Three Richards
The three Richards who ruled England in the Middle Ages were among the most controversial and celebrated of its rulers. Richard I (''Coeur de Lion'', 1189-99) was a great crusading hero; Richard II (1377-99) was an authoritarian aesthete deposed by his cousin, Henry IV, and murdered; while Richard III (1483-85), as the murderer of his nephews, ''The Princes in the Tower'', was the most notorious v...
The three Richards who ruled England in the Middle Ages were among the most controversial and celebrated of its rulers. Richard I (''Coeur de Lion'', 1189-99) was a great crusading hero; Richard II (1377-99) was an authoritarian aesthete deposed by his cousin, Henry IV, and murdered; while Richard III (1483-85), as the murderer of his nephews, ''The Princes in the Tower'', was the most notorious v...
