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Pierre Basile (died 6 April 1199), also identified in some sources as Bertran de Gourdon and John Sabroz, was a Limousin boy famous for shooting King Richard I of England with a crossbow at the siege of Châlus-Chabrol on 25 March 1199.
Richard I (8 September 1157 – 6 April 1199), known as Richard Cœur de Lion (Old Norman French: Quor de Lion) [1] [2] or Richard the Lionheart because of his reputation as a great military leader and warrior, [3] [4] [5] was King of England from 1189 until his death in 1199.
Richard III was the last English king to be killed in battle. [149] Henry Tudor succeeded Richard as King Henry VII . He married the Yorkist heiress Elizabeth of York, Edward IV's daughter and Richard III's niece.
King Richard I's army Saladin 's army The Massacre of Ayyadieh occurred during the Third Crusade after the fall of Acre when King Richard I had more than two thousand Muslim prisoners of war from the captured city beheaded in front of the Ayyubid armies of sultan Saladin on 20 August 1191.
Richard Risby: Franciscan friar executed for treason. John Houghton: 4 May 1535 Carthusian hermits from the London Charterhouse executed for refusing to sign the Oath of Supremacy swearing allegiance to the King as the Supreme Governor of the Church of England and renouncing papal primacy before a royal commission under the Act of Supremacy.
The remains of King Richard III as discovered in situ at the site of Grey Friars Priory, Leicester Funeral cortège bearing Richard's modern coffin. The remains of Richard III, the last English king killed in battle and last king of the House of York, were discovered within the site of the former Grey Friars Priory in Leicester, England, in September 2012.
Referring to Richard's emblem of a boar, the poet writes that Rhys "killed the boar, shaved his head" ("Lladd y baedd, eilliodd ei ben"). [6] However, this may only mean that one of Rhys's Welsh halberdiers killed the king, since the Burgundian chronicler Jean Molinet , says that a Welshman, one of Rhys' men (suspected to be Wyllyam Gardynyr ...
Edward, Prince of Wales, kneeling before his father, King Edward III. Richard of Bordeaux was the younger son of Edward, Prince of Wales, and Joan, Countess of Kent.Edward, eldest son of Edward III and heir apparent to the throne of England, had distinguished himself as a military commander in the early phases of the Hundred Years' War, particularly in the Battle of Poitiers in 1356.