Richard and Philip--pictures and sources

It's skimpy on the pictures as I cannot find very many relevant or recognisable ones. The truth is, they just did not have photographs back then and "official" pictures were not meant to be pictures of people. They were just images of someone representing the authority or a dynasty.
The tomb effigies might be of more use, or even the vague contemporary descriptions.




Philip, on the extreme right (over there), burning heretics. (Illuminated manuscript, fifteenth century, from Morgan Library, New York, M. 536, ©Morgan Library


http://www.princeton.edu/~heresy/program.html



Richard. There is the image of the Three
Lions on his shield.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Lionheart

And look here,

Grandes Chroniques de France http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grandes_Chroniques_de_France
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A beautiful image of Richard and Philip accepting the keys to Acre when they were on the Third Crusade.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Philip_Augustus_and_Richard_the_Lionheart_at_Acre.jpg

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A biography of Philip on the Catholic Encyclopedia. http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/12001a.htm

A list of books about Richard and the Third Crusade: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Lionheart#References
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Lionheart#External_links

And on Philip:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_II_of_France#Sources

I wanted to read The Government of Philip Augustus but the local library does not stock it. If you know where to find it, could you leave a comment at the bottom telling me where? (Oh god, I'm getting desperate.)

Some of the pictures I wanted to put up but couldn't: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Philip_II_of_France

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As an asides, this: Medieval and Modern Passages Supporting the Theory of Richard I's Homosexuality is shit. I hate it when fags (or anti-fags or anybody else with a cause--which usually turns out to be totally unworthy) use historical figures or famous people tpo justify themselves. Being gay does not make a person great. And neither does being a woman, a left-hander or a dyslexic. (I am all those things and I can vouch that it is not a factor. I have seen so many awful websites with lists of famous _________--fill in the blanks.)

In fact, it is not even known whether or not Richard (or Philip for that matter) was homosexual. He had no offspring with his wife, Berengaria of Navarre, but that does not prove much--he was hardly ever with her (get your minds out of the gutter, he was out on Crusade or away defending his territories). Also, he had "one illegitimate son, Philip of Cognac" (wikipedia).

People who have to hinge on the greatness of others to bring glory to themselves are just losers. Period.