2-652-188 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Richard Coeur De Lion Forgiving Bertrand De Gurdun', 1886. Richard I, King of England from 1189, (1932). Known as 'the Lionheart', Richard (1157-1199) spent little of his reign in England, setting out on the Third Crusade in 1190, and from 1194 onwards fighting to regain territories in France, where he was killed besieging a castle in 1199. After John Cross. From Illustration of English and Scottish History, Volume I by Thomas Archer. [Blackie & Son, London, Glasgow and Edinburgh, 1886]