Richard the Lionheart

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The English King Richard I the Lionheart (1157-1199) set off on the Third Crusade in 1190. En route, he conquered the island of Cyprus the following year. There he met and fell in love with the famous sweet wine Commandaria. During the joint siege of the fortress of Acre (according to another source, Ascalon), Richard the Lionheart mortally offended the Babenberg Duke Leopold V (1157-1194) of Austria (Ostarichi). Leopold was involved with a total of eight comrades-in-arms and attached his Babenberg banner to a castle tower after the fall of the fortress. Lionheart then had the banner torn down and thrown in the dung heap, as in his opinion the minor involvement did not justify attaching the banner.

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