During the Middle Ages, kings were often seen as ruling with God’s blessing. After all God had granted authority and power to the Church and the Pope so obviously, kings had ‘divine rights’ too. But the concept was also flawed. Thanks to the principle of an inherited throne you never knew what you were going to get. They weren’t chosen, they were born into it, and who knew what their character and capabilities were going to be. You could just as easily get a beloved, brave and benevolent ruler on the throne, as a sadistic stark raving lunatic.
Let’s travel back to the Middle Ages and take a look at five of these mad monarchs. Welcome to Medieval Madness.
0:00 Introduction
0:57 Fragility
3:00 Family Line
5:31 Intolerance of
Uncertainty
7:52 Psychological
Warfare
11:03 Paranoid
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