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Britain's Bloodiest Dynasty: Betrayal - Part 1 of 4 (The Real Game Of Thrones) | Timeline

Feb 23, 2020
From the chaos, darkness and violence of the Middle Ages, one family rose to take control of England, generation after generation, they ruled the country for over 300 years, ruthlessly crushing all competition to become the greatest English

dynasty

of them all. the times, the Plantagenet. the Plantagenet story that is more shocking, more brutal, more surprising than anything you find in fiction. I want to show you the plantations, as I see, we live in freedom, people driven by ambition, jealousy, hatred and revenge, these kings murdered, betrayed and tyrannized on their way to spectacular success, for better and for worse the Plantagenets forged England as a nation, this time the founder of the

dynasty

Henry, the second warrior and empire builder, transformed England from a war zone to a European superpower, but the murder and

betrayal

of his own family threatened to tear it a

part

.
britain s bloodiest dynasty betrayal   part 1 of 4 the real game of thrones timeline
Aside from all that he had accomplished in 1153, Henry Plantagenet sailed to England with an invasion force aiming to regain the throne. He is only 20 years old but he is already an experienced soldier. He is fighting for answers. He was a child and his mother instilled in him the idea that the crown of England is his by right, so Henry approaches these mountain ranges. He is convinced that the face here with Henry is a powerhouse with a fiery temper brimming with raw energy and ambition. Within a year Stephen is dead and Henry is crowned. Henry, a second, the first Plantagenet King, of course. doesn't speak a word of English after 90 years of Norman French rule in England, no one speaks it except the peasants and that's not when Henry is here to fight the Barents, for generations the barons have been fighting fierce land wars burning plunder. rape kill if you lived here you could come home any day and find your house on fire your crops destroyed your animals taken away your family murdered and this has been going on for almost 20 years as long as the new king has been alive The future of Henry and the The future of England depends on subduing the barons.
britain s bloodiest dynasty betrayal   part 1 of 4 the real game of thrones timeline

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I could just destroy them. His armies are big enough, but instead he does something totally unexpected. High above the borders of Wales stands Wigmore Castle, once one of the greatest fortresses in England. It is the power base of the toughest human barons. and the last one to stand against a new king Owen challenges Henry and gets his way she shows up here at Wigmore with an army and lays siege to the castle Henry has Hugh surrounded but he's not here to destroy him he just stays out here. I'm my army, what are you going to do about it?
britain s bloodiest dynasty betrayal   part 1 of 4 the real game of thrones timeline
As expected, Hugh retreats, which is what Henry does, marking him as a king to be reckoned with because he takes Hugh's castle from them and gives it back directly to them. You're saying you can have it. your power, but only because I say so. I am the king, I am in control and you work for me. One of the reasons Enrique had the confidence to face such powerful men. He clearly has a formidable arm. Henry's queen is Eleanor, Duchess of Aquitaine, 10 years old. She's a senior, she's a beauty student who's very famous throughout Europe, she watched 40 songs about getting laid, she shocked the continent by divorcing the king of France in 1152 and marrying Henry just two months later, they were a good couple when Henry takes the throne, she has already produced her first child, but this Queen is much more than a baby machine, since she is Duchess of Aquitaine.
britain s bloodiest dynasty betrayal   part 1 of 4 the real game of thrones timeline
She is a serious

game

r and politician in her own right. Enrique provides muscle. Leonor brings prestige. There are many meals and the union creates a Plantagenet empire that stretches from the borders of Scotland to tyranny, but to maintain control of such a vast territory, Henry has to do something radical that will control everything. Henry, the question is how he keeps it up. You could use barons to rule the different regions which is standard medieval practice but to the extent possible. Henry can see that the barons are lonely and do things his way, as long as it suits them to get what he wants.
Henry will have to do things a little differently. Well in Nostrum quotidianum da nobis. Oh yes, Henry's genius is to create a new honor, no. of soldiers, but of clans, educated commoners, unlike barons, will do exactly what he wants. What Henry invents is the basis of the civil service that still runs the country today here at the National Archives. Nine hundred year old documents revealed the full extent of Henry's life. pull so this is a court order from the second year of Henry's reign it is an official instruction from the king you can see King Rex here Duke of Normandy Duke of Aquitaine sending instructions to the sheriff of Dorsett ordering him to return a farm in the village of RAM by pressing their rightful owner, that may seem mundane but hundreds of these survived and what they show is Henry's interest in every field and pasture of his kingdom and this is not all Henry is doing, he is also rebuilding the royal finances through of the exchange judges. raving about the country to restore law and order What this all adds up to is Henry's complete obsession with printing is the control of every area who is the New Kingdom the brain that pulls Henry's administrative strings is the commoner Thomas Becket the son of a merchant who may be Lowborn, Becket, such a brilliant operator, Henry appoints him chancellor, it is Beckett, he ensures that the Kings' control over England is rock solid and is clearly A spark of sorts between them, they quickly become drinking buddies, hunting buddies, and best friends, but thanks to Beckett all.
Henry's achievements are about to be threatened. The problem starts here. A seat of power in Canterbury, the only

part

of England that remains outside of Henry's control. Church. One Englishman in five is a clergyman. They are effectively above the law. Any crime they commit, including rape. or murder, only the church courts can judge them, the worst punishment, they can give the fine, the king cannot touch them, so in 1161, when the archbishop of Canterbury dies here, Henry thinks it is excellent, I will appoint my companion Thomas as archbishop, he can hit some. sense in the church and although Thomas has never been a priest, Henry bullies the Canterbury monks until they agree to elect him so you can see why Henry thinks he has the church problem solved, after all, Becket is the best friend ever. who owes his career to him.
What could go wrong? Henry failed to detect a huge problem in the medieval world. There is a power greater than the king. Beckett discovers that practically the first thing God does is hang the King when he resigns as Chancellor. He is sending a strong message: I am no longer going to do what you say. Now I have a new boss with God on his side. Beckett now defies every order the king gives to subdue the church, as expected, Henry doesn't like him very much. This is a king famous throughout Europe for his uncontrollable temper, a man who once became so furious during an argument that he rolled on the floor pulling the straw out of his mattress and putting it in his mouth, it is fair to say that Henry was not only Angry is enthused and this rage combined with Henry's intense desire for control will lead to murder and

betrayal

that threaten to destroy all that Westminster has achieved July 11, 17 Henry II is going to crown his eldest son, the young Henry, king. of England, effectively king in waiting, should ensure Instead, Henry's legacy is going to tear their world apart because there is one man who

real

ly should be there.
Henry has an advantage. The Coronation of the Kings of England by Thomas Beckett. The Archbishop of Canterbury concert. And it has always been that way when Beckett hears about the coronation of the young kings. he explodes with fury, does something completely reckless. Becket excommunicated all the clergy that morning and then amen, as far as he is concerned they are literally going to hell when the news reaches Henry, his Plantagenet anger arises again and he says something he will regret for the rest of his life in the act, it's about to change the colors of the postmen and yours, what Mike and I, please, your door, Monty.
Oh, Henry is just Bentley, but that's not what it looks like to the kind of him, what they hear is a direct order. from your king, this simple misunderstanding creates a disaster and here in Canterbury everything collapses days later, okay, go through these doors and then march towards the Cathedral to confront Becket, here he is unarmed and dancing in bishop's robes and They are in our mo. his sword for these furious words are exchanged, they try to drag it back to the cathedral here there is a throw and it is at this point one of the Knights draws his sword and lowers it over Beckett's head, buying a share, Beckett falls one of the Nights.
He throws his brain on the ground with the tip of his sword, but they are not alone because they hide in the doors and behind the pillars, but Beckett's friends and followers witness an event that will surprise Kristensen for every good thing that Henry II has done in his career so far could be erased because this is what will be remembered by them the fact that his words were taken out of context is neither here nor there as far as everyone is concerned Henry ordered the murder of Beckett the Outrage of this sacrilege goes viral throughout Europe and people begin to wonder if Henry is

real

ly fit to be king.
Enrique immediately realizes how damaging this will be. This is the first time since his meteoric rise that he has been vulnerable. I think he would have hurt him personally in Becket too. They may have been beating each other up for years. This is still a man who was once his closest friend and who understood him better than anyone. The humiliated King appears and goes to Ireland on campaign and the crisis on this scale is the only group. He should be able to count on her, her own family, but now they too are turning against him and it's all Enrique's fault.
Henry's eldest son, Henry, the young king, is a chip off the old block, ambitious, power-hungry and impatient like the king in Waiting He Should Be. taken to Ireland so that Henry can teach him how to exert iron-fisted control, but he is not. Instead, the young king is left behind to rot after his father's misfortune and, while he is away, the king leaves control in the hands of his capable Office. helpless and isolated resentment as the father begins to feast waiting for another surviving document reveals how humiliating life is for the young king this is a record of the royal accounts from 1170 to when Henry is beating the Irish at first glance it is quite dry a long list of payments made, but throughout the records of money paid to the young king, the interesting thing is that they are all quite small, let's take a look, there is one here from Berkhamstead and it says for the radius of works, the radius of Philadelphia of the king, the son. of the king xxx, that's 30 shillings, well today it's a few thousand pounds, which may seem like a lot, but a king's eldest son is chicken feed.
Now the normal way things would work is that a king would give a block to the eldest son. of lands from which to obtain his income, but Henry has not done so, he has kept everything for himself to maintain control, so the image you get when reading this is that of the old king where the most men are found. rich and powerful in Europe, while their eldest son is running around. Cap in hand asking for money for royal officials Resentment is also spreading through the rest of the faculty. A year before Beckett's murder, Henry's wife, Queen Eleanor, had returned to her homeland in Aquitaine and faced us here in Poitiers, where this Hall is what remains of a magnificent ducal palace after years living in a foreign country Eleanor returns to her favorite son Richard to train him to take over her lands there when she dies she has finally returned to where It belongs here is where she was born this is where she was raised frankly food and the climate is better here too, but Ellen is about to discover that her Aquitaine is now a very different place.
A spectacular new cathedral has been built in the center of the city. This is more than just a church. It is a public relations statement designed to sell the Plantagenet dynasty. the people and the headline of this message is a spectacular window, incredibly it survived intact for almost nine centuries. If you look at this stained glass window at the top of the cathedral, you can see Henry Eleanor and her four children, it's like a snapshot of the United States. family teetering together over England and half of France, except it's not really because in a curtain, Eleanor finds Henry's men collecting the taxes, Henry's men checking the balance, even when our husbands hundreds of miles away it's obvious that he's the one in Eleanor could have brought Aquitaine to Henry in marriage, but that doesn't mean it's up to Ellen to discover something Henry did that she finds unforgivable behind his back.
Henry has mortgaged part of his Aquitaine to secure a political alliance. Coming home one day and finding your husband's change, the locks sold all yourthings, they've had a lot of other people to live them, it's not just any pleasant sight, Richard is spitting blood about his loss, animated two in one fell swoop, Henry has created. two powerful new enemies and probably doesn't realize that Henry's blindness to his family's feelings is a ticking time bomb here Moschino 175 miles southwest of Paris in the heart of Henry's French lands and finally blows up The Castle of Chignon has enormous strategic importance that you want to rule that the Plantagenet Empire controls it is absolutely essential, which is exactly why Henry, the young king, hopes that one day this castle with his then, one night, Henry announces that he will give the castle He tied the jewel in the Plantagenet crown to John, a young king, his six-year-old brother, he thinks. what it would have been like here that night this is one of the angriest families in history try to imagine all that Plantagenet anger just boiling they think there has been a lot of pleasant chat over dinner here see the loss of the castle is more than the young king is preparing true to form Henry is completely disdainful, he is completely incapable of seeing things from my son's point of view, but the young king stands his ground for 18 years, has had to suffer from his father's excessive control and is now plotting a line in the sand. he had a backup there, the young king should have known better.
Henry was never going to give up the controls without a fight. bun teaches the young king a hard lesson. His father will never give him royal power and is tired of being tormented, but if Henry thinks he has the young king where he wants him, he is completely wrong. His eldest son is now hell-bent on defeating the old man in the battle. spring of 1173, but the young king escapes from the custody of his father, who flees from the palace directly into the arms of Louis VII. King of France, this is an absolute betrayal. The young king is planning to use King Louie to help save his father's throne, but why is the king of France involved in such a dangerous

game

?
Two doctors actually borrow from an expert in medieval French. Cut, it makes a lot of sense that Lois hates Henri, well they had many reasons to dislike each other, perhaps the first is that they embody completely opposite ideas of what it is to be a king, on the one hand you meet Henri, a macho warrior and , on the other hand, On the other hand, Louis was the complete opposite and the other thing is that Henry was much richer than Louis and never wasted a chance to be safe, but he's more than just political, isn't he? Yes, which makes this story unusual.
You have a very deep personal aspect, just two months after Louis separated from his wife Eleanor, she married Henry and not only married him, but started having baby after baby when Ian Eleanor really tried. song for years before that, so it must have been really painful for Louis, so all those aspects together explain why there is such a deep and long animosity between those two men, the young king rocking out in Paris is no surprise to Louie , this is more. than a simple spontaneous betrayal by a petulant son because Henry, the young king, is not acting alone, his brothers are also involved in this and so is the only person whose lifeblood in making the whole betrayal possible was Eleanor the Queen . she's flossing with her ex-husband to replace Henry in high school and immediately sends Richard to join her older brother.
A few days later, Eleanor's policies make a mad dash across France on horseback, becoming immense and, but she doesn't make it, she is trapped. road to Paris for only two second men and taken to the castle of chignon not as a queen but as a prison that your own children rebelling against you is as bad as your queen being the mastermind of the whole plot with her ex, that is out of the ordinary in scandal. shakes medieval Europe, but there is no stopping the betrayal Eleanor has set in motion in Paris. Louie Richard and young King are immobilized to attack Henri from all sides and not just in France, they are going to hit him where it hurts most.
England, many English barons. They are still quite sore that Henry cut off their wings just as the young king promises to give them everything back. The last time the English barons had that kind of power, they basically destroyed the country, so this is a pretty reckless promise, not a careful strategy. but that's the young king for you, he's good at backstabbing, he relaxes his father's political cunning, he just wants to win at any cost, he even makes a deal with Henry's other mortal enemy, the king of Scotland, the young king tells him promises large chunks of England if he attacks.
Henry of the North seeks a king of England in waiting. This is a dangerous game, but it works in the spring of 1174. Henry faces a perfect storm. A total revolt is spreading throughout his empire, all sparked by the betrayal of his family while Henry fights in France, England. Becoming a disaster zone, the King of Scotland invaded the north while foreign mercenaries cross the channel to support the barons. If Henry does not do something drastic, England, which is lost, most of the kings who cross the channel to face a rebellion will think that the same raise an army crush them by force Henry has something else, it is me because he realizes who are not his barons or even his sons or threaten his empire if the dead hand of Thomas Becket rising from beyond the grave is more than three years since Becket was murdered and Canterbury Cathedral in that time Henry's troubles have gone from bad to worse on July 12, 1174 Henry II heads to tell what he does in the next 24 hours will shock the world and decide the future of the entire plantation dynasty just outside the city walls stops is removed boots begins to walk barefoot down the road the people watching must be wondering if the desperate king has lost his mind the streets here in Cantabria full of people elbowing each other pointing perhaps even trying to grab him then I was the king because behind him They wave the royal banners these dressed like an ordinary pilgrim rough woolen clothes and he is barefoot and the paths are not pleasant, clean and smooth, they are muddy, they are dirty, full of broken rocks and sharp stones that cut his feet into pieces This is not only physically painful, it is humiliating.
The King of England crawls through the mud, leaving bloody footprints behind Henri, performing the most public act of penitence imaginable, begging God and Beckett to forgive him. This can only end in one place, the cathedral of Canterbury, your miserable three mile walk is actually propaganda dynamite. Every person who sees it will spread the news with a scale of the king's penance. Henry isn't done yet and he knows he has a chance to win back hearts and minds. of her kingdom and is planning something the grand finale of the scene Miss is the shrine of her once best friend Natalie Thomas Beckett was murdered when Henry entered the cathedral dirty, bloody and drained Thomas's shrine is not there up, down these stairs, the Crypt down here, the darkness between the columns, Henry does something absolutely extraordinary in front of Becket's tomb Henry kneels the orders the monk was standing weapon 100 of them take turns hitting his blow until 5 times each with a virgin Henry is shedding his own blood to atone for the Becket spill and the Cathedral above these are the same monks who hid behind the pillars in horror there now the currents beat beating the sin of fashion in all penniless sheets more than 300 lacerations of flesh laceration there may be a lot less people down here than up there but these are the men who write about all those scenes that will tell the world that they may be Henry's Punishers but They are also propagandists.
It is a masterstroke of charismatic royalty. This is Henry's best chance to quell a rumor campaign against him, but there's no guarantee. to save then something extraordinary happens the next morning a messenger arrives and discovers explosive news that the king of Scotland has been captured the invasion of the north is over it is not a matter of some kind of miraculous timing just to perfect and directly feeds one's own propaganda by Henry Since the time of Beckett's death, he has been describing himself in documents as king by the grace of God. He now has indisputable proof that God is on his side.
Henry's miracle tears out the heart of the rebellion in England. The barons retreat without a fight. Enrique's support. control in less than a month he is free to return to France and fight his traitor sons Henry is on a roll he returns to France the rebellion fades before him he first persuades an unstable young Caine to change sides led by Richard Bowles Furthermore, his rebellion has been extinguished for Enrique's family. It's a catastrophe. They risked everything and lost. The king has crushed them, but now faces the dilemma of what to do with his treacherous family. A member of the family.
Henry cannot forgive his Eleanor because, as a wife rebelling against her husband, she has committed one of the worst forms of betrayal and should never be trusted again and here, in this chapel near Chignon Castle, her fate is recorded in this incredible fresco, so that in the front you can see her husband Henry Ellen in the In the middle and behind her are two of her children. This might seem like a nice, moving portrait of the Plantagenet family. It actually shows that Ellen is being taken into captivity. Henry may not need Eleanor anymore. He dares to propose the fermitas.
He still divided this class between us, but he did. He needs his sons to carry on the Plantagenet dynasty after him, so in a public reconciliation ceremony, who said Gibson even gave them castles of money, they may have been forgiven, but both boys should know that the one thing they never you will give them after this is a real power. Henry simply cannot see that his obsession with control could be the root cause of all of his family's betrayals and this blindness to his own guilt will ultimately destroy him. In the summer of 1183, an unexpected event froze Henry, the second world, terminally ill, the eldest son. the young king does not die by the sword, but if dysentery is an inglorious death for an inglorious son who lives long term mm to make Henry's pain is not just that of a father it was clear that he is personally devastated The death of the young king had destroyed all his plans for his legacy as his remaining sons begin to jockey for position Henry is losing control again only two of Henry's sons are still alive only one can become his heir Richard, the eldest surviving son hopes to be named, but Henry's favorite has always been his youngest son John, at least he has never betrayed his father, yet Henry dares not name any of you.
Henry delays the last time he named a successor, it was a disaster this time, he believes that by delaying he can keep Richard obedient and in control of what he does. I don't know, it's just that someone has been stoking resentment in Richard by whispering ideas of betrayal to him once again. This man he whispers about is the new king of France. Fill it in as he plays on Richards' fears by persuading him that his father intends to name John. There Richard demands that Henry formally name him as his successor and of course he checks that he would be giving up control so with Philip V aside Richard once again goes to war against his father in less than a month they take away part of his Henry's French lands. win a deal not long before a defeated Henry finds himself locked up again here in Chignon Castle with his son and the King France the gates his ambitious and aggressive young man tired old Henry the one thing he could never control has finally caught up with him Time out of his heart Plantagenet is collapsing the Empire he built and ruled for over thirty years and which his own son is taking from him.
It is a final total defeat on July 3, 1189. Henry leaves Scheana to meet Richard, a man. who spent much of his life on horseback his legs are physically bold now he has to be tied to the saddle prevent him from falling off the ridges the demands are read he wants land he wanted money more than anything else he wants to be the next king is all he All Henry can do is nod his head weakly and accept, finally leaning in for one last hug and whispering to Richard that God grant that I may not die until I have gotten my revenge on you.
Somewhere in this broken old man there is still Henry, the second king of England, but this act of defiance is Henry's last hurray. God does not grant his wish. Read for a second. The first Plantagenet king of England died two days later here, less than 20 miles from Sheena, in the family shrine of St. James Abbey. Henry the Second lies buried next to him, the bodies of his wife Eleanor and that of his successor Richard were buried, but not that of his favorite son, John, throughout his reign. Henry maintained close control over his kingdom. He never allowed his children to have real control because he fundamentally didn't think. they could do such a jobgood as he was when Richard and then John became kings.
They proved him right in 15 years. The Plantagenet Empire collapsed shattered by the war of rebellion and that is why John is not buried here at the spring of Oh with his mother and his father. Because when John dies, this place will be ruled by France.

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