S2.8 Constantine II

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🗓️ 8 June 2015

⏱️ 60 minutes

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After a succession of short and unsuccessful reigns, Constantine II's reign would be crucial in the formation of the Scottish nation. Coming to the throne in 900, his intray included a country still divided by internal strife, facing invasion from the Viking grandsons of Ivar the Boneless while to the south the new country of England was growing under Edward the Elder and then, most ominously, Athelstan. Could Constantine succeed where others had failed? 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, Constantine the second. This week, Constantine II.
0:19.0	With your host, Graham Duke and Ali Hood.
0:36.0	Hello, and I know and welcome to Rex Factory reviewing all the Kings and Queens of Scots from Kenneth Mcaupin to James the sixth. Elizabeth's the second being available in our old podcast.
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1:06.6	So Constantine II this week, this is quite an important one.
1:10.8	We've had a few episodes where to be
1:12.8	onto we didn't have an awful lot to go on barely anything
1:15.8	barely anything to go on.
1:17.0	Constantine we've actually got a proper episode.
1:19.2	Right good so you're getting your money's worth oh it's free.
1:21.8	Exactly. So a quick recap of his predecessors.
1:25.8	Yep. We had Kenneth McK. Kemck. K-Mek.
1:28.6	Came wrong from sort of nowhere to rural Dalryata and Pickland. made marriage alliances with Kings of Kingdom of Strathclyde,
1:35.8	where we've got the Britons and also people in Ireland.
1:38.2	Yeah.
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