Welcome to the British History Podcast. My name is Jamie and this is Episode 274, The

Missing Shire. This show is ad-free due to member support, and as a way of thanking

members for keeping the show independent, I offer members only content, including extra

episodes and rough transcripts. Right now, the members are listening to one of the longest

narrative episodes I've ever done. It's all about pets. It turns out there's a lot

of material on pets and pet ownership in the medieval era, and we dive right into it

on the members' feet. Here's a sample. Medieval people like their pets so much that Hildegard

wasn't the only one to get weird about it. Take this story from France in 1371. It was

during that year that an unfortunate man by the name of Aubrey de Mont-Deditier was murdered.

In short time afterwards, it was noted that Aubrey's dog took a strong disliking to a guy

named Machierre and this caught the attention of the people of the town. And eventually, the

information was brought before the court of King Charles V of France. The people of the town

were convinced that this dog had found the killer. Charles V looked at this and decided that

this matter should be settled through trial by combat between Machierre and the dog. And if

you'd like to know how it ends, you can get instant access to that episode and all the other

Rember's extras by signing up for membership at the British History Podcast dot com for

about the price of a latte per month. And thank you very much to Jennifer, Linda, and Andrea

for signing up already. In the last several episodes, I've been breaking down the weird evidence

that surrounds Edward towards the end of his reign. It's been a deep dive and it's been

focused on some pretty granular details. And the reason why I've been doing this is because

I can't conclusively make a statement on what he did and why. It's shrouded. All I can do

is give you the evidence and then give you the context in which that evidence took place and

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