Edward II
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Sep 12, 2026
Nicolas RapoldHOST
I don't know if that's going to make sense if you just know what the description of it is.
Nicolas RapoldHOST
This is Queer Edward II, and this is a documentary about the making of Edward II by Derek Jarman right around 1990, 91, I think.
Nicolas RapoldHOST
1990, yeah, I think.
Jessica KiangGUEST
The film came out in 91.
Nicolas RapoldHOST
I mean, it's beyond behind the scenes.
Jessica KiangGUEST
Yes.
Jessica KiangGUEST
totally immersive yeah I really love this documentary it's it's small of course and it's kind of niche in its appeal but to those of us especially I mean I mean I grew up in Ireland obviously and I remember when Edward II came out I was in school and you know I've ever since I've been a writing about film professionally and even when I was studying film at university you know Derek Jarman was just such a huge feature of the landscape then obviously one of the pioneers of the new queer cinema movement, along with Todd Haynes and Greg Araki and people like that in the early 90s.
Jessica KiangGUEST
And the story of how this film came into being is one thing, which truly is wonderful.
speaker_2HOST
To analyze this, we really have to look outside of France.
speaker_2HOST
King Edward II of England, who was actually Philip's son-in-law, initially refused to believe the charges.
speaker_2HOST
He didn't use torture when he first arrested the English Templars, and the results there are telling as a control group.
speaker_1HOST
Right.
Dan JonesGUEST
You blame the people around the king and attack them.
Dan JonesGUEST
And only in, in extremis do you go after the king, King John and Magna Carta, Edward II, and a, a few, a tiny number of, of examples.
Dan JonesGUEST
And it's striking that the ordinary people, when they rise up, take exactly the same view.
Dan JonesGUEST
It can't be the king.
Sevan MatossianHOST
There's significant frustration.
Sevan MatossianHOST
Gordon felt president of families of flight 93 told CBS news belt is the brother of flight 93 passenger Edward felt and leads efforts to share his story.
Sevan MatossianHOST
and that of all 40 passengers and crew members who fought back against hijackers, we've yet to see justice or accountability.
Sevan MatossianHOST
The trials are still in pretrial phase at Guantanamo.
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Sevan MatossianHOST
Um, and the United States, Ireland and United Kingdom, the use of the defense is rare, including things not eligible for the insanity defense.
Sevan MatossianHOST
They say it's fucking rare, but, uh, it seems like we're seeing tons of them pop up now that it's in the news.
Sevan MatossianHOST
Uh, Edward II, under English common law, declared that a person was insane if their mental capacity was no more than that of a wild beast in the sense of dumb animal rather than being frenzied.
Sevan MatossianHOST
The first complete transcript of insanity trial dates back to 1724.
Matt LewisGUEST
There is talk of cannibalism.
Matt LewisGUEST
Edward II can't get enough bread for his household.
Matt LewisGUEST
So even the king-
Maddy PellingHOST
Even the king
Rebecca LarsonHOST
Yeah, oh my gosh, I would absolutely love that.
Rebecca LarsonHOST
I do, and before we go, I do have to mention too that I was curious if you saw maybe a similarity between Laenor and Edward II.
Rebecca LarsonHOST
Yes.
Rebecca LarsonHOST
at all, and Laenor's story about how he was gay and...
Rebecca LarsonHOST
Right, right.
Rebecca LarsonHOST
Yeah, and Rhaenyra seemed to know that about Laenor before getting into the relationship.
Rebecca LarsonHOST
But I think I find the most connection to Edward II because of his death, about his staged death and how Daemon basically told his male friend, his companion, you know, there are places across the sea that you can go where nobody will know your name and you can just live your life.
Rebecca LarsonHOST
And then you see the scene where they're doing the staged battle in the hall.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
A long conflict followed in which the Welsh, aided by the mountainous character of their country, made a stubborn resistance, but were subjugated in 1283.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
In the following year, Edward II was born in their land and received the title of Prince of Wales, which is still borne by the eldest son of the king of England.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
The Angevin kings also claimed the overlordship of Scotland, as William the Conqueror and William Rufus had both received the homage of the Scottish kings, and in 1137 King David of Scotland had aided Matilda as her vassal.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
The Scottish monarchs did homage to Henry II, but Richard the Lionhearted sold his rights as overlord when he needed money for his crusade.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
After a victory at Stirling, a defeat at Falkirk, and various other battles, he was captured and executed in 1305.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
The next year Robert Bruce headed another revolt.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
The death of Edward I in 1307 and the weakness of Edward II enabled Bruce to gain the mastery of almost all Scotland, and his victory at Bannockburn in 1314 practically secured the independence of Scotland, which was recognized by the English in the Treaty of Northampton, 1323.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
The English kings made some attempts later to regain Scotland, but these were of little consequence.
Penelope NoirGUEST
So it's measured by that.
Penelope NoirGUEST
In the UK, and apparently it's also in South Africa, India, Ireland and Pakistan, Edward II standardised shoe sizes in 1324 um by measuring the foot in barley corns which is still used today um and what
speaker_0UNKNOWN
sorry
Penelope NoirGUEST
a barley corn so like a barley you know like grain okay yeah all right Yeah, so it's barley corns are a third of an inch, which is the length of a typical one grain of barley corn.
Martin VauxHOST
Yes, so see past examples.
Martin VauxHOST
Edward II, Richard II, Henry VI, Edward V, Charles I and James II, as well as the post-Stewart Hanoverian succession of 1717, which followed the childless death of Queen Anne.
Martin VauxHOST
after which we started having mostly very stupid kings called George for a bit, a collection of kings who we look back on with an overwhelming sense of disappointment if we look back at them at all.
Eleanor ConlonHOST
Because in England, honestly, for the vast majority of the population, who was king or queen at what time is largely irrelevant, let alone our prime minister's.
Eva SchubertHOST
And during his reign, the English longbow became a significant weapon.
Eva SchubertHOST
During the reigns of his successors, Edward II and Edward III, the longbow was increasingly prominent as an English weapon of war and became decisive during the Hundred Years' War that they were going to fight with France.
Eva SchubertHOST
So if you want to talk about the golden age of English archery, when there are archery competitions, like the one I told you in the story where the Sheriff of Nottingham is sponsoring an archery competition, that would make a lot of sense during the reign of Edward I or maybe Edward II or III.
Eva SchubertHOST
It doesn't really fit with things that were going on during the reign of Richard the Lionheart or even his younger brother, John.
Eva SchubertHOST
And the other interesting thing about the longbow was that it was the weapon of the English yeoman, the English free middle-class man.
Eva SchubertHOST
And Robin Hood is referred to as a yeoman in many, many ballads.
Eva SchubertHOST
So there's this association with who he's supposed to be and the weapon that he's using, which suggests a date much later than Richard the Lionheart.
Eva SchubertHOST
A second strong possibility is that the historical Robin Hood may have lived during the reign of Edward II.
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