Unearthing the Battle of Aljubarrota's Secrets - Medieval Dead - S02 EP03 - History Documentary

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  • Опубліковано 28 лис 2024

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  • @pedrojeuken1440
    @pedrojeuken1440 3 місяці тому +9

    I have just got out of the battle site !!!! Just an amazing place !!!! travelled from Brazil to Portugal to see it for my self!!

  • @manuelramalho3402
    @manuelramalho3402 8 місяців тому +7

    Along with the battle of São Mamede, perhaps our most important battle! Historic day for Portugal, August 14, 1385! Excellent video! Congratulations and thank you!

  • @jayhuxley2559
    @jayhuxley2559 10 місяців тому +46

    There were also many English battles where the Portuguese fought for England, however usually they were called as "English forces".

    • @natatsizh8878
      @natatsizh8878 3 місяці тому +4

      And It will be like that as long as It needs. Long live England and Portugal.

  • @Grandmotherof3
    @Grandmotherof3 Рік тому +15

    Very interesting. I had never heard of this very important (for Portugal) battle! Well done!

    • @dinismantas7265
      @dinismantas7265 4 місяці тому +9

      It was very important for England, actually. I would even say it was existential for England. I think John of Gaunt was aware of that.
      At the time Portugal already had a powerful medieval navy. Castille also had a powerful navy. England had virtually no navy at the time. If the two Kingdoms had been united under the same Crown, the joint navies would have become a potentially overwhelming force and we actually know the French, allies to Castille, had plans to invade England.
      The history of England could have been very different if Portugal had lost this battle. This is what is often missing from the English perspective.
      Portugal is probably the champion of the most unknown battles that actually had massive implications for Europe and even the global world. The greatest example is the Battle of Diu in 1509 (there is a second one at a latter date).

    • @thegoodfriend6247
      @thegoodfriend6247 2 місяці тому +2

      @@dinismantas7265 Indeed. Others would follow, and our little brave nation stood up. Matapan for instance was a battle where virtually "Europe's soft belly" would have been exposed to Ottoman forces had it not been for the Portuguese navy while others fled or didn't even bother to show (France). Others were played on different stages and also of strategic importance to Europe.
      Ksar el Kebir often deemed the disaster it actually was, represented the ultimate sacrifice for it was a European strategic victory though a tactical defeat. It stopped Ottoman and Moorish forces from combining forces against southern Europe.

  • @jayhuxley2559
    @jayhuxley2559 10 місяців тому +15

    This battle was so important that Castile was in oficial mourning for 30 years. Almost all their fighting nobility died their. When we saw famous web sites claiming that Spain didnt conquered Portugal just because it hadnt interest in that and hide the so many battles fought, we have to ask when will Europe split mere propaganda from true? They need to ask England how important is a big access to the Atlantic?

  • @manuelgomes1569
    @manuelgomes1569 Рік тому +41

    As Portuguese, I understand that Spain tries to forget and not teach what happened in Aljubarrota. Our Azincourt, where the English archers contributed greatly to this great victory, cimented with the oldest standing alliance, the Windsor Treaty, since 1386.

    • @JimBagby74
      @JimBagby74 Рік тому +3

      I'm an American who knows quite a bit about medieval Europe, and I had never heard of this battle.

    • @kitkatfisher7018
      @kitkatfisher7018 11 місяців тому +3

      Never heard of it either but glad for the info you gave about the Treaty

    • @TDK054
      @TDK054 11 місяців тому +4

      This battle was indeed extremely important for my country; otherwise, we would be speaking Spanish. All Portuguese are proud of that victory because we were outnumbered by far, but better prepared. The troops sent from England were a huge help which proves our bond with the oldest alliance in the world

    • @StRaphael-we9qn
      @StRaphael-we9qn 11 місяців тому +1

      As a traditional Catholic I'm curious what Saints were involved in this time frame. The general public tends to ignore God's hand in history.
      Keep safe 😷 🙏🏼

    • @manuelgomes1569
      @manuelgomes1569 11 місяців тому +3

      @@StRaphael-we9qn Saint Sword and Saint Longbow. Those were the ones in that day that gave us victory.

  • @Williams.L
    @Williams.L Рік тому +8

    Very interesting and well made. Thanks for sharing!

  • @user-lb9fe5di7y
    @user-lb9fe5di7y 9 місяців тому +14

    There were also Welsh archers who had been recruited by and served John of Gaunt, the English Duke of Lancaster.
    These details never get mentioned though as England likes to claim the longbow as it's own even though it originated in south Wales.

    • @SylvaHodracyrda
      @SylvaHodracyrda 3 місяці тому +3

      This battle was mainly between Portuguese and Castilians, yet these guys managed to twist the attention towards them right at the very start of their introduction.
      "In 1385, the heathered Moorland of Portugal witnessed a historic confrontation between English and French troops".
      🙄
      I'm honestly very confused.

  • @BrunoDeMarques
    @BrunoDeMarques 11 місяців тому +4

    There are a lot of similarities between Aljubarrota with Agincourt. Knowing more about this battle could show new angles to Agincourt.

  • @elsacristina9
    @elsacristina9 5 місяців тому +6

    Don't know why nobody did a movie about this amazing battle and its story behind it

    • @RicardoJorgevuzz
      @RicardoJorgevuzz 3 місяці тому

      Thats the problem Portugal always had, have, and hopefully will end someday, we NEVER looked to our history like others do to theirs, see our neighbour, they are known all over the place and we until recently if asked to an American for example, many think we are a bit of Spain. We begin the AGE OF EUROPEAN IMPIRES and forgotten we let us be. Our history has so many stories for movies even better, and thrilled than the best known of Shakespear or Braveheart, etc.

    • @MerryXmasMfkrs
      @MerryXmasMfkrs 2 місяці тому

      ​@@RicardoJorgevuzzIdk what you're talking about because in my History classes our epic History is glorified and honoured.

  • @marcomarques4859
    @marcomarques4859 7 місяців тому +4

    Great Great Country! Portugal

  • @skippywinters
    @skippywinters 2 місяці тому +2

    Amazing how a Portuguese epic victory, completely outnumbered
    , brilliantly planned, is portrayed as a victory of the English over the the French and Castille armies. A little shocked to be honest

  • @TheDAT9
    @TheDAT9 11 місяців тому +9

    Portugal and England are the oldest allies in the World.

  • @alshot9408
    @alshot9408 6 місяців тому +9

    The dislikes are probably from Juan and his soldiers

  • @tightlines106
    @tightlines106 Рік тому +4

    Just remember keep calm and carry on

  • @SylvaHodracyrda
    @SylvaHodracyrda 3 місяці тому +9

    Why is your introduction making it about England and the French as some sort of central pieces, when they were the lesser denominators in this episode? This is beyond inappropriate, and a very bad look for British academia. Guess what, there were Germans there as well, and I don't see them redirecting the attention towards them because of it.
    "In 1385, the heathered Moorland of Portugal witnessed a historic confrontation between English & French troops"
    Seriously, what the f... So creepy.

  • @philipcallicoat3147
    @philipcallicoat3147 Рік тому +4

    Rather detail enhanced pod cast...🌹

  • @joserodrigues46
    @joserodrigues46 Місяць тому +1

    Aljubarrota was part of the 100 Year War.

  • @pedrorodrigues7285
    @pedrorodrigues7285 2 місяці тому

    800 English archers on the Portuguese side and 3,000 French knights on the Castilian side, in the end the infantry won thanks to the military genius of Nuno Álvares Pereira, who chose the battlefield and prepared it quite well for the confrontation.
    What Nuno Álvares Pereira did is by the manual when you have a disadvantage greater than 1 to 3 on the battlefield.
    He narrowed the battle front, forcing the French and Castilian cavalry to stretch, blurring the numerical advantage, then the arrows English archers and Portuguese infantry authentically massacred the Castilian army and the French cavalry.
    There were no prisoners, they died or fled.

  • @Atrahasis7
    @Atrahasis7 9 місяців тому +1

    Is time team still around in england? If they came here for field work on the battle site maybe they woudl find something. Love that show.

  • @Andy_Babb
    @Andy_Babb Рік тому +1

    Thank you… but PRETTY PLEASE can you upload the next episodes of “Crusaders”? I literally cannot find that exact series anywhere

    • @Andy_Babb
      @Andy_Babb Рік тому

      Thank you for answering my requests lol

  • @crazy6259
    @crazy6259 10 місяців тому

    Olá stor, não sabia que era tão famoso.

  • @MerryXmasMfkrs
    @MerryXmasMfkrs 2 місяці тому +2

    Seriously?
    The English and their Main Character Syndrome making this about English vs French lol
    It was not, it was about the Portuguese vs the Castillians.

  • @speakupriseup4549
    @speakupriseup4549 Рік тому +3

    44 minutes of hype to find a button 😂

    • @rogeriomonteiro760
      @rogeriomonteiro760 11 місяців тому +4

      It was just a battle in 14 august 1385, were 7500 portuguese and english had a showdown with 30000 castillian leonese and french. The portuguese and engish won agaist all odds. But it seems to me that it is to much information for an australian.

    • @michaelbinney9913
      @michaelbinney9913 11 місяців тому +1

      Im thinking you use a detector yourself 😉

  • @garychynne1377
    @garychynne1377 2 місяці тому

    bad times.

  • @thevocalcrone
    @thevocalcrone 11 місяців тому +3

    Need the time team to come in with an excavator?

  • @Boneshaker138
    @Boneshaker138 4 місяці тому

    Sao Nuno de Santa Maria

  • @curlycindy
    @curlycindy 10 місяців тому +1

    The battlefield is a graveyard... have some respect for the dead!

  • @turtlegrams6582
    @turtlegrams6582 7 місяців тому

    Please on youtube > identity of the little horn power via Amazing Discoveries and who Is the man of sin via EvenAtTheDoors and Lord of The Sabbath via Truth is Christ and Christ Second Coming Separating Facts from fiction and Homestretch via Walter Veith

  • @skyhigh1154
    @skyhigh1154 10 місяців тому +1

    Is every1 named Jaoa in Portugal?

    • @jayhuxley2559
      @jayhuxley2559 9 місяців тому +1

      João? There are many, well not one in my family.

    • @carlosgaztelucabral8061
      @carlosgaztelucabral8061 9 місяців тому +1

      I had a great grandfather named julhao but not joao

    • @jorge6207
      @jorge6207 8 місяців тому +2

      No. I'm Jorge, so not everyone.

    • @skyhigh1154
      @skyhigh1154 8 місяців тому

      @@jorge6207 😄

    • @natatsizh8878
      @natatsizh8878 3 місяці тому

      Julhaõ 😂😂😂😂

  • @marcelomoreira9530
    @marcelomoreira9530 16 днів тому

    🇵🇹💪

  • @illumencouk
    @illumencouk Рік тому +1

    Pause @11:58. The evidence before you is what academia considers to be correct. What was said to be a cemetery failed to give up bones, proving them wrong. The reason this is farcical as proof of anythin, is the distribution of the bones. They are are not what would be consistent with how 6,000 people could be reduced to individual parts, undergo a sorting process which deposits them within the terrain, based upon their size, this means that no two bones lying next to each other could ever translate into being a 'smeone' caught up in a knife fight! This is evidence of death and destruction, but it has nothing to do with what you hear here.

  • @portofil
    @portofil 3 місяці тому

    Why you delete my comment? Do not like the true?

  • @jorgevalente8214
    @jorgevalente8214 9 місяців тому +2

    Fui eu que ensinei o Nuno Álvares Pereira a lutar e as estratégias militares a ele e aos nobres portuguêses e ingleses...Enfim se Portugal é hoje Portugal foi por minha causa..Também lhe ensinei a montar a cavalo e a fazer o barulho de peidos com as mãos...

  • @tdtdtd1826
    @tdtdtd1826 11 місяців тому +2

    There are reasons why nobody heard abt this battle 😂😂😂😂