Reply With QuoteThat bloody Becket just wanted the church to be above the law, after all.Originally Posted by Burney
I've always had a soft spot for Henry II, Edward I was excellent at thrashing the Celts, while Edward III's run of victories against the French endears him to one, but generally you're right: a bad lot.
That bloody Becket just wanted the church to be above the law, after all.
Indeed - even allowing for the "don't judge people by modern standards, judge by the time etc", he was an absolute **** for his day. Mostly to French people tbf
Exactly. And he was drinking and whoring with Henry right up until he made him ArchB of C and then he goes all holier-than-thou and hair-shirted. Prick. Can't abide him. Deserved everything he got.
And did he LOL 'ard?
The Hundred Years War were no church picnic and the chevauchée generally wasn't for the squeamish, but you get the distinct impression Hal liked it all a bit too much.
No. He screamed for a good long time, apparently. It was distinctly banter-free.
Yup. The occupation of Paris under him after Agincourt makes the Warsaw Ghetto look like Butlins, but all accounts.*
{*Some bloke off In Our Time, and I don't think he used those exact words, but said it was despicable, even by the standards of late-medieval warfare.}
Basically a real-life grown-up Joffrey
It was his own fault. Only a muppet would bother trying to have a Reformation without waiting for the printing press to be invented first.
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