Ricardo Corazón de León

The mere mention of Ricardo Corazón de León's name awakens in the collective imagination the memory of the figure of the knight par excellence, the impetuous nobleman who fed so many youthful fantasies and whose struggles against Saladino are part of the legend. Audacity, courage, a high sense of duty, ambition, loyalty or physical strength are some of the traits that we attribute to an unrepeatable character. The confrontations with his father, the rivalry with his brother, Juan sin Tierra, the conquest of Cyprus, the Crusades, the expulsion of Philip Augustus from Normandy... His whole life seems marked by combat and ardor. Warrior. But, to get a full understanding of Richard the Lionheart, son of Eleanor of Aquitaine, it is necessary to place him in his political, ideological and literary context. Beyond the most complete and rigorous biography of the character, without a doubt the most complete example of a medieval knight, Jean Flori, one of the most renowned historians and experts on the Crusades and the 12th century in the world, gives us a critical history of the chivalric mentality of the twelfth century.