Editing Richard of Cornwall (section)

===Poitou and Sicily===
Richard was appointed count of [[Poitou]] some time before August 1225.{{sfn|Weir|1999|p=67}} However, Richard's claims to [[Gascony]] and [[Poitou]] were never more than nominal, and in 1241, King [[Louis IX of France]] invested his own brother [[Alphonse, Count of Poitiers|Alphonse]] with Poitou. Moreover, Richard and Henry's mother, Isabella of Angoulême, claimed to have been insulted by the French queen. They were encouraged to recover Poitou by their stepfather, [[Hugh X of Lusignan]], but the expedition turned into a military fiasco after Lusignan betrayed them.{{sfn|Cox|1974|pp=112–113}} Richard conceded Poitou around December 1243.{{sfn|Weir|1999|p=67}}

[[Pope Innocent IV]] offered Richard the [[Kingdom of Sicily|crown of Sicily]], but according to [[Matthew Paris]], he responded to the extortionate price by saying, "You might as well say, 'I will sell or give you the moon, rise up and take it'".<ref>{{Cite book |last=Whalen |first=Brett Edward |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PaSTDwAAQBAJ&dq=richard+of+cornwall+offered++the+moon+climb+up+and+take+it&pg=PA220 |title=The Two Powers: The Papacy, the Empire, and the Struggle for Sovereignty in the Thirteenth Century |date=2019 |publisher=University of Pennsylvania Press |isbn=978-0-8122-5086-2 |page=110 |language=en}}</ref> Instead, his brother King Henry attempted to purchase the kingdom for his own son [[Edmund Crouchback|Edmund]].