{"id":20633,"date":"2023-11-06T06:00:45","date_gmt":"2023-11-06T06:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.history-reimagined.co.uk\/?p=20633"},"modified":"2023-11-06T06:00:45","modified_gmt":"2023-11-06T06:00:45","slug":"princes-predators-and-plantagenets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/findanysolutions.com\/history-reimagined.co.uk\/princes-predators-and-plantagenets\/","title":{"rendered":"Princes Predators and Plantagenets"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Princes Predators and Plantagenets<\/h1>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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The behaviour of modern princes is a lot better than it used to be, given the excesses of some modern characters, that is.\u00a0<\/p>

In the times of our present storylines princes and kings were left largely to make their <\/span>presence on the earth know in some largely unpleasant ways.<\/span><\/p>

Take the Henrys of England as an example.<\/span>
Henry I — is suspected of planning the assassination of his brother, William II, in order to\u00a0<\/span>secure the Crown of England for himself.<\/span><\/p>

William was killed by a crossbow bolt in the New Forest, \u2018by accident,\u2019 by a known <\/span>marksman, Walter Tirel, on the 2<\/span>nd<\/span> of August 1100. This was some few weeks after the <\/span>illegitimate son of Robert, Duke of Normandy, named Richard, perished in a similar fashion.<\/span><\/p>

It was a Friday and by Sunday evening Henry had raided the exchequer in <\/span>Winchester, galloped off to London, and by Sunday night had persuaded the Bishop of <\/span>
London to anoint and proclaim him King of England.<\/span>
That Robert, the eldest son of the conqueror was on his way back from the Holy land <\/span>with his newly wed Duchess and nominated to succeed his dead brother William, whenever <\/span>he passed on, seemed of little importance to the eager young Henry.<\/span><\/p>

Nor was there ever an inquiry into the death of a king \u2013 very strange.<\/span>
Henry II \u2013 it is accepted had a furious dispute with Archbishop Thomas Becket which led <\/span>directly to some of Henry\u2019s more eager knights cutting down the Archbishop in his own, <\/span>
Canterbury, cathedral. <\/span>
However there are more odd behaviours to lay at Henry\u2019s door. During his life, and <\/span>marriage to Eleanor of Aquitaine, Henry so alienated his wife and sons that they plotted to <\/span>get rid of him, they did not succeed. But dear Henry had some final nasties to lay upon his <\/span>family. He sent his wife to live in the Tower of London<\/a><\/span> and took his son, Richard\u2019s, teenage <\/span>
betrothed to his bed as his mistress. That Richard refused to marry the girl when the time <\/span>came was unsurprising.<\/span><\/p>

Then Richard\u2019s death left the youngest brother, John beneath the crown of England, a <\/span>sad period for that country as John managed to lose most of England\u2019s possessions on the <\/span>
continent to France. An empire which had once stretched from the border of Scotland and <\/span>encompassed the principality of Wales then Ireland \u2013 gone.<\/span><\/p>

Not only that, during John\u2019s short reign of incompetence his trademark when arriving <\/span>at some lord\u2019s manor or castle was to expect to find that lord\u2019s wife left in the bed.<\/span>
He also robbed the dowager queen, Berengaria<\/a> of her rightful pensions and lands due <\/span>to her as a former Queen of England.<\/span>
Which brings us neatly to Berengaria\u2019s own story. qv.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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