Henry IV: Warrior Princes and Fat Knights (TRIH ep 486, part 2)
1403 · Resource
This episode examines the crisis years of Henry IV’s reign, focusing on the 1403 Battle of Shrewsbury and the Prince of Wales’ apprenticeship that forged the future Henry V. Holland and Sandbrook narrate the build-up to Shrewsbury—Harry Hotspur’s rebellion, recruiting in Cheshire, and Owen Glendower’s Welsh uprising—then describe the battlefield: longbowmen, terrain, the prince’s arrow wound and Hotspur’s death.
On these timelines: The Rest Is History (podcast), Resources: Combined
Around 1403
- Peasants' Revolt in England (1381)
- Fall of Constantinople (1453)
- Leonardo da Vinci (1452)
- Gutenberg's printing press (1440)
- Ming dynasty (1368)
- Renaissance (1400)
- Chaucer's Canterbury Tales (1387)
- Mehmed II (1432)
- Reign of Mehmed II (1451)
- Forbidden City built (1406)