Richard the Crusader.--A quarrelsome king.--Richard's kingdom.--Union of England and Normandy.--England was a possession of Normandy.--Eleanora of Aquitaine.--The contemporaries of Eleanora.--Royal match-making.--The conditions of the marriage.--Apparent prosperity of leanora.--Eleanora's accomplishments.--The Crusades.--A monk preaching the Crusades.--The reasons why Louis and Eleanora undertook a crusade.--Amazons.--The power of ridicule.--The plans and purposes of the female Crusaders.--Antioch.--Meeting the Saracens.--Choosing an encampment.--The result of the queen's generalship.--A quarrel.--The queen at Jerusalem.--A divorce proposed.--The failure of the crusade.--Returning to France.…
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