The King's Secret Marriage Plans

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Let iheart Radio help you reach your next customer today at iheartadvertising dot com The Middle Ages were full of disasters the sinking of a ship which caused a twenty year civil war plague which wiped out almost half of Europe's population and the infamous Battle of Cressy which of course We've covered here on cautionary tales You can hear all about these catastrophes and how they've shaped the world we live in today on a podcast I think you'll love It's called This is History, a dynasty to die for Across the series, host Dan Jones tells the story of the Plantagenates, Britain's bloodiest dynasty. If you haven't heard of them, they're a family whose infighting and warmongering inspired George R R Martin. Richard the Lionheart. hundredundred years war Thomas Beckett and Red Hot Pkers But they've just launched their tenth season, which tells the story of a brilliant young warrior King, undone by his heart The Shakespearean icon, Richard III and the very unlikely rise of the mighty Tudor dynasty If you want to listen, ad free, this is History are offering our cautionary club members a month's free trial of their patreons Look out for the gift link Here is the first episode of the new season. Enjoy Pembroke Castle is a grey forbidding fortress which sits by the water on the southwest tip of Wales Whipped by the gales that blow in from the Atlantic Ocean In late january fourteen fifty seven, it's as bleak as it gets. Not only is this the coldest time of the year Today, the castle is also taught with the tension of a young woman giving birth. She's a very young woman. Margaret Beaufort is thirteen and a half. That's perilously young to be laboring a child in any age. And Margaret isn't just young. she's also physically tiny The rooms she's lodged in at the castle have been comfortably set up for childbirth, the fires stoked and the windows and doors sealed to prevent dangerous vapourors from getting in There's a full staff of female midwives and attendants on hand to help Margaret through her ordeal But there's no ignoring the fact that her body and even her life are in real danger Not that Margaret's panicking She's a determined girl and she's putting on a brave face Others may worry about her safety, but she's only concerned for one thing, her child In the nine months that she's been carrying this baby, plague has been sweeping around Southwest Wales It killed her husband, Edmund Tudor striking him down last November at the age of twenty six plague gets into the birthing chamber All Margaret's toil is going to be in vain canan't let that happen Why not As well as the fierce maternal instinct that's alive in young Margaret Baby will have royal blood in its veins Margaret is a granddaughter of John of Gaunt, legendary prince of the Plantagena dynasty That means she's a member of the Lancastrian clan headed by the useless shambling king, Henry VI. The child's late father, Edmund Tudor, was also part of the royal family So the child about to be born will join the small inner circle of the Lancastrian Royal house. whichich is good. Because right now family could use a bit of freshening art As the pangs of childbirth grip Margaret's little body, all thoughts of family trees are forgotten The women of the chamber gather round to help her through a very long and difficult labour When the baby is eventually delivered, it seems like a miracle Margaret has suffered so much that she'll never have another child, but she's alive. And so is her son There's some debate about what to call him, but Margaret is in no doubt This boy is going to be named Henry Henry Tudor. And though the circumstances of his birth are not very promising teenage widow for a mum, a remote Welsh coastal castle for a home, Fate has decided that he's destined. for a very big future indeed. Because outside these castle walls, the plantagenates have entered the first spasms of a war that's going to burn the whole dynasty to the ground Out of the ashes will rise a new family the tutors And in this, the explosive final season of our Pantagenate saga We're going to follow the astonishing story of their rise to power I'm Dan Jones and from Sony Music Entertainment This is history Season ten. a dynasty to die for say one ew hope Running a small business takes everything you've got. Chase for business, you're not alone They bring together local support and a broad range of resources to more than seven million customers undernderstanding of your day to day needs, they provide products and guidance built to help you thrive Right now, earn five hundred dollars when you open a new Chase business complete checking account for new business checking customers with qualifying activities. 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Feful terms at mintMobile d. com Whether you've been following this podcast since the beginning, or you're just joining us for the first time today I want to remind you Golden rule of Pantagenate history Anything can happen In the three centuries we've covered, we've seen kings rise from total obscurity to absolute power And we've seen rulers who seemed untouchable hurtling down to earth with a splat It pays to remember one of my favourite medieval chroniclers' quotes byy good old Gerald of Wales. Back in the twelfth century Gerald wrote, A sensible man ought to consider Fortune's favor is variable. And her wheel is ever turning Although the merciful creator is long suffering and patient He is likewise severe in executing punishment and vengeance upon the stubborn Willful and usually begins to exact that punishment H on earth And yes, sure, I don't think we're going to squeeze that down to fit it on a slogan t shirt. but It seems to capture beautifully the topsy turviness of the Pantagenate cinematic universe One minute The world is eating out of your hand It's sinking its fangs into a gluteyi maximi. This brings us to where we left our story last season. In season nine, we heard how England went from the triumphs of Henry V's reign to the nadeer of Henry VI After a promising start, the king went mad, the nobles went feral, and eventually, after much tussling and some truly savage battles, an eighteen year old giant called Edward Earl of March, slashed his way to the top. Edward destroyed his enemies at the monstrous Battle of Toughton rushing a massive Lancastrian army. Seemingly from nowhere, he then took the throne as Edward IV, becoming the first king of the House of York If you're a newbie or want to recap, there's all that and more than two hundred other episodes available in our archive. To get them ad free, sign up at patreon d. com forward slash this is History The trouble is It isn't easy at the top So that's where we're going to pick up our story At the start of this episode, we' with Margaret Beaufort as she gave birth to Henry Tudor in fourteen fifty seven Now I promise we're going to come back to Margaret and baby Henry as this season goes on Now We're going to fast forward. Four and a half years to join Edward the Fth In the summer of fourteen sixty one He's proven himself on the battlefield at Toughton suggesting that God is down with his claim to kingship, In June, he's been crowned in London battle and now by coronation, England has a new king But if Edward wants to hang on to his crown He's going to have an almighty struggle. So to get our story going, to know Edward He was born in april fourteen forty two in Rouen, in Normand His dad, Richard Duke of York, was in charge of what was then an English ruled chunk of Northern France Richard fathered a big brood of children And at the time of Edward's coronation, he has three sisters and two brothers lot more on them short. In person, Edward's mighty impressive He stands well over six feet tall And as well as being a handy warrior, he's a handsome charming young man He's got the characteristic Long plantagenate nose Piercing eyes a small mouth. that seems to have a smile playing at its corners. He also has quite a fancy for the ladies factact The guy sniffs out hot damsel like a wild hog rooting for acorns traits that will cause him quite a lot of trouble as time goes by, but more of that For now Edward's charm is a positive virtue. A propaganda song composed in the aftermath of the Battle of Touton Hils Edward as the Rose of ruin That refers not only to his birthplace and his incredible Riz but also to his heraldic batch One of the symbols of Edward's royal House of York is a white rose And the song makes great play on this It goes, That rose stands alone, the chief flower of this land Blessed be the time that ever God spread that flower. Maybe that's laying it on a bit thick Whichever way you look at it, Edward the Fth is an upgrade on Henry the six In the aftermath of Touton The old King is in exile in Scotland And many people would agree that England has traded part Those who would agree most strongly with that assessment A the people who helped Edward win his crown Chief among them is Edward's right hand man, Richard Neville Earl of Warwick t thirty three years old in fourteen sixty one, Marwick has plenty of military experience and no shortage of ambition He's been at Edward's side for several years, and he fancies himself, with some justification, as the power behind the throne Yorkist propaganda, produced around the same time as the Rose of Rong, calls Warwick the flower of manhood. So clearly there's a general horticultural theme at play. But more important than flower power are the lands and titles that Warwick accrues as a result of betting long On the House of York After Edward's coronation Warwick is showered with rewards He already holds four yet four noble titles. On top of that, he gets renewed in his post as captain of Calais, that's the English military garrison in northern France, which he made his stronghold during the wars in Henry VI's reign And on top of that, he pockets a whole portfolio of new offices Edward makes him Cstable of Dover Castle Warden of the Sink ports Those are the most important trading towns on England's southeast coast Effectively This means Warwick owns the whole English channel key military and trade seaway with Europe That's just the beginning also is appointed as warden of the North meaning he has oversight of the turbulent Scottish border He's put in charge of the Duchy of Lancaster and the Duchy of York Those are the two huge private estates owned by the crown. then, there's a massive tranche of land confiscated from nobles who sided with Henry VI that Touton Especially the Percy family who are the long term opponents of Warwick's Neville family in Northern England The financial value of all this makes Warwick the richest non royal noble of all time The political heft puts him virtually on a par with the king foreign diplomats describe him as being the governor of all England One French observer writes to the King of France that the English have but two rulers, Monsieur L Waric And another one is name I forgotten Obviously that's a joke The French cant be amusing sometimes But like all good one liners It's got a sharp sting of truth to it Warwick is more than a decade older than Edward And he's been around the block He reckons with some justification that if it wasn't for him Be no House of York So if the world wants to see him as a second king That suits Warwick downown to the ground But if Warwick is going to enjoy all the riches and the influence that being a kingmaker brings, then it's going to fall on him make sure Edward stays secure in his crown But it's not long Before he has to do Exactly that because Within two years of Edward's coronation, There's a serious assault on the kingdom Royal spies find out that a plot is being hatched between renegade Lancastrians in England Foreign enemies outside pulling the strings. is a person who's nursed more hatred towards the House of York than anyone else The old Queen of England. Marver. An ill and tired sixty year old falls towards the chopping block An expectant crowd gathers around. They've all made it to Tower Hill the area immediately surrounding the Tower of London It's London's top spot to go and see a lively show Assuming you're into public executions In late february, fourteen sixty two It's John DeVerre's turn The Earl of Oxford has been around the political scene in England for decades But it's a wonder the guy hasn't already died from a bad case of splinters in the backside Given how much of his life he spent sitting on the fence For most of the wars between the Lancastrians and the Yorkists Oxford avoided committing to either side thenen inccredibly bad timing justust before the Battle of Towon He did pick a team And unfortunately It was the wrong one He went for Queen Margaret and King Henry. That decision has now come back. H Oxford survived the accession of the new king, Edward IV he forgot to update his settings to political reality. Having chosen the Lancastrian side, he stuck with it got himself caught up in a web of intrigue, aimed bringing down the new King plot that Oxford's got himself mixed up in has more moving parts than a swingers' party. The schemas include a hotch potch of exiled Lancastrian aristocrats. They're backed with varying degrees of seriousness by foreign royals, including the rulers of Scotland, France, Brittany, Aragon. Portugal and Denmark. Putting it all together is Queen Margaret of Anjou who's been shuttling between Scotland and the courts of Europe. trying to whip up support for a comeback for her and old King Henry Yorkist's proropaganda accuses Margaret of wanting to destroy the realm to pervert the royal succession and bring Robbery and vengeance She would say she's just trying to get back what's hers by right Her plan is, or rather was to launch a three pronged invasion with armies hitting the Yorkist regime from Wales, southern England while insurgents within the realm rose up to create civil disturbance, overwhelming the new king's capacity to resist Only well, self evidently, the whole thing has Raffle. Lse lips of sunk ships Key figures in England, like Oxford, have been betrayed. Six days ago, Oxford's eldest son was divorced from his head on this very spot outside the Tower of London Now it's the older man's turn If anyone thinks there might be mercy, given Oxford's obvious ill health They're dead wrong The old geizer is brought forward, offered any last words Then made to kneel down and It's Sanara sunshine. The wars of the Roses P Their latest noble head As the axe comes down on Oxford, the heat goes out of the wider plot he was party to. Smelling failure, the foreign backers mostly lose interest. mostly Totally Queen Margaret, trying to salvage something from the mess She keeps on lobbying foreign rulers to help her out. In the autumn of fourteen sixty two, she manages to scrape together enough donations and troops to take a few dozen ships and eight hundred mercenaries to Northern England where her men invade the coast of Northumbria and take control of a few castles This isn't enough to threaten to collapse Edward's rule completely But it is still a bloody nuisance So now is the moment that Edwards heavily rewarded right hand man The Earl of Warwick has to step up and show his worth Across the winter of fourteen sixty two to sixty three. works his way around the castles Margaret's men are holding and kicks the rebels out of them. By march fourteen sixty three He seems to have got the job done And although he can't lay his hands on Queen Margaret herself or the feeble old Henry VI He manages to split them up When it becomes clear that their plot has fizzled out Margaret h tails it to France. taking with her her nine year old son Will she ever see old Henry again Does she ever want to She's got to have mixed feelings about that one Either way This is very much round one to King Edward IV and the Earl of Warick And they follow up round one by taking rounds two Th In the spring of fourteen sixty four There's another attempt by renegade Lancastrian nobles to incite rebellion in the North The instigator this time is one of Queen Margaret's closest allies Henry Beaufort, Duke of Somerset He gets around five thousand men together. and starts raising hell in Northern England Once again Edward and Warwick Respond They do They're already working hard through diplomatic channels to persuade the French and Scots to stop backing their enemies And when it seems like diplomacy isn't getting the message through to the Lancastrians in England They send an army out into the north It's led by Warwick's brother John Another old school veteran of England's civil wars which, by the looks of things are still Very much on John Neville wastes no time. He runs the Lancastrian Rebels to ground Engaging them in two battles known as the Battle of Hedgeley Moor and the Battle of Hexham At Hexham in may fourteen sixty four John Nevills scores a crushing victory He puts the Lancastrian army to flight and kills its leader Somerset With that the last emmbers of Lancastrian Rebellion in the North of England Finally snuffed out Queen Margaret has no chance of rallying another insurgency anyim soon And though King Henry is still a free man Duffer isn't much of a threat to anyone on his own It's taken three years. By the summer of fourteen sixty four Edward and Warwick look like they've survived The Lancastrian threat has been reduced to Margaret de Anjou fuming with her son, somewhere on the continent Henry theI whose AWL but not considered a very active threat and some minor characters You don't seem very threatening to anyone like the seven year old Henry Tudor But he and his mother, Margaret Beaufort, have been placed under genteel house arrest with a loyal Yorkist family in South Wales and honestly They don't seem like a big problem So now, Edward and Warwick can pour themselves a drink Take a deep breath and start to think about plans for the rest of Edward's reign. When they do that, There seems to be one issue that matters above all others curing the succession They need to take a grip the long term future of the family For that Edward needs to get married, makeake a sensible foreign alliance and get to work on producing some Yorkist princes Princesses The last bit, at least feeles like a job he's up to So Warick adds a new job to his ever lengthening resume as the King's right hand man and puppet master. He's now a matchmaker Time to find the Rose of Rouen, a hot piece of medieval marriage material to make into the first ever. Yorkist Qeen Running a small business takes everything you've got Chase for business, you're not alone They bring together local support and a broad range of resources to more than seven million customers understanding of your day to day needs, they provide products and guidance built to help you thrive. 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Our first episode is about Benjamin Franklin Among many other things, was a best selling business writer takeake a listen He's writing this much later in his life. consonsciously creating this image of himself I do want to emphasize how unusual this model is at the time, this self made man myth because you don't want to be self made. It's low class to be self made. You know, this idea that we have today is the opposite, right? And it comes from Franklin. todayoday. there is the derisive term neppo baing. Well, exactly right. And these days, if you are a billionaire, you had better have a Benjamin Franklin story about starting in a garage, coming up with the idea from nothing. And here is Benjamin Franklin inventing it right before our eyes been brought to you by Odu To listen to more of our American Gius series, listen to business history New episodes release every Wednesday on the IiHart Radio app or wherever you get your podcasts The ammbassadors from Castile have been hangg around in the chamber in Westminster Palace For some time been waiting And waiting and waiting Then England's charming young king, Edward I room. He seems a little out of breath, and when he has time to sit and everyone has a drink in their hands, he explains that he's just dashed sixty miles from Cambridge to meet them being the king business. What a job You need to be everywhere all at once But Edward's very glad the ambassadors waited. becausecause he's been told They have quite a proposal for him whichich is right The ambassadors explain they've been sent to England Make Edward the offer of a wife And not just any wife The king of Castile is Enrique IV and he wants to suggest that Edward marries his sister Isabella That's not a bad offer. Castile is a majoringom Isabella is just approaching her thirteenth birthday But as Margaret Beauford could have told them medieval marriage market takes a remarkably liberal view sort of thing And she is assuredly. top rank European success Edward listens to the ammbassador's proposal