Medieval Nation-Building
Half-Hour History: Secrets of the Medieval World
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The History of France
There's a very slow emergence of something called royal primacy in France. The one I think of is Eleanor of Aquitaine, played by Catherine Hepburn and Henry II of England. She can't be queen in the sense of being the total monarch, but she's basically running England and France at the same time.
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