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Richard I, ‘Cœur de Lion’

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Richard I, ‘Cœur de Lion’, king of England 1189–99, became a figure of romantic admiration in England (in the Robin Hood legends, and in Scott's The Talisman and Ivanhoe). (See Richard Coeur de Lion.)

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