Ontario High School History of England . of theWest, and rode over burningsands in a crushing weight ofarmour. In time of peace theyfell into luxurious Eastern need not wonder, therefore,that, after a long struggle, theMoslem leader Saladin re-tookJerusalem in IJ^^,^. Richard I, 1189-1199.—Richard, like a great many other^ leaders of his time, attempted with fiery zeal to recoverwhat had been lost. To get money for his expedition tothe East he even gave up the right of supremacy overScotland which Henry II had wrung from William theLyon. Richard is reported to have said that he wouldse
Ontario High School History of England . of theWest, and rode over burningsands in a crushing weight ofarmour. In time of peace theyfell into luxurious Eastern need not wonder, therefore,that, after a long struggle, theMoslem leader Saladin re-tookJerusalem in IJ^^,^. Richard I, 1189-1199.—Richard, like a great many other^ leaders of his time, attempted with fiery zeal to recoverwhat had been lost. To get money for his expedition tothe East he even gave up the right of supremacy overScotland which Henry II had wrung from William theLyon. Richard is reported to have said that he wouldsell London itself, if he could find a purchaser rich in the East, he fought with dash and heroism,but he achieved little. The best the Christian army coulddo was to secure a truce, which gave Christians, for threeyears, the right of access to the holy places. Richard,shipwrecked in the upper Adriatic on the way home, wasseized and sold as a captive to the emperor Henry after more than a years imprisonment, and when. Crusading KnightNote the frequence of the cross. 84 HISTORY OF ENGLAND his overtaxed people promised a great ransom for him,was he free to return to England. He continued there buta few weeks, and he spent his remaining six years in warwith Philip of France. In 1199, he was killed while besieg-ing the petty castle of Chaluz-Chabrol. The barons, the guardians of order.—The reign of Richardmight have been disastrous to England, but was not reallyso. Though his peoi3le were obliged to pay heavily for hiswars and his ransom, they yet took pride in the lion-heartedking, the most famous warrior of the age. Liberty grew inhis absence. When William Longchamps, the chancellor^whom he left in authority, proved a bad ruler, the baronspromptly drove him from the country. These barons werefighting now, not against order, but for it. We hear nolonger, we rarely hear again in English history, the claimthat they were their own masters. Henceforward, obedienc
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