S2.20 Malcolm III

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🗓️ 18 December 2015

⏱️ 70 minutes

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With the reign of Malcolm III, Scotland emerges from the dark ages and into the chaos of 1066 and the Norman Conquest of England. With his marriage to the Saxon princess (and future saint) Margaret, Malcolm is set on a collision course with the Normans and the battle for dominance in Cumbria and Northumbria. Margaret is one of the extraordinary figures of the age and together Malcolm and Margaret oversee reforms in church and at court that have a lasting impact on Scottish history. But for how long can Malcolm try his luck with the Normans and will it be enough to earn him the Rex Factor? (Please note that we are using new microphones - haven't quite figured out the settings yet so the audio is a bit quieter than usual and we also need to get pop filters!) 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, Malcolm the Third.
0:25.0	With your hosts Graham Duke and
0:36.2	welcome to Rex Factor reviewing all the Kings and Queens of Scots from Kenneth McAlpin to James the sixth. How do I sound? I think you're sounding
0:41.8	okay at the moment because we have bought new microphone
0:45.8	thank you Rex Factor fans all the Privy Councilor rather who donated all the lovely
0:49.8	people have donated privy counselors and individual donations.
0:53.4	Still coming to terms with all of the technology.
0:56.6	So if it doesn't sound quite 100% or if we forget to maintain appropriate levels and
1:01.8	distance from a microphone at times do bear with us but
1:04.8	hopefully long term should be good yeah they're very very nice they like really
1:09.5	sexy ice creams yes that was your interesting description of it. I'll post a
1:15.7	picture there. Anyway as well as new microphones we've got a new monarch to
1:22.1	review in the form of Malcolm III.
1:24.0	Yeah.
1:25.0	Scotland has been torn apart really between because there's been a lot of conflict between
1:30.0	this system of alternating succession and primogeniture. So it's
1:33.8	federally had a dynastic conflict. So since the nine 60s almost all of the
1:38.9	successions have been contested. So as a result almost every monarch has come to a violent end that we've
1:44.4	reviewed thus far. It's been incredibly bloody. Now Scotland at this time the
1:49.0	modern Scotland that we know today is still in the process of being formed. So the kingdom of Alpah, as it was known at the
1:56.0	time, Scotland was centered around Perth or Scoon, where they would get crowned,
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