As Ascension Day arrives once again, we are reminded of the history of the Holy Land in Richard III’s era – that the Mamluks had displaced Saladin‘s heirs after the latter had defeated the Crusaders under Richard I and Philip Augustus.
Of course, we have almost all watched Ivanhoe or read of Richard III meeting Nicolas von Poppelau and expressing a desire to liberate Constantinople, which had fallen to the Ottomans just months into his life.
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