Nik Clayton 22a3ff2a83 Richard the Lionheart was crowned on 3rd September 1189, not the 27th ... February. If you do a web search for "lionheart crowned" you'll get lots of conflicting information. Some sites say 3rd September, while others say 27th February. Most of the "27th February" crowd seem to take their information from other incarnations of this file on other operating systems. After a very pleasant afternoon spent lunching with my girlfriend's parents, I availed myself of their extensive reference library. You'd be surprised how hard it is to get concrete information about this. The _Encyclopedia Brittanica_ doesn't mention the date, only the year, as does _Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable_, as do all the other printed sources I tried. One of them even said July 7th 1189! Microsoft's (yeah, so sue me) Encarta '95 has quite a comprehensive entry, but again, no day and month information In desperation, I tried the web once more, and finally stumbled upon http://www.btinternet.com/~timeref/hsttime2.htm. This revealed that Henry II died on 6th July 1189 (presumably the source of the 7th July entry in another reference), and that Richard was crowned on 3rd September. Best of all, this site gives references. So if any of you have a copy of _The Life and Times of Richard I_, John Gillingham, pub. George Weidenfeld and Nicholson Limited, 1974, then you can confirm this for yourselves. For completenesses sake, I tried to find an ISBN number for the above book. But Amazon and Barnes and Noble don't appear to stock it (although it looks like a revised version, by the same author, is due out in October 1999, in case anyone's interested). PR: docs/10488 Submitted by: solon@macaulay.demon.co.uk		1999-08-01 19:54:02 +00:00
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