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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, 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

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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