The House the White Ship Sank: Death of Henry I and the Great Anarchy
Tudors Dynasty & Beyond
RedTop Media / Rebecca Larson
4.4 • 869 Ratings
🗓️ 1 December 2022
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
On this episode of Ask the Expert, Steph is joined by historian Chris Riley to discuss the complex story of the king's successor and the king's heir.
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Credits:
Voiced by: Steph Stohrer
Guest: Chris Riley
Edited by: Rebecca Larson
Voice Over: David Black
Music: Ketsa, Alexander Nakarada, and Winnie the Moog
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Tudor's Dynasty podcast. |
| 0:10.2 | And now, Ask the Expert with Steph. |
| 0:13.7 | Welcome back, everyone. |
| 0:15.1 | I'm your Ask the Expert host, Steph Store, and I'm delighted to be here today to discuss one of my favorite, maybe not |
| 0:22.9 | Tudor-related topics, but hundreds of years before the Wars of the Roses and the Tudor's dynasty, |
| 0:29.9 | we can find the Normans and the very first Plantagenet King. |
| 0:35.7 | This was a period of instability and uncertainty that we like to call |
| 0:39.6 | the anarchy. And here to discuss this fascinating time, we have with us historian Chris Riley, |
| 0:46.6 | joining us to answer some of your questions. So thank you so much for joining us, Chris. |
| 0:52.4 | No problem at all. Thank you for having me. |
| 0:56.9 | We definitely got a lot of questions from our listeners. |
| 1:02.2 | So we will kick things off right away with a quick overview, I think. |
| 1:04.8 | Let's talk about the anarchy. |
| 1:06.0 | What is it? |
| 1:07.3 | How did it begin? |
| 1:08.5 | How did it end? |
| 1:14.7 | Yeah, I mean, the simplest questions are usually the biggest to answer, aren't they? So the anarchy is essentially in a nutshell, a almost two-decade long civil war in England |
| 1:22.1 | and Normandy between 1135 and 1153-ish on the years. |
| 1:29.3 | Obviously, it starts around the 1130s and ends in the 1150s. |
| 1:35.4 | In a nutshell, again, it's between two rival claimants to the throne of England |
| 1:41.2 | and then kind of by default, the Duchy of Normandy, but I'm sure |
| 1:44.7 | we'll touch on on Normandy in its strange place in all of this later. The two claimants are |
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