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37: The History of the Plantagenets II

Classical Stuff You Should Know

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The Death of John the Great

John had a long reign but as it went on he lost all of his friends and allies who were friends and allies to richard. As he lost allies he got super paranoid and he got uh, really sort of aggravated and thought that everyone was coming for his throne. On easter 1203 john flies into a rage and all of the men around him said the only Explanation we have for this is that he got possessed by the devil. He killed arthur with his bare hands tied him to a rock and threw him into the river What in the world a fisherman found him a couple of days later and gave him a christian burial Secretly so that john didn't know um philip

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