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

Yeah, sure.

Who he's always on campaign with.

And, you know, baby, help yourself.

Treat yourself.

This is absolutely fine with me.

We like it, you know.

So he decides that the thing that he's going to do is he's going to levy a big tax on England, which is called the Saladin Tithe.

Because we are obviously off to fight Saladin over in the Middle East.

The great Muslim warlord who's threatening all of the Christian castles left in the Holy Land.

Which also, weirdly, the Christians love.

It's the strangest thing.

It's like they've got this real love-hate relationship with Saladin.

They're like, oh, well, we really should be controlling the Holy Land.

But they're like, oh, isn't it great?

Very romantic figure, Saladin.

So Richard is like, well, what this world needs is a guy to go over and sort this out.

And I think that he has this real chivalric idea about grandiose men fighting each other.

And then he's like, well, the biggest land over in England should...

So we're going to sort it all out once and for all.

So basically, he levies this huge tithe on England.

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