Aug 24, 2026 · 6 hr 39 min · 60 segments
While the life of Richard Strauss may not have been filled with extraordinary drama, it was notably free from the material struggles that plagued many of his contemporaries. His masterpieces, such as…
King Richard I, the Crusader, was a boisterous, reckless, and desperate man, and he made a great deal of noise in the world in his day.
Indeed, his father, his mother, and all his brothers and sisters were engaged as long as the father lived in perpetual wars against each other, which were waged with the most desperate fierceness on all sides.
In order to understand the nature of these difficulties, and also to comprehend fully what sort of a woman Richard's mother was, we must first pay a little attention to the map of the countries over which these royal personages held sway.
The relative situation of these two countries is shown on the map.
You will see by the map the situation of the River Loire.
It rises in the center of France and flows to the westward through a country which was even in those days very fertile and beautiful.
South of the Loire was a sort of kingdom then under the dominion of a young and beautiful princess named Eleonora.
She was very celebrated in her day and has since been greatly renowned in history under the name of Eleonora of Aquitaine.
Eleonora received her realm from her grandfather.
Her father had gone on a crusade with his brother Eleonora's uncle, Raymond, and had been killed in the east.
Raymond had made himself master of Antioch.
We shall presently hear of this Raymond again.
The grandfather abdicated in Eleonora's favor when she was about fourteen years of age.
King Richard I, the Crusader, was a boisterous, reckless, and desperate man, and he made a great deal of noise in the world in his day.
Indeed, his father, his mother, and all his brothers and sisters were engaged as long as the father lived in perpetual wars against each other, which were waged with the most desperate fierceness on all sides.
In order to understand the nature of these difficulties, and also to comprehend fully what sort of a woman Richard's mother was, we must first pay a little attention to the map of the countries over which these royal personages held sway.
The relative situation of these two countries is shown on the map.
You will see by the map the situation of the River Loire.
It rises in the center of France and flows to the westward through a country which was even in those days very fertile and beautiful.
South of the Loire was a sort of kingdom then under the dominion of a young and beautiful princess named Eleonora.
She was very celebrated in her day and has since been greatly renowned in history under the name of Eleonora of Aquitaine.
Eleonora received her realm from her grandfather.
Her father had gone on a crusade with his brother Eleonora's uncle, Raymond, and had been killed in the east.
Raymond had made himself master of Antioch.
We shall presently hear of this Raymond again.
The grandfather abdicated in Eleonora's favor when she was about fourteen years of age.
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