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Richard I (The Lionheart) |
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Richard
was known for his bravery, ruthlessness and discipline. Crusaders
were known for going nuts once they were away from home (not unlike
modern British soccer fans). These were his rules for the men under
his command. |
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Richard
by the grace of God king of England, and duke of Normandy and Aquitaine,
and count of Anjou, to all his subjects who are about to go by sea
to Jerusalem, greeting. know that we, by the common counsel of upright
men, have made the laws here given. Whoever slays a man on ship. board
shall be bound to the dead man and thrown into the sea. But if he
shall slay him on land, he shall be bound to the dead man and buried
in the earth. If any one, moreover, shall be convicted through lawful
witnesses of having drawn a knife to strike another, or of having
struck him so as to draw blood, he shall lose his hand. But if he
shall strike him with his fist without drawing blood, he shall be
dipped three times in the sea. But if any one shall taunt or insult
a comrade or charge him with hatred of God: as many times as he shall
have insulted him, so many ounces of silver shall he pay. A robber,
moreover, convicted of theft, shall be shorn like a hired fighter,
and boiling tar shall be poured over his head, and feathers from a
cushion shall be shaken out over his head,-so that he may be publicly
known; and at the first land where the ships put in he shall be cast
on shore. Under my own witness at Chinon. |
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