1: Richard the Lionheart

Synopsis: Richard the Lionheart was the second king of the Plantagenet dynasty of England, who reigned from 1189 to 1199. He was also the Duke of Normandy (called Richard I)

Richard was born at Oxford Palace and was favored by Henry II as a child. He is characterized by an astonishing appetite and a loud cry. As a teenager, Richard lived with his mother, Eleanor, in Aquitaine, France. In 1168 he was made Duke of Aquitaine. In 1184, his eldest brother died, and Richard became heir to the throne. From 1188 to 1189, he colluded with King Philip II of France to oppose his father Henry II's appointment of his youngest son John as crown prince, and successfully seized the throne.

Richard was a warlike monarch. Soon after his accession to the throne, the capture of Jerusalem by the Islamic hero Saladin caused a shock in the Christian world in Europe. In 1190, together with Philip II, he launched the Third Crusade. In 1191 he occupied Cyprus and captured Acre with the French. When he marched to Jerusalem, he was resisted by Saladin but failed, but the heroic sentiment and demeanor between him and Saladin are still passed down by later generations as a beautiful talk.

In September 1192, Richard negotiated peace with Saladin on the condition that Christians could enter and leave Jerusalem freely. Halfway through, Richard was captured by Duke Leopold V of Austria and handed him over to the Holy Roman Emperor Henry II. Henry VI imprisoned him in the hill castle of Trifaels. Legend has it that once during his captivity, Henry VI threw him into a room with lions in order to make him be eaten by lions. Unexpectedly, Richard took the first step, put his hand through the lion's throat, took out the lion's heart, and ate the lion's heart alive under everyone's noses, hence the name of Richard the Lionheart.

For more than 800 years, Richard's iron-clad personality and his fabulous experience of 42 years have been widely circulated throughout the world for more than 800 years, making people marvel, admire and even worship, and of course cursed by his opponents and pagans.

Richard I was known for his bravery, fortitude, boldness, and strategy. He was one of the most famous knight kings of Europe, and his life was full of constant conflicts, from fighting with his father and brother to leading the crusades to the east, and then crushing his brother's usurpation, confronting King Philip II of France, and quelling rebellions......

Comprehensive assessment: medieval heroes, legends.

2: Urban II

Brief introduction:

Urban II, Pope of Rome (one of the four Latin priests of the Middle Ages), under the pressure of the Holy Roman Emperor, opened up another battlefield and launched the Crusades to restore the authority of the pope. He continued the policies of the former Pope Gregory VII with ecclesiastical reform and clerical supremacy, with greater success than his predecessors. Although Gregory VII began a second-century-long power struggle between the Holy See and the Kaiser, it ended in tragedy in a foreign land, and Urban II finally overcame the hostile forces supported by the Kaiser and finally settled in Rome and survived the rest of his life.

Comprehensive evaluation: A god stick, but I have to say that he is a successful god stick! Especially for the sake of the Crusades that have been played for more than 200 years.