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Why was King Richard I of England nicknamed the Lionheart?

The English king Richard I the Lionheart (1157-1199) was a typical medieval knight-adventurer. All his life he waged incessant wars, alien to the interests of England and costing her huge sums of money.

Participating in the third crusade (1189-1192), he continued to fight tirelessly even when everyone had already lost hope of recapturing Jerusalem from the Muslims. He was remembered "like a hedgehog because of the arrows that pierced his shell." During this campaign, Richard captured the island of Cyprus and the fortress of Acre (in Palestine). On the way back, he was captured by the Austrian Duke Leopold V, who handed him over to Emperor Henry VI, and was released only in 1194 for a huge ransom.

From 1194, Richard waged war with the French king Philip II Augustus, who sought to retake the lands owned by the Plantagenets in France.

Richard died from an accidental arrow during the siege of Chalus Castle in Aquitaine (France). About this fatal shot from a crossbow, one of his contemporaries said: "The ant killed the lion."

Author: Kondrashov A.P.

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