I think you may be a bit wrong with the 30 year life expectancy. In the middle ages, it was very, very common for newborns to die, some families didn't even name the baby for a while as they expected it to die therefore this would heavily skew the 30 year average life expectancy as many children died. However generally, if you survived childhood, you would often end up living much longer than 30 years
Understanding Statistics. Not a common trait. Too many people take them at their headline when the details pose a different reality. The extremely high infant mortality rate skewing the overall average life expectancy, in human history, is a good example of shallow examination regularly displayed.
I watched something that explained this much better. Basically, before modern medicine children from 0 to 4 had a 25% mortality rate. From 5 to 14 it got better with a 10% mortality rate. As you pointed out, this obviously skews the overall life expectancy statistic. The real age most people could expect to live to in the Middle Ages (if they survived to adulthood) was around 60.
Between that, them saying that people didn't eat vegetables back then, and them saying people only usually lived to thirty was a pretty good indication I should unsub from this channel and block them from my recommended videos. Absolutely trash research.
Also people drank friggin water all the time. All water was not automatically contaminated. People drank herbal teas and fruit juices too, I don't know why people are obsessed with thinking people didn't drink water til they invented plumbing.
As much as I love this channel! I just want to point out a few inaccuracies. 1) Just right off the bat, Medieval Europe had insane amounts of variety, it's the cultures of an entire continent throughout a thousand year time period. But most of this refers to high Medieval England and France, so I'll use that as a reference. 2) With that out of the way, back to generalizing. They had more sophisticated ways of cleaning water than alcohol. Humanity understood the affects of alcohol long before then. 3) Armour was actually quite maneuverable, moving in it wasn't much of an issue. You can see authentic Medieval steel-plate armour being tested. However, they were slightly slower and tired faster. 4) Most people survived well into adulthood (usually into their 40s - 60s, even into their 80s on some occasions.). The average life expectancy is so low in most historical periods, not because adults died young, but because infant mortality was so high. Once you hit mid-childhood, you were pretty much set for another 40 or 50 years. Unless of course you were unlucky enough to die from illness or some other unnatural cause like battle or murder.
@@Yng_Roshi Most developed (for the time) places had better waste methods than tossing it in their drinking water. Aside from wells and cisterns, rivers and springs were a pretty safe source of water, especially if boiled and then let to cool. Boiling water is an effective method still being used today in many communities.
This channels sucks, more than half of what they say is inaccurate. You only got 4 things, there are much more. I hope people don't really take this channel seriously for facts.
Food: Like bro have you even read The Forme of Cury? Any of the Harleian ms? You got parsnips, turnips, peas, pears, cabbage, carrots. Everyone ate vegetables! Armour: ever heard of Jean le Maingre? He was known to somersault in a complete harness! We have videos of reenactors doing the same thing nowadays! Tbh you can do an hour of shitty research without looking for any alternative theories or perspectives, nor looking for the original sources for claims, and you would still buy into this kind of video
@@wesleymcspadden5437 Depends what you mean by research, do you mean looking over other books and websites about the topic and comparing what they say? Or do you mean specifically finding opinions based on primary and secondary sources, finding those sources yourself to read, and critically analysing their provenance, before trying to make your own opinion supported by the evidence? (There is alot more to proper research ie. Discussion, peer-reveiw, self-assessment etc. But AT LEAST know your sources) Ie. Sources or it never happened
The reduction in armor was not due to mobility, but rather the introduction of firearms making armor (in battle) mostly superfluous. Also life expectancy isn't right - our concept of that is skewed by high infant mortality. Of those living to adulthood, they lived much longer.
Also the cost was always prohibitive for very many to wear it. It wasn't just the price, it was acquisition of ore and having smiths good enough to make armour. It was also a pain in the ass to carry around, as well as hot if the temp was above 18 C. Also, heavy bows and crossbows could penetrate plate armour of premium thickness well before a sword or even spear could reach the archer.
@@ElZilchoYo Low quality plate could be and was until they developed better armour. That's usually how it works. I was erroneous in my original comment. Basically, though, armour improved as a result of _being_ susceptible to projectile penetration. Early forms of plate were very thin and not thick enough or curved enough to prevent arrows or bolts from penetrating hence they made it thicker. Keep reading, I'm trying to redeem myself here! I'm also giving you credit being correct. Keep in mind, even gambeson and chain were usually still protective against projectiles, particularly at distance. They could hurt from the impact but it likely wouldn't be lethal. The best bows, such as the English longbow, could penetrate lesser armour, including light plate armour if it was less than 1.5 mm thickness. Standard plate armour was about 2 mm thick and had a piece riveted to the breast plate to prevent arrows/bolts from glancing upward. Anyway, my point is that armour improved as weapons improved. So, you're correct. Thank you for the admonition.
People need to understand a lot of the stuff said in these videos seems to just be random facts they heard. Things like people being drunk all the time just isn’t true.
Regarding that medieval people drinks mostly beer instead of water, a youtube channel named "Shadiversity" has an arugment against it.Shadiversity has a better knowledge on medieval europe.
@@YourBlackLocal ...please understand what I mean by VERY low level buzz, as in barely buzzed at all, but still there... ...your right about the boiling water thing, though... ...you would want to treat the water that way, noted alcohol enthusiast W.C. Fields had a thought about this... ..."Don't drink the water, the fish f√¢k in it"...
Miklos Ernoehazy I understand what you are saying, the problem is that doesn’t change the fact that people would just drink water. The idea people constantly drank alcohol is not true, no matter how strong it was.
@@Hedmanification If the omission of this fact already makes you sad, then you must be extra happy you're not a medieval knight! Hope that realization makes you less sad?
The 30-year life expectancy was mostly because of high infant mortality. It wasn't uncommon for people to live into their 60s and 70s. Queen Elizabeth died at 69, Shakespeare at 52.
@@wansino69 I just finished it again last week. I did a Samurai character roleplay. I may replay Star Wars - Knight Of The Old Republic again too while I'm on a nostalgia trip. Like Marko Saresto said "Give back my youth, I wish to dream again. It's like I never outgrew my old playground."
@@nicholsjoshua15 wow you got deep very fast. Im 19 trying to enjoy my last teen year. Feeling depressed already. Thanks to being in the 21st century i can actually live longer than 40. Don't know if i want to tho. The world is coming to shit
You lost me at the armour section. It was heavy, yes but everything sat where it needed to be. All the weight was distributed equally with itmainly on your shoulders and hips and were made SPECIFICALLY for the wearer. Contouring their whole body. Buying a suit of armour wasn't cheap, akin to buying to a luxury sports car so they could afford the services of an armourer
And, due the prohibitive cost, only knights and high nobles, including royalty, wore plate. Few others ever wore more than gambeson, something even lesser knights wore without the benefit of anything else beyond a shield.
Some wrong info, plate armor was not that heavy and cumbersome. Age expectancy was an average of 30 because many children died, but still lived into their 50s, 60s and beyond. Queen Elizabeth I died at 69
Armor was heavy yes (if you would consider a backpack spread out on your body heavy) but it did it's job and what you said about knights getting an advantage with less armor is just false. It was still possible to be almost just as agile and since knights were mostly mounted it wouldnt even be much of a problem. If they wouldn't have wore heavy armor than they would all get taken down by archers before they got close. The reason that knights stopped using armor and then also seized being a thing was mostly from the introduction of gunpowder which ment that they could be shot easily from long range even while weraing armor.
On the grand scheme of things. European knights did overdressed by the time of 15th century in certain warfare. I'm not talking about the debunked myth of heavy plate armor severely hindered the movements of knight, but it's weight did massively slow down the strategic maneuverability of knights at a grand strategy level. The military dominance of Mongols, and other North Asian nomads such as Turks and Manchus on flatter terrain were almost exclusively achieved through their speed. A medium/light nomadic army can cover over a hundred miles in a single day while European knightly armies and other slower conventional forces can only cover about 30 miles per day if they are lucky on a good day of march. This allowed Nomads to employ a Medieval blitzkrieg like tactic to break through and destroy their enemy piece meals reliably: rush a isolated target and completely destroy it with superior force and power locally before reinforcement can be mustered.
mr bob A crossbow penetrating a cuirass?? Wtf are you talking about ?? get some facts straight before sprouting bs please. Arrows and bolts only penetrate through gaps and all thanks to the sheer volume in a volley. There are many vids about how mobile troops are in full plate and arrow shots test you can look up.
Full plate armor was actually very useful armor it could protect from some types of blows from swords and maces and you would also be agile. Like agile enough to do rolls and stuff.
I love it when these videos on the internet talk about history, and they really are spreading misinformation. Knights, or in my very former German family culture would call them Ritter... were professional warriors hired by a King or lord, they were equipped with what would be considered high tech military equipment for the day, steel plate armor, a side arm typically a sword, and a pole arm typically a pole ax or war hammer. First off a Knights diet may vary depending on where they are from, England, The holy roman empire (Germany), France, Italy... What food they had or what they could afford is what they ate, it can be very much debated whether or not vegetables were always thought of as poison, because a lot of people back in the day weren't wealthy enough to pick and choose much what they ate. Steel plate did not weigh 110LB, most steel plate weighed around 40LB, at most 60LB, and there was a difference between armor worn in combat, and ceremony armor that was decorative, real combat armor was typically made of high carbon tempered steel, and was very well supported by the body, it was built to protect the fighting mans body from injury for cutting and blunt force trauma, in some ways... yes... it did hinder the Knights movement, but not as much as this video likes to claim. And the style of armor may have also varied dependent on the country or culture, for example, in Medieval early Renaissance Germany German Gothic steel plate was popular. Knights yes... were servants whose profession was a warrior, but depending how liked you were by your lord, or how well you were at your job as a Knight, decided how busy you may have been, if you were really good at your job, you may be called to duty more frequently... because you just get the job done. Water was more plentiful to a Knight than this video likes to make you believe, so they weren't drunk idiots all the time. The idea of Chivalry... wasn't a written code at all, it could be interpreted loosely, ultimately you do what your lord or king who hires you says, or suffer consequences, if he says perform a duty, do it... if he or she expects you to behave in a specific manner, do it, it's really that simple. You can follow your own code of honor, but you really do what you are told as a servant.
Full plate armour in the middle ages would usually weigh not much more than 50 lbs. This is actually less than the full kit a modern soldier would carry into combat. This channel should really do its homework before doing anything else.
I'm mean......they were throwing swords around and running either on horseback or bare footing it. Modern soldiers can take a man out from a quarter mile away with only the flick of a trigger.
Full of lies. Two examples: armour wasn’t such a hinderance, as it has been proven. Also, the life expectancy was lower because of child mortality, however, those who lived past infancy would often life for 70 years or so.
The third lie is that the nobility didn't eat vegetables. That fact is contested. Some historians think it was so normal to eat vegetables for them they didn't mention it. Like for example Vienna Schnitzel is always served with vegetables despite you didn't order the vegetables.
The real problem with plate is the cost. Most who fought in wars, including the Crusades, wore gambeson or less. He really should have looked up Maximilian plate... some of the finest field plate armour ever made. Lighter weight than others, well formed and forged, exactly articulated and breath-takingly stylish.
Gabriella Shimone Maximillian was like the last of plate armor tho. It didn’t show up until I think the late 16th century or the early 17th by then 1000+ lb crossbows and firearms were around. Hence why plate armor stopped being used.
NesRuA Fish is meat, anything made of animal flesh is meat. It’s just not red meat. The same way poultry is meat, but also not considered red meat. That’s why people that eat fish in place of red meat are called pescatarians, not vegetarians.
The average life expectancy was so low because child mortality was very high. Factoring it out, actual life expectancy was around 60-70. If you lived to be 10, you'll very likely make it to your 60s. Plate armor is a late XIV century thing. Brigandines were far more common. Sheets of metal riveted to a layer of hardened leather. Easier to repair and alowed some degree of mobility. Armies did not consist of only knights, the bulk were conscripted peasants. And the most common armor around was Cloth. Boiled or hardened Leather offered a bit more protection. Know to armoursmiths since the ancient greeks. Chainmail was for those with a bit of wealth. Then the nobles used Brigandine. And the really wealthy used full plate. Which wasn't nearly as bulky or heavy as often depicted. Knights wearing full plate were on horseback when going to battle. And you'll be better off capturing and ransomning a knight than killing him. Media only depicts those clunky plate suits, but actual armor was a combination of all these elements. Vegetables were absolutelly the main staple of medieval diet. Landed knights could afford to eat meat every day. But the peasants didn't. They knew very well what was edible and what was poisonous. And picking mushrooms, roots and berries in the wild was as common as farming.
@ThatOneAsianBroChick there were also various heresies back then and this video was wrong a number of other facts such as eating meat back then you didnt eat meat on Wednesday and Friday and various relegious days and vegetables were in fashion gluttony was one of the 7 deadly sins wine was common but it was like grape juice since it was so weak unless it was fortified
ThatOneAsianBroChick I doubt that Orthodox Church is considered catholic, these are different branches of one “tree”. Christianity was divided in 1054 and after that neither Catholics nor Orthodox considered themselves the same, they had different lifestyles, different religious rituals and rules.
I thought that life expectancy was low because really young died a lot and it was an average. But in actually if you reached adulthood then you would likely live until 60
The truth behind the change in armor came from firearms becoming more available in Europe and having to adjust to more powerful projectiles able to penetrate plate mail. Armor was designed to allow near full mobility and the weight is centered around their hips which hold a tremendous amount of weight comfortably.
Protective, yes, and articulated plate or field plate was well designed for combat yet the cost remained extreme and as I mentioned elsewhere, heavy longbows and crossbows could penetrate plate lethally before either sword or spear could be brought to bear. It wasn't really as useful as many think for normal combat. Basically, only knights had it IF they were sufficient enough rank to warrant it. They earned their armour.
@@SlytigerSurvival Im sorry to inform you thats a myth, there isnt historical evidence of this or at least it hasnt been mentioned. Eugene Violett-le-duc a Medieval revivalist in the 19th century wrote a section on armor but didnt mentioned once on any of them being hoisted, even the particularly heavy ones. The only real reason Id see someone needing to be hoisted is if the armour isnt well articualted, but then whats the point of fighting if you can barely move.
In days of old, When knights were bold, And toilets weren't invented. They laid their load, Beside the road, And rode off quite contented. - Author unknown
Nice video but there are a few things that feed into the widespread misconceptions about knights. Armor was made to be flexible, durable, and it was never a hindrance to their physical and combative performance. There are records from 15th Century Italy that a man in full-body platemail can successfully do gymnastics as long as he was strong enough. Armor, regardless of time period, is made to be balanced over the body. Belts and braces were fastened in order to divide the weight, so no one area of the body was burdened more than any other part.
A modern soldier carries a rifle of around 3 kilograms, ballistics vest of around 6kg, a helmet of about 2kg, at least 120 bullets in 4 magazines which add a further 4kg, and that's not even counting rations, water cantin, digging tools and other equipment. The basic kit amounts to around 30kg, and a specialized kit for an offensive campaign can go up to 50kg. - sources on the crossing of the canal in 1973 showed that the storming companies carried each around 60kg of personal kit, and were tasked with crossing the canal rowing in rubber boats, climbing a 30 meter soft sand rampant, storm enemy bunkers and dig in and repulse enemy reinforcements and counterattacks. And it was done in 6 hours. Fullplate Armour wasn't any heavier than a modern battle kit worn by soldiers everywhere. No one is complaining about modern soldiers being hindered by their equipment.
I read somewhere years ago that whenever they took a village or town they would make a pyramid out of heads by the entrance to Khan's tent the bodies were probably left wherever they fell for the survivors to deal with
With respect your forgetting something. Knights trianed for both their courtly and war duties almost daily. They would have gossip, lol, or information rings to find ouy about other knights, nobles, princes and princesses. Deeping on if the had land they were expected to maintain and grow the land. They often hired stewards. Stewards were often nobility of lesser rank. Your land that you owned and maintained was a symbol of your rank.
The life expectancy was actually much closer to our own then one might think. Statistics say it was 30ish, but that was due in VERY large part to infant mortality. Basically, if you lived to 7, you could pretty much plan on being around long enough to become a dirty old man. That aside, well done video! Very true facts and quite a good and informative overview of the knights of the era. Kudos!
Can't ignore diseases and violence. so even if a few people would reach the 50s most would not. So the average 30 is acurate even excluding infant mortality rates.
@@Aura96968 That has to be the silliest thing i've ever heard. The point of the video is to tell you about something, if it's inaccurate the video isn't telling you real information.
Obviously it depended from person to person, but I don't usually picture knights as chivalrous. To me the ideal knight was kind of like Amon Goeth from Schindlers list. Colt blooded, charismatic but also easy to scorn and very self-centred. He would be a good fighter, tall, strong but also would do anything to win. If he had to pull a dagger out from his shin guards and stab someone in the eye who wasn't suspecting it then he would do it. He would never actually let something like a code of honor prevent him from coming out on top. I imagine them sitting at their table getting drunk with their servants having a good time but I also imagine everyone else was deathly terrified of them because they were probably sociopathic at times. Kind of what you see in modern cartel movies; someone gets on his wrong side one too many times and then in the middle of laughter he pulls out his sword and decapitates someone, then as all the others look at the bloody mess in horror he's like 'will someone clean this shit up? come on everybody, more wine, I don't want this to ruin my party'. XD
Actually the decline in plate armor started with the wider use of crossbows. Crossbows where much easier to master than bows (especially the longbow) and faster to build.
@@70mavgr I would agree to that if I had more information regarding the penetration ability of crossbows versus plate armour as to my knowledge it was not high enough to really have an impact on the use of plate armour at the time. Although you are most certainly correct that the implementation of the crossbow enabled armies of the time to speed up the training and use of missile units as any peasent with minimal training could use a crossbow effectivly whereas a longbowman had to train for a very, very long time, years even, to be really profficient with his weapon. I know for a fact however that regular bows, including the longbow, lacked the capacity to penetrate plate armour of the time and linking the decline in plate armour to the use of longbows would be false. The Battle of Agincourt would be a prime example of this, a battle won by the English, attributed to their use of the longbow whilst in fact it was more a matter of French tactics, or rather lack there of, in combination with very difficult terrain that let an outnumbered and underpowered army of archers and light infantry beat a larger force of heavy infantry and heavy cavalry sporting plate armour. If you have any information regarding the crossbows that refute my statement, I'd be glad to see it.
I so love your series, not too serious, not too academic but underlying tones of humor and reality. I dont think a day goes by when I'm not searching for something new from your channel. You sem to tell us what we need to know and not a whole bunch of extraneous stuff that we will never recall. Please keep this stuff happening.
Raymond XL Deus Vult my good servant. To Which Military Order to you represent? Templar? Hospitaller? Teutonic Knights? What castle will you be stationed at?
@@ascaloncrusader I am a member of the Order of the Holy Sepulchre. Sword to the Pope, but the Pope does not comfort my soul. I go to Jerusalem to seek God. Now i find a King, to follow into battle as God wills it.
I love the Monty python inserts you put in. I love the movie “Holy Grail” and I’m always putting my own snippets of that movie in your episodes. But now you’re doing it too. The quote “Bring out your dead” is one of my favorites. Keep it up with mixing humor with these awful times of history. It makes it much more interesting. 😂😂😂 Moshi
There are plenty of videos on UA-cam of men in authentic full plate mail rising from flat on their back to standing in a second and then sprinting across a field. They actually had a surprising amount of mobility
This had to be a horrible time to live in.. Watching videos like this makes me thankful for everything I have in my life that I sometimes take for granted.
110 lbs was jousting armour, the 60 lbs was the real armour. Some armour types used Spring steel, that when hardened allowed the breast plate to literally be around 2 lbs in weight and being able to deflect several arrows at high speeds.
Everyone wants to fantasize about being a knight. I fantasize about being a simple turnip farmer in a thatch hut. 🤷♂️ “Yes me lord. More work? Alllright.”
By far, the most distinguishing feature of old European knights was what constituted their bond to their king. Two general types; one Nobel knights who fought and served their Kings based on blood line ties or some sort of shared values or ideological/religious call. The second kind was that of monetary benefit. This was the worst insult to the knighthood code, an insult to core ideals of service and chivalry. Essentially, they latter is a mercenary, i.e., they didn't care who they served as long as it entailed some sort of financial benefit. Worst. So then, we're knights not accepting any sort of reward or income, answer is yes, they would, but the goal of their service wasn't money or gold. They would accept what was essentially their share deemed appropriate at the time. Also paid to other Nobel Knights in the King's service. There is a big difference. Reparations for these Nobel warriors could come in different types, land, servants, agricultural rights, live stock, or positions of power in the kingdom. This formal agreement was very important to the non mercenary class Medieval warriors. This was important...to nobel or aristocratic families....essentially to be officers, equivalents of today's armies, not NCOs...or much worst to be seen as mercenaries.
OMG! DUDE you REALLY need to do more research! All you have done is regurgitate outdated and incorrect assumptions, not disseminate accurate information. This has to be the biggest load of claptrap I've seen in quite a while!
Knighthood. The most misunderstood warrior culture in the west even though it is from the west. Our sons grow up idolizing the samurai culture because they were taught the knight symbolizes video games, wizards and dragons, fantasy etc.
Their amour wasn't that heavy it was only 110 pounds so they did get injured they were used in tournaments their battle amour much lighter about 60 pounds
I love how in this video they say everyone ate meat all the time and in another video of theirs about the medieval period it say people almost never ate meat because it was too expensive.
I mean, atleast you know what your getting back then. Now days it seems like everyone is catfishing. Pretending to be more glamorous and rich then they actually are. Or finding out way later their credit sucks and they really can't afford that nice house , Gucci and Tesla sitting in the drive way lol
the mistakes that i found: 1. 30 year life expectency.... its a common missunderstanding. Children had extremely high mortallity rates, which obviously reduced the statistical life expectency but the people surviving early childhood had a life expectency closer to 60 years. 2. They were always drunk just bullshit. they did drink alot of beer but it had little to non alcohol at the time, making you barely drunk at all and they did have access to clean water. Its not the stone ages. 3. They stopped wearing plate armor because it was too heavy... just false. plate armor was not even that heavy and the only reason they stopped wearing it, was the introduction of gun powder since it is useless against guns 4. diet consisting of mainly meat.. peasents didnt have easy acces to meat and ate more vegtebles and bread. those were the main ones that i found. Really bad research
@@maximus4765 I'm not sure, I'm not an expert on medieval life, however I studied, amror enough to know what I'm talking about, if I miss something some of my fellow brothers in community will correct me. First of all the only time when armor weighed 100 lbs is when they whore jousting armor other than that it weighed 50 or less depending on they stile and type of armor. Next, the armor didn't hinder their mobility, with exceptions depending on style, but those cases it was little to very little. The last part, omg this has been debunked times, times and times over, simply put people stopped wearing armor because of the invention of firearms and because armor got too hot after a while, so they decided it was useless.
when you said that knights wore heavy armor and so they were slow so the used horse's no there our videos of people doing flips climbing walls and rolling the reason is the armor weight is dispersed around your body and the armor wore around the same (not all but a good majority did) the same as what a us marine carry around there back something to add is the English knights were at a period of time were mostly inf also wine and beer didn't have a lot of Alcohol and they did drink water sure they may have been a period of time were they didn't were i got a good amount of info is from a youtuber called shadiveristy may have hat got it wrong if you want to know more about the middle ages i would say to and check him
So much inaccuracies. Yes, they drank water, they had fresh supplies from wells or rivers, the story about people back then drinking only alcohol is a myth. And no, the armors were not heavy, they were light enough that knights could even climb a wall with no problem. Also this video is mixing fashion from several centuries in a single era, those codpieces were common only in the 16th century when traditional knighthood was already dead. And what do you mean they eat meat every day ? If they were Catholics then they avoided meat on certain days like Fridays and Easter Lent !
I’m pretty sure the ”green salads and raw fruit” quote is supposed to focus on the ”raw” part of it. Vegetables were widely used in medieval cuisine due to it being cheap. However, not cooking it properly, or washing it in unsafe water, could bring diseases or parasites, so it was important to not eat them raw, especially vegetables growing in the earth.
"Knights were noble and protected the weak and had great honor!" Bored knight in a rural area that litterly murdered a peasant for no reason "laughs in latin!"
I think you may be a bit wrong with the 30 year life expectancy. In the middle ages, it was very, very common for newborns to die, some families didn't even name the baby for a while as they expected it to die therefore this would heavily skew the 30 year average life expectancy as many children died. However generally, if you survived childhood, you would often end up living much longer than 30 years
Very true, so many people get this wrong it's crazy
Understanding Statistics.
Not a common trait. Too many people take them at their headline when the details pose a different reality.
The extremely high infant mortality rate skewing the overall average life expectancy, in human history, is a good example of shallow examination regularly displayed.
you'd think for a channel supposed to be about history, they could fact check this a little. this isn't the first time they've mentioned it either
I watched something that explained this much better. Basically, before modern medicine children from 0 to 4 had a 25% mortality rate. From 5 to 14 it got better with a 10% mortality rate. As you pointed out, this obviously skews the overall life expectancy statistic. The real age most people could expect to live to in the Middle Ages (if they survived to adulthood) was around 60.
Pretty disappointing. Calls their entire catalogue into question imo.
So Knights were pretty much a bunch of medieval Frat Boys
SMbigpapi Lol 😂
Some shit just doesn’t change
A lot of the stuff in this isn’t true, people didn’t just drink all the time, there is poor research in this.
I wouldn’t call them frat boys though
Yup since only nobility could become knights
Oh come on, what they drank was, "small beer," it had barely any alcohol and even children drank it. It was just enough alcohol to kill bacteria.
Between that, them saying that people didn't eat vegetables back then, and them saying people only usually lived to thirty was a pretty good indication I should unsub from this channel and block them from my recommended videos. Absolutely trash research.
Exactly, their beer was way less strong than the typical 4% we have these days
Boiling the malt during the brewing process helped too.
@@theskyforgerhhh The cod piece being an indication of penis size isn't true either. They were usually used as a pocket.
Also people drank friggin water all the time. All water was not automatically contaminated. People drank herbal teas and fruit juices too, I don't know why people are obsessed with thinking people didn't drink water til they invented plumbing.
As much as I love this channel! I just want to point out a few inaccuracies.
1) Just right off the bat, Medieval Europe had insane amounts of variety, it's the cultures of an entire continent throughout a thousand year time period. But most of this refers to high Medieval England and France, so I'll use that as a reference.
2) With that out of the way, back to generalizing. They had more sophisticated ways of cleaning water than alcohol. Humanity understood the affects of alcohol long before then.
3) Armour was actually quite maneuverable, moving in it wasn't much of an issue. You can see authentic Medieval steel-plate armour being tested. However, they were slightly slower and tired faster.
4) Most people survived well into adulthood (usually into their 40s - 60s, even into their 80s on some occasions.). The average life expectancy is so low in most historical periods, not because adults died young, but because infant mortality was so high. Once you hit mid-childhood, you were pretty much set for another 40 or 50 years. Unless of course you were unlucky enough to die from illness or some other unnatural cause like battle or murder.
Or dragons
Can I ask how they clean their water? This has been bugging me since they can't just drink straight from the river.
@@Yng_Roshi Most developed (for the time) places had better waste methods than tossing it in their drinking water. Aside from wells and cisterns, rivers and springs were a pretty safe source of water, especially if boiled and then let to cool. Boiling water is an effective method still being used today in many communities.
unfortunately murder rates were exceptionally high as compared to now in the medieval era.
This channels sucks, more than half of what they say is inaccurate. You only got 4 things, there are much more. I hope people don't really take this channel seriously for facts.
There's no way more than five minutes of research went into this
Food: Like bro have you even read The Forme of Cury? Any of the Harleian ms? You got parsnips, turnips, peas, pears, cabbage, carrots. Everyone ate vegetables!
Armour: ever heard of Jean le Maingre? He was known to somersault in a complete harness! We have videos of reenactors doing the same thing nowadays!
Tbh you can do an hour of shitty research without looking for any alternative theories or perspectives, nor looking for the original sources for claims, and you would still buy into this kind of video
believe it or not most of this is actually true if you actually went to research these things
@@wesleymcspadden5437 Depends what you mean by research, do you mean looking over other books and websites about the topic and comparing what they say? Or do you mean specifically finding opinions based on primary and secondary sources, finding those sources yourself to read, and critically analysing their provenance, before trying to make your own opinion supported by the evidence? (There is alot more to proper research ie. Discussion, peer-reveiw, self-assessment etc. But AT LEAST know your sources)
Ie. Sources or it never happened
@@Ruarscampbell Nope, i mean the people who run this channel are literally Historians
@KKmies Believe it or not if you read some real historical books, it would say similar if not all the things weird history talks about
The reduction in armor was not due to mobility, but rather the introduction of firearms making armor (in battle) mostly superfluous. Also life expectancy isn't right - our concept of that is skewed by high infant mortality. Of those living to adulthood, they lived much longer.
Also the cost was always prohibitive for very many to wear it. It wasn't just the price, it was acquisition of ore and having smiths good enough to make armour. It was also a pain in the ass to carry around, as well as hot if the temp was above 18 C. Also, heavy bows and crossbows could penetrate plate armour of premium thickness well before a sword or even spear could reach the archer.
Very good point!
There's about 3-4 things they get wrong in every video. Fucking awful
@@gabriellashimone6546 Heavy crossbows still couldn't penetrate plate armour.
@@ElZilchoYo Low quality plate could be and was until they developed better armour. That's usually how it works. I was erroneous in my original comment. Basically, though, armour improved as a result of _being_ susceptible to projectile penetration. Early forms of plate were very thin and not thick enough or curved enough to prevent arrows or bolts from penetrating hence they made it thicker.
Keep reading, I'm trying to redeem myself here! I'm also giving you credit being correct.
Keep in mind, even gambeson and chain were usually still protective against projectiles, particularly at distance. They could hurt from the impact but it likely wouldn't be lethal. The best bows, such as the English longbow, could penetrate lesser armour, including light plate armour if it was less than 1.5 mm thickness. Standard plate armour was about 2 mm thick and had a piece riveted to the breast plate to prevent arrows/bolts from glancing upward. Anyway, my point is that armour improved as weapons improved. So, you're correct. Thank you for the admonition.
It's just a flesh wound.
Your mother was a hamster, and your father smelt of elderberries!
You've got two coconuts and you're banging them together!
I've had worse.
We agree on a draw
What is the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow?
People need to understand a lot of the stuff said in these videos seems to just be random facts they heard.
Things like people being drunk all the time just isn’t true.
Regarding that medieval people drinks mostly beer instead of water, a youtube channel named "Shadiversity" has an arugment against it.Shadiversity has a better knowledge on medieval europe.
...a VERY low-level buzz, not outright drunk was the state of mind back then...
@@miklosernoehazy8678 No it wasn't you do realise you can just boil water and drink it.
@@YourBlackLocal ...please understand what I mean by VERY low level buzz, as in barely buzzed at all, but still there...
...your right about the boiling water thing, though...
...you would want to treat the water that way, noted alcohol enthusiast W.C. Fields had a thought about this...
..."Don't drink the water,
the fish f√¢k in it"...
Miklos Ernoehazy I understand what you are saying, the problem is that doesn’t change the fact that people would just drink water. The idea people constantly drank alcohol is not true, no matter how strong it was.
This video is so full of inaccuracies and repeated false assumptions it's giving me a headache....
Chivalry comes from the French word chevalier and is also where we get the word cavalry. Chivalry was more about the rules of war than anything else.
As very often is the case with these "facts channels" that deal with a wide array of topics, this video is full of inaccuracies
Thank you for your input, MinecraftGamer06
I agree they even mentioned the “their armor was heavy and cumbersome” trope 😃
It also didn’t bring up the topic of medieval ptsd which made me sad
@@Hedmanification If the omission of this fact already makes you sad, then you must be extra happy you're not a medieval knight! Hope that realization makes you less sad?
Yes, I don't understand why it doesn't have more dislikes. Typical American bs
@4:36
"Size mattered back then"...still matters even today.
lmfao
Visit the Tower of London, they have Henry the VIII’s armor... he REALLY was compensating for something!
Ancient Greece: Are you sure about that?
kirby march barcena to bad most men and women don’t measure up so it may matter but it doesn’t
Only for people who have no game.
"They drank constantly..."
I *DO* have what it takes to be a noble knight!
* hic *
I like your profile picture. And name. Funny
Hello knights wanna be a knight
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@Rob Bob I hate your picture Rob
@@amongussus4 I am recruiting
The 30-year life expectancy was mostly because of high infant mortality. It wasn't uncommon for people to live into their 60s and 70s. Queen Elizabeth died at 69, Shakespeare at 52.
Dragons were usually killed by Nords who yelled at them until they died and them absorb their souls.
playing skyrim remastered right now, having so much fun shouting at giant reptilian fire breathing beasts
@@wansino69 I just finished it again last week. I did a Samurai character roleplay. I may replay Star Wars - Knight Of The Old Republic again too while I'm on a nostalgia trip. Like Marko Saresto said "Give back my youth, I wish to dream again. It's like I never outgrew my old playground."
@@nicholsjoshua15 wow you got deep very fast. Im 19 trying to enjoy my last teen year. Feeling depressed already. Thanks to being in the 21st century i can actually live longer than 40. Don't know if i want to tho. The world is coming to shit
Is it just me or was Skyrim just too easy of a game?
or sailors that got really really lucky with a balista shot
Was there anything in their code of chivalry about knowing the differences between an African and European Swallow?
Laden or unladen?
What so you can work out their flight speeds.
They’re taught it’s a matter of weight ratios
Being constantly hungry they probably swallowed them equally and without bias...
Well you need to know these things when you're king, you know.
You lost me at the armour section. It was heavy, yes but everything sat where it needed to be. All the weight was distributed equally with itmainly on your shoulders and hips and were made SPECIFICALLY for the wearer. Contouring their whole body. Buying a suit of armour wasn't cheap, akin to buying to a luxury sports car so they could afford the services of an armourer
And, due the prohibitive cost, only knights and high nobles, including royalty, wore plate. Few others ever wore more than gambeson, something even lesser knights wore without the benefit of anything else beyond a shield.
@@gabriellashimone6546 low nobles would probably be clad in full plate
@@cloudy1606 Ummmm.... not likely... high nobles, yes, low nobles, probably not
Some wrong info, plate armor was not that heavy and cumbersome.
Age expectancy was an average of 30 because many children died, but still lived into their 50s, 60s and beyond. Queen Elizabeth I died at 69
Armor was heavy yes (if you would consider a backpack spread out on your body heavy) but it did it's job and what you said about knights getting an advantage with less armor is just false. It was still possible to be almost just as agile and since knights were mostly mounted it wouldnt even be much of a problem. If they wouldn't have wore heavy armor than they would all get taken down by archers before they got close.
The reason that knights stopped using armor and then also seized being a thing was mostly from the introduction of gunpowder which ment that they could be shot easily from long range even while weraing armor.
Faceless too accurate that was a poor point made by them
On the grand scheme of things. European knights did overdressed by the time of 15th century in certain warfare. I'm not talking about the debunked myth of heavy plate armor severely hindered the movements of knight, but it's weight did massively slow down the strategic maneuverability of knights at a grand strategy level. The military dominance of Mongols, and other North Asian nomads such as Turks and Manchus on flatter terrain were almost exclusively achieved through their speed. A medium/light nomadic army can cover over a hundred miles in a single day while European knightly armies and other slower conventional forces can only cover about 30 miles per day if they are lucky on a good day of march. This allowed Nomads to employ a Medieval blitzkrieg like tactic to break through and destroy their enemy piece meals reliably: rush a isolated target and completely destroy it with superior force and power locally before reinforcement can be mustered.
This comment should be top comment
mr bob A crossbow penetrating a cuirass?? Wtf are you talking about ?? get some facts straight before sprouting bs please. Arrows and bolts only penetrate through gaps and all thanks to the sheer volume in a volley. There are many vids about how mobile troops are in full plate and arrow shots test you can look up.
Armour wasnt heavy at all. Full suit of armour would be about 70lb max, if it was heavy and made movement a hinderance then no one would have worn it.
Full plate armor was actually very useful armor it could protect from some types of blows from swords and maces and you would also be agile. Like agile enough to do rolls and stuff.
I love it when these videos on the internet talk about history, and they really are spreading misinformation.
Knights, or in my very former German family culture would call them Ritter... were professional warriors hired by a King or lord, they were equipped with what would be considered high tech military equipment for the day, steel plate armor, a side arm typically a sword, and a pole arm typically a pole ax or war hammer.
First off a Knights diet may vary depending on where they are from, England, The holy roman empire (Germany), France, Italy... What food they had or what they could afford is what they ate, it can be very much debated whether or not vegetables were always thought of as poison, because a lot of people back in the day weren't wealthy enough to pick and choose much what they ate.
Steel plate did not weigh 110LB, most steel plate weighed around 40LB, at most 60LB, and there was a difference between armor worn in combat, and ceremony armor that was decorative, real combat armor was typically made of high carbon tempered steel, and was very well supported by the body, it was built to protect the fighting mans body from injury for cutting and blunt force trauma, in some ways... yes... it did hinder the Knights movement, but not as much as this video likes to claim. And the style of armor may have also varied dependent on the country or culture, for example, in Medieval early Renaissance Germany German Gothic steel plate was popular.
Knights yes... were servants whose profession was a warrior, but depending how liked you were by your lord, or how well you were at your job as a Knight, decided how busy you may have been, if you were really good at your job, you may be called to duty more frequently... because you just get the job done.
Water was more plentiful to a Knight than this video likes to make you believe, so they weren't drunk idiots all the time.
The idea of Chivalry... wasn't a written code at all, it could be interpreted loosely, ultimately you do what your lord or king who hires you says, or suffer consequences, if he says perform a duty, do it... if he or she expects you to behave in a specific manner, do it, it's really that simple. You can follow your own code of honor, but you really do what you are told as a servant.
Full plate armour in the middle ages would usually weigh not much more than 50 lbs. This is actually less than the full kit a modern soldier would carry into combat. This channel should really do its homework before doing anything else.
I'm mean......they were throwing swords around and running either on horseback or bare footing it. Modern soldiers can take a man out from a quarter mile away with only the flick of a trigger.
Derek Peterson you are dumb
@@Jelly_Juice2006 explain or your statement means nothing
It was a bit lighter than that on average
Yea ive noticed a bunch if mistakes in their “facts” videos
Full of lies. Two examples: armour wasn’t such a hinderance, as it has been proven. Also, the life expectancy was lower because of child mortality, however, those who lived past infancy would often life for 70 years or so.
High quality armor (read expensive) was good, but a poor knight had to buy “off the shelf” stuff that fit poorly, thus hindering him.
Roland Tuason it was medieval times, everyone stank and had shit on them... unless they were a king.
The third lie is that the nobility didn't eat vegetables. That fact is contested. Some historians think it was so normal to eat vegetables for them they didn't mention it. Like for example Vienna Schnitzel is always served with vegetables despite you didn't order the vegetables.
@@joermnyc no, no, and no.
The idea that the people in the middle ages were just covered in mud is a stupid myth.
There's nothing backing that
@Roland Tuason where the fuck did you take this shit from?
The armour thing is almost 100% false
Look up "knight armour mobility test" on youtube
The real problem with plate is the cost. Most who fought in wars, including the Crusades, wore gambeson or less. He really should have looked up Maximilian plate... some of the finest field plate armour ever made. Lighter weight than others, well formed and forged, exactly articulated and breath-takingly stylish.
Gabriella Shimone Maximillian was like the last of plate armor tho. It didn’t show up until I think the late 16th century or the early 17th by then 1000+ lb crossbows and firearms were around. Hence why plate armor stopped being used.
@@CrispyBarOfSoap it was in the 15th century I think, and it could actually stop a lot of fire arms
I love when Monty Python clips are used for reference :) learning can be fun :)
“They never had a meatless any day”
Ever heard of Lent?
Fish.
Emperor Ciprian Fish aren’t meat
NesRuA Fish is meat, anything made of animal flesh is meat. It’s just not red meat. The same way poultry is meat, but also not considered red meat. That’s why people that eat fish in place of red meat are called pescatarians, not vegetarians.
@@mechmaze1686 meat is meat and fish is fish. Stop denying and changing language to fit your agenda...
Mech Maze Fish ain’t meat
The average life expectancy was so low because child mortality was very high. Factoring it out, actual life expectancy was around 60-70. If you lived to be 10, you'll very likely make it to your 60s.
Plate armor is a late XIV century thing. Brigandines were far more common. Sheets of metal riveted to a layer of hardened leather. Easier to repair and alowed some degree of mobility.
Armies did not consist of only knights, the bulk were conscripted peasants. And the most common armor around was Cloth.
Boiled or hardened Leather offered a bit more protection. Know to armoursmiths since the ancient greeks.
Chainmail was for those with a bit of wealth.
Then the nobles used Brigandine.
And the really wealthy used full plate. Which wasn't nearly as bulky or heavy as often depicted. Knights wearing full plate were on horseback when going to battle. And you'll be better off capturing and ransomning a knight than killing him. Media only depicts those clunky plate suits, but actual armor was a combination of all these elements.
Vegetables were absolutelly the main staple of medieval diet. Landed knights could afford to eat meat every day. But the peasants didn't. They knew very well what was edible and what was poisonous. And picking mushrooms, roots and berries in the wild was as common as farming.
0:44 “almost everyone who lived in europe was a Catholic” *Orthodoxy Intensifies*
@Եդուարդ Յովհաննիսեան ☦️
@@kitt3h sorry I don't speak enchantment table.
@@romanrepublic1356 fuck, haven't laughed that hard in a while
@ThatOneAsianBroChick there were also various heresies back then and this video was wrong a number of other facts such as eating meat back then you didnt eat meat on Wednesday and Friday and various relegious days and vegetables were in fashion gluttony was one of the 7 deadly sins wine was common but it was like grape juice since it was so weak unless it was fortified
ThatOneAsianBroChick I doubt that Orthodox Church is considered catholic, these are different branches of one “tree”. Christianity was divided in 1054 and after that neither Catholics nor Orthodox considered themselves the same, they had different lifestyles, different religious rituals and rules.
I thought that life expectancy was low because really young died a lot and it was an average. But in actually if you reached adulthood then you would likely live until 60
Not if you were a woman - on average.
Found out one of my ancestors was a knigth, he lived to be 79, thats crazy he even survived the plague.
The truth behind the change in armor came from firearms becoming more available in Europe and having to adjust to more powerful projectiles able to penetrate plate mail. Armor was designed to allow near full mobility and the weight is centered around their hips which hold a tremendous amount of weight comfortably.
What it was like being a samurai👍?
Ima say bullshit, the armor was quite mobile and supremely protective
This is true
Protective, yes, and articulated plate or field plate was well designed for combat yet the cost remained extreme and as I mentioned elsewhere, heavy longbows and crossbows could penetrate plate lethally before either sword or spear could be brought to bear. It wasn't really as useful as many think for normal combat. Basically, only knights had it IF they were sufficient enough rank to warrant it. They earned their armour.
Wheres skalagrim
Some of it was so heavy that had to be cranked up on horses, good armor was light
@@SlytigerSurvival Im sorry to inform you thats a myth, there isnt historical evidence of this or at least it hasnt been mentioned. Eugene Violett-le-duc a Medieval revivalist in the 19th century wrote a section on armor but didnt mentioned once on any of them being hoisted, even the particularly heavy ones. The only real reason Id see someone needing to be hoisted is if the armour isnt well articualted, but then whats the point of fighting if you can barely move.
In days of old,
When knights were bold,
And toilets weren't invented.
They laid their load,
Beside the road,
And rode off quite contented. - Author unknown
absentmindedprof this deserves more likes
Nice video but there are a few things that feed into the widespread misconceptions about knights. Armor was made to be flexible, durable, and it was never a hindrance to their physical and combative performance. There are records from 15th Century Italy that a man in full-body platemail can successfully do gymnastics as long as he was strong enough. Armor, regardless of time period, is made to be balanced over the body. Belts and braces were fastened in order to divide the weight, so no one area of the body was burdened more than any other part.
A modern soldier carries a rifle of around 3 kilograms, ballistics vest of around 6kg, a helmet of about 2kg, at least 120 bullets in 4 magazines which add a further 4kg, and that's not even counting rations, water cantin, digging tools and other equipment.
The basic kit amounts to around 30kg, and a specialized kit for an offensive campaign can go up to 50kg.
- sources on the crossing of the canal in 1973 showed that the storming companies carried each around 60kg of personal kit, and were tasked with crossing the canal rowing in rubber boats, climbing a 30 meter soft sand rampant, storm enemy bunkers and dig in and repulse enemy reinforcements and counterattacks. And it was done in 6 hours.
Fullplate Armour wasn't any heavier than a modern battle kit worn by soldiers everywhere. No one is complaining about modern soldiers being hindered by their equipment.
My respect just grew 600%
The name Smith originally described a highly skilled craftsman that made Knight's armor.
What would someone named Hancock do?
Do one for being in Genghis Khan‘s army. I want to know what they did w all the dead bodies.
I think they would just pile the bodies on each other and leave them
Ooh ya that would be interesting 😃🌚🧐
I read somewhere years ago that whenever they took a village or town they would make a pyramid out of heads by the entrance to Khan's tent the bodies were probably left wherever they fell for the survivors to deal with
Werent the bodies used to pave roads? I could be very wrong though
Bodies were thrown over the walls of the enemies
With respect your forgetting something. Knights trianed for both their courtly and war duties almost daily. They would have gossip, lol, or information rings to find ouy about other knights, nobles, princes and princesses.
Deeping on if the had land they were expected to maintain and grow the land. They often hired stewards. Stewards were often nobility of lesser rank.
Your land that you owned and maintained was a symbol of your rank.
The sheer number of Monty Python references in this vid is perfect.
The life expectancy was actually much closer to our own then one might think. Statistics say it was 30ish, but that was due in VERY large part to infant mortality. Basically, if you lived to 7, you could pretty much plan on being around long enough to become a dirty old man. That aside, well done video! Very true facts and quite a good and informative overview of the knights of the era. Kudos!
Can't ignore diseases and violence. so even if a few people would reach the 50s most would not. So the average 30 is acurate even excluding infant mortality rates.
Just know that their video on Medieval life was largely inaccurate, so take this one with a pinch of salt.
I don't mind inaccuracies.-^-
Why?
@@Aura96968 That has to be the silliest thing i've ever heard. The point of the video is to tell you about something, if it's inaccurate the video isn't telling you real information.
1. What is your name?
2. What is your quest?
3. What is the airtime velocity of an unladen swallow?
Obviously it depended from person to person, but I don't usually picture knights as chivalrous. To me the ideal knight was kind of like Amon Goeth from Schindlers list. Colt blooded, charismatic but also easy to scorn and very self-centred. He would be a good fighter, tall, strong but also would do anything to win. If he had to pull a dagger out from his shin guards and stab someone in the eye who wasn't suspecting it then he would do it. He would never actually let something like a code of honor prevent him from coming out on top. I imagine them sitting at their table getting drunk with their servants having a good time but I also imagine everyone else was deathly terrified of them because they were probably sociopathic at times. Kind of what you see in modern cartel movies; someone gets on his wrong side one too many times and then in the middle of laughter he pulls out his sword and decapitates someone, then as all the others look at the bloody mess in horror he's like 'will someone clean this shit up? come on everybody, more wine, I don't want this to ruin my party'. XD
Would have been a good Monty python skit 😂
The decline in plate armor is due to the implementation of firearms. Not a change of tactics.
Yea it was crazy to them that a weapon enabled someone with very little training to take out a knight which has trained all his life.
Actually the decline in plate armor started with the wider use of crossbows. Crossbows where much easier to master than bows (especially the longbow) and faster to build.
@@70mavgr I would agree to that if I had more information regarding the penetration ability of crossbows versus plate armour as to my knowledge it was not high enough to really have an impact on the use of plate armour at the time.
Although you are most certainly correct that the implementation of the crossbow enabled armies of the time to speed up the training and use of missile units as any peasent with minimal training could use a crossbow effectivly whereas a longbowman had to train for a very, very long time, years even, to be really profficient with his weapon.
I know for a fact however that regular bows, including the longbow, lacked the capacity to penetrate plate armour of the time and linking the decline in plate armour to the use of longbows would be false. The Battle of Agincourt would be a prime example of this, a battle won by the English, attributed to their use of the longbow whilst in fact it was more a matter of French tactics, or rather lack there of, in combination with very difficult terrain that let an outnumbered and underpowered army of archers and light infantry beat a larger force of heavy infantry and heavy cavalry sporting plate armour.
If you have any information regarding the crossbows that refute my statement, I'd be glad to see it.
I so love your series, not too serious, not too academic but underlying tones of humor and reality. I dont think a day goes by when I'm not searching for something new from your channel. You sem to tell us what we need to know and not a whole bunch of extraneous stuff that we will never recall. Please keep this stuff happening.
“If they were lucky
have sex.” - Weird History, 2019
Sex..... Sex never changes.
I love your style of video editing, my friend, but you gotta get your facts right. There's a ton of misinformation in this video.
I love that you guys have been posting so frequently lately 👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾
Baby you are fine af let me change your life
And the crowd went absolutely bananas
They definitely didn't assume most vegetables were poisonous wtf is this channel
I've listened to about 5-6 vids and have decided I'm done... number of facts are inaccurate and guy talks to us like we're idiots.
They weren’t poisonous but circa’s from the medieval ages said they were afraid fresh vegetables and raw fruits were carriers of disease
you guys leave already,
if you arw so fed up why are you still here commenting
@@rawr8360 Because shitty content needs to be called out to warn other people.
indeed. Meat was only for the rich. The peasants ate mostly legumes, bread and cheese.
I wish you make a vid about holy land, Jerusalem events, knight thingy
A lot of knights lived to 50-60s in the 12th century.
My king Baldwin, i am at your service.
Raymond XL my good knight. Let us defend our fortress in the Holy Land.
@@ascaloncrusader At once, my king. We ride for Jerusalem! GOD WILLS IT!!!
Raymond XL Deus Vult my good servant. To Which Military Order to you represent? Templar? Hospitaller? Teutonic Knights? What castle will you be stationed at?
@@ascaloncrusader I am a member of the Order of the Holy Sepulchre. Sword to the Pope, but the Pope does not comfort my soul. I go to Jerusalem to seek God. Now i find a King, to follow into battle as God wills it.
Want some history videos about some temples in Korea, China, Thailand, Cambodia and others
@Charles Martel actually very much not if you look into it
I love the Monty python inserts you put in. I love the movie “Holy Grail” and I’m always putting my own snippets of that movie in your episodes. But now you’re doing it too. The quote “Bring out your dead” is one of my favorites.
Keep it up with mixing humor with these awful times of history. It makes it much more interesting.
😂😂😂
Moshi
There are plenty of videos on UA-cam of men in authentic full plate mail rising from flat on their back to standing in a second and then sprinting across a field. They actually had a surprising amount of mobility
This had to be a horrible time to live in.. Watching videos like this makes me thankful for everything I have in my life that I sometimes take for granted.
110 lbs was jousting armour, the 60 lbs was the real armour. Some armour types used Spring steel, that when hardened allowed the breast plate to literally be around 2 lbs in weight and being able to deflect several arrows at high speeds.
I just realized the narrator kinda sounds like Bill Hader
I absolutely adore the narrator to these video's!! Lol. He is amazing
“Someone put poison ivy on their salad…” 🤣🤣🤣🤣
A Fran Drescher reference in 2019, very topical. 😂
The flushy girl from flushy the nanny named Fran
Ooooooh misssster sheffffeeeeeeeldz
Everyone wants to fantasize about being a knight. I fantasize about being a simple turnip farmer in a thatch hut. 🤷♂️ “Yes me lord. More work? Alllright.”
Hello Baldrick
Medieval Knights did in fact have “Taco Tuesday”
By far, the most distinguishing feature of old European knights was what constituted their bond to their king.
Two general types; one Nobel knights who fought and served their Kings based on blood line ties or some sort of shared values or ideological/religious call.
The second kind was that of monetary benefit. This was the worst insult to the knighthood code, an insult to core ideals of service and chivalry.
Essentially, they latter is a mercenary, i.e., they didn't care who they served as long as it entailed some sort of financial benefit. Worst.
So then, we're knights not accepting any sort of reward or income, answer is yes, they would, but the goal of their service wasn't money or gold. They would accept what was essentially their share deemed appropriate at the time. Also paid to other Nobel Knights in the King's service.
There is a big difference. Reparations for these Nobel warriors could come in different types, land, servants, agricultural rights, live stock, or positions of power in the kingdom.
This formal agreement was very important to the non mercenary class Medieval warriors. This was important...to nobel or aristocratic families....essentially to be officers, equivalents of today's armies, not NCOs...or much worst to be seen as mercenaries.
Try to : 1) don't lie. 2) don't steal. 3) love yourself and others. Philadelphia USA
OMG! DUDE you REALLY need to do more research! All you have done is regurgitate outdated and incorrect assumptions, not disseminate accurate information. This has to be the biggest load of claptrap I've seen in quite a while!
Knights served their lords for a fee or fief.
Gimme queen elizabeth The first yo
Love the drawings you've included in this video 💫
Knighthood. The most misunderstood warrior culture in the west even though it is from the west. Our sons grow up idolizing the samurai culture because they were taught the knight symbolizes video games, wizards and dragons, fantasy etc.
you sound like skinner from the simpsons
Their amour wasn't that heavy it was only 110 pounds so they did get injured they were used in tournaments their battle amour much lighter about 60 pounds
They had knights to take the evil spirits away
I love how in this video they say everyone ate meat all the time and in another video of theirs about the medieval period it say people almost never ate meat because it was too expensive.
A+ video!
Fascinating overview about the profession!
That list of the things not to do (from the Knight culture) is facinating also.
A+? A lot of this video is falsehoods.
given the alternatives at the tine, yes. i would have liked to have been a knight
Cringe half this stuff either straight didn't happen or rarely ever happened
Telling the poor that they have to dress like they are poor, so that they don't upstage you is the most aristocratic thing I have ever heard
I mean, atleast you know what your getting back then. Now days it seems like everyone is catfishing. Pretending to be more glamorous and rich then they actually are. Or finding out way later their credit sucks and they really can't afford that nice house , Gucci and Tesla sitting in the drive way lol
I love these "Weird History" videos. Not only are they informative, they're hilarious!
Dragons name changed to dinosaur names change over the years
This is a fiction channel masquerading as a history channel.
What? What's false, I want to know for sure
MartiNinja yeah can you please elaborate? I definitely don’t want to take information from this channel as valid if it’s all nonsense.
the mistakes that i found:
1. 30 year life expectency....
its a common missunderstanding. Children had extremely high mortallity rates, which obviously reduced the statistical life expectency but the people surviving early childhood had a life expectency closer to 60 years.
2. They were always drunk
just bullshit. they did drink alot of beer but it had little to non alcohol at the time, making you barely drunk at all and they did have access to clean water. Its not the stone ages.
3. They stopped wearing plate armor because it was too heavy...
just false. plate armor was not even that heavy and the only reason they stopped wearing it, was the introduction of gun powder since it is useless against guns
4. diet consisting of mainly meat..
peasents didnt have easy acces to meat and ate more vegtebles and bread.
those were the main ones that i found. Really bad research
@@maximus4765 I'm not sure, I'm not an expert on medieval life, however I studied, amror enough to know what I'm talking about, if I miss something some of my fellow brothers in community will correct me. First of all the only time when armor weighed 100 lbs is when they whore jousting armor other than that it weighed 50 or less depending on they stile and type of armor. Next, the armor didn't hinder their mobility, with exceptions depending on style, but those cases it was little to very little. The last part, omg this has been debunked times, times and times over, simply put people stopped wearing armor because of the invention of firearms and because armor got too hot after a while, so they decided it was useless.
@@JustScrapHD oh I didn't see your comment until after my rant, my bad, hats off to you🎩
when you said that knights wore heavy armor and so they were slow so the used horse's no there our videos of people doing flips climbing walls and rolling the reason is the armor weight is dispersed around your body and the armor wore around the same (not all but a good majority did) the same as what a us marine carry around there back something to add is the English knights were at a period of time were mostly inf also wine and beer didn't have a lot of Alcohol and they did drink water sure they may have been a period of time were they didn't were i got a good amount of info is from a youtuber called shadiveristy may have hat got it wrong if you want to know more about the middle ages i would say to and check him
So much inaccuracies. Yes, they drank water, they had fresh supplies from wells or rivers, the story about people back then drinking only alcohol is a myth. And no, the armors were not heavy, they were light enough that knights could even climb a wall with no problem. Also this video is mixing fashion from several centuries in a single era, those codpieces were common only in the 16th century when traditional knighthood was already dead. And what do you mean they eat meat every day ? If they were Catholics then they avoided meat on certain days like Fridays and Easter Lent !
This is my 8th weird history episode in a row someone get me out this worm hole
I’m pretty sure the ”green salads and raw fruit” quote is supposed to focus on the ”raw” part of it. Vegetables were widely used in medieval cuisine due to it being cheap. However, not cooking it properly, or washing it in unsafe water, could bring diseases or parasites, so it was important to not eat them raw, especially vegetables growing in the earth.
Knights were basically like the jocks from Revenge of the Nerds
Knights armor were around 30lbs
Fight fight fight
@@tihomircupka718 An arming doublet exist.
@@tihomircupka718 Ahem, blunt force trauma.
Dang it really be like that
Knights are my favorites!
The two minstrels in that portrait look like Bill and Ted.
I think this video is riddled with exaggerations and probable inaccuracies.
Almost nothing in this is accurate
"Knights were noble and protected the weak and had great honor!"
Bored knight in a rural area that litterly murdered a peasant for no reason "laughs in latin!"
Great videos/channel
Very informative
They didn't have uber eats so... they ate pork LOL. They didn't have Tesla's so THEY RODE HORSES!. Too funny omg keep it comin.
They didn't have tinder... so they did apple bobbing
Dragons was real, they really did exist, in Job 40 in the Bible you get a good description of them
What was it like to be a American mafia boss or gangster? I have always wanted to know.
lots of sex, drugs, and getting wacked
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Happy birthday
I am absolutely delighted by all the Monty Python clips.
When I heard that snippet at the right moment my mind suddenly rang
THIS TIME OT TASTING HISTORY
You know what I mean, you historic gourmet lovers!
Mmmm pterodactyl pearls of wisdom