help us settle something!

[angevin2]

I have had this debate with both my sister and jucundushomo recently, and I find their disagreement on the topic baffling.

NB that choices of icon and music do not necessarily indicate my opinion on The Obvious Right Answer.

Poll Lea

ETA: The poll title should be "Lea's Big Book of You-Know-What Poll," but it got screwed up in the coding. Blast.

ETA: commodorified, while we're

Comments

[mosca]

Okay, see, the difference is? Edward II was on the bottom. And in medieval/Early Modern England, that made all the difference.

[jonquil]

Red-hot poker for TEH WIN!

[hafren]

Now how can Richard be lagging behind? The one with all the charisma, and the one who went on crusade because he didn't trust Philippe-Auguste out of his sight?

[angevin2]

I guess it's because not that many early-medievalists read my journal? ;)

[rymenhild]

Yeah, it might be about our own chosen periods. I'm personally obsessed with the early fourteenth century, and it never would have occurred to me to vote for anyone but Edward II on this poll.

[taelle]

Less proof that he was, indeed, gay?

[dramaturgy]

Edward II was in a Mel Gibson movie, it's not much more quintessential than that! ;)

[liseuse]

Edward II had the gayest film ever made of his play. It's terrible, but strangely addictive. Obviously not terrible because of the gay, just a terrible film.

[kitmarlowe]

Gaveston has marvellous hair in it, though.

[liseuse]

I'd forgotten about Gaveston's hair. Glorious indeed.

And Annie Lennox always adds to a film.

[chickenfeet2003]

I think James I loses out in "England's big gay king" stakes by having been not big at all and even less English thasn Richard I