S2.38 James II (of Scots)

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🗓️ 31 May 2017

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Like his father, James II came to the throne as a child and faced an uncertain minority with rival factions at war with each other. Also like his father, James was a ruthless and vigorous ruler, determined to establish the Stewart dynasty as supreme over its rivals and independent from England. Could James defeat the powerful Douglas family and take advantage of an England divided by the Wars of the Roses, or would the internal divisions of Scotland prove too much for yet another Stewart king? 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!
0:26.3	This week, James the Second. Graham Duke and Pally
0:30.9	Hello and And uh... and uh... welcome to Rex Factor where we are reviewing all the Kings and Queens of Scots from Kenneth Mcaupin to James the second
0:38.0	The second again. Yes, but this time James the second of Scots rather James the Second of England.
0:45.0	Okay, right.
0:47.0	There are no penguins running around with glorious revolutions or anything like that.
0:50.0	Oh, we love that little fellow.
0:52.0	But maybe there will be some kind of
0:53.6	revolution in Scotland. Because it's been quite dramatic recently. We've had a
0:58.1	period of weak monarchs with the stewards, so from sort of 1376 to 1424 they weren't looking like the best of dynasties
1:06.2	they certainly weren't
1:07.2	Robert the second Robert the third both became king as old men and was sidelined
1:11.2	by another member of the family the Duke of Albany.
1:13.4	And James the first became king whilst a child as a prisoner in England.
1:17.8	Rubbish.
1:18.8	However, when James first came back at the age of 30 or nearly 30 in 1424 restores royal power
1:24.9	execute all of the Albany stewards and restores order in the north by forcing
1:29.6	the submission of the rebellious lord of the aisles. Yeah.
1:33.0	And he was looking really pretty good.
1:35.0	We were quite impressed about that stage.
1:36.0	It was.
1:37.0	Right, right up to the point where all went wrong.
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