S10 E8 | No Mercy
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Why does George, Duke of Clarence blame others for his wife’s death?
Hello friends, I do hope you're liking the final season of our Plantagenet saga. This is just a quick reminder to let you know that you can listen back to all 10 seasons of A Dynasty to Die for ad-free over on patreon.com forward slash this is history. That's where you can watch this week's bonus episode, where producer Al and I discuss the historical precedence of bad brothers in the English royal family. Let me tell you, I mean it when I say George, Duke of Clarence, was really unprecedented. Now It's time to meet him.
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The horsemen are moving with deadly focus. There are about eighty of them, ranks of grim-faced warriors, armed and full of evil intent. Passers by dive out of their way as they race past. Not that the horsemen care. Their mission is to get to their target fast and no one's going to stop them. On a Saturday afternoon in April, the horsemen find it. It's a nondescript house in Keyford, sleepy village in southwest England. Their leaders, a gentleman called Richard Hyde and a merchant named Roger Struggle, come forward to demand entry. And with a force like this at their backs, there's not much point in arguing. Then again, the person they've come here to find hardly looks like your typical felon's E-fit portrait.
Anchorette Twinehoe is roughly 65 years old. She's a grandmother, recently widowed from a decent gentry family. and for the last few years she's made her living as a lady in waiting to aristocratic women. She's not exactly Billy the Kid. But Hyde and Struggle have orders not simply to seize her, but to do so with a show of maximum force. Those orders come down from the man who pays their wages. He's George Duke of Clarence, younger brother of the Plantagenet King of England, Edward the Fourth. Until recently, Twinehoe herself was on Clarence's payroll too, as an attendant to his wife, Isabel Neville. But in December 1476, Isabel died from complications following the birth of her second son some weeks previously.
And that, ostensibly, is what has led Clarence to send the posse out today.
How does the kangaroo court against Anchorette Twinehoe unfold?
On Saturday, the twelfth of April, 1477, Twinehoe is to be placed under arrest and taken to Clarence, who has a few choice questions about the circumstances of his late wife's death. To be precise, Clarence is entertaining some magical thinking. Surely his wife can't be one of the thousands of unlucky mums in medieval England who die every month from infections or internal damage suffered during childbirth. No, instead he's crying foul play, and as he tells it, the foulest player of all is Anchoret Twinehoe. His charge is that this heinous murderess gave his poor wife a mug of poisoned beer. On what evidence he has, no one's quite sure, but Clarence is now hell bent on what he would call revenge. Clarence's men know that he wants action and fast.
So they take poor old Twineho on a forced march north. In just three days they take her 120 miles, passing through three shires, from Somerset, where she's been arrested, all the way to Warwick Castle, which is Clarence's HQ. When they get her there, what's waiting isn't a fond how nice to see you or thank you for your service.
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Chapters
7 chapters
1
Why does George, Duke of Clarence blame others for his wife’s death?
0:00–3:20
2
How does the kangaroo court against Anchorette Twinehoe unfold?
3:20–8:21
3
What motives drive Clarence’s revenge against low‑ranking staff?
8:21–13:50
4
How does King Edward IV react to Clarence’s abuse of power?
13:50–19:04
5
Why does Edward move to arrest and try George Duke of Clarence?
19:04–24:03
6
What were the charges and evidence presented in Parliament’s bill of attainder?
24:03–29:31
7
How was George Duke of Clarence executed in the barrel of Portuguese wine?
29:31–31:13