Superb video Alex!! The period from Malcolm and Margaret through to the emergence of the Bruce dynasty has always been my favourites, even though it's best described with the old social media 'relationship tag' of "it's complicated" Encore !
It was by the victory of the Battle of the Standard that William Le Gross earned his Earldom of Yorkshire, going on to build Scarborough Castle, from which he ruled 'like a King', over Yorkshire & it's region. If that battle had gone the other way, then Yorkshire might have been added to the northern Kingdom, which would have changed the dynamics of the power system of the whole island of Britain. Indeed one could imagine a renewed Northumbria, able to hold it's own with the rulers of the rest of England, but more importantly, able to buffer both kingdoms against attacks from each other. It's a pity that the familial links across the three regions were never quite enough to overcome the mutual hostility, for the later wars between the 2 Kingdoms need not have happened, & instead an earlier, & eventually happier, union of both Crowns, & Nations could have occurred. One of the first things Henry Plantagenet did, in securing his own position as King of England, was to put Le Gross out of his position, & to take over Scarborough, turning it into a major Royal Castle, & associated Borough. Henry replaced Le Gross's timber fortress with the extant great Keep, & curtain walls, which were much strengthened with towers etc, by his son John & the following Kings. The Bruce family held Manors at Guisborough & Pickering, & the Percies at Seamer near Scarborough.
Henry (Percy) de Percy (abt. 1160 - 1198) Born about 1160 in Alnwick, Northumberland. Husband of Isabel (Bruce) Mauduit - married about 1190 in Yorkshire, England. One of my ancestors was captured at Shrewsbury and was later executed.
It’s a pleasure to encounter the depth of detail you present. I’m going to have to listen to this more than once, in order to straighten out some of the relationships and kings’ names. It’s amazing how endless the wars were. How did ordinary people survive having armies marching through and scrounging the peasants’ food and supplies? Watching from Minnesota, USA.
Have to remind myself sometimes how lucky i am living in the North East as we kind of have it all historywise right on our doorstep. I fish beside a roman bridge and also downsteam where the Viking hogbacks were discovered,got married in a Saxon church then had our honeymoon at Warkworth,Stephenson Railway is where i walk my dogs its everywhere!
I'm related to both David and Henry I such a interesting family tree I love learning more about my Scottish ancestry and have traveled to Scotland for two summers just to visit areas where my relatives came from.
Excellent and very intresting, the Anarchy is definitely one of my favourite periods of history, so much going....thanks very much for creating the content😀👍
@@jackdubz4247 That is incorrect. There are at least five people groups in Scotland and the same in England, there are just political national borders that exist.
Great video, and very informative. It is strange, that although Matilda won the civil war, and Stephen was captured, she did not gain the throne. Since her son Henry did become King, hers was the final victory?
I would like you to do a video of Henry Beauclerc from a Northern perspective and then, if you have the time, The Anarchy which I have read about but not seriously looked into. Another excellent video, especially that of a great Scots monarch who happens not to be Robert Bruce.
As the son of Margaret of Wessex (herself the grand-daughter of King Edmund Ironside), after her death David was actually the rightful King of England had the House of Normandy failed
Okay, but David brought an end to the native (Celto-Brythonic-Anglic) Scottish kingdom by importing Anglo-Norman fuedalism proper. He had no loyalty to the old ways. True, it brought the Scottish kingdom into the feudal mainstream, created vast wealth and military structure. It allowed him, the church and his dynasty to play feudal power games. But he stands beside William 1 in being guilty of subjecting these islands to 800 years of oligarchic rule under the most brutal and successfully intractable system of enforced privilage in human history. So much so even today we think it is normal. Norman feudalism was not natural or intrinsically good, it was just really brilliant at keeping the feudal class at the top, and most people at the squalid bottom. Nothing to celebrate. I imagine while being brought-up in the Anglo-Norman court he cottoned-on that Norman feadalism was a hell of a good way of taming his own kingdom to his own advantage. You can call it progress, but dragging in foreign lords (Bruces, Balliols et al) to lord it over your own people could just as easily be called treason. Discuss.
I enjoyed the history lesson but found that I was getting a bit fuddled when at the beginning you were speaking about David 1st then in amongst that, you started to bring in Henry 1st and I was unsure whether you were speaking about David or Henry! Although, I eventually worked out what information belonged to what king. I have listened and read about my history (Scotland) over many years and if I could get confused, what then are those who are new to this particular subject likely to feel!
It's not easy sometimes and you have to try to make it as simple as possible. I'm sorry you got confused and I do keep that in mind whenever I'm making episodes.
@delskioffskinov not at all! I wish I could make more faster! I just need to work, sleep and spend time with my family too 😄! Really glad you enjoy them!
There are a number of Scottish Clans that claim descent from the Normans that settled in the border region. It is suggested that David I may have been responsible for that.
@@nedkellysghost1086 you do not need to! I get things confused all the time and honestly, it is good to check things because there is so much to remember all the time!
@AlexIlesUK Thank you. I am really enjoying your productions, as most of these great historical figures are my direct ancestors. Like the Canmore and Dunkeld kings, Alt clut, etc. Thank you for bringing them to life. I was blown away to find that Boudica is my 53rd great-grandmother. Keep up the great work. From the great Southern land. Many thanks, mate.
There never has been Kings or Queens of Scotland. They are Kings or Queens of Scots, only. They can rule the people, but our land belongs to the Scottish people...!
@@scarba I was being serious, not condescending. I am not being unpleasant to you. If you are upset I have not intended that and honestly, I am nice to my audience, I respond, learn and improve as much as I can.
Robert Curthose was neither kidnapped nor starved to death. He was captured in battle by Henry I and spent the rest of his life- 28 years- in comfortable captivity.
@Dragon-Lady yes, I do a lot of reading and while Robert wax important, for the native of the episode he doesn't have as much impact as Henry or David so I needed to mention him, but got him mixed up with Richard and didn't realise in editing!
Alex, can you do a video on the Scotii (Scots) when they arrived from Central Europe and landed in today's Ireland in the 1st century, the Greeks and Romans called today Ireland as Scotia ie the Land of the Scots, it's my understanding that there were many tribes in todays Ireland but it was not called Ireland until far later, the Scots are not Irish as they arrived long before it was named Ireland? Later the name changed from Scotia, to Hibernia, and later on Ireland.
@@AlexIlesUKI have corcu loidge DNA markers, with two corcu loidge family lines in my family history. Do one on the corcu loidge and the kings of munster. The true indigenous people's of these islands.
your wee map is wrong Kelso is on the north banks of tweed and Roxburgh is just about three miles south west of kelso on the south side of the river tweed ...
Robert Curthose was kidnapped and starved to death in captivity? Robert Curthose was captured after the Battle of Tinchebray and spent 28 years as his brother's prisoner in fairly comfortable circumstances. He would die at the age of 83 which was a tremendous lifespan for someone in the Middle Ages.
I'm sorry, occasionally I make mistakes as I am remembering a lot of information and get people mixed up, but he was removed from any possible influence and involvement of politics.
Get those tablets down you lad. Plenty more researched and nuanced history inbound. Just a wee disclaimer for you though: check first that the anti-nausea tablets have wee tartan kilts on them else they might get stuck in your throat on the way down.
As a Northumbrian and a Scotiaphile, I found this riveting. I might just go through it again take notes.🙏
Thank you!
Join Scotland ;)
Love the information about the early history of the Robert De Bruce family! Those early seeds would bear fruit. Well done!
Aye Smoggy Normans, that's what the Bruce's are!
I could listen to you all day! Thank you.
Wow, thank you! That's a big compliment!
Superb video Alex!!
The period from Malcolm and Margaret through to the emergence of the Bruce dynasty has always been my favourites, even though it's best described with the old social media 'relationship tag' of "it's complicated"
Encore !
I'll keep trying and you are welcome!
It was by the victory of the Battle of the Standard that William Le Gross earned his Earldom of Yorkshire, going on to build Scarborough Castle, from which he ruled 'like a King', over Yorkshire & it's region. If that battle had gone the other way, then Yorkshire might have been added to the northern Kingdom, which would have changed the dynamics of the power system of the whole island of Britain. Indeed one could imagine a renewed Northumbria, able to hold it's own with the rulers of the rest of England, but more importantly, able to buffer both kingdoms against attacks from each other. It's a pity that the familial links across the three regions were never quite enough to overcome the mutual hostility, for the later wars between the 2 Kingdoms need not have happened, & instead an earlier, & eventually happier, union of both Crowns, & Nations could have occurred. One of the first things Henry Plantagenet did, in securing his own position as King of England, was to put Le Gross out of his position, & to take over Scarborough, turning it into a major Royal Castle, & associated Borough. Henry replaced Le Gross's timber fortress with the extant great Keep, & curtain walls, which were much strengthened with towers etc, by his son John & the following Kings. The Bruce family held Manors at Guisborough & Pickering, & the Percies at Seamer near Scarborough.
It's amazing how small things have such a huge impact isn't it!
Henry (Percy) de Percy (abt. 1160 - 1198)
Born about 1160 in Alnwick, Northumberland.
Husband of Isabel (Bruce) Mauduit - married about 1190 in Yorkshire, England.
One of my ancestors was captured at Shrewsbury and was later executed.
It’s a pleasure to encounter the depth of detail you present. I’m going to have to listen to this more than once, in order to straighten out some of the relationships and kings’ names. It’s amazing how endless the wars were. How did ordinary people survive having armies marching through and scrounging the peasants’ food and supplies? Watching from Minnesota, USA.
I'm going to do episodes on what happened, but it wasn't easy!
Thanks for this. I live in the North East, Sunderland, and this is almost all news to me!
Glad to have done it then! It's a fantastic bit of history
Thanks for this Alex, extremely well put together brother!
Thank you!
@@AlexIlesUK you’re very welcome
Nice to see Kelso Abbey, such a special place!
I really like it as a place too!
Have to remind myself sometimes how lucky i am living in the North East as we kind of have it all historywise right on our doorstep.
I fish beside a roman bridge and also downsteam where the Viking hogbacks were discovered,got married in a Saxon church then had our honeymoon at Warkworth,Stephenson Railway is where i walk my dogs its everywhere!
It's truly amazing isn't it!
It's Stephenson not Stevenson.
@@davidkemp4212 Thank you for that,edit done.✌️
I'm related to both David and Henry I such a interesting family tree I love learning more about my Scottish ancestry and have traveled to Scotland for two summers just to visit areas where my relatives came from.
Hope you enjoyed your trip
David is my 24th great grandfather. I find this so cool!
Excellent and very intresting, the Anarchy is definitely one of my favourite periods of history, so much going....thanks very much for creating the content😀👍
You are welcome and since doing this research it's becoming a big favourite of mine too!
incredible breakdown! big ups 🙌🙌
Thank you!
Another great video about a complicated but fascinating time in Scottish/ English history.
Much appreciated!
It's not all that complicated. The Scots are one people and the English are another. There's a border between the two countries for a reason.
@@jackdubz4247 That is incorrect. There are at least five people groups in Scotland and the same in England, there are just political national borders that exist.
Great video, and very informative. It is strange, that although Matilda won the civil war, and Stephen was captured, she did not gain the throne. Since her son Henry did become King, hers was the final victory?
I believe after Stephens son died he adopted Henry Plantagenet so that he had legitimacy from both sides.
Please expand to do all parts of Britain/History and indeed foreign history, from a new subscriber.
It's on the cards!
My favourite king of Scots and Scotland.
Mine too!
I would like you to do a video of Henry Beauclerc from a Northern perspective and then, if you have the time, The Anarchy which I have read about but not seriously looked into. Another excellent video, especially that of a great Scots monarch who happens not to be Robert Bruce.
I'll put it on the list! Going to do more research and writing shortly for filming now the tourism season is coming to a close.
Great video mate 👏
Thank you!
Very interesting.
Than you
As the son of Margaret of Wessex (herself the grand-daughter of King Edmund Ironside), after her death David was actually the rightful King of England had the House of Normandy failed
Very true
I’ll comment again once I’ve had a chance to watch.
Just had to help the algorithm a wee bit 😬
Thank you!
@@AlexIlesUK always my friend 😎
Okay, but David brought an end to the native (Celto-Brythonic-Anglic) Scottish kingdom by importing Anglo-Norman fuedalism proper. He had no loyalty to the old ways. True, it brought the Scottish kingdom into the feudal mainstream, created vast wealth and military structure. It allowed him, the church and his dynasty to play feudal power games. But he stands beside William 1 in being guilty of subjecting these islands to 800 years of oligarchic rule under the most brutal and successfully intractable system of enforced privilage in human history. So much so even today we think it is normal. Norman feudalism was not natural or intrinsically good, it was just really brilliant at keeping the feudal class at the top, and most people at the squalid bottom. Nothing to celebrate. I imagine while being brought-up in the Anglo-Norman court he cottoned-on that Norman feadalism was a hell of a good way of taming his own kingdom to his own advantage. You can call it progress, but dragging in foreign lords (Bruces, Balliols et al) to lord it over your own people could just as easily be called treason. Discuss.
To believe that anything before his reforms was egalitarian is folly.
Other than cathedrals the Normans were a total disaster. Ethnic cleansing!
I enjoyed the history lesson but found that I was getting a bit fuddled when at the beginning you were speaking about David 1st then in amongst that, you started to bring in Henry 1st and I was unsure whether you were speaking about David or Henry! Although, I eventually worked out what information belonged to what king. I have listened and read about my history (Scotland) over many years and if I could get confused, what then are those who are new to this particular subject likely to feel!
It's not easy sometimes and you have to try to make it as simple as possible. I'm sorry you got confused and I do keep that in mind whenever I'm making episodes.
It's always to long between videos Alex! I know you've got a life but just but! lol! another crackin video bud Thank You!
It's only a week!! Haha, I'm doing my best to work towards being more regular and twice a week. Lots more planned and thank you!
@@AlexIlesUK I just noticed last week's upload after I watched this one lol sorry Alex I'm a dick only sometimes lol!
@delskioffskinov not at all! I wish I could make more faster! I just need to work, sleep and spend time with my family too 😄! Really glad you enjoy them!
I am indeed named after my great king.
Love it
There are a number of Scottish Clans that claim descent from the Normans that settled in the border region. It is suggested that David I may have been responsible for that.
Entirely!
@@AlexIlesUK Would he be responsible for my mother's Anglo-Norman Montgomery family settling in Ayrshire Scotland from Wales?
@@tobyplumlee7602 That is likely but I would need to know more about the circumstances to comment properly.
King Henri, the 1st's son, William, is referred to as 'William clito'
Isnt that the son of Robert Curthose, not Henry?
@AlexIlesUK my mistake, and my apologies, Alex.
@@nedkellysghost1086 you do not need to! I get things confused all the time and honestly, it is good to check things because there is so much to remember all the time!
@AlexIlesUK Thank you. I am really enjoying your productions, as most of these great historical figures are my direct ancestors. Like the Canmore and Dunkeld kings, Alt clut, etc. Thank you for bringing them to life. I was blown away to find that Boudica is my 53rd great-grandmother.
Keep up the great work. From the great Southern land. Many thanks, mate.
How did you work that out? She's got no living descendants. She killed her daughters and committed suicide.
There never has been Kings or Queens of Scotland. They are Kings or Queens of Scots, only. They can rule the people, but our land belongs to the Scottish people...!
Well as the Scots originated in Ulster, and they invaded from the 4th century, where is the land of the Scottish people?
@@AlexIlesUKI think you’re being rather pedantic here, you know what was meant.
@@scarba I feel the same can be said of your comment.
@@AlexIlesUK no you mean didactic. It was a teachable moment. Be nice to your audience. You were unnecessarily condescending.
@@scarba I was being serious, not condescending. I am not being unpleasant to you. If you are upset I have not intended that and honestly, I am nice to my audience, I respond, learn and improve as much as I can.
Alex were these the same Percys that Hot Spur was later born of?
Yes.
I bet the people in that extension wish they were part of Scotland now.
Depends, the local identity is quite unique, people are proudly North Eastern.
Why?
@PresidentHedgehog7956 why not.
@AlexIlesUK Scottish yes voters want to be in the EU.
@@AlexIlesUK Have you ever heard of kalergi?
Robert Curthose was neither kidnapped nor starved to death. He was captured in battle by Henry I and spent the rest of his life- 28 years- in comfortable captivity.
I've mentioned this in another comment, I sometimes get things wrong. I got him confused with someone else.
@@AlexIlesUK Fair enough. :) My guess is you were thinking of Richard II.
@Dragon-Lady yes, I do a lot of reading and while Robert wax important, for the native of the episode he doesn't have as much impact as Henry or David so I needed to mention him, but got him mixed up with Richard and didn't realise in editing!
Alex, can you do a video on the Scotii (Scots) when they arrived from Central Europe and landed in today's Ireland in the 1st century, the Greeks and Romans called today Ireland as Scotia ie the Land of the Scots, it's my understanding that there were many tribes in todays Ireland but it was not called Ireland until far later, the Scots are not Irish as they arrived long before it was named Ireland? Later the name changed from Scotia, to Hibernia, and later on Ireland.
I'll have to read up on that as it feels like that's slightly mythological but I'll see what I can find
@@AlexIlesUKI have corcu loidge DNA markers, with two corcu loidge family lines in my family history. Do one on the corcu loidge and the kings of munster. The true indigenous people's of these islands.
@loxism72 again, I don't know much about that topic, but 'please' or a 'can you' goes a long way
If you could talk at half speed, or even less, it would be so much easier to absord the information. Also, try varying the pace of delivery, please!
Thank you for your feedback, good to hear what different people are saying, hope your tours are going well.
Am from chester le street and am trying to find if have any norman ancesrty and watching this makes me think there is a good chance.
Well, as the Romans do not base romanness on ethnicity, but instead on citizenship, you could be descended from someone who was a Roman citizen.
your wee map is wrong Kelso is on the north banks of tweed and Roxburgh is just about three miles south west of kelso on the south side of the river tweed ...
Can you give a timestamp?
@@AlexIlesUK 4.57 ..
@StevieMoore-q3c thank you
Ah the last viking battle in Scotland. Would the be Cruden Bay?
I don't think it's that one, as I wouldn't call Cnute a viking, it's hard to decide when the last one is.
Thought last viking/ scots battle was largs?@@AlexIlesUK
@robertjblackley2632 so by that point Norway was Christian and it's not a Viking battle but a territorial battle over land.
@robertjblackley2632 so by that point Norway was Christian and it's not a Viking battle but a territorial battle over land.
@@AlexIlesUK cheers, ps really enjoyed story of david1👍
Robert Curthose was kidnapped and starved to death in captivity?
Robert Curthose was captured after the Battle of Tinchebray and spent 28 years as his brother's prisoner in fairly comfortable circumstances. He would die at the age of 83 which was a tremendous lifespan for someone in the Middle Ages.
I'm sorry, occasionally I make mistakes as I am remembering a lot of information and get people mixed up, but he was removed from any possible influence and involvement of politics.
Hoot mon!Did he invent Edinburgh Rock too?🏴
I'll have a look into it 😜
I hate the hierarchy now days would of been way worse back then in the past. Always knobs being over others and causing troubles. But thanks mate
That's one way of looking at it :) glad you enjoyed it!
Robert the Bruce was my ancestor
Cool.
Regarding the Isles in red. You disrespect the power of the Gaels. The red should go down to inverkeithing.
We don't know the territorial extent of many people these areas so it's always a bit of guessing work.
@@AlexIlesUK Take a trip to Dunblane or guess who was on top of Stirling before the Norman and Walloons arrived.
@@martincain7909 Hillforts?
@@AlexIlesUK Lot more horse trading loci and since the 6th century Catholic schools.
One can only take so much British Nationalist "Scotland and England were always destined to be together" propaganda before the nausea kicks in.
Get those tablets down you lad. Plenty more researched and nuanced history inbound. Just a wee disclaimer for you though: check first that the anti-nausea tablets have wee tartan kilts on them else they might get stuck in your throat on the way down.
Talk to fast . had to watch your video 3 times ..:}First Norman scots king to bring in coinage into scotland
Thanks for the watches and the feedback!
He lives on Tyneside. This is actually the pace we speak at, even though he's a transplant.
I live in Darlington that sits beside the river Tees and don't know how to feel thinking that once in the past I could of been a Jock!
Another level of complexitiy to the difficult question of what is Darlington's identity?
A "J---"? Why the need to throw in such a racist/xenophobic epithet?
House of judah
Where do you lot come from?
It is not sad that Scotland's authority over England as far as the River Tees did not last after King David's l death!!!!!!! Not at all sad.
Agree to disagree.
Learn about the harrowing of the north and what the new Norman regime did to the people in the north....
David I father Malcolm III was also Prince of the Cumbrians so this title had nothing to do with the Norman king John.
I don't belive I mentioned King John in the episode.
That was in the previous episode of this series.
Ana'chy.
Anarchy
@@AlexIlesUK I thought it was pronounced more like "Anuchy"
Not all British people speak like they are a SAS soldier in Call of Duty!
The bruce family owene the land around around Where i live Billingham seal sands Greetham creek Seaton Crewe..south of Hartlepool
That's right, a bunch of Norman Smogies ;)
I does remember the crew of the ship was drunk and accident happend at night
Were you on the ship?