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Mind Map by Charlotte Peacock, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Charlotte Peacock
about 11 years ago
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Richard was
a bad King
- Has had a bad press
since his own era
- Used England as a
bank to finance his
ambitious exploits
abroad
- Taxation in England at
record levels during
Richard's reign
- Heavy taxation left
the Anglo-Norman
realm financially
destablished
- A cash-cow
- To raise extra money he
exploited the relationship
between himself and the
higher classes; 'The king
is like a robber
permanently on the prowl'
- Selling of offices
and tithes etc
- But these men
were experienced,
not strangers to the
realm
- Perfectly usual
- But these men
were experienced,
not strangers to the
realm
- Selling of offices
and tithes etc
- Taxation in England at
record levels during
Richard's reign
- Absentee King: Spent
only 6 months of his 10
year reign in England
- Blamed for neglecting
the affairs of England
for those of France
- Left his lands to go on crusade
- Like Henry he was not just
the King of England, but also
the ruler of the Angevin Empire
- Richard shared the love of his
mother for Aquitaine - saw his
title as Duke as more important
than that of King of England
- Richard shared the love of his
mother for Aquitaine - saw his
title as Duke as more important
than that of King of England
- In terms of presentism, John was a true
King of England (but not through choice -
he had lost the majority of his lands)
- Blamed for neglecting
the affairs of England
for those of France
- Despite the problems his
father had faced, Richard
too left the question of his
own succession unresolved
- Failing to sort a successor
ultimately raised tensions
between Arthur and John;
Arthur was eventually murdered
- Failing to sort a successor
ultimately raised tensions
between Arthur and John;
Arthur was eventually murdered
- The men who restored
order had been
administered by Henry
during his reign, rather
than Richard
- Didn't marry the French
bride promised to him who
may have brought him longer
peace in Northern France
- Conducted warfare in
Aquitaine, leading in 1199 to
his own death at
Chalus-Chabrol, attempting,
unsuccessfully, to impose
order upon the counts of
Angouleme and Limoges
- The Quit-claim - 'a piece of vile commerce and a shameful loss to the English crown'
- Left William Longchamp to
administer England whilst on
crusade. Appointment turned out
to misjudged. Longchamp's faults
meant he was unable to survive
the political turbulance whipped by
John in 1191
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