Henry VI: The Mad King Who Caused The War Of The Roses | Wars Of The Roses | Real Royalty

The first hammered silver coin i ever found while using my metal detector ,was a Henry vi penny.Mind blowing to think that this coin was used and lost during this period .

English history is better than any soap opera. 🥰

38:09 This episode was done so well that I took a knee to pledge my allegiance to the duke of york while in my living room

The fact that "high borns" and nobles could quite merrily cause carnage knowing that they would probably be captured and ransomed whilst their troops were slaughtered is the epitome of not suffering the consequences. York killing Somerset would have sent shockwaves through the nobles and hopefully made them realise, if even for a little bit that they too were vulnerable

I feel sad because Henry VI himself told everyone and everyone is aware that he doesn't want to be King ever. All he wanted was a quiet life like going to church and doing something that he likes. I don't know why but probably they should've gave the throne to someone else? I heard that there are other royals who doesn't accept the thone and passed to others right? Also, I think Henry VI is a rare one during that time. He isn't for battle, he is the type who's probably gentle and caring. Those personas fit a normal guy or someone that shouldn't be leader. Because that's the only thing he's capable of. He's only forced to take duty.

God, I love anything Dan Jones does; this series is my favorite documentary on The War of the Roses. Who agrees?

I am so addicted to British history. This channel is additive. I enjoy the history I learn from Dan Jones, Neil Oliver and Lucy Worsley. Very knowledgeable and watchable. Thank you for these documentaries!

Margaret was AMAZING!! We need more docs about her!

I would love to see all of the Wars of the Roses videos put into a playlist for easier viewing.

Oh my goodness I am addicted to this channel I just love this channel. I find all the history so interesting and easy to follow.

Fascinating...what a story...and real! One can only imagine had the Queen chosen to ally herself with the Duke of York how history might have been if ran by two such dominant, powerful people.

Dan Jones makes history come alive. He's brilliant

Oh my, I'm addicted to this channel. It's great!

He was so weak that it's pitiful. He wasn't meant to wear the crown. Something happened to him early on in his childhood and I would love to know what it was. Either he witnessed something horrific or something horrific was perpetrated against him. He wasn't an imbecile ..his spirit was broken early on. I feel bad for him.

"War of the Roses" should be made into an epic tv series.. (Not games of Thrones that I've heard are loosely based on the war of roses) but a tv series in the same style as "Tudors," "Pilars of the earth" etc...

I’m literally at the edge of my seat. This has come alive for me, I felt I was an invisible onlooker. What an incredible production, everything is so top notch. Wow!

Excellent presentation that really brings the scenes to life. Margaret is pretty smokin' btw.

Margaret: "I should have left you on that street corner where you were standing..." York:" But ch'ya didn't!!"

Love revisiting my school history lessons with this guy. He's a great presenter.

Henry the VI is the most unfairly vilified of English monarchs. Far from being a weak king, he was a strong and ruthless one,.Despite posessing almost no money, since parliament and the nobility refused to pay taxes, and he had no estates of his own, he remained on the throne for 23 years from when he first began to rule at the age of sixteen He had to cope with a severe economic depression lasting 40 years, the worst depression in English history--onre reason no one was will to pay taxes. He was of course blamed for it, but it was caused by hundreds of years of England’s unfavorable balance of trade, which he had done nothing to cause.. Despite his supposed weakness, his enemies had a way of meeting unnatural deaths. Armies loyal to him. even though he couldn’t pay them, won as many battles as they lost. His defeat in 1461 was a very close thing, as the battle could have gone either way. He skillfully practiced divide and rule realpolitics to maintain the balance o power over the endlessly feuding nobility. He succeeded in ending a large peasant uprising through a mixture of skillfull negotiations and the use of force by his allies among the nobility. Henry VI made a great and lasting contribution to England’s future by at last freeing it from French politics and rulers. Nearly four hundred years of rule by French or heavily French-influenced rulers of England finally came to an end, and England finally became a truly independent country. He did this through a carefully calculated phased withdrawal of English forces from France. Although it made him extremely unpopular, it was an absolute financial necessity to save England from utter bankruptcy and to free the country from French influence. Far from being proof of his weakness, as nearly all historians have mistakenly believed, it was a masterstroke by a master strategist. Attributing all of his success to his “scheming” wife Margaret of Anjou is nonsense. THe 15th century was still a man’s world, and Margaret could do nothing without the assistance and support of her husband. On the other hand, Henry showed great wisdom in marrying her, since she proved to be both a highly capable and fiercely loyal partner. Few if any other English kings made such a wise choice of a life partner. It is time that English historians freed themselves from Yorkist propaganda and at last recognized Henry VI as the true founder of England as a “united kingdom."