HIM5297145: Richard I, King of England. The third son of Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine, Richard I (1157-1199) reigned as King of England from 1189-1199. The second of the Angevin (Plantagenet) kings of England, he was known as Richard Coueur de Lion (the Lionheart). Richard spent most of his reign abroad, first on the Third Crusade, then in captivity in Germany after Leopold V of Austria captured him on his way back from the Holy Land in 1192, and finally at war with France, where he was killed by an infected arrow wound. (Colorised black and white print) / Bridgeman Images
HIM5297092: Thomas a Becket (1118-1170), English churchman, saint and martyr, 1493. Archbishop of Canterbury from 1162, Becket clashed almost incessantly with King Henry II over the question of the independence of the Church from the authority of the state. He was murdered by four knights in Canterbury Cathedral on 29 December 1170. From Liber Chronicarum Mundi (Nuremberg Chronicle) by Hartmann Schedel. (Nuremberg, 1493). (Colorised black and white print) / Bridgeman Images