2-651-953 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Blondel, under the walls of Richard's Prison', c1860, (c1860). Blondel de Nesle (c1155-1202) under the walls of Richard I’s (1157-1199) Prison. By 1260 the legend of Récits d'un Ménestrel de Reims, claimed that after Richard I was held for ransom in 1192, he was found by the minstrel Blondel, whom he saw from his window and sang a song with. From "The Comic History of England, Volume I", by Gilbert A A'Beckett. [Bradbury, Agnew, & Co., London]