Hey friends, welcome to the Renaissance English History podcast.

This is the weekly highlight reel of videos that I have put out on YouTube.

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And then what I've started doing is weekly highlight reels of some of the videos that have

gone out on YouTube that would be of interest to the podcast listeners as well. So thanks for

listening. And you can also, like I said, go over and join me on YouTube history and copy and

search for Heather. And there I am. So let's get right into it. Some noble families seemed to have

a talent for survival. They knew when to flatter, when to step back, and when to switch sides if the

winds changed. And then there were the Persies. If you were a monarch from the 14th century through

to the 16th century, there was one family

you always had to keep an eye on, but always. That was the Persies of Northumberland. They were

proud, they were powerful, and catastrophically bad at staying out of trouble. Their story isn't

just one rebellion, it's a pattern, a rhythm, from Henry Hotspur,

Percy challenging Henry the 4th to later generations joining uprising against the tutors.

The Persies just couldn't seem to help themselves. There was something about being that close

to the Scottish border and that far from royal

oversight that gave them ideas, dangerous ideas.

So today we are going to look at how one noble family found themselves at the center of

nearly every major Northern rebellion for over two centuries and ask why they kept doing it even when it got

them killed multiple times.

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