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Richard Coeur de Lion

The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature | 2003 | | Copyright

Richard Coeur de Lion, a verse romance in 7,136 lines of short couplets dating from the early 14th cent. It is assumed that the source is Anglo-Norman, dating from about 1230–50. The poem describes the discomfiture of the Saracens in the course of the Third Crusade and breaks off, unfinished, when a three-year truce is arranged.

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Richard Cœur de Lion

The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed. | 2011 | Copyright

Richard Cœur de Lion see Richard I , of England.

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