He did give Britain the Three Golden Lions badge as he thought that a lion best personified the English qualities of strength, courage, dignity and pride but his courtiers said he should use a native animal but three badgers or three squirrels just didn't quite cut it.
His courtiers also said that as King it might be a good idea to spend a bit more time visiting his own Country but he checked his diary and said that it was hard to fit it into his busy fighting schedule but they insisted that the plebs would get upset if he went abroad again so he launched a whistle-stop tour of the main parts of the nation, kissed some babies, shook some hands and then grabbed his sword and buggered back to the Middle East to whack up some more Muslim's.
His greatest foe during the Crusades was Saladin and despite being enemies in a religious war, they got on really well when they weren't catapulting the crap out of other, he even sent his own personal physicians to nurse Richard back to health when he fell ill with fever mid-battle.
He died amusingly while walking along a vanquished armies castle walls in France, with most of the castle's defenders dead, he saw one determined, lone archer left and he was batting away arrows with a dented frying pan and shouting insults at the top of his young lungs.
Richard laughed so hard that he dropped his shield and the archer fired an arrow straight through him.
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