Edward III: Life, Death, and Everything In Between
Tudors Dynasty & Beyond
RedTop Media / Rebecca Larson
4.4 • 869 Ratings
🗓️ 14 May 2026
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
In the second half of Edward III’s reign, he begins to shift into something far more complicated. Joined once again by Matt Lewis, we follow Edward through the first couple of decades of the Hundred Years’ War, his complicated relationship with France, and the astonishing story of the French king John II of France, whose son escaped English captivity - forcing John himself to voluntarily return to England as a hostage in order to preserve his honor.
We also look at the devastating death of Edward the Black Prince, the heir Edward III had carefully prepared to inherit the throne, and how his loss changed the future of England forever. From there, we explore the growing unpopularity of John of Gaunt, political unrest, and the increasingly fragile final years of the old king.
And then there is the drama surrounding Edward III’s death itself: his longtime mistress Alice Perrers, accused of stealing jewels as the king lay dying, and the priest who later claimed he burst into the chamber at the last moment to drive her away and save the king’s soul.
It’s a story of war, grief, honor, scandal, and the slow end of one of England’s most fascinating reigns.
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Host: Rebecca Larson
Guest: Matt Lewis
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Tudors Dynasty and Beyond podcast, history with a twist. |
| 0:07.2 | And now your host, Rebecca Larson. |
| 0:12.0 | Hello and welcome back to the show. |
| 0:14.8 | I'm Rebecca Larson. |
| 0:15.9 | And like a subscription, I forgot to cancel. |
| 0:18.7 | Matt Lewis is back. |
| 0:20.4 | Oh, no, I like that one. Ow. Ow. Ow. I've turned up in |
| 0:26.5 | glasses to try and pretend them are more smart this time as well, like you. And that's what I get. |
| 0:31.2 | But that's absolutely fair. I like that one. And I like how you think the glasses make me look |
| 0:35.6 | smart. So thanks for that. They don't make me any smarter by wearing them. |
| 0:41.9 | Well, I'm always so happy to welcome you back. And of course, I'm just teasing. And I think everybody listening or watching knows I'm just teasing mad. It's kind of our ongoing thing. I keep letting them back in, right? |
| 0:53.0 | Yeah. I mean, that's just what people think, |
| 0:54.9 | you know, she's absolutely horrible to me, even off there, you know, this is her being nice to me now because you're all listening, so please feel sorry for me. We're going to start getting hate mail now. People are going to be like, why are you so mean to Matt Lewis? He's so nice. Quite right. I'm not nice. |
| 1:10.4 | Oh, my gosh. |
| 1:12.4 | Well, speaking of not nice, I feel like the last |
| 1:15.1 | episode we ended and I was not very happy with Edward III. I mean, we kind of we wrapped up, |
| 1:23.4 | let's see, where were we at? So the Black Death death had come through the hundred years war had started |
| 1:29.9 | ever the third was starting to become pretty unpopular and my opinion started to change from the |
| 1:35.7 | beginning of the episode to the end because he wasn't willing to pay these workers more money even |
| 1:41.1 | though they were doing the work of several people instead. So now here we are, |
| 1:46.6 | the continuation of the story. Let's do this. Yeah. I mean, it's interesting with Edward, |
| 1:53.1 | isn't it? Because we quite often have this overview of him as he's quite often heralded as like |
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