2-640-951 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Richard I, King of England from 1189, (1932). Known as 'the Lionheart', Richard (1157-1199) spent little of his reign in England, setting out on the Third Crusade in 1190, and from 1194 onwards fighting to regain territories in France, where he was killed besieging a castle in 1199. With a portrait of Richard's foe on the Third Crusade, Saladin. From Kings and Queens by Eleanor and Herbert Farjeon, illustrated by Rosalind Thornycroft [Victor Gollancz Ltd, London, 1932]