Katherine Swynford: From Mistress to Duchess
Tudors Dynasty & Beyond
RedTop Media / Rebecca Larson
4.4 • 869 Ratings
🗓️ 28 April 2026
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, I’m joined by historian Sharon Bennett Connolly to explore the life of Katherine Swynford - her relationship with John of Gaunt, the scandal that shook the royal court, and how her legacy would shape the future of the English throne.
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Host: Rebecca Larson
Guest: Sharon Bennett Connolly
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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. |
| 0:10.4 | Hello and welcome back to the show. |
| 0:12.9 | I'm Rebecca Larson, and I'm very, very happy to welcome back again. |
| 0:17.8 | My dear friend, Sharon Bennett Connolly. |
| 0:19.9 | Welcome. |
| 0:21.3 | Thank you, Rebecca. Nice to be here again. I love having our little, it's like little |
| 0:25.9 | girlfriend chats about history, isn't it? Well, I wanted to have you back again because I thought |
| 0:33.5 | there is one woman in history who I have never, ever done a podcast on. I've never |
| 0:40.9 | written an article about. I've never had a guest article about her. And it's about time that we |
| 0:46.9 | bring forward Catherine Swinford. And I was so excited that you're able to talk about her today. |
| 0:52.5 | Yay. I can't believe you haven't done anything on |
| 0:56.0 | her before. I can't. I'm on you. I feel like, you know, when it comes to the medieval history, |
| 1:04.1 | that's not usually like when publishers reach out to me, they reach out to me about tutor stuff. |
| 1:09.0 | That's because I think that that's all that I do. |
| 1:12.1 | So it's so seldom that I get a book sent to me about medieval history. Yeah. And I've always |
| 1:19.3 | kind of been intrigued by her. But yeah, I also can't believe I've never done some digging to find |
| 1:26.1 | somebody to do an episode on her. |
| 1:28.9 | And then I discovered that you can talk on her. |
| 1:31.4 | And I thought, oh, this is perfect. |
| 1:35.0 | Yeah, she was in my first book, Heroines of the Medieval World. |
| 1:40.8 | I can't remember if it was mistresses or scandalous heroines, but yeah, she's an interesting character. |
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