A bit of Henry V, a bit of Richard I as portrayed in The Lion in Winter (if you think of the High Spider as Phillip II Augustus).
May I please ask if you see Gyles the Third (he who precipitated the Great Southern War) as more Louis the Fourteenth or more Henry the Fifth? (the former being a king who was so overwhelmingly powerful he basically forced every other crowned head in his vicinity to posse up – the latter a king who sought to weld his Kingdom together through military glory and perished of dysentery in the process).
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