User blog comment:Matt Hadick/King's Quest Giveaway/@comment-26860383-20150806032922/@comment-65529-20150807090646

Well my point was that the movie and literary Richard (we can say the same for Leonidas) is 'fictionalized' to the point of being absolutely nothing like the historical Richard I, and existing in fictional events/alternate history (alternate histories are still fiction). To the point he has become his own fictional character, only loosely inspired by a real person.