S2.31 John Balliol

Rex Factor

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4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 19 October 2016

⏱️ 70 minutes

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After being chosen to be King of Scots in 1292, John Balliol had a tough job on his hands. He had not been raised for kingship, the nobility were divided and, most worryingly of all, Edward I of England had established himself as feudal lord of Scotland and was determined to make this clear to all concerned. Could Balliol restore Scotland's prosperity and remain independent from England or would the task be too big for him to face? 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!
0:10.0	This week, John Bayou! This week, John Baylio!
0:19.0	With your hosts Graham Duke and Ali Hello and welcome to Rex Factor reviewing all the Kings and Queens of Scots from
0:36.5	not from Alfred the Great from Kenneth McAlpin to James the 6th you put me off
0:41.2	with your enthusiasm that is a blast from the vast crane.
0:45.0	And there's a sirens in the way this through the textbook start.
0:49.0	Welcome to 2010.
0:50.0	Oh dear.
0:51.0	Oh there's another one. Troubles a foot here at the Rex Factor
0:56.8	studios. So, John Bailey all today, a King John. Oh yes, a Spanish one.
1:04.0	Okay, is there more than one John?
1:07.0	No.
1:08.0	Okay.
1:09.0	So is King John.
1:10.0	Just King John.
1:11.0	A bit of backgroundy stuff for John. We recall Alexander the third, the last Rex Factor winner
1:17.7	that we had who oversaw a golden age of peace and prosperity, but then within a decade have this awful tragedy where his wife and his three
1:25.3	children all died and then he himself died falling from a horse in 1286 trying to
1:30.4	get to be with his young new wife. Pretty cool.
1:33.0	So he didn't have any children, but he does have one granddaughter
1:38.0	to his Margaret the Made of Norway.
1:40.0	Yes.
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