Plantagenet, Richard I Lionheart King of England
| Birth Name | Plantagenet, Richard I Lionheart King of England 1a 2 3 |
| Gender | male |
| Age at Death | 41 years, 6 months, 28 days |
| Birth date | 8 September 1157 (Oxford, Oxfordshire, England) |
| Death date | 6 April 1199 (Châlus, Haute-Vienne, Limousin, France) |
Events
| Event | Date | Place | Description | Sources |
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| Birth | 8 September 1157 | Oxford, Oxfordshire, England | 1b 2 3 | |
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| Death | 6 April 1199 | Châlus, Haute-Vienne, Limousin, France | 1c 2 3 | |
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| Burial | Fontevraud-l'Abbaye, Departement de Maine-et-Loire, Pays de la Loire, France | 3 | ||
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Parents
| Relation to main person | Name | Birth date | Death date | Relation within this family (if not by birth) |
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| Father | Plantagenet, Henry II King of England | 25 March 1133 | 6 July 1189 | |
| Mother | Aquitaine, Eleanor of Duchess of Aquitaine Queen of France Queen of England | April 1122 | 1 April 1204 | |
| Brother | Plantagenet, William | 17 August 1152 | April 1156 | |
| Brother | Plantagenet, Henry King of England Duke of Normandy Count of Anjou | 28 February 1155 | 11 June 1183 | |
| Sister | Plantagenet, Matilda | 1156 | 28 June 1189 | |
| Plantagenet, Richard I Lionheart King of England | 8 September 1157 | 6 April 1199 | ||
| Brother | Plantagenet, Geoffrey II | 23 September 1158 | 19 August 1186 | |
| Sister | Plantagenet, Eleanor Leonora | 13 October 1162 | 31 October 1214 | |
| Sister | Plantagenet, Joanna | 10 October 1165 | 24 September 1199 | |
| Brother | Plantagenet (Lackland), John | 24 December 1167 | 19 October 1216 | |
| Stepfather | Capet, Louis VII | 1121 | 1180 | |
| Mother | Aquitaine, Eleanor of Duchess of Aquitaine Queen of France Queen of England | April 1122 | 1 April 1204 | |
| Half-sister | Capet, Marie | 1145 | 11 March 1198 | |
| Half-sister | Capet, Alix | 1150 | 11 March 1198 | |
Families
Family of Plantagenet, Richard I Lionheart King of England and Navarre, Berengaria of |
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| Married | Wife | Navarre, Berengaria of ( * 1163 + 23 December 1230 ) | |||||||||||||
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1/125 - King Richard I the Lionheart, or Cœur de Lion
2/125 - Goodrich Castle. The current stained glass window in the chapel was designed in 2000 but used 15th-century glass.
3/125 - Goodrich Castle, Goodrich, Herefordshire
4/125 - Corfe Castle, Dorset.
5/125 - Tomb Relief of Pierre de Bauffremont
6/125 - Corfe's keep (left) dates from the early 12th century.
7/125 - Corfe Castle
8/125 - Wallingford Castle map
9/125 - Richard the Lionheart Coat of Arms
10/125 - Reconstruction of Weobley Castle, Gower, late medieval period.
11/125 - Joseph Mallord William Turner Corfe Castle, Dorsetshire, engraved by G. Cooke published 1814
12/125 - Dinham Bridge (with Ludlow Castle).
13/125 - Corfe Castle is on a hill
14/125 - The great tower (left) and John of Gaunt's great hall (right)
15/125 - The interior of Leicester's gatehouse, converted into a domestic house by Colonel Hawkesworth after the English Civil War
16/125 - Corfe Castle is a beautiful and historic village
17/125 - Goodrich Castle.
18/125 - The info sign on Kenilworth castle
19/125 - Ludlow Castle
20/125 - 19th-century portrait of Richard by Merry-Joseph Blondel
21/125 - Ludlow Castle, Shropshire, England.
22/125 - The tomb of Richard I's heart in Notre Dame of Rouen, France.
23/125 - Ludlow Castle, Shropshire
24/125 - An information panel of Goodrich castle info Solar Block
25/125 - Weobley Castle reconstruction
26/125 - The architectural symmetry of the Strong Tower on the left, the great hall and the Saintlowe Tower on the right, viewed from the
27/125 - Goodrich Castle
28/125 - Seen here from the west across the River Teme, the Norman castle was built on a rocky promontory.
29/125 - Wenceslaus Hollar's 1649 plan of Kenilworth Castle
30/125 - Richard I Lionheart
31/125 - The Children of Henry II & Eleanor of Aquitaine
32/125 - Ludlow Castle paintings by Thomas Henslow Barnard
33/125 - Goodrich Castle
34/125 - Corfe Castle Gatetower & Bridge. The south-west gatehouse, which allowed access from the outer bailey to the west bailey, dates
35/125 - Chateau Gaillard The siege of Chateau Gaillard Philippe Auguste
36/125 - An information panel of Goodrich Castle
37/125 - The reconstruction of the Goodrich Castle, Goodrich, Herefordshire
38/125 - Kenilworth Castle seen from the west; by the 13th century, the foreground would have been occupied by the water defences of the
39/125 - Kenilworth Castle
40/125 - Wallingford Castle. St Nicholas College
41/125 - Richard lying in Chalus, who received his bowels
42/125 - An early-morning view of Corfe Castle and village in Dorset from the Purbeck hills
43/125 - The Keep, entrance bridge and moat, Ludlow Castle, Ludlow, Shropshire, England
44/125 - Wallingford Castle
45/125 - Ewyas Harold Castle reconstruction
46/125 - Corfe Castle
47/125 - The plan of Goodrich Castle
48/125 - Kenilworth Castle. In the late 14th century
49/125 - An information panel of Goodrich Castle
50/125 - King Richard I by the 19th century painter
51/125 - Death of Richard the Lion Heart in Châlus
52/125 - The interior of Ludlow Castle
53/125 - Corfe Castle map
54/125 - Ludlow Castle by Joseph Mallord William Turner
55/125 - The inner court as seen from the base court; left to right are the 16th-century Leicester's building; Gaunt's 14th-century Oriel
56/125 - Kenilworth Castle. In the late 14th century, John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster
57/125 - Chato Gaillard. The ruins of Château Gaillard from the west.
58/125 - Geoffrey de Rancon's Château de Taillebourg, the castle Richard retreated to after Henry II's forces
59/125 - Ludlow Castle. Painting by anonymous artist, October 1812
60/125 - Ewyas Harold Castle
61/125 - Lying Richard at the Abbey of Fontevraud
62/125 - Goodrich Castle
63/125 - Corfe Castle
64/125 - Ewyas Harold Castle reconstruction map
65/125 - The restored Elizabethan knot gardens, designed to reproduce the appearance of the gardens in 1575
66/125 - Wallingford Castle ruins
67/125 - Ludlow and Ludlow Castle.
68/125 - Kenilworth Castle as it might have appeared in 1575
69/125 - Ludlow Castle, England
70/125 - Tomb at Fontevraud
71/125 - Corfe Castle
72/125 - Ludlow Castle, Shropshire, England
73/125 - 17th-century portrait of Richard I
74/125 - A plan of Corfe Castle from 1586, drawn up by Ralph Treswell
75/125 - Tomb of Henry the Young King at Rouen Cathedral
76/125 - Ruins of Dürnstein Castle, where Richard was kept captive
77/125 - Ordnance Survey map of Corfe Castle in 1856, showing the castle and village in the gap of the Purbeck Hills
78/125 - Richard the Lionheart shield
79/125 - Ludlow Castle interior
80/125 - Goodrich Castle
81/125 - Site of Weobley Castle
82/125 - A marble fireplace in Leicester's gatehouse, with Robert Dudley's initials (R & L for Robert Leicester) and the badge of the KG
83/125 - William Daniell Corfe Castle published 1823
84/125 - Ludlow Castle panel
85/125 - Château Gaillard
86/125 - Wallingford Castle ruins
87/125 - Tomb containing the heart of King Richard at Rouen Cathedral
88/125 - Goodrich Castle.
89/125 - Ruins of Corfe Castle from the outer bailey
90/125 - Saladin's troops, French manuscript of 1337. (L'armée de Saladin)
91/125 - Goodrich Castle
92/125 - Kenilworth Castle
93/125 - Arthur, Henry VIII’s brother, died at Ludlow Castle.
94/125 - Corfe Castle
95/125 - Corfe Castle in its unruined state in the model village
96/125 - Effigy (c. 1199) of Richard I at Fontevraud Abbey, Anjou
97/125 - The ruins of the Goodrich Castle, depicted here by Hugh William Grecian, Williams in 1801
98/125 - The great tower is one of Kenilworth Castle's earliest surviving structures.
99/125 - Ewyas Harold Castle motte
100/125 - Lying inside the Cathedral of Rouen
101/125 - Richard I (r. 1189 - 1199)
102/125 - Ludlow Castle occupies a strategic position on the border between England and Wales and was the last to surrender to the Parliam
103/125 - Goodrich Castle.
104/125 - Tomb of Richard The Lion Heart Cathedral Notre Dame Rouen
105/125 - Corfe Castle is on a hill overlooking the village which bears its name
106/125 - The chapel, the round tower on the right, dates from the 12th century. On the left is the Great Chamber.
107/125 - Corfe Castle
108/125 - Corfe Castle
109/125 - King Richard I the Lionheart, or Cœur de Lion
110/125 - Richard the Lion Heart and Philippe Augustes
111/125 - Ludlow Castle. The interior of Ludlow Castle's Romanesque chapel
112/125 - Leicester's gatehouse, built by Robert Dudley in a deliberately anachronistic style
113/125 - Corfe Castle is on the Swanage Railway, which is run by volunteers and uses steam trains
114/125 - Kenilworth Castle viewed from the south-west, where the Great Mere used to be.
115/125 - Richard I being anointed during his coronation in Westminster Abbey, from a 13th-century chronicle
116/125 - Chateau Gaillard Vigiles de Charles VII, fol. 69v, Prise de Château-Gaillard (1429)
117/125 - Corfe Castle in its unruined state in the model village
118/125 - The keep was once the gatehouse through which the Norman castle would have been entered.
119/125 - Goodrich Castle
120/125 - John of Gaunt's great hall, showing the vertical lines characteristic of the perpendicular style
121/125 - Goodrich Castle.
122/125 - A reconstruction of Kenilworth Castle, as it would have appeared around 1575–80
123/125 - Corfe Castle's outer gatehouse
124/125 - Kenilworth Castle as it might have appeared in 1575
125/125 - An information panel of Goodrich Castle
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Wallingford Castle
Fontevraud Abbey
Kenilworth Castle
Battle of Jaffa (1192)
Battle of Arsuf (7 Sep 1191)
Winchester Cathedral
Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Rouen
