Medieval Power Couple: Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine
Tudors Dynasty & Beyond
RedTop Media / Rebecca Larson
4.4 • 869 Ratings
🗓️ 20 February 2024
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of the podcast, Rebecca sits down with historian Matt Lewis to dive into the intriguing and sometimes misunderstood world of one medieval power couple who defied expectations and shaped history...King Henry II of England and Eleanor of Aquitaine.
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Host: Rebecca Larson
Guest: Matt Lewis
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| 0:00.0 | all the lords and barons appear to agree with this of course until he dies and then everybody says nope we're going after stephen he's a guy he's going to be better at really imagine the scenes can't you when henry's like you're all going to support my daughter aren't you and everyone's like yes henry yes sir The Tudors Dynasty podcast. |
| 0:24.0 | Welcome back to the show. I'm Rebecca Larson. |
| 0:27.2 | Today I am joined by one of my favorite guests, somebody who hasn't been on this show in quite some time. |
| 0:33.6 | I maybe want to call him my brother from another mother. |
| 0:37.3 | Mr. Matt Lewis, Matt, welcome back. |
| 0:40.2 | I'd take that. Thank you very much, Rebecca. That's a really nice introduction. I'm sorry, |
| 0:43.4 | I've been away for so long. Well, you've been kind of busy doing your own podcast and, you know, |
| 0:49.4 | investigating the princes in the tower. Why don't you just give everybody just a quick recap of what |
| 0:54.6 | you've been up to since the last time you're on? |
| 0:56.5 | Yeah, none of that is a good excuse for not talking to you though. So I do co-host gone |
| 1:03.2 | medieval, which is history hits medieval podcast. We have episodes every Tuesday and Friday, |
| 1:09.2 | so mine go out on a Friday and we have |
| 1:11.4 | Eleanor Yarniger doing episodes on a Tuesday now. |
| 1:14.4 | I have been presenting some films for History Hit 2. |
| 1:18.8 | So at the moment, I've got a three-part series on The Peasants Revolt, which is coming out. |
| 1:23.5 | So the first part is out on History Hit now. |
| 1:26.7 | Episode 2 will be following soon and three not far behind it. |
| 1:32.3 | So episode three is actually a really interesting one because people tend to think about the Peasantry Vault ending in London when what Tyler is murdered and that's the end of it and it's done. |
| 1:42.3 | But the whole of episode three is going to be explaining what happens after that, the bit that doesn't normally get told. We get the only pitched |
| 1:48.4 | battle of the peasants revolt. We've still got legal wranglings going on all over the country. It's |
| 1:53.2 | really interesting. I hope it's really interesting anyway. And yeah, so lots of princes in the |
| 1:58.0 | tower stuff going on, which is always princes in the tower stuff going on for me. |
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