The Deadly History of the Spanish Inquisition

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  • Опубліковано 10 тра 2024
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  • @ghaznavid
    @ghaznavid Місяць тому +1393

    I wasn't expecting the Spanish Inquisition.

    • @breadmoth6443
      @breadmoth6443 Місяць тому +257

      nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!

    • @alexander-mauricemillamlae4567
      @alexander-mauricemillamlae4567 Місяць тому +24

      the spanish inquisition would still be around if they'd had trained drop bears as inquisitors.

    • @Burgo361
      @Burgo361 Місяць тому +55

      I was way too slow to say this, I guess I wasn't ready for the Spanish Inquisition

    • @4362mont
      @4362mont Місяць тому +43

      No-one does.

    • @chcknpie04
      @chcknpie04 Місяць тому +41

      Our chief weapon is fear!

  • @COSMOKRAT_616
    @COSMOKRAT_616 Місяць тому +516

    We apologise for all the comments about not expecting the spanish inquisition. Those responsible have been sacked.

    • @brera2434
      @brera2434 Місяць тому +21

      But what about the moose!?

    • @jamesindustryst
      @jamesindustryst Місяць тому +18

      Moose bites can be pretty nasty…

    • @bogisimonsen471
      @bogisimonsen471 Місяць тому +1

      Correct but that is nothing compair to the bite of the Nine of dimonds.. ​@@jamesindustryst

    • @RossTheBossTrotter
      @RossTheBossTrotter Місяць тому +7

      Sincerely, Gary the Wonder LLama......

    • @daydays12
      @daydays12 Місяць тому +4

      I should hope so. The lack of empathy is appalling

  • @gregbors8364
    @gregbors8364 Місяць тому +651

    I wasn’t expecting so many comments about not expecting the Spanish Inquisition

  • @arlesthegreat
    @arlesthegreat Місяць тому +98

    ‘The Spanish Inquisition wasn’t as bad as you think! And now for a message from today’s sponsor: the Spanish inquisition!!’

    • @madness8556
      @madness8556 Місяць тому +2

      ROTFLMFAO 😅😅😅😅

    • @user-iv2iu2wf4w
      @user-iv2iu2wf4w 25 днів тому

      Not the comfy chair!

    • @scottflues9442
      @scottflues9442 2 дні тому

      It's interesting. What happened to Spain? Especially after all, the Jews were expelled that Empire, the game severely diminished in its stature and status and really became a backseat player. And at the time, Spain was one of the most powerful empires in the world. It would be a lot like my company if we fired all the Jews. They're smart. Major brain drain

    • @Candyohh
      @Candyohh 7 годин тому

      Yeah, the Germans of the same time were way worse.

  • @juanlapuente833
    @juanlapuente833 Місяць тому +134

    I wasn't expecting this objectivity

  • @hughjass1044
    @hughjass1044 Місяць тому +94

    I never expected to learn so much new about The Spanish Inquisition!

    • @raewren
      @raewren Місяць тому +5

      Nobody expects…

    • @b3ans4eva
      @b3ans4eva Місяць тому +4

      I’ll bring the comfy chair.

    • @charlenebaganzmoore
      @charlenebaganzmoore Місяць тому

      Um. So why couldn't people be Jewish or Muslim or goddess/God worshippers. Elizabeth didn't care what you did behind closed doors just as long as you were faithful to the crown. She did not even want to kill Mary.

    • @raewren
      @raewren Місяць тому

      @@charlenebaganzmoore Elizabeth was Queen of England, not Spain. She really didn’t have much to play in this in the long run.
      But her older sister was a demon. It’s a good thing my ancestor had children before Bloody Mary had him executed.

  • @carlkamuti
    @carlkamuti Місяць тому +180

    13:50 You got your maths wrong, 0.015% of 87,000 would have been 13 people. The true percentage of death sentences is 1.5%

    • @maytheus
      @maytheus Місяць тому +34

      Came here to say the same thing. Errata like this makes the rest of the information less reliable. They really need to work on accuracy in the Whistlerverse. Where is Lorelei to call out these blunders?

    • @Asiago9
      @Asiago9 Місяць тому +22

      Was probably just forgetting to multiply by 100, leaving it in decimal instead of percentage, not that big of a mistake

    • @Southlander1000
      @Southlander1000 Місяць тому +40

      @@maytheus I'll let you in on a secret about historians: a significant number of us are very poor at math. Don't let it throw you.

    • @timotheos8289
      @timotheos8289 Місяць тому +15

      It’s a simple mistake but a HUGE one!

    • @docverit2668
      @docverit2668 Місяць тому

      ua-cam.com/video/qhlAqklH0do/v-deo.html

  • @macmcelveen1241
    @macmcelveen1241 Місяць тому +35

    I love the teleprompter reflection every time i watch.

    • @justme2848
      @justme2848 Місяць тому +3

      I never noticed it until you mentioned it but yeah it's there 😂

    • @CasperInkyMagoo
      @CasperInkyMagoo Місяць тому

      Where?

    • @justme2848
      @justme2848 Місяць тому +2

      @@CasperInkyMagoo in his glasses if you zoom in and look at his glasses you can see the teleprompter

    • @CasperInkyMagoo
      @CasperInkyMagoo Місяць тому +1

      @@justme2848 it looks like the reflection of the same type of wall that’s to his right.

    • @fellipecanal
      @fellipecanal Місяць тому +3

      Probably is a stripbox light with a grid.
      In old days (2007) I worked at one university that teaches journalism.
      They had a studio, the teleprompter stayed below the camera, with the face to ceiling. In front of the camera had a glass to bend the light of the teleprompter to the eyes of the student.
      The letter of the teleprompter doesn't appear to the camera, It was this way to student read the text while look directly to the camera. In journalism when you look directly to the camera give a sensation the reporte is talking directly to you.
      Whit new tech I don't know how is the procedure today, but I doubt is much different.

  • @gjergjcamaj5770
    @gjergjcamaj5770 Місяць тому +118

    Finally an honest overview of the spanish inquisition.

    • @stephendavies6949
      @stephendavies6949 Місяць тому +9

      I wasn't expecting that

    • @teknoaija1762
      @teknoaija1762 Місяць тому

      As honest as any catholic apology video.After all,catholic church has had its controversies again and again.Do you trust their child rape records?O h,there aren t any.

    • @davedavid7061
      @davedavid7061 Місяць тому +2

      It would make a smashing movie

    • @thegood9
      @thegood9 Місяць тому

      no inquisition is a good inquisition.

    • @JimAllen-Persona
      @JimAllen-Persona 25 днів тому +1

      I prefer the Mel Brooks version😂

  • @arpan9937
    @arpan9937 Місяць тому +122

    You can also cover the Goan Inquisition. It's a rather unexplored topic of history, but the things perpetuated by it were rather horrifying.

    • @sendthis9480
      @sendthis9480 Місяць тому +35

      So is the Muslim Conquest of Iberian Peninsula. Nobody talks about that.
      That’s kind of the precursor to all of these: inquisition, crusades, reconquista, etc.

    • @azmike3572
      @azmike3572 Місяць тому +8

      Just doesn't have the same ring..."Nobody expects the Goan Inquisition!"

    • @HarryNicNicholas
      @HarryNicNicholas Місяць тому +1

      that wasn't expected.

    • @Stephanie-mx2cr
      @Stephanie-mx2cr Місяць тому +8

      The PT inquisition, the Captivity of Catholics by Tipu Sultan in Srirangapatnam, the Shivaji Wars and the exodus of Goan refugees to Mangalore - that area has so much neat history but is never popular enough to discuss!

    • @killahp123
      @killahp123 Місяць тому +1

      ​@@Stephanie-mx2cr because europe still has to take a few dozen thousands, it would go down less chill with people if they knew what their guests' ancestors did, the last time around.
      Idc either way, to be frank. Sins of the father and all that

  • @Germanicus2415
    @Germanicus2415 Місяць тому +289

    Spanish inquisition was actually pretty tame compared to the inquisition in England or protestant countries.

    • @SolverCyn-vx1kv
      @SolverCyn-vx1kv Місяць тому +27

      Yep, and the witch thing didn't last long either because that was stupid mainly

    • @sizanogreen9900
      @sizanogreen9900 Місяць тому +8

      I was not expecting that.

    • @SolverCyn-vx1kv
      @SolverCyn-vx1kv Місяць тому +26

      @@sizanogreen9900 Yep, history has many lies and hidden truths

    • @horizonkage
      @horizonkage Місяць тому

      Catholics just being Catholics.
      That is, violent liars when they have power. Let's not return to this.

    • @AmonAnon-vw3hr
      @AmonAnon-vw3hr Місяць тому

      Wait till you hear the truth about life under a caliphate.

  • @richardbrewis436
    @richardbrewis436 Місяць тому +8

    In depth video Into the Shadows🤗. Can't wait for the next one!

  • @Kaltagstar96
    @Kaltagstar96 Місяць тому +67

    Honestly? I really find it interesting that the jails of the Spanish Inquisitions might be in the running for the most pleasant prison of all time (especially for the time period). But then you remember that there's a very good reason why they have the brutal reputation that they do.

    • @anthonyproffitt5341
      @anthonyproffitt5341 Місяць тому

      Jewish colonizers? Why you filled with hate?

    • @ignaciomoreno9655
      @ignaciomoreno9655 Місяць тому

      ​@@UserUser45654 Inevitably? Colonizers? Do you mean the ones that founded a kingdom around three-four thosand years before Mohammed was born?

    • @gonzalosalgadogamboa3352
      @gonzalosalgadogamboa3352 Місяць тому +5

      Quite accurate, fair and balanced work. Congrats and greetings from Spain

    • @personaldove
      @personaldove Місяць тому

      @@UserUser45654 Here we go with the JOOZ.

    • @mikepalmer2219
      @mikepalmer2219 Місяць тому +1

      @@UserUser45654Wow we’re you there to witness these things? Amazing.

  • @ignitionfrn2223
    @ignitionfrn2223 Місяць тому +106

    *The Spanish Inquisition* : _What a show !_

    • @the80hdgaming
      @the80hdgaming Місяць тому +7

      Thank you for bringing up The History of The World part one...

    • @pRODIGAL_sKEPTIC
      @pRODIGAL_sKEPTIC Місяць тому +6

      It's all I could think about the entire video lol

    • @peterkirby1753
      @peterkirby1753 Місяць тому +3

      Great. Now I have that song stuck in my head 🤣

    • @crimsonking440
      @crimsonking440 Місяць тому +6

      Let's begin
      The inquisition
      Look out, sin!
      I know you're wishing
      That we'd go away
      But the inquisitions here
      And it's here to stay

    • @brandenmanuel2037
      @brandenmanuel2037 Місяць тому

      Lol!
      I was gonna say that

  • @millriverfarm
    @millriverfarm 9 днів тому +2

    Learned so much from this video! You break down complex topics in such an understandable way. 📚

  • @geordiecanuck2696
    @geordiecanuck2696 Місяць тому +115

    The Inquisition. All I can hear in my head is Mel Brookes' musical number from History of the World Part one... not the most sombre of recantations.😂

    • @SeanTR420
      @SeanTR420 Місяць тому +7

      We know you're wishin'
      That we'd go awaaaaaaaay

    • @pohldriver
      @pohldriver Місяць тому +10

      When de Torquemada came up, all I could think about was "face it. You can't Totquemada anything!"
      I think many of us need to watch this video. All I know about the Spanish Inquisition is that they put on musical numbers, had synchronized swimming nuns, and they tortured jews.

    • @marksnyder8022
      @marksnyder8022 Місяць тому +9

      Auto de fe, what's an Auto de fe? It's what you shouldn't have done but you did anyway! 🥳

    • @aq5426
      @aq5426 Місяць тому

      Same!

    • @russward2612
      @russward2612 Місяць тому +1

      That's the only song I'd do for karaoke.

  • @Michalosnup
    @Michalosnup Місяць тому +30

    I wasn't expecting this video

  • @kikofriastenza9876
    @kikofriastenza9876 Місяць тому +33

    I definitely wasn't expecting this video to make a defense in favor of the Spanish Inquisition.

    • @eadweard.
      @eadweard. Місяць тому

      Some truths just shouldn't be told.

    • @kikofriastenza9876
      @kikofriastenza9876 Місяць тому +14

      @@eadweard. Nah, I'm happy history is started to be told the right way.

    • @eadweard.
      @eadweard. Місяць тому

      @@kikofriastenza9876 Oh maybe I misunderstood you. I thought you were saying you shouldn't say the SI weren't so bad, even if it's true.

    • @kikofriastenza9876
      @kikofriastenza9876 Місяць тому +7

      @@eadweard. I think we are misunderstanding each other. I try yo say that I like the fact someone gives factual arguments about the SI instead of portraying them as the children of Darth Sidious.
      Edit: now that I've read my comment again... yeah I've phrased it pretty wrongly. I tried to say that I like the fact that efforts are being made to tell history correctly.

    • @DenUitvreter
      @DenUitvreter Місяць тому

      @@kikofriastenza9876 Not in this video.

  • @adriangarrido8745
    @adriangarrido8745 Місяць тому +53

    Thank you Simon for sharing some knowledge about the Dark Legend that has been placed on Spain for centuries now.

  • @RosemarieJaeger-vt3ql
    @RosemarieJaeger-vt3ql Місяць тому +11

    Starting to love this channel ❤

    • @patrickdurham8393
      @patrickdurham8393 Місяць тому +3

      He has about 500 other channels you need to check out

  • @neo-didact9285
    @neo-didact9285 Місяць тому +44

    We didn't expect you to make a video about this!

  • @BlizzardofKnives
    @BlizzardofKnives 29 днів тому +8

    I bet no-one suspected this video.

  • @darrena2625
    @darrena2625 Місяць тому +8

    The more things change, the more they stay the same.

  • @gavinhudson5251
    @gavinhudson5251 Місяць тому +6

    Wow, I wasn't expecting that.

  • @shantidoesntexist
    @shantidoesntexist Місяць тому +23

    Unexpectedly, the comment section is exactly what i expected it to be.

  • @stephenmoerlein8470
    @stephenmoerlein8470 Місяць тому +1

    Thanks for posting the interesting content.

  • @adammarktaylor
    @adammarktaylor Місяць тому +2

    I wasn't expecting this episode.

  • @Herr_Artago
    @Herr_Artago Місяць тому +12

    Great video, it's really nice to see an English person telling all the facts about the Spanish Inquisition instead of spreading the black legend, which unfortunately most people around the world, including many Spaniards, still believe.
    By the way, in Spanish we don't pronounce the h and hu is pronounced like an English w, so the correct pronunciation for Huerta is werta.

    • @residentzero
      @residentzero Місяць тому +1

      It seems in medieval Spain the H and F were exchangeable "Fazer", "Hacer", "Facto", "acto", from Latin, then Arabic influence, etc. Many changes have affected the language that's why the H exists even though silent, it is a relic of a time when it was a sound

  • @omninex6040
    @omninex6040 Місяць тому +7

    Why is this not on Spotify I wanna listen to this at work

    • @Nylak-Otter
      @Nylak-Otter Місяць тому +3

      Do you only have access to Spotify at work?
      Just play it on UA-cam, close the screen and put on headphones. You don't have to watch it.

    • @Avogadros_number
      @Avogadros_number Місяць тому

      @@Nylak-Otteryou need UA-cam premium to listen to it while your phone is locked. Most people don’t have UA-cam premium.

  • @Razgriz619
    @Razgriz619 Місяць тому

    This was very informative thank you. This also corroborates a book I was reading.

  • @Zak6959
    @Zak6959 Місяць тому

    Thanks for the video.

  • @ryanparker4996
    @ryanparker4996 Місяць тому +2

    Thankyou factboy this was a cool video

  • @timothyclark-sl4il
    @timothyclark-sl4il Місяць тому +5

    Cardinal Fang! Fetch...THE COMFY CHAIR!

    • @Styphon
      @Styphon Місяць тому

      That is entirely in line with the prisons used

    • @terrygarner4739
      @terrygarner4739 19 днів тому +1

      NOT THE COMFY CHAIR!!!!!!

  • @andrewlee1066
    @andrewlee1066 Місяць тому

    Good info!!!

  • @emomuzz5883
    @emomuzz5883 Місяць тому +1

    I am not expecting Simon to do a vid on The Comfy Chair.

  • @LaurieValdez-zk3dy
    @LaurieValdez-zk3dy Місяць тому +8

    I believe any human being tortured will say anything to stop it😢

    • @Semo99_
      @Semo99_ 2 дні тому

      Christians and isis and zionists

  • @the80hdgaming
    @the80hdgaming Місяць тому +16

    Ngl... The way my spine feels right now, I'd give the rack a go for a while... 😂

  • @Andrew_Haase
    @Andrew_Haase Місяць тому +1

    “…and then the Inquisition became more proactive…”
    - haha, that’s a diplomatic understatement if I’ve ever heard one

  • @thefella3891
    @thefella3891 Місяць тому +33

    I must say Simon I certainly was not expecting the Spanish inquisition!

  • @comettamer
    @comettamer Місяць тому +31

    The Spanish Inquisition is also where the term "holding ones feet to the fire" comes from. Thr most famous victim of this particular punishment was the last grandmaster of the Knights Templar, Jacques de Molay. He was tortured this way to gain the location of the Templar treasure, as well as because Phillip IV was worried the Templars had gained too much power and influence.

    • @anthonyhastings5961
      @anthonyhastings5961 Місяць тому

      When he went into his trial, wasn't he wheeled in with a box on his knees with his foot bones in it? I'm sure I read that somewhere.

    • @tomascabezonortega911
      @tomascabezonortega911 Місяць тому +12

      But Jacques de Molay was FRENCH, killed by the FRENCH inquisition by order of the FRENCH king Philip IV.

    • @petebondurant58
      @petebondurant58 26 днів тому +2

      The Spanish Inquisition was established in 1478. Jacques de Molay was executed in 1314...in France.

    • @bassaniobrokenhart5045
      @bassaniobrokenhart5045 21 день тому +3

      There you have it, people! Right there! Some wiki-happy smart ass spreading shit about the Spanish Inquisition... Using a French trial! Well done, mate! Now, about this "holding people feet to the fire"... I am not aware of such a saying in Spanish (and I guess I should know, I've been speaking Spanish for the last 60 years).

    • @LeeChaolan10
      @LeeChaolan10 18 днів тому +3

      A person who doesn't know how to count years or how to differentiate between Spanish and french giving lessons of history lol

  • @personaldove
    @personaldove Місяць тому +102

    As an ex muslim, the Inquisition is strikingly similar to Sharia law.
    As someone who barely survived Iran I sympathize with people of that time.

    • @fett713akamandodragon5
      @fett713akamandodragon5 Місяць тому +30

      Glad you made it through. The Christian Nationalists here in the US would like to take us back to these times, all the while yelling about Sharia Law and not seeing they want nearly the same things.

    • @Avogadros_number
      @Avogadros_number Місяць тому +20

      @@fett713akamandodragon5great point. Religious fundamentalism is strikingly similar regardless of the religion.

    • @ronmaximilian6953
      @ronmaximilian6953 Місяць тому

      ​​@@fett713akamandodragon5which Christian nationalists would do that in the United States. Let's remember that there is no dominant Christian sect in the United States. Most people who are labeled Christian nationalists simply want to return part of our culture to the 1950s noting that under false neutrality, the United States government is pushing atheism and cultural Marxism.

    • @bipolarminddroppings
      @bipolarminddroppings Місяць тому +6

      I doubt your claim to be an ex-Muslim.
      Based upon the fact that no Muslim or even ex-muslim I have ever met calls Sharia "Sharia Law", since the word Sharia already means law and any actual Muslim knows saying "Sharia Law" is incorrect and will almost always correct non-muslims who say it.

    • @RG-sv4qb
      @RG-sv4qb Місяць тому +18

      ​@@bipolarminddroppings That's like saying someone who says PIN number obviously has never owned a bank account 😉

  • @markborn5293
    @markborn5293 Місяць тому

    Excellent article!

  • @catholiccrusader5328
    @catholiccrusader5328 Місяць тому +21

    Thank you, Simon, for telling the truth. I've been waiting decades for a program such as yours to tell the truth.

    • @johnkrol9649
      @johnkrol9649 Місяць тому +2

      Gross name.

    • @applegal3058
      @applegal3058 Місяць тому

      Yes, it may not have been as bad as previously reported, it is still disgusting and horrendous abuse towards people just for their beliefs. Today we would call it genocide and humanitarian crimes. Nothing to be proud of. I'm truly surprised people align themselves with religious organizations who have such evil pasts.

    • @jjohnson796
      @jjohnson796 Місяць тому +3

      The truth that people were tortured for witch craft by a ….oh never mind but putting a nice spin on a pretty horrid history still makes it a pretty horrid history. Saying the other guy was worse doesn’t make it any better. It was a backwards brutal age.

    • @Talisguy
      @Talisguy Місяць тому

      ​@@johnkrol9649 Gross, racist comments elsewhere too.

    • @Talisguy
      @Talisguy Місяць тому +1

      ​@@johnkrol9649Judging by some of his other comments on this channel, his approval should be a damning indictment of this video.

  • @diyeana
    @diyeana Місяць тому +6

    Nobody expe ... wait, you've heard this one before?

    • @Styphon
      @Styphon Місяць тому +1

      It was quite expected, for a change

  • @morbosmeatshack
    @morbosmeatshack Місяць тому

    Straight into this from the notification, unrelated though, where did you get those glasses?

  • @arisaga822
    @arisaga822 Місяць тому

    I never expected this video

  • @stormycat0905
    @stormycat0905 Місяць тому +6

    No one expects the Spanish Inquisition!

  • @jan-agelundman5435
    @jan-agelundman5435 Місяць тому +13

    But, what about the use of 'The Comfy Chair'..?

    • @hughjass1044
      @hughjass1044 Місяць тому +5

      Or the soft cushions?

    • @azmike3572
      @azmike3572 Місяць тому +2

      @@hughjass1044 "Confess, woman!"

    • @markvoelker6620
      @markvoelker6620 Місяць тому +1

      @@azmike3572Confess! Confess!! CONFESS!!!

    • @azmike3572
      @azmike3572 Місяць тому

      @@markvoelker6620 Okay, okay--I confess...that I love the comments!!

    • @markvoelker6620
      @markvoelker6620 Місяць тому

      @@azmike3572 Comedy genius for these hard times.

  • @katherinecollins4685
    @katherinecollins4685 Місяць тому

    Well researched

  • @bellamaz1972
    @bellamaz1972 Місяць тому

    This is an informative and educational video, but I kept hearing as its background soundtrack Mel Brooks’ song from History of the World Part I … “The Inquisition 🎶…”

  • @thejuanderful
    @thejuanderful Місяць тому +21

    "Five of the twenty-nine women died while in prison"
    Twelve seconds later...
    "Their prisons were actually good compared to their contemporaries!"

    • @marksnyder8022
      @marksnyder8022 Місяць тому +8

      "I would like to give your accommodations 5 stars, but I cannot approve of your checkout procedure."

    • @pietersleijpen3662
      @pietersleijpen3662 Місяць тому +14

      Which is saying something of their contemporaries. Just because it is better doesn't mean it is good for your health to be in one.

    • @serfandterf
      @serfandterf Місяць тому +1

      He didn't say women

    • @maxstrong6915
      @maxstrong6915 Місяць тому +3

      If 5 out of 29 women died in prison that means that 0.00023% of prisoners died

    • @FelixstoweFoamForge
      @FelixstoweFoamForge Місяць тому +1

      @@pietersleijpen3662 Agreed. It's like choosing hanging over impalement.

  • @borjagines7424
    @borjagines7424 Місяць тому +2

    Nice work. Its dificult to find an anglospeaker that doesnt follow the difamation of the spanish empires! 👍

  • @MrNutt_
    @MrNutt_ Місяць тому +2

    Never expected this

  • @sergetheijspartner2005
    @sergetheijspartner2005 Місяць тому

    I did not expect this video

  • @peterc4082
    @peterc4082 Місяць тому +4

    At the end he has to still condemn it because of politics. He may as well have condemned all of society of that time.

  • @summerwell8262
    @summerwell8262 Місяць тому +28

    Thank you, thank you, thank you: at last a truthful account of the historical Spanish Inquisition! As a spaniard history-buff I am glad to watch these facts spread in a popular English speaking channel 🫡👏👏👏

    • @1marcelo
      @1marcelo Місяць тому +1

      Spaniards were pretty awful though

    • @summerwell8262
      @summerwell8262 Місяць тому +5

      @@1marcelo of course they were, as much as everyone else though. But way way less than the Black Legend propaganda says so and was the most progressive judicial system of its time, as this video explains so well.

    • @1marcelo
      @1marcelo Місяць тому

      @@summerwell8262 I don't know about their justice system but they seem to have been pretty backwards in everything while they were expelling the jesuits and Arabs, and also committing horrendous massacres in the Americas. I don't think everyone else was awful on the same scale.

  • @mastercontrol469
    @mastercontrol469 Місяць тому +6

    History is written by the victors, and those in paid service to the victors, remember that.

  • @russfinley4128
    @russfinley4128 14 днів тому +1

    ...served chocolate and wine, riiiiiight. Parts of this sound like a Monty Python script.

  • @alexwallach7683
    @alexwallach7683 Місяць тому +1

    Nobody expects Simon Whistler to go more than a week without creating yet another UA-cam channel. 🤣

  • @BuzzkillZone
    @BuzzkillZone Місяць тому +5

    So I'm noticing the pointy hats of the accused in multiple pictures. Is that the origin of the standard "Wizard's" hat? or the Dunce cap?

    • @hartfartpoptart
      @hartfartpoptart Місяць тому

      I believe it's connected with a commonly worn Jewish hat.

    • @tomascabezonortega911
      @tomascabezonortega911 Місяць тому

      It is a penitent cap. Think about it as a modern day orange suit.

  • @reggiefurlow1
    @reggiefurlow1 Місяць тому +11

    Mel Brooks is a genius

    • @raewren
      @raewren Місяць тому +1

      You can’t Torquemada anything!

  • @kiwipuy
    @kiwipuy 11 днів тому

    Thanks so much for this video!! From a Spanish person.
    I watched lots of content from Simon narration channels and I did expect a video like that away from rumours.
    Just adding some info:
    - Spanish inquisition had the bad luck to be highly official, that made them survive as a brand easy to distort and criticise. Also helped them to survive til XIX century as an institution which didnt help against the black legend and propaganda. Actually after French invasion some population welcomed the inquisition again as a sign of victory against the French.
    - Indigenous people were exempt from inquisition judgement in the new world (once the government infrastructure establish itself) because it was said that they were new and dindt really know how to be proper cristians. And actually, funny thing, some indigenous people considered themselves purer cristians because they didnt have contact with jews or muslims in their roots.
    - Important fact, when someone was guilty it meant that its money would go to the church. So, lot of caes was about money, but that happens still today with revenue and taxes. goverment always wants money from the normal people.
    thanks!

    • @angelcamachodelsolar
      @angelcamachodelsolar 11 днів тому

      The Inquisition persecuted heretics, among other crimes.
      The Native Americans were considered pagans, and therefore were not targets of the Inquisition.

  • @chipkornrumpf6318
    @chipkornrumpf6318 Місяць тому +1

    Two points:
    First, using the word "only" when referring to dozens of people tortured and executed is really telling...
    Second, quoting a low percentage of people tortured and killed when it's from a pool of massive amounts of people is telling as well.
    There were many less people around back then and the numbers easily justify the horrific, evil, and accurate reputation the Spanish Inquisition earned 💯%‼️

    • @TheChiconspiracy
      @TheChiconspiracy 11 днів тому

      The point isn't that it wasn't bad by modern standards, the point is that SINGLE towns in England, France, or the German states burned more "witches" than the entirety of Spain combined, yet those very same countries spread the idea that the Spanish Inquisition was the worst thing ever. Yes, the dozens tortured are terrible, but pale in comparison to the tens of thousands burned alive in those other countries.

  • @roverrover3233
    @roverrover3233 Місяць тому +2

    How,about doing the history of the rif mountains Morocco

  • @thepeskytraveller3870
    @thepeskytraveller3870 Місяць тому +8

    As you mentioned, we can not judge what they considered fair back then by today's standards of humanity.
    The real question is - if western human rights is somehow over ridden by non-western thinking, should we expect the same humane treatment?

    • @eldoolittle
      @eldoolittle Місяць тому

      The Spanish Inquisition was Western thinking. So was chattel slavery So we're the Nazis. So was Apartheid.
      The idea that human rights are only something valued in a modern Eurocentic world view is myopic both to the legacy of other global people who learned barbarism from the colonizers and the history of Europe and the USA less than a lifetime ago.

  • @femurforreal
    @femurforreal Місяць тому +2

    Nooooo! Not...THE COMFY CHAIR!

    • @slidey1788
      @slidey1788 Місяць тому +1

      Our chief weapon is surprise... surprise and fear... fear and surprise... Our two weapons

  • @washingtoncommie2991
    @washingtoncommie2991 Місяць тому +2

    I watched the Mel Brooks song The Inquisition to prepare myself.
    I’m expecting The Spanish Inquisition.

  • @giantred
    @giantred Місяць тому +7

    Oh, what a charming way to spend my lunch break

  • @jaalsburg
    @jaalsburg Місяць тому +3

    As vilified that the Spanish Inquisition was, weird statement, I've read that the German states were much more brutal and prevalent.

  • @jacobdurborow5583
    @jacobdurborow5583 Місяць тому +1

    This video was the last thing i expected

  • @GhostM4
    @GhostM4 Місяць тому

    I think this is going to be a great video to fall asleep to

  • @heinrichkornelius
    @heinrichkornelius Місяць тому +2

    Could you do one on the Portuguese Inquisition, please?

  • @1Thomkro
    @1Thomkro Місяць тому +32

    Saw the alert, literally tapped as it appeared, cleverly I thought "I'll make a python pun, because no-one else will think of that so quickly...."
    Clever sods aren't ya?

    • @travisj05
      @travisj05 Місяць тому +1

      Thinking of yourself with a video like this? Pretty telling.

    • @1Thomkro
      @1Thomkro Місяць тому +3

      @@travisj05 What can I say, I'm a very naughty boy 🤷‍♂️

    • @travisj05
      @travisj05 Місяць тому +2

      @@1Thomkro LOL the best reply possible. Touché my friend. Sincerely hope you enjoy your weekend.

    • @1Thomkro
      @1Thomkro Місяць тому

      @@travisj05 and to you sir :)

    • @DenUitvreter
      @DenUitvreter Місяць тому

      You must be very inquisitive.

  • @richardpatton2502
    @richardpatton2502 Місяць тому +2

    To be fair, Torquemada went in to “standardize” trials, sentences and torture methods.
    Because some of the inquisitors were going absolutely wild with horrific tortures. And with that, worsening the relations with the local populace.
    I’m not, in any way, defending him. Just pointing out some common misconceptions
    All the best to everyone

    • @rawilliams5881
      @rawilliams5881 Місяць тому +1

      Fun fact: thanks to Torquemada, the Church was forbidden to draw blood during torture or execution. Hence the emphasis on the rack, hanging, and burning at the stake.

  • @pvtj0cker
    @pvtj0cker Місяць тому +2

    Heretics torturing other heretics for being heretics. It's a strange world...

    • @arlesthegreat
      @arlesthegreat Місяць тому

      But when you put it like that…not so bad. Right?

  • @82dorrin
    @82dorrin Місяць тому +12

    I was expecting a lot of comments about how no one expected the Spanish Inquisition.
    As I expected, I was not disappointed.

    • @CivilizedWarrior
      @CivilizedWarrior Місяць тому +2

      Nonsense! No one expects comments not expecting the Spanish Inquisition!

  • @OnigiriKewn
    @OnigiriKewn Місяць тому +14

    As a spaniard I have to add that we have also helped a lot in perpetuating this myth about the grim and terrible inquisition that killed and tortured left and right. And it is because it has become kind of a touristic attraction with many museums dedicated to torture and the Inquisition.

    • @pricklypear7516
      @pricklypear7516 Місяць тому

      Salem, Massachusetts, USA, home of the infamous Witch Trials, has likewise capitalized on horror tourism.

    • @AnthonyHermo-fu6ft
      @AnthonyHermo-fu6ft Місяць тому

      There was a other nations around the world worst but pick Spain for others reason let look at united States and others but at time it was not named Spain but details later it was not the people it other powers and to many wars that was uncontrollably there in Europe and the new world there to this but why that details later

    • @Clogmonger
      @Clogmonger 16 днів тому

      "This myth" 😂 people visit countries often for the culture and HISTORY. It's part of your damn history. Maybe a bit sensationalized, but a MYTH!! Hahahahahaha

  • @brandonspears6996
    @brandonspears6996 Місяць тому

    I think I remember reading a Dan brown novel mentioning the cathars

  • @Styphon
    @Styphon Місяць тому

    This does not diminish my enjoyment of King Diamond's "The Eye"

  • @bonnieprincecharlie6248
    @bonnieprincecharlie6248 Місяць тому +5

    Were the statistics mentioned in the video including the spanish inquisition in the new world? From what I heard the inquisition there was pretty brutal with thousands being tortured or forced into galley slavery, although I do remeber it saying that very few people were actually executed by them, although this does not mean that they didn't destroy a lot of people's lives.

    • @13sempere
      @13sempere Місяць тому +5

      In the Americas it was hardly active.

    • @martinmaynard141
      @martinmaynard141 Місяць тому +3

      @@13sempere mostly true since the "natives" were outside it's control. I remember once being at a birthday lunch where the person sitting next to me had a bad case of Dunning-Kruger and insisted that "millions" of natives were put to death. When I challenged this I got the classic DK defence "Well in my opinion ..." The biggest trial was in fact in Mexico city in the 17th Century and the vicitms were homosexual men!

    • @eddifabricio3750
      @eddifabricio3750 Місяць тому

      12 died, all Protestants... According to records available.

    • @tomascabezonortega911
      @tomascabezonortega911 Місяць тому +2

      50 deaths in 3 centuries. Mostly colonizers. And the General Inquisitor was Bartolome de las Casas, an overall supercool dude.

  • @yanlumotungoe2361
    @yanlumotungoe2361 Місяць тому +18

    The crusades and the inquisitions can never,on the least degree,be compared to Islamic jihad that continues to this very day

    • @teknoaija1762
      @teknoaija1762 Місяць тому

      What about massive child rape culture?

    • @chargree
      @chargree Місяць тому

      They can and have been compared to it. It is rather simple and many similarities are too obvious to even rattle off without sounding flippant and risking the eager aggressiveness of the “Mr. Obvious” police(people who look for people they can criticize for sharing information they feel is not worth their time because “everyone” supposedly already knows it). There are many differences that provide an interesting contrast between the movements. This only makes the topic of discussing all 3 movements together more compelling and lends the discussion much validity. Listen, it is likely that we are expressing subjective opinions, even though we might be using objective data to inform those opinions, so dont take my comment as antagonistic. I do not desire to just marginalize your comment. It just successfully inspired me to explore the idea and I appreciate that. We could easily keep this going and share all of the nuances available to maybe gain some additional insight together. I would be interested to know your experience and process that led you to the comment you made.

    • @daydays12
      @daydays12 Місяць тому +1

      why not?

    • @tomascabezonortega911
      @tomascabezonortega911 Місяць тому

      The Crusades were literally Jihads. It is the exact translation.

  • @daveb7128
    @daveb7128 Місяць тому +1

    I saw this video and immediately expected the Spanish inquisition.

  • @Razmoudah
    @Razmoudah 3 дні тому

    Huh, I'd known that most of the 'dark legacy' by which the Spanish Inquisition has been known was primarily from the latter part of its existence, but most of the rest was things I hadn't heard about regarding it.

  • @joaomarreiros4906
    @joaomarreiros4906 Місяць тому +40

    We study this here in school, Portugal, so we know the difference of legend and reality, our Reconquista was brutal and slow, and downright genocide, because the Moors had forced half of the population up north to better control us, and people were naturally resentful, entire cities were levelled, only the Algarve was more or less spared, but because the numbers of Jews and Moors were reduced. Religious wars are a waste of time.

    • @tamarinmangold1414
      @tamarinmangold1414 Місяць тому +15

      "War does not determine who is right, only who is left."
      -Bertrand Russell

    • @joaomarreiros4906
      @joaomarreiros4906 Місяць тому +7

      @@tamarinmangold1414 We are all survivors of war, my grandfathers family was from East Prussia, German. Excellent quote.

    • @SpaceMarine500
      @SpaceMarine500 Місяць тому

      @@tamarinmangold1414 War does determine who is right. It's infused into all the history books you study.

    • @UserUser45654
      @UserUser45654 Місяць тому

      It’s a war of decolonization. The inquisition was meant to root out stay behinds who could help the Moors and Jews re-colonize the country. Remember North Africa is just a short distance from the peninsula.

    • @mitseraffej5812
      @mitseraffej5812 Місяць тому +3

      Religion itself is a waste of time. Wasting the precious and short lived hiccup of consciousness between oblivions that we call life, in an effort to convince oneself that eternal life awaits is insanity.

  • @Benito-lr8mz
    @Benito-lr8mz Місяць тому +12

    Iam Spaniard this video in English is the best of all views for me about Inquisition of my country ; great video historycally true and comonnsense with serious and real.sources not under Spanish Black Legend and in orher ocaaions xenophobic whiff

  • @krw5723
    @krw5723 12 днів тому

    The accused were given several warnings, which allowed them to provide their statement without torture. It was on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying ‘Beware of the Leopard.

  • @ernesto906
    @ernesto906 Місяць тому +1

    Thank you so much for helping rehabilitating the history of the Hispanic people

  • @maverick7291
    @maverick7291 Місяць тому +6

    The inquisition and church courts of law were nothing compared to how brutal secular courts were and even sharia(even today's sharia in many muslim majority countries)

  • @DenUitvreter
    @DenUitvreter Місяць тому +6

    Both Dutch Protestants and catholics revolted against the religious persecution by the Spanish. They had every right to do so, not just because of it's immense slaughter and torture, but also because it went against the Dutch freedom of conscience. That wasn't propaganda, that was an experience the British didn't have. Those were just safely on their island being declared 'protestant' by their king, the Briish never had to protest the Spanish Inquistion or blood councils.

    • @korstmahler
      @korstmahler Місяць тому +4

      This video is weirdly pro-catholic and pro-inquisition. Whole lotta apologetics going on.

    • @DenUitvreter
      @DenUitvreter Місяць тому

      @@korstmahler That's an international trend, probably coming from the USA's racialized hisoriography. Just like portraying the Dutch revolt/80 years war for independence as just another religious war, it wasn't, it was a war for religious tolerance which the protestants could do when they ruled and the catholics couldn't.
      The 80-years war was probably the first war in which propaganda played a significant role, but the Inquisition part was very real. The fact that is was highly legalized in an orderly manner and did mild sanctioning too doesn't mean it wouldn't have been terrible for true protestants.
      Large scale prosecution of witches wasn't very protestant either, the English loved it but they do no represent protestantism of that time because they never protested anything. In the Netherlands witch prosecution almost ended with the end of catholic rule.

    • @wessel754
      @wessel754 Місяць тому +4

      This is a video about the Spanish inquisition in Spain, not the causes for the Dutch revolt. Some dutch cities councils joined the revolt (similar to the earlier bauern krieg in HRR) because they want to maintain financial autonomy. The religious argument was a convenient cover. Main issue here: revolt is never legit, thus a black legend is reinforced. That's propaganda.
      Replacing the black legend with a white legend indeed won't suffice either however. In the early days of the revolt, with the crisis of legitimacy in the low countries, their leaders sought a replacement sovereign state-figure: the duke of Leicester, the duke of Anjou. This all failed. Tensions also were felt on the British isles. Don't forget the threat of the massive Spanish Armada in 1588, the main reason why the British hence forwards built a grand navy.

    • @DenUitvreter
      @DenUitvreter Місяць тому

      @@wessel754 The Spanish installed an inquisition, and later the council of troubles or blood council, doing about the same. That ended up in English propaganda, and was quite an accurate image of inquisition by Spanish rule, technically that is not the Spanish Inquisiton. That is what the English would have got if the Armada hadn't been fenced off or the Dutch not blocking the invasion troops.
      Dutch cities wanted to maintain autonomy, they claimed their ancient rights and privileges which included dealing with religious matters themselves, i.e. having religious tolerance and no inquisition. The medieval taxation not fitting an economy of traders and increased to finance the war and prosecution of their fellow people didn't help, but the freedom of conscience and therefor how to believe in god was codified in the Union of Utrecht.
      The Spanish were highly surprised about how unpopular the public torture and burnings at the stake were in the Netherlands, also in catholic eras. In Spain those drew huge enthousiastic crowds. There was just very little appetite for imposing religion.

    • @wessel754
      @wessel754 Місяць тому

      @@DenUitvreter Whether the propaganda effective or accurate is, is speculation. The black and white myths are still very dominant.
      Stateformation is a process made by elites. In 17th century there were no free elections or modern democracy. Within the 17th century republic there was an intern dispute between gormanists and arminians; predetermination or free will. This dispute got politicized between Oldenbarnevelt and Maurits, and pamfleteert amongst the crowd.
      When war resumed in 1621, the military odds in 1629 were in favour of the durch republic, peace negotiations initiated by Philips IV stranded. No public catholic worship (thus so far the argument of religious tolerance). The Schelde canal remained closed, because the economic position of Holland could not be harmed.

  • @spacemissing
    @spacemissing Місяць тому +1

    Official records are one thing; reality is another.
    If in fact the Inquisition kept complete records,
    that would be a monumental exception to what we know of many other agencies!

    • @fedevida1951
      @fedevida1951 18 днів тому

      Just search for the General Archive of the Indies.

  • @mackenziemoore5088
    @mackenziemoore5088 Місяць тому

    Didn't think I'd hear a quote from a hometown university journal in this one lol

  • @thomasi4551
    @thomasi4551 Місяць тому +4

    Can we see the insignia of the necromancer?

    • @marksnyder8022
      @marksnyder8022 Місяць тому +1

      It's a purple bump. No, that's the Neck Romancer.

  • @jesseberg3271
    @jesseberg3271 Місяць тому +12

    The idea of "secular authorities" is an anachronism. There was no separation of Church and state at the time and place. The Church was merely another aspect of the still semi feudal early-modern state.

    • @Vishanti
      @Vishanti Місяць тому +2

      THIS!

    • @acupofwhitetea
      @acupofwhitetea Місяць тому +2

      There never is, the secular authorities are only secular by name but they are practically loyal and aligned to the church officials. The Clery already have everyone so loyal the townsfolk are practically their lackeys. The Inquisitors can get their "death punishment" and not lift a finger because they know everyone will do it for them. Which makes sense since the clergy have the influence to instilled that train of thought in the first place.

    • @RlsIII-uz1kl
      @RlsIII-uz1kl Місяць тому

      Now we're living in a kind of techno-feudal anarcho-tyrannical transnationalist socialist/global socio-fascist era in which religion/cultism has returned within state and that religion/cult is known as Hegelian cultism/woke cultism.

  • @jokodihaynes419
    @jokodihaynes419 Місяць тому +1

    "History can say what it want but rarely does it remember anything correctly"-Lawkeeper Equity Mlp Ace Attorney EOJ

  • @amazingdany
    @amazingdany Місяць тому

    Thumbnail’s painting’s name and author please! 🙏

  • @barttheraven
    @barttheraven Місяць тому +4

    The Spanish Inquisition was awesome actually.

    • @eadweard.
      @eadweard. Місяць тому +1

      "Not as bad as commonly believed" isn't the same as "awesome".

  • @trishmcl9055
    @trishmcl9055 Місяць тому +3

    This is why America was founded on freedom of religion. Because in Europe people were being forced to become Catholic than Protestant then Catholic again then Protestant and on and on depending on who was sitting on the throne.

    • @admdubya2107
      @admdubya2107 Місяць тому +2

      You’ll note our little error though. Freedom of religion. We gave them freedom to get as big and powerful as they please, do as they please, hold offices, make laws in their ways. The church is bigger than the government.
      We really needed was from *from* religion.

    • @angh18
      @angh18 Місяць тому

      America wasn't founded on Freedom of Religion. First Nation's people wouldn't have had to have their hair cut, children seperated from their families to be brain-washed to rid them of their 'Pagan' beliefs, in Religious run torture 'orphanages/schools'. There wouldn't be this 'Muslim Hate', happening now. Back in the African Slavery times, the slaves were forced into Christian belief. Infact a Bible for Slave-Owners' was published and sold - with 'selected' sections from the Bible, to be read to the slaves.

    • @DenUitvreter
      @DenUitvreter Місяць тому +1

      No, the Pilgrim Fathers actually fled the freedom of reliigion in the Dutch Republic, the fact that they went back to England for the crossing doesn't change that. They were prudes who feared the influence on their children of protestants less uptight about the naughty bits.

    • @AmonAnon-vw3hr
      @AmonAnon-vw3hr Місяць тому +1

      @admdubya2107 no, lol. You only survive tiday because of a society created by religious people.

    • @admdubya2107
      @admdubya2107 Місяць тому

      @@AmonAnon-vw3hr Christianity was born in the already existing Roman Empire. The “survival” parts of society have been built by scientists, engineers, doctors, etc etc etc that may have happened to be Christian or Muslim but didn’t learn farming or trigonometry from the Bible. As for me specifically…I could go live in a tent in the woods I don’t need any society to keep me alive.

  • @pyrodoll2422
    @pyrodoll2422 Місяць тому +1

    I wasn't expecting that 😐

  • @crwydryny
    @crwydryny 16 днів тому

    Despite the monty python joke, everyone expected the apanish inquisition as they would send a letter ahead of time before arriving in a town.

  • @nicksmeltzer3511
    @nicksmeltzer3511 Місяць тому +7

    So we're just going to ignore all the deaths over seas due to the inquisition than?

    • @Vishanti
      @Vishanti Місяць тому +2

      yeah there was 0 mention of Inquisition offices in the Philippines, Mexico, and Guatemala. I wonder how much research really went into the script.

    • @Bill-jc1fy
      @Bill-jc1fy Місяць тому +2

      then

    • @addicted2monster88
      @addicted2monster88 Місяць тому

      Perhaps a 2nd part? Unless they've covered that in a previous video

    • @acupofwhitetea
      @acupofwhitetea Місяць тому

      From the Philippines, to be honest, there are barely any records of brutal inquisition. Since we'll, the Spanish wrote everything, disregarding the forced conversions, military backed missionaries​ where the clergy get all the money and practically runs the town, forcing the natives to burn the god statues and even poop on them. They will just burn everything if we resist, and claim one item they looted is a miracle. Most of the records after that are religious boot-licking/white washing, saying we should be thankful to be "saved and civilized", even if it is by gunpoint. But then you'll be conditioned to love Spain later on. It's either convert/comply with Spanish rule or get a miserable life with a ton of taxes, no support, no documents, little access to food (the Spanish also took farm lands they need and gave it to their supporters), no security, and little access to education. It stuck in our psyche for generations. It still does. @@Vishanti

    • @nicksmeltzer3511
      @nicksmeltzer3511 Місяць тому

      @@Bill-jc1fy no I wasn't referring to time but the video script. Than is like saying if that is the case. Which certainly makes more grammatical sense than then which means at that time.