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They were called "The Devil's Brood," though never to their faces. They were the four surviving sons of Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine. With two such extraordinary parents, much was expected of them. But the eldest son, Hal - charming and mercurial and his embittered brother Geoffrey would die young, and it was Richard who would be crowned King of England. Almost immediately after his investiture, he set off for the Holy Land.
A figure of heroic proportions in his own time, Richard today is shrouded in mystery and seeming contradictions, yet the chroniclers in both the Christian and Saracen camps admired him, seeing even his more abrasive qualities as part and parcel of a warrior king. By their accounts Richard the Lionheart was utterly fearless.
