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Well Mel, perhaps because they drunk gin under the table at court it assumed the 'nickname' Agincourt, that would make sense, what say you? :))

May I google, am intrigued ... Robin is indeed very knowledgeable and this is an area of history I know little about.

No Shimms, it's true !

What's more he was well known for being a very generous man ...............did you know that he once offered his Kingdom for someone's horse ?

Hi Robin

I've heard the saying, A Kingdom for a horse yet never knew why, mmm, adore learning. :)

From what I know of Arthur I would agree, that he was a wise, generous man ... his round table, all equal, I believe in that too.

That sounds very feasable Shims Agincourt has such a strange name its origins would be very obscure and Robin is a good friend so with that and his excellent knowledge in mind I'm inclined to beleive him x

Shims I also am intrigued to know more google away ~ Im sure ar good friend Robin has more to impart and Im a willin student alwes ready to learn new things x

Wow! Robin ooooooooh an animal man were horses rare back in the day? ~ sounds like a very nice man to offer his Kingdom in exchange x

He is indeed knowledgeable Mel, I am off to google, see what I can find out in the knowledge that if I am out of my depth, Robin will come to the rescue.

I believe him about Arthur, am just intrigued as the where the name Agincourt came from, tis French I believe. xxx

One of the more infamous of Arthur's wars the disagreement he got into with some distant relatives over the colour of some flowers to go on their coat of arms.

It was known as the Wars of the Pansies.

Now that I would like to hear more about bein a lover of nature and all things flowery x

Pray tell Robin ... please ...

Am sitting here spellbound xxx

Yes tell all Robin ~ I think I do recall a tale of the said war x

Not much to tell really.

But it all ended happily with him signing off the barons' shopping list in some magnificent cart at Runnymede.


But he wasn't all good news !

His obsession with hydrochloric acid caused him to dissolve a few monasteries ......................................... and he got his feet wet on his hols while sitting in his deckchair and telling the sea to go away.

Methinks you are teasing us, norti boy lol! wmsl O)))

Well Im not so sure maybe if Runnymede had such a magnificent cart wat was a King doin with it ~ did he steal it?

Oh my gosh he was obsessed with acid was he ocd ~ were there any mon{c}ks in the monostries at the time?

No .............................. they had all gone off to be Temple Knights in the Crusades.

think that was the non english speaking king Richard 1st he ended up in Cyprus looking for his wife xx

she was on a med cruise ship that broke down in a storm xx

~~~~~~~~~~ to Robin n Rod hiya lads x

Rod I will take a while to ponder than one but ponder it I will x

Robin thank you once more for enlightenin me I will get bk to you x

Mel he had to invade Cyprus to find her then married her in Limassol think it was St Georges church
then carried on to the crusades

Oh Rod

I adore history ... that is so romantic, I don't know much about this part of history have always been enamoured of the Plantagenets, Tudors and more. xxx

morning Shimms i only knew that from a holiday there and went into the church and it was in the guide book x