Hey friend, welcome back to the Renaissance English History Podcast, a part of the Agora Podcast Network, and the original Tudor History Podcast, telling stories of Tudor England since 2009.

I am your host, Heather, and today we are going to talk about Edward Seymour and the Protectorate.

So Edward Seymour is a fascinating character who was, of course, the protector when Edward the sixth was king in his minority and orchestrated so much of the Protestant reforms under Edward, making England into such a Protestant country that then there was such a backlash

with Mary. So we are going to talk a little bit about him today as well as his downfall, because, of

course, like many people who rose very high, there was a downfall. So we are going to chat about

all of that today. Thank you and hello to the newest

members on the YouTube channel. Hello and welcome to Edith, Barbara, Pascaline, and Emily. So glad to

have you here. Thank you so much for being here and thank you for your support. You literally keep

this podcast going and I am so very, very grateful to you. I'm doing something a little bit different with patron mini-casts this year. You know, patrons always get these extra mini-casts, extra episodes, things like that. And for a long time, I've just been doing extra episodes of extra things I've been interested in. But that also is kind of what I do on YouTube. And so I've just been thinking about like what I can do to actually

make it special for patron. And one of the things I thought that would be fun to do is to go through

and talk about other countries in the context of Tudor England. So this year we're going to do a

little tour of Renaissance France, specifically through the

England lens. So looking at France in the 15th and 16th century through the lens of how

England was seeing it and how the events in France were affecting England. So we started that

last week with the introduction. I call it Francecast. And we talked about

the end of the Capation dynasty, the rise of the Valois, and the start of the Hundred Years' War.

And we will continue that weekly for members and patron. So you are very welcome to join, of course.

If you're listening to this on YouTube, you can just

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course this month is on the Spanish Armada and the war with Spain. So that's been quite a lot of fun

to put together. And that'll be out later this week for members at those levels that get the audio course as well. So thank you, thank you, and welcome, welcome.

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