but there's more!

I agree, a great production with excellent acting and authentic historical continuity. Love that dialogue.

Henry 2 was, in my opinion, the best of the British monarchs but that says a lot about the quality of the rest of them. He founded the common law we use today.

There was another son, a Henry who died in 1183 who had probably been the preferred successor. They must have been still in shock from that.

Actually it had already been decided that Henry would have his father’s inheritance, Richard the mother’s inheritance, and Geoff would get the acquisition (the things that his dad had won in battle or otherwise acquired during his reign). John was to be left out, but they later decided to give him the latest conquest, Ireland. But Henry died in 1183 and Geoff in 1186. Richard turned against his father and joined with the French King Philip to defeat him in 1189. Then Rich went off to the Crusades anyway and ,after being kidnapped, fought more wars in France ending up with a cross bow bolt through his head. So John eventually got the whole deal.

A great story, worthy of a Hollywood sequel.