🎧 The House of Guise: Europe's Most Murderous Dynasty?
🎧 Not Just the Tudors • 38m
The rich and powerful Guise family was one of the most treacherous and bloodthirsty in sixteenth-century France. They whipped up religious bigotry, overthrowing the king. They ruled Scotland for nearly 20 years through Mary Queen of Scots, plotting to invade England and overthrow Elizabeth I. And they unleashed the bloody Wars of Religion, playing a crucial role in the murder of 4,000 Protestants in the infamous Massacre of Saint Bartholomew.
In this episode of Not Just the Tudors, Professor Suzannah Lipscomb talks to Professor Stuart Carroll - author of Martyrs and Murderers: The Guise Family and the Making of Europe about this cultivated, charismatic, and violent dynasty.
This episode was edited by Stuart Beckwith and produced by Rob Weinberg.
**WARNING: This episode contains some graphic descriptions of violence**
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