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When King Richard the Lionheart lay dying from a crossbolt, he pardoned the boy who should him. After he died, a mercenary named Mercadier flayed the boy to death. Was he ever punished for defying the Kings dying words?

by /u/Lord_Deadpool in /r/AskHistorians

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