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* [[Historical Domain Character]]: Prince John and [[Richard the Lion Heart|Richard Cœur-de-Lion]]

* [[Historical Hero Upgrade]]: [[Richard the Lion Heart|Richard I]] -- though Scott's depiction is not uniformly a positive one; his Richard is proud, reckless, a bit sensual, rather violent, and perhaps on the whole not an entirely inaccurate depiction of the [[Warrior Prince|warrior king]]. Still, he does seem to leave out the king’s extreme arrogance, deviousness, intolerance, morbidity, and occasional bouts of almost insane fury. (The theory, by the way, that Richard was a [[Ho Yay|homosexual]] -- which would doubtless have [[No Yay|scandalized]] the strait-laced Puritan Scott -- was not seriously advanced until after his time.)

* [[History Marches On]]: The view popularised by Sir Walter, of plucky "English" commoners still resisting their "~~Norman~~" overlords a century or two after the Conquest was questioned even in Scott's own time, and almost wholly abandoned by serious historians within the same century.

* [[History Marches On]]: The view popularised by Sir Walter, of plucky "English" commoners still resisting their "Norma n" overlords a century or two after the Conquest was questioned even in Scott's own time, and almost wholly abandoned by serious historians within the same century.

* [[Hollywood Costuming]]: Scott's descriptions of clothing and armour are wildly at variance with our knowledge of 12th century costume.

* [[Hollywood History]]: At times nearing [[Critical Research Failure]].

* [[Holywood Tactics]]: Subverted. How does a horde of angry peasants manage to storm a castle, however good they are with bows? Easy. It was an inside job. [[Fridge Brillance|The way most castles were captured.]]

* [[Honor Before Reason|Honour Before Reason]]: Wilfred tries to explain this concept to Rebecca, who still insists on Reason before Honour.

* [[Hypocritical Humor]]: Friar Tuck and the Black Knight(I.E. [[Tempting Fate|the King of England]]) have a friendly banter about just ''how'' the Friar had obtained that delicious venison.