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'I never heard of Alfred on horseback, nor did I ever know him called Sir Alfred of Wessex. 'Sir is French, and short for seigneur or senior, said Anne; 'besides, I suppose, you never heard Coeur-de-Lion called Sir Richard Plantagenet. 'I will tell you how you may find out all about it, interrupted Katherine; 'Mrs. Turner's nephew, Mr.
"It is as true as truth itself," said De Bracy; "I was his prisoner, and spoke with him." "With Richard Plantagenet, sayest thou?" continued Fitzurse. "With Richard Plantagenet," replied De Bracy, "with Richard Coeur-de-Lion with Richard of England." "And thou wert his prisoner?" said Waldemar; "he is then at the head of a power?"
When Richard Coeur-de-Lion built the tower of Issoudun he raised it, as we have said, on the ruins of the basilica, which itself stood above the Roman temple and the Celtic Dun. These ruins, each of which represents a period of several centuries, form a mound big with the monuments of three distinct ages.
Yet, if it be the legitimate end of military science to accomplish its largest purposes at the least expense of human suffering; if it be progress in civilisation to acquire by scientific combination what might be otherwise attempted, and perhaps vainly attempted, by infinite carnage, then is the professor with his diagrams, standing unmoved amid danger, a more truly heroic image than Coeur-de-Lion with his battle-axe or Alva with his truncheon.
Does the honourable gentleman know from what cruel sufferings the improvement of surgical science has rescued our species? I will tell him one story, the first that comes into my head. He may have heard of Leopold, Duke of Austria, the same who imprisoned our Richard Coeur-de-Lion. Leopold's horse fell under him, and crushed his leg.
"Oh yes," said Philip; "lots of them, besides the Greek stories. I can tell you about Richard Coeur-de-Lion and Saladin, and about William Wallace and Robert Bruce and James Douglas, I know no end." "You're older than I am, aren't you?" said Tom. "Why, how old are you? I'm fifteen." "I'm only going in fourteen," said Tom.
We get the best examples of this in the nicknames applied to the Norman kings. We have William Rufus, or "the Red;" Richard Coeur-de-Lion, or "Lion-Hearted;" Henry Beauclerc, or "the Scholar." These names of kings were not handed down in their families. But in ordinary families it was quite natural that a nickname applied to the father should become a surname.
The present mosque is dilapidated, but the substructure, which dates from the Frank period, is beautifully jointed. The apse is raised. The reputed tomb of Samuel is on the western side of the church. Richard Coeur-de-Lion encamped here some twenty-five years after Benjamin's visit. He with the army of the Crusaders passed through Ibelin on his way to Askelon. Cf.
Novelty in society and adventure were the zest of life to Richard Coeur-de-Lion, and it had its highest relish when enhanced by dangers encountered and surmounted.
The Quercy was formally made over to the English in 1191 by the treaty signed by Philip Augustus and Richard Coeur-de-Lion; but the aged Raymond V. of Toulouse protested, and the Quercynois still more loudly. These descendants of the Cadurci found it very difficult to submit to English rule.
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