acknowledgments

i have used (and in some cases abused) the books listed below. I am especially grateful to David Boyle’s The Troubadour’s Song, which I discovered by accident after I had begun writing my story, and which I recommend as not just fine history, but as a great true-life adventure story. Boyle has researched King Richard’s itinerary from the Holy Land until his capture in Vienna, so I am indebted to him for many of the details.

Asbridge, Thomas	The Crusades
Boyle, David	The Troubadour’s Song
Duby, Georges	William Marshal
Gillingham, John	Richard I
McLynn, Frank	Lionheart & Lackland
Miller, David	Richard the Lionheart: The Mighty Crusader
Morris, Marc	King John, Treachery and Tyranny in Medieval England
Seward, Desmond	The Demon’s Brood, A History of the Plantagenet Dynasty
Warren, W.L.	Henry II
Weir, Alison	Eleanor of Aquitaine
(also)	Britain’s Royal Families