S1.35 Henry VII

Rex Factor

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4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 10 August 2011

⏱️ 63 minutes

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With victory in the Battle of Bosworth in 1485, Henry VII becomes the first of the new Tudor dynasty. Henry had a difficult time facing down numerous threats to his reign, particularly from pretenders such as Lambert Simnel and Perkin Warbeck, but governed effectively, particularly in improving the country's finances. His marriage to Elizabeth of York helped symbolise a unity between the Lancastrian and Yorkist factions in the Wars of the Roses and his legacy was the powerful Tudor dynasty, and yet he has been largely forgotten by history. Is his obscurity justified, or is this the time for his place in history to be celebrated? If you lose track of who is doing what to who (and there are a lot of names in this one!) check out our handy who's who guide to the episode: https://rexfactor.wordpress.com/english-monarchs/whos-who/tudors/whos-who-henry-vii/ 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.
0:14.0	This week, Henry the 7th.
0:25.0	With your hosts Graham Duke and Ali Hood. Hello. Hello.
0:27.0	Welcome to Rach factory reviewing all the Kings and Queens of England
0:29.0	from Alfred the Great to Elizabeth the Second.
0:31.0	First of all, we've had some messages from some of
0:34.2	our listeners on previous episodes. Laura who's been catching up for a while on
0:39.3	William Rufus said I like Rufus he sounds like he would have been fun to go to the pub with and he might let me borrow some of his pointy shoes like a medieval gay best friend.
0:47.0	Yeah. Henry the first she loved the fact that he died after eating lampreys and said that she went to a lecture
0:53.7	by a food historian and he said the lampreys are considered to be an aphrodisiac in the medieval
0:58.4	times.
0:59.4	So that perhaps could explain Henry's illegitimate children of 20 and his avidly heterosexual personality.
1:05.2	Right, it's more to lampreys than we first thought.
1:08.4	Indeed, and indeed ironic that he had problems siring a legitimate heir.
1:12.0	Even then he died by the...
1:14.0	Yeah.
1:15.0	David Nolan, on Edward III, said that he was pleased that we didn't deduct too many points from him on account of how things ended.
1:21.0	So he had a great rain early on on but then as he got old.
1:24.2	And it will last it. He said to judge his long rain on how it ended would have been as bizarre
1:28.6	as judging Winston Churchill primarily on the basis of his peacetime administration in the 1950s.
1:33.4	Very good point.
1:34.6	Maybe you should do Prime Ministers next.
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