Silver Coin Third Crusade 2010 Standard Cook Islands

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History of the Crusades series

An exclusive silver (antique) coin issued by the Cook Islands in 2010 from the History of the Crusades series depicts on its reverse a scene of the Third Crusade with a portrait of Richard the Lionheart on horseback. The inscriptions "THIRD CRUSADE 1189", "RICHARD THE LIONHEART" and the year of publication complete the print. The obverse shows crusader knights holding a banner, a portrait of Queen Elizabeth II and the face value.

The coin comes in a blue gift box with grey and silver trim along with a numbered certificate of authenticity in a limited edition of only 1000 pieces for the whole world!

Richard I. Lionheart

Richard I the Lionheart (French Richard I C?ur de Lion English Richard I the Lionheart, Latin, Ricardus I Cor leonis and known among the Arabs as Malik Rik; 8 September 1157 in Oxford - 6 April 1199 Châlus) was a member of the Plantagenet dynasty and was King of England from 1189-1199. His father was Henry II. Plantagenet, and his mother was the famous Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine of England.

Richard was only the third son, and second in line to the throne, descended from the Anjou-Plantagenet dynasty. He was not raised in England, but in Anjou, which was the center of his parents' empire. In his youth he was strongly influenced by the troubadours, and is said to have even composed several celebratory songs himself, and by the cult of chivalry which he later adopted. On 6 January 1169, he, along with his father and brothers Henry and Geoffrey, swore an oath of vassal obedience to King Louis VII of France (Richard's mother's former first husband) on behalf of Aquitaine, since, although the English royal family was the sovereign ruling family in its English territories, in the territories that belonged to its members in France, those members of the family were subject to the French king, to whom they owed a fief duty. In April of that year Richard formally became Duke of Aquitaine.

In 1173, his eldest son and co-regent, King Henry the Young, rose against King Henry II, and Richard and Geoffrey sided with their brother in this dispute. At the end of that year, after much violence on both sides, peace was made. In 1182, Richard captured a band of wandering rogues. The survivors were released, but with their eyes gouged out. The Duchy of Aquitaine went up in arms against one of its two kings, Henry II, and supported the other king, Henry the Young. Richard thus started a war against his father alongside his elder brother.

Soon after his coronation (3 September 1189), on 11 December, Richard set out on a crusade to the Holy Land with his ally Philip Augustus. Adverse weather did not allow them to continue their journey to the Holy Land, so they decided to winter in place. Already there, however, the first quarrels appeared when Philip fell in love with Richard's sister Joan, widow of the Sicilian king. Richard refused to accept this love, and Philip soon left Sicily. The French king was succeeded in Sicily by Richard's mother, Queen Eleanor, who brought him his future wife, Princess Berengaria of Navarre.

In April 1191, Richard the Lionheart sailed to Cyprus, where he married Berengaria on 12 May. The newlyweds then set off for the Holy Land. Here Richard succeeded in defeating the still undefeated Saladin and decided who was the rightful king of Jerusalem. He proposed to the defeated Guy of Lusignan that he become King of Cyprus. After the conquest of Akkon, he had nearly 2,600 prisoners slaughtered in cold blood. After the successful battle of Arsuf, Richard tried to negotiate with Saladin for almost a year. In the summer of 1192, he conquered Jaffa. The final agreement with Saladin was sealed on September 2, 1192, and included a five-year truce, crusader states on the Palestinian coast from Beirut to Jaffa, and the accessibility of Jerusalem to Christian pilgrims from Europe. He then embarked on a return journey to Europe.