Henry IV | The Usurper King | Part 1

[@nickbassani9908]

The Rest Is History makes me SO happy! I bought Rubicon years ago and loved it so I knew who Tom was but if you read a lot of history you kind of assume all historians are kind of academic and stodgy and all the same. Dominic and Tom crack me up and they talk about history like how my friends and I might. Can't get enough of this podcast - keep it up guys!

[@alixa1258]

I love the content of this channel and the way you two wonderful gentleman describe your subject of analysis. Keep this coming 👏 Bravo 👏🥰

[@jmcw9632]

Better than the AI bots that just paste wiki into voice with pictures

[@jmcw9632]

Not a dig a peoples profile, but it’s a dig

[@RelivingHistory1]

@@jmcw9632 agreed

[@MsStack42]

I used to live a ten minute bike ride away from Old Bolingbroke, where Henry was born. Loved it there.

[@LeeKempter]

I have become completely addicted to this channel. The only thing I would ask is for you to add in your comments a list of the authors and books that you talk about. For instance the one by ???Helen Caster???? I will order that one as soon as I can find it. Thanks !!

[@cathybowden9751]

If you join the TRIH club you get a weekly email which includes a book list. Thanks to which I can tell you it's The Eagle and the Hart by Helen Castor.

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And how does one join this TRIH club pray tell.

[@tomohiromiyachi2813]

First ccoooogiiiiiiij

[@AlainaLee82]

​@denyseleonard240 let me know if you find out how to join

[@JamesBarry-j7m]

Everywhere I Go Every party I attended Brooklyn all they want to talk about is Henry IV lol

[@noahholland1795]

“Hotspur” is still synonymous with losing to this very day.

[@marys33794]

Fantastic. I will be looking forward to part 2. 👍 👌 👍 👌

[@James-o2u9x]

Yes !!! One of my favourite kings! A warrior and a bloody hero in my opinion.

[@welshman8954]

We welsh might disagree with that statement lol

[@fastpublish]

How uneasy lies the head that wears a crown

[@AbrahamLincolnContinental]

This is, by some distance, my favorite podcast. I was thrilled to find it on KZbin, and yet I didn't enjoy watching it. This is to say nothing unpleasant about you as performers or people, but the density of information; changing alliances, 80 people named Henry and Edward, family trees, and a dozen other noble families and that's before including France! It's much easier when I'm only using one sense to process it all rather than two. But that's just one man's opinion, I'll follow just as loyally, but only by podcast.

[@patriciablue2739]

Thank you for this channel!

[@MsFoland]

Totally addictive channel! Loving it!

[@Ammeeeeeeer]

Rixhard II and Henry IV are basically Harvey Dent quote: "You die a hero or live long long enough to see yourself become the villain". While he was alive, King Dick the Second was seen as a tyrant but as soon as he died, suddenly gets a cult of personality and praised as a saint, with Henry IV becoming tyrant and regicide.

[@alphasierramike2091]

There a nice bit to mention is John of Gaunt. Father of Henry IV but grandfather of the brilliant generation as known in Portugal. Their mother was Philippa of Lancaster, Queen of Portugal. It seems that John educated well his children as they shone in their times. The most significant grandchild is Henry the Navigator who organised and programmed the discoveries. A bit like going to Mars in Medieval times.

[@januarysson5633]

Technically, the Portuguese royal family were the most legitimate heirs to the Lancastrian claim to the throne after Henry VI’s death rather than the Tudors but they never asserted it.

[@stephenchappell7512]

What got me was that he had himself buried alongside his uncle the Black Prince in Canterbury even though he usurped and subsequently murdered the princes son

[@Dimera09]

The son the Black Prince should have had

[@simban00]

Your series on the Pelasgians is amazing. It is unique on KZbin because you are the only one putting the pieces of the puzzle together and making connections. The only thing I would disagree on is the digamma F. Digamma simply means a double gamma γγ which would be pronounced as a g in English. The description given of the Pelasgian is a gamma with a triangle on top.

[@rosysulla]

Henry IV as the most neglected is hilarious when Henry VII is right there.

[@satishsekar4868]

How is Henry VII neglected?

[@rosysulla]

@@satishsekar4868 ask shakespeare

[@satishsekar4868]

@@rosysulla he's dead, so I can't.

[@rosysulla]

@@satishsekar4868lol

[@rosysulla]

@@satishsekar4868 oh dang then theres no way of checking out his plays

[@Job-y8o]

Well done lads!

[@michaelandrew964]

Suggestion: Might you entertain doing a series on the Norman dukes and kings of Apulia-Lucania and Sicily? Thanks T. & D.

[@beverleyfranco4348]

Please do a podcast on Harold Godwinson.

[@Wee_Langside]

Shakespeare was an Albaphobe. Not content with maligning MacBeth and Lady MacBeth, he also accuses the Scots of interfering in in England. That's rich as England has spent most of its history interfering in just about every country in Europe's politics.

[@Boric78]

Richard 2 - England's biggest dumb ass of king after Æthelred ? Even John only ended up signing a Carta. It seems so avoidable.

[@Ammeeeeeeer]

Plus John had a legitimate son/heir along with Will Marshall to serve as his son's regent. King Dick the second just did not care.

[@nozrep]

the comments in this comment thread applying modern opinions to ancient history are quite hilarious. a few folks even seem to be irked about it😂. jee golly folks its a history podcast about England, done by English historians?

[@jdranetz]

Henry Bolingbroke's take over is no less important than Henry (7th) Tudor's defeat of Richard 3rd. The legitimaticy of a King is based in n his ability to take and hang on to the throne. Possession is 9/10ths of the law.

[@davidbanks4168]

On Glyndwr having supernatural powers angle : where I come from in Wales there are tales of a supernatural trickster (who often defeats the devil) whose name is Jack O’Kent. Anyway , there is a suggestion that maybe this is/was/could be a memory of Glyndwr in hiding after the revolt.

[@Marjorie-yt7pb]

Thanks for elucidating me , once more😊

[@dualsportdadz]

24:11 I'm glad they left some of Dominic's bad takes on the monologue.

[@ep-we2bn]

the son of honest tongue :-)

[@RainFall2112]

How does one join your channel from the KZbin app? I can't get it to work.

[@416dl]

I'm certain there will be more...dragons.

[@BillMontgomery-t2q]

Henry for King! The people's Monarch!

[@BillMontgomery-t2q]

Wait, I still have to pay taxes?! DOWN THE KING!!

[@BillMontgomery-t2q]

Who is this guy running around beating up Scotsman? WE WANT WHOEVER HE'S FOR!

[@BillMontgomery-t2q]

The Tudors, huh? No future to those upstarts.

[@BillMontgomery-t2q]

Now I'm paying taxes AND losing battles (and possibly testacles?). Gonna need a new king.

[@excellentcomment]

​@@BillMontgomery-t2q Superb chuckles, thank you!

[@johnrohe1547]

No mention of the mighty Tottenham Hotspurs?

[@mariadange06]

Henry IV aka Bolingbroke?

[@tonyharpur8383]

Yes, he was born in Bolingbroke Castle.

[@itstayna_abreu]

Can someone point to me their episode on the princes in the tower? thanks

[@JohnDoe-nt6sn]

I am very fond of the tv show "the hollow crown" which has got a top notch acting and very good editing. But of course I am not a historian. What do you guys think of their screen adaptation of Shakespeare ?

[@Raj-et7oj]

Please talk about Joan d'Arc or Cedric the Saxon next time please 🙏 😢 😭 😫 😞 😔 🙏

[@stephfoxwell4620]

You mean Cerdic.

[@illinoisan]

Henry represents a return of authority by consent to Britain. Remember that the Anglo-Saxon kings were chosen by the witan and the will of the public played a much greater role in English society than under the Normans and Plantagenets even with Magna Carta.

[@joebombero1]

I hope you guys cover Henry VIII's wives. Also Queen Jane (Lady Jane Gray). She deserves a whole episode! Fascinating stuff.

[@unbabunga229]

King Charles is by far the most underrated, he essentially created modern British politics and how we view ourselves as a country - or at least contributed to it more than a lot of kings

[@DenethordeSade.90]

Which King Charles? The first? Who's head was cut off? Or his son? Or our current King? Interested in your answer 😁

[@101Mant]

That's a bit like saying King John is underrated because we got Magna Carter. If you screw up so epically you plunge the country into civil war and something comes out of that it isn't exactly an achievement.

[@unbabunga229]

@@DenethordeSade.90 the first obviously but the 2nd also tbh.

[@unbabunga229]

@@101Mant it’s a lot more complicated than that, King Charles was actually in the right, it was parliament that were megalomaniacs

[@nergismeurer7070]

Love the content, however, I prefer TH on writing. His speech is really difficult to listen to.

[@weemama]

I think blaming Richard's exile of Henry on jealousy without mentioning that Henry was part of a conspiracy is misleading. The other conspirators were executed but Richard spared Henry because they were cousins.

[@WildlifeOutlaw1066]

Love this show!!! Please do an episode on the REAL story of 1066 - not the English heritage tripe to keep battle abbey open

[@xplorer841]

Can you please give a tidbit of how the ‘real’ 1066 story differs? Genuinely interested.

[@WildlifeOutlaw1066]

@@xplorer841 the fact it didn’t happen in battle it was in the next village over (where the local council bull dosed to build a bypass) and if the Normans landed in pevensey as suggested they’d of had to force march about 30 miles in a day over serious terrain to sack the settlement of Hastings in the same morning - impossible unless you’re a Zulu lol

[@FiveLiver]

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[@Georgieastra]

​@@WildlifeOutlaw1066 Or on a horse 🐎

[@jmcw9632]

Going to polseth with tabby lolololololol

[@ThePerks2010]

I find him the hardest to get any research on that doesn't mention bloody Shakespeare😂

[@artanguxho3532]

i have heard of him, actually

[@vishnumohannair8506]

Can you guys do an unbiased history of Indian subcontinent before 1200 AD.

[@jardon8636]

queen consort philipa of lancaster & portugal also queen philipa of lancaster, denmark, norway and sweden...

[@asabovesobelow5683]

He killed like 34 people himself in one battle d@mn lol

[@eshaibraheem4218]

Another famous (grey) hound for your files.

[@bluefarie10]

Is there not some source material to suggest that King Harold (the one at the battle of Hastings) was genitally mutilated by the Normans?

[@alphasierramike2091]

Great stuff! Never knew about this part of English history. My curiosity was raised given I visited Alnwick recently. You are doing great service given how poorly the English education system teaches history. I am not surprised by Shakespeare given he lived during Elizabeth 1st and James 6th and 1st. I would suggest you give a view from the Welsh and scot side once you done with the main theme. It will give a good 360 view. I guess you wil be trotting off to talk about Prince Hal as Henry V. Take your time. The war with the Percy is something I was not aware until recently.

[@BetsyWillie-t8f]

Hall Timothy Wilson Frank Young Brian

[@lisaeriksson1081]

31:25

[@themo.]

Is might be just me but I am getting very strong Athelstan and Cranston vibes here....

[@rishthefish7781]

Please rename the channel to Biscuits and Tea if you think England is the centre of the universe.

[@MagSpud12]

Lol what is it with all these bitter little Anglophobes cropping up all of a sudden? Have you ever watched/listened to this podcast before?

[@hollycourtney221]

American, 2nd generation Brit here! And damn proud! Go find another podcast to watch/listen to if you’re going to be stereotypical, respectfully. 😂

[@slinkyvagabond2991]

Pls stop telling the people who do things how to do what they do, either do it yourself or find something else to entertain you” and btw given that we won the game of empire, brought modern engineering, modern medicine and the fair rule of law, to the world AND STOPPED SLAVERY ! We kinda are the centre of the universe 🤔

[@skadiwarrior2053]

It's the centre of our English universe. I make no apologies.

[@sherlockgnomes8971]

Bizarre and miserable comment

[@jack88liyuan]

There is a world outside england you know. People love french history, the only reasom people know British history is because most people can speak english. Only English will call an English king underrated. There are much greater figures in other countries. open you mind a little

[@neilmc8289]

History is written by the winners..and England/Uk have invariably been the victors

[@csplotkin]

They just completed a series on the French Revolution

[@csplotkin]

I'd love to learn more about Slavic history, Viking history, pre-Columbus American history, and early African history

[@paulclaydon935]

Maybe try another history podcast? Theres so many out there, open your mind a little

[@greg5023]

French history, consisting only of 17 kings named Louis, is pretty boring.

[@welshman8954]

Owain Glyndwr the last true prince of wales