I have an even different picture to paint. King Richard the Lionheart, a Norman viking, was a bloodthirsty tyrant always looking for an excuse to go to war, and the pope gave him one in the form of the crusades. He leaves his brother, Prince John an able administrator, to mind the kingdom while he is away and to ensure that the English crusaders stay adequately equipped and paid.
Getting all the odds and ends that an army in the field needs across a long distance doesn’t come cheap. In his efforts to raise the necessary cash to support his brother, Prince John raises taxes. Which results in decreased productivity and more taxes, which starts civil unrest and the brigands we know as Robin Hood and his merry men.
Of course, then King Richard comes home to restive populace and finds an easy scape goat in his brother for costs that he made necessary.
You forget that Richard was taken hostage, and part of that tax was raised to pay his ransom. (As a king, he spent very little time in England, if I remember. He much preferred the French holdings of his family to the English as places to stay. But his mama Eleanor loved him. It is also said he never consumated his marriage.)
Richard’s dad Henry had been an able administrator, but his son wasn’t so good. Even before his dad’s death, he had caused a rebellion in the lands of the Aquitaine, if I remember correctly for his poorly managed handling.
John, though, would get into more trouble.