Who was the best medieval King from the 12th century to the 15th? Was it Richard I, of the Crusades? Could it have been Agincourt's Henry V?
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>>1367455
>Richard Cœur de Lion
A frenchman who spent his life making war. He didn't help his country, although he was very brave.
>Henry V
A frenchman too. He only cared about being crowned King of France, he didn't do great things for his country.
The greatest medieval king was Saint-Louis of France. He was just, he was good, he was stable, even if he was a jerk to his family and tried to do two huge crusades that brought nothing.
>>1367603
Aquitaine =/ french
They didn't even speak french
>>1367455
I think King Henry VIII was the best King. Verily, he failed to have stable relationships and verily he had a poor diet but he successfully created his own church. How many Kings freed themselves from the Vatican?
Edward I was crazy.
>An ominous black cloud hung over the field of Evesham on 4 August 1265 as Montfort led his army in a desperate uphill charge against superior forces, described by one chronicler as the "murder of Evesham, for battle it was none". On hearing that his son Henry had been killed, Montfort replied, "Then it is time to die." During the battle, a twelve-man squad of Edward's men had stalked the battlefield independent of Edward's main army, their sole aim being to find the earl and cut him down. Montfort was hemmed in; Roger Mortimer killed Montfort by stabbing him in the neck with a lance. Montfort's last words were said to have been "Thank God". Also slain with Montfort were other leaders of his movement, including Peter de Montfort and Hugh Despenser.
Montfort's body was mutilated in an unparalleled frenzy by the royalists. News reached the mayor and sheriffs of London that "the head of the earl of Leicester ... was severed from his body, and his testicles cut off and hung on either side of his nose"; and in such guise the head was sent to Wigmore Castle by Roger Mortimer, 1st Baron Mortimer, as a gift to his wife, Maud. His hands and feet were also cut off and sent to diverse places to enemies of his as a great mark of dishonour to the deceased. Such remains as could be found were buried under the altar of Evesham Abbey by the canons. It was visited as holy ground by many commoners until King Henry caught wind of it. He declared that Montfort deserved no spot on holy ground and had his remains reburied under an insignificant tree. The remains of some of Montfort's soldiers who had fled the battlefield were found in the nearby village of Cleeve Prior.
Montfort's niece, Margaret of England, later killed one of the soldiers responsible for his death, purposely or inadvertently.
Louis IX
