Dr Elena Janega

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801 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 13 Apr

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Dan Snow's History Hit · Eleanor of Aquitaine · 13 Apr 2026 podcast

So first of all, we get the young Henry, because obviously, you know.

Yeah, we have William RIP, always in our hearts.

But then we get the young Henry, who we call him the young Henry very specifically, because when you control this much land, Henry the King is very keen to make sure that

his son Henry is understood as the heir apparent to the kingdom.

And also you've got to understand that Henry II is crowned king as a result of the ending of a period that we refer to as the anarchy.

Yeah, civil war.

Yeah, exactly.

So for him, the most important thing is that everybody understands what the line of succession is.

So Henry the young king is crowned quite young while his father is still ruling the kingdom technically, just so that everybody knows

where this is going he's like a pretend king he's got a court and he's got it but he doesn't actually rule anything exactly glamorous guy yeah hot good at jousting tournaments he is very much i i liken him to kind of like a rugby boy now yeah where like his thing is jousting he's doing the circuit around europe everybody loves him everyone loves it when the young king shows up he's a real glamorous sort rides with a pretty strong crew best buddies with william the marshall

That is right.

So he spends rather a lot of time with the French princes and these sorts of things.

And so he's actually not bad at playing the political game with other people at his level.

But, you know, his father is actually rather a good king.

So he doesn't have a whole lot to do around the shot.

Yeah, exactly.

Nicknamed the Lionheart.

Ah, Cordeleon.

One of our worst kings, but we don't need to come into that.

We'll come into that.

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