The Reign of Richard Lionheart: Ruler of The Angevin Empire, 1189-1199This ground-breaking and substantive new history considers Richard's reign from a perspective that is as much French as English. Viewing the king himself as a great military commander, it also shows him as a more competent administrator than previously acknowledged. Modern revisionist work allows the authors to correct many misconceptions about Richard's French possessions, and recent scholarship on his rival, Philip Augustus, permits examination of the formidable threat that the resurgent Capetian monarchy represented. |
Contents
The character of the Angevin empire | |
The problem of Philip Augustus and growing French royal | |
Richards accession and preparations for the Third Crusade | |
The government of England during the Third Crusade | |
The government of England under Hubert Walter | |
The duchy of Normandy | |
The duchy of Aquitaine | |
Richards warfare following the crusade 119399 | |
Richard in retrospect | |
Bibliography | |
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administrative Angevin Empire Anglo-Norman Angoulême Aquitaine and Gascony Aquitanian archbishop Baldwin barons Bishop Hugh Bordeaux Boussard Brittany brother Capetian castellans castles chancellor charters chief justiciar chroniclers comital constables Count John count of Poitou court Coutances curia custody Devizes domains ducal duchy dukes ecclesiastical Eleanor of Aquitaine election England and Normandy English exchequer father feudal fiefs France French frontier Geoffrey fitz Peter Gesta Regis Gillingham Greater Anjou Heiser Henry II Henry II’s historians History homage Howden Hubert Walter J.C. Holt John’s justice justiciarship king’s kingdom knights lands Limoges London lords lordship magnates marriage Medieval mercenaries Middle Ages military monarch nobles Norgate Norman Paris Philip Augustus pipe rolls Plantagenet Poitevin Poitiers political Powicke PR2RI prelates Puiset Ralph rebellion regency revenues Richard Lionheart Richard's reign Rouen royal seneschal sheriffs shires shrievalties siècles southern surviving territories Third Crusade Toulouse Touraine twelfth century vassals Vexin vols warfare William Longchamp William Marshal