Tokenized Society🦁, Richard the Lionheart died in 1199 after a crossbow bolt hit him during the siege of Châlus-Chabrol in France; the wound then turned gangrenous, which is what actually killed him. History Hit and HistoryExtra both line up on that version. The king survived the initial shot, which is the medieval part of the story; dying from infection afterward is the brutally normal part.