Overreaction much?

[**The following takes place as King Richard of England, popularly known as Richard the Lionheart, was returning home from the Third Crusade**.] >[William of Newburgh](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e9/Walter_of_Newburgh.jpg), who remembered [Richard](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6b/Church_of_Fontevraud_Abbey_Richard_I_effigy.jpg)’s return, wrote how, ‘The news of the coming of the king, so long and so desperately awaited, flew faster than the north wind’. >Everyone was weary of insecure government, of the threat of being ruled by a man as giddy and feckless as [count John](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/41/Jan_tomb.jpg) [**Richard’s younger brother**]. Yet not all rejoiced. One of John’s supporters, the castellan of St Michael’s Mount, actually died of fright on hearing the news. __________________________ **Source:** Seward, Desmond. “Richard’s Return.” *Eleanor of Aquitaine*. New York: Times , 1979. 187. Print. __________________________ **Further Reading:** [Guilelmus Neubrigensis (William of Newburgh or Newbury) / William Parvus](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_of_Newburgh) [Richard I of England / Richard Cœur de Lion (Richard the Lionheart) / Oc e No (Yes and No)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_I_of_England) [John, King of England / Johan sanz Terre (John Lackland)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John,_King_of_England)