Richard Lionheart and the Episcopate in His French Domains
Ralph V. Turner
Richard Lionheart's historical reputation is primarily that of a warrior kingrex iWle bellicosus in one English chronicler's words-yet recent scholarship has sought to place the ruler context kingship.' Previous tests Richard's personal involvement governing his domains have concentrated on kingdom England, neglecting Continental (with exception Normandy some extent). The survival masses administrative records from medieval England makes it easier evaluate role government there than domains, which generated far fewer records, and historians failed extend their evaluation as an monarch father's patrimony Loire River valley or mother Eleanor Aquitaine's inheritance farther south. Indeed, no earlier Capetian take-
French Historical Studies