NOTE1850
ERRORS CORRECTED
By F. C. B.
*I.*—Sharon Turner's *Hist. of England* (Lond. 1814. 4to.), i. 332. "The Emperor (Henry VI.) determined to extort an immoderate ransom; but, to secure it, had him (Richard Coeur de Lion) conveyed to a castle *in the Tyrol*, from which escape was hopeless."—*Note* "104. In *Tiruali*. Oxened. MS." Ibid. p. 333: "He (Richard) was removed from the dungeon *in the Tyrol* to the emperor's residence at Haguenau."—*Note* "109. See *Richard's Letter to his Mother*. Hoveden, 726." The fortress, here represented to be in the *Tyrol*, is about 220 miles distant ("as the crow flies") from the nearest point…
Topics: Historical Errors, Medieval History, Genealogy
Locations: Tyrol, Haguenau, Vosges, Annweiler, Landau, Zweibrücken, Tower of London, Rimini, Pesaro, Naples, England