Tudoriferous

With the death of Edward IV, Dorset's life is plunged into chaos. Will he be the power behind the throne? A despised and morally dubious rebel? An unreliable royal ally? A significant patron? Or just a quiet family man with a sideline in visiting famous prisons? Listen on to discover just how unlucky Thomas Grey can be...

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Relevant Episodes - S1 - 42 - Edward Woodville, feat. The Woodvilles

S1 - 042 - Edward Woodville- Part Two

Cameo 51 - Richard Grey, 3rd Earl of Kent

Cameo 10 - Roger Machado

Image: Detail from an illumination from Volume 6 of the Anciennes Chroniques d'Angleterre by Jean de Wavrin (15th Century)

Almost a prince, almost a duke, almost a kingmaker, almost a rebel - this man teeters on the edge of history, but will Elizabeth Woodville's son, stepson to Edward IV and brother-in-law to Henry VII, be able to escape from the shadow of his incredibly dramatic family? Maybe if we can just work out what a Marquis actually is...

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Relevant Episodes - S1 - 42 - Edward Woodville, feat. The Woodvilles

S1 - 042 - Edward Woodville- Part Two

Cameo 51 - Richard Grey, 3rd Earl of Kent

Image: Detail from King Edward IV and His Queen, Elizabeth Woodville at Reading Abbey, 1464 by Ernest Board (1877-1934) Copyright Reading Museum

A Life in Ten Battles.

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Relevant Episodes - S1-049 Anne de Beaujeu, Part Two | Tudoriferous

S1 049 - Anne de Beaujeu, Part Three | Tudoriferous

S1 - 022 - Louis XII of France | Tudoriferous

CATERINA SFORZA, PART FOUR | Patreon

Pietro Aretino - Part One | Patreon

Duke Francis of Brittany's loyal right-hand man or the Svengali to Francis' Trilby?  He quickly came to discover that the nobility doesn't like tailors' sons.....unless they're measuring them up for a suit.

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Relevant Episodes - S1-049 Anne de Beaujeu, Part Two | Tudoriferous

S1 - 003 - Jasper Tudor, Duke of Bedford and Earl of Pembroke | Tudoriferous

We've covered all of the popes who ran the Catholic Church during Henry VII's reign (and at least one who didn't), and who better to tell us how we've done than Bry and Fry from "Pontifacts - ranking all of the Popes from Peter to Leo XIV"!

Listen on to hear why we let Sixtus IV off far too lightly, why pious men don't make good Renaissance Popes, and why Julius II was just so, so obsessed with Alexander VI.

And why didn't they listen to Burchard?

Find Pontifacts here! https://pontifacts.podbean.com/ And on many, many other podcatchers.

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Relevant Episodes of Tudoriferous - Pope Sixtus IV

Pope Innocent VIII

Pope Alexander VI

Pope Pius III

Pope Julius II (though this one is mostly on the Alum trade - to get properly into Julius II's story, start here with part two)

What do you do when a regency ends?  You recreate it in miniature in Bourbon, and you educate all the noble young women to follow in your footsteps....whether they like it or not!

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Relevant Episodes - S1 - 022 - Louis XII of France | Tudoriferous

Anne of Brittany, Twice Crowned Queen of France Part 2 | Patreon

Music by Maksym Malko from Pixabay

We're in The Mad War.  Breton rebels are seeking sanctuary in France; French rebels are seeking sanctuary in Brittany.....and the King is trying to get himself kidnapped just to get away from his sister.

Music by Viacheslav Starostin from Pixabay

Music by Geoffrey Burch from Pixabay

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Relevant Episodes S1 - 035 Charles VIII of France, Part One | Tudoriferous

S1 - 022 - Louis XII of France | Tudoriferous

Louis XI of France | Patreon

The least foolish woman in France.

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Relevant Episodes S1 - 035 Charles VIII of France, Part One | Tudoriferous

S1 - 022 - Louis XII of France | Tudoriferous

Louis XI of France | Patreon

Battle Royale: French Monarchs Podcast - Regency of Madness 4/5 - Isabeau of Bavaria VS Yolande of Aragon - ft. Queens | Free Listening on Podbean App

We've been promising to do her since pretty much the beginning of the podcast......and finally, here she is.

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It turns out that our own beloved C3PO was not as squeaky clean as we'd thought.

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