Lionheart
Authors: Sharon Kay Penman
Table of Contents
ALSO BY SHARON KAY PENMAN
THE HISTORICAL NOVELS
The Sunne in Splendour
Here Be Dragons
Falls the Shadow
The Reckoning
When Christ and His Saints Slept
Time and Chance
Devil’s Brood
THE MEDIEVAL MYSTERIES
The Queen’s Man
Cruel as the Grave
Dragon’s Lair
Prince of Darkness
A MARIAN WOOD BOOK
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Penman, Sharon Kay.
Lionheart / Sharon Kay Penman.
p. cm.
“A Marian Wood book.”
ISBN : 978-1-101-54787-8
1. Richard I, King of England, 1157–1199—Fiction. 2. Crusades—Third, 1189–1192—Fiction.
3. Great Britain—History—Richard I, 1189–1199—Fiction. I. Title.
PS3566.E474L
813’54—dc22
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, businesses, companies, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.
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To Jill Davies
CAST OF CHARACTERS
As of 1189
ROYAL HOUSE OF ENGLAND
HENRY FITZ EMPRESS (1133–1189) , King of England, Duke of Normandy, Count of Anjou
ELEANOR (b. 1124), Duchess of Aquitaine in her own right, Henry’s queen and former consort of the French king, Louis VII
Their children:
WILLIAM (1153–1156)
HENRY (Hal in the novel) (1155–1182)
RICHARD (b. September 1157), Duke of Aquitaine, Count of Poitou, crowned King of England in September 1189
GEOFFREY (1158–1186), Duke of Brittany upon his marriage to Constance JOHN (b. December 1166), Count of Mortain, also known as John Lackland MATILDA (Tilda) (1156–1189), Duchess of Saxony and Bavaria, mother of Richenza
ELEANOR (Leonora) (b.1161), Queen of Castile
JOANNA (b. October 1165), Queen of Sicily
ENGLISH ROYAL COURT
GEOFFREY (Geoff), Henry’s illegitimate son, Archbishop of York
WILLIAM MARSHAL, one of Richard’s justiciars, wed to Isabel de Clare, Countess of Pembroke
GUILLAUME LONGCHAMP, Bishop of Ely, Richard’s chancellor
ROYAL HOUSE OF FRANCE
PHILIPPE II (b. 1165), King of France
ISABELLE, his queen, daughter of the Count of Hainaut
LOUIS CAPET, Philippe’s father, former husband of Eleanor, deceased
ALYS CAPET, Philippe’s half-sister, betrothed to Richard in childhood
AGNES CAPET, Philippe’s sister, wed in childhood to the heir to the Greek Empire, today known as Byzantium
MARIE, Countess of Champagne, half-sister to Philippe and to Richard, daughter of Eleanor and Louis, mother of Henri
BRITTANY
CONSTANCE, Duchess of Brittany, widow of Geoffrey, now wed to the Earl of Chester
Her children by Geoffrey:
ARTHUR and ELEANOR (Aenor)
NAVARRE
SANCHO VI, King of Navarre
SANCHO, his eldest son and heir
BERENGARIA, his daughter (b. c. 1170)
SICILY
WILLIAM II DE HAUTEVILLE, King of Sicily
JOANNA, his queen, Richard’s sister
WILLIAM I, William’s father, deceased
MARGARITA OF NAVARRE, William’s mother, deceased
CONSTANCE DE HAUTEVILLE, William’s aunt and heir, wed to Heinrich von Hohenstaufen, King of Germany and heir of Frederick Barbarossa, Holy Roman Emperor
TANCRED, Count of Lecce, illegitimate cousin of William
SYBILLA, Tancred’s wife
ROGER, Tancred’s son
CYPRUS
ISAAC COMNENUS, self-proclaimed emperor
SOPHIA DE HAUTEVILLE, his empress, illegitimate daughter of the late king, William I of Sicily
ANNA COMNENA, Isaac’s daughter
SARACENS
AL-MALIK AL-NASIR SALAH AL-DĪ̄N, ABU’ AL-MUZAFFAR YUSUF IBN AYYUB, Sultan of Egypt, known to crusaders and history as Saladin
AL-MALIK AL-’ĀDIL, SAIF AL-DĪ̄N ABŪ-BAKR AHMAD IBN AYYUB, Saladin’s brother
BAHĀ’ AL- DĪ̄N IBN SHADDĀD, a member of Saladin’s inner circle and author of
The Rare and Excellent History of Saladin
OUTREMER
BALDWIN IV, the “Leper King,” deceased
SYBILLA, his sister, Queen of Jerusalem
GUY DE LUSIGNAN, King of Jerusalem, her husband
ISABELLA, Sybilla’s half-sister
HUMPHREY DE TORON, her husband
BALIAN D’IBELIN, Lord of Nablus, wed to Maria Comnena, former Queen of Jerusalem and mother of Isabella
CONRAD OF MONTFERRAT, Italian-born Lord of Tyre, cousin of the French king, Philippe
AMAURY and JOFFROI DE LUSIGNAN, Guy’s older brothers and vassals of King Richard
GARNIER DE NABLUS, Grand Master of the Knights Hospitaller
ROBERT DE SABLÉ, Grand Master of the Knights Templar
JOSCIUS, Archbishop of Tyre
CRUSADERS WITH RICHARD
HENR I, Count of Champagne, nephew to both Richard and Philippe
ANDRÉ DE CHAUVIGNY, Richard’s cousin
ROBERT BEAUMONT, Earl of Leicester
HUBERT WALTER, Bishop of Salisbury
PRÉAUX BROTHERS, Guilhem, Jean, and Pierre, Norman knights
JACQUES D’AVESNES, Flemish lord
CRUSADERS WITH PHILIPPE
HUGH, Duke of Burgundy, cousin to Philippe
PHILIP, Bishop of Beauvais, cousin to Philippe
ROBERT, Count of Dreux, brother to Beauvais
MATHIEU DE MONTMORENCY, young French lord
GUILLAUME DES BARRES, renowned French knight
JAUFRE, son of the Count of Perche, wed to Richard’s niece Richenza, a.k.a. Matilda
LEOPOLD VON BABENBERG, Duke of Austria
