Nevertheless, it has to be admitted that he [King Richard the Lionheart] retained the same cynicism about churchmen displayed by his mother in her prime. When the preacher Fulk of Neuilly accused him of begetting three shameless daughters, Pride, Avarice and Sensuality, Richard was ready with a retort worthy of William IX: ‘I give my daughter Pride to the Knights Templars, my daughter Avarice to the Cistercians, and my daughter Sensuality to the princes of the Church.’
No story illustrates more vividly how much he was a son after Eleanor’s heart, but, like her, he was no persecutor of clerics.
”- from Desmond Seward’s Eleanor of Aquitaine (1979).
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