Stephen & Matilda - The Inspiration for House of the Dragon Documentary

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0:00:00 King Stephen
01:04:00 Matilda

#Biography #History #Documentary

[danielsantiagourtado]

Perfect timing with the second season of house of the dragon guys! Thanks For this 🔥🔥🔥🐲🐲🐲

[Sean]

Ahhh yes the inspiration for Dance of the Dragons in Fire and Blood/House of the Dragon!!!! I personally would love a tv series about The Anarchy with Stephen and Matilda. YES I know The Pillars of Earth series. It's just such an unused setting and rarely talked about.

[eriviscale]

A very, shall we say generous epilogue for Steven. Of course we can blame him for the Anarchy. Sure the nobles who supported him might have still rebelled but if he kept to his oath and accepted Matilda as Queen then it would have been a short lived rebellion. Also blaming Matilda for fighting a war to get her rightful throne back, i hope i don't have to point out how ridiculous that is.

[Andy_Babb]

Finally! The episode I’ve been waiting for!

[jturtle]

The split in that horse's hoof is horrifying.

[standdownrobots_ihaveoldglory]

I’m more closely related to Empress Matilda (she’s my auntie!) but Stephen is just a cousin, so I guess I’m Team Matilda. I knew GoT was inspired by the era, but that’s kinda cool it’s my family history. To be fair, likely the family history of a huge % of ethnically English people lol. And undoubtedly most of my forebears were just peasants & serfs!

[anweshabiswas]

Cousins . Shares same grandfather - William the conqueror ❤❤❤

[politicsandhistory]

Please complete the series of us presidents
The last one was Martin van Buren
Thank you in advance❤

[damonx]

You can tell this movie was made by Americans... The Spartans talk about "freedom" all the time yet their entire society ran on the backs of slaves.

There is a reason why all the Spartan males can all be professional warriors. All the work was done by slaves called "helots."

[Nicholas-mivt]

Stephen and Matilda are 1000x better than Aegon ii and rhaenyra

[TheMormonPower]

This just assures to me what an entire crock of shit the whole " Appointyed by God " the whole, entire " Appointed by God " the British Monarchy is. Just Commplete BS.

[adeptusmechanicus]

Did Matilda also had a secret lesbian lover that she wanted to run away with?

[fieldmojo]

Don't watch house of the dragon, season 2 goes downhill hard.