Barfleur
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Oct 23, 2026
Graham DukeHOST
It seems like his course is run, but of course, as we found out last time, pretty much immediately after this, fate turns in his favour, because on what should have been a triumphal return to England in 1120, the ship, the white ship carrying William Adeline, sinks.
Graham DukeHOST
Soon after setting off from Barfleur, with Adeline and everyone on board buying a local butcher, drowns.
Ali HoodHOST
Oh, so this is all happening quite quickly, as in that he's had his badge taken away, even before the White Ship disaster, and they've gone to the Pope to negotiate, and that's all this period.
Graham DukeHOST
It's immediately before.
JimmyHOST
Richard of Lincoln was a grown man his father valued for his courage, and Matilda was the Countess of Perche.
JimmyHOST
The fleet gathered at Barfleur on the Cotentin Peninsula, and a charter Henry issued there is dated November 21st, so the court had been sitting in the port for days.
JimmyHOST
While they waited, a ship's captain named Thomas Fitz Stephen asked for an audience with the king and offered him a sum of gold for the right to serve the royal family.
JimmyHOST
Thomas had a pitch, because his father, Stephen Fitzherard, had spent his life as a mariner in the Conqueror's service.
speaker_0HOST
But the defining event of Henry's reign arrived not as a political crisis, but as a personal catastrophe.
speaker_0HOST
In November of 1120 AD, a ship called the White Ship, carrying his only legitimate son William along with around 300 members of the English and Norman nobility, sank in the Channel after leaving the port of Barfleur.
speaker_0HOST
The ship's crew had been drinking.
speaker_0HOST
Only one man survived.
Paul BestallHOST
That's far more interesting, and it's true 'cause I've just checked it.
Brennan StorrHOST
The first official lifeboat assigned to the port of Barfleur, France was named the Othello.
Brennan StorrHOST
In the first rescue effort on December 4, 1872, it saved 28 members of the crew of an American ship.
Brennan StorrHOST
The name of the American ship [laughs] was the Othello.