From: Andrew Larsen (aelarsen@facstaff.wisc.edu)
Date: Sat 08 Jul 2000 - 21:25:33 EEST
> Michael Cule:
>> Such as, if memory serves, getting himself a papal dispensation for
>> sleeping with page boys while on Crusade...
Sorry, that's a myth. The only evidence for Richard' supposed
homosexuality comes from a chronicler who was consistantly hostile to
Richard and was repeating all the scurrilous stuff he could find about
Richard. Richard is known to have fathered at least one bastard, so at most
he was bi-sexual (assuming such terms have any meaning for the Middle Ages).
In all likelihood, he was straight.
Andrew E. Larsen
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