Royals who Died of Bubonic Plague
About this episode
This episode explores the lives and deaths of 21 royals who succumbed to the bubonic plague and how their deaths impacted history.
As the great pestilence burned across central Asia, north Africa and Europe, roughly 100 million people lost their lives in the worst pandemic in human history. More than half of the populations of Florence, Paris and London fell victim. We will never know the names of most of the poor souls who met their end in mass graves. But perhaps the best way to put a human face on this apocalyptic event is to explore the lives of those victims for whom we do have carefully kept records - the Royals. Today let’s meet 21 Kings, Queens and Princes who where cut out of history by the scythe of the black death, and the many outbreaks of plague that followed. And see how their sudden deaths changed the course of history. Abu Sa’id Bahadur Khan, Mongul Sultan Joan of England, daughter of Edward III Blanche of Lancaster Edward of Angoulême, Son of Edward the Black Prince Anne of Bohemia, Queen of England Gruffudd ap Owain George Plantagenet, Duke of Bedford, Future Prince of Wales Edmund Tudor, Earl of Richmond Joan II, Queen of Navarre Jeanne of Burgundy, Queen of France Bonne of Luxembourg Eleanor of Portugal, Queen of Aragon Alfonso XI, King of Castile Philippa of Lancaster, Queen of Portugal…
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