The Queen Caught Between Kingdoms

Noble Blood

iHeartPodcasts and Grim & Mild

Society & Culture, History

4.8 • 13.5K Ratings

🗓️ 12 December 2023

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

When her husband, King John of England died, the widowed Isabelle of Angouleme sailed back to France to fight for her own independent kingdom. But over decades of trying to pit England and France against each other, sacrificing her reputation and her relationships with her children, Isabelle's efforts would have a greater cost than she could afford.

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0:00.0	Prepare to venture to venture to the darkest most haunted locations once again.
0:06.0	About 4 o'clock in the morning it felt like the hand of God touched the castle.
0:11.0	The whole thing just shook. Brace yourself for a
0:15.1	supernatural journey unlike any other. It felt like there were other guests go
0:21.6	staying with us that we could not see.
0:24.1	Listen to Haunted Road season five on the I Heart Radio app, Apple
0:27.5	Podcasts, or wherever you get your favorite shows.
0:31.3	Welcome to Noble Blood, a production of I Heart Radio and Grim and Mild from Aaron Manky.
0:37.0	Listener discretion advised. One night in 1242, Louis the 9th King of France was settling in for an ordinary dinner when the Royal Food Taster began
0:57.8	doing the thing you never want to see the Royal Food taster do.
1:03.0	After taking a bite of food, he began hacking and coughing.
1:08.2	It seemed that food taster earned his paycheck with that meal. Somebody had poisoned the King's meat and wine.
1:17.0	The guards sprang into action and began searching the royal grounds.
1:23.0	By chance, they stumbled upon two suspicious peasants
1:27.0	who happened to be lurking near the kitchens.
1:30.4	The two peasants were tortured until they delivered a confession and it was a startling one
1:37.6	Not only had the would-be assassins poisoned the king's meal
1:47.0	They also confessed that they had been hired to do so by a former Queen of England who had promised them riches and status in return for their services.
1:55.5	The entire botched poisoning was a massive success for the French on all counts.
2:01.9	The French king had avoided death, they had caught the villains, and as a bonus, an English
2:08.2	queen was implicated. That at least was the story that passed around the French court in the summer of 1242.
2:17.0	The truth of the events probably looked more like this.
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