🩸England’s MAD Tyrant:
Henry VII
Last week’s episode focused on Henry VIII — a name most people associate with six wives, a massive ego, and the total upheaval of the English Church. On the surface, it’s the ultimate story of a tyrant who remade an entire religion just so he could get a divorce and lived a life of unmatched, gluttonous excess.
But that story starts somewhere very different…
Before the portraits of the brooding, heavy-set king, Henry was a brilliant, athletic prince who was hailed as the "ideal" Renaissance man. He didn't just rely on his crown to rule; he relied on a sharp, legalistic mind and a ruthless instinct for survival. He was a gifted musician and linguist who used his charisma to mask a growing paranoia as he navigated a court where his own advisors were constantly plotting his downfall.
From orchestrating a secret marriage to Anne Boleyn that defied the Pope, to declaring himself the Supreme Head of the Church to seize absolute control, every move he made was a cold, hard play for total sovereignty. Instead of just being a king, he redefined the monarchy itself to secure his legacy and protect his Tudor bloodline from the threat of civil war. He went from a young, promising "Golden Prince" to becoming one of history’s most feared absolute monarchs, playing a high-stakes game of political chess with the greatest empires in Europe.
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This week’s episode focuses on Mansa Musa — a name most people associate with unimaginable gold, a record-breaking pilgrimage, and being the richest human to ever walk the earth. On the surface, he’s remembered as the ultimate philanthropist king who gave away so much wealth that he crashed the Egyptian economy just passing through.
But that version barely scratches the surface…
Before he was the legend who "put Mali on the map" (literally, on the Catalan Atlas), Musa was a strategic visionary who inherited a kingdom at a crossroads. He didn't just stumble into his fortune; he was a master of logistics and trade who expanded his empire to include the great intellectual hubs of Timbuktu and Gao. He wasn't just throwing gold at people—he was executing a massive geopolitical branding campaign that turned a West African empire into the center of the Islamic world’s attention.
And then there’s the part people leave out.
Musa wasn’t just a wealthy traveler; he was a ruler obsessed with transformation and legitimacy. He brought back the world’s greatest architects and scholars not just for vanity, but to build a lasting intellectual legacy that would outlive his gold. He managed a sprawling, diverse territory with a sophisticated legal system and a military force that kept the trans-Saharan trade routes under his total control.
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