Which English king was so notoriously bad at managing royal finances that he had to pawn the Crown Jewels to Flemish merchants in the 1330s?
Long before payday loans, even monarchs found themselves scraping the bottom of the treasury barrel. One English king took the ultimate humiliation: hocking the nation's bling to fund his wars.
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