501 – Bishop Serlo’s Pop Up Hair Salon

About this episode

The episode discusses the chaos in Normandy and its implications for King Henry's ambitions.

For months, messengers had been arriving from Normandy carrying news of the disorder and chaos that was gripping the Duchy. Now, normally, this would have been good news for King Henry. It was no secret that the King wanted to reunite his father’s cross channel empire under himself… nor was it a secret that he […] The post 501 – Bishop Serlo’s Pop Up Hair Salon first appeared on The British History Podcast .

People in this episode

Host: Jamie Jeffers

Topics covered

• medieval history
• Normandy
• King Henry
• Bishop Serlo
• chaos
• empire

Keywords

• Bishop Serlo
• King Henry
• Normandy
• Duchy
• medieval chaos
• empire

Mentioned in this episode

Places: Normandy, Duchy

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