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Welcome to Noble Blood, a production

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from Aaron Minky. Listener discretion

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is advised. The

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Baron of Lancaster and the Baron

0:51

of Warwick walked a man with

0:53

ropes around his wrists to

0:55

the top of a hill on a warm

0:58

June morning. The two

1:00

barons were quiet as they walked,

1:03

listening to the monotonous, deadening

1:05

pace of their footsteps in the grass.

1:08

The prisoner was also silent, no

1:10

tears, no begging, same as

1:12

it had been during his trial just a few

1:15

days prior at Warwick's Castle,

1:17

where a handful of other nobles had

1:20

condemned the prisoner to death. The

1:23

word trial is loosely applied

1:25

here. There was no judge, no

1:27

representation for the defendant. They

1:30

said that the charge was disobeying the

1:32

terms of inordinance they had agreed upon

1:34

with the king, But everyone involved

1:37

knew what the real charge was. Being

1:39

the King's favorite, occupying

1:43

all of his attention, receiving

1:45

an endless dream of his money

1:47

and his favor. King

1:50

Edward the Second was devoted

1:52

to this man in a way that he never

1:54

was to anyone else in his life, not

1:57

even his wife. Everyone

1:59

knew who the real love of the King's

2:02

life was, and so Pierce

2:04

Gaveston, first Earl of Cornwall,

2:07

was sentenced to death. There

2:10

were two men on the hill to do the actual

2:12

execution. One took

2:14

a sword and first ran it through

2:17

Gaveston's stomach and then pulled

2:19

it back out with a sickening squish.

2:22

They all waited until Gaveston fell

2:24

to the grass, and then his

2:26

head was sliced off. The

2:29

men who were still alive looked away

2:31

from the mangled body and began

2:33

walking back down the hill

2:36

towards home. Gaveston's

2:38

body was left outside for the

2:40

elements without a burial, to

2:42

decompose in the grass and be picked

2:45

at by the birds and rodents happening

2:47

by. He was twenty eight years

2:49

old at the time of his death. King

2:52

Edward the Second would be furious,

2:55

demented with rage and grief

2:57

when he heard that his love Pierce Gaveston

2:59

had been and murdered by the barons,

3:02

but his options when it came to retaliation

3:04

were limited. The barons

3:06

had been filling in the vacuum of power

3:08

left by the weak and ineffectual king,

3:11

building their own private armies. The

3:14

king's own wife, Queen Isabella,

3:16

had been watching it all unfold for years,

3:19

and she had her own ideas for how the country

3:21

should be run. And she was about

3:23

to meet a man who would help her with

3:26

her coup. Her heart had

3:28

been broken by a king who never

3:30

cared about her at all. She

3:32

could at least take a country out from

3:34

under him. I'm Danis

3:36

Schwartz, and this is noble

3:39

blood. According

3:49

to the Chronicle of the Civil Wars of

3:51

Edward the Second, the first time

3:53

the future King Edward the Second saw

3:55

Pierce Gaveston, he tied himself

3:58

to him against all more hurdles, with

4:00

an indissoluble bond of love.

4:03

It was twelve nine seven.

4:06

Pierce Galveston was a teenager, the

4:08

son of a knight from Gasson, who had joined

4:10

the army of King Edward, the first to

4:12

fight in Flanders. The

4:15

King saw the young boy particularly

4:17

handsome, but also particularly

4:20

graceful, athletic and well

4:22

mannered. He embodied the

4:24

values for a young man at the time when it

4:26

came to bearing and male conduct,

4:29

and so the King appointed the young man

4:32

to join his son's household, to

4:34

join the staff of the Prince of Wales,

4:36

and hopefully to serve as a good example.

4:40

The King was a little worried about his son.

4:42

That word the second seemed to gravitate

4:45

towards activities associated with

4:47

the lower class, like growing

4:49

and the menial hypnotic work of farm

4:52

hands like hedging and ditching around

4:54

fields. But when Edward the Second

4:56

it wasn't playing farm hand, he

4:58

seemed spoiled. A wealthy

5:00

dilettante. He played the organ

5:03

and a Welsh string instrument known

5:05

as a crwth, which is spelled I

5:08

kid you not ce r

5:10

w t h. The

5:12

Welsh language does not mess around.

5:15

The Prince bred horses and greyhounds.

5:18

He kept a pet Cammell and a

5:20

pet lion that he insisted on bringing

5:23

with him on a campaign he went on in

5:25

Scotland with his father. All

5:27

of that to say he needed good

5:30

upper class boys in his household

5:32

to model good courtly behavior

5:35

for him. When Galveston

5:37

arrived to the Prince's household, they were about

5:39

the same age. Galveston may

5:41

have been one or two years older, but

5:44

from that point on the two

5:46

young men were inseparable.

5:50

It was love in every sense

5:52

of the word. They rode together,

5:54

walked together, talked together,

5:57

played together. It was no

5:59

secret with whom the Prince was spending

6:02

all of his time, and the Prince

6:04

was already working hard to elevate Gaveston's

6:06

position in the household. He

6:08

was designated associates

6:11

or a companion, rather than

6:13

what one might have expected, which was

6:15

for him to be a scoutefer or an

6:17

esquire. The two men

6:19

were so close that when the King wanted

6:21

to punish his son for loudly

6:24

voicing his disparaging opinion

6:26

about the Bishop of Chester, he

6:28

did so by exiling Pierres Gaveston

6:30

to France. Gaveston was

6:32

still granted a salary while he was away

6:35

quote for as long as he shall remain

6:37

in parts beyond the sea during the

6:39

King's pleasure and waiting for recall,

6:48

Edward the Second was bereft.

6:51

He wrote a letter to his sister Elizabeth,

6:53

hoping that she could talk to their stepmother

6:56

and get her to intercede with the king

6:58

to bring Gavest back. We

7:01

would be greatly relieved of the anguish

7:04

which we have endured, Edward the Second

7:06

wrote, and from which we continue

7:08

to suffer from one day to the

7:10

next. Eventually,

7:12

the King forgave his son's trespasses.

7:16

When the prince was knighted, Gaveston

7:18

was returned to his household like a graduation

7:21

gift, and in thirteen o six

7:23

the two boys both accompanied the king on

7:25

an army expedition to Scotland

7:28

to follow up on a victory over Robert

7:30

the Bruce. If you've seen

7:32

Braveheart first, please know that

7:35

it is only history in the loosest

7:37

possible sense, but this is

7:39

also around the time period where

7:41

it is supposed to have happened. Edward

7:44

the Second Father is Edward the First,

7:46

of course, also known as long Shanks.

7:49

Edward the Second in the movie Braveheart

7:52

is portrayed as effeminately

7:54

gay. So now might

7:56

be a good time to take a brief break

7:58

from the story to discussed the ways

8:01

we talk about homosexuality when it comes

8:03

to history, especially history

8:05

as far back as the fourteenth century.

8:08

A lot of pre eminent queer theorists

8:10

and scholars actually disagree

8:12

as to whether it's useful or helpful

8:15

to call someone like Edward the Second gay

8:18

when that isn't how he would have identified

8:20

himself, or really how anyone

8:22

at the time would have characterized him.

8:24

But to me, it also feels like a useless

8:27

exercise to tie ourselves into knots,

8:30

as some writers do trying to paint

8:32

Edward the Second and Pierce Gaveston as

8:35

best bros. The fact of the

8:37

matter is that textual evidence

8:39

is that Edward and Gaveston had

8:41

a relationship that went beyond the

8:43

normal courtly affection between

8:46

two men at the time, something

8:48

that was noted and observed contemporaneously,

8:51

albeit obliquely. As

8:54

Peter Ackroyd writes in his book Queer

8:56

History, their relationship emphasizes

8:59

that five and perhaps non existent

9:01

line between camaraderie and same

9:04

sex love, as we've come to see

9:06

in the sort of florid portrayals

9:08

of courtly love between men in

9:10

the fourteenth century and beyond. Edward

9:13

the Second and Gaveston would go on to have

9:16

a formal relationship as wedded

9:18

brethren, a union that would have

9:20

been solemnized before an altar in a

9:23

church. I suppose the apt comparison

9:25

there is something like them being blood

9:28

brothers. But again, how

9:30

disingenuous to pretend that this is a

9:32

story about two bros who

9:34

were such close bros that they decided

9:36

to kneel in a church side by side to

9:39

show what bros they are. An

9:41

anonymous writer of a contemporary

9:43

biography wrote, quote, I

9:45

do not remember to have heard that

9:47

one man so loved another. Our

9:50

king was incapable of moderate favor,

9:53

and on account of Pierce was said

9:55

to forget himself, And so

9:57

Pierce was accounted a sorcerer.

10:00

At the time, sorcerer was coded

10:03

language for someone who engaged in

10:05

homosexual acts, an allegation

10:08

put more explicitly by a Cistercian

10:10

monk who wrote of Edward the second,

10:13

and please forgive my Latin

10:15

or lack thereof, in vito

10:17

sodomitico numium

10:19

delectabut or he

10:22

wallowed in sodomy.

10:31

Edward the Second would go on to father

10:33

five children, one illegitimate,

10:35

more than fulfilling his duty with his wife

10:38

of providing the country with a male heir.

10:41

But a king doing his duty to provide

10:43

an air can sort of be considered

10:45

an endeavor completely disparate from

10:47

ideas of love or companionship.

10:50

So I think we should resist the temptation

10:53

to, as I saw one

10:55

less than reputable internet analysis,

10:57

to celebrate Edward the

10:59

Second as the first bisexual

11:01

king of England. That terminology

11:04

simply doesn't hold the same meaning it does

11:06

today when applied to seven hundred

11:08

years ago, and so personally

11:10

I agree with the historians who don't

11:12

quite see that sort of formal denomination

11:15

as particularly useful in this case.

11:18

I do find it helpful just to remember

11:20

that, even though he lived in the thirteen hundreds,

11:23

Edward the Second was a human being. He

11:26

was a human being who fell deeply

11:28

and madly in love with a man,

11:31

and that relationship would be the central

11:33

one for almost his entire

11:35

life, and that love would

11:38

eventually lead to both of

11:40

their downfalls. Though

11:48

the king had restored Gaveston to his

11:50

son's household, the reunion

11:52

wouldn't last long. After

11:54

the campaign in Scotland, the army

11:57

set up camp for the winter in Lander

11:59

Coast, near the English border. That

12:02

winter, twenty two prominent knights,

12:05

including Gaveston, left camp

12:07

without permission to sail to France

12:09

for a series of tournaments. When

12:12

the men returned, they found that the king

12:14

had confiscated all of their lands

12:16

in anger at their disobedience.

12:19

Eventually, the king calmed down and

12:22

he realized it was just a youthful indiscretion

12:25

and all of the knights were forgiven and

12:27

pardoned all of the knights

12:30

except Gaveston. Out

12:32

of the twenty two men, only

12:35

Gaveston was banished, once

12:37

again forced to leave the country.

12:40

The exact reason for Gaveston's

12:43

uniquely harsh punishment isn't known,

12:45

but it's possible that the king wanted

12:47

his son to move on from his teenage

12:50

crush so that he could be ready for

12:52

his new bride incoming from

12:54

France. King Edward

12:56

the First had arranged for his son to marry

12:59

Isabella, daughter of Philip

13:01

the Fourth or Philip the Fair, when

13:03

she was just two years old. Now

13:06

that she was twelve, it was finally

13:08

time to make good on that betrothed, though

13:11

in case you were wondering, Edward the

13:13

Second was twenty three, but

13:16

before the wedding actually took place,

13:18

Edward the First died suddenly,

13:21

and so the prince ascended to the throne

13:24

as King Edward the Second. The

13:27

first thing Edward did as king was

13:30

bring back Galveston and grant

13:32

him the impressive title of Earl

13:34

of Cornwall. It wasn't

13:36

unheard of for a king to give a

13:39

lower born gentleman such a grand

13:41

title, but given the nature

13:43

of the king's relationship with Galveston,

13:46

it narrowed some eyes, especially

13:49

because before the late king died

13:51

he had been planning on giving that earldom

13:54

to one of his sons by his second wife.

13:56

The earldom was supposed to go to

13:59

a prince, and here comes this

14:01

new king giving it to an upstart

14:03

son of a knight. The

14:06

new king also set Gaveston up with

14:08

a well placed wife of his own, Margaret

14:10

Declare, sister of the Earl of Gloucester

14:13

and Edward's niece. Gaveston

14:16

was also appointed regent temporarily

14:19

while Edward went to France to marry his

14:21

own bride, the thirteen year old

14:23

Isabella.

14:29

The wedding in France went right as

14:31

planned, and so young Isabella accompanied

14:34

her new husband back to England, where

14:36

they would have another wedding ceremony and

14:38

their official coronations as Queen

14:40

and King of England. They

14:43

arrived back on the shores of Dover on a

14:45

cold February afternoon, and

14:48

that very moment would

14:50

doom their entire marriage. Who

14:53

was waiting on the shore for the new king

14:55

and his new bride, then the real

14:58

love of the King's life, Pierre Gaveston.

15:01

As soon as he set foot to grass,

15:04

the King ran towards his lover,

15:06

laughing and crying. They

15:08

embraced for a long time. They

15:11

kissed, all the while

15:14

thirteen year old Isabella of France

15:16

was just standing there, chilled

15:18

by the February air and the wind

15:21

whipping up from the sea, watching

15:23

her new husband so deeply

15:26

and so clearly in love with

15:28

a person that wasn't her. At

15:31

their coronation, Gaveston took

15:33

most of the attention, to the

15:35

shock of nearly everyone there. He

15:38

arrived wearing purple, a color

15:40

meant to be worn by only the king. An

15:43

onlooker noted that he looked more like

15:45

the god Mars than a mere mortal

15:48

At the banquet. Afterward, the King

15:50

spent the entire night perched on

15:52

Gaveston's small couch, gazing

15:55

up into his eyes, laughing

15:57

and flirting with him. The King

16:00

early so much as acknowledged his new

16:02

bride. The scene was

16:04

so outrageous that two

16:06

of Isabella's uncles left the party

16:08

in disgust. Life

16:11

as the new Queen of England was miserable

16:13

For Isabella. She was young,

16:16

all alone, and her husband

16:18

constantly humiliated her with

16:21

his lack of affection and overt

16:23

love for Gaveston. She

16:25

wrote to her father, King Philip the

16:27

Fair that she was being treated poorly.

16:30

The money that was supposed to be given to her

16:33

by her new husband seemed to be

16:35

slow coming. While there was never any

16:37

shortage for whatever extravagance Pierce

16:39

Gaveston wanted, the jewels

16:42

that Isabella's father had presented to

16:44

the King as part of her dowry

16:46

were being freely shared between

16:48

the King and Galveston. Isabella

16:54

also told her father that the barons

16:56

of England were getting fed up as

16:58

well, that they hate at Gaveston

17:01

and the King's outright favoritism.

17:03

That there were rumors that Gaveston had

17:05

cruel little nicknames for all of them

17:07

that he used behind their backs. The

17:10

beloved Earl of Lincoln Gaveston

17:13

called burst Belly, and the Earl

17:15

of Warwick was quote the black

17:17

dog of Arden. King

17:19

Edward the Seconds untamed affections

17:22

for this man, We're making

17:24

him and England vulnerable.

17:28

In thirteen o eight, the great

17:30

Barons of England demanded

17:33

that the King send peers into exile.

17:36

Faced directly by the displeasure

17:39

of his nobles, the King agreed.

17:42

Exile also meant that he was forced to

17:44

strip Gaveston's earldom, but the

17:46

King compensated for it by

17:48

immediately appointing Gaveston as

17:50

the King's lieutenant in Ireland, and

17:53

Edward the Second was king. He did

17:55

have some power, and he assumed

17:57

that the barons would settle down, and

18:00

so a year later, when he assumed things

18:03

would have calmed a bit, he brought Gaveston

18:05

back to England. He was

18:07

wrong. Things had not calmbed

18:10

down. By March

18:12

thirteen ten, the barons

18:15

were all but threatening civil war

18:17

if the King refused to sit down with them

18:20

and negotiate what to do about the

18:22

Gaveston problem.

18:24

With his hands tied, Edward the second

18:26

agreed to create an organization

18:29

called the Lords Ordainers, a

18:31

group of twenty one earls, barons

18:33

and bishops who would agree on the rules

18:36

when it came to managing the King's household.

18:39

The Ordainers came up with a number

18:41

of new rules, including once

18:43

again exile for the

18:45

King's favorite. When

18:48

faced with a group of angry nobles,

18:50

some of whom had spent the better part

18:52

of the past few years assembling

18:55

private armies, the King

18:57

found he had very little actual

19:00

power. He bargained,

19:02

saying he would agree to all of the rules

19:04

except the banishment of Gaveston. The

19:07

nobles refused him,

19:10

and so for the third and final

19:12

time, Gaveston was

19:14

formally banished from England. It

19:22

would only be a few months before the King

19:24

decreed that the Ordainers were actually operating

19:27

illegally, that the proclamations

19:29

didn't mean anything, so that he could bring

19:31

Gaveston back, but the

19:33

nobles would refuse to back

19:36

down, which meant

19:38

that as soon as Gaveston was back in England,

19:40

he and the King were now on

19:42

the run from the king's own nobleman.

19:46

While fleeing the Earl of Lancaster

19:48

in May of thirt twelve, the

19:50

King was forced to leave most of his retinue

19:53

and baggage behind so that he could

19:55

travel light and avoid capture. So

19:58

at Newcastle he abandoned and his jewels

20:00

and plates. He abandoned

20:02

several valuable war horses and various

20:05

assorted trappings, and he

20:07

also abandoned his wife, who

20:10

was five months pregnant. Edward,

20:13

the seconds only concern was Galveston.

20:16

Gaveston fortified himself at Scarborough

20:19

Castle, where he was besieged

20:21

by the Earls of Pembroke and Warwick. It

20:24

was around this time that Gaveston was also

20:26

excommunicated by the Archbishop

20:28

Winchesley at St Paul's. The

20:31

nobles meant war. The

20:34

siege ended with Gaveston's surrendering

20:36

to the Earl of Pembroke on the condition

20:38

that they would negotiate with the King for

20:41

an acceptable course of action and

20:43

have until August one to do it. Pembroke

20:47

agreed, and he took Galveston

20:49

into his custody to Deddington

20:51

in Banbury, where he'd be kept until

20:53

they finalized their deal with the King.

20:56

Pembroke guaranteed his safety, and

20:59

word was sent onto the King, who, of

21:01

course immediately began riding

21:03

north, but then

21:06

Pembroke spent a weekend away

21:08

with a cousin, and whether it

21:10

was purposeful or just an unfortunate

21:13

coincidence, Gaveston

21:15

was left unguarded. When

21:19

the Earl of Warwick heard that the hated

21:21

Gaveston was so close, he

21:23

sprung into action and captured

21:26

him himself. He brought

21:28

the king's favorite back to Warwick

21:31

in chains, parading him

21:33

through the streets like a common thief while

21:35

the crowd jeered at him and

21:37

made of scene gestures. Before

21:41

the king could even finish his travels,

21:43

the earls completed a quick sham

21:45

trial and brought Pierce Gaveston to

21:48

black Low Hill, where two Welsh

21:50

executioners were ready to kill

21:52

him by running him through, first

21:55

with a sword and then by cutting

21:57

off his head. His

22:05

body was left to rot on the hill.

22:08

Gaveston being excommunicated at

22:10

the time, meant that he couldn't have a proper

22:12

Christian burial, although

22:14

the king did immediately begin

22:16

fighting to recover the body and

22:18

give his love the resting place he thought

22:20

he deserved. Gaveston's

22:23

body was eventually rescued and embalmed,

22:25

and buried in the Dominican friary at

22:28

King's Langley and hare to share. But

22:30

it wouldn't be until eighteen twenty

22:32

three that a local squire would erect

22:34

a monument for Pierce Gaveston,

22:37

which would read, under his name

22:39

quote the minion of a hateful

22:42

king beheaded by barons

22:45

as lawless as himself. According

22:48

to that squire, there were no heroes

22:50

in this story. The

22:53

king mourned deeply, and though during

22:55

the following period he would sire heirs

22:57

with his wife, his heart never

23:00

covered from the loss of his greatest love.

23:02

The man he had spent thirteen years

23:04

with. You would eventually,

23:07

nearly a decade later, find a new

23:09

favorite, a man named Hugh Dispenser,

23:11

the younger. Unlike Pierce

23:13

Gaveston, who had been relatively moderate

23:16

in his spending and not too keen on making

23:18

enemies what good it did him

23:20

you, Dispenser was shameless.

23:23

He spent wildly, and it

23:26

wasn't long before the nobles were calling

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him another Gaveston. The

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Queen, for her part, despised

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Dispenser. Here was another

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young upstart, not only taking

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her husband's attention again but flaunting

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it. It goes without saying

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that the King's treatment of his wife

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hadn't improved since the first time

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they set foot on English soil together.

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Once her household had been fleeing a Scottish

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army, and her husband had so dawdled

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on sending support that it led

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to her just barely escaping with her

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life. Queen Isabella

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eventually persuaded her husband to let

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her go to France to negotiate with her

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brother, who was by then the King. It

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was while she was at French court that she

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met a man named Roger Mortimer,

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a formerly powerful English lord

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who had been forced to flee the country after

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a failed rebellion against Edward the Second.

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The friendship between the Queen and Mortimer

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deepened when it was revealed that they

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had a common goal removing

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Edward from the throne. The

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two became lovers, and eventually

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Mortimer led an expedition that

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would see the pair of them successfully

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seize control of the English

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throne. Hugh

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de Spenser was captured and found

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guilty on more charges than he could

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answer for. He knew that execution

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was coming to him, and that that execution

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would be grim, and so before

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his verdict, he had been trying to starve himself

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to death, but it didn't work,

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and he was right about the execution

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being grim. So if you're

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a little squeamish about gore, you might

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want to fast forward about thirty

25:12

seconds. The king's

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new favorite was dragged through the streets

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naked and publicly humiliated,

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with men writing Bible verses on

25:22

his skin, Bible versus about

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the many sins of which he had

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been formally accused. Dispenser

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was to be hanged as a commoner, but

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the news was released before he

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was fully asphyxiated and so still

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breathing, but only barely. Dispenser

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was tied to a ladder and a red

25:42

hot blade was used to

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slice off his genitals. From

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there he was beheaded and drawn

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and quartered. His head

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was mounted on the gates of London.

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King Edward the Second was captured

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soon afterward and forced to abdicate

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in favor of his young son, Edward

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the Third, who would be king in name

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only as Queen Isabella, and Roger

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Mortimer ruled as regent in

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his stead. While captured

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and imprisoned, Edward died

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either of a mysterious illness or

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more likely at the behest of the

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new regime. The rumor

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with not much factual evidence behind

26:23

it, but the rumor that's plenty colorful

26:26

is that he was killed by guards in a

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way that wouldn't show much damage

26:30

to the outside of his body. Another

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warning here, I'm going to say this as delicately

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as I can by shoving

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a flaming hot poker up

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his rear end. But that

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detail lurid as it is maybe

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an example of historical embellishment,

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meant to emphasize the gossip around

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the king's relationships and sexual

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proclivities, but that rumor

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in itself is evidence that the King's

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relationships were explicitly

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sexual. No one ever

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shoves a red hot poker up someone's

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but because they're upset that he's

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such close platonic bros with

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another man. That's

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the tragic story of Pierce Gaveston

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and King Edward the Second. But stick

27:20

around after a brief sponsor break to

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hear more about what happened with Queen Isabella.

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Edward the Third eventually came of age

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and overthrew the regency of Roger

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Mortimer and Queen Isabella. Roger

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Mortimer was killed, but graciously

27:44

Edward the Third spared the life of his mother.

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The Queen was briefly imprisoned, but then

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allowed to live in a palace just away

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from court. Edward the

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Third did one more thing to honor

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the memory of his father, the man

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whom he could scarcely remember, but

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who had been so deeply betrayed by

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his wife and fellow countrymen. When

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Queen Isabella died, her son

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Edward the Third had something wrapped

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in linen and buried alongside

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her. It was King Edward

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the seconds embalmed heart, the

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thing that had caused so much trouble

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and strife and pain. At

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last, for the first time and

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only in death, what Queen Isabella

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finally have it. Noble

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