Richard I

Family: England · Role: former king of England · First appears: King John 1

Life events

1199 · Richard I died, enabling his younger brother's accession.(King John 1)
- “This man so soone as his brother Richard was deceased,”

child: Philip of Cognac “Philip bastard sonne to king Richard, to whome his father had giuen the castell and honor of Coinacke”

siblings with King John “which the French king had by warre taken from him, the citie of Angiers onelie excepted, which citie he receiued againe by couenants of the same agréement. The French king restored also to king John (as Rafe Niger writeth) the citie of Tours, and all the castels and fortresses which he had taken within Touraine: and moreouer, receiued of king John his homage for all the lands, fées and tenements which at anie time his brother king Richard, or his father king Henrie had holden of him”

parent: Henry II “This maner he vsed, not onelie with the king alone, but with the father and the two sonnes, that is to say, Henrie the second, Richard and John”
siblings with King John “This maner he vsed, not onelie with the king alone, but with the father and the two sonnes, that is to say, Henrie the second, Richard and John”
with Hugh of Lincoln (Hugh of Lincoln refused payments assessed for Richard's wars.) “he would denie paiments of such subsidies and taxes he was assessed to paie to the vses of king Richard and king John, towards the maintenance of their wars”

liege: Henry Fitz Ailwin (Henry Fitz Ailwin held the office of mayor during Richard I's reign.) “But here yée haue to vnderstand, that this Henrie Fitz Alwin had béene maior of London long before this time, euen from the first yeare of king Richard”

Extracted from the original text of Holinshed's Chronicles — the reigns Shakespeare dramatized. Made with Rho MD.