not to be truly dead, surviving to be reconciled to his true father and attain the hand of Bertrade. Historical allusions While Prince Richard is fictional, a son of that name was attributed to Henry and Eleanor during the Middle Ages, though there is reason to doubt his actual existence. Richard, together with two equally suspect brothers John and Henry, are known only from a 14th-century addition made to a manuscript of Flores Historiarum, and are nowhere contemporaneously recorded. The historical Simon de Montfort, on whom the character in Burroughs' novel was based did have a daughter, but her name was Eleanor, not Bertrade. She was still a child when her father died, and she married Llywelyn ap Gruffudd, Prince of the Gwynedd, not the fictional Prince Richard of England of Burroughs' story. There was a real Bertrade de Montfort, daughter of Simon I de Montfort, who married Philip I of France; she, however, died more than a century before the events of this tale. Copyright The copyright for this story has expired in the United States, and thus now resides in the public domain there. The text is available via Project Gutenberg. References External links 1927 American novels Novels by Edgar Rice Burroughs American historical novels A. C. McClurg books