Warwick's Growing Resentment

Hello friends. Now before I hand you over to the Marriage of the century I'd like to remind you that you can join in all the fun my royal favorites are having over on Patreon That's where you can get all bonus episodes at free And in this week's episode, producer Al and I are going to be delving into a rather complex royal family tree. That old Woodfills And I've assigned the favorites, the job of finding me pop stars who have paid tribute to the Middle Ages. Hit patreon d. com forward slash This is History to make your submission Want to know why? Well It's all in this episode. Hey guys, this is Molly Sims, host of Lpstick onn the Rim. So I have a little bit of a pet peeve that I think you're going to relate to this. I'll be having a great day, feeling good and someone will say to me, You look tired, and I'm like, I promise you I'm not really tired. But here's what I've learned My eyelids, they do sit a little low. 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If you're looking for a way to stand up for freedom this summer, consider supporting Americans United. Americans United supportpping everyone's right to live as they choose so long as they don't harm oothers. Learn more at au. org slash betterter The great and good of England have packed into Rading Abbey Church And there's a mood of high anticipation in the air Everyone who's anyone among the nobility is here They all know There's business to be done. The year is fourteen sixty four And summer is just turning into autumn In the fields beyond Reding Abbey, the harvest is ripening, and for the first time in a very long time, there's reason to be hopeful about the future. It's been a long time since Plantagenate England covered itself in glory But in the three and a half years since Edward IV won the Battle of Toughton, deposed Henry VI, and claimed the crown for the House of York, Things have been slowly creeping towards normality The king is young Persable Vigorous He's also one of Europe's most eligible bachelors He's backed up by a powerful right hand man Richard, Earl of Warwick. Together, they've dealt with the threat from Lancastrian rebels, including the old quQueen Margaret of Anjou Whisper it That's why this meeting is being held at Reeding. agenda of government business, including a consultation on reforming the English currency to help shore up public finances. But before that is the hot topic of the day Edward is twenty two and he's decided to get married. The question is whom Various names are in the mix, princesses of all ages from the realms of France, Scotland, Burgundy, and Castille There are arguments for and against all of them Ultimately, it's down to Edward as king to pick which kingdom he wants to ally with And which woman, he wants to help him start a new generation of Yorkist royals To make things extra exciting Edward is going to do an X factor style reveal So when the king strolls into the Abbey church where everyone's gathered, The air is fairly crackling with anticipation. Bets are being laid while Edward announced the French pick favoud by his mate Warwick, a gal called Boner of Savoy or is the smart money on the widowed Queen of Scots, who can help him tame the Northern border. Edward gets up clears his throat Let's the hubub die down then He announces his decision The new Queen of England is Pase Pase English woman. In her mid twenties from a very minor noble family Wh's been married once already is widowed has two kids and is related to people who fought against Edward at the Battle of Toughton Wou Yeah For reasons best known to himself, Edward the four picked a complete Nobody Not only that They're already married As record screeches go This one is off the charts. in Reading Abey jaws hang open as everyone tries to process the news Nothing like this has happened since the Norman conquest of ten sixty six. It's insane But the nobles had better get used to it The new Qeen of England is called Elizabeth Woodville And she's about to bend royal history out of shape forever. I'm Dan Jones and from Sony Music Entertainment. This is History Season ten of a Dynasty to die for Episode two Rise When we think about medieval history, maybe the first name that pops into our heads isn't Beyonce Noel Carter, but on this occasion, maybe it should be Because what did Beyonce advise the men of the world back in two thousand eight If you like it thenen you should have put a ring on it. As I recall She made that point more than once And though I'm not totally sure she was singing about medieval politics in her smash hit Single Ladies brackets put a ring on it, closed brackets It's amazing how well her lyrics fit with the politics of fourteen sixty four If you want to discuss which other modern pop stars have paid effective tribute to the Middle Ages, you can join our royal favorites discussing it over on Patreon For now, let me explain what I mean Or rather, let me explain who this Elizabeth Woodville is that Edward likes so much and exactly why he's gone and put a ring on it the amusement of all his subjects There's a reason why we haven't heard anything about the Woodvills in the nine seasons of this podcast so far But that's because until recently They've not really amounted to a hill of beans Prior to fourteen thirty seven They were just minor landowners in the southeast of England, with a little bit of land in Kent and a little bit in Northamptonshire. In that year, fourteen thirty seven, they scored a major coup Richard Woodfill That's Elizabeth's father being Chamberlain a senior household official to Henry the F's brother, John Duke of Bedford And when Bedford died in fourteen thirty five, he left behind him a very eligible twenty year old widow called Jacetta of Luxembourg. Jacquetta was a proper blue blooded European aristocrat And she was also related by marriage to King Henry VI It seems that she and Richard Woodville fell in love. because they married without royal permission. and paid a gigantic fine of one thousand pounds to Henry VI to get the legal paperwork in order afterwards Jacquetta got old Richard a noble title Barren Rrivers and they were often to be seen hanging out with Queen Margaret of Anjou This was noted with some displeasure by other nobles including the Earl of Warwick. and in his teenage years, the future King Edward IV At one point, during the fighting at the end of Henry VI's reign, Warwick and Edward even got hold of Rivers and gave him a humiliating verbal roasting calling him a knave's son who didn't deserve his place in high society Rivers went on to fight on the Lancastrian side at Toughton along with his son, Anthony Woodville. Meanwhile, Elizabeth Woodville had lost her first husband in fighting at St. Albans. He'd also backed the Lancastrian side So you may well ask, has gone down to land this daughter of a dodgy marriage and widow of a Lancastrian soldier in the arms of England's first Yorkist king Well, The romantic version It goes like this According to stories told after the event Elizabeth Woodvill is famous for being hot stuff, one of the most beautiful women in England, allegedly. That alone is enough to get her noticed by Edward. And in fourteen sixty four, on the famously lovey dovey date of Mayay, Edward apparently visits the Woodvills at their Manor of Grafton in Northamptonshire and suggests to Elizabeth they enjoy a bit of the old how'sier, notoriously lowborn father Elizabeth, taking one look at Edward and seeing the letters P L A Y A, virtually tattooed on his forehead sees an opportunity not unlike that her father had in fourteen thirty seven. She says she's down to party. on the condition that Edward is down to Yes, you're ahead of me. putut a ring on it To show she's serious, it's later said that Elizabeth pulls out a knife and points it at the king. And So Edward eager to get on with things agrees Join us on this week's bonus episode to hear more about the mechanics of a quicky medieval wedding to facilitate a quicky medieval quickie For now, let's just say that it was surprisingly easy in the Middle Ages to mumble a few marital vows for the sake of a shag. trricky bit, obviously is getting unmarried afterwards persuading the other partner to forget that they'd ever said anything consequential But in this instance, it seems Edward isn't in any hurry to get unmarried According to stories that circulate in Europe after the event He really does fall in love with Elizabeth And they're secretly married from that Mayday meeting onwards finally letting the realm know in September at the bigig reveal at Rading Abbey whichich in very narrow terms is sweets This twenty two year old Lario has been looking all over Europe for a queen Then he finds one on his front doorstep Despite the hell he's walked through to become king, Edward is prepared to put it all on the line for love That is undoubtedly a cute how we got together, Tale Only I think there might be a little bit more to it than that. Historians have puzzled over the Woodville marriage for generations, wondering why on earth Edward decides to sacrifice the diplomatic value of a foreign match to do what no king since the Norman conquest has done and marry one of his own subjects. And not only that but a subject of lbe birth, linked conspicuously to the Lancastrian cause. Well, here's my theory That's the whole point It's not a bug It's a feature Edward has spent three years trying to bring the Lancastrians to heal Some of that has involved fighting them. But he's also quietly shown himself willing to reconcile Forgive and forget and build bridges Marrying the daughter of a Lancastrian family clear symbol that he's committed to restoring political unity at home above everything else Marrying the daughter of a guy he and Warwick publicly humiliated during the wars makes the point even more strongly marrying the daughter of a woman who was mobbed up with Queen Margaret, How much more conciliatary do you want the king to be? Plus Bonus Elizabeth Woodville just happens to be a hot milf, who's fitter than a butcher's dog and does some sexy crazy stuff like pulling a knife on you when she's mad. Sometimes you just got to accept what's staring you in the face Anyway That's my theory Feel free to disagree And note that what I'm not saying is that Edward has any right to expect the whole world to get down on their knees and praise him for marrying Elizabeth Woodmilf when there was a queue of politically suitable foreign princesses being lined up. The marriage severely annoys a whole bunch of people Edward's mother, Cecly, thinks he's lost the plot. His brothers, George and Richard will also have plenty to say about it down the line jilted foreign princesses are fuming You may remember from last episode that Isabella of Castile, sister of Enrique the Imotent was in the frame for a royal wedding She's so knarked about being turned over that decades later, she's still bitter about it Possibly the most date of everyone is Edward's right hand man and matchmaker The Earl of Warwick has been leading negotiations for Edward to marry Boner of Savoy, a relative of the King of France. Edward has let him carry on these talks for months, all the while being secretly married already Now Warick looks like an absolute chump And while, to return to my theory It may actually be part of the point to bring the big man down a peg or two It doesn't mean he has to like it But then there's the thing. In fourteen sixty four, Edward has struck a defiant, unconventional weirdly romantic tone and shown Warwick and everyone else in England that he is the boss He's going to do things his way Bold Brave It's so crazy it might just work All the woodvills have to do is show a bit of class and get the rest of the country to love them as much as the king does That can't be so difficult Can it The biggest tournament in soccer is finally here and I've already started planning my watch parties. My go to move before kickoff is stopping at Ttal wine and more to grab drinks for the whole crew. 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Daughter who will be known as Elizabeth of York By tradition Following childbirth, a woman goes through a religious ceremony called a churching Petel gets to see Queen Elizabeths And he describes the incredible pageantry The quQeen left her childbed and went to church in stately order. accompanied by many priests bearing relics and by many scholars singing and carrying lights There followed a great company of ladies and maidens from the country and from London who had been summoned. thenen cameame a great company of trumpeters, pipers, and players of stringed instruments The king's choir followed forty two of them who sang excellently Then came twenty four heralds and Pursewants. followed by sixty cps and knights. At last came the quQeen Esescorted by two dukes Above her was a canopy Following this Tetel describes a solemn celebratory feast. The quQueen sat alone at table costly golden chair The quQueen's mother and the king's sister had to stand some distance away When the quQeen spoke with her mother or the king's sister, they knelt down before her until she had drunk water Not until the first dish was set before the quQeen, could the quQueen's mother and the king's sister be seated The ladies and maidens and all who served the quQeen at table were all of noble birth and had to kneel so long as the quQeen was eating The meal lasted for three hours. The food which was served to the queen, the quQeen's mother, the king's sister, and the others was most costly. Much might be written of it Everyone was silent And not a word was spoken Tetel has been around the block, but he reckons all this pageantry sets a high bar for magnificence It's been about eighteen months since Elizabeth Woodfill was announced to England as the new Qeen. She's taken to the role with maximum a plom Now, when it comes to being a medieval royal, maximum a plom is not necessarily a bad thing. People laughed at Henry VI, remember for wearing clumpy old farmer's boots and too much black. The trouble is, many nobles in England are muttering that the Woodvills, Elizabeth and her extended family are getting far too big for their non clumpy farers' boots England is alive. to the sound of teeth being gritted On paper, this should really be a time of triumph for the House of York Not least, because as well as having sired his first royal baby, Edward has scored a major political win In fourteen sixty five, his men have tracked down a doddererly old guy wandering between safe houses in the north of England King Henry VI has been captured Without much of a fight currently being held in genteel confinement in the Tower of London. It is such a pathetic sight that Edward doesn't even bother to have him murdered. a sign of the growing confidence he feels as king Yet set against that the woodfills. One problem is that there are so damn many of them The quQeen is one of a dozen children. And all of them want looking after In most cases, that means finding suitable marriages into the wider English aristocracy So from fourteen sixty six onwards, Woodville's siblings are married to the heirs to the Eldoms of Kent, Essex and Pembroke and the Dukes of Buckingham and Exeter. There are other plum titles or prospects of titles handed out too. This upsets both the snobbish instincts and the economic equilibrium of England's noble class As we've heard The woodvills are considered upsts. So the sight of them spreading like a rash through England's aristocratic dynasties is not wholly welcome. On top of that is a basic issue of supply and demand There aren't actually that many noble families knocking around in England. heirs of marriageable age are valuable commodities. too have so many of them snapped up by the king's in laws creates headaches for matchmakers outside the Royal circle Finally, There's a sense that the Woodvills are a bunch of chancers and graspers, abusing their position for naked financial gain There's one marriage that seems very egregious in that respect Elizabeth's nineteen year old brother, Sir John Woodville, is engaged to the sixty five year old Catherine Neville Dowager Duchess of Norolk King Edward IV's aunt intergenerational love. One thing This just looks like a power grab by the Woodvills, who fancy snapping up the valuable Duchy of Norfolk for themselves Put all this together And the Woodvills are not endearing themselves to the rest of their noble peers Now, on one level You can't blame them for making the most of their good fortune But on the other, there seems to be a jarring failure to read the room They figure that as long as Elizabeth Woodville is quQeen, and producing a brood of plantagenate princes and princesses There's not much anyone can do to stop them making out like bandits But as the fourteen sixties go on Someone starts to get other ideas Edward's, right hand man, Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick But he's still licking his wounds after he was blindsided and embarrassed over the Woodfill marriage And as the old quQueen Margaret of Anjou found out the hard way Richard isn't afraid to bash heads together to voice his displeasure. Say the man's got a temper And everything the woodvills are doing seems carefully calculated to make him ad Study and play come together on a Windows eleven PC. And for a limited time, college students get the best of both worlds. Get the unreal college deal, everything you need to study and play with select Windows eleven PCs. Eligible students get a year of Microsoft three hundred sixty five preremium and a year of Xbox GamePass Ultimate with a custom color Xbox wireless controller Lear more at windows d. com slash student offffer. Law Supplies last ends june thirtieth turns at aka. mS slash college PC. A crowd is crammed into the tournament ground at Smithfield, just outside London's walls to watch her match up for the ages It's mid june fourteen sixty seven, and it's hard to remember a time when there was so much public excitement for a sporting contest Edward IV has declared a two day public holiday to mark the occasion. The jousting enclosure itself is a total sellout Ordinary Londoners have clambered into trees nearby to try and get a glimpse of the action And what are they trying to see Well, it's a mixed disciplineed fight between two of the most valiant men in Europe. On the one side is a foreign visitor. He's Antoine, the forty six year old illegitimate son of Philip the G, Duke of Burgundy Old Philip was a war buddy of Henry V, and his son, Antoine, AKA the Grand Bastard of Burgundy, is renowned as the best jouster on the planet Facing him on the opposite side of the field is England's challenger Anthony Woodville Bother of the quQueen, Elizabeth Woodvill At twenty seven, he's nearly two decades younger than the Grand Bastard, so what he lacks in experience and fame He makes up for in youthful vim and vigor. It's set to be a Titanic set too And so it proves. On the first day, the Bastard and Woodville jousted on horseback This is supposed to be the bastard's strongest suit But as their horses snort and stamp, then charge. There's a collision between them. The bastard is knocked out of the saddle, but his horse falls on top of him Thankfully he's alright, but the horse isn't. It's so badly injured that it's killed The judges say there's been some irregularity in the clash And the bastard is offered another horse to continue combat But he says he's done for the day And they agree to come back tomorrow The next day, things are even fiercer hand to hand combat, and these two refuse to pull ink punches. They absolutely waail on each other, getting so violent that it looks like one of them might be killed. So at the height of the action, Edward IV, who iss presiding over the tournament, gives a great shout, comes down and orders them to stop fighting He declares that their contest is a draw, which means that honours are shared across the whole competition Everyone, who's been lucky enough to get a seat ringside, agrees that this has been the most marvelous and chivalous spectacle they can remember. What's more, while the Bastard and Anthony Woodville have been going at it, almost literally hammer and tongs, in the background Diplomatic wheels are also turning The Woodvills have been advocating to Edward for a good while peace Treaty with Burgundy who have long standing beef with France You can get into the weeds of that beef by listening to our mini series The Glass King There are lots of potential advantages to a pro Burgundian anti French alliance It makes sense for trade. The Burgundians are masters of Ctney spectacle and things like insane jousting matches. which appeals to Edward and to men like Anthony Woodfvill So while the tournament is going on Finishing touches are being applied to an Anglo Burgundian pact. There's an agreement to marry one of Edward's sisters to one of the senior Burgundians And though it's not quite sealed when the bastard leaves London hurrying home when he gets news that his dad has died It seems almost certain. that under Edward IV, England and Burgundy are now going to be in bed together for the foreseeable future. There is, however problem. But just as the bastard of Burgundy is leaving England Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick, is coming back in the other direction Rurning home from an embassy to France. Warwick is still by a long way the richest nobleman in England And he still fancies himself as King Edward's most important lieutenant While he's been over in Paris, on a grand mission to woo King Louis XI into a peace deal with England att home Woodvills have been directly undermining him. by driving Edward into the arms of the Burgundians Unsurprisingly, when Warwick clocks all this, he's furious H temper is not exactly improved by the news that his brother has been replaced as Chancellor head of the royal bureaucracy While two members of the Woodville family have been promoted to the offices of Treasurer Constable The whole thing stinks, like another Woodfill slight against Warwick and his family And Warwick is goddamn. if he's going to keep putting up with this sort of nonsense As far as he can see He's done far too much in the service of the House of York treated as a second class citizen Eespecially bunch of jumped up little twerps woodfills So from fourteen sixty seven, Warwick starts to distance himself from the royal court and starts on maneuvvers of his own Like he did during King Henry VI's Day He begins retaining a big private army doing things designed to make himself popular with the ordinary people and an alternative source of power to the king There's no immediate bus stop between him and Edward Mood music has definitely changed Chronicler, writing at the timees, says The Earl of Warwick took to him in fee many knights, squires, and gentlemen, as he might, to be strong And King Edward did that he might to feeble the Earl's power And yet they were recorded many diverse times. They never loved each other afterwards From Warwick's point of view, Edward I F has replaced him at his side with the woodfills. And the jilted Earl isn't going to take it lying down You know what they say Broken hearts lead to broken bones But that's for next time On this is history.