England & France: Two Houses, Two Kingdoms

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🗓️ 16 July 2022

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

The twelfth and thirteenth centuries were a time when the close friendship or petty feuding between monarchs could determine the course of history. The Capetians of France and the Angevins of England waged war, made peace, and intermarried. The lands under English control once reached to within a few miles of Paris, and those ruled by the French, at their peak, crossed the Channel and encompassed London itself. Influential women of the two royal families - including Eleanor of Aquitaine and Blanche of Castille - helped create the familial bonds that shaped the fate of the two countries.

In this episode of Gone Medieval, Matt Lewis talks with Dr. Catherine Hanley to trace the great clashes and occasional friendships of two intertwined dynasties that shaped the present and the future of England and France.

The Senior Producer on this episode was Elena Guthrie, the Producer is Rob Weinberg. Edited and Mixed by Seyi Adaobi.

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1:31.6	Welcome to this episode of Gone Medieval, I'm Matt Lewis. England and France spent much of the
1:37.6	high and late medieval period at war for one reason or another. I'm delighted to welcome back
1:43.2	to day to Gone Medieval Catherine Hanley who you may remember joined us when the podcast was but a
1:47.7	wee babe to talk about Empress Matilda. Cath has a new book out entitled Two Houses, Two Kingdoms,
1:54.3	a history of France and England from 1100 to 1300 which offers a fresh look at two centuries
2:01.2	of entwined relations that often spilled into fighting and Cath focuses on the people involved
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