The Deadly History of the Spanish Inquisition

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  • Опубліковано 10 тра 2024
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  • @ghaznavid
    @ghaznavid Місяць тому +1217

    I wasn't expecting the Spanish Inquisition.

    • @breadmoth6443
      @breadmoth6443 Місяць тому +237

      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 +53

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

    • @4362mont
      @4362mont Місяць тому +42

      No-one does.

    • @chcknpie04
      @chcknpie04 Місяць тому +37

      Our chief weapon is fear!

  • @COSMOKRAT_616
    @COSMOKRAT_616 Місяць тому +367

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

    • @brera2434
      @brera2434 29 днів тому +20

      But what about the moose!?

    • @jamesindustryst
      @jamesindustryst 28 днів тому +18

      Moose bites can be pretty nasty…

    • @bogisimonsen471
      @bogisimonsen471 27 днів тому +1

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

    • @RossTheBossTrotter
      @RossTheBossTrotter 27 днів тому +7

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

    • @daydays12
      @daydays12 26 днів тому +4

      I should hope so. The lack of empathy is appalling

  • @gregbors8364
    @gregbors8364 Місяць тому +579

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

  • @juanlapuente833
    @juanlapuente833 Місяць тому +97

    I wasn't expecting this objectivity

  • @arlesthegreat
    @arlesthegreat 23 дні тому +18

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

  • @adriangarrido8745
    @adriangarrido8745 26 днів тому +38

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

  • @gjergjcamaj5770
    @gjergjcamaj5770 Місяць тому +97

    Finally an honest overview of the spanish inquisition.

    • @stephendavies6949
      @stephendavies6949 29 днів тому +8

      I wasn't expecting that

    • @teknoaija1762
      @teknoaija1762 26 днів 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 23 дні тому +1

      It would make a smashing movie

    • @thegood9
      @thegood9 7 днів тому

      no inquisition is a good inquisition.

    • @JimAllen-Persona
      @JimAllen-Persona 13 годин тому +1

      I prefer the Mel Brooks version😂

  • @comettamer
    @comettamer Місяць тому +26

    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 28 днів 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 18 днів тому +9

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

    • @petebondurant58
      @petebondurant58 День тому +1

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

  • @carlkamuti
    @carlkamuti Місяць тому +159

    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 +31

      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 +19

      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 +36

      @@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 +13

      It’s a simple mistake but a HUGE one!

    • @docverit2668
      @docverit2668 Місяць тому

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

  • @hughjass1044
    @hughjass1044 Місяць тому +86

    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 21 день 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 17 днів 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.

  • @arpan9937
    @arpan9937 Місяць тому +111

    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

      ​@@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 +239

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

    • @SolverCyn-vx1kv
      @SolverCyn-vx1kv Місяць тому +24

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

    • @sizanogreen9900
      @sizanogreen9900 Місяць тому +7

      I was not expecting that.

    • @SolverCyn-vx1kv
      @SolverCyn-vx1kv Місяць тому +21

      @@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.

  • @neo-didact9285
    @neo-didact9285 Місяць тому +42

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

  • @Kaltagstar96
    @Kaltagstar96 Місяць тому +59

    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 29 днів тому +4

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

    • @personaldove
      @personaldove 29 днів тому

      @@UserUser45654 Here we go with the JOOZ.

    • @mikepalmer2219
      @mikepalmer2219 28 днів тому +1

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

  • @macmcelveen1241
    @macmcelveen1241 Місяць тому +33

    I love the teleprompter reflection every time i watch.

    • @justme2848
      @justme2848 Місяць тому +1

      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 29 днів тому +1

      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.

  • @kikofriastenza9876
    @kikofriastenza9876 Місяць тому +29

    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 +10

      @@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.

  • @geordiecanuck2696
    @geordiecanuck2696 Місяць тому +106

    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 +6

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

    • @pohldriver
      @pohldriver Місяць тому +9

      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 +8

      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.

  • @ignitionfrn2223
    @ignitionfrn2223 Місяць тому +103

    *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 +5

      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

  • @Michalosnup
    @Michalosnup Місяць тому +27

    I wasn't expecting this video

  • @LaurieValdez-zk3dy
    @LaurieValdez-zk3dy Місяць тому +7

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

  • @shantidoesntexist
    @shantidoesntexist Місяць тому +23

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

  • @personaldove
    @personaldove Місяць тому +88

    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 +18

      @@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 +5

      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 +14

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

  • @richardbrewis436
    @richardbrewis436 Місяць тому +6

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

  • @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 29 днів 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 29 днів тому

      ​@@johnkrol9649 Gross, racist comments elsewhere too.

    • @Talisguy
      @Talisguy 29 днів тому +1

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

  • @RosemarieJaeger-vt3ql
    @RosemarieJaeger-vt3ql Місяць тому +10

    Starting to love this channel ❤

    • @patrickdurham8393
      @patrickdurham8393 Місяць тому +3

      He has about 500 other channels you need to check out

  • @darrena2625
    @darrena2625 Місяць тому +7

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

  • @OnigiriKewn
    @OnigiriKewn 23 дні тому +13

    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 14 днів тому

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

    • @AnthonyHermo-fu6ft
      @AnthonyHermo-fu6ft 12 днів 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

  • @Herr_Artago
    @Herr_Artago 26 днів тому +4

    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 10 днів 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

  • @gavinhudson5251
    @gavinhudson5251 Місяць тому +5

    Wow, I wasn't expecting that.

  • @thefella3891
    @thefella3891 Місяць тому +33

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

  • @the80hdgaming
    @the80hdgaming Місяць тому +14

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

  • @omninex6040
    @omninex6040 Місяць тому +6

    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.

  • @diyeana
    @diyeana Місяць тому +6

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

    • @Styphon
      @Styphon 24 дні тому +1

      It was quite expected, for a change

  • @stephenmoerlein8470
    @stephenmoerlein8470 20 днів тому

    Thanks for posting the interesting content.

  • @Zak6959
    @Zak6959 26 днів тому

    Thanks for the video.

  • @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 29 днів тому +1

      Spaniards were pretty awful though

    • @summerwell8262
      @summerwell8262 29 днів 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 29 днів 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.

  • @timothyclark-sl4il
    @timothyclark-sl4il 28 днів тому +3

    Cardinal Fang! Fetch...THE COMFY CHAIR!

    • @Styphon
      @Styphon 24 дні тому

      That is entirely in line with the prisons used

  • @thejuanderful
    @thejuanderful Місяць тому +20

    "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 +13

      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 29 днів тому +1

      He didn't say women

    • @maxstrong6915
      @maxstrong6915 29 днів тому +2

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

    • @FelixstoweFoamForge
      @FelixstoweFoamForge 29 днів тому +1

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

  • @adamtaylor6126
    @adamtaylor6126 Місяць тому +2

    I wasn't expecting this episode.

  • @Razgriz619
    @Razgriz619 11 днів тому

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

  • @stormycat0905
    @stormycat0905 Місяць тому +6

    No one expects the Spanish Inquisition!

  • @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.

  • @andrewlee1066
    @andrewlee1066 17 днів тому

    Good info!!!

  • @markborn5293
    @markborn5293 28 днів тому

    Excellent article!

  • @jan-agelundman5435
    @jan-agelundman5435 Місяць тому +11

    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.

  • @jaalsburg
    @jaalsburg 27 днів тому +3

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

  • @femurforreal
    @femurforreal 17 днів тому +2

    Nooooo! Not...THE COMFY CHAIR!

    • @slidey1788
      @slidey1788 16 днів тому +1

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

  • @ernesto906
    @ernesto906 16 днів тому +1

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

  • @reggiefurlow1
    @reggiefurlow1 Місяць тому +11

    Mel Brooks is a genius

    • @raewren
      @raewren Місяць тому +1

      You can’t Torquemada anything!

  • @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 20 днів тому

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

    • @tomascabezonortega911
      @tomascabezonortega911 18 днів тому

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

  • @dominiquecharriere1285
    @dominiquecharriere1285 20 днів тому +1

    Thanks Simon! It’s not every day that we can see the truth being offered (for free) in such a matter as the “leyenda negra” that is even believed here in Spain. I remember having read somewhere that in the 1610s, while 30 persons were burnt in Spain, 7’000 “witches” were burnt in Germany… And we can remember the Cathares as you did, or the Vaudois (or Walesians), massacred by the Duke of Savoy in my country of origin…

  • @ryanparker4996
    @ryanparker4996 Місяць тому +2

    Thankyou factboy this was a cool video

  • @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.

  • @giantred
    @giantred Місяць тому +7

    Oh, what a charming way to spend my lunch break

  • @emomuzz5883
    @emomuzz5883 26 днів тому +1

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

  • @borjagines7424
    @borjagines7424 25 днів тому +2

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

  • @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 27 днів 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.

  • @82dorrin
    @82dorrin 28 днів 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 22 дні тому +2

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

  • @katherinecollins4685
    @katherinecollins4685 8 днів тому

    Well researched

  • @defenderofpoodles5606
    @defenderofpoodles5606 Місяць тому +11

    This is the best…and only…defense of the Spanish Inquisition I have seen so far.

    • @anthonyproffitt5341
      @anthonyproffitt5341 Місяць тому +4

      There is no defense of Christians being judge and jury over others for practicing other religions without harming other folks.

    • @Talisguy
      @Talisguy Місяць тому +1

      The fact that they were methodical, rigorous, evidence -based and relatively polite about burning people alive for practicing other religions in an area that had been happily and peacefully multi-cultural and religiously pluralistic until very recently honestly makes it creepier. It brings to mind the machinery of the Holocaust.

    • @daffyf6829
      @daffyf6829 Місяць тому

      ​@@TalisguyI think an important difference is that the Nazis tried to hide the Holocaust, burning records and evidence etc, while the inquisitors were fastidious in their record keeping. Which is to say, the inquisitors did not think they were doing anything wrong while the Nazis did. Intent is important, especially when judging events in the past.

    • @xxxxxxxxxx02
      @xxxxxxxxxx02 Місяць тому +4

      @@Talisguy it was never happily multicultural lol. you people live in a fantasy world.

    • @angelabennett8245
      @angelabennett8245 Місяць тому +1

      Still. Any form of torture is ridiculous when forcing people to convert to Catholicism, or forced to confess to being a witch, a stupid idea, but people back then were fanatical in their superstition. Why else would Catholics be hated like they were and still are? The past was the worst.

  • @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 +4

      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 19 днів тому

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

    • @tomascabezonortega911
      @tomascabezonortega911 18 днів тому +1

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

  • @82dorrin
    @82dorrin 6 днів тому +1

    So the usual punishments were the equivalent of "go to your room and think about what you did"?

  • @arisaga822
    @arisaga822 Місяць тому

    I never expected this video

  • @mastercontrol469
    @mastercontrol469 29 днів тому +3

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

  • @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 29 днів тому

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

    • @UserUser45654
      @UserUser45654 28 днів 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 27 днів 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.

  • @richardpatton2502
    @richardpatton2502 23 дні 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 11 днів 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.

  • @MrNutt_
    @MrNutt_ Місяць тому +2

    Never expected this

  • @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

  • @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.

  • @sergetheijspartner2005
    @sergetheijspartner2005 14 днів тому

    I did not expect this video

  • @morbosmeatshack
    @morbosmeatshack Місяць тому

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

  • @BurneraccountXD69
    @BurneraccountXD69 Місяць тому +15

    I wasn't expecting a video on the Spanish Inquisition.

  • @yanlumotungoe2361
    @yanlumotungoe2361 29 днів тому +17

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

    • @teknoaija1762
      @teknoaija1762 26 днів тому

      What about massive child rape culture?

    • @chargree
      @chargree 26 днів 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 26 днів тому +1

      why not?

    • @tomascabezonortega911
      @tomascabezonortega911 18 днів тому

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

  • @jacobdurborow5583
    @jacobdurborow5583 Місяць тому +1

    This video was the last thing i expected

  • @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 🎶…”

  • @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.

  • @Wonkt
    @Wonkt Місяць тому +5

    I wasn’t expecting this.

  • @ken481959
    @ken481959 20 днів тому +1

    "The purpose of separation of church and state is to keep forever from these shores the ceaseless strife that has soaked the soil of Europe with blood for centuries.” James Madison
    Still relevant today.

  • @GhostM4
    @GhostM4 Місяць тому

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

  • @maverick7291
    @maverick7291 29 днів тому +5

    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)

  • @4362mont
    @4362mont Місяць тому +6

    Doing the torture, despite any apologetics, is still wrong, and doing it overseas does not make it less Spanish (or less American-at-Guantanamo).

    • @arlesthegreat
      @arlesthegreat 23 дні тому

      C’mon bro, you know it was pretty chill. Relatively speaking…

    • @4362mont
      @4362mont 23 дні тому

      @@arlesthegreat Don't think you can salami-slice away my objections to the practice, dustant cuz.

  • @brandonspears6996
    @brandonspears6996 29 днів тому

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

  • @pvtj0cker
    @pvtj0cker 29 днів тому +2

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

    • @arlesthegreat
      @arlesthegreat 23 дні тому

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

  • @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 +3

      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.

  • @Grassy_Gnoll
    @Grassy_Gnoll Місяць тому +3

    You forgot ruthless efficiency, and…

  • @washingtoncommie2991
    @washingtoncommie2991 Місяць тому +2

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

  • @daveb7128
    @daveb7128 13 днів тому +1

    I saw this video and immediately expected the Spanish inquisition.

  • @Apollo_Sierra
    @Apollo_Sierra 29 днів тому +3

    For the time, the "interrogation" process was quite reasonable, not wanting blind confessions, but actual corroborable proof.
    It was still a heinous act, dont get me wrong, but for its time, quite reasonable.

  • @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".

  • @pyrodoll2422
    @pyrodoll2422 Місяць тому +1

    I wasn't expecting that 😐

  • @Ravenforce3
    @Ravenforce3 11 днів тому

    🎶We know you're wishin'
    That we'd go away;
    But the Inquisition's here
    And it's here to stay!🎶

  • @menash23
    @menash23 Місяць тому +7

    So relived to know they tortured tens of thousands but only burned less than 1% and only used 3 torture methods. Changed my entire view of that era….

    • @supernoodles91
      @supernoodles91 Місяць тому +3

      Me too, they were totally misunderstood, gentle folk really!😉

  • @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.

  • @Andrew_Haase
    @Andrew_Haase 13 днів тому

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

  • @Styphon
    @Styphon 24 дні тому

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

  • @joshualindsey1128
    @joshualindsey1128 Місяць тому +10

    I was not expecting Simon to be a Spanish Inquisition apologist.

    • @eadweard.
      @eadweard. Місяць тому +11

      Do you mean you expected him to tell the truth - or you _didn't_ expect him to tell the truth?

    • @arlesthegreat
      @arlesthegreat 23 дні тому

      I heard it was actually pretty fun. No bedtime, no forced teeth brushing, eat whatever was within reach of your shackles on the dungeon floor. Regular medieval Holliday like

  • @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.

  • @alexwallach7683
    @alexwallach7683 Місяць тому +1

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

  • @sibusisofaya7874
    @sibusisofaya7874 2 дні тому

    Reminds me of the Berserk Manga. Crazy stuff

  • @madphilip12
    @madphilip12 Місяць тому +4

    FINALLY no background music