Warwick's Treason and Final Betrayal

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Some are stropping their knives on bits of leather Some are rubbing their hands So there's no pushing or shoving They know that as soon as the doors are thrown open, There'll be food for them all This magnificent house belongs to Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick Depending on who you ask, he's either the second most powerful man in England, besides the Plantagenate king, Edward IV, or the most powerful But actually, quiz the crowd of people lined up outside about politics and they'll probably look at you like you're demented Because they're not here to play plantagenate top Tumps. They're here because their bellies are rumbling And it's well known that anyone who turns up at one of Warwick's many houses across England will get fed Pperly fed. If anyone ever tells you there's no such thing as a free meal, they're wrong Because here, on Warwick Lane in London, once a day, there's a free feed of half a dozen roasted oxen laid on for anyone who fancies it. The only rule is that you can eat as much as you want, then carry away as much meat as you can fit on the blade of your knife The same is true of every other tavern in England, where the El's name is above the door. The Earl of Warwick figures the route to a realm's hearts is through their stomachs Yet Warwick himself is nowhere to be seen On this morning In the winter of fourteen sixty seven to sixty eight Hundreds of miles away from London on his estates in the North He's been there for weeks refusing to come to the royal court, straight up ghosting the king, who, six years ago, he helped put on the throne There hasn't been a blazing row No handbags at dawn But ever since King Edward married his controversial queen, Elizabeth Woodville Warwick has been brooding Rumourors have been flying around that he's on manoeuvers And if that's the case, all his free feeds could be the sign of something far more serious than a sulk This could be the start of a feud that will plunge Plantagenate England right back into the darkness of a civil war I'm Dan Jones, and from Sony Music Entertainment, this is History Season ten of a dynasty to die for episode three Love bombing The early nineteenth century Russian writer Ivan Krilov isn't a guy who's read much anymore but he's referenced obliquely millions of times every day Because in eighteen fourteen, Krilov wrote a fable called The Inquisitive Man. And that story has given us a famous English idiom The Inquisitive man is a super short tale. barely more than a paragraph It tells the story of a guy who goes to a natural history museum and is captivated by all the little things he sees Beetles and flies, cockroaches, and insects so tiny you can barely see them with the naked eye This fellow spends three hours checking out all these miniscule wonders Having the time of his life Then When he comes back and tells his pals all about it They listen politely before asking what he thought of the museum's elephant The elephant He says And he confesses that he never noticed one How could you have missed it? they say? It's the size of a mountain But no, it's completely passed him by Now, as you'll have probably guessed, it's from this story that we get the phrase the elephant in the room But lest you think this is just me dropping random literary trivia on you, let me explain why it's important to plantagenate politics in the late fourteen sixties Because in many ways, it looks like Edward IV is on a roll After the rocky start he had tryed to drag England into order after the horrors of the Battle of Towon He's been standing on business but he's missed You guessed it The elephant in the room Before we get to that problematic paciderm, however, let's recap on the good things that Edward has achieved since fourteen sixty one For a start, he's married It's true that his queen, Elizabeth Woodville, a widow, English Bit down market isn't everyone's cup of hot ex Lancastrian milk But she sure floats Edward's rubber dinghy The couple have two daughters by fourteen sixty nine and another one on the way. There's a new royal family emerging and expanding As well as all that, Edward's gone some way to quelling Lancastrian plotting The battles of Hexham and Hedgeley Mor have gone his way The old king, Henry VI, has been captured and is doing his forssooth and forssoothing safely behind the walls of the Tower of London. The old quQueen, Margaret of Anjou, is gnashing her teeth in exile on the continent. Edward has committed himself to a coherent foreign policy. P Burgundian anti French which gives shape to the direction of English policy now that the new normal is having no significant lands in France In other words, he's slowly getting a grip on kingship As Edward enters his mid twenties, He's starting to project the confidence that's been lacking from English kingship That died when Henry V expelled his soul through his dysentery ravaged fundament, B backack in fourteen twenty two Yet what Edward's missing is the elephant in the room That's Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick He's the biggest beast in England And since becoming king, Edward has made him even bigger with grants of land, titles, offices, and prestigious postings Edward has allowed Warwick to cultivate his Man of the People stick And he's acquiesced as Warwick has built up two virtually impregnable power bases, one in Northern England and the other in Calais. What Edward has failed to spot is that he's made Warwick unmanageably big When Queen Elizabeth Woodfill comes along, the Earl feels disrespected, overruled, sidelined And he starts to nurse a big grievance But Edward has developed a blind spot to just what a dangerous behemoth Warwick has become So here's a question Is Warwick right to resent the Woodville so much that he stops showing up at court and starts framing himself as the most popular man in England Certainly, he would say so. point to the Woodville family being given undue preferential treatment in the aristocratic marriage market He'd remind everyone that he was made to look like a twenty four carrat chump over the Alliance with Burgundy glare in the direction of the Woodville Glden boy, Sir Anthony Woodville. whom Edward encourages us to prance around, being the most glamorous knight in England And although Edward's slow to realize it, there are others who can see that Warwick isn't taking kindly to losing his monopoly over the king Rumors are spreading in France. done with the House of York is considering throwing his lot in with Lancastrian dissidents connected to Margaret of Anjou. Whispers are also flying around that he's going to try and pull off an audacious move in the marriage market engaging one of his two daughters to Edward's brother, George Duke of Clarence, who's still, technically, heir to the crown So the elephant in the room startarting to trumpet It takes Edward a surprisingly long time to hear it And even when he does He continues to treat Warwick with the same deference that's turned him into such a big beast in the first place When the rumors of Warwick's disaffection reach court Edward invites him to leave his northern estates and come to court to put his side of the story. Warwick says he isn't interested Inead of telling him to get his ass down to London stats, or have it shipped down in chains Edward just drugs and lets him be When it emerges that Warwick really has been making moves aimed at marrying his eldest daughter, Isabele to Edward's brother George The King still doesn't leap into action. He assumes that Warwick just needs a bit more buttering up. and they can get back to business as usual Whether out of complacency, distraction, or inexperience Edward is losing sight of what his most powerful subject is thinking He isn't hearing the alarm bells that should be ringing by now before the fourteen sixties are out, Those bells are going to be jangling loud and clear Cross the kingdom Hey everyone, It's Jonathan Vaness from Getting Better with Jonathan Vaness. Everywhere you look right now, people are talking about America's two hundred and fifteth anniversary. And while a lot of folks are celebrating, there are also people trying to use this moment to rewrite history. Christian nationalists are pushing the idea that America was founded to be a Christian nation where one religious movement gets to decide Wh belongs But that's not what this country was founded on. America was founded as a democracy committed to liberty and justice for all. 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They've come armed with battering rams and bad intentions The goons push past merchants protesting in German, Danish, and heavily accented English Heading to the wharfs and storehouses where the richest pickings are to be found They smash down doors. they break locks. to carry off sacks of wool, bundles of cloth, crates of beeswax If it looks like it's worth something They're taking Don't like it Cough This is Dlight Robbery by Royal Order, signed off by the King and the Royal Council The merchants, part of a sprawling European trading network known as the Haner have known this day was coming for months, years even Now it's here, it's still shocking The Steel yard, a mangled English translation of Stkarlhoff meaning sample yard is supposed to be their safe haven It's a self governing compound with its own rules, laws, and tax privileges which exists under the protection of the King of England Only now, the King seems to have changed his mind about what that protection involves His guys are helping themselves to hundreds of pounds of commercial stock They're arresting anyone who tries to get in their way What the hell is going on Well, what's going on is that in the summer of july fourteen sixty eight, Edward is giving Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick pretty much anything he wants which in this case means strong arming the Hansa merchants For decades there's been friction between English merchants and their competitors from the Hanser rivalry over trade with the wealthy ports of the Baltic Clashes at sea The line between mercantile rivalry and outright piracy has never been totally clear, but lately It's been like the wild West A year ago, in fourteen sixty seven, English merchants feuding with Danish members of the Hansa went to Danish held Iceland, robbed and burned houses and murdered Iceland's Danish governor This year, in fourteen sixty eight, the Hanser went tit for tat and seized a load of English ships in port in Denmark, impounding their cargoes and arresting the sailors. So now it's time to go tap for tit and hit the handswer where it hurts in their London compound Or at least, that's the opinion of Richard Neville Earl of Warwick. C cast your mind or your ears back to last season, and you'll recall that Warwick has long been an enthusiastic amateur pirate honing his skills on the seas around Calais Go to episode eleven, season nine in our archive if you want a refresh What's more, one of the ships impounded in Denmark last year belong to him So Warwick is a mega haawk when it comes to the Hanser. And in the summer of fourteen sixty eight Edward has decided to give Warwick what he likes Hence the raids, the confiscations, the arrests If it looks like a quick win for Warwick Edward is content to go along with it This is part of a love bombing campaign in which Warwick is being showered with nice things He's made guardian of Edward's youngest brother Richard Earl of Gloucester and of a young nobleman called Francis Lord Lovell He's the underage heir to a number of lucrative estates When Edward's sister Margaret goes off to marry the Duke of Burgundy in july fourteen sixty eight Warwick is granted the honor of personally escorting her to Dover where she boards the ship, taking her across the channel Of course, Warwick has mixed feelings at best about the Alliance with Burgundy which is why, the same month as he's walking Margaret down the metaphorical aisle, Eemies in the Hansa have their Hanseatic asses handed to them The steel yard. If that's not giving a guy what he wants, It's hard to know what is And by the way None of this comes for free. Sticking up the steel yard might feel good in the moment, but it causes huge political complications for Edward afterwards As word gets round of the raid, the Hanser's friends in high places start dropping into Edward's DMs with a lot of angry face emojis The King of Poland, the Holy Roman emmperor, the Duke of Burgundy They all get on his case. and English ships on the high seas start feeling the heat too They're liable to be attacked and robbed in retaliation. Still Warwick is happy though, right Unbelievably He still has the hump even to get him to attend a royal council, Edward has to bend over backwards. Warwick won't come to London, so the court moves up to Coventry, home turf for the Nevills where he feels like he's the man calling the shots At that council meeting, Edward suggests that Warwick might like to make nice with the woodvills and others he doesn't like Still, The computer says no. He agrees to squash beefs with a couple of non Woodville noblemen, who've aroused his ire, but he absolutely refuses to play with the Queen's father, Lord Rivers, or her glamorous knightly brother, Anthony Woodville He knows they're increasingly unpopular in the country at large and given his Man of the People stick He can get away with blanking them in public What's more, around the same time that he's having the steel yard raided Warwick's deputy in Calais, an old soldier called Lord Wenlock is said to be in regular communication with would be Lancastrian rebels in England and France That seems worryingly close to Warwick himself flirting with treason In gratitude It might as well be Richard Nevill's middle name And the king's love bombing has done nothing to stop him In fact, it's done the opposite The more Warwick is rewarded for bad behaviour, the more he assumes he can just keep on expecting nice things for no return He seems genuinely to think he can get rid of the woodfills for good if he just keeps acting up The brazenness and the entitlement is almost unbelievable But every so often, history throws up a politician who realizes that fortune favourors the absolutely unscrupulous Warwick wants absolute privilege from Edward. 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Law Supplies last ends june thirtieth turns at aka. mS slash collllege PC Windsor Castle is packed with the most noble and knightly men in England They're all dressed in bright, colourful costumes Over jackets bearing their family symbols, each one of them wears an expensive long blue robe known as a mantle, emblazoned with a crest in old French that reads Honisir qui Malipons. It's a meeting of the Order of the Garter. The Kightly Cub established more than a hundred years ago by Edward III Membership is strictly limited and only the king's closest pals are allowed in And today, in may fourteen sixty nine, the Kights of the Garter have a job to do. They're going to rubber stamp the election of a new addition to their ranks That's Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy. Now Edward's brother in law and his closest European ally. Charles and Edward are limbering up for a joint attack on France, and as part of the diplomatic duance, they've been trading Chivalric honours In fourteen sixty eight, Edward was nominated to join Charles of Burgundy's Order of the Golden Fleece Now, Edward is returning the favor Charles isn't around to receive his garter honours, but Edwards spent a fortune having them made, and fed over to Burgundy He sent Charles a garter made from gold by one of London's top goldsmiths. He's added a mantle and an accompanying hood madeade from the finest woolen cloth lined with minvere and herermine In fact, Edward has sent Charles a completely bespoke mantle Unlike regular garter robes, his is red died using costly pigment, extracted from the driry bodies of dead female Kermes insects. Edward is going out on a limb to make his brother in law feel special And he expects all the other Gata knights to sign up to his scheme. As in literally sign up The reason the Garter Knights are gathered at Windsor is to add their names to the document making Charles's membership final And they do Edward signs first, followed by his brothers George Duke of Clarence, still heir to the throne and a sixteen year old Richard Duke of Gloucester. Further down the list is another of the king's brothers in law, Anthony Woodfill The glamorous Kight But before him listed in precedence right after the Full Royals is Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick. This is a sensitive one for obvious reasons But finally, Warwick seems to be on his best behaviour, and he dutifully signs his name on the parchment, agreeing to a policy he doesn't like in the company of one of the woodfills, whom he outright detests Is he finally coming in from the cold? Edward thinks so In fact, to Edward, The sight of this peace and harmony breaking out is a relief because it seems like his love bombing campaign has at long last paid off Warwick has fallen into line, and now Edward can ease back on tickling the awkward Bastard's plums and get on with other more pressing business There's a war organise with France And in the North of England, there seems to be trouble brewing too There've been a couple of outbreaks of disorder in the name of the Percy family, who used to rule the roost there during the Lancastrian days The latest is led by some punk called Robin of Reedsdale, who's running his mouth against the Yorkist Crown and the woodfills, citing abuses of power Edward needs to come up with a way to stamp on him. Fast Before he gets to work on that though, Edward goes to give thanks for the improving situation at court by praying at one of England's leading religious tourist sites After the ceremony at Windsor, he heads to East Angia to visit the shrine to the Virgin Mary at Walsingham That's when All hell breaks loose At the signing ceremony to induct the Duke of Burgundy, Warwick was all smiles But Edward should have guessed that the guy who serves six roasted oxen every morning in his London houses was never going to stop cooking up beef. You see? Trouble up north that Edward is going to have to deal with calledall Robin of Reedsdale Well, as it turns out That's not a perercy rebellion after all It's being coordinated by one of Warwick's leading supporters in the North, a guy called Sir John Conyz. No matter how much Edward wants to see things otherwise There's no sugar coating this one It's inconceivable that Kanyyz could be backing a major rebellion in Northern England without the say so of his master Warwick. This is treason it leads back to Warick's door And now Thanks to Edward's wishful thinking, Warwick has a march on him. There's talk of sixty thousand people gathering under the Robin of Reedsdale Banner All those free meals have gone a long way. Edward has to switch out of pilgrimage mode and into Kill anythingthing that moves mode And he needs to do it fast In mid June, he hustles north with troops, accompanied by his Woodville relatives, Earl Rivers and Anthony Woodville As they go, Edward sends out urgent calls for reinforcement from his subjects in the Midlands, demanding archers and men to join his army Among his letters, A missives to Warwick and his brother, George Neville, Archbishop of York On the letter to Warwick, dated july ninth, fourteen sixty nine, Edward asks him to come unto his Highness with all urgency and adds We trust that you should not be of any such rebellious disposition towards us As the rumour here runeth Considering the trust and affection we bear in you It's the last plaintive love bomb dropped from an aircraft that's smoking from both engines And it does no more good than any of the other heart shaped gifts Edward has dropped on his feckless right hand weasel in the last five years Because while Edward marches north Warick is heading in the opposite direction towards the coast. He's running for his old lair in Calais that he's taking with him. a group of people that he thinks are going to shape the course of English history One is his brother, Archbishop Neville of York Another is the eldest of his two daughters, Isabele And the third is the man Warick has picked to be his new puppet It's George, Duke of Clarence a man who has almost all the royal credentials that Edward IV boasts He's the king's brother The most senior noble in the land and so long as Edward remains without a son, the heir to the pllantagenic crown. full blown. That's for next time On this is history