In the midst of chaos, darkness, and violence from the Middle Ages, a family rose to seize control of England. Generation after generation, they ruled the country for more than three hundred years, crushing all competition to become the greatest English dynasty of all time. They were the Plantagenets.
Presented by award-winning journalist and renowned historian Dan Jones, The Plantagenets combines creative and insightful research with searing dramatic reconstructions to bring life to this shocking and visceral time in England's history. From Henry II, betrayed by his own wife and children when they try to seize the throne to the powerful friendship between Henry III and Simon de Montfort which falls into hatred and bloody civil war; from Edward II's adulterous French wife and his 'legendary' death from a red hot poker to the boy king and tyrant Richard II one of the most vicious and inventive despots in English history; Britain’s Bloodiest Dynasty: The Plantagenets uncovers a dark, vengeful and bloody history which compels viewers into the heart of the action as they bear witness to the most ruthless dynasty in English history.
