King Henry III of England. An interview with Prof David Carpenter
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- King Henry III was king of England from 1216 to 1272. He came to throne as a nine-year-old boy in the midst of a civil war with half the country occupied by an army led by a French prince. His father, King John, had rejected Magna Carta. Henry and his allies embraced it, helping them to victory in the civil war. But Henry, who was kind and pious, but also naïve and imprudent, struggled to govern the country according to the terms of the Charter. In the end, in 1258, he was forced to accept a revolutionary programme of reform that went far beyond anything seen in Magna Carta.
Henry’s greatest legacy to London is Westminster Abbey, a beautiful building which Henry dedicated to Edward the Confessor, his patron saint, and presented as a gift to the political nation of England. Henry also clashed bitterly and repeatedly with many of London’s leading citizens, at a time when the Londoners were growing increasingly rich and self-confident.
Prof David Carpenter is a professor of medieval history at King’s College London. The first volume of his brilliant new biography of Henry has just been published in the Yale English Monarchs series. He joined me to discuss his book, Henry’s action-packed rule, his magnificent abbey and his relations with the citizens of London.
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Thank you so much for posting this fascinating interview. I’m in California and fell into the Plantagenet rabbit hole during lockdown. I’m reading Dan Jones book about the Plantagenets and just finished the chapter about Henry III and have found this interview a perfect supplement. Keep posting. 😎
Thank you. It’s lovely of you to say this. I’ll be posting some more content soon.
Marc Morris and Ian Mortimer have a few books about the Plantangent kings
I am so glad I've found your channel! There is everything I need here.👍💥🌹
I just finished reading about his wife. They both enjoyed the good life.
Brilliant, you can feel Carpenter's enthusiasm, sure to make his biography a wonderful read.
Yes, infectious enthusiasm. It's a brilliant biography
Absolutely brilliant. Thank you for posting this. The early Norman kings of England were not looking to The Holy Confessor because they were still on the continent and more French until Henry III .
Traditionally Catholic Britain was an objectively Glorious 15 centuries. Truly the age of merry ol' England within the Island of Our Lady's land, Mary's Dowry. Remember who you are England!!! Come Home....
Or be wise and stop believing in this residue of me nonsense all together.
Hurt now?
Don't preach on the internet.
anyway you wanna see it, kens ancestors were deep in manure farmers, starting from a fact...
I found out through that book Plantagenet Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families that my ancestor Mary Maverick(maiden name Gye) is a direct descendant of King Henry the third. It's interesting to find out the history of my ancestors.
Not the book but research that helped me find the same result
I'm gonna hav to check out his book! Very interesting time in English history because of reduced power of the King. And the role Parliament would play in the political landscape of England. Henry's loss of land on the continent(or his father's losses)and subsequent military failures actually set up a time where England grew in other ways! Well done!
I hope you did get a copy.
I've been studying the history of the Plantagenet kings, particularly Henry III and the rebuilding of Westminster Abbey. This book sounds like a 'must-read'. Fantastic. Thank you!
It certainly is. A lifetime’s worth of scholarship in this book
Thanks so much for posting this interview. I just finished Ormrod's Edward III. This will be next.
I enjoyed that book too. The Yale English Monarchs really is a brilliant series.
Enjoyed, TYVM!
Thank you.
An interview with Henry III. Wow! Imagine my disappointment when I read the second line,😒but brilliant none the less. 🙂
Glad it wasn’t a complete disappointment!
This is great
Wonderful talk. Tnx.
Thank you.
New follower! Love your videos.
Thank you.
Very intriguing and informative talk :]
That's very nice of you to say that.
Interesting thanks.
I found it helpful to listen to The Lost Tapes of History podcast - ep 8 is Henry II and the Architect!
Can you post a link?
@@thehistoryoflondon Sure! this homepage has a list to pretty much every podcast directory where it's available: www.losttapesofhistory.co.uk/ - Just realised my original post should say Henry III not Henry II!
I thought Edmund was patron saint before St George not Edward ?
It depends what you mean by ‘patron’ saint. To be a patron saint of a country or nation, you need a nation and a means by which the people of that nation can learn of and celebrate their patron saint. Did enough people in England, from Cornwall to Cumbria know of Edmund in that way? Hard to know but probably not you’d think.
Based on the title I quite reasonably assumed that Prof Carpenter would be interviewing Henry III on this podcast. Bloody clickbate title making me think you had resurrected a former monarch!
Matilda.
Mis-information.
Henry the III lived in Lewes Castle and was beaten by Simon de Montford and the Barons there. He was then forced to sign the Mise of Lewes. His father had already ignored the Magna Carta he was forced to sign. It seems far more likely that Henry III also rejected the Magna Carta, which is why he was eventually forced to sign the Mise of Lewes (why would he be attacked by his Baron's otherwise?) Simon de Montford was then killed by Henry III's son Edward (Longshanks) one year later and he retook control of law and the country. Do you really think he then willingly abided by the new rules of law? Of course not, and that is a tradition that plays out behind the scenes of all governments to this day. I will now listen to the full discourse and see what the "HISstory books" say. Not this i suspect.
Your comment really made me think about an alternate viewpoint then was portrayed in this video about Henry III. Do we even know what the details of the Mise of Lewes entalled?