Stay ConnectedToo often when we think about the history of a country we think only of kings, lords, castles, and battles. When we think of queens we think of rulers like Elizabeth I and Victoria, but what about the queens who sat beside their warrior husbands? This podcast is an alternative history of Medieval and Early Modern England, seen through the lives of its queens
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Also known as Isabelle or Isabella of Valois. The youngest queen on our list, Isabelle became queen when aged 7, and it took quite some propaganda to get Richard to agree to it. Apparently the best way to get a grown man to marry a primary school age kid is to compare her to an elephant...
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Philippe de Mézières (wikipedia)
Charles VI 'the Mad' of France (biography.com)
Isabella of Bavaria (wikipedia)
Cesei Lannister and Isabella of Bavaria (historygot.com)
Armagnac–Burgundian Civil War (wikipedia)
The end of Richard II's reign (BBC History)
Charles, Duke of Orléans (wikipedia)
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Married for her connections to the Holy Roman Empire, Anne of Bohemia was bought for a high price and some may argue they didn't get their money's worth...
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The Western Schism (Christianity Today)
Peaked-horn headdress (The Baldwin Project)
The Lords Appellant (wikipedia)
Anne of Bohemia interceding for Shrewsbury (Archive Zone)
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After the death of Philippa of Hainault, Edward III began to rely on a new woman. But not a queen, and certainly not someone as squeaky clean as his former wife.
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Piers Plowman (Piers Plowman Electronic Archive)
The Good Parliament (wikipedia)
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Coming off the heels of England's most controversial queen, Philippa of Hainault had a lot to do to rehabilitate the role in the eyes of the English nobility. That she did, thanks to how perfectly matched she and her husband were.
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Children of Philippa of Hainault and Edward III (wikipedia)
Jean Froissart (The Online Froissart)
Second Scottish War of Independence (wikipedia)
Hundred Years War (Lectures in Medieval History)
The Black Death (History Today)
Siege of Calais - 1346 (wikipedia)
Queen's College, Oxford (wikipedia)
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Isabella was now holding the hot potato that was the reigns of power, but England was to find out that her saviour could be corrupted just as easily as her predecessors
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"All of this has happened before, and all will happen again" from Battlestar Galactica (youtube)
Edward II's emo poetry - 'The Song of Edward that he himself made'
The First Scottish War of Independence (BBC History)
Treaty of Northampton, also known as the Treaty of Edinburgh-Northampton (wikipedia)
Henry, 3rd Earl of Lancaster (wikipedia)
Edmund of Woodstock, Earl of Kent (Executed Today)
The Bard, A Pindaric Ode (ThomasGrey.org)
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After Edward's victory in the Despenser War, he was at the high point of his entire reign. Everything was going swimmingly - but these good times would not last forever. His regime had defeated every source of opposition bar one: his wife Isabella.
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Charles IV of France (wikipedia)
Isabella and Mortimer's invasion (wikipedia)
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Isabella of France was the highest-born queen that England had ever had, but her King was hardly the success that her pedigree deserved.
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Christopher Marlowe's Edward II (wikipedia)
Ending of Love Actually (youtube)
The Ordinances of 1311 (englandscalling.wordpress.com)
Execution of Piers Gaveston (History Today)
Vita Edwardi Secundi (wikipedia)
The Tour de Nesle Scandal (History of Royal Women)
Battle of Bannockburn (wikipedia)
Battle of Boroughbridge (wikipedia)
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Stories of King Arthur and his knights of the Round Table have proliferated for centuries, and so too have tales of his beautiful wife Guinevere. Portrayed as a damsel in distress and adulterous harpie, her portrayal tells us a lot about what medieval writers thought about contemporary queens.
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Geoffrey of Monmouth (wikipedia)
Chretien de Troyes (wikipedia)
King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table (kingarthurknights.com)
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A remarkable woman of Medieval Englandwho was in order a princess, an empress, a countess, a king, a rebel and a Queen Mother. Although she was never crowned, she was the only female king in the history of Medieval England.
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Episode 5: Matilda of Scotland
Episode 7: Matilda of Boulogne
Holy Roman Emperor Henry V (wikipedia)
William of Malmesbury (wikipedia)
Rout of Winchester (wikipedia)
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Marrying a man 40 years your senior is not often a portent of domestic harmony, but somehow it seemed to work for Margaret of France.
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Philip the Bold of France (wikipedia)
Margaret of Provence (wikipedia)
Thomas of Brotherton (wikipedia)
Blanche, Duchess of Austria (wikipedia)
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