scruffy1
Veteran Member
- Time of past OR future Camino
- Holy Year from Pamplona 2010, SJPP 2011, Lisbon 2012, Le Puy 2013, Vezelay (partial watch this space!) 2014; 2015 Toulouse-Puenta la Reina (Arles)
Richard the Lionheart Richard Coeur de Lion Ricardo I de Inglaterra!
Richard I King of England child of the Regent Queen Eleanor, self-proclaimed spawn of the devil is just here to attract your attention. . I wouldn't touch the argument whether he is or is he not King of England with a Black Diamond trekking pole - leave it that he was born in Oxford and as an adult spent eight whole months on what he considered a grey and dreary island. Queen Eleanor is actually a very much more interesting figure but appears only a footnote here. She inherited her title from her father Guillaume X (ok ok William for Francophobes) Duke of Aquitaine called the Saint, and Count of Poitou. Now Guillaume was a rather unremarkable figure - he was converted to Christianity by Saint Bernard of Clairvaux certainly an honor and he did sire Eleanor. Late in life, he decided to embark on a pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela in order to counterbalance his many and numerous transgressions. You will be happy to learn that he indeed arrived in Santiago not so happy to learn that he died there of food poisoning. Apparently Richard was willing to suffer malaria in the Holy Land but the food of Iberia in those years was not something to be trifled with! So you drank some bad water? Last nights dinner didn't agree with your plumbing? It could be worse!
Richard I King of England child of the Regent Queen Eleanor, self-proclaimed spawn of the devil is just here to attract your attention. . I wouldn't touch the argument whether he is or is he not King of England with a Black Diamond trekking pole - leave it that he was born in Oxford and as an adult spent eight whole months on what he considered a grey and dreary island. Queen Eleanor is actually a very much more interesting figure but appears only a footnote here. She inherited her title from her father Guillaume X (ok ok William for Francophobes) Duke of Aquitaine called the Saint, and Count of Poitou. Now Guillaume was a rather unremarkable figure - he was converted to Christianity by Saint Bernard of Clairvaux certainly an honor and he did sire Eleanor. Late in life, he decided to embark on a pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela in order to counterbalance his many and numerous transgressions. You will be happy to learn that he indeed arrived in Santiago not so happy to learn that he died there of food poisoning. Apparently Richard was willing to suffer malaria in the Holy Land but the food of Iberia in those years was not something to be trifled with! So you drank some bad water? Last nights dinner didn't agree with your plumbing? It could be worse!
