{"id":21397,"date":"2023-11-09T08:46:26","date_gmt":"2023-11-09T08:46:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.history-reimagined.co.uk\/?p=21397"},"modified":"2023-11-09T08:46:26","modified_gmt":"2023-11-09T08:46:26","slug":"richard-lionheart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/findanysolutions.com\/history-reimagined.co.uk\/richard-lionheart\/","title":{"rendered":"KINGDOM OF HEAVEN"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"21397\" class=\"elementor elementor-21397\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-39f41b18 elementor-section-stretched elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"39f41b18\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;stretch_section&quot;:&quot;section-stretched&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-1fa7594f\" data-id=\"1fa7594f\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-bde001d elementor-widget elementor-widget-spacer\" data-id=\"bde001d\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"spacer.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer-inner\"><\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-eed96a3 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"eed96a3\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-7aa8837 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"7aa8837\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h1 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-xl\">RICHARD THE LIONHEART<\/h1>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-387558d e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"387558d\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-37a3b89 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"37a3b89\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>The title of an epic film by Ridley Scott, historically accurate it tells the tale of how, on 02<sup>nd<\/sup> of October in 1187, a crusader knight named Balien d\u2019Ibelin was forced to surrender the city of Jerusalem to the Muslim leader Saladin. This in order to save civilian lives.<\/p>\n<p>By 1189 Pope Gregory VIII had proclaimed the third crusade and European leaders set off to re-take the Holy City.<\/p>\n<p>The final scene of the film shows King Richard of England, The Lionheart, on his way to confront Islam and join in the Third Crusade.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;Richard was unmarried and his mother, Eleanor of Aquitaine, was concerned that he might not return so determined to find him a wife. Her gaze fell upon the neighbouring Basque kingdom of Navarre, where an unmarried princess named, Berengaria, (Berenguella) was busy managing her widowed father\u2019s realm.<\/p>\n<p>King Sancho and Berengaria saw merit in the proposed match and agreed to the union. So Eleanor and Berengaria set off in hot pursuit of King Richard, already on his way to join his English fleet sailing to Marseilles.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 17px; text-align: var(--text-align); background-color: var(--theme-color-bg_color); color: var(--theme-color-text);\">They did not catch up with him until they reached the Straits of Messina and did not marry until they were blown to the shores of Cyprus. Although they picked up another queen along the way. Richard\u2019s sister, Queen Joan of Sicily joined them and she and Berengaria became good friends.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>After the mariage ceremony, in which England acquired a Basque Queen, they set off across the sea bound for Acre where the two queens were confronted by the vicious reality of a holy, but bloody, war.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6e30783 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"6e30783\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.history-reimagined.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/richard-the-lionheart-300x200-1.jpg\" title=\"\" alt=\"King john richard-the-lionheart-300x200\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-b3e3dd4 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"b3e3dd4\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2>The Lionheart\u2019s Bride<\/h2><p>This is the women\u2019s story, an eye-witness account of the savagery of a merciless religious conflict.<\/p><p>The story is in three volumes and the first book is available from Amazon and other good booksellers immediately.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RICHARD THE LIONHEART The title of an epic film by Ridley Scott, historically accurate it tells the tale of how,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/findanysolutions.com\/history-reimagined.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/findanysolutions.com\/history-reimagined.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/findanysolutions.com\/history-reimagined.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/findanysolutions.com\/history-reimagined.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/findanysolutions.com\/history-reimagined.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/findanysolutions.com\/history-reimagined.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21397\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/findanysolutions.com\/history-reimagined.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/findanysolutions.com\/history-reimagined.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/findanysolutions.com\/history-reimagined.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}