wnsdpod

Ep 179 - Conquest & Anarchy 5: Too Many Matildas

Added 2024-08-08 12:00:07 +0000 UTC

patrons, here's your ad-free version of this week's regular episode. we answer questions from My Bartoli and White Trash Historian. part 4 of the series on The Name of the Rose will be out Friday.

folks, it's part 5 of our series on the Norman Conquest and English Anarchy and we're finally getting to the Anarchy part. We talk about the state of England in 1135 at the time of Henry I's death, what kind of anarchy we mean here, the main players and their claims to the throne, early political jockeying, and then the formal outbreak of civil war in 1138. Of course, we also make a few comparisons to House of the Dragon since George RR Martin used the English Anarchy as his rough template for the Targaryen civil war.