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The crusades and all its horrors have been well documented and models have been released in the past , this one from Mitches Military Models depicts the death of Richard the Lionheart at the point when he was hit by a bolt from a crossbow in the shoulder , consequently dying from what some believe was an incompetent so called medical man .
Richard was born at Beaumont Palace, Oxford, on 8th September, 1157,
In 1172, when he was fourteen years old, Richard was invested with his mother's inheritance of Aquitaine and Poitou at Limoges.
Richard grew to be a tall man of around six feet four inches, a graceful figure with long legs and an athletic build, in later years he had a tendency to grow stouter. He had an abiding appreciation of poetry and music and a love of fine clothing His hair was red, like his father's, his eyes grey and furious,
He had also inherited the Plantagenet temper, causing him to be continually arguning with his father
At the Battle of Gisors in 1198, he adopted the motto "Dieu et mon Droit" "God and my Right" which is still used by British monarchs today.
On the evening of 26th of March while Richard was walking around the castle directing the siege, an archer, using a frying pan as a shield, fired a crossbow bolt at him from the battlements, he ducked too late and the bolt embedded itself in his left shoulder. In attempting to pull the bolt out, the shaft broke, leaving the iron head in his flesh. A clumsy surgeon working by torch light, although succeeding in removing the arrow head, made the wound far worse and gangrene set in.
When the Castle fell, the archer was brought before Richard, who, aware that he was soon to meet his maker, forgave him, stating "Live on, and by my bounty behold the light of day," he gave orders that he was to be set free and given a hundred shillings. Richard's devoted mother, Eleanor of Aquitaine, rushed to his side and was with him to the end, he died in her arms on 6th April, 1199.
Richard was interred at Fontevrault, his mother accompanied her son's body there, burying him, as he had requested, at the feet of his father. His heart was buried at Rouen in Normandy, his entrails he bequeathed to Poitou.
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The crusades and all its horrors have been well documented and models have been released in the past , this one from Mitches Military Models depicts the death of Richard the Lionheart at the point when he was hit by a bolt from a crossbow in the shoulder , consequently dying from what some believe was an incompetent so called medical man .
Richard was born at Beaumont Palace, Oxford, on 8th September, 1157,
In 1172, when he was fourteen years old, Richard was invested with his mother's inheritance of Aquitaine and Poitou at Limoges.
Richard grew to be a tall man of around six feet four inches, a graceful figure with long legs and an athletic build, in later years he had a tendency to grow stouter. He had an abiding appreciation of poetry and music and a love of fine clothing His hair was red, like his father's, his eyes grey and furious,
He had also inherited the Plantagenet temper, causing him to be continually arguning with his father
At the Battle of Gisors in 1198, he adopted the motto "Dieu et mon Droit" "God and my Right" which is still used by British monarchs today.
On the evening of 26th of March while Richard was walking around the castle directing the siege, an archer, using a frying pan as a shield, fired a crossbow bolt at him from the battlements, he ducked too late and the bolt embedded itself in his left shoulder. In attempting to pull the bolt out, the shaft broke, leaving the iron head in his flesh. A clumsy surgeon working by torch light, although succeeding in removing the arrow head, made the wound far worse and gangrene set in.
When the Castle fell, the archer was brought before Richard, who, aware that he was soon to meet his maker, forgave him, stating "Live on, and by my bounty behold the light of day," he gave orders that he was to be set free and given a hundred shillings. Richard's devoted mother, Eleanor of Aquitaine, rushed to his side and was with him to the end, he died in her arms on 6th April, 1199.
Richard was interred at Fontevrault, his mother accompanied her son's body there, burying him, as he had requested, at the feet of his father. His heart was buried at Rouen in Normandy, his entrails he bequeathed to Poitou.
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