History Quotes / RichardTheLionHeart

-->-- '''Music/{{Saxon}}''', "Lionheart"

->''Now by this light were I to get againe,\\
Madam I would not wiſh a better father:\\
Some ſinnes doe beare their priuiledge on earth,\\
And ſo doth yours: your fault, was not your follie,\\
Needs muſt you lay your heart at his diſpoſe,\\
Subiected tribute to commanding loue,\\
Againſt whoſe furie and vnmatched force,\\
The awleſſe Lion could not wage the fight,\\
Nor keepe his Princely heart from Richards hand:\\
He that perforce robs Lions of their hearts,\\
May eaſily winne a womans: aye my mother,\\
With all my heart I thanke thee for my father.''

-->-- '''Winston Churchill''' (yes, [[WinstonChurchill that one]]), ''History of the English-Speaking Peoples'' (1958)

-->-- '''Sir Winston Churchill''' (no, not [[WinstonChurchill that one]]), ''Divi Britannici''[[note]]''Famous Britons''[[/note]] (1675)

->''Whenever he returned to England he always set out again immediately for the Mediterranean and was therefore known as Richard Gare de Lyon.'' [[note]]The "''Gare de Lyon''" was the principal railway line that Englishmen in the 1930s would have taken to the Riviera.[[/note]]

-->-- '''Saxon''', "Lionheart"

->-- '''Creator/WilliamShakespeare''', ''The Life and Death of King John'' (''written c.'' 1595, ''published'' 1623) -- Spoken by "The Bastard," Philip Faulconbridge, Richard's illegitimate son

-->''Of this king I hear that if two people mourn him, the third undoes their work.''

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-->''This our lion -- and more than lion...''

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-->''In the morning the noble king, the Lion-Heart, saw Scandelion and passed Castel Imbert.''

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-->''He was the lord of warriors, the glory of kings, the delight of the world. Nature knew not how to add any further perfection: he was the utmost she could achieve.''

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-->''See the cunning of this accursed man! To obtain his ends he would first employ force and then smooth words; and even now, although he knew he was obliged to depart, he maintained the same line of argument. God alone could protect the Muslims against his wiles. We never had to face a craftier or a bolder enemy.''

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-->''His courage, cunning, energy, and patience made him the most remarkable man of his time.''

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-->''Now by this light were I to get againe,\\

-->-- '''Creator/WilliamShakespeare''', ''The Life and Death of King John'' (''written c.'' 1595, ''published'' 1623) -- Spoken by "The Bastard," Philip Faulconbridge, Richard's illegitimate son
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-->''…a noble prince, of judgement, of a sharp and searching wit… [He] showed his love and care of the English nation as also of Justice itself.''

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-->''…valiant, wise, liberal, merciful, just, and which is most of all, religious. A prince born for the good of Christendom.''

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-->''…the worst of all the Richards we had… an ill son, an ill father, an ill brother, and a worse king.''

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-->''If heroism be confined to brutal and ferocious valour, Richard will stand high among the heroes of the age.''

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-->''All allowances being made for him, he was a bad ruler: his energy, or rather his restlessness, his love of war and his genius for it, effectually disqualified him from being a peaceful one; his utter want of political common sense from being a prudent one.''

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-->''Whenever he returned to England he always set out again immediately for the Mediterranean and was therefore known as Richard Gare de Lyon.'' [[note]]The "''Gare de Lyon''" was the principal railway line that Englishmen in the 1930s would have taken to the Riviera.[[/note]]

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-->''But our king did well at Acre.''[[note]] where Richard forced a sea-landing and captured the powerful Muslim-held fortified city[[/note]]

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-->''…that brutal and impolitic paladin…''

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-->''…a bad son, a bad husband, and a bad king, but a gallant and splendid soldier.''

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-->''His life was one magnificent parade, which, when ended, left only an empty plain.''

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-->''Have you ever heard of the KingOfBeasts called "Lion the Richard-Hearted"?''

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-->''...he was a highly competent ruler, unusually effective across the whole range of a king’s business, administrative, diplomatic, and political as well as military … The qualities he displayed on these occasions -- prowess, valour, and the sense of honour… were the qualities that made him a legend.''
-->-- '''John Gillingham''', ''Richard I'' (1999)

-->''…a bad son, a bad husband, and a bad king.''

-->-- '''Giraut de Bornelh''', "If it were not for Sobre-Totz" [[hottip:*: A trobador song, "Si per mo Sobre-Totz no fos"]] (1199)

-->-- '''Giraldus Cambrensis''', ''Topographia Hibernica'' [[hottip:*: ''The Topography of Ireland'']] (1187)

-->-- '''Ambroise the Minstrel''', ''L’Estoire de la Guerre Sainte'' [[hottip:*: ''The History of the Holy War'']] (''c.'' 1195) -- The first recorded use of the epithet.

-->-- '''Bahā' ad-Dīn Yusuf ibn Rafi ibn Shaddād''', ''al-Nawādir al-Sultaniyya wa'l-Maḥāsin al-Yūsufiyya'' [[hottip:*:''Anecdotes and Virtues of Sultan Yusuf, i.e.'', Saladin]] (''c.'' 1220(?))

-->-- '''Ali Ibn al-Athir''', ''al-Kamil fi at-Tarikh'' [[hottip:*:''The Complete History'']] (1231)

-->-- '''WilliamShakespeare''', ''The Life and Death of King John'' (''written c.'' 1595, ''published'' 1623) -- Spoken by "The Bastard," Philip Faulconbridge, Richard's illegitimate son

-->-- '''Sir Winston Churchill''' (no, not [[WinstonChurchill that one]]), ''Divi Britannici''[[hottip:*:''Famous Britons'']] (1675)

-->''Whenever he returned to England he always set out again immediately for the Mediterranean and was therefore known as Richard Gare de Lyon.'' [[hottip:*:The "''Gare de Lyon''" was the principal railway line that Englishmen in the 1930s would have taken to the Riviera.]]

-->''But our king did well at Acre.''[[hottip:*: where Richard forced a sea-landing and captured the powerful Muslim-held fortified city]]

-->''Have you ever heard of the [[KingOfBeasts king of beasts]] called "Lion the Richard-Hearted"?''

-->-- '''John Gillingham''', ''Richard I'' (1999)