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Richard Coeur de Lion

[kur duh lee-uh n; French kœr duh lee-awn]
noun
  1. Richard I.
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Richard I

noun
  1. Richard the Lion-HeartedRichard Coeur de Lion, 1157–99, king of England 1189–99.
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Richard I

noun
  1. nicknamed Coeur de Lion or the Lion-Heart . 1157–99, king of England (1189–99); a leader of the third crusade (joining it in 1191). On his way home, he was captured in Austria (1192) and held to ransom. After a brief return to England, where he was crowned again (1194), he spent the rest of his life in France
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