#Richard I of England

[angevinyaoiz]

Cœur de Lion

[nothing-new-under-the-sun124]

Eleanor of Aquitaine: oh and before you head out for your game dear just remember-

Richard the Lionheart: I know I know. I love you too mom ❤️

Eleanor of Aquitaine: oh no I was gonna say that second place is first place for losers…

Richard the Lionheart:

Eleanor of Aquitaine: but yeah that too ☺️

Richard the Lionheart: sigh

[warsofasoiaf]

Do you think Richard lionheart was gay or bisexual like renly?

Richard the Lionheart was definitely attracted to women - he was reported by contemporaries (and himself in confession) as extremely lustful and had many sexual encounters (not all of the consensual). The historical evidence for Richard being attracted to men is largely circumstantial, such as a childless marriage (ignoring that he did have a bastard son in Phillip of Cognac).

The most commonly-cited evidence for Richard I is the sharing of a bed with Phillip Augustus, but this is interpreting a medieval event with modern interpretations. The sharing of a bed was a political act to demonstrate trust and faith in the alliance between the two men, and in an era where diplomacy was so intensely personal as in feudalism, personal acts were what showed trust.

Thanks for the question, Anon.

SomethingLikeALawyer, Hand of the King

[morganlefaes]

The Lion in Winter by James Goldman

[dontdenymeshakespeare]

The Book of Eleanor

Eleanor of Aquitaine has always been one of those women from history that I love without knowing very much about them. Amongst the women of the 12th century who obeyed their husbands, who followed convention, Eleanor was someone who stood out because she didn’t do those things; because she was named her father’s heir in the duchy of Aquitaine and she was named duchess in her own right after his…

[jamesfrain]

Aneurin Barnard as Richard III in The White Queen | 1x09

[captainsamta]

Something I had done years ago on A4 size paper. I think I skipped a few due to lack of space. Kings and Queens of England (after king Henry IV)

[illustratus]

The Siege of Chaluz (Richard I fatally wounded) by Harry Payne

[wonder-worker]

Wild how we know that Elizabeth Woodville was officially appointed to royal councils in her own right during her husband’s reign and fortified the Tower of London in preparation of a siege while 8-months pregnant and had forces gathering at Westminster “in the queen’s name” in 1483 – only for NONE of these things to be even included, let alone explored, in the vast majority of scholarship and historical novels involving her.

[kindercelery]

Is this evil Charles fr

[blueberry-bubbles130]

And we are back with more historical hypothetical polls, this time it is:

English monarchs and nobles round two!

I am so excited to see who you choose this time.

Most of these are from periods of time I’m interested in. So a lot of it is mediaeval and Tudor. There will be more rounds so if you have any figures you really want to see a certain figure in a poll, please submit it.

I spend a good hour or so checking the fanfiction of the people I put in my polls first just to see what it’s like. I know I shouldn’t be surprised with fanfiction at this point but some of the stuff, I swear.

LIKE WHY THE FUCK IS THERE A WWE CROSSOVER WITH THE TUDORS?!!

Why is there Vince McMahon fanfiction? Just why? Especially considering the stuff going on with Vince McMahon right now.

[angevinyaoiz]

I decided to do a quick doodle of Hodierna of St. Albans, who is known for nursing and raising Alexander Neckham, her son, alongside the future Richard I of England, since they were both born on September 8th.

Richard famously spent most of his adult life on the continent, but he probably spent a part of his childhood in England. Years later when he became king, he granted Hodierna a generous pension. Not sure if Richard ever interacted with his milk-kinship brother ever again, but he became a famous theologian and natural historian in his own right.

[scooplery]

i want to make a costume..... like a fairy costume or something. i've never been to a ren fair but i am suddenly gripped with the need to dress like a storybook character so maybe i will look into that

[supernovasilence]

I am again thinking of that happy ending au for casmund: Just thinking of that conversation between Peter and Richard. I imagine Peter just drags his father into another room where he can close the door. So their argument won't disturb their family. Especially Edmund who looks so happy and is holding Caspian's hand.

He just knows by the look on his father face. And it makes him angry and protective. It turns into a heated very loud discussion. But the big moment is when Richard says, " You just expect me to accept this? It's not natural Peter!" And Peter using his King Peter the Magnificent voice just says, " Than you'll be losing all of your children and not just one. We love Edmund, you do anything to hurt him, you'll be losing all of us than."

And Richard more than anything loves his children, and realizes all he can do is nod.

Ooh, this is so dramatic and intense. I love it! And that last line!

After Peter gives him his High King ultimatum, Richard talks with Helen. "I don't recognize our children anymore," he says.

"I didn't either, when they first came back from the countryside," she says. "But when you were growing up, weren't there days you didn't even recognize yourself? Whoever they're becoming, Caspian makes Edmund happy. Maybe that's enough."

Richard is not okay with Edmund and Caspian after that, but he tries, because he loves his children. They and Helen are what got him through the worst days of the war, and he could not have made it if he'd thought he would lose them. He bites his tongue more often, tries to listen instead of assuming it's his duty to teach. (And when have his children grown up, he wonders.) So he starts noticing, like Caspian may be strange but he is also kind and generous. Like how happy Edmund is, the strange sorrow that's been underneath his smile even when he laughs these last few years finally gone. Peter, Susan, and Lucy, too, are have lost some invisible weight, delighted to have their dear friend and a piece of Narnia back with them. Richard thought it was just a result of the war, and he would never again see his children smile quite so wide as they had when they were smile, and mourned and accepted it as the way of the world. But maybe he doesn't have to lose that after all.

[player1064]

some (a Lot) of my favourite nice headlines about Gary

[rabbits-of-negative-euphoria]

i would like to formally apologize to Mary, Queen of Scots for having thought since childhood that she was Bloody Mary, when Bloody Mary was in fact her cousin