# Richard the Lion Heart

Author: Norgate, Kate, 1853-1935

Genre: Category: Biographies

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/71283

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Richard+the+Lion+Heart+Norgate&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

“The eagle of the broken covenant shall rejoice in her third nesting”—thus ran one of the predictions in the so-called “prophecy of Merlin,” which in the latter half of the twelfth century was generally regarded as shadowing forth the destiny of Henry Fitz-Empress and his family. “The queen,” said those who interpreted the prophecy after the event, “is called the eagle of the broken covenant because she spread out her wings over two realms, France and England, but was separated from the one by divorce and from the other by long imprisonment. And whereas her first-born son, William, died in infancy, and the second, Henry, in rebellion against his father, Richard, the son of her third nesti...

## Chapters

- [l. 7731; a mistake which might very easily be made, owing to the](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/richard-the-lion-heart-71283/chapters/16/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/richard-the-lion-heart-71283/chapters/15/index.md)
- [CHAPTER V](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/richard-the-lion-heart-71283/chapters/11/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/richard-the-lion-heart-71283/chapters/5/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/richard-the-lion-heart-71283/chapters/12/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/richard-the-lion-heart-71283/chapters/8/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/richard-the-lion-heart-71283/chapters/3/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/richard-the-lion-heart-71283/chapters/14/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/richard-the-lion-heart-71283/chapters/7/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/richard-the-lion-heart-71283/chapters/4/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/richard-the-lion-heart-71283/chapters/9/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/richard-the-lion-heart-71283/chapters/10/index.md)
- [ii. 342, where we are told that Richard while lying sick before](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/richard-the-lion-heart-71283/chapters/17/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/richard-the-lion-heart-71283/chapters/1/index.md)
- [BOOK I](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/richard-the-lion-heart-71283/chapters/2/index.md)
- [BOOK II](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/richard-the-lion-heart-71283/chapters/6/index.md)
- [BOOK III](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/richard-the-lion-heart-71283/chapters/13/index.md)