21.4 Chateau Gaillard 1203-04, Part 4, King John, Philip II Augustus

A History of Europe, Key Battles

Carl Rylett

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🗓️ 12 December 2015

⏱️ 30 minutes

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King John of England in his first year or two of rule achieved some successes, but his lack of tact and diplomacy, plus poor decision-making lost him many allies in France. The focus of the escalating conflict between the Plantagenets and Capetians became Chateau Gaillard, a magnificent fortress in the key borderlands between Normandy and the French royal demesne around Paris.

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0:29.0	Place must be 18 or over. Welcome to a history of Europe, Key Battles, The Siege of Shutter-Griard, 1203 to 1204.
0:56.6	Part 4 of 4
0:58.8	In the year 1199, the fourth and last surviving son of King Henry II of England,
1:10.6	who was once mockingly referred to as
1:12.7	John Lackland for having no lands to inherit, was crowned King of England. With it he also became
1:19.6	the Duke of Aquitaine, Count of Anjou and Lord of Ireland. In England his accession to the throne
1:27.2	went very smoothly, but across the channel the situation was more difficult.
1:32.3	The King of France, Philip II, also known as Philip Augustus, was of the firm belief that it was his right, even his divine duty, to assert the authority of the French crown over all of France.
1:47.0	The method used by Philip to try and achieve this was to support the claims of the 12-year-old son of John's brother Geoffrey, Arthur Duke of Brittany.
1:59.0	Seeing once more a good opportunity to exploit family rivalries between Angevins, he took the
2:06.6	own Duke under his wing.
2:11.6	King John got off to a good start by hastily making for the castle at Shinon in the Noir Valley to secure the Angevin
2:18.8	treasury deposited there. Next he headed for England and was crowned king at Westminster Abbey.
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