Sharon Kay Penman - Lionheart

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
Devils Brood

THE MEDIEVAL MYSTERIES

The Queens Man
Cruel as the Grave
Dragons Lair
Prince of Darkness

A MARIAN WOOD BOOK
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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, 11571199Fiction. 2. CrusadesThird, 11891192Fiction.
3. Great BritainHistoryRichard I, 11891199Fiction. I. Title.
PS3566.E474L
81354dc22

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To Jill Davies

CAST OF CHARACTERS

As of 1189

ROYAL HOUSE OF ENGLAND

HENRY FITZ EMPRESS (11331189) , King of England, Duke of Normandy, Count of Anjou

ELEANOR (b. 1124), Duchess of Aquitaine in her own right, Henrys queen and former consort of the French king, Louis VII

Their children:

WILLIAM (11531156)

HENRY (Hal in the novel) (11551182)

RICHARD (b. September 1157), Duke of Aquitaine, Count of Poitou, crowned King of England in September 1189

GEOFFREY (11581186), Duke of Brittany upon his marriage to Constance JOHN (b. December 1166), Count of Mortain, also known as John Lackland MATILDA (Tilda) (11561189), 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), Henrys illegitimate son, Archbishop of York

WILLIAM MARSHAL, one of Richards justiciars, wed to Isabel de Clare, Countess of Pembroke

GUILLAUME LONGCHAMP, Bishop of Ely, Richards chancellor

ROYAL HOUSE OF FRANCE

PHILIPPE II (b. 1165), King of France

ISABELLE, his queen, daughter of the Count of Hainaut

LOUIS CAPET, Philippes father, former husband of Eleanor, deceased

ALYS CAPET, Philippes half-sister, betrothed to Richard in childhood

AGNES CAPET, Philippes 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, Richards sister

WILLIAM I, Williams father, deceased

MARGARITA OF NAVARRE, Williams mother, deceased

CONSTANCE DE HAUTEVILLE, Williams 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, Tancreds wife

ROGER, Tancreds son

CYPRUS

ISAAC COMNENUS, self-proclaimed emperor

SOPHIA DE HAUTEVILLE, his empress, illegitimate daughter of the late king, William I of Sicily

ANNA COMNENA, Isaacs daughter

SARACENS

AL-MALIK AL-NASIR SALAH AL-DN, ABU AL-MUZAFFAR YUSUF IBN AYYUB, Sultan of Egypt, known to crusaders and history as Saladin

AL-MALIK AL-ADIL, SAIF AL-DN AB-BAKR AHMAD IBN AYYUB, Saladins brother

BAH AL- DN IBN SHADDD, a member of Saladins 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, Sybillas half-sister

HUMPHREY DE TORON, her husband

BALIAN DIBELIN, 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, Guys older brothers and vassals of King Richard

GARNIER DE NABLUS, Grand Master of the Knights Hospitaller

ROBERT DE SABL, Grand Master of the Knights Templar

JOSCIUS, Archbishop of Tyre

CRUSADERS WITH RICHARD

HENR I, Count of Champagne, nephew to both Richard and Philippe

ANDR DE CHAUVIGNY, Richards cousin

ROBERT BEAUMONT, Earl of Leicester

HUBERT WALTER, Bishop of Salisbury

PRAUX BROTHERS, Guilhem, Jean, and Pierre, Norman knights

JACQUES DAVESNES, 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 Richards niece Richenza, a.k.a. Matilda

LEOPOLD VON BABENBERG, Duke of Austria

PROLOGUE

Theirs was a story that would rival the legend of King Arthur and Guinevere, his faithless queen. He was Henry, firstborn son of the Count of Anjou and the Empress Maude, and from an early age, hed seemed to be one of Fortunes favorites. Whilst still Duke of Normandy, hed dared to steal a queen, and by the time he was twenty-one, hed claimed the crown that had eluded the Empress Maude. She was Eleanor, Duchess of Aquitaine, a great heiress and a great beauty who trailed scandal in her wake, her tragedy that she was a woman born in an age in which power was the preserve of men. The French king Louis had rejected Eleanor for her failure to give him a male heir. She gave Henry five, four of whom survived to manhood. They ruled over an empire that stretched from Scotland to the Mediterranean Sea, and for a time, their union seemed blessed.