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If there’s one thing you can count on in the 1400s, it’s that the “fractious men of Kent” will always be ready to join an uprising

For all their talk of Christendom these folks do an awful lot of fighting on religious holidays. Is it really a battle for the crown if it’s not happening on Easter Sunday?

And with that we’re entering into the Starz era of this story

Everyone has the same 3 names, so you’re identifying them by their titles. Except now everyone is murdering everyone else, the titles are getting passed around too. And then every now and then, some rouge family member changes sides and makes it worse. It’s a fun ride though.

Two warring northern houses slaughtering each other at a wedding party - it’s giving red wedding

RIP Suffolk. You’re not the first favourite to lose your head to an angry mob, but you’re the first who might not have deserved it.

Wish I’d seen more of Henry V - might need to read a separate book on him. Also, wild that I knew who Joan of Arc was but couldn’t have placed her in history for the life of me. When she showed up I was all “this is where you’re from??”