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"[It was] the same as if any one said to him, 'I give or sell you the moon, climb up and take it.'" Richard of Cornwall on the Pope's offer to crown him King of war-torn Sicily.

"Remember what a virtue it is, and how pleasing it is to God, to obey and to comply with the wishes of your mother." - Blanche of Castile to her son Louis IX of France.

"Here was a man who loved his work." On Simon de Montfort's slaughter of the Cathars in the early 1200s.