Richard the Lion-Heart was duke of this French area that his mother Eleanor had inherited
He was given the duchy of 
Aquitaine, his mother's inheritance, at age 11 and was enthroned as duke at ... 
Richard, unlike Philip, had only one ambition, to lead the Crusade... [DOC] [TLE] Richard I of England - New World Encyclopedia [PAR] Richard and his other brother, Geoffrey, Duke of Brittany, thus learned how to .... 
His father Henry II of England and Philip II of France had already taken the cross 
at ... who was Richard's sister, and did not give her the money she had inherited 
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