S1.13 Harold I

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🗓️ 12 December 2010

⏱️ 27 minutes

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When Cnut dies in 1035 England has enjoyed a period of stability, but the legacy of his bigamy is that his two widows are battling it out for dominance at court. Emma, the queen, had the legitimate son in Harthacnut, but he is out of the country meaning that Aelgifu's son, Harold Harefoot, gets the chance to rule. Will Aelgifu be able to cling on to power? Will Emma find a way to defeat her rival? Will King Harold I even get a look-in? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to Rex Factor.
0:15.0	This week, Harold the First
0:25.0	with your hosts Graham Duke and Ali Hood. Oh, hello.
0:29.0	Come do another X factor.
0:30.0	Harold the first.
0:32.0	Harold the first. Yes, so last time we did King Canute who won the Rex
0:36.4	factor he was awesome I accept it only the third one but 1035 he dies and after a long
0:42.2	successful reign his his brilliant empire is just starting to come under pressure with his sons in charge of looking after it.
0:51.0	One of which is this chap.
0:52.0	One of which is this chap and we also remember a big
0:55.3	important thing for this week is his bigamy. Excellent. So we had Elgafoo of Northampton who was sort of his first wife but then Emma of Normandy who is his sort of more proper wife.
1:07.6	With the agreed children.
1:09.2	With the agreed children as heirs but he didn't really sort out exactly how that was meant to work out he didn't
1:14.8	get rid of his first wife so he had this two wife situation going on and we have something of
1:19.4	cold-war mothers operating here they're trying to get their son. Is it one of them
1:24.8	east and one of them west? Does it does that meant for go any deeper of? I suppose you
1:31.4	could say that Emma is east on the count of being from France which in this case is far
1:36.9	Eastern Europe as opposed to Northampton so Harold the first he's born roughly 1015, so he's about 20 years old when he comes to the throne.
1:47.0	And he is the son of Elgifur of Northampton, so that's the first wife.
1:51.0	Not the agreed one. So yes and he is the 27th
1:59.4	great grand uncle of Elizabeth II, apparently.
2:04.0	Okay.
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