The Tyrant, the usurper and the hero | Henry V: hero

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🗓️ 7 November 2024

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Henry V only had a short reign, but his legacy looms large over the medieval landscape. Remembered as a heroic warrior king, who bested the French at Harfleur then marched his forces to victory at Agincourt, few monarchs have such a distinguished reputation. But 'Prince Hal' wasn't always destined for greatness. Was he really the gadabout youth Shakespeare would have us believe? In the third episode of our three-part HistoryExtra podcast series 'Tyrant, Usurper, Hero', Helen Castor sits down with Dan Jones to learn more about Henry's life beyond the battlefield – and highlight what lessons he learned from the chaos caused by Richard II and Henry IV. (Ad) Helen Castor is the author of The Eagle and the Hart: The Tragedy of Richard II and Henry IV (Penguin, 2024). Buy it now from Waterstones: https://go.skimresources.com?id=71026X1535947&xcust=historyextra-social-histboty&xs=1&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.waterstones.com%2Fbook%2Fthe-eagle-and-the-hart%2Fhelen-castor%2F9780241419328. (Ad) Dan Jones is the author of Henry V: The Astonishing Rise of England's Greatest Warrior King (Bloomsbury, 2024). Buy it now from Waterstones: https://go.skimresources.com?id=71026X1535947&xcust=historyextra-social-histboty&xs=1&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.waterstones.com%2Fbook%2Fhenry-v%2Fdan-jones%2F9781804541937. The HistoryExtra podcast is produced by the team behind BBC History Magazine. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is a History Extra production.
0:07.0	He's like a shark smelling one part blood and a million parts water.
0:10.0	If he thinks there's a fight anywhere, he will walk towards it.
0:13.0	This is a moment of absolute drama. It shapes him.
0:17.0	He has these aggressive instinct to go out and find your enemies and make sure that justice
0:21.7	is done.
0:22.7	Finally, the crown is on his head.
0:25.4	He gambles, he wins, he gambles, he wins, he gambles, Agincourt, he wins.
0:30.5	From 1377 to 1422, England's fortunes waxed and waned as three dramatically different men wore its crown.
0:41.3	The deluded narcissist, Richard II, the charismatic usurper Henry IV, and the lionized warrior
0:49.1	Henry V. In this three-part History Extra podcast series, best-selling authors and historians, Helen
0:56.1	Castor and Dan Jones, sat down to chart the reins of these three rulers and explore
1:02.5	how they shaped England, from the Peasants' Revolt to the Battle of Achencourt.
1:08.8	Helen's new book, The Eagle in the Heart, follows the tangled stories
1:12.4	of Richard II and Henry IV. While in his new book, Henry V, Dan Jones profiles the next
1:19.4	king to sit on the throne. In this third and final episode, Dan and Helen focus in on the
1:25.2	life of their third and final medieval monarch, Henry V.
1:31.0	Henry wasn't born to be King of England, was he? Who was he born to be?
1:36.2	Henry was born to be the son of Henry Bollingbrook, the heir to the Duchy of Lancaster.
1:42.4	So he was born to be one of the premier noblemen in England,
1:47.5	which was certainly not nothing, but life didn't work out like that. I mean, during his childhood,
1:54.1	he was allegedly, if we believe, one chronicle account, told by the king of the time,
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