An illiterate king is a crowned ass. — Henrique Guerra

An illiterate king is a crowned ass.

 

described as a proverbial usage on the part of Henry by William of Malmesbury in De Gestis Regum Anglorum, and probably first coined by Count Foulques II of Anjou, c .950

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