1066: The Norman Conquest and the Birth of Medieval England: Three Kings and a Crown: The Road to Invasion – Part 2
When Edward the Confessor died on the 5th January 1066, England did not simply lose a king. It lost the political center around which a fragile succession had been organized. Within hours, the kingdom had a new ruler, but that ruler was immediately confronted by men who believed that the English ...
How Did Magna Carta Survive the Middle Ages? - King John, the Rebel Barons, and the Great Charter | Sleepy Facts About History
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In June 1215, a cornered king and his rebellious baros sealed a document beside the Thames that neither side trusted and neither intended to honor. Within ten weeks, the pope had annulled it a...
1066: The Norman Conquest and the Birth of Medieval England: Hastings: The Day England Changed Forever – Part 4
By the autumn of 1066, England had become the prize at the center of one of the most extraordinary succession crises in medieval European history. What had begun as a dispute over the English crown had already drawn armies from Scandinavia and Normandy onto English soil, forcing King Harold Godwi...
What was the Magna Carta?
Imagine a king who could steal your favorite toys and lock you in your room forever! Eight hundred years ago, King John of England thought he could do whatever he wanted. He stole money from his people, lost his lands in France, and earned the terribly embarrassing nickname "Softsword"! The furio...
We Came This Way: The Magna Carta (1944)
Narrator John W. Vander Cook introduces the history of England and then tells how the Magna Carta came about in the reign of King John. Arthur, the son of John's elder brother, is held prisoner and killed, and the French lands of the Crown are lost. John's heavy taxes anger the people, and a disp...
The Most Dangerous Woman in England: Widows, Cages and the Women Who Walked Out
🕯️ For most of English history, the most dangerous woman in the room was not a queen or a spy. She was a widow. 🖤
Tonight Lady Aurelia Ravenshade, a widow herself, pulls back the velvet curtain on the gilded cage every widow in England had to escape. ⚖️📜
👑 Why Magna Carta had to promise, in wri...
233. The Plantagenets | Louis, the Would-Be French King of England
King John was such a disaster as King of England that the barons of England went to war against him, inviting French Prince Louis, son of French King Philip II to cross the channel and take the reins in London. Louis was married to John's sister, Blanche of Castile, which created a plausible clai...
Nicolaa De La Haye, Constable of Lincoln Castle
This week's guest is Sharon Bennet Connolly, an expert in women's and medieval history. We'll be discussing the interesting figure of Nicolaa De La Haye, a woman who became the constable, or keeper, of Lincoln Castle during the reign of King John. In her time there, she resisted not one but two s...
