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If it had not been for his malice, forcing me to return, I would have been able to recover the whole of Outremer. Then, when I was in prison he conspired to keep me there so that he could steal my lands.

— Richard I of England on his betrayal by King Philip; quoted in John Gillingham, Richard I (1999)

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