Was King Richard 'The Lion Heart' homosexual?

by superjoe96

According to this source

(notaparticularlygreatdancer.wordpress.com/2011/05/04/gay-monarchs-of-the-united-kingdom/)

King Richard I 'confessed to his church “the sin of sodomy” in just his underwear, and took 5 years to sleep with his wife, and only did so as a penance for his homosexuality' and that he slept in the same bed as the king of France.

Are there any credible sources that would show the king's true sexuality?

ibn_abu

It's an open question. Roger of Howden relates a hermit who warned, "Be thou mindful of the destruction of Sodom, and abstain from what is unlawful", and Richard thus "receiving absolution, took back his wife, whom for a long time he had not known, and putting away all illicit intercourse, he remained constant to his wife and the two become one flesh." Roger of Hoveden, The Annals, trans. Henry T. Riley, 2. Vols. (London: H.G. Bohn, 1853; repr. New York: AMS Press, 1968). But there's no contempraneous record of him having any kind of sexual relationship with Philip of France - that seems to have been an invention of the writer of the play The Lion in Winter.