William the Conqueror - First Norman King of England Documentary
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He was the first NormanD, ther eis a D at the end of the word to describe people from Normandy, they are Normands....he was a Normand.
Alfred The Great was a cultured King Who ruled England ruled for the better Willliam ruled to dominate the people a
William's army was composed of soldiers from different regions of France. The Barons who led the invasion under the commands of William were from Brittany, Normandy, Picardy, Burgundy, Flanders and Champagne.
Yes! One of England's Greatest Kings and the shining example that Bastardy isn't gonna stop anyone from achieving Greatness!
The first Jon Snow
He was an SOB for sure.
And the odd little genocide here and there. Good times. 😉
Treated the English, as his Cash-Cow . 🤔💸💸🤮🤮
@@manueldumont3709 par for the course really, since England treated their vassals as the same
Thank you so much for sharing this fascinating insight into the life of William the Conqueror! It's amazing to learn about the origins of the Duchy of Normandy and the unique culture of the Normans. The fact that William was born into a Norse family, but also a gallicized one, shows how complex and diverse the history of Europe truly is. I appreciate your thorough research and look forward to learning more!
Europe is the most diverse culturally and ethnographically geographical region on Earth. A dozen shades of indigenous skin eye and hair color found nowhere else too, straight facts.
@@Veldtian1 Only a European centric person could claim this. The middle east was and still is the crossroad of civilization. It is the most culturally diverse region on Earth bar none.
@@ryanjuguilon213 I think that the ME has always been that way to a degree but it appears way more homogenous now in terms of some aspects compared to the past.
@@ryanjuguilon213 But he's completely right though, seems like you hold a disdain for Europe.
@@RaffieFaffie Quite! Europe is, historically speaking, the most important continent on earth!
Idk why it just occurred to me but William Windsor will be William V. Wow. As a history buff just living through these moments is so amazing.
I am also a history buff so this is going to be interesting to see William Windsor become William V.
If he decides to keep his name
Yeah he could be the first modern King Arthur using one of his middle names. :)
I’m a descendant of William de Percy who was an officer in William the Conquerors army and although he was not present at Hastings, he was eventually awarded vast lands in Northumberland which his descendants still control today as the Dukes. The Percys played a significant part in the hundreds of years after Hastings as wardens of the Scottish border and their parts in some of the internecine wars including the War of the Roses and the Hundred Years’ War. For the most part they were not very nice people but I suppose that was par for the course in those days for the nobility.
A descendant of who? That’s nothing to be proud about. No one knows who he is.
I however am a descendant of Alexander the Great.
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The article was about William the Conqueror. My reply was pertinent to the subject.
@@RobertSmith-km6gi As a direct descendant of William(Through his least favorite child Robert) I extend my hand in a respecting gest comrade. **edited to add a period**
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Interesting, I didn’t expect to find a fellow descendant! I descend through Alan. Do you have any information going back further? I have a Galfred (Geoffrey) Percy born in 0972 as Williams sire and a vague reference to a Manfred even earlier. There’s a good book about Williams descendants who ruled in the Northumberland region of England and still inhabit Alnwick castle which dates back to the late 11th century. It’s called Kings in the North by Alexander Rose.
@@RobertSmith-km6gi I only have been able to find one article about the man who started my families surname of Hill which was the grandson of William the 1st.
Oliver stone should make a movie about him. From the moment he was born he was running for his life and the things he survived made him the iron fist to conquer England once and for all. His census of the land was pivotal in establishing taxation and registry. Not to mention the castles he ordered built at every critical area and rewarding his Norman Lords in their place
Not after the mess he made of Alexander. I'm thinking it's more of a job for Ridley Scott, or possibly Christopher Nolan.
there is a film called called William the Conqueror
Wouldn't it be funny AF if it was called Norman Bill.
Nnn
I always wondered why there was NEVER a movie or tv series about William the Conqueror. I really hope to see an adaptation.
I love many things about these documentaries. Thanks! The one thing I wish there would be more of is use of map images while telling these stories.
I was looking back into my Mom’s family’s history and I was so shook to see I was directly related to William the Conqueror. But then I found out that 3/4ths of people with British ancestry can trace their roots back to William the Conqueror and i was humbled real fast.
We all started from Noah 😊
This is my grandfather and I’m “black” 🤩
My sons 33rd great uncle, on his mothers side, Another Uncle....Odo, commissioned the Bayeaux Tapestry, and all five of the known Normans on the Tapestry are either Great Grandparents or Great Uncles....Robert de Mortagne, Earl of Cornwall 32nd Great Grandfather, Engenulphe de l’Aigle 32nd great Grandfather,
@@adriaandeleeuw8339 33rd great uncles lol
This is incredibly good. This channel just gets better and better. This really may be the best episode in your English monarchy series. Keeping one eye on the larger scene while keeping the other eye on the small details without which history is just a mystery. A little embarrassed to admit I wasn't subbed yet (I thought I was); rectified. As good as history gets on UA-cam.
William was not English, nor are his descendants.
And as an English diaspora, I will avenge my kinsmen one day. Just sad we had to liberate france ww2
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If you listen to the documentary,you are informed of William's heritage etc!
@@jackhardy1649 aye! lolz
Had to comment as my surname is Hastings 🙂 am Scottish and love learning about England's Scotland. Irish, and Welsh History, thank you for your video's. Great for bedtime when the other half snores so loud haha. 🏴🏴
Agreed. I'm English and our island has some incredible history. It's pretty much all I read about lol. Crazy to think that our group of tiny little island nations have had such an enormous influence on the world.
It may be your ancestry is that of the plantagenets? Richard 3rd perhaps?
@@pathfinderfergusfilms6630 yeah are you on about the Lord Hastings who was executed during king Richard 3rds time?
My son's teacher is a Hastings. I told her "I will never forget that!"
I find William Rufus fascinating. What an uncommon man for the time.
My clan has a legend that Edgar came to Scotland with a nobleman from Hungary, who had several daughters in tow. One of which King Malcolm II took a fancy to and married, also granting land to the two noblemen, and the Hungarian nobleman became the progenitor of the clan. Just a legend but it's interesting either way.
Cool I've tried to research my Hastings side but it's apparently or was a sept of clan Campbell which isn't that good lol but they had lands in Angus Dundee, which is where I live but my others are drylie Scott, Scottish in origin. It's fascinating to learn how the people were so oppressed and kings and Queens of the Normans basically made a Union with England and Scotland for power and greed. I want independence for Scotland 🏴 since I ever learned where am from. 🏴♥️
@@andrewhastings462 Latha math!
Campbell is a controversial one, but don't feel bad, I'm also related to the Mackenzie clan and they had warred with the MacLeods in the interest of the king to stop the lawlessness of the islands and other highland areas. It awarded them lands, but only hatred from fellow Highlanders. Slàinte!
EDIT: Let me add that the Mackenzies also supported Robert De Bruce, much of clan history is multilayered and very nuanced. The first clan I spoke of is clan Drummond, through marriages I am related to the clans Mackenzie, Wallace, Grant and Cathcart besides Drummond. Have you a kilt yet? I went with a Scottish national tartan for day wear to festivals and concerts, and plan to get a Drummond tartan but it's not one regularly bought therefore not on a rack anywhere and needs to be custom woven which is too expensive for me at this time. As I get older my heritage seems to mean more to me and there's no time like now to proudly wear a kilt!
@@andrewhastings462 The independence movement has my support too, Alba gu bràth!
Nice to know, nice to meet a fellow Scot for independence 😊🏴
Am fae Lower Largo in Fife have long family history there, my other side is Drylie clan but only Fife I could find out their history. 🏴
Very interesting and informative. The sad truth about Norman rule in England is that it created a class-based society that has essentially remained the same ever since with the ruling classes being of Anglo-Norman descent (the English upper classes and aristocracy) and the vast majority of native Anglo Saxons (modern day English folk) being lower class serfs - which essentially is the working and ruling classes. The majority of the foot soldiers that won the battle of Hastings were not even Norman but were mercenaries namely Flemish, Bretons, Franks and Frisians. At the time of William’s conquest 1066 there were two parallel cultures in England Anglo-Saxon and Anglo-Norse (Danelaw). William is credited for returning the English capital to London away from Winchester the capital of Wessex so one can understand why the battle took place in Hastings and not the Thames. London north of the Thames was at the southern end of the Danelaw, an area that had developed its own Norse-based legal system and spoke Anglo-Norse dialects. Unlike Normandy where Norse culture quickly gave way to an adopted Gallo-Roman culture, the Danes, swedes and Norwegians had settled in large numbers in the East, midlands and North of England farmers and intermarried with the local Anglian and Cumbrian cultures. The Anglo-Norse culture of the Danelaw would later become the cornerstone of modern English culture as that is the root of modern-day English language. Wessex and the old Anglo Saxon dialect of Wessex died a swift death as the standardised language of the English people following the relocation of the English capital to London by the Normans. It also didn’t help that the English were not only reduced to serfs (a polite form of slavery) which involved the Norman’s leasing back lands seized from the owners to the owners for a commission of produce from the land. William’s relocation of the capital from Winchester to London was to secure his rule away from the powerful Wessex dynasty. This move unwittingly ended the Anglo Saxon or old English era, it is also responsible for the sharp change in the direction of English language’s development from a largely Saxon language similar to Frisian to a hybrid Anglo Norse language derived from the English dialects spoken by the descendants of Viking settlers in the East Midlands, Yorkshire and East Anglia. The discontinuity of the formerly dominant Wessex variety of old English is at the heart of the inability of the English to relate to the Old English language to this day. But this is primarily due to the fact that after conquering England its Norman rulers banished the use of the English language in the royal court and for administrative purposes and replaced it with Norman French for 200 years. By the time William’s’ descendants got bored with speaking French nearly two centuries after his conquest they restored the English for administrative purposes and gradually jettisoned Norman French except in the kings court. The English they chose to form the standard language was undoubtedly the version spoken in London which was populated by migrants from the East Midlands and East Anglia who spoke Anglo-Danish dialects of old English. This became the standard form of the restored English language which was essentially a heavily Scandinavian influenced English hybrid that differed significantly from the standard Old English that had been the official language of the kingdom at the time of the conquest. That difference is most noticeable in the resolutely Scandinavian grammar and structure of middle and modern English and much of its basic vocabulary. Old English was welllnand truly dead as a language by the time the Normans decided to replace Norman French with Middle English in the 1280s. The heavily ‘Scandinavian’ nature of the English language today is not due to Old English borrowing loanwords from the vikings it is due to the sheer accident that the majority of Londoners spoke an Anglo-Scandinavian form of English that evolved markedly away from the old Wessex standard of Old English. From a psycho-linguistic standpoint speakers of modern day English are psychologically unable to relate to Old English because of the sharp differences between that language and the Anglo-Scandinavian dialect of English spoken in london in the 1280s. It wasn’t a case of old English taking on loanwords from the vikings rather It was the Viking London English that dethroned Norman French . One must remember that English wasn’t used officially for 200 years in the administration of the country as it was replaced with both Norman French and Latin until the Anglo-Norman aristocracy either became less fluent in their native language or got bored with it. Besides it made no sense using a language that the majority of the people did not speak or spoke rather poorly. So Danelaw English or Anglo-Danish became the standard from which modern English directly descends, this makes the Scandinavian languages the easiest to learn for English speakers today and is partly why Scandinavians can master English at lightening speed. The other key impact of the Norman conquest and the banishment of the native tongue is the inferior status acquired by the English language and the superiority of everything French in the psyche of the English and which lingers on to this very day at least from a linguistic standpoint. This is often expressed when we want to convey a sense of importance, superiority, officialdom, learnedness, scholarship etc the amount of french and Norman French or Latinate loanwords would suddenly dominate our speech and writings
Deeply dippy.
Edward rhe confessor had London as his capital before William.
My family traces our ancestry back to one of William’s knights who aided in the conquest of England. It’s always cool to learn more about my great-ancestor’s boss.
Mine as well. But I haven’t gotten that far back … yet.
I doubt it.
Every 3rd generation Englishman would theoretically be related to William the conquer / shares a common ancestor. There would be no direct line u could physically trace unless you where enobled and to my knowledge we have no Norman families left
My family traces our ancestry to William the Conqueror. I agree that it is always cool to learn more about my ancestors.
@@cm9241 Why?
I remember learning about the Norman Conquest in high school. My mother is a descendant of a Puritan who was in one of the earliest Puritan settlements in Massachusetts. As an English descendant, she did not like "the French," as a people,( but did not hold it against individuals who were French.) But when I came home talking about the Norman Conquest, she was in denial -- said the English never lost to the French. I learned that day that was no doubt the reason she didn't like the French. I didn't understand why people didn't just move on because it was in the past, and no one we knew was a part of the conquest or mistreatment. That was over fifty years ago, and history hasn't changed much in that respect!
You know at the time the Normans were not French Normandy was an independent duchy, I'm not even sure that the Duke of Normandy, Guillaume was a vassal of the King of France, so technically it was the Normans who beat the English and not the French....
France got what it deserved ww2. Everything they did to my people, they had it coming. Too bad we liberated them
@@cindyq.790
perfect representation of anglo copium
@@smal750 I am from Normandy and I know quite a bit about the history of my region. The Duchy of Normandy was more or less independent even though it was a vassal of France. Otherwise William would not have become king of England.
95% of the Normans were indigenous... only 5% Scandinavian who mostly came from England, they mixed for two centuries, the Normans were much more French than the Bretons or the Gascon or Burgundian @@cindyq.790
William the conqueror was basically a French who conquered England and became king of England. Fair enough.
and what's the problem?
No king since has been English in UK. Hence why the monarchy is mostly a joke in UK but they take it serious.
Got to say it's rather amusing how many toooootally legit descendants to past glories suddenly start popping up like mushrooms after rain whenever there's a documentary of a ruler of any kind.
This comment section is a _brilliant_ example. 😂
A very good piece of history, I learned a lot about William and he seemed to be an impressive man This is an excellent channel and I always enjoy watching it.
This is a cool documentary. My family, on both sides, can trace our ancestry to William the Conqueror. It is so cool to learn more about ones ancestors. I find leaning about ones ancestors can be interesting and then listening to documentaries like this just adds to that history of your ancestors.
Cousin!
Me too
@woohoo5473 get a room.
I as well was able to trace our family to William I of england consin
I meet cousin.
Well done! In Williams defense he had to literally fight for his life since he was a boy. And after Hastings he tried to reconcile with the Anglo-Saxon nobility but to no avail. When the rebellion in the North took place he'd had enough and devastated the North. He was a man of his time,while being innovative in military tactics that would transform England. He's easier to admire a 1000 years later. Because as a 11th century farmer on your little plot of field. The last thing you would want to see is King William with hundreds of Norman Knights riders coming your way!
Exactly. Funny thing is that characters like Stephen of Blois who seemed to be more on the modern side in regards to his traits (looking for compromises, mildness etc) was seen as weak by contemporary writers.
Exactly, i never understand why william gets glorified when he ravaged the lands and took power over for years.
Crazy part at least to me is that his ancestors and those of the people that supported him still own huge swaths of land throughout the UK since the battle of Hastings which was what 1066?
My family was given Cavendish for helping out at The battle of Hastings.
You're correct.
2 % of the population own 90 % of the land. The aristocracy has had the rest of us stitched up for best part of a millennium..
@@MountVernonTrucking live long and prosper.
@@Free-Bodge79 2% owns 90% of the land I’m gonna have to research that. My next question would be how much of the land in the UK of farmable? I would presume not a lot
@@jeffblackard9753 apart from national parks , m.o.d and church of England land . They've pretty much had it sown up since the Normans. Most of the non arable land is still viable to raise live stock. Especially sheep, on the hills, moors and peaks . Land that couldn't be put the plough . (The wool trade was a big, big earner back in the day). Look it up though . It won't be far from the truth. They own the lot mate.
A very good video, thank you. The way I see it Willam brought a better government and set of laws to England and set the platform for ultimately a more united and civil society.
obviously you know nothing about William the Conqueror
One of the best narration I have ever heard 👏
This is amazing. I thought i knew pretty much all there was to know about the battle of Hastings and william the conqueror but there was so much i didnt know. Thank you so much for this amazing piece of work love it 😊
I have never been a history buff, but I loved this video, and am now fascinated with the fact that england was shaped by a viking! Your explanations are accessible and entertaining. Sorry it took yt so long to recommend you.
The Vikings had a massive impact on the history of the British Isles
More than one 😃
What I figured out is uhtred is my 31th great grandfather and he was born Norman and married one of Alfreds great granddaughters that's where I find the lineage starts to combine is through him.
@@felipecortez1042j ni no to
More like a Frenchmen than a Norsemen
This is possibly the best account of the historical stages leading up to Williams rein in England. As a descendant of the Norman invasion and a descendant of one of those people whose support of William, was rewarded with an Earldom (of Sefton), I have long pondered how the psychology of conquered people see the world around them, and am certain that having been a descendant of a party involved in the very last conquest of England, that my psychology is somewhat lighter because of it, rather than a sufferer of generations of the oppression. I am no Earl of Sefton, indeed the the title always goes to the first born. As a side note to history, the earldom of Sefton ended in 1973, therefore my tenuous connection to those historical events, were severed almost before I was born. I can only hope for a future that does not involve conquest of one people over another as we still see today, but one where we recognize each others individual sovereignty and behave toward each other accordingly.
I am sure you are a descendent of the conquered also, so it probably evens out😂
easy tiger there are hundreds of thousands of descendants. it's quite difficult to not find a link to a royal if you go far enough so don't feel too bad lmao.
I found out some years back through a female relative by marriage, that there is a 'book of Pecks' (her maiden name) which records all descendants of a henchman of William's with that name, probably to support 'keeping it in the family' to this day. How many other such books there are would be interesting to know.
I thoroughly appreciate the recap at the end of each video 😊
Another cousin and commander in his army in 1066 was my ancestor Geoffrey de Mandeville/ Manneville/ Magnaville. He is listed in the doomesday book as Groisfoid de Manneville and was givin vast lands in England as well including Essex where they became lords, castle at Pleashey
Having a similar name doesn't mean you're related. Sounds like bollocks
Very interesting, thank you for sharing ⚜️
France got what it deserved ww2
I'm French from Normandy and it's funny what you say there because there are several cities in Normandy starting with Manneville, it would be fun to find out if these cities were the territories of your ancestor!
The DNA proved it too 😊
I watched Prof Robert Bartlett's TV series (2014), The Plantagenets, really interesting. After the conquest, the Normans set out to systematically destroy Anglo Saxon culture and way of life. The last Saxon King, Harold Godwinson, is buried in Waltham Abbey near where I live.
A vastly underrated king. He chose what was best for the country over family loyalty when he removed his brother to stir from control of the North after the North rebelled against taxes. It must have been an incredibly hard choice. A choice that ultimately led to his defeat at hastings
@@Trebor74 Three more gifted and intelligent Saxon Kings, Alfred the Great, his son Edward the Elder and his grandson, Athelstan. Athelstan was the first King of a united England.
Yes me to its was extremely interesting .
@@lesleywilkie2848 Offa was also good
They tried to but Anglo-Saxon culture still exists
Excellent documentary! Thank you for increasing my knowledge of the back story of the Battle of Hastings. Really outstanding effort.
Tom Bergeron: This famous William had two nicknames. One was The Bastard, and the other was what?
Penn Jillette: MISTER Shatner! MISTER SHATNER to you!!
-- The 90s Hollywood Squares
The county of Flanders was not in "what is now Southern Belgium" (10'51''). The county of Flanders was in the West of current Belgium and in the Nordwest of current France (and even a bit in the Southwest of the current Netherlands).
My grandfather emailed me a family tree link the other day. It showed that I am William’s 30th great grand daughter. It is so cool to watch this and learn about him. Thank you!
It is a ridiculous claim. William was born 1028. 35 generations ago. Back then you'd have six billion forebears.
Even allowing for cousin marriage it is at the European common ancestor point.
We are all related to him.
I am the 27th great granddaughter
A very interesting character even in today times
I am a descendant of William along with probably millions of others. My take on him is, as is true of most kings and queens, he had negative and positive points. Most of them were enamored of power and wealth and were driven mostly by such concerns. He did, however, in the end make some long-lasting changes, be they good or bad, that are still around to this day.
William started the meme "Careful who you call bastard in late noble tutelage"
Excellent content and presentation, as always. Thank you for your work. I always look forward to the next instalment.
Awesome, thank you!
I'm so glad you did this work!
You do a fine job. I appreciate this ❤
My first known ancestor on my father's side, came across the channel with William. He was a Squire at the time, but did something, unknown to us, that caused him to be granted land by the King. I wish there was a way to learn more about him. Perhaps one day.
sure
Cool.
Shouldn't be impossible to research as the stuff that went on in England were pretty well documented by the priesthood if I'm not mistaken. So if he indeed was granted land, then that event should definitely be written down somewhere.
I doubt it's the first known ancestor, I am sure you can find a direct line to Charlemagne for example online.
My ancestors from my grandfathers side!!
Watching this after playing crusader kings 3. I play early starts so dealing with Norse atm but I’ve been made duke of Mercia which is kewl. All within generations of a bastard of Dorset
Would love for you to cover Edward the Confessor!
A lot of his story is covered in their longshanks video
@@Rockstar-bq5fm thanks for the heads up
@@ulyssesshubeilat: pay no attention whatsoever to me dude, I have no idea why I messaged that I was watching UA-cam videos trying to stay awake and messaged that in some sort of sleep depraved stupor lol
I’m pretty sure Edward the Confesser was not in one of their Longshanks videos haha
@@Rockstar-bq5fm lol I thought maybe the video started with the long shank's great grand father hehe
A well structured historical rendition.
Congratulations and 1.000 thanks.
A.
Very few mourned the loss of William the Bastard.
I'll bet that casket he was in had second thoughts about holding him...
Lived up to his name.
A very good account much as taught me in school, of the Norman validation of their invasion and subsequent ruthless, barbaric suppression and enslavement of the English.
The period has long interested me in part because for two years I attended a school near the towns of Battle and Hastings.
William was 'sold' to us youngsters at school as a great benefit for England.
I soon began to doubt this.
William when he died was strongly hated by the vast majority of the English and he knew it, not a good legacy.
I certainly dispute the remarks about slavery.
One of the many clues to the bias of the Norman version of history is the relatively few slaves the English owned prior to the conquest while the Normans reduced the population to 'serfs', slaves by any other name.
Eventually from subsequent further reading I discovered a very different version of these events exists which reads like a classical tragedy.
That of a country most civilised most, democratic and one of the wealthiest in Europe lead by a very popular elected king, reduced to slavery, serfdom and run by robber barons.
An England much as it's again becoming today, still run by a few powerful families bent on exploitation rather than the interests of the common good, protected by a thin veneer of hard won democracy.😉🙂
Something to think on, linking the two times. We are more civilized in our evils today.
@@sherryleary7972 agreed although I think we should be careful not to judge 'then' by 'today' standards.
"more civilized in our evils today", an interesting comment, that said I don't think human nature has changed.
Almost without exception the good get better, the bad get worse.
William did not create England. But I have also heard that
France got what it deserved ww2
I realised we are lied to in the official/school version when you realise that this marked the beginning of animosity between England and France it's funny how one doesn't find anything of war between the two before 1066 but inexplicably and most coincidentally it starts shortly after. What a case of diverted anger by the new elite to turn the repressed population against a foreign foe. Also if legitimate king then surely he takes over but the establishment remains as their system should have been the basis of his legitimate claim but no they were banished often off to Kiev - interesting with the current goings on and a free settlement was founded in the Crimea and many served in the Varangians of the Byzantine empire. Also the Jews came over after the conquest, maybe it's because Jewish bankers in Rouen particularly helped finance the endeavour actually. Also how sketchy apart from Edward the confessor and Harold who was a Harold II of England actually as a context it's like England had no history prior bit like Arabia is sketchy about pre Islam history. The phenomena of condemn and deny. The Domesday book was developed upon the survey of Edward the confessor hence the TRE which notes who owned what during his time the previous books were "lost" um destroyed by the Normans once they had completed their listing of their gains. The stone castles were rarely to defend the nation but to secure their own place as occupiers . Also wondered why we don't have an independence day or liberation day the actual reason is that we still live under a conquering regime!
I descend from William the Conqueror on my maternal and paternal sides (found out my parents are 19th cousins/22nd cousins). My parents' common male ancestor (where their trees overlap) is Robert III King of Scotland, who descends from Robert II, Robert the Bruce, and William the Conqueror.
Through my mother (which is fewer generations back to get to William) William the Conqueror is my Great Grandfather x30. Definitely an interesting fun fact at parties, but many people descend from him, as well as other royalty and nobles.
Who is your gateway ancestor?
Hi Cousin!
Pure fantasy
France got what it deserved ww2
The fact you think he's good, makes me sick
Thanks for the fascinating upload!
As a far distant relative of John de la Warde, Captain of the Guards for William the Conqueror..
this extended my understanding of the life and times of WtC.
Excellent chronology and implications of the invasion.
An excellent and enjoyable historical documentary. I knew the story well, but still learned a few things here and there, particularly regarding the lands and estates given to his friends from Normandy. One complaint, though, I found the occasional close-ups of some unknown persons eyes or mouth an unwelcome distraction.
Great documentary, excellent source of information and very well narrated....let down at the end by a pointless question but it doesn't matter, I enjoyed the show.
Amazing video! Informative and very well narrated and edited. Thank you!
I am a descendant by name via English translation from a soldier at The Battle known then as Ble'. My descent from The Conquer is via William Bradford and the Grosvenors and then backwards through many of the kings and queens of many European countries. It is very humbling!
Love History a member of my family came with. William in 1066.very interesting .
I believe it to be hard to picture William as either/or. Had he bad sides? Yes. Had he good sides? Surely. And in between, for better or worse, he had a huge impact on history, not least setting the premises and ground work for what later would be an empire.
Great video my husband is related to William the Conqueror. I love all of your videos makes me want to learn more history.
YES! Been looking on the channel for this and couldn't find it. Well in.
Thanks. I mentioned it before, but i think next couple of months is a good time to release Cnut the Great. Vinland Saga is still airing and as far as i know it's most popular anime of the season, so some people might be interested to know more about real Cnut.
Had a feeling ....
That name rings bells via that show
A historical viking anime?
Very good and thorough video about William the C.
Very good documentary!
I just have to point out, that the narrator's voice and clarity of speach is outstanding! Excellent job!
Exceptional coverage of a great man!
I've always found William the Conquerer fascinating, despite all that was thrown at him, from being born an illegitimate son and fighting for his duchy from a young age, to conquering England and eventually ruling as king. Rightly or wrongly, he fought with all his being for what he believed were rightly his. His determination should be an inspiration I'd think to those in adversity.
A tradition that was handed down to me is that the Munro clan went to Normandy and sacked William the Conquerer's castle. When they came home, they wrote "Fallais is Burning" across their family banner. This is the origin of the Foulis title. And from that comes the Fallis family name.
Do you know if there are any historical sources to back up this story?
I doubt it.
Complete drivel.
@@monkeytennis8861 I have researched as far as a couple hours on the internet will allow. The origin of the clan and their first award in battle date back far enough. I have to take into account the fact that most of the Munros were illiterate and therefore historical records are thin. The title appeared about the same time that William I was consolidating his hold on England.
I also have to take into account that bragging about battles whether they happened or not was a way of life. As far as I'm concerned, the facts that have survived neither prove nor disprove this claim.
Fabulously presented! Thanks x
Amazing video! So well done. Thank you.
he was a real bastard...I'll see my way out ....
Taxi for Dennis. 😂😂
(It made me laugh mate. Good on Ya)
Better than any "Official" documentaries made about King William, as far as I've seen. Thanks for this beautiful work.
Cheers from Srilanka.
Can’t beat English history.great content as always!
Lots of other histories beat out England's history easily.
@@coxmosia1 He's just stating his opinion bud. Don't cry about it.
@@RunninUpThatHillh And I am stating my opinion. Don't cry about it.
History..the best subject ever.
@RunninUpThatHillh anyone that disagrees with anything is "crying" fucking lmao
Fantastic video keep it up you're doing amazing job also can you make a video about mehmed ii or umar ibn abdul aziz aka umar ii
Thanks and sure
Love this!! thanks for sharing I always love learning something new about this topic :)
Great documentary
I really enjoyed this film, very interesting and I learned a few things I didn't know. I believe William despite his harrying of the North was a very strong and just king, for his time. Everyone in those days was a tough character.
To answer your question "What do you think about William the Conqueror?", and having given 2 options...I would say that he was almost certainly, both of those things.
This is excellent. Thank you !
Excellent work. Thank you
i liked it! well done.
Thats not exactly true about slavery not being banned untill the 19th century in England.
Slavery was actually banned in England in 1102 and many slavery cases have referred to this fact since. Including the famous Somerset case of 1772 which repeated the line that "as soon as a Slave set foot in England he is free" . After the Somerset case another 15,000 former slaves found their freedom in England.
if you were a serf, you weren't allowed to own property, live whereto wanted or marry without your lord's permission and were obliged to spend a proportion of your time working his land. This was the case until the Black Death started to modify the system 3 centuries later. Sounds a lot like slavery to me.
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A slave was just property and could be bought and sold and separated from family members. A self was not bought and sold and lived with his family in the same area for generations. Neither were great, but sefs weren't slaves.
Great man blood of Rollo the Viking. Bless him de Clare are his bloodline. Very good work on the Norman history.
Fantastic video.
03:33 I'm not used to average people confusing the words ancestors and descendents let alone historians. Such a shame.
To the French he's William the conqueror ,to us he's William the bastard
But without William, England would not have been England.
@@xavierbouchez9227 ya it would have, it just would have been different. Without any of the English kings england would not have been at all the same as it is today
Thankyou for your very interesting lecture
William the Conqueror is known as also William the first. Also after Charles the Third is deceased when his time comes as well his son William will be known as William the V if he chooses to remain with the name. And probably will be the first William in a long time Royal House of the UK. I don't know I think it really suits Prince William to be King William with the name after William the Conqueror.
Prince William at 6’3, and his mothers genes is probably the most Norman looking future king in a long time though.
Harold's army was forced march from Stamford Bridge to Battle in Sussex which was a hard exercise for his Anglo-Saxon and Anglo-Danish troops.
Fascinating! Easy to fallow. So Imformative and fun.
Brings me back to Medieval II
I like that we find things today that prove a lot of historical writing; like they found Richard III under a parking lot or some such and it proved he died as violently as they said . And Ima look you probably already covered her but I’m looking for an Empress Matilda doc, she never gets the press she’s deserved because of being a woman during a time of huge male personalities.
yes, an Empress Matilda doc would be welcome as would one on Eleanor of
Aquataine. both amazing lives.
@@fredfrantz855 there’s one for eleanor but yes mathilda would be great
Huge male personalities? Tell me more.
Shakespeare hunchback king was long thought to be a case of victors character assassination and a brilliant smear but it appears that he had scoliosis so it was basically true
Awesome thank you 💜
Really enjoyed this is a real documentary thanks !
From watching this it gives a more realistic outlook whilst overall he taught us a lesson, possibly gave us great military tactics. I don't know too much details but i would say he wanted the title, ruling of Kingship but did not really care to live here, seen Normandy as his home, did not care for the people of England. As after he conquered the land he only returned when he needed to. He never justified his actions seems really harsh almost as if the English were not people to him, as he let so many die, and they did not die just in battle but of famine also. Did not by the sounds of it even consider the consequences of his actions.
He suppressed England and tried to choke the life out of us, may have done so if he had conquered Ireland. He sounds Power mad, when rebelled against he would deal the most lethal blow he could possibly think of.
The fact he stayed in Normandy when his son could have ruled and they could have been allies, been less malice shows his character is Me, me and me. He puts himself above all else. Probably a spoilt kid with loads of confidence, arrogant thought he was above the rest. To be honest that worked in his favor. But not for the people who were just trying to get by.
Man, you have to know very little to call him spoiled kid. His childhood and teen age were horrible, his mentors were assasinated being in same room, his heritage and his life were challenged by number of barons, he hid among peasants and could not even read, if it somehow affected him then only by hardening his character and leading him to become one of greatest military and politic leaders of human history.
Okay well he clearly lacked empathy for the British, there is no mistake. He did not want to rule the British just control them, punish. Also I can think what I want the guy was a tyrant. I don’t care what he accomplished.
he was a bastard, literally and metaphorically
very well done x
This is amazing. I thought i knew pretty much all there was to know about the battle of Hastings and william the conqueror but there was so much i didnt know. Thank you so much for this amazing piece of work love it 😘😍
Maybe Harold took an arrow to the knee and wasn’t able to get his sweet rolls. (Was talking about 33:18. Yes I used an old Skyrim meme)
I'm a descendant of William the Conqueror. Thank you for posting this.
The Normans, my people just with another flavor.
Interesting. If Harold had defeated William at Hastings, after defeating the Norwegians at Stamford Bridge in the north, he would have been remembered as one of the greatest heroes of English history.
How different would history be if not for Stamford Bridge? Crazy to think when you consider what the Normans brought to the country.
His uncle was my direct ancestor. Rollo and Richard III were my ancestors, too.
He was my direct ancestor.
@@eleanoraquitaine2966 I’m his Grandfather
@@intothemultiverse1033 You're William the Conqueror's grandfather? Okey dokey.
It's strange how many Americans claim this , but no one in England does (unless aristocracy, which is less than 1% of the population).
@@mitchamcommonfair9543 Anyone anywhere can track back their ancestry to see who their ancestors were. Do you really think all descendants of someone have to live in the same country to be an actual descendant? Good grief.
Great information!! My dads descendants come to America in 1636 they are of Welsh heritage. It is believed that my dads descendants were followers of William the Conqueror.
You mean his ancestors. You are a descendant of your dad. I can't believe how many people get the 2 words mixed up.
@@pedanticradiator1491 At least you know what I meant . Thanks for correcting me, we all need to be ,at times. Most people would be butt hurt , but I’m not . I come from a strong line of women. !!!!!
Welsh also who fled King Charles because they were Quakers.(Paternal side). William the Conqueror on (Maternal side) Mayflower.
France got what it deserved ww2
To much water gone under the bridge,to come to any conclusions about William of Normandy.A man of his time, helped cultivate the locals of the period.Amen