Tancred releases Joan
09/28/1190 AD released
When Tancred seized power after the death of King William II of Sicily in 1189, he had imprisoned William's widow, Queen Joan — Richard the Lionheart's sister — and did not give her the money she had inherited in William's will.
Richard went to Sicily and demanded that his sister be released and given her inheritance; she was freed on 28 September, but without the inheritance
Subjects Who or What released?
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Sicily Nation
Objects To Whom or What was released?
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Joan of England, Queen of Sicily Queen consort of Sicily ...
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