Dan Snow
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15,236 appearances
105 recordings
11 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 4d ago
Dan Snow’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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England had experienced wars and invasions of plenty over the previous century, and a child on the throne was recipe for more.
At least that's how the thinking went.
The trouble was so was every other option.
There was a homegrown candidate, not a drop of raw blood in his veins, but a warrior through and through, a leader, wealthy, a man with a following, a proven deliverer.
He'd crushed the Welsh.
He'd fought in France and the Low Countries.
It seems that he did have experience fighting the Scandinavian Norse and Danes, those men who we call Vikings, during an attack against Kent in the previous decade.
But he was not the only ambitious man in his family.
He had a younger brother, Tostig, who was now an exile.
He may have harboured dreams of becoming king himself.
He certainly harboured dreams of snatching himself a powerful position in the kingdom.
To the south, in Normandy, there was a cousin of King Edward's from his mother's side, who
He sat on the ducal throne of Normandy.
He was descended from the Vikings himself, hence Normandy.
He was William.
He was a survivor.
He'd hauled himself up from an unpromising start to rule over Normandy as a duke.
He was ambitious, he was smart, he was warlike.
He was not a man he wanted as an enemy.
Yet he was a man who believed that old King Edward had guaranteed him the throne of England.
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