Name: A History of Britain Ep. 3 - Dynasty
Uploaded: 2013-03-26T01:13:01.000Z
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England, 1154, nearly a century after the Battle of Hastings.

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The country has been torn apart by a savage civil war.

For 30 years, his grandchildren had been locked

in a life or death struggle for the crown of England.

And then there appeared a young king, brave and charismatic,

who stopped the anarchy. His name was Henry,

and he would become the greatest of all our medieval kings.

He should be as well-known to us as Henry VIII or Elizabeth I,

it is as the king who ordered the Murder in the Cathedral

or as the father of the much more famous, impossibly bad King John

and the impossibly glamorous Richard the Lionheart.

Henry II has no great monument to his name.

No horseback statue of him stands outside Westminster,

yet he made an indelible mark on our country.

The father of the Common Law. The godfather of the English state.

But Henry was cursed, brought down by the Church, his children,

and most of all by his queen, the older, beautiful,

This is the story of Henry II and his family.

In all of British history, there has never been anything quite like it.

Henry II, his wife Eleanor and their children Richard and John

were the most astonishing of all the family firms

that either entranced or appalled their subjects.

Like many family firms, they had a capacity

What their intelligence built, their passions destroyed.

They were called the Angevins, after the French-speaking province of Anjou.

they were masters of all that counted in Christendom.

Their England was the linchpin of an empire that stretched

from the Scottish borders to the Pyrenees.

The dynasty had its roots in the civil war

that was being fought between two cousins, Stephen and Matilda,

the grandchildren of William the Conqueror.

Stephen seized the crown, but that wasn't the end of it,

for if Matilda couldn't beat him with an army,

In 1128, Matilda married Geoffrey of Anjou,

a sprig of yellow broom or Planta Genista in his hat.

Along with his money, power and territory

Geoffrey gave Matilda something even more important - a son, Henry.

As the boy Henry grew up, it became apparent

that from his mother he'd inherited steely single-mindedness,

lots of physical courage and a phenomenally foul temper.

From his father he'd got instinctive charm

and knife-sharp political and military intelligence.

But the quality that anyone who ever met Henry

that made him the most hyperactive king in British history,

This was the age of chivalry, when the myth of Arthur and Camelot

Right from the start, he was being groomed by his ambitious parents

to take England away from Stephen, to become a new King Arthur.

And to do this, of course, he would need a Guinevere.

As it happened, the perfect candidate had just become available -

But the match was a gamble. He was 19, she was pushing 30.

Eleanor had seen as much of the ways of the world as it could offer.

And yet something rather surprising happened

between the teenage Arthur and the mercurial Guinevere,

something that wasn't supposed to happen in a marriage of political convenience.

Henry found himself at the altar in 1152, beside an older woman

described as a graceful, dark-eyed beauty,

disconcertingly articulate, strong-minded and jocular.

not just the usual spur-clanking bonehead,

but beyond a stocky frame and barrel chest, an intriguing peculiarity;

the rare prince who looked right with a falcon on one hand

It was Eleanor's homeland, Aquitaine, that was the greatest prize.

A vast stretch of land between Anjou and the Pyrenees.

had been polished anew by Provencal sensuality.

Its capital, here in Poitiers, the home of troubadours and courtly love.

No wonder Eleanor grew up, as her contemporaries put it...

(MEDIEVAL FRENCH) ...welcoming, vivacious,

her head perhaps turned by all those lovelorn lyrics

of knights enslaved by beauties and bent on besieging their virtue.

So this is what Eleanor brought to the match:

Grandeur, territory, wealth - a lot of wealth -

No wonder Henry thought that with this marriage he'd got,

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