John Gillingham > Quotes

“At this date, however, the Lusignans were no match for Henry II, now at the height of his powers.”
― John Gillingham, Richard I

“Undeniably he had sinned in taking up arms against his father.”
― John Gillingham, Richard I

“However, while Philip stayed in the palace, Richard set up camp with his army along the shore.”
― John Gillingham, Richard I

“The revolt had come close to success and it may well have shaken Henry IIs confidence in his sons ability to rule Aquitaine.”
― John Gillingham, Richard I

“Tyre survived. On 1 January 1188 Saladin called off the siege.”
― John Gillingham, Richard I

“Henry, however, failed, and so ended his days disliked, humiliated and defeated.”
― John Gillingham, Richard I

“Richards well-calculated act of generosity had”
― John Gillingham, Richard I

“this was on his mothers advice.”
― John Gillingham, Richard I

“Richards point of view harmonious relations with the Church would make it less likely to operate as an espionage centre on behalf of the kings of France.”
― John Gillingham, Richard I

“it might have been argued that he had been pensioned off with the wealth appropriate to his status but with very little power”
― John Gillingham, Richard I

“From now onwards Henry began to pay a price for the fact that he had only occasionally visited Aquitaine, and had only very rarely drawn Poitevins and other southerners to his court.”
― John Gillingham, Richard I

“arrangements for the collection of a crusading tax known as the Saladin Tithe,”
― John Gillingham, Richard I

“By February 1191 the army in Sicily was getting impatient.”
― John Gillingham, Richard I

“for bestowing on him so many gifts that he seemed to possess almost one-third of the kingdom”
― John Gillingham, Richard I

“The enforced idleness was getting on Richards nerves too.”
― John Gillingham, Richard I

“details of the financial privileges to be enjoyed by the crusaders and a set of rules of conduct which they were supposed to observe.”
― John Gillingham, Richard I

“He later changed his mind; according to Howden,”
― John Gillingham, Richard I

“Another contemporary comment which has sometimes been regarded as critical is Diceto's laconic remark that Richard ‘considered a few aspects of the government of the kingdom with a few people’ before he left England having made himself a richer king than any of his predecessors.”
― John Gillingham, Richard I

“For most Englishmen and Normans even Poitou lay deep in the unfamiliar south.”
― John Gillingham, Richard I

“made William a millionaire overnight.”
― John Gillingham, Richard I

“It is not easy to see how Richard could have insisted upon John going on crusade with him”
― John Gillingham, Richard I

“vigorous personality of the new head of the house of Lusignan, Geoffrey de Lusignan.”
― John Gillingham, Richard I

“St Eutropius, who was believed to be a descendant of Xerxes of Persia,”
― John Gillingham, Richard I

“Wherever John was he could be a disruptive force.”
― John Gillingham, Richard I

“Only the fact that Henry had so many other calls on his energy and resources enabled them to survive.”
― John Gillingham, Richard I

“Philip in effect established a black propaganda factory at Paris in order to create the image required by his invasion of Richards lands.”
― John Gillingham, Richard I

“Among historians writing during Richard's lifetime only one is a severe critic of the measures he took before departing on crusade:”
― John Gillingham, Richard I

“And, just as in the Roman Empire the rich had found ways of avoiding paying taxes, so also now the main burden fell upon the mass of the population. Thus, in Commynes’s words, ‘it was pitiful to see and learn about the poverty of the people.”
― John Gillingham, The Wars of the Roses: Peace and Conflict in 15th Century England

“In emergencies Richard had needed his father's support – and his father had given it, but so far as the general day-in day-out management of patronage and government was concerned, he had evidently enjoyed a free hand.”
― John Gillingham, Richard I

“of Richards lands.”
― John Gillingham, Richard I