The King No One Talks About: Henry III
Tudors Dynasty & Beyond
RedTop Media / Rebecca Larson
4.4 • 869 Ratings
🗓️ 16 April 2026
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
What do you do when your father is one of the worst kings in English history?
This week, I’m joined by Matt Lewis to unpack the life of Henry III of England—a king who inherited chaos, uncertainty, and a seriously damaged crown after the disastrous reign of King John of England.
We explore how Henry came to the throne as a child, what it meant to grow up in the shadow of his father’s failures, and the surprising role his mother, Isabella of Angoulême, played when she left England behind. What happened to Henry’s siblings? And how did those early years shape the kind of king he would become?
From there, we look at Henry’s own family—his marriage, his children, and the legacy he hoped to build—while also asking a bigger question: was Henry’s reign really as peaceful as it’s often portrayed?
It’s a story of recovery, reputation, and the long shadow of a bad king… and whether Henry III ever truly escaped it.
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Host: Rebecca Larson
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| 0:31.3 | This is the Tudors Dynasty and Beyond podcast. |
| 0:35.4 | History with a twist. |
| 0:39.8 | And now your host, Rebecca Larson. |
| 0:47.8 | Hello and welcome back to the show. I'm Rebecca Larson and I'm very happy to welcome back again, |
| 0:53.2 | my friend Matt Lewis. Welcome. I don't say again like that. It's him again. At some point you're going to stop me, I know, so I'm just making the most of it while you still let me through the door. |
| 0:57.4 | Did I say it in the tone that sounded like I didn't want you here? |
| 1:01.4 | No, it's just my paranoia. |
| 1:04.8 | I'm going to keep inviting you back because we have been on this medieval journey and I am loving every minute of it. The listeners |
| 1:11.9 | are loving every bit of it. And, you know, we started out with Empress Matilda and Stephen. |
| 1:18.9 | And I always have to say, I was always a Matilda fan and I hated Stephen and you changed my |
| 1:24.7 | mind about him. So I was like, let's keep going on this. Then we did |
| 1:29.6 | Henry II and his wife, Eleanor of Aquitaine. And of course, people loved that one too, because those |
| 1:36.3 | two are like the power couple. And then we did the idiotic sons of Henry the second, which I think now anybody who is listening or watching, |
| 1:48.5 | will agree that they were idiotic. |
| 1:51.7 | I think they were. |
| 1:53.2 | I think they were a dodgy bunch of idiots. |
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