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Scottish History with Nico
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Stories of Scottish History 🏴
I’m Nico! 🙋🏻♂️
I have a keen interest in Scottish history and share my insights and discoveries on this channel. From epic battles and historical events to the stories of Scottish clans and iconic landmarks, I cover a broad spectrum of topics across Scottish history. Each video is thoroughly researched to ensure historical accuracy.
I’m not a historian, I’m just someone who loves to explore Scotland’s long and fascinating past.
Every video is a solo effort, from filming, scripting and editing, so it might take a bit longer to produce videos, but I aim for quality over quantity!
Join me on this journey through Scotland’s history! 🏴
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I’m Nico! 🙋🏻♂️
I have a keen interest in Scottish history and share my insights and discoveries on this channel. From epic battles and historical events to the stories of Scottish clans and iconic landmarks, I cover a broad spectrum of topics across Scottish history. Each video is thoroughly researched to ensure historical accuracy.
I’m not a historian, I’m just someone who loves to explore Scotland’s long and fascinating past.
Every video is a solo effort, from filming, scripting and editing, so it might take a bit longer to produce videos, but I aim for quality over quantity!
Join me on this journey through Scotland’s history! 🏴
🏴 If You're Interested In Exploring Scotland, Check Out This Fantastic 5-Star Scottish Tour Company!👇🏻
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What Was The Cause They Were Prepared To Die For?
This video delves into the fierce and tumultuous history of the Scottish Covenanters. Beginning with the Reformation led by John Knox, who challenged the Catholic rule of Mary of Guise, we explore the intense religious upheaval that transformed Scotland into a Protestant nation. As tensions simmered, King Charles I's attempts to impose Anglican practices sparked riots and rebellion, leading to the Bishops’ Wars and the Covenanters’ defiant stand. Through dramatic reenactments, we witness the tragic events of ‘The Killing Time,’ where Covenanters were persecuted for their beliefs. Despite brutal repression, their legacy endures in Scotland’s landscape, marked by monuments to their unwavering faith and determination. This is a story of defiance, faith, and a people’s relentless fight for their beliefs.
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0:00 - Introduction
1:33 - The Early Reformation
6:19 - The Rise of Charles I and the Covenanters
10:06 - ST Giles Cathedral Riots, 1637
12:40 - The Bishops’ Wars and the Wars of the Three Kingdoms
14:20 - Oliver Cromwell Invades Scotland, 1650
16:48 - The Restoration of Charles II, 1660
17:20 - The Killing Time, 1685-1688
18:08 - The Wigtown Martyrs
18:47 - The Glorious Revolution and the Aftermath
19:25 - The Cameronians
19:51 - The Legacy of the Covenanters
21:10 - Greyfriars Kirk Covenanter Memorial
22:15 - Conclusion
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0:00 - Introduction
1:33 - The Early Reformation
6:19 - The Rise of Charles I and the Covenanters
10:06 - ST Giles Cathedral Riots, 1637
12:40 - The Bishops’ Wars and the Wars of the Three Kingdoms
14:20 - Oliver Cromwell Invades Scotland, 1650
16:48 - The Restoration of Charles II, 1660
17:20 - The Killing Time, 1685-1688
18:08 - The Wigtown Martyrs
18:47 - The Glorious Revolution and the Aftermath
19:25 - The Cameronians
19:51 - The Legacy of the Covenanters
21:10 - Greyfriars Kirk Covenanter Memorial
22:15 - Conclusion
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Did the lamb taste good? Not asking that head.. 🤷♂️
Another fascinating insight into Scottish history! Thank you, Nico!
Got King Billy’s IPhone 3s for sale if anyone’s looking? It’s locked to the 🍊 network though. Bids will start at £16.90 ✅✝️🙏🏻🏴
The Scots backed Charles II because he promised to keep Scotland Presbyterian. He lied of course.
Been there a few times but always learn something new
@@macdodd Hope the video was of some value! 👍
Thanks for this whistle stop tour, Nico. Enjoyed your use of modern idioms! However, as one of the Scots who could swim (to Ireland), your stress on the uniquely’Scottish’ nature of the Covenanters obscures the deep roots of their Reformed religion in that international revival of Christianity we call the Protestant Reformation. Czech and Hungarian Calvinists, Italian Waldensians, French Huguenots displayed equal resolve (and their killing times did not end happily with freedom to practice as they felt Christ was calling them.) Nor should we forget the willingness of their Catholic opponents to suffer for their version of the faith. Final thought-as Scots have abandoned the Reformed Faith, has a debased form of Calvinism, in the form of the Nationalism that sees the Scots as the Elect and the English as the Reprobates, filled the vacuum?
@@peterhatton9009 Thanks for watching peter! This video’s aim was to be more introductory to the history of The Covenanters In Scotland. To go into the roots of the Protestant Reformation in Europe during the 16th century would need a different video altogether! 😅
@@scottishhistorywithnicoindeed! But the Reformed in Scotland were intensely aware of their role in an international movement and perhaps a nod in that direction might have made what was a very good overview of this important movement even better!
My late father was a Cameronian (9th Batt. Scottish rifles), They were formed in the 1680s to protect the Covenanters, and were the only regiment in the British Army - up intil they were disbanded in 1968 - to be allowed to bear arms inside a kirk.
@@voicezful That’s awesome mate, cheers for sharing! 👍 I never knew that about bearing arms inside a kirk, interesting fact that 👌
Thanking you
@@terryl858 your welcome! The full video is on my long form content “The Covenanters” 👍
And that is why the king now swears to the true church the church of scotland even to this day
I personally won't swear to any church for me religion is the true instigator of division.
Religion & Politics is definitely up there as the biggest dividers 💯
Dun Means black!
@@barryferguson6448 Is Dun “Black” in Gaelic or is it “Fort” ? Or both? I have Seen conflicting translations! 😆
Thank you for telling this very interesting story. You do an excellent job covering the background to the Covenanters. I gave a similar lecture to a group of Presbyterians…it is a lot harder than it looks. Your visuals were great and add tremendously to the lecture. I love the little girl running with, what looks like, the small cannon ball. Thanks!
@@richardglady3009 Thank you! Happy you enjoyed it 🙂 It is a difficult subject to approach as you’ll know yourself, it is a very complicated period of History to unpack, but this video was more of an introductory video to the Covenanters. The plan is to delve deeper into this subject next Year, after I have conducted deeper research 👍 Oh yes the re-enactment show definitely helped with the visualisation of the story! 😅 Cheers!
I just enjoyed your video about the Covenanters. I was a bit surprised that you didn’t feature the Covenanters present whilst you were in Greyfriars Kirkyard. From the autumn until Christmas 2000 covenanters were held in this open-air enclosure without a roof. 500 or so died and that enclosure. You can double-check my numbers. It might have been just 500 that survived. Look up the history of the covenanters being thrown in prison on the Bass Rock. That speaks to the true grit of these people alongside the female martyrs who let the tide arise around them rather than denounce their faith. Ask yourself this question though, why go to such lengths, as a layman, to protect a different way of worshipping God in favour of a more austere way of worshipping God? It’s just that really a big enough thing to lay down your life for? To me, that level of commitment doesn’t really make sense. You do touch on the underlying thread of the story that I think you might have missed. Since before Scotland was Scotland, tribal chiefs and clan chiefs after them were all endorsed and kind of elected by the people. It is that principle that William Wallace fought for. It is that principle that Robert the Bruce saw in William Wallace that eventually galvanised William Wallace’s resolve behind the Scottish traditions. It was in the years after the Normans conquered and unified the southern tribes in 1066 forming England that the greedy Norman eyes fell upon Scotland and its resources. Now, the big difference is that the Norman kings had divine right to the throne whereas the Scottish Kings since Constantine, the first king of Scots was allowed to take the throne in 890 is this, I should draw your attention to the fact that English kings are King's of England and the people are subject. In Scotland, kings and queens are Kings and Queens of Scots. This speaks to the fact that to be a King or Queen of Scots, the monarch must swear fealty to the Scottish people. The people in Scotland are sovereign and lend their sovereignty to whomever they choose to do their bidding according to the Scottish mandate. King or President. The same holds true for Queens. The Scottish people have always had the right to sack their chosen leader if that leader did not do the bidding of the Scots people in accordance with the Scot's mandate. There was no need for this beautiful folklore and oral tradition to be written down until it was under threat from the newly formed English kingdom. After seeing William Wallace fight for the popular sovereignty of the Scottish people and when at Stirling Bridge and then go on a campaign as far as York to ram home popular Scottish sovereignty Robert Bruce galvanised his allegiance under popular Scottish sovereignty to the Scottish people. This is why, to this day there has never been a King or Queen of Scots since the coronation of Queen Anne in 1708. Queen Anne broke the Treaty of Union by taking the Scottish oath and becoming Queen of two separate kingdoms, the Kingdom of Scotland being Queen of Scots and the Kingdom of England. Going back to the days of Robert the Bruce, seeing a threat to this nation of the people, by the people and for the people, Robert the Bruce rights down one of the first acts of Scots law in 1310. I suggest you research the Declaration of the Clergy. This is the first document where the oral tradition of Scots and the sovereignty is written down in an act of law. The declaration of the clergy is relevant to what the covenanters were fighting for because alongside the Presbyterian faith lies how the ministers of that faith were given the right to dispense the doctrine by the people. The declaration of the clergy states that the clergy are elected from the communities of the Scottish realm. The covenanters along with their Presbyterian faith were protecting the rights written down in law to elect from amongst themselves the clergy. John Knox was put there by the people. The people of Scotland saw John Knox as a fit vessel to convey the word of God to the sovereign people of Scotland. I hope this brings the reason the resolve of the covenanters and the marketers runs so deep as to stand fast against such temptation is to save one’s own life by seeing just a few words that would denounce a faith. By taking on board faith dictated to them by a foreign King they would also be giving up their own sovereignty. In 1320, what is to be Scottish is written down for the first time in the Declaration of Arbroath. It is that definition of what it is to be Scottish that is wrapped up in the election of John Knox as the People’s clergy that the covenanters were fighting for. The covenanters also knew that the declaration of Arbroath declared, in words and terms of it's time that no higher nation would ever govern Scotland so long as 100 Scots survive. The highest authority in the world back then just so happened to be Rome, the Vatican City and the Catholic faith. This is why the words in the document that many of these laws are rolled into would read with today’s understanding of those words as sectarian but, when one reads those words from the point of view of a sovereign people putting their point that they shall not be ruled by a higher nation through Robert the Bruce; the first amongst equals that they lent their sovereignty to defending the sovereign ways of the sovereign Scots. These documents feed into the 1689 Claim of Right. It is no coincidence that this constitution was written shortly after the covenanters fight and it is also no coincidence that this is all around the time of the Darien scheme and the 1707 Treaty of Union. If nothing else, I do hope my comments give you food for thought and direction of research less trodden.
I think that’s a record for a single comment size on any of my videos! Not sure how to reply to that tbh! 😅 Thanks for taking the time to write the comment though and thanks for watching friend 👍🏴
I always love your videos, but thisone especially much so - the script was great :D . Yes, this is the only way to see it. Great idea to go to this reenactment, too. 👍👍🤓😃
@@GermanaMirza Ah, you’re too kind 🙌🏻🙂
If you read the bible to accept or reject it as it is written, as it is intended, then you are on the same wavelength as Reformed or Covenant believers. Any difficulty or dispute only exists when you want to mess with it and turn it into what suits you. That's what the Stuart kings did. Reformed based living is straightforward as it does exactly what it says on the tin. Look at the New Testament as the story written by those who were witnesses to Christ. Distinctly set apart from the current 21st century turmoil.
ah my hometown
tis a lovley place
Yeah it is and it has a great amount of history
@@TheHamish787 It really does. The pictish fort of dunnicaer I found especially interesting on this trip
Yeah reading into how its played a part through history is definately worth looking into
This would be much better if you cut down attempts at smart one liners
Well, there go my dreams of a Netflix special
Savage double crossing went on in Scottish history. Game of Thrones is tame by comparison!
@@amartin3893 It certainly was! Alot of the stories from Game of Thrones is actually inspired by events throughout medieval Scotland! 🏴
@@scottishhistorywithnico 😃😂
I wonder what the Covenanters would make of what is coming out of many churches nowadays.
I don’t think they’d be best pleased…
After the battle of Dunbar, Cromwell sent the captured Covenanters on a “ death march” to Durham Cathedral where they would be kept in captivity, its said more Covenanter died on the death march than died in the actual battle, they were starved and ill treated at Durham cathedral and the survivors got sent to America and became “Cromwells Scottish slaves” , they were actually sold ( not indentured ) as slaves, eventually some of them where freed and married, but the big irony was their descendants for fought for American independence and helped kick “ the British” out of America !
That's a tragic story... one of many sadly involving the covenanters. I'll be doing many more videos on this subject next year, need to conduct deeper research to uncover more of these kind of tragic stories to share
@@scottishhistorywithnico I researched it years ago but from memory I think a lot ended up near Boston and worked in the Sangus Iron Works there and were reputedly the first American slaves, as stated…… bought and sold with English gold !
Cromwell was an evil man. He overthrew King Charles I for tyranny and dissolving the parliament, then he dissolved the parliament and become an autocratic tyrant himself. His actions in Scotland and Ireland were particularly shocking. I'm glad that genocidal Puritan dictator didn't last long...
They didn’t do a very good job. Cause a British man called George Washington went on to make our flags colours great again 😉🔴⚪️🔵😉 🇬🇧🇺🇸
Hillbilly's are kings men-named after King William. Loyalists essentially who settled in the US even though they fought on the British side. A lot of them went to Canada as well. Scots fought on both sides. The gaels are different. Most of them ended up being forced from their lands to the new world because they were Catholic and othered by the state. It pisses me off that Irish people get better Visa opportunities in the US. The Scots should be recognised for their contribution.
I wid like ti ken foo ye managed ti get a dry day oot at Fyvie!
I know, I had my raincoat with me just incase 😉
Ha ha,, I just pushed the translate to English,,,,,,, nope,,,,, A I disna ken fit ye, re on aboot min
@@auntia7687 Google Translate doesn’t understand Doric 😅
An account of the Covenanter forces struggles against Montrose would be interesting..
@@donaldcunningham2386 I have so much Covenanter content planned next year, I’ll go through all the battles involving Montrose, but it won’t be until next year
@@scottishhistorywithnico I agree with Donald, a video on Montrose and Alasdair Mac Colla's campaign would be interesting. You could cover the battles of Tippermuir and Inverlochy in it, although each of those battles probably require their own videos. I recommend a book called 'War Paths' by Alasdair Moffat. It covers a lot of clan battles in great detail and covers the Wars of the Three Kingdoms in Scotland.
Thank you for your concise and insightful coverage of the Covenanters and their cause.
@@johnpavy6130 You are most welcome 👍
Thank you Nico, I truly enjoyed this video. Although I live in Aberdeen and have seen Bennachie in the distance many times. It's not a place I've ever climbed to. When I was younger I'd enjoy walking around The Marr Lodge area, even camping, I recall seeing a proud Stag with lots of Antlers as I steped out of my tent first thing in the morning, the Stag looking to cross the river on that crisp cold and frozen April day. In thanking you for this video, I must admit I'm no longer able to climb this far! it takes me all my time to walk round Sainsburry's, yet in working in an operating theatre for humans i'd spend 10/12 hours a day on my feet. It is true use it or loose it. Thank you.
@@linjoy9627 Thank You very much for sharing, I’m glad you enjoyed it 🙂 It was really Icy when I climbed Bennachie that day! But it was well worth it for the views! I’ll need to film some more hiking videos in the future, with a historical story ofcourse 😅 Thanks, Nico 😁
Great production! I fear everybody has too much soy in their porridge these days. Do you believe everybody was 5ft 4 in those days? I've looked at armour from the civil war period and I must admit, they were rather small breastplates. Quality Video mate. - From Sussex
@@Watkinsplusone-eh7gc Thanks mate 👍 That’s an interesting observation about the average height back then! 😅
@@scottishhistorywithnico No protein?
@@Watkinsplusone-eh7gc Lack there of most certainly!
I am a descendant of Clan Grant. We Grants fought with the Covenanters against those papist Royalists. Democracy and Parliament over divine right of kings any day!
@@Weasel-vp8zk Hard to disagree with that 😅
@@scottishhistorywithnico Great video!
If you can point me in the direction of some part of the world where democracy actually works the way it's meant to, then I'll go. So, as far as a choice between a daft eejit of a king or six-hundred-odd elected useless bastards on the make, it's a tough one.
@@Weasel-vp8zk Thank You! 😁
Around 3 mins 40 secs in,the narrator says that Catholic Churches were being smashed to bits.That’s not correct is it ?.It would be true for England certainly but I was always led to believe that most ,if not all churches in Scotland remained unscathed bar all the crucifixes and relics being removed
Great job Nico!!!! Greatings from Stirling!
@@danpictish5457 Thanks Dan 👍😁
Norman v Norman action protecting their spoils 🎉😂✊✊✊✊😂🤓👍
Kind of… 😅
Thank you enjoyed this today 🏴💙🏴
@@sharoncarey6514 Glad you liked it! Thanks for watching 🙂🏴
Campbell name is still Not Welcome in many places in Scotland.
@@rossmcbride4762 They were rascals towards the end of the 17th century. But the MacDonalds massacred the Campbells a few decades earlier at Inveraray, not too many people have heard of that massacre
Brilliant .
@@rossmcbride4762 Cheers!
This was really interesting, and I do like how you are telling it. Really looking forward to all the other stories that you can tell us 👍 😊🤓
@@GermanaMirza Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it! 😁 Got a New Video coming this Sunday 😃🏴
@@scottishhistorywithnico great! 😃
@@scottishhistorywithnico great! 😃
Trying to comment, but the comment keeps vanishing :D . So, next try: 👍. 🤩
No worries, thanks again! 😁
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Thank you
@@christopherbysshe1516 You’re welcome! 😃
======================================== Sounds as if my Macleod of Macleod ancestors ======================================== would have been at this battle - adding to my knowledge of those martial times. I am descended from both the Macleod of Berneray line, and the Macleod of Assynt / Cadboll line. Born in South Devon, the skirl of the pipes always stirred my blood, though it has taken half a century to really understand why. The Highlands and Islands are quite literally in my blood. /
@@zen4men Yes definitely the MacLeods were very much tied to the MacDonalds dueing the Lordship of The Isles, Ardvreck Castle In Assynt is surrounded by stunning scenery, it was owned by the MacLeods of Assynt for Generations, well worth a visit 👍
So the Guardians of Scotland handed the destiny of Scotland to Edward I, a foreign King. A Plantagenet, not even an Anglo Saxon. Stupid.
If you say 'bloodiest battle of Scotland' please try get some number estimates from your hat. Yes men died. Ok. But some Idea how many and how many ships..or drop 'bloodiest?'...nobody simply knows.
Yes fairpoint 👍
very interesting thankyou. I have sailed past and wondered about the name, now I know!
@@johnleonardandpack Cheers mate 👍 It’s a beautiful spot there on Mull, very windy tho! 😅
Very interesting and informative, cracking show sonna Few bits I never knew. Moray and Bruce both Norman descent. Bruce Family owned land around the area I live in Billingham seal sand Greatham in England. Moray / Bruce/ Wallace/ Longshanks were certainly men of there times.
@@LeePenn2492 Yes Robert The Bruce had Norman ancestry, with Andrew De Moray’s ancestors hailing from Flemish origin. They certainly were critical men of their time! 🏴
Well when cant pronounce Andrew de morays name correctly, you loos all credibility as a historical blogger. It's pronounced Murray and murrayshire
@@normanmcivor4971 Thanks for the Kind comment Norman. Firstly…. it is spelled “lose” not “loos” Secondly, Andrew de Moray's name during the late 13th century would have been pronounced closer to "Mor-ray," with an emphasis on the "o" sound, rather than the modern pronunciation "Murray." This reflects the linguistic norms of the time, where Norman French and early Scots influenced how names were spoken. While the modern "Murray" pronunciation has become common, historically. Hope this helps your understanding of how the name has changed over the centuries 👍
English, Scottish, Irish, Welsh fighting at the behest of their Norman overlords, then as is now
@@IronCurtainTwitcher Word 👍
It does seem that. All nobility seem to have come come Norman's.
@@LeePenn2492 Not all nobility, but a large portion of the lowlands of Scotland. A significant portion of the nobility in the western regions of Scotland hailed from Norse-Gael ancestry & did not originate from Normandy.
Centuries ago with hundreds of years of shared greatness in between. Long after time these grievances were long forgotten. It's like picking a spot. Utterly pointless, futile, and best for everyone if forgotten!
@@alasdairfinlayson But I like picking spots
About who won: The ones probably thought "we gave them a good beating, now let us stop before our losses start to get really grave" , while the others thought: "We were saved! We did not get destroyed". So indeed both sides "won". It was important to them to be able to hold their head high. And maybe the loss of two important captains brought to the Donalds´s minds, that this was dead serious, not just being brave and looking fierce. They started to grieve.
@@GermanaMirza From what we know from the battle it sounds like it was something along those lines 👍
Yes, I can imagine, that they got exhausted! I have seen "real" full contact fighting contests conducted with authentic armour and weapons - yes, they do get exhausted quite quickly, get red in the face,start panting, close in on each other´s shields and kind of hang on each other, can barely lift their arms any more..... and are more or less helpless in that state of exhaustion...... Great story, great video, again! 👍👍 😃
@@GermanaMirza Ah that medieval reenactment must have been fun to watch! It must have been exhausting trying to fight for hours with all that weight on your body, I’d be gone in a few minutes 😂
Most interesting! It was new to me and I really enjoeyed it a lot 🤓. Thank you for braveing the rain and wind for us! Great video again 👍👍 . And thank you for your great work! 😀
@@GermanaMirza Glad you liked it! 🙌🏻 Haha no problem!, the camera had its raincoat on as did I, so the rain wasn’t too bad, my trousers were soaked though! 😅👍