Richard the Puff?

From: Andrew Larsen <aelarsen_at_facstaff.wisc.edu>
Date: Sat, 08 Jul 2000 13:25:33 -0500

> 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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