18 - Isabella of France (2): Crossing the Rubicon

Queens of England Podcast

James Boulton

Education, History, Society & Culture

4.8 • 637 Ratings

🗓️ 14 February 2016

⏱️ 35 minutes

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After Edward's victory in the Despenser War, he was at the high point of his entire reign. Everything was going swimmingly - but these good times would not last forever. His regime had defeated every source of opposition bar one: his wife Isabella.

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0:24.3	Hello and welcome to the Queens of England podcast.
0:28.4	Episode 18, Isabella of France, crossing the Rubicon.
0:51.8	Yeah. The victory of Edward II in the Dispenser War was as decisive as a victory could be.
0:55.2	Oh, by the way, it was called the Dispenser War. I forgot to mention that in the last episode. The Earl of Hereford lay dead in the field. The Earl of Lancaster was
1:00.3	executed. Gaviston was avenged. Dispenser was at his side. Life was good for Edward. But there
1:07.9	was one person whose support he was in great danger of losing. Isabella.
1:13.6	Lancaster may have been her enemy, but he was also a great noble of the realm, not to mention her
1:18.5	uncle. He was of royal blood. You just don't summarily kill people like that. You just don't.
1:25.5	It's important to remember that for most of the middle ages, the death penalty was
1:28.8	incredibly rarely inactive for people of noble blood. It was a total taboo, and one that Edward was
1:35.2	breaking with impunity. Now, though she wasn't best pleased with Edward, it was nothing
1:40.4	compared with her loathing of dispenserenser, whom she pretty much blamed for everything.
1:45.9	She knew her husband, had intimate experience with just how weak-willed and how easily led he was.
1:52.6	She had already lived through Piers Gaviston, she was not keen on living that nightmare again with Dispenser.
1:58.9	There is a theme developing with Isabella here that I have brought up before but it bears repeating
2:03.1	Isabella was the very royalist of royals as daughter of one of Christendon's mightiest and noblest
2:09.9	royal houses which traces its roots all the way back to Charlemagne she had a deep in-belt respect
2:14.9	for royal blood and the maintenance of royal authority.
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