who called Richard &qu...Was it not Philippe Auguste who called Richard "devil"? In a letter of warning sent to John upon Richard's release from the German captivity?<br /><br />Anyway, Richard always is a great subject to be discussed :)Katarzyna Ogrodnik-Fujcikhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10415905019122111675noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8683681702039130081.post-88937139734058299752016-10-07T17:33:01.846-07:002016-10-07T17:33:01.846-07:00May I take some very slight issue on a couple of d...May I take some very slight issue on a couple of details? Wasn't it Philip II and not John who described Richard as "the Devil" in a message sent to John? (Of course, if Giraldus is correct, Richard himself was fond of referring to the legend that he was descended from a she-devil.)<br /><br />I wouldn't exactly refer to the diet at Speyer as a "kangaroo court." It was hardly a court in the modern sense at all; Richard would hardly have consented to being tried by the Emperor, and indeed, Hoveden tells us that he asserted that he recognized no superior but God alone. Further, many of Richard's powerful German supporters (some of them his own relatives) would have been present, nobles and prelates who were by no means predisposed to favor the Staufen cause. (Richard, indeed, seems to have become something of a hero to many in Germany; the poet Wolfram von Eschenbach is thought to have modeled his Gahmuret von Anschouwe (i.e., Anjou), the father of his protagonist Parzival, on the English king, and Walther von der Vogelweide referred to him as a pattern for rulers (especially since he knew how to be generous to poets!).) Speyer was more likely what we might call a "photo op" for Heinrich VI, a method of justifying himself to the world for kidnapping a crusader by staging a public reconciliation. It is of a piece with his euphemistic description of the (literal) king's ransom he demanded from Richard as a fee for reconciling Richard with his overlord King Philip. Tannhaeuserhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01186495472990554465noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8683681702039130081.post-15198958932368258392016-10-07T08:16:44.944-07:002016-10-07T08:16:44.944-07:00Successful people are always resented. I take anyt...Successful people are always resented. I take anything said against them with a grin of salt.Mystic Scholarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07593826779432906953noreply@blogger.com