Hello and welcome to History of England episode 49 Travel Chaos.

This week for my book Recommendation, I thought I'd go for a book about Robin Hood since

the guy gets a recommendation this week.

So the one I've gone for is the incredibly appropriately titled Robin Hood by J.C. Holt.

Professor Holt is a historian you can trust and this is a definitive book on the subject

and a less than 300 pages isn't too long.

This week we're going to talk about Richard's travel problems and what's been going on

back at the mouse hole in England while the cat's been away.

When Philip of France left the Holy Land, he left without any regret at leaving the man

whose bed he'd once shared in his youth.

As far as he was concerned, everything had gone wrong for him and there was only one man

to blame, Richard.

Now Philip may have been a thoroughly unpleasant man but he was to be as successful as he was

unpleasant.

As far as he was concerned, now was a good time to get stuck into Richard.

While Richard was away, he was one mouse that was looking to play.

The insi-ti-ti-fly in the ointment though was that he'd had to swear not to harm any

of Richard's interests and there was the small matter of the defence that the church offered

the crusader.

Richard in the eyes of the church was sacrosanct.

So Philip popped into the Pope's cellistine III and basically asked for permission to give

Richard a kicking.

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