The Devil's Crown (1978)

The Devil's Crown was a BBC limited series which dramatised the reigns of three medieval Kings of England: Henry II and his sons Richard the Lionheart and John. It was broadcast in thirteen 55-minute episodes between 30 April and 23 July 1978. Henry Plantagenet (latterly Henry II), sees his opportunity to seize the crown of England and create a kingdom of law and order. He cuts a deal with King Stephen in which Stephen will name him his heir, excluding his sons Eustace and William in exchange for a fragile truce. Stephen's sudden death elevates Henry to the throne. He may have been King of England, but the bulk of the Angevin Empire was in France, and it was this that Henry regarded as the Jewel in his Crown, maintained through a series of political marriages and complex allegiances. Henry pays homage to Louis VII, King of the Franks, for these lands, but it is clear that Henry is the shrewder and more ambitious of the two kings, having married Louis' ex-wife Eleanor of Aquitaine.

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Episodes season 1

  • 1x1

    If all the world were mine

  • 1x2

    The earth is not enough

  • 1x3

    A rose, a thorn

  • 1x4

    The hungry falcons

  • 1x5

    Before the dark

  • 1x6

    Richard yea and nay

  • 1x7

    Lion of christendom

  • 1x8

    When cage-birds sing

  • 1x9

    Bolt from the blue

  • 1x10

    In sun's eclipse

  • 1x11

    The flowers are silent

  • 1x12

    Tainted king

  • 1x13

    To the devil they go

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