Hello everyone and welcome to the History of England episode 174 Warwick's Rubicon.

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inspiringly named agorapodcastnetwork.com. Now then, last week was all about Edward making

it quite clear to Warwick if by actions rather than deeds that he was no longer the chief

man of the realm and that it was the king who would rule. Just to make it clear that the French

Alliance was dead, the Alliance that had been so much part of Warwick's plans and in which

so much of his pride was invested. In October 1467 Edward was able to announce the crowning of

the Burgundian Alliance, with the marriage of his sister Margaret to Duke Charles the

bold, the new Duke of Burgundy. This now followed treatise with Denmark, Castile,

Brittany. All of them, very obviously designed to surround France with a ring of enemies.

There could be no pike staff ever so plain that Edward had never intended to sign any agreements

with Louis that he'd just let old Warwick run around and build himself up until he,

Edward, took a large double-handed sword and cut him off at the knees.

In the mother of all Huff's, Warwick huffed his way all the way up to the north to the

place where he could puff away as near-king has made no difference to his castle at Middleton

in Wensleydale. There was no doubt a lot of wound-licking that went on. He huffed that

he would not attend court again as long as rivers or scales or herbet was in attendance

too. Now this was dangerous huffing, Warwick stood right on the edge of what was and was

not acceptable. He appears in fact to have realised and to have drawn back from such dangerous

huffing. He and his brother George the Archbishop of York seemed to have been involved in council

discussions of state about what to do about the Hanziatic League. We'll come back to that

later, but our point is that he does seem to have been down south in London to a degree

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