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• The Angevins Ep.6 - The Battle of Bouvines & Magna Carta: King John Pt.2

  The series finale, the final end of the Angevin Empire. It didn't start with a defeat, but a victory. King John's half-brother, William Longspee, sailed down the River Zwyn and found a French invasion armada. The battle that followed led inexorably to another - one of the Middle Ages' greatest battles - the Battle of Bouvines. King John fought to regain the The Angevin Empire that Philip Augustus had so ruthlessly won from him. Ultimately, he failed, and ironically his failure led to one of England's most famous political documents of all time - Magna Carta. Find out how now in this gripping final episode of The Angevins.   Subscribe to us here on your favourite podcast channel, support me on Patreon, visit the website at www.bitesizebattles.com and follow us on Instagram and Facebook @bitesizebattles. Thanks for listening!

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• The Angevins Ep.5 - Softsword: King John Pt.1

  The Lionheart was dead. His brother John was set to inherit the throne. Or was he? Because there was another with a claim - his nephew, Arthur of Brittany. The struggle between the two, and a brutal, sadistic murder, would see the beginning of the end of the Angevin Empire. Subscribe to us here on your favourite podcast channel, support me on Patreon, visit the website at www.bitesizebattles.com and follow us on Instagram and Facebook @bitesizebattles. Thanks for listening!

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• The Angevins Ep.4 - Dungeons & Death: Richard the Lionheart Pt.2

  Richard the Lionheart faced the decision of his life - Jerusalem or his Kingdom? Saladin still held the former, his brother John threatened the latter. Delaying any further risked becoming a King in name only, his Kingdom suborned and conquered. With gritted teeth, he left the Third Crusade only ultimately unfulfilled.  And worse - he was being hunted by most of the most powerful lords of Europe and there was no safe route home.  From the Holy Land to the Holy Roman Empire, and from victory over the French to his final end, this is the second part of Richard the Lionheart's story. His life and death would decide the fate of The Angevin Empire.  Subscribe here on your favourite podcast channel, support me on Patreon, visit the website at www.bitesizebattles.com and follow us on Instagram and Facebook @bitesizebattles. Thanks for listening!

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• The Angevins Ep.3 - Crusade: Richard the Lionheart Pt.1

  Jerusalem had fallen. All of Europe was aghast.  Muslim Saracens of the Ayyubid Dynasty had slaughtered a Christian army at Hattin, and then gone on to take the Holy City itself. Their leader, Saladin, swept all before him. But Richard the Lionheart's crusading fever became inflamed when he heard, and once his father, Henry II, had died, he committed the entire Angevin Empire to Jerusalem's recapture. This is the incredible story of Richard's journey to the Holy Land, the epic recapture of its port-city, Acre, and why - with Jerusalem in sight - Richard had to make a fateful decision that affected the rest of his life.   Subscribe to us here on your favourite podcast channel, follow @bitesizebattles on Instagram and FB, and support me on Patreon. Thanks for listening.

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• The Angevins Ep.2 - Family, Murder, Rebellion

  Henry II's life rose and fell like a rough sea. After winning the English throne at just 21 years old, he put England back together again after the ravages of the civil war known as The Anarchy. He wed the beautiful and famous Eleanor of Aquitaine, and had with her 7 children who survived into adulthood - including Richard the Lionheart and the later King John.  And it was he who created the Angevin Empire. But he was also the King who inadvertently ordered the murder of Thomas Becket, the Archbishop of Canterbury. He was the King who suffered no less than three rebellions from his sons, and the man who went to his grave knowing that his favourite, John, had finally joined them.  Henry II was a man whose energy and vitality thrust the Angevins into the international limelight, but who ultimately could not control his own family. This is his story, and the beginnings of the famous Richard the Lionheart.   Subscribe to us here on your favourite podcast channel, follow us @bitesizebattles on Instagram and Facebook, and support as on Patreon. Thank you.

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