Season 7 | 8. Four Funerals and A Wedding

This is History: A Dynasty to Die For

Sony Music

Society & Culture, History

4.8 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 17 June 2025

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

In 1392, nobody in the Plantagenet realm was expecting one of their own to be gored to death by a wild boar. The grim reaper’s busy. More shock deaths befall the Gaunt and Bolingbroke household, and Richard is made a widow. While the king puts on the waterworks, Richard turns grief into opportunity. Remember, you can always keep the discussion as a royal favourite subscriber on our Patreon. Following this episode, we want to talk about other novel ways to die. Choose your untimely demise at: patreon.com/thisishistory A Sony Music Entertainment production. Find more great podcasts from Sony Music Entertainment at sonymusic.com/podcasts To bring your brand to life in this podcast, email [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Presented by Dan Jones Producer - Alan Weedon Senior Producer - Dominic Tyerman Executive Producer - Simon Poole Production Manager - Jen Mistri Production coordinator - Eric Ryan Sound Design and Mixing - Amber Devereux Head of content - Chris Skinner Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello, it's Dan here. I'm about to bring you snout to snout with the wild boar that changed history.
0:07.2	But before that, I thought I'd remind you about the fun our royal favourites are having over on our
0:12.5	Patreon. If you subscribe, you get access to all bonus episodes. Tell us what you'd like to hear more
0:18.8	of and chat with your fellow favourites on our chat rooms.
0:23.3	There's a fantastic medieval travel thread thanks to Royal Favorite Jeff for kicking that off.
0:29.4	Now, here's the episode. The hunters creep through a forest on a crisp autumn day,
0:47.3	fallen leaves crunching beneath their feet.
0:51.3	Hounds charge around, their noses to the forest floor, baying as they pick up the scent of their feet. Hounds charge around, their noses to the forest floor,
0:56.0	baying as they pick up the scent of their prey.
0:59.0	It's November 1392, and this is a beautiful day
1:04.0	to be out hunting in northern France.
1:08.0	The men spread out, excited but alert.
1:11.6	They're on the trail of wild boar.
1:15.6	These beasts which roam free in French woodland are known for their delicious meat,
1:21.6	which picks up the subtle flavour of acorns or whatever other morsels they forage from the forest floor.
1:28.3	But boar are just as well known for their sharp tusks and bad attitudes.
1:35.3	A really big boar can be more than a metre tall at its shoulder.
1:39.3	And while they usually leave humans alone, if you go after them, they'll come after you twice as hard.
1:47.0	All of a sudden, the hounds start barking and shoot off in the same direction.
1:53.0	They're onto a boar, and by the sound of its enraged squealing, this is a huge one.
1:59.0	The men break into a chase, crossbows, spears and swords at the ready.
2:04.6	They all want to be the first to have a go at their bristly quarry.
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