The Brutal & Bizarre World Of The Medieval Fight Tournament | Fight Club | Absolute History
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- Опубліковано 2 жов 2024
- In the late 1400s in Tudor England, knights were born and bred to face combat, both on the battlefield and the tournament ground. We explore the intriguing world of medieval tournaments, highlighting the role of knights as both warriors and symbols of heroism. We also delve into the Field of the Cloth of Gold, a lavish and opulent tournament hosted by Henry VII in 1520, which became a symbol of power and prestige in Europe. This event, with its extravagant pageantry, marked the zenith of medieval tournaments.
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This may be the first time Sean Bean has lived to the end of a film.
Sharpe would like a word...
You didn't see The Martian?
Sean Bean?????
Yea it's about the Tourney of the Hand of the king
Yeah, a relative to Mr Bean 😂
@@peter-fuppe-fuchsyou beaned me too it !
He's the original black adder 😮
😂😂😂😂😊
@@TheCosmosagan , W.B Yates, greatest poem of english language.
Thats not Sean Bean. Thats Boromir the future steward of Gondor!
"I don't fight in tournaments because when I fight a man for real, I don't want him to know what I can do."??
Small typo in your description, it's Henry VIII, not Henry VII, and the armor you show from 37:38 while explaining that Henry commissioned an armor for the Field of the Cloth of Gold, isn't actually the one he commissioned, is the one they ended up stuffing him into, and it is nowhere _ near_ the quality of the one they originally made for him, but didn't have the time to finish, which can be momentarily seen in the background @38:43, _that's_ the one that virtually has no gaps, _that's_ the one he commissioned. But otherwise, good job.
Young Toby Capwell? Well, isn’t this a pleasant surprise?
Amazing doc but that one guy didn't blink one damn time
How many sex workers has Toby choked?
Methinks some people in this documentary have a bit too rosy image of knights....
Yup, once I learned about the battle of Towton especially burial 16 my perspective changed
What's up with the random 49ers mannequin 8:38 lol
Imagine the explosive stench after taking that off after wearing it for a week straight
Crotch rot for weeks afterwards hahaha
Good documentary, bad dental hygiene.
Karen Watts is a gem 💎 😊
She's the best Karen I've ever seen.
Cringe
It was so nice to see them both talk about their love of armor!
When you can feel someones passion. Lovely
Wow...such an informative documentary...as a child long time ago i used to watch films of knights ..the round table and everything related with this topics..but to see and hear all this explanations by all this experts is simple another level...you must excuse my ignorance ..but i presume all this armours were only for the elite people who can afford it...again..nice documentary..👍👍🇸🇻
wasn't a full set of armor and a longsword a lil more than what a peasant could earn throughout his entire (admiteddly short) life?
3 or 4 mm of steel ?
i doubt the armor plate is 4 mm thick. a light armored vehicle has that armor :D
@17:46
Man, is it just me or does Toby seem like a person who yells at his wife behind closed doors and is verbally abusive to service workers?
Maybe it's the unblinking, aggressive eye contact he's making with some off-camera producer.
I love this series !
It’s incredible they could go a week without pooping. Was it the mead? Yogurt?
and winter is coming
"Suttle"? Its "subtle". The b is there to dull the t sound.
The largest in existence ...? That is in fact incorrect, the largest is in Austria located in Graz / Steirische Waffenkammer.
One does not simply enter a fighting tourney
I'd love to visit these museums and see all the armor and I suppose they know the history of some of the suits, such as do they have the Black Prince's armor? I'd imagine they do... or maybe his spare armor.
That museum looks like the pinnacle of Elder Scrolls player homes :D
Elder Scrolls is for, and made by, people who want to explore the deep recesses of what was possible in the past, but don't want to be limited by what the current world has to say about it. Overall TES is a very deep reflection of real human history, philosophy, and mythology. TES even has "Dragon Breaks" which are metaphysical events that allow multiple overlapping continuities to persist in the same universe. Meaning, more than one mythology can be true at the same time; even contradicting ones. Some races have multiple origin stories; this can be explained as different sources creating different entities in separate timelines, and then having them converge into the same species later. Going on a tangent though lol.
@@abominationdesolation8322 "Going on a tangent" has never been more evident than in your random post on Dragon Breaks. Morrowind will always be my favorite for lore. Re-rolling as an unarmored projectile throwing stealthy altmer focused on alteration and mysticism and immediately raiding the +10/10 attribute ring directly west of the starting point coast line sounds soooo much fun. Then head slightly east and north, loot the falling man and gather shrooms for the first balmora mage guild quest... OH THE JOY
34:00 the voice sound like sharpe.
The Knights of Malta, at that time, were no less than 100x more vicious than any Knight in the English kingdom.
So there was a " womens " league in medieval combat sports ???? LOL.
NOPE.
That line in the intro was a reference to another episode in this series about female prize fighters in Georgian London.
Quit being a putz.
For once, Sean Bean made it to the end
"Throughout history, men and women have faced one another in personal combat." Excuse me, women? I thought this was supposed to be a serious documentary, not feminist nonsense. If you're willing to lie to your audience like that, I can't trust anything else you say. I want to know what actually happened, not your fictional version of history.
Joan of Arc?
It's a reference to the episode in this series about female prize fighters in Georgian London. It happened, whether you like it or not, broski!
Having an itch must have been agonizing.
I wonder how Sean Bean feels about AI doing his voice.
The armor is cool, but the American jousting enthusiast’s fake British is even more impressive.
And his inability to use google as well
That guy is mean to dogs for sure.
fantastic
Fun Fact: while England 🏴 was still in the medieval ages figjting with knights during the War of the Roses, Spain 🇪🇸 was alteady colonizing America 🇺🇸 🇺🇸 🇺🇸 🇺🇸
Not quite. The wars of the roses ended in 1487...
At least they were killing each other and not causing genocide
And Spain spent basically the entire middle middle ages in constant unending pointless civil wars... over and over and over and over
@@jordansmith8937😉👍👍👍🇸🇻
Ah, Mr. Sean Bean and his wonderful voice!!
Fun fact. Most knights showed signs of PTSD, and some even killed them selves.
The injuries that one man was describing to the brain, getting hit in the head at force and it causing the brain to hit inside the skull, is exactly what causes CTE in football players.
And a lot of CTE sufferers have ended up killing themselves.
People during this time would have had no idea what CTE was, but I do wonder if, over a lifetime of combat training and jousting that would have started in childhood when the brain is extra vulnerable, it was also happening in knights.
So history wants us to believe that knights were the rich politicians of yesteryear ? Really ? Cuz those guys arent the fighters of any recent history
yes knights were politicians
I don't know if you're aware of this, but society changes over time.
Yes, there was once a time when the wealthy politicians were also the top military brass, and, given the style of fighting at the time, they couldn't do that remotely from a Situation Room like today.
In the Middle Ages, specifically, a king was expected to literally lead armies into battle. Watching from safe distance wasn't acceptable.
He'd have gotten a reputation as a coward or a weakling, and that would be a problem for him politically because it'd lose the respect of both the nobility and the common people.
King Baldwin IV of Jerusalem led armies into battle even as he was in the advanced stages of leprosy.
Yes, there were still plenty of peasants who were conscripted into infantry grunts that were just sent into the meat grinder to die by the hundreds.
But they weren't knights.
Being a knight cost money, so only the wealthy could do it.
What a fantastic documentary all the passion in these experts of their field truly is heartwarmimg. And sean bean to top it off. Just wonderful.
Thank you very much for uploading such a wonderfully well done documentary
i just love that gall talking about her obsession with the knights in the beginning of this vid. time barriers just fade for her.
Good vid but I find it awful that your society has taken the title of sir and turned it into a reward you get for becoming famous or popular. A word that used to mean honor and respect now has nothing to do with either. It's just a title you throw around to make people feel good. It's a shame!
Holy crap, sean bean didn't die before the end
He didnt die in national treasure either
😂 best comment.
@marcusfridh8489 you're right, another rare gem
Rats. I should've checked the comments before I posted essentially the same joke. Cheers.
@@marcusfridh8489 no, but my soul did.
Sir Ron Swanson was very informative in the most practical and realistic way possible.
I agree sir, very informative and thorough
The end fighting scene was pathetic they could have done a better job. Watch some vintage chinese kung fu movies of 1970's were they fight with swords, halbart puts this to shame.
Gotta love the fact they have a NFL (San Francisco 49ers) uniform in the armor museum.
I came here to see if anyone else noticed. I wanted to say something, especially with it being a British museum (obviously. Lol!). Interesting. I guess they see it as an evolution of armor. It makes sense
@@BrottenGuyI noticed that too.
Toby Capwell is a treasure in himself in this field. He has designed and has had harness built to actually fight in and that formed the basis of his doctoral dissertation. His English armor, in black and gold is stunningly gorgeous while being absolutely functional. That harness is for fighting on foot, so naturally he had a second made that is optimized for mounted combat and the list. Talk about living the dream, Dr. Capwell has certainly lived his, while taking his lumps in a knightly and manly manner.
Henry VIII gave up fighting in tournaments after he was unhorsed at a tourney in 1536. He sustained head and limb injuries, some before that event, that plagued him for the remaining 11 years of his life. Some of the changes observed in Henry were mental; he was mutilated in mind and body by his lifelong love of knightly combat. Henry VIII died at the relatively young age of 55 as a very old man.
He’s from a few towns down the road from where I’m from :)
55 years old was considered to be old back in those days. The life span was kind of short .
@@audreyricci6383 Actually, average life spans were shorter then mostly due to the very high rates of infant and child mortality. That was true of the US also in the mid 19th century. Medical science reduced infant mortality rates after the middle of that century and that accounted for most of the increase in average longevity. That means that late 60s into 70s was not uncommon for an adult life span. Henry abused his body for most of his life, with gargantuan appetites for food, drink, women and fighting, so he died a very old man st the relatively young age of 55.
a man to my heart no gay shit.
He refers to himself in the third person…
I been a Hally-mage since 1997' I always prefer Halberd. Poll-axe or whatever u wanna call it.
the first prosthetics were invented then
The narrator sounds exactly like Sean Bean.
Reenactors…….this is what playing D&D as a kid leads you to become.
Cosplay and larpers as well
Kids who play D&D requisitely have more friends than I do as an adult
@@nothanks9503 Touche’
@@nothanks9503 of course they do. All their games rely on social connections and community. I'm always impressed with anyone who will dress up and totally embrace a character, while in public. I'm overly shy, and worried about looking stupid, which ends up making me look stupid.
@@myswanktrendz Thank you! I don't get why people don't understand that. Table top roleplaying games inherently require a group, so, even if you don't already have a group of friends, you atleast need the social skills to be able to get along with people and operate in a group in order to play TTRPGs.
People are just too caught up in 1980s stereotypes.
The title of this video is a lie. 45 minute discussion about armor and 2 minutes about one tournament.
Did they have ice in wine glasses?
Spending a lot of time trying that upper leg piece on
Ron Swanson without a beard
Moustache
What's up with the random 49ers mannequin 8:38 lol
Who was the young French knight who eventually posted announcements inviting all comers on certain dates in certain cities? He traveled Europe and won so many times he would essentially book a field, have his tents set up for a part of the year and wait for challengers. I keep forgetting his name. His records are very detailed about weapons, techniques and injuries.
I think you might be referring to Jean le Maingre, also known as Boucicaut.
Maybe because it's my ancestry it seems so unnecessary and torturous
8:37 why is there a 49ers player 😂
i'm pretty sure that wig is on backwards
p
Worst background music
Imagine if firearms had never been developed. This would be the pinnacle of warfare technology man to man.
I feel like I’m playing civ lol
Toby is gettin' upset! @12:20
Boromir is that you??
8:34, why the HELL do they have a SF 49ers uniform and helmet on the mannequin?? 🤣
37:36 "They were curious about each other's physicality 😬"
This is the exact video I was looking for👍 what a great watch.
Bro, Ned can explain everything forever please.
I wonder what his name was; the first knight to be shot by a gun; the last knight.
Women did not fight wars nor should they.
That line was not about wars, it was about another episode in this series that looked at female prize fighters in Georgian London.
However, historically, women were much closer to combat than people think.
The image have of an old timey woman waiting for her brave soldier to come home from a far off war largely comes from the 19th and early 20th century.
Before then it was very common for a man's family to go with him on campaign. If he was wealthy it could be his entire household. One of the noblemen with the biggest army in the first crusade brought his entire household including his wife and daughter, daughters-in-law (his sons came too, but they were also knights) and several priests to help him with prayers.
When it came to common folk, they wouldn't necessarily travel with an entire entourage like a rich noble, but if a peasant got conscripted into the army it wouldn't have been unusual for his wife to go with him.
Women didn't usually fight, at least not offically, but they did help out around camp with the wounded and there are reports of times when a camp woman ended up taking over for someone who fell.
One famous example: Mary Ludwig Hays was an American woman who went with her husband when he joined the Continental Army in the Revolutionary War. She spent the infamous winter in Valley Forge with him, and then at the Battle of Monmouth took over loading the canon he was responsible for as an artillery man when he became incapacitated.
Ned Stark was the last man I expected to narrate
poleaxe = axe on a pole it is not complicated
yeah I get it other languages would say it differently poll axe meaning head axe??? cause the axe is on the head of the shaft??? have we seen many effective axes where the axe is mid shaft?
Holy shit...I started playing Civilization VI again recently and just realized this is the same narrator as in the game lol.
Is Sean Bean narrating this or am I going crazy?
Great doc but tudor isnt medieval
I want the man narrating to narrate my life. Is it Sean Bean?
If anyone knows it's Boromir Stark
The Woodstock of the middleages
I’m only 12 min in, and I really hope they’ll explain how they pee. 😀
My experience is 1996-2011 wearing body armour as part of a swat team. Regular training and assessment in 30°c temperatures. Wearing kevlar and ceramic plates, thigh rig, pistol, belt, braces, load carrying overvest, ammunition, stun grenades, balaclava, helmet. The description of breathing and moving in medieval times, if having everything just right, taped fixed together, being able to don the gear, and help your buddy to, vision protection, a feeling of confidence in your skill and armour. It is pretty accurate.
Militarized po-lice, eh?
I was in the USMC infantry, I couldn't agree more
You guys are nothing like a knight. It's not comparable at all.
@@ongobongo8333 Youre right. We are bigger, stronger, faster, smarter, more skilled, better trained, with better weapons, better armor, we have better medical and logistical support. You are correct, our superiority makes comparison irrelevant, any combat between knights and modern soldiers would be finished in seconds. It would be the kind of fight the victors would regret winning, it would be butchery, not a fight
@@cascadianrangers728 and you forgot to say you guys are humble too 🙄
The og Ironman
Absolutely amazing video
WOW, THIS WAS FANTASTIC
Imagine a bunch of aliens watching this and going "nah we'll keep staying away, we will just send some flying objects to try and distract them from this nonsense".
Ned Stark????
Like seriously Toby has probably been in every medieval documentary there is lol
Forgotten? Is it really forgotten or just a very expensive and unnecessary trade that has a painfully small demand? There are very few people getting paid to make armor because we don't need armor anymore.
Sharpe ⚔
SÓ TEM EU DE BRASILEIRO AQUI ?
What were king’s injuries, that led to his demise?
Primarily head injuries that affected his brain 🧠 changing his whole personality and thought processes.
lol this expert talking about "when I hit someone on horse back"... he thinks he a real knight lmao!!
There are still plenty of clubs that do jousting as a sport where they do literally ride horses at each other with a lance, so I'm sure he was just talking about participating in one of those.
Fighting with melee weapons while wearing knight armor should be a right of passage for ALL men. Ballistics are good for protecting grandmas from muggers... but men need to be able to fight without being harmed or harming each other. Not serious harm at least.
Ned Stark as the narrator makes this even better.
I’m too lazy to watch the whole
Thing but what did they use for lubrication of the articulated armor parts?
Give me a Break one hit from me and the joint would never move
it is bloody soldiering!
The “late 1400’s? The Tudor period didn’t begin until the mid 1480’s. I think what you meant is the late 15th century and conflated the name of the first decade of the century with the name of the entire century because you got confused about how to add 1 to the name of the century.
0:36 Dumbest helmet design ever. One upward thrust and it’s gone.
Try and hit that gap while homeboy is trying to get you, I guarantee it's a lot harder than you think. There's a good reason the sallet was an extremely popular helmet for so long.
That’s probably what Henry V thought too.
Chivalry is dying, if not already dead, and rightly so. Modern women have destroyed it. The day of honor and respect are long gone.
Man, I forgot how (nearly) successful Ned Stark’s *“Medieval Fun-Time World”* was! So brutal and bizarre! Turn out for their renaissance festival was great that year, despite poor Ned & Robert Baratheon’s their near fatal encounter’s with Peter’s tainted kitten meat burgers! And not to mention Robert’s other (eventually fatal) injury biting his own tongue when announcing the joust! Hard to believe all this history occurred only a little more than 10 yrs ago! Truly one of the best moments to be alive! back when “Jazz Hands” could forgive any number of farts. If all this sounds nuts, look it up. It’s a similarly “graphic” documentary on how tournaments were conducted in t
I didn’t know if I had accidentally advanced to Different video of “Tim and Eric awesome great job“ while Watching that reenactor explain his armor