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Richard I: Rise of the Lion
“The
family life of
length and breadth of his vast kingdom. These of their own. There might have been a hint of
absences would go on for so long that at one paranoia in his actions, as he would not have the Angevins
point the archbishop of Canterbury felt the need wanted any one of his prodigies to have the power
to remind him of his children, “from the sight of to challenge him directly for the crown. While was complicated,
whom scarce even the hardest-hearted father could keeping his older sons on a tight leash, the king
any longer withhold his gaze.” would lavish gifts and praise on his youngest. to say
Overbearing when he was present, Henry Whether he meant to or not, Henry’s favouritism the least”
would attempt to limit his sons’ influence until he drove an inexorable wedge between him and one
deemed them ready to inherit lands and power child in particular: Richard.
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