Robert the Bruce: Scotland's Greatest Champion

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  • @Biographics
    @Biographics  3 роки тому +42

    The first 100 people to go to blinkist.com/biographics are going to get unlimited access for one week to try it out. You’ll also get 25% off if you want the full membership.

    • @JonManProductions
      @JonManProductions 3 роки тому

      (Sabaton and Gloryhammer begins blaring loudly in the background)

    • @yugitrump435
      @yugitrump435 3 роки тому +1

      Should do one of Pontius Pilate if you haven't yet.

    • @MattanzaMafiaFedora
      @MattanzaMafiaFedora 3 роки тому +1

      Do James the VI of Scotland!

    • @bluestarr8700
      @bluestarr8700 3 роки тому

      Would like information on the MCGREGOR clan it's confusing.

    • @lundden
      @lundden 3 роки тому

      Jeong Mong-ju

  • @dp6447
    @dp6447 3 роки тому +341

    “Upset he had broken his favorite axe” on a mans skull. Metal af Robert.

    • @SantomPh
      @SantomPh 3 роки тому +6

      More like it got stuck in de Bohun's head.

    • @rubenaerts7284
      @rubenaerts7284 3 роки тому +10

      The Bruce was defiantly not the kind of man you wanted to mess with...

    • @UnknownUnknown-ok3uh
      @UnknownUnknown-ok3uh Рік тому +1

      @@rubenaerts7284 he actually my fore father

    • @UnknownUnknown-ok3uh
      @UnknownUnknown-ok3uh Рік тому

      Through my fore father Robert the Bruce also named Robert the 1st of scottland mother side my other fore father was name Eric blood axe a Norwegian viking king got the name by killing 20 of his brothers not to take the throne am actually like him a outlaw with a heart of gold he tried to defend Scottland from English invaders

    • @r.b.ratieta6111
      @r.b.ratieta6111 Рік тому

      Medieval kings and knights be like: "BRO, I HATE when that happens!
      I tried taking it to a number of Blacksmiths, but most said they couldn't fix it, and one said he'd do it if I BoUgHt An ExTeNdEd WaRrAnTy.
      I loosed my tongue and spake unto him, saying, 'BRO! I'm a Knight! I could have you killed this very second! Kneel and know thy place, peasant!'
      Bloody peasants. They thinketh themselves as Lords and Magistrates!"

  • @ethanramos4441
    @ethanramos4441 3 роки тому +171

    “We fight not for glory, nor for wealth, nor honor but only and alone for freedom which no good man surrenders but with his life”
    Robert the Bruce

    • @JiveDadson
      @JiveDadson 3 роки тому

      Did he really "nor" without a preceding "neither"? I rather doubt it. I see the Bruce as a grammatical kind of dude. I found another version on a website about the clan McAlister:
      "We fight not for glory, wealth, or honour, but for that liberty the loss of which no virtuous man will survive."

    • @dairallan
      @dairallan 3 роки тому +8

      @@JiveDadson Its written down Althoguh in Latin, so the translation is open. The neither is redundant in the context.

    • @brothertaddeus
      @brothertaddeus 3 роки тому +8

      I mean, Robert didn't write that. That's from the Declaration Of Arbroath, most likely written by Bernard of Kilwinning, who was the Abbot Of Arbroath and the Chancellor Of Scotland. That said, it was a declaration that Robert was the rightful king of Scotland and asked the Pope to un-excommunicate him and formally recognize his authority.

    • @fredgillespie5855
      @fredgillespie5855 2 роки тому +6

      @@JiveDadson - If you read your Scottish history we have survived our loss of liberty for 700 years now.

    • @fredgillespie5855
      @fredgillespie5855 2 роки тому

      @Tarquin - ???

  • @r.b.ratieta6111
    @r.b.ratieta6111 Рік тому +114

    Scottish history takes a different vibe when you think about Robert the Bruce, William Wallace, and King Edward "Longshanks" as "Bob, Bill and Eddie."

    • @BounceBackBelfast
      @BounceBackBelfast Рік тому +8

      Would make an epic historic comedy sketch

    • @nickyboy22071989
      @nickyboy22071989 Рік тому +5

      Why do I feel like this would be the British historical equivalent of the three stooges?

    • @r.b.ratieta6111
      @r.b.ratieta6111 Рік тому +6

      @@nickyboy22071989 "I'm not gonna walk in the rain when I don't 'ave an 'at for me 'ed!"
      "Bill, I've already got a hat." (Read More)
      "Not you, Ed!" *Bonks head.* "MY 'ed! 'Ed! That thing that's on the top o' me neck! Me 'ed!"
      "You're not Ed, he's Ed!"
      *Hits head with a frying pan.* "Shut up, Bob! Bloody 'ell! I'm surrounded by bloody morons 'ere!"
      "A bloody ear? Where?"

    • @vladtheimpala5532
      @vladtheimpala5532 11 місяців тому +1

      @@r.b.ratieta6111
      Who’s on first?

    • @Caseyblackmontheomorifan
      @Caseyblackmontheomorifan 8 місяців тому +3

      Fun fact my best friend is related to Robert the Bruce I’m not joking 😄😄😄

  • @Kittykat81572
    @Kittykat81572 3 роки тому +280

    Please do Richard III! His life was just as bananas as the play Shakespeare made of him!!

    • @cpegg5840
      @cpegg5840 3 роки тому +6

      I’m pretty sure Richard was the mysterious assassin that murdered Henry VI in his cell.

    • @annescholey6546
      @annescholey6546 3 роки тому +17

      Come friends come thither beheaded by Edmund blackadder😂

    • @andrewbuhman1066
      @andrewbuhman1066 3 роки тому +2

      And both that story and this apparently include Greyfriars...

    • @babyray5643
      @babyray5643 3 роки тому +21

      He still wasn't the monster they made him out to be tho

    • @jeffjacobson59
      @jeffjacobson59 3 роки тому +14

      Last English King to die in battle. Bit of a bad ass, in my opinion. Would love to have a beer with him.

  • @pointly
    @pointly 3 роки тому +84

    "I am Robert the Bruce. Scotland follows me. Be it through fields of wheat or of battle."

    • @Harrier_DuBois
      @Harrier_DuBois 3 роки тому +4

      @therealnews He never betrayed or grassed Wallace. The misundertanding, as far as I know, comes from the fact that Bruce pardoned the man who betrayed Wallace, but for good reason if you read the history.

  • @tamsmith291
    @tamsmith291 3 роки тому +62

    As a Scotsman I have been patiently waiting for another episode on a fellow Scot. This channel never disappoints 😁

    • @tamsmith291
      @tamsmith291 3 роки тому +6

      I know my history dude. He’s a fellow Scot regardless and a great at that!

    • @tamsmith291
      @tamsmith291 3 роки тому +7

      William. The Anglo-Norman family of Bruce, which had come to Scotland in the early 12th century, was related by marriage to the Scottish royal family, and hence the sixth Robert de Bruce (died 1295), grandfather of the future king, claimed the throne when it was left vacant in 1290. His ancestors indeed where but the man in question was born in July 11, 1274-died June 7, 1329, Cardross, Dumbartonshire which is in Scotland.

    • @tamsmith291
      @tamsmith291 3 роки тому +5

      William White 🥴. salty much. My comment stands. I won’t lower myself to such nonsense.

    • @tamsmith291
      @tamsmith291 3 роки тому +5

      William White the fact you refer to me as a jock says everything. As I said I will not lower myself. Scroll on. 😏

    • @987jof
      @987jof 3 роки тому +4

      William White Then by your logic we’re all African seeing as out species originated in Africa.

  • @richyrich6099
    @richyrich6099 3 роки тому +71

    "Keep your wars distant. Otherwise you track the muck through your own lands."

    • @MrInthefriendzone
      @MrInthefriendzone 3 роки тому +4

      "What a happy day! We shall stand together as one, like the twin arms of the saltire!"

    • @vengefulspirit99
      @vengefulspirit99 3 роки тому

      Why do you think proxy wars are so effective?

  • @saigade1236
    @saigade1236 3 роки тому +35

    Minor Correction: Edward II was deposed by Isabella of France, his wife, and her lover, Roger Mortimer (an English nobleman). Edward III, who was 18 at the time, had to usurp the throne from Roger. It's a very fascinating story. It involved breaking into a castle, duelling Roger, and other great feats. Please do a video about his life.

    • @ojnopulp4563
      @ojnopulp4563 Рік тому +3

      Also the story of Isabella and Roger Mortimer is also facinating. Isabella the She-Wolf deserves her own video at some point

    • @bunyipdragon9499
      @bunyipdragon9499 Рік тому +1

      Please please please 💜💜💜

  • @samuelkenney5855
    @samuelkenney5855 3 роки тому +20

    Robert the Bruce: Come out and fight me!
    The guys at Perth castle: Nah bro. It’s too late in the day. Can we fight tomorrow?
    Robert the Bruce: Understandable. Have a nice day.

  • @alexmackay9685
    @alexmackay9685 3 роки тому +155

    Another related person to this would be James "the black" Douglas, one of roberts key captains who routinely stormed castles with only a handful of men and destroyed them including his own family home.

    • @cal7002
      @cal7002 3 роки тому +2

      Yes!

    • @adamjmurray6
      @adamjmurray6 3 роки тому +16

      The Douglas Clan are super interesting, the Scottish crown eventually had to "Break" them a couple of hundred years later which is one of the inspirations of the red wedding.

    • @alexmackay9685
      @alexmackay9685 3 роки тому +20

      James also eventually went crusading against the moors in Spain carrying Robert the Bruce's heart into battle in order to ensure he kept the Bruce's promise to the Pope to go on a crusade.

    • @macbrns1438
      @macbrns1438 3 роки тому +2

      I always love hearing about Douglas as I grew up there

    • @kylerennie30
      @kylerennie30 3 роки тому +10

      I concur, please do a bio on the black Douglas

  • @TheJaviferrol
    @TheJaviferrol 3 роки тому +378

    When history and Mel Gibson steal the spotlight from you, here comes Simon to deliver justice

    • @annescholey6546
      @annescholey6546 3 роки тому +3

      Did ye know yere sat on me web?

    • @MattanzaMafiaFedora
      @MattanzaMafiaFedora 3 роки тому +1

      @Commentator That's a blatant lie... Did you not see the end of this video, and how they mentioned James the VI?

    • @stephenwright8824
      @stephenwright8824 3 роки тому +1

      @@MattanzaMafiaFedora Ah yes, the allegedly¹ Protestant James I Stuart who, son of an unrepentant Catholic, died as one himself.

    • @davidringle7
      @davidringle7 3 роки тому

      @Timothy McCaskey lmao that was perfect 😂😂😂😂

    • @MattanzaMafiaFedora
      @MattanzaMafiaFedora 3 роки тому

      @@stephenwright8824 What does that matter...

  • @AGnorTheChannel
    @AGnorTheChannel 3 роки тому +65

    "We need a king to rule out land
    Bruce is in command."

    • @erlandvonhofsten3970
      @erlandvonhofsten3970 3 роки тому +11

      It is the crown thats in his sight and it's the reason we will fight!

    • @thegreendragoninn8730
      @thegreendragoninn8730 3 роки тому +11

      To attack! Send them back! And then we'll see to Bruce's coronation.

    • @mitchellneu
      @mitchellneu 3 роки тому +4

      We are the Scots with pikes in hand and we will die to claim our land!

    • @screamingfang
      @screamingfang 3 роки тому +4

      Rallied all the clans

    • @Friendly_T_Girl
      @Friendly_T_Girl 3 роки тому +5

      Halted English plans
      !
      Charge of Bannockburn
      !
      Freedom we shall earn!

  • @revolutionarygentleman8105
    @revolutionarygentleman8105 3 роки тому +29

    Robert the Bruce is my 18th great grandfather. Robert Stewart III is my 14th. I've been researching my heritage through several sources lately and it's very interesting. I imagine at some point many of us connect with royalty in some way so I can't be sure how unique or special it is, but it's fun to think about.

    • @arkfounder7056
      @arkfounder7056 2 роки тому +4

      I don't believe you

    • @MsSusannie
      @MsSusannie Рік тому +4

      My sister just found out that we are decedents of Robert as well

    • @dingusdingus2152
      @dingusdingus2152 Рік тому

      Sounds like you have a legitimate claim to the throne

    • @ForReal_Lauren
      @ForReal_Lauren Рік тому +2

      I'm also a descendent. 🖤 Found out when my grandmother passed away and we found ancestry documents she and her family kept. Really cool to learn about.

    • @mr.jackhatter9385
      @mr.jackhatter9385 Рік тому +3

      Get in line mate, Robert II had many many kids, so anyone from Scottish heritage has a chance at being related to him. He is my 20th great grandfather.

  • @HarvestMoonHowl
    @HarvestMoonHowl 3 роки тому +34

    Now *there* is a real King! Many thanks from a distant descendant of Scottish warriors.

    • @alukuhito
      @alukuhito 3 роки тому

      What makes him more real than others?

    • @FaqoOG
      @FaqoOG 3 роки тому

      I am the a descendent of Robert Bruce

    • @alukuhito
      @alukuhito 3 роки тому +1

      @@FaqoOG Basically anyone with Scottish ancestry is. No biggie. Nobody really cares.

    • @FaqoOG
      @FaqoOG 3 роки тому

      Nobody cares about your existence. :)

  • @saivenkatesh3418
    @saivenkatesh3418 3 роки тому +43

    I've been waiting for this since I've heard the Sabaton song "Battle of Bannockburn ". Thank you!!

  • @DPrior-gk6pd
    @DPrior-gk6pd 3 роки тому +91

    I've been waiting for this one since I watched the movie about him with Chris Pine. Thanks Simon

  • @douglaseckel765
    @douglaseckel765 3 роки тому +9

    Great Bios Simon! these should be shown in schools as their are well thought out and easy to follow. Keep them coming!

  • @jamesparker2339
    @jamesparker2339 3 роки тому +18

    I'm from dumfries, we have a plaque near the site of the monastery and we have a pub named after him. We absolutely love Robert.

    • @deborahshipman8888
      @deborahshipman8888 3 роки тому

      After a lot of research, though ammature I am, I have traced back my ancestry to him. He was my great (God knows how many greats and I don't have my research here) grandfather. I understand they have Bruce tours in Scotland. Hope to go someday!

  • @ignitionfrn2223
    @ignitionfrn2223 3 роки тому +5

    1:20 - Chapter 1 - The great cause
    3:15 - Chapter 2 - Conflict begins
    5:35 - Chapter 3 - Outlaw king
    7:50 - Chapter 4 - Disaster at methven
    9:00 - Mid roll ads
    10:25 - Chapter 5 - Rebound
    12:35 - Chapter 6 - War with the english
    14:05 - Chapter 7 - King edward marches to stirling
    18:05 - Chapter 8 - Aftermath

  • @masonhenry9745
    @masonhenry9745 3 роки тому +30

    The pits where a brilliant tactic. I could imagine the effect the screaming horses would have had on the men.

    • @ThomasTrue
      @ThomasTrue 3 роки тому +7

      The Scots also scattered the fields with thousands of caltrops; three-pointed barbed spikes, which horses and footsoldiers would tread upon. There were so many that they are still being found in the fields around Bannockburn to this day, and some can be seen in the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh.

    • @masonhenry9745
      @masonhenry9745 3 роки тому +4

      @@ThomasTrue That's certainly interesting. I was born in Greenock not too far from Glasgow, and I've always wanted to go back to Scotland. I will be sure to keep Edinburgh and it's museums in mind when I do.

  • @makotroid108
    @makotroid108 Рік тому +3

    We traced our lineage to Sir Robert Stewart, 1st Earl of Orkney recently.
    Which took us all the way back to Robert the Bruce from there. So cool to learn about and research into.

  • @danielmedina834
    @danielmedina834 3 роки тому +2

    Simon, I love hearing your voice, especially while hearing you tell me historical facts! Thank you, and please, keep up the work!!!

  • @jonnylaw13
    @jonnylaw13 3 роки тому +2

    This was awesome. Thank you for putting it together and out there.

  • @spydirhsd
    @spydirhsd 3 роки тому +9

    I just heard your best closing remark ever. Well done, sir.

  • @owen8125
    @owen8125 3 роки тому +9

    i learned so much from you. Thank you so much

  • @johannsmith7225
    @johannsmith7225 3 роки тому +2

    I am truly fascinated by your channels. Extremely interesting topics covered.
    One important thing to me when watching these type of videos are the presenter/ narrators voice.
    You have a voice that makes me want to actually watch your videos.
    Thank you Simon!

  • @smcdoug11
    @smcdoug11 3 роки тому +1

    I follow you on all your channels Simon! Love learning from you! Knowledge is power!!!

  • @JCH0SU
    @JCH0SU 3 роки тому +127

    I love that Simon puts a disclaimer at the start of some videos based in non-English speaking countries apologising for any mispronuciations whilst brutalising place names like Falkirk and Scone.
    A small price to pay for the content though.

    • @SosiskaTheHorrible
      @SosiskaTheHorrible 3 роки тому +3

      And Loudoun 😄

    • @79Batty
      @79Batty 3 роки тому +2

      Or Wishart and Dumfries 😂

    • @cucumber623
      @cucumber623 3 роки тому +3

      murry not moreay

    • @charliemillican4274
      @charliemillican4274 3 роки тому +1

      Wiz Hart hahaha
      Tell him its wish art .
      Enjoyed the content though.

    • @Clannluan
      @Clannluan 3 роки тому +3

      ...and what's 'shiv-ow-ress' ? ... does he mean chivalrous!?

  • @Too_Tall_Tales
    @Too_Tall_Tales 3 роки тому +4

    As always, the content on this channel is awesome! I’d love to see a Biographic on Chief Blackhawk

  • @blairmarshall544
    @blairmarshall544 3 роки тому +2

    Very good video. Pretty much bang on. I studied Robert de bruz, loved every minute of it. He was also one of the best knights in Europe, probably why he loved to fight one on one

  • @roodbennett
    @roodbennett 3 роки тому +1

    Great biography!!! Really enjoyed this one!

  • @MetteSnegl
    @MetteSnegl 3 роки тому +5

    Please do Hans Christian Anderson!!! His life story is inspirational and his fairytales are timeless.

  • @kyleclark4449
    @kyleclark4449 3 роки тому +4

    I'd like to see a video on Harald Hardrada, one of the most famous Viking kings of all time. As a side note, if you could include the Battle of Stamford Bridge, do include the legend of the lone berserker at Stamford Bridge. Amon Amarth fans will approve.

  • @PhoenixAscending
    @PhoenixAscending 3 роки тому

    Yes!! I have been asking for a video on Robert the Bruce for a year!!

  • @cassandraralph5906
    @cassandraralph5906 3 роки тому +1

    Most interesting video! I learned something new today! Thank you!

  • @KatrinaWelch322
    @KatrinaWelch322 3 роки тому +11

    This was very educational for me! I am descended from Robert the Bruce (his grandson, Robert III's daughter Mary's line.) And I never really knew his story. Thanks! 😊

    • @FaqoOG
      @FaqoOG 3 роки тому +1

      I am a descendant too!

    • @walker2783
      @walker2783 2 роки тому +1

      @@FaqoOG same!

    • @speakyfnbr1122
      @speakyfnbr1122 Рік тому

      Isabella of mar roberts wife was my great great great threat something grandma,,

  • @krocodockle2544
    @krocodockle2544 3 роки тому +4

    That part where Robert kills an English Knight 1v1 👀

  • @stevethegeckotv
    @stevethegeckotv 3 роки тому

    Literally just watched Oulaw King on Sunday. Thanks for the video

  • @indrajittalukder1616
    @indrajittalukder1616 3 роки тому

    A most wonderful presentation!!
    Like to see more in the coming future.

  • @sanguinesoulful
    @sanguinesoulful 3 роки тому +21

    You skipped over what I think is the best part of the story: Robert's Mum - Marjorie, Coutness of Carrick. This is how she met Robert's father:
    She was the daughter and heiress of Niall Mac Dhonnchad, 2nd Earl of Carrick on her father's side. Her mother's father was Walter Stewart. Her father transferred the title of chieftain to his nephew Ronald and gave the earldom of Carrick to Marjorie, making her 3rd Countess of Carrick in her own right. Her first husband was Adam of Kilconquhar, who died during the Eighth Crusade in 1271. Marjorie and Adam had one child before his death, Martha.Then, as the story goes, a handsome young man arrived one day to tell her of her husband's death in the Holy Land. He was Robert de Brus, 6th Lord of Annandale, and he had been a companion-in-arms of Adam of Kilconquhar. Marjorie was so taken with him that she had him held captive until he agreed to marry her at Turnberry Castle in 1271. He became Earl of Carrick (in right of his wife).
    She's my many, many, many times great granny and has taught me much. Yeah. That's how you get a man. Lock him in a castle until he agrees to marry you. :D

  • @nor0845
    @nor0845 3 роки тому +4

    Small point, 3:06 Balliol was Lord of Galloway (SW Scotland) not Galway (W Ireland).
    Good vid though. Thanks for posting.
    Bruce’s heart was taken on Crusade by Sir James Douglas, who died fighting the Moors in Spain. When surrounded and outnumbered, he is said to have taken the silver casket from around his neck, thrown it into the enemy ranks and fought his way to where the casket lay before he was finally brought down.
    The Spanish still celebrate this act of valour.

    • @japhfo
      @japhfo 3 місяці тому

      To be fair, the 'Thrown Heart' is fiction, and the Spanish only learned about the Douglas connection with their town when descendants of Sir James turned up at Teba with a one-ton block of granite and asked how they'd feel about a memorial being put up to Douglas and his men. The tourist festival started about 20 years after that.

  • @calicomist9213
    @calicomist9213 6 місяців тому

    Thanks for posting! Robert the Bruce is my 24th great grandfather and John Comyn is my 20th great grandfather. My Scottish ancestors immigrated to America about the time of the Battle of Culloden, when the Clan system died.

  • @patrickperalta59
    @patrickperalta59 2 роки тому +1

    I love theses videos and enjoying learning about history. keep up the good work "Biographics"

  • @CowboyCree63
    @CowboyCree63 3 роки тому +4

    Awesome video!! Love the inclusion of my family, the Comyn's!! Would love a video about the clan itself, whose history extends back to William the Conqueror, and after the Clearances by Robert the Bruce, we did not regain our official clanhood back until 1976!!

    • @greghay4622
      @greghay4622 Рік тому +1

      I've just made a comment about the Battle of Roslin, largely ignored, but possibly the greatest victory in all the battles during the wars of independence. It should be more widely known about.

  • @dsquared1173
    @dsquared1173 3 роки тому +6

    After watching the the Netflix movie based on Robert I was looking forward to this on BG

  • @juliapatricia6223
    @juliapatricia6223 4 місяці тому +1

    My great great plus grandfather. So thankful for history being recorded and to learn of my lineage.

  • @alexandrapeterson6003
    @alexandrapeterson6003 3 роки тому

    Loved this video :) my grandmothers ancestors were part of clan fraser, through her grandmother Mary Sime

  • @itarry4
    @itarry4 3 роки тому +6

    Bannockburn the reason you shouldn't attack a force on the ground they've picked and been at for days.

  • @jordenpenitch1532
    @jordenpenitch1532 3 роки тому +5

    I hope the queen sees this video about her 19x great Scottish grandpa

  • @multiyapples
    @multiyapples Рік тому

    Very informative.

  • @elektrolyte
    @elektrolyte 3 роки тому

    WOW amazing detail and to the point

  • @angelomastri1416
    @angelomastri1416 3 роки тому +29

    “I don’t care if you fight for god, your country, or yourself, so long as you FIGHT!”
    Robert The Bruce, played by Chris Pine in “Outlaw King”

    • @dcarson89
      @dcarson89 3 роки тому +3

      Good film I thought. I also enjoyed the King with Timothy chalamet

    • @pbh9195
      @pbh9195 3 роки тому +2

      Really Enjoyed that movie

    • @gfilmer7150
      @gfilmer7150 3 роки тому +3

      They could've made three hours and ended with Bannackburn.

    • @pbh9195
      @pbh9195 3 роки тому +1

      @@gfilmer7150 yeah I was surprised it didn't end on that battle.

    • @gfilmer7150
      @gfilmer7150 3 роки тому +1

      @@pbh9195 Kind of disappointing if I had to say so myself. It would've been so cool to see the tactics on screen.

  • @SafetySpooon
    @SafetySpooon 3 роки тому +9

    And who was descended from Robert the Bruce? Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, & thus, the present Royal Family.

    • @Sealdeam
      @Sealdeam 3 роки тому +2

      They also are descendants of Alfred the Great and Sweyn Forkbeard, the king that fought the vikings and the danish viking that became king of England, and who knows how many more notable figures, the very top of the society was an extremely small circle, due inhenritance a person could become King of a place and have much more in common with the nobility of farway countries than with their own subjects, not only in their genetic making but also culturally, a venetian could end being the King of Hungary without having ever been there or know a thing about the language, a capetian would rule Naples and Sicily and a bavarian would have the Jacobite claim over England, those are mindblowing facts for times in which the average person in their lifetime probably would not see anything beyond a 35 mile radius from the place the were born.

    • @annwilliams6438
      @annwilliams6438 3 роки тому +1

      therealnews ... and have a very cunning plan to get back into power with King Zack (not). ;)

    • @lyndsaycrawford
      @lyndsaycrawford 3 роки тому

      Yeah they descend from the Stewart side which was who his daughter Marjorie married.

    • @fireblade2681
      @fireblade2681 2 роки тому

      Anyone who emigrates from Scotland is no longer Scottish. Anyone who immigrates to Scotland is instantly Scottish. Scotland is a welcoming country but has become savvy from centuries of ambitious deserters seeking to subjugate Scotland with their supposed Scottish heritage. It matters not if the Queen has a gram or an ounce of Scottish blood. Scotland will belong to the inhabitants of these isles. The land which she stole will be repatriated and she dare not step foot in our wee bit hill and glen. This land is sacred and every airt is ours.

  • @raziamondal8007
    @raziamondal8007 3 роки тому

    Thank u for all the info

  • @robinhumphrey2692
    @robinhumphrey2692 3 роки тому

    Well done!! Thanks from snowy WY, USA

  • @Sunny198325
    @Sunny198325 3 роки тому +12

    I hope "outlaw king" has some bearing to real events and history

    • @Kyle-qd2sy
      @Kyle-qd2sy 3 роки тому

      I haven’t seen it yet, but I hear it’s pretty accurate

    • @matthewgilmore8046
      @matthewgilmore8046 3 роки тому +5

      Outlaw king is actually a fairly accurate representation of history by film standards, certainly better than braveheart. My history lecturer went as far as to recommend we watch it as a summary

    • @dairallan
      @dairallan 3 роки тому

      It was good and bad. It clearly intended to be very historically accurate which was great but that destorys the narrative structure. Which would have been fine until the very end when they added an absolutely ridiculous scene which made no sense and was not historically accurate at all and ruined all the effort they put in before hand. I suspect executive interference as there was no attampt at narrative structure before it and it was clearly added to provide an "ending". It was just stupid.

    • @jonkline709
      @jonkline709 3 роки тому

      I thought very well done I’ve re watched 3 times already.

    • @shawnthompson2303
      @shawnthompson2303 3 роки тому

      Outlaw King is a great film

  • @maxwellpower9521
    @maxwellpower9521 3 роки тому +5

    I certainly hope that the advertising revenue is great with six breaks in a twenty minute video

    • @jamesosborne7007
      @jamesosborne7007 3 роки тому

      Tou tube premium bra

    • @JayzsMr
      @JayzsMr 3 роки тому

      It's way too much and ridiculous.

    • @avalacos
      @avalacos 3 роки тому

      Nah totes. UA-cam premium is the only way to go

  • @johnhamill7358
    @johnhamill7358 4 місяці тому

    Thanks, fab video.

  • @andrewsangling
    @andrewsangling 3 роки тому

    Thanks Simon, very interesting.

  • @silverbladeTE
    @silverbladeTE 3 роки тому +13

    Edward massacred the entire population of Berwick.
    this fact is often completely over looked, and it's barbarity, in British history.

    • @neilfraser2349
      @neilfraser2349 3 роки тому

      This is mentioned indirectly in this video. He captured lands supporting Comyn and butchered everyone. Thats why i ask what makes him a hero. Sounds like everything he did was for himself. Not for the benefit of the Scottish people.
      What is also ignored is that the choice of meeting at the monastary was a tradition of meeting enemies on sacred ground to ensure peaceful negotiation. He betrayed that and murdered his contender to the throne. Sounds like a piece of work to me.

    • @neilfraser2349
      @neilfraser2349 3 роки тому +1

      My mistake. You are referring to Edward. I am referring to Robert

    • @lyndsaycrawford
      @lyndsaycrawford 3 роки тому +1

      Neil Fraser him & his supporters also got ambushed & killed on other clans territory. That was clan justice. The Scottish church forgave him killing Comyn cos Scotland needed a champion & Robert the Bruce had it thrust upon him. He sacrificed a lot for Scotland, believe me! Remember this is happening in the 14th century, dog eat dog

    • @lyndsaycrawford
      @lyndsaycrawford 3 роки тому +1

      @silverblade Edward was formidable king & warrior. Most Scottish nobles would’ve rather waited for him to die & deal with his son. But that didn’t happen

  • @kathlynblack3517
    @kathlynblack3517 3 роки тому +6

    Thank you! Robert the Bruce is one of my ancestors

    • @skipiustg19
      @skipiustg19 3 роки тому

      Same here but it's from Clan Campbell. My family married his Sister.

    • @Svvenson436
      @Svvenson436 2 роки тому +1

      Same here!

  • @EldersTree
    @EldersTree 3 місяці тому +1

    I have learnt great knowledge from you always

  • @yesacoustic
    @yesacoustic 3 роки тому +2

    I enjoyed that. Very good summary of The Bruce. That and pronouncing Melbourne correctly in your Ned Kelly one, Simon, you're on a role. Still think you should do one on Bowie.
    I'm definitely not descended from Robert the Bruce but I am from the guy who cleaned up after his horse.

  • @BobMcDougall
    @BobMcDougall 3 роки тому +5

    I was named after him - Robert Bruce McDougall

  • @jacobglaser7773
    @jacobglaser7773 3 роки тому +7

    I'm slowly starting to realize why a lot of people don't like the Braveheart movie. It's practically fictional. Awesome battle scenes though!
    P.S. Then again, a lot of historical records are suspect, are they not? Unless confirmed by archaeology, we have to have faith that historians/scribes were being truthful and not embellishing details for the glory of those ruling.

    • @gfilmer7150
      @gfilmer7150 3 роки тому +1

      My main problem is simply because of how Edward I was portrayed. They just made so over the top and cartoony, I couldn't take him seriously.

    • @htoodoh5770
      @htoodoh5770 3 роки тому

      @William White History is written by the Victor assuming they can write and the writing survive and not destroyed.

    • @htoodoh5770
      @htoodoh5770 3 роки тому

      @William White My point is that the Victor doesn't always write history.

    • @lyndsaycrawford
      @lyndsaycrawford 3 роки тому +1

      He definitely did not meet or impregnate Isabella of France, he wasn’t Edward iii’s dad The Bruce did not fight for the English & betray him on the battlefield. The battle of Stirling bridge didn’t even feature a bridge. He was more about Guerrilla warfare, all the clans were. Anyhow Mel Gibson just made up A LOT of shite but it’s a good movie to get the auld patriotic juices flowing 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

    • @gfilmer7150
      @gfilmer7150 3 роки тому +1

      @@lyndsaycrawford It's good, but the writing and inaccuracies bug me too much. I can't take any of the English characters seriously because they're so cartooney.

  • @18pablo88
    @18pablo88 3 роки тому

    Nice one , great video

  • @jacobball8422
    @jacobball8422 3 роки тому

    Love all of you're channels but right now I'm loving that shirt

  • @lukepearson4611
    @lukepearson4611 3 роки тому +36

    Legend has it when Simon shaves his beared off UA-cam will fall

  • @rexfulgur8588
    @rexfulgur8588 3 роки тому +18

    You should do your biography.

    • @melissaknive3494
      @melissaknive3494 3 роки тому +5

      He has refused to ever talk about himself.

    • @theangryaustralian7624
      @theangryaustralian7624 3 роки тому +5

      Never gonna happen

    • @aaronseet2738
      @aaronseet2738 3 роки тому +3

      Historians are more interested in other people(s) and topics than themselves.

    • @cpegg5840
      @cpegg5840 3 роки тому +3

      Simon has stated he won’t do this, if memory serves. Don’t pester him please.

  • @guillerbrady9261
    @guillerbrady9261 3 роки тому

    You truly have become my N1 for history,Engineering,biographies.
    You showed me I'm not the History buff I thought I was 😅😉
    Thanks

  • @nneichan9353
    @nneichan9353 3 роки тому

    Great narration as usual.

  • @johnmcdougald1238
    @johnmcdougald1238 3 роки тому +10

    As a McDougald(MacDougall and all the other versions), Comyn was my Kin. I have a friend from work who's last name is Bruce. She was over some time back and we watched the Netflix(state's side, not sure about international) movie "The Outlaw King". She was smiling and bragging saying: "Them's MY People." and what not. After the scene where he Killed Comyn and later has the run in with the MacDougall clan and they attempt to ambush him, I turned to her and said: "THEM's MY PEOPLES...." She didn't have much to say after that.

  • @froggystyle642
    @froggystyle642 2 роки тому +3

    My dad (Robert the Bruce) always said that William Wallace was a hero for his bravery, but that Robert the Bruce was the hero for choosing the right side in the end. Easy to understand for a seven year old, but still, I can't help but think that way. Of course, there's more to history and humanity than that.

    • @sydhenderson6753
      @sydhenderson6753 5 місяців тому

      He might have mentioned that Robert also triumphed by his stubbornness and military acumen.

  • @DocsChannel
    @DocsChannel 3 роки тому

    great video

  • @briandoss9232
    @briandoss9232 Рік тому

    Good stuff! I love a good underdog war story.

  • @itarry4
    @itarry4 3 роки тому +5

    Got to do Rob Roy now. He's rye ultimate anti hero made good through publicity.

    • @commandante6188
      @commandante6188 3 роки тому +1

      Ian Tarry rob roy was also a coward

    • @itarry4
      @itarry4 3 роки тому

      @@commandante6188 that's sort of what I meant by anti hero made good through publicity. He changed reality with a few good stories makes a great story in itself. He was a coward and a trator but somehow ame through looking like a version of Robin Hood.

    • @commandante6188
      @commandante6188 3 роки тому +1

      Ian Tarry yeah i was just adding to what you were saying

  • @ballsack6547
    @ballsack6547 3 роки тому +8

    R.I.P Benny Harvey , true Scots hero , god bless you , miss you big man !

    • @Linear500
      @Linear500 3 роки тому +2

      RIP benny lad

    • @KC-ji1fd
      @KC-ji1fd 3 роки тому +2

      Benny Harvey RIP

  • @michaelmitchell4989
    @michaelmitchell4989 3 роки тому

    Thanks, very good!

  • @georgerevell5643
    @georgerevell5643 3 роки тому

    Yes Biographics please do Richard III that would be awesome to see Simon swinging that.

  • @itarry4
    @itarry4 3 роки тому +5

    "ohh who should we ask?" "I know let's ask the worst person possible, the warrior king right on our door step thats just conquered one country and would obviously want to have ours too."

    • @lyndsaycrawford
      @lyndsaycrawford 3 роки тому +1

      I know a guy who proclaimed himself to be known as “Hammer of the Scots” written on his tomb

    • @WestieTravels
      @WestieTravels 3 роки тому

      At the time of the request to King Edward, he wasnt considered to be a threat to Scotland, in fact prior to this act there had been over 70 years of peace and only when King Alexander III of Scotland died after falling from his horse and leaving the throne in the hands of a very young and ill Margaret of Norway who died in Orkney on her way to Scotland to claim the throne, did the problems start....Viewed from the Nobles and Church in Scotland at that time it was the wise move to make otherwise the country was faced with civil war...The problem was that most Scottish nobles and for that matter, Scottish Kings had held land in England for centuries and tradition was that for that land they had to pay homage to the English king for their land in England...To the Scots this was only for the lands in England, not Scotland, but for the English King it was homage as an overlord over the kingdom of Scotland, but for hundreds of years both sides never made a big deal of it, Edward Longshanks was the first to try and define the fealty as overlordship over the whole kingdom of Scotland and depending how you look at it, it was indeed the wrong move to make, the other way to look at it, is that, after this Scotland under The Bruces grandson King Robert II signed a treaty with England gaining perpetual rights to independence for Scotland and its kings....furthermore, it was The Bruces decendants that eventually took over the English throne under James VI of Scotland and to this day the next in line to the throne has Robert the Bruces blood in him, through his mother Princess Diana and his grandmother Elizabeth beau lyons .....the past Queen mother

    • @lyndsaycrawford
      @lyndsaycrawford 3 роки тому

      Col Newman Queen Elizabeth ii can also trace her bloodline back to the Bruce

  • @scottcovell3487
    @scottcovell3487 3 роки тому +3

    Thank you for making this video, My ancestors are from Scotland and he is one of them.

  • @jayc6201
    @jayc6201 3 роки тому

    Great video.

  • @philkaseyewitness6912
    @philkaseyewitness6912 3 роки тому

    I love your videos

  • @raltoxx
    @raltoxx 3 роки тому +4

    Nooooo wayyyyy!!!! This is my ancestor!!!! Haha heard so much about this from my family. Great vid

    • @IntrepidFraidyCat
      @IntrepidFraidyCat 3 роки тому +1

      Me too!

    • @raltoxx
      @raltoxx 3 роки тому +2

      Haha omg!!! Biographics bringing long seperated families together 🤣

  • @Rakshasa1986
    @Rakshasa1986 3 роки тому +4

    In my current Civ VI playthrough, he's been helping me a lot. My nick name for him is Robert the Bro.

  • @PokeMaster-B-Dawg
    @PokeMaster-B-Dawg Рік тому

    From the 26th great grandson of Robert the Bruce I truly appreciate the info!

  • @dickiebrewer1232
    @dickiebrewer1232 3 роки тому

    man, that was great!

  • @scoofedaraara819
    @scoofedaraara819 3 роки тому +29

    I actually recently found out im a descendant of Robert the Bruce, its nice to know what kind of life he lived, despite its graphic nature.

    • @ForReal_Lauren
      @ForReal_Lauren Рік тому +1

      Same here. 🖤 Found out a few years ago when my grandmother died and we found old ancestry records she and her family kept.

    • @bunyipdragon9499
      @bunyipdragon9499 Рік тому

      Everything was graphic then.

    • @MMDMizuki
      @MMDMizuki Рік тому

      I just found out from my cousin who like to go through our family tree and according to her, he's our 21st great grandfather.

    • @mr.jackhatter9385
      @mr.jackhatter9385 Рік тому +3

      ​@Mizuki Hikawa yeah same, Robert II had heaps of kids, if you got scottish heritage, you are high chance to be related.

    • @ashleymstewart1121
      @ashleymstewart1121 Рік тому

      Me too! Where are you guys from ?

  • @joannakirkwood4970
    @joannakirkwood4970 3 роки тому +3

    Had some more ideas on who to Biography:
    Clint Eastwood
    Lee Van Cleef
    Eli Wallach
    Laurel and Hardy
    Greta Garbo
    Paul Robeson
    James Stewart
    Cary Grant
    Marlene Dietrich
    Vivian Leigh
    Marx Brothers
    Charlton Heston
    Gene Kelly
    Ginger Rodgers
    Fred Astaire
    Judy Garland
    Shirley Temple
    James Mason
    Liza Minelli
    James Cagney
    Robert Mitchum
    Gary Cooper
    Grace Kelly
    Kris Kristofferson
    Elizabeth Taylor
    Kirk Douglas
    Tim Burton
    Martin Scorsese
    Steven Spielberg
    Raymond Burr
    Robert Shaw
    Roy Schieder
    Max Von Sydow
    Marlon Brando
    Ellen Burstyn
    Robert de Niro
    Paul Newman
    Robert Redford
    Al Pacino
    Montgomery Clift
    Sidney Poitier
    Jack Lemmon
    Henry Fonda
    Ron Howard
    John Wayne
    Natalie Wood
    Francis Ford Coppola
    Stanley Kubrick
    Alfred Hitchcock
    Kim Novak
    Ingrid Bergman
    Humphrey Bogart
    ....😊❤

    • @kysike666
      @kysike666 3 роки тому +1

      Wtf is wrong w u? They cover real Historical People with significant background that left a great or horrible legacy.. N u r requesting them to waste time with Actors! 🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️ Go watch ur fckn EHollywood crap sumwer else..

    • @brigadierblue221
      @brigadierblue221 3 роки тому

      Add Greer Garson to this 😁😁

    • @joannakirkwood4970
      @joannakirkwood4970 3 роки тому

      @@brigadierblue221 I have been thinking of the ones I missed like debbie Reynolds and Lana Turner...

    • @mrk45
      @mrk45 3 роки тому

      Think you must have taken a wrong turn, the Hollywood channel is that way.

  • @obaolori
    @obaolori 3 роки тому +1

    the ability to adapt and learn from ones mistakes and to draw conlusions about the patterns weaknesses and mistakes of ones enemies Sun Tzu should have been proud of him

  • @rpast5656
    @rpast5656 3 роки тому

    Love you channel history is my favourite

  • @quad-g1024
    @quad-g1024 3 роки тому +5

    You have great content, just too many ads. There’s like 3-4 UA-cam ads on a 20 minute videos, then you have your own sponsors... so like 1/3 of my time here is listening to ads.

    • @theophrastusbombastus1359
      @theophrastusbombastus1359 3 роки тому

      Yeah. Have UA-cam ads, or your own private ads within your video - but both is ridiculous.
      Especially when its UA-cam ads every 5 mins. There's trying to make money, and simple greed

    • @richardyudi1030
      @richardyudi1030 3 роки тому +2

      There is paid option without ad if you want. Creator and UA-cam engineer doesn't grow on tree. They need to be paid for their hardwork and creativity.

    • @theophrastusbombastus1359
      @theophrastusbombastus1359 3 роки тому

      @@richardyudi1030 no problem with ads, that was never mentioned. It's the amount that is unnecessary. Combined with in-video sponsors it exudes an aura of greed

    • @richardyudi1030
      @richardyudi1030 3 роки тому +1

      @@theophrastusbombastus1359 imagine your HR saying "No you will not get an extra. You're so greed to ask for extra income. " UA-camr has right to get as much as they could to provide themselves, to create content, to improve themselves, to pay their editor. And all you need to do is watch ads that probably only cost 3-4 mins of your life. If you think it's greed then just go to other platform. I myself rely on YT ads heavily for living. Just 1 ads less probably will cost my inability to pay lil brother student loan.

    • @theophrastusbombastus1359
      @theophrastusbombastus1359 3 роки тому

      @@richardyudi1030 that's more a product of the society you live in. But it certainly explains your position

  • @saranobutt
    @saranobutt 3 роки тому +5

    This is so awesome. I always wondered what the truth was about this guy ever since I saw Braveheart.

    • @m.g.3013
      @m.g.3013 3 роки тому +2

      Braveheart is William Wallace.

    • @xKinjax
      @xKinjax 3 роки тому

      @@m.g.3013 Braveheart has almost nothing to do with reality. They couldn't even get William Wallace's only major victory right, the battle of Sterling BRIDGE. Which they ruined by turning into a mockery of the actual battle.

    • @TheDangerbreed
      @TheDangerbreed 3 роки тому

      ppl actually take braveheart for fact?

    • @m.g.3013
      @m.g.3013 3 роки тому

      @@xKinjax I know. It still has nothing to do with Robert de Bruce.

    • @ballsack6547
      @ballsack6547 3 роки тому

      I'm Scottish pal , and the only thing decent about brave heart was the ending scene and the music score , rest was shite. Outlaw king is more accurate (apart from the end scene king vs king).

  • @factsbook9983
    @factsbook9983 3 роки тому

    Thank you sir you provide a true information to us
    Love from India♥️

  • @briansenez7718
    @briansenez7718 3 роки тому +2

    Please do Captain Cook. His journeys are incredible!

  • @stuspawton
    @stuspawton 3 роки тому +14

    Yeah and here's hoping that we can get independence once again. It's coming, just a matter of time till Scotland see's a sunrise as an independent nation and the chains around the neck of the unicorn are broken.

    • @fredgillespie5855
      @fredgillespie5855 2 роки тому

      Nobody and I mean NOBODY has any plans for Scottish independence. So dream on.

  • @josephhargrove9066
    @josephhargrove9066 3 роки тому +23

    Much like William Wallace when it comes to Scottish legend.

    • @theangryaustralian7624
      @theangryaustralian7624 3 роки тому +7

      And Black Douglas who apparently has a drink named after him...found this out tonight lol

    • @stevethegeckotv
      @stevethegeckotv 3 роки тому +2

      Wallace only had recognition because of Braveheart.

    • @987jof
      @987jof 3 роки тому +8

      stevethegecko I mean in Scotland he was a national hero before Braveheart

    • @Z3AL316
      @Z3AL316 3 роки тому +2

      stevethegecko no he was known before Braveheart

  • @ExosAndres
    @ExosAndres 3 роки тому

    You really went over the top with the ads on this one

  • @Kyle-qd2sy
    @Kyle-qd2sy 3 роки тому +1

    Please do Mary Queen of Scots sometime! Her life story is just amazing and tragic