13 - Eleanor of Provence: The Spendthrift Savoyard
Queens of England Podcast
James Boulton
4.8 • 637 Ratings
🗓️ 8 November 2015
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Eleanor of Provence was yet another foreign queen parachuted into England at a very young age, but she would end up wielding more power and being more controversial than the previous two queens combined.
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List of monarchs in Britain by length of reign (wikipedia)
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| 0:56.8 | Episode 13, Elmore of just nine years, |
| 1:21.9 | but would go on to have the longest reign of any medieval king of England, |
| 1:25.5 | surpassed in longevity on the throne only by George |
| 1:29.1 | the 3rd, Victoria, and our current queen, Elizabeth II. Given that fact, you would have thought |
| 1:34.4 | that he would have ruled over a period of relative stability and peace in order to have lasted |
| 1:38.5 | that long, but that could not be further from the truth. The antipathy stirred up between the high |
| 1:44.0 | nobility and monarchy under the reign of John |
| 1:46.4 | was never truly healed by Henry, and, as we'll see, he had to fight a fair few major |
| 1:51.7 | rebellions in order to keep hold of his throne. |
| 1:55.5 | Now we've had a couple of rather quiet queens in a row now, and in fact we have to go back |
| 1:59.6 | as far as Matilda of Boulogne |
| 2:01.1 | before we had a queen who really had a major influence on policy while her husband was alive. |
| 2:06.5 | So it's great now to finally have a queen who did have a good enough relationship with him. |
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