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

And it's her political nous that really allows her to do that.

She understands not just how French people work, but how people in Aquitaine work.

She has really close connections with her northern family in France, you know, her mother's family and the people who were kind of local around there.

So she understands how to play people off against each other.

She is very involved in English politics.

She understands what makes the varying nobles their tick.

And, you know, she can talk to Normans as well.

So she's this real player who can move between worlds.

And one of the issues with having a lot of sons, you know, good, healthy sons, is they were all kind of brought up to understand that they only had to do one thing.

And, you know, John was brought up to understand that he was going to have to do question mark.

Like, who knows?

So, I mean, to an extent, it isn't surprising that he was such a bad king because he was not really brought up to be one.

He never had the education to do that.

So it's a story that would differ if these men had managed to live.

And I do think that they were doing the right thing.

I do think that understanding you have this many sons and someone's going to have to have land, it was smart to kind of try to parcel things off.

But who would know that you were only...

Left with the runt of the litter.

Left with the worst one.

Thank you so much.

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