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Updated: May 23, 2025
Richard solicits a passport. Maynard's answer. The alarm given. King Richard's flight through Germany. Richard concealed near Vienna. His messenger. Torturing the messenger. The king a captive. The archduke imprisons Richard in Tiernsteign. The emperor buys the prisoner. It was now late in the season, and the autumnal gales had begun to blow.
The emperor took him away, and what he did with him for a long time nobody knew. In the mean while, during the period occupied by the voyage of Richard up the Adriatic, by his long and slow journey by land, and by the time of his imprisonment in Tiernsteign, the winter had passed away, and it was now the spring of 1193. Conjectures of Richard's friends. Queen Berengaria in Rome. Richard in prison.
On removing him from Tiernsteign, he shut him up in one of his own castles on the Danube named Durenstein. Here the king was closely imprisoned. He did not, however, yield to any depression of spirits in view of his hard fate, but spent his time in composing and singing songs, and in drinking and carousing with the people of the castle.
When the archduke had thus secured Richard, he sent him, for safe keeping, to a castle in the country belonging to one of his barons, and gave notice to the emperor of what had occurred. The name of the castle in which Richard was confined was Tiernsteign. As soon as the emperor heard that Richard was taken he was overjoyed.
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