Richard I Quotes

“He began to behave as though he were the real ruler of the kingdom,”
― John Gillingham, Richard I

“Tyre survived. On 1 January 1188 Saladin called off the siege.”
― John Gillingham, Richard I

“Conrad of Montferrat sensed that his star was in the ascendant.”
― John Gillingham, Richard I

“Only Richards generosity in distributing gifts to all and sundry held the troops together.”
― John Gillingham, Richard I

“By February 1191 the army in Sicily was getting impatient.”
― John Gillingham, Richard I

“The enforced idleness was getting on Richards nerves too.”
― John Gillingham, Richard I

“The court at Palermo spoke Norman French and issued decrees in Latin, Greek and Arabic.”
― John Gillingham, Richard I

“However, while Philip stayed in the palace, Richard set up camp with his army along the shore.”
― John Gillingham, Richard I

“According to Roger of Howden, when the kings reached Lyon they decided to separate because the countryside could not support their joint army.”
― John Gillingham, Richard I

“Wherever John was he could be a disruptive force.”
― John Gillingham, Richard I

“this was on his mothers advice.”
― John Gillingham, Richard I

“He later changed his mind; according to Howden,”
― John Gillingham, Richard I

“in March 1190 Richard had John swear an oath not to enter England for the next three years”
― John Gillingham, Richard I

“It is not easy to see how Richard could have insisted upon John going on crusade with him”
― John Gillingham, Richard I

“it might have been argued that he had been pensioned off with the wealth appropriate to his status but with very little power”
― John Gillingham, Richard I

“With hindsight two contemporary historians were convinced that John had been treated with dangerous generosity,”
― John Gillingham, Richard I

“for bestowing on him so many gifts that he seemed to possess almost one-third of the kingdom”
― John Gillingham, Richard I

“William of Newburgh.”
― John Gillingham, Richard I

“Among historians writing during Richard's lifetime only one is a severe critic of the measures he took before departing on crusade:”
― John Gillingham, Richard I

“This may be critical, but critical of what? The dean's account of events in England in 1190–1 is a remarkably discreet one, so it is hard to know.”
― John Gillingham, Richard I

“Another contemporary comment which has sometimes been regarded as critical is Diceto's laconic remark that Richard ‘considered a few aspects of the government of the kingdom with a few people’ before he left England having made himself a richer king than any of his predecessors.”
― John Gillingham, Richard I

“Undeniably he had sinned in taking up arms against his father.”
― John Gillingham, Richard I

“Richards point of view harmonious relations with the Church would make it less likely to operate as an espionage centre on behalf of the kings of France.”
― John Gillingham, Richard I

“made William a millionaire overnight.”
― John Gillingham, Richard I

“Richards well-calculated act of generosity had”
― John Gillingham, Richard I

“arrangements for the collection of a crusading tax known as the Saladin Tithe,”
― John Gillingham, Richard I

“details of the financial privileges to be enjoyed by the crusaders and a set of rules of conduct which they were supposed to observe.”
― John Gillingham, Richard I

“It was Richard, therefore, not his father, who won the loyalty of the majority of politically minded Aquitanians.”
― John Gillingham, Richard I

“In emergencies Richard had needed his father's support – and his father had given it, but so far as the general day-in day-out management of patronage and government was concerned, he had evidently enjoyed a free hand.”
― John Gillingham, Richard I

“From now onwards Henry began to pay a price for the fact that he had only occasionally visited Aquitaine, and had only very rarely drawn Poitevins and other southerners to his court.”
― John Gillingham, Richard I