French scientists have analyzed the body, preserved at the Cathedral of Rouen after the death of Richard I, known as Lionheart; they found was wrapped in linen, treated with mercury, herbs and reverence and pollen record holding confirmation of his death from a war wound in the spring of 1199, in Central France.
What Philippe Charlier, who published his Thursday, did not find the dirty dust is all that remains of the heart was no traces of toxin-bolt dulling tales that the Crusader king was struck by a poisoned crossbow. Medieval dirt and an infected wound probably caused her death, at the age of 41 years.
For English, fresh from rediscovering the ruins of 15th century descendant of Lionheart, namesake and Shakespearean villain Richard III under a municipal parking, the team results of Charlier may revive memories of a monarch who lives in popular culture as the away, but "good King Richard" in the tales of Robin Hood.
For the French, which Richard fought when he died, his reputation as a ruthless Warrior, against Muslims in the Holy Land, but also in Europe, can explain the care to preserve the heart of the King so expensively bound in medieval mind with embalming of Jesus after the crucifixion.
"He was rather criticized during the crusade when he was particularly cruel," Charlier, a youth television celebrity in France, told a press conference at Versailles.
"People started to talk about when he died, so very special attention was to be given to his body and especially his heart, with herbs and spices that were not chosen by accident.
"We know from historical records that those herbs and spices have been used to make time Richard the Lionheart would spend in Purgatory as brief and give him some kind of odor of sanctity.
"So this study is almost a scientific study of an artificial odor of sanctity, a man," added Charlier, dubbed the "Indiana Jones of the cemeteries" by French media for his high-profile analysis of relics and royal remains the last few years.
WITHOUT DOUBT
Unlike some of these discoveries, notably genetic analysis of bones found belong to Richard III or Charlier a analysis that concluded was that of Henri IV, great King of Renaissance France, no research was conducted in Rouen to determine if his heart was in fact that of Richard I.
The organ was first rediscovered during the work at the Cathedral in the 19th century, in a lead coffin dated to the 12th or 13th century bearing the inscription in Latin: "--jacet hic cor ricardi regis anglorum"-here is the heart of Richard King of England. Its provenance was not in doubt, Charlier said, noting a practice prevalent at the time of the actual division remains for burial in different sites.
Among his earlier works, Charlier, 35, has found that the relics of Joan of arc, in fact, came from an Egyptian Mummy and verified dried blood on a handkerchief was guillotined Louis XVI from DNA testing to link it to other royal remains.
In their book "scientific reports", University Hospital Charlier Raymond Poincaré and his team wrote that they found traces of linen, Crape Myrtle, Daisy, mint, incense, creosote, mercury and possibly.
Had no clearly identifiable human tissue but said Embalmers themselves were not necessarily guilt-rot may have been due to decay in the lead and always wet.
If they were successful in accelerating the process by which Richard entered the paradise is a matter of pure speculation.
Charlier, whose Twitter account describes his "patients" as "(soon), ... Henri IV, Richard the Lionheart, Louis XVI etc, "noted in the book that had ruled a Bishop from the 13th century:" Richard the Lionheart spent 33 years in Purgatory as Expiation for his sins and ascended into heaven just in March 1232. "
(Additional reporting by Vicky Buffery in Paris and Reuters Television at Versailles; Writing by Alastair Macdonald; Editing by Andrew Heavens)
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