‘Henry V: The Astonishing Triumph of England's Greatest Warrior King’ With Author Dan Jones
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Who was Henry V and why is he significant?
Henry V is the book. Dan Jones is the author. A new book out right now. I enjoyed this one immensely. We'll get into some of the story of who Henry V was and the time that he was alive and everything that goes into it. I think it's going to be a lot of fun. And I hope you read the book, too, because we didn't even touch everything that went on. And a little life advice treat for you as well with an author episode.
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I've talked about it a few times on the pod, so I'm very excited to do this. Just finished up Henry V. Dan Jones, the author, joins us now. And I had some holes in my medieval game, Dan, so this was able to fill a bunch of these in. The battle between England and France, which again, I knew it was a little dicey. Didn't quite realize all of the moving pieces. So thanks for doing this. How are you? Yeah, my pleasure. It's great to talk about it. Can we start with something where... I just wanted to understand Kings and the origin and the ruling and the accepted form of government. And, you know, around the time period, we're talking late 1300s, early 1400s for the premise of where we're at with the book.
But your background, your understanding of like how this became the way during these centuries that it was the accepted form of government leadership.
Yeah, well, I mean, the story of Henry V takes place across the late 14th, early 15th century. And by that point, nobody has really known in England any other form of government than a monarchy, a monarchy sort of limited and in some senses assisted, in some senses resisted by institutions, parliament. councils of nobles and the church and so on but but monarchy is like age old at this point i mean you think about the regnal numbers of english kings we're talking about henry v richard ii henry iv these date back to a very specific time and that's the norman conquest of 1066 when william duke of normandy william the bastard as he became known william the conqueror came invaded England. And from that point, kings are numbered one, two, three, according to the frequency of that name in the succession. There had been kings long before that as well. The great challenge prior to the Norman conquest had been to impose a single kingship on the whole of England. The great break of the Norman conquest is that
from that point on kingship really does apply to the whole of england there'd been these phases where kings alfred the great had tried to hold the whole of england but then the thing had splintered you'd had invasions from denmark and scandinavia it's an age-old system by this point but really that i mean the the moment everyone's numbering things from is 1066
So the story begins as a young Henry V is basically learning about his family, their place in the world through Richard II. Can you give us kind of the family tree of Richard II, Henry IV, which obviously Henry V's father, and kind of Richard's entire deal and his approach to being the ruling king?
Right. I mean, so that the... Basic principles, we're talking about a dynasty that today we call the Plantagenet dynasty. They had been in power in England since 1154, Henry II, and there had been a sort of England being part of an empire, for want of a better word, which included parts of France as well and claims over Ireland and Scotland and such. By the time we get to the late 14th century, there's been a pretty lineal descent of kings, actually. In the 14th century, a great king, Edward III, great by the acknowledgement of the people of his day and thereafter, rules England, wins lots of victories in the wars against France, has a lot of children. Edward III dies after a 50-year reign in 1377 and is succeeded by his grandson, Richard II.
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