The Ryen Russillo Podcast
‘Henry V: The Astonishing Triumph of England's Greatest Warrior King’ With Author Dan Jones
18 Feb 2025
Russillo is joined by Dan Jones to learn more about his latest book: ‘Henry V.’ They cover the formation of the monarchy in England and Henry’s belief that he was destined to be king, then discuss how we look back at historical figures today (0:36). Plus, Life Advice with Ceruti and Kyle (43:53)! How do I tell my student teacher he smells like weed? Check us out on YouTube for exclusive clips, livestreams, and more at https://www.youtube.com/@RyenRussilloPodcast. The Ringer is committed to responsible gaming. Please visit www.rg-help.com to learn more about the resources and helplines available. Host: Ryen Russillo Guest: Dan Jones Producers: Steve Ceruti, Kyle Crichton, and Mike Wargon Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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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.
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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
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