Michael Jones

But yes, everyone is waning.

This terrible naval defeat is because we backed the wrong side in the Castilian Civil War.

So Enrique, who chucks Pedro, the psychopathic ruler, off the throne, he is at our throats with a vengeance.

And so French and Castilian fleet hammers us outside La Rochelle.

The prince wants to join, but is too sick.

The king wants to join but isn't up for it.

It's all going terribly wrong, Dan.

Well, the thing is, again, he has these periods where he's terribly ill and everyone's expecting him to die.

And then he rallies, and so it goes on.

But he joins the lay fraternity connected to St.

Albans, where the abbot of St.

Albans had also suffered serious illness and recurrent illness.

But he's almost kind of on standby to die, but hangs on in there.

And he manages to last right through to the time of the Good Parliament in 1376.

And then he finally fades.

And there's tension at this stage between father and son because his father had kept a court appeal court open in Westminster that had undermined the prince in Aquitaine.

And the prince had become very fed up with this to the extent that when his father tried to form an alliance with another one of these characters, you've got Pedro the Cruel, total psychopath, and Charles the Bad, who's nearly as bad as Pedro the Cruel.

And the prince is very unhappy that he had to associate with either of them.

And he basically says to his father, I'm not going to authenticate this agreement.

He had to authenticate it because some of the lands involved were his lands.