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When the news arrived, it was recieved, in a nice irony of names, by Pope Urban the third.
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The archbisop went north, to gain the help of the English and French, who were at war at the time, but were in the midst of negotiating a truce.
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Fredrick took the cross publicly.
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The old king dies and Richard of Poitou was now Richard 1 of England (september 3)
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Once Richard was made king, he had no further excuse for delay for he had taken crusading vow even before Henry had. In fact, Richard did not depart for the Holy Land until July 1190, almost three years after the fall of Jerusalem.
