Richard the Lionheart

Richard the Lionheart - King of England 1189 – 1199

Richard the Lionheart was the third son of Henry II (Wikipedia - the family tree [below] shows third child).

In keeping with other pages on this website this page in not intended to be a definative account of Richard I but rather an attempt to put he was up to at the time with respect to what was going on in the village of Belchamp Walter. Richard was only the king of England for 10 years and it would seem that he did not spend much time in the country and was more concerned with Crusading. At the end of the 12th century it was very much the genesis of the unrest of the barons and earls that were in "control" of estates in what we now know as England, Scotland and Wales.

The de Vere and de Clare families are pertenant to this period.

Richard was succeeded by King John in 1199. John was not popular with the barons!

Wikipedia:

Richard I (8 September 1157 – 6 April 1199), known as Richard Cœur de Lion (Norman French: Quor de lion) or Richard the Lionheart because of his reputation as a great military leader and warrior, was King of England from 1189 until his death in 1199. He also ruled as Duke of Normandy, Aquitaine, and Gascony; Lord of Cyprus; Count of Poitiers, Anjou, Maine, and Nantes; and was overlord of Brittany at various times during the same period. He was the third of five sons of Henry II of England and Eleanor of Aquitaine and seemed unlikely to become king, but his two elder brothers predeceased their father.

Below is the Family Tree from the Wikipedia webpage on Richard I (1189) - Norman English and early Plantagenet monarchs and their relationship with rulers of Western Europe

This family tree is also to be found on the Wikipedia page for Henry II (and possibly others - strangely not on the Conqueror page)

King John - 1199-1216

John was the youngest son of King Henry II of England and Duchess Eleanor of Aquitaine.

King John was most famous for his signing of Magna Carta

According to Wikipedia:

John (24 December 1166 – 19 October 1216) was King of England from 1199 until his death. He lost the Duchy of Normandy and most of his other French lands to King Philip II of France, resulting in the collapse of the Angevin Empire and contributing to the subsequent growth in power of the French Capetian dynasty during the 13th century. The baronial revolt at the end of John's reign led to the sealing of Magna Carta, a document considered an early step in the evolution of the constitution of the United Kingdom.

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Richard the Lionheart - King of England 1189 – 1199

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