King Henry VI and Margaret of Anjou, the Feeble King and his Fearless Queen, The Wars of the Roses
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- Опубліковано 6 сер 2024
- The Wars Of The Roses, one of the most brutal and bloodiest civil wars in England’s long and sometimes violent history. A war which not only saw the crown change hands several times throughout its course, but claimed the lives of many of its participants - commoners and nobles alike. Today, I am going to take you through the lives of two of its main protagonists - King Henry VI of England - a weak and feeble king, and his Queen - the strong and formidable Margaret of Anjou. I will show you how the rule of this weak king brought havoc to England and led to many battles conducted up and down the country that were literally fought to the death - with absolutely no quarter given.
#history #documentary #biography #england #war
Chapters :
00:00 : Introduction
00:53 : The Young King
03:44 : Henry’s Marriage
09:52 : The Great Revolt
16:52 : The Ascendancy of York
19:25 : Mental Collapse
23:30 : First Battle of St Albans
27:50 : Wars of the Roses
40:52 : Henry’s Return to Power
48:32 : Margaret’s Return to England
52:43 : Henry’s Demise
54:36 : Conclusion
Research Sources :-
Women of the Wars of the Roses : Sylvia Barbara Soberton
Henry VI : James Ross
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Excellent! Super well done, super informative and enjoyable to watch. Thank you!
Many thanks Andy, much appreciated 😉🙏👍
@@historyslifestories373 No, no. Thank _you!_ lol I’ve learned a great deal on so many of my favorite topics from your videos.
Really good video! Love your channel!❤
Many thanks Shelby, you spur me on to complete the next one😉🙏👍
Extremely well and simply explained...I actually,finally got to grips with the war of the roses..well done
Thanks very much, yes I find that period really interesting, but, the story of the Wars of the Roses didn’t end there……… however, I guess that will be for another video in the future 😉🙏👍
Very nice 👍
Thank you very much 😉🙏👍
I enjoy all your documentaries! I look forward to part deu of this story😉
Hi, many thanks, yes there are quite a few topics to concentrate on for the wars of the roses. I intend to revisit this at some point 😉🙏👍
So sad 😔 history about this king😢
Absolutely amazing video, thankyou.
Much appreciated, yes, a very interesting period. 😉🙏👍
I have to admit, the Late Medieval world of Plantagenet (the ruling royal family of England, dating all the way back to Henry II, and now divided into two related “branches”--the Lancastrians and the Yorkists--descended from different sons of Edward III)--the Late Medieval World of Plantagenet England was so brutal, and medieval cities were such crowded, absolutely filthy places (people daily threw their “ordures,” or “household excrement and waste” INTO the STREETS) that --though I am a decisive, organised, tenacious person--I am not certain that even *I* would have had the courage Queen Margaret showed in choosing to REMAIN IN THE TOWER (a fortified royal residence *and* prison at the time) **while a full-scale rebellion of discontented and homicidal commoners were taking over the streets of London.** Clearly, rather than be a Queen *Consort,* Margaret had all the abilities of a Queen *REGNANT.* unfortunately, Fortune did not shine on her…
Nice video.
Many thanks, glad you enjoyed it 😉🙏👍
Very well done, however the background music getting louder between the sections was distracting. Aside from that, excellent.
Ok, many thanks Megan, thanks for letting me know, I will make sure the next one has the correct levels. 🙏👍
the war of the cousins, is a far better name...
as for also being within the *hundred years war with france*...
a copy and paste of a earlier french civil war,.... the blood feud between argmnac v burgundy ,when charles VI of France went mad..., this tore france apart and led too victory for the french kings* the plantagent dynasty of england to rule france, after agincourt...
charles VI valois, grandson was HENRY VI of lancaster,,,
also the war of the roses, or cousins, was far far larger than just ENGLAND...
the irish nobilty, the earls of fitzgerald , butlers and others supported opposite sides, and Lordship of IRELAND, should not be overlooked .it had gaelic and norman nobility fighting on opposite sides..., various clans and battles, and its own events...
the scottish - flemish queen Mary of gulders supported house of lancaster..., as did stuart dynasty, many regents of scotland,,, were alligned with france, and took advantage of either sides weakness during the civil war...
the house of burgundy & savoy were certainly YORKIST..
as for portugal , it was ally of england , treaty of windsor since 1379
the marches of wales, were divided between the HERBET yorkist dynasty and supporters the vaughans...
being that edward IV had *mortimer blood*... the welsh prince llewellyn the great as his ancestor...
the principality regions of wales between welsh nobility TUDORS supporting Lancaster, their ancestor... prince rhys ap grufydd, a rival to prince llewellyn and gwynedd...
and others like house of dinefwr swapping sides ...many times...
as for capet the french kings and their english or french cousins, the PLANTAGENT DYNASTY... biggest rivals...
the house of VALOIS , cousins to EDWARD III....
MOST QUEEN CONSORTS OF ENGLAND FROM ISABELLA the she wolf, wife of EDWARD II ,....
were born in france and spoke french...,,, MAGARET OF ANJOU, was no different... by that time, the english royal family was mostly of french blood,,,and marrying french relatives...
Elizabeth Wydville, woodville is recorded or noted, as first ever, english born queen consort, in many centuries...
ironically her mother jacquetta of luxembourg, was anything but english, and also widely spoke french....
it maybe, the wrong term, WARS OF THE ROSES... as the unkown HOUSE OF BEAUFOURT (the common ancestor RED PRINCE JOHN OF GHENT-GAUNT, ancestor to lancaster, york, tudor, portugal, spain,etc .
THE BASTARD LINE, that captured the throne, EDWARD IV OF YORK, had beaufourt blood, as did HENRY VI TUDOR....,
even Queen Joan Beaufourt of scotland...
the BEAUFOURT DYNASTY... a portucullius that features on the HOUSE OF COMMONS in UK,,,not a red or white rose, but different symbol...,
also the PLANTAGENET, a sprig symbol...
You also forget the series of wars between royal cousins in the Angevin-Valois kingdom of Naples in southern Italy - Margaret of Anjou's father king Rene was involved in the latter phases of this very long "cousins war" between rival factions of the house of Anjou/Naples/Hungary - queen Joan of Naples of this dynasty had bequeathed her kingdom to Margaret's father but there were rival claimants both from inside the kingdom and from Aragon in Spain. The Aragonese claimants won out and Rene lost his Neapolitan domain. Margaret would have been well aware of her father's and uncle's struggles and that's probably why she was so determined to support her husband's Henry VI claim to the English throne over his cousins.
Am I the only one who got bored with this dudes post after page 367, paragraph 6?
Background music way too loud compared to the narration .
Ok, I will look into that for next time, appreciate you taking the time to let me know 👍
Excellent documentary however it left out that Warwick's daughter Anne had married Prince Edward..
Many thanks, yes you are quite right, it was in my initial draft of the script but I was a little over zealous in cutting it down, I should have left that in as it is relevant. 😉🙏👍
Isn’t King Henry VI the *sole* English monarch to have been crowned “King of France” in Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris, when he was just 10 yrs old, upon the death of his maternal grandfather, the insane King Charles VI?
Rather than characterising the pious, meditative, and sensitive Henry VI as “feeble and weak,” wouldn’t it be more appropriate to say that “Henry VI was unfortunately born into a role for which he was ENTIRELY CHARACTEROLOGICALLY UNSUITED, becoming King of England at just nine months old, and disputed King of France at just 10 years old. Henry was a quiet, introspective, shy, timid, pious, and spiritual person, afflicted by some of the serious psychological problems passed down to him from his mother and maternal grandfather King Charles VI, problems such as a tendency to be shocked quite easily, and to fall into prolonged catatonic states in which he neither spoke nor moved nor seemed to be at all aware of the world around him. He would probably have made a better monk in a cloister, or even an anchorite than a King expected to operate simultaneously in the battlefields of France in the Hundred Years War, *and* within the often cutthroat, violent world of the grest English dynastic struggle known as the Wars of the Roses.”?
Isn’t that a more accurate and humane way to describe a man struggling against serious, inherited, psychiatric handicaps, and who--after his death--was and is revered as a saint by many Christians? After all, there would be no Eton had Henry VI not given it snd many other educational institutions his royal patronage.
Warriors such as the very short-lived Henry V are not the *only* kings with virtues. Possibly had Henry VI lived and reigned in a less violent era when the Crown had not been so destabilised by the deposing of the childless Richard II, his patronage of the arts and education would have made him a “great” monarch.
If King Henry VI had simply accepted reality, and ABDICATED in favour of his infant son, Edward, in 1450, the Lancastrian hold on the monarchy might not have crumbled so completely. Henry’s cousin, Richard of York, could have been declared “Protector of the Realm,” and Margaret could have remained Queen Regent until Edward reached his majority. Henry could have quietly disappeared within a monastery, and the disastrous Wars between the Red Rose of Lancaster and the White Rose of York (a family whose claim to the throne was as strong as if not stronger than that of the Lancastrians) *might* have been averted.
Margaret is lovely
She certainly is 👍
She looked nothing like that.
Yes her army sacked Ludlow, looting killing and raping its citizens, they followed that by breaking a xmas truce and killing York and Salisbury and York's 17 year old son Edmund . London was forced to lock its gates against her and her army only to depart as Edward and Warwick approached .
@@direfranchementand you know this how, exactly?
No seriously people, does anyone believe that ‘prince Edward’ was actually Henry VI’s son???😂 The guy relegated all his royal duties to various nobles, so there’s a good chance that included providing an heir🙈 If ‘prince Edward’ had become the king, England would have been ruled by a chap whose mother was French and father was some random guy😆
Looks like duke of York and his allies didn’t want the rest of Europe to laugh at their country (well apart from craving power for himself!)
You do make a very fair point, Salisbury originally had the finger pointed at him as he was so close to the queen, but this was dismissed by many due to the age difference - but you never know. York thought he had a better claim to the throne anyway after Richard II was usurped. 😉🙏👍
@@historyslifestories373 And obviously he didn’t want the French to seize the English throne- he was right. Margaret of Anjou was then plotting the French invasion to get the English throne back.
PS Margaret wanted power too and would use anyone, including her own son or mentally ill husband, to get it. I’m not criticising, just stating the fact😆
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