Did Medieval Knights Actually Go On Quests? (Short Animated Documentary)
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- Опубліковано 29 лип 2024
- We all associate medieval knights with questing and heroic deeds but is this association based on facts? Not really but watch the video anyway.
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Knight: *transports peasant safely across land*
Credit card: *declines*
Knight: *pulls out sword*
Those dang 12th century credit cards. Never seemed to work
😂😂😂
Oof, credit cards won't work in Medieval times. The fact that there's no credit machines and neither credit cards.
@@kimjungoof9343 🤦♂️
@@kimjungoof9343 Liar! Bring em to the church! Break em on the wheel!
Only James Bisonette was noble enough to go questing.
You probably got a like from him
@@Sour_pussy yep
@@jamesbissonette8002 yoooooo king
@@jamesbissonette8002 the legend is here
@@jamesbissonette8002 its the god among the mortals!!! OwO
There are individual cases of knights going on what we’d call “quests”. One English knight asked a woman what it would take to win her hand and she tasked him with taking a castle in Scotland.
The request was written and found on his person when he died trying to fulfill said request. It’s probable she just wanted him to leave her alone and set an impossible task but you know. He was an idiot
I suspect that things like that happened many times, just often without a written reason, or much of a record.
A win-win for her. Killed while assaulting the castle? No more of that loon. Actually getting the castle? Rich boyfriend!!
Other knights: SIMP!
irony is she actually wanted "a cask of ale from Scotland", but accents being what they are he mis heard and wrote it down wrong. Sad.
Oh yea mens history has been filled with doing stupid things for women.
That awkward moment when you find out real medieval knights were surprisingly close to D&D murder hobos.
Chivalry was pretty much invented to give them some incentive to behave.
DnD paladins: modeled after supposed medieval knights. DnD bandits: actual real knights.😆
@@mateuszslawinski1990 I mean if their job is taking toll from travellers for "keeping the roads safe", they would ocassionally have to do a quest or two getting rid of bandits, or there will be nobody left to toll.
@@marcusc9931 That's less of a knight going on a noble quest and more of a knight acting like a bandit with the power of the state behind them eliminating a rival bandit gang that doesn't.
The closest modern equivalent would be a well-educated, military-trained gang banger. They would definitely have had the same culture of "if we think you've disrespected us, we'll kill you in the street."
Knights didn't go on quests. Pepsi never had it's own navy. History Matters is a real buzz kill.
The Wild West wasn't all that wild
I prefer to hold tight to my misconceptions. The world was a little more interesting when I was told that Pepsi was a branch of the armed forces.
Edit to fix auto correct
Next thing you know, they'll be telling us Knights didn't fight dragons!
You can just go look at the South Korean navy and pretend their flag is the Pepsi logo.
he is not saying you cant enjoy those still
More iconic duo?
History Matters and James Bisonette
You're goddamn right
The best iconic duo
Why is James Bisonette such a memorable name?
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@@DiviAugusti He's always the first (not always has been though) and he was the very first patron to be mentioned by name
In 10th-12th century, wandering warriors offering their sword to small landlords for local feud, tornaments, watchguards, became a lifestyle. At the same time, the most efficient of these warriors could enter the knights military elite, whatever their origin.
Tradition expected from landlords that they would invite any noble traveler for a day or two. The traveler would provide news and tales from the countries and domains they visited.
After a few years of tornament and small battles, a knight could hope to make a good marriage to a settled heiress, or to enter service of a powerful landlord. When not achieving this, the knight could turn into a monk, take duty for a city, or turn a robber. Crusade and military orders later gave additional opportunities
A good late example is William the Marshall, described by Duby : first a junior supported by his kinship, then a poor knight making is name by traveling from tornaments to tornaments, he married a rich heiress, lived as a landlord and finally as a religious to prepare his afterlife.
In 13th-14th century, poetry started to celebrate wandering knights, selfessly fighting for honor and love, awarded by generous landlords and beautiful ladies - just when this lifestyle was disappearing : power of kings, dukes and counts was strong enough to stop local feud, errand warriors became better organized in bands of mercenaries, knighthood was not awarded for feats of arms, but by inheritance.
He's quickly becoming r/history memes worse enemy
He's too dangerous to be left alive.
@@fibo4108 so its treason then.
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Bad sub
Half the time that subreddit is just bland sugar coated propaganda
So the black knight guarding the bridge is real, but the knight fighting him for passage isn't.
Typical.
lol
Reality often is ...disappointing.
Actually that’s probably the most realistic scene.
@@robertaylor9218 Tis but a scratch.
@@SmokedTomahawkSteak A scratch? Your arm's off!
Medieval Knights: We've been spending most our lives living in a gangster paradise
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@The Gamemaster coochie man
Medieval Knights: and paying for it in hell for ever...
*ahem* don't you mean Amish Paradise? lol
This is what Don Quixote was all about. It's a satire to point out how ridicules the idea of knights errant is.
17th century The Expendables.
I would like to expand it further and claim it's a mockery on idealists of all kinds. Because oddly enough, idealists often like the book while missing the whole point.
or you could see it as even though it is absurd, it was is a good in and of itself. is the intent not as important as the reality?
I like don Quixote because it isn’t quite cut and dry.
Having read it, it's kinda that but also kinda satirizes the cynical and materialistic of the world. Some old nobleman goes mad, picks up some antique armor, mounts a nearly-dead-from-old-age horse, and goes off "questing" with his best friend (and chief enabler), doing good despite having only a barely tenuous connection to reality.
@@derekchristenson5711 In a way I agree. But this was a good deal after the ideal of the chivalric knight was past and gone, and I dont think Cervantes was simply kicking a dead horse. I think thats too simplistic of a veiw. Especially when that something had been dieng out for the last 60 years from when it was published. I think its a more complex illustration rather than just a cynical recounting. Don Quixote IS trying to do good, and even when that is so removed from reality, there is even good in a madman. Likewise, even though many of the normal characters are down to earth, many of them do simple acts of idealism along with more frank and selfish ones. And sancho displays his own form of serendipity in his worldly, but still loyal way.
I took it as a more nuanced take thar both satirized, but also extolled the knightly virtues, as well as satirizes and extolled the virtues of a more practicalist life. Being able to both criticize and legitimatize something at the same time.
There's at least an instance of a Knight named Alvaro Goncalves Coutinho from the XV century who alongside 12 other knights were given the quest of fighting 12 english knights in an official tournament who had allegedly offended publicly 12 english damsels. Alvaro Goncalves Coutinho went from Portugal to England by foot and arrived at England at last minute before the tournament, to help his outnumbered comrades. While this is likely a legend, it is known that all of the knights have existed and have been part of numerous travels around Europe as errand knights, and the tournament did exist too.
Once again History Matters destroying my childhood fantasies.
What next, king Arthur wasn't real?
About that....
Who is going to tell him?
As dovahhatty said he is real.
And he is unbiased so he says the truth
Lol next time they're gonna say that all dinosaurs have died out
@@usernamesareoverrated7246 to be fair there isn't much evidence saying he wasn't real. It is just that the sources we have are ambiguos as hell
Knights had more in common with Tony Soprano than Sir Lancelot.
The (adult) manga Shigurui did a great job at portraying this for the Samurai caste. Despite the cultural differences, there are many parallels through the power dynamics under feudalism. "Like mafia clans" really does come to mind quickly with Shigurui's narrative of samurai households.
weren't the mafia men originally low ranking sicilian noblemen just makin a living in rough times
Charles schwab over here
Lancelot killed like half a wedding and kicked the bride in the stomach.
Early knights, maybe, but as the Middle Ages went on and the Code of Chivalry actually became a thing, more knights started living up to the ideal- each country has a handful of beloved folk hero knights, like William Marshal in England, Siegneur de Baynard in France, Zawisza the Black in Poland, etc. They were professional soldiers, and could be as noble and valiant as many war heroes or just hired thugs.
1:30 How have I only just noticed that RvB reference?
In a way, wouldn't the sons of knights who weren't in line to inherit anything but joined up with mercenary bands/crusades essentially be "questing?" What is a quest if not a glorified bout of wandering and murder-hoboing? If those sons didn't have anything to worry about, family-wise, wouldn't that pretty much embody the questing knight?
I think he is referring to the romantic idea of a knight errant.
Ah yes, the standard stretching of the truth to fit one's own perceptions/desires. A favorite pastime of yours, I assume? The truth is, though, you merely *_WANT_* there to have been questing, and you are just twisting reality to fit your desire.
Mercenaries are real-life murderhoboes. I'd never thought of that before.
@@danielduncan6806 you must be real fun IRL
Of course it can. I think you’re spot on-don’t mind the humorless wretch who slammed you. Any enterprise with a journey can be made into a quest (although I haven’t heard that any such word was used in the Middle Ages). Righting a wrong, recovering artifacts or relics from the “unworthy”, scourging heathens and heretics (ideally ones wrongfully possessing artifacts)-all can qualify as a “quest” if you ennoble your objective and/or demonize your opponents. If you are commissioned or at least approved by someone noble and powerful, so much the better. If you are prone to thuggery then the further away and more perilous the quest, the better (I always liked “find Prester John”). The romanticized version of a Quest by a Knight Errant is for bards and filmmakers.
Every gamer that played RPG (or medieval games): we have been backstabbed and quite possibly bamboozled
This is why I object to people insisting on realistic gender roles in games. If we're going to have questing knights, to say nothing of wizards, why are female warriors too unrealistic?
@@jesseberg3271 Who the hell say that ? Never heard it a day in my life
@@jesseberg3271 depends what game. Set in middle earth sure. Kingdom come deliverance no because its too realistic so it would break the immersion
@@ivanvoronov3871 ok, but isn't that the one people discribed as, _Like Skyrim, only you die of plague three hours in?_
Very very few games make a real effort to be historically accurate.
@@jesseberg3271 exactly. That's why it depends on context. I.e. nothing wrong with having a black MC but not in a feudal japan game.( unless you are specifically talking about Yasuke who was thr only Africa samurai. Same with women, if its a fantasy go ahead( as long as it doesn't ruin lore. If its a realistic game no. Or make it harder like mount and blade where you can play as a woman but its much harder because people don't take you as seriously
James Bizonette is a Knight, his quest is supporting this channel.
What's that pfp my guy
And Kelly money maker
Sir Bizonette to you.
@@Yet.Another.Rapper.KiG.V2 the great general rommel
Does that make Spinning 3 Plates his squire?
Hey this is exactly like how cowboys were portrayed in literature as heroes when in reality they were just men or women who moved and protected cattle.
Its as if the description is actually in the name.
but if you own any cattle, then all sudden they are real heroes :)
I knew it as soon as it felt like those movie stereotypes.
Not all cowboys were gunslingers
Historically, Knights, pirates, samurai, and cowboys, were all different things. In literature, they're kind of the same thing just in different times and places
Another interesting part is the traditional knight's tales of questing, which where romanticized during the later medieval periods, but like Arthur, Beowulf and Charlemange's knights were all from the early medieval period, which was more ruled in a chiefdoms (ea. direct give-take relationship between kings and their retainers) than the full feudal system.
so there are no finding 25 potatoes and slay 5 rats quest for Robert the Bootlicker,
the village guy who obviously need your help the most?
Knights going on the crusades: I'm going on an adventure
Knights when they return: *you died press f for fast travel*
FIND THE HOLY GRAIL!
Your Mother was a Hamster, and your Father smelt of Elderberries!
@@chrisnation1432 HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Found the not-so-great ruler.
Bruh your profile looks like Stalin but German and I love that
The Holy Grail, Robin! To the Bat Poles!
Thanks for the video! It would be also interesting to note about the knight literature back then. When reading de Cervantes, it seems in 16th century there were tons of literature about knights going on quests to save a damsel, get some artifact or a new kingdom for that matter.
Everyone: James Bissonette! James Bissonette!
Spinning 3 Plates: **sad noises, but still waves cheerfully**
I always imagined they went around serving Arthur, King of the Britons and weighing maidens to see if they were heavier than ducks...
I imagine there would have been much rejoice.
@@ArkadiBolschek There would be much rejoice across the Realm of the Britons. From the Castle Camelot and Knights of the Round Table (Who Dance Whenever They're Able) to the nuns of Castle Anthrax and Swamp Castle IV, much rejoice would be felt by the people.
@@firstconsul7286 They'd probably feast on all sorts of stuff too.
She turned me into a newt! I got better.
@@ArkadiBolschek Like lambs and sloths and orangutans and breakfast cereals and fruit bats.
The reason why stories about the exceptional quests of great knight's are told is specifically because the men and their quests they went on were exceptional. Exceptional people create exceptional stories, and theirs are the ones we hear. Nobody will tell the story about Henry the Average, because he didn't do anything worth retelling. This leads to a bias where the only stories we hear are those of extraordinary people, and the average hero of a story will always be exceptional in some way.
extraordinary is not synonymous with exaggeration
@@inesfi66166 Yes, but the exaggeration is what happens *after* a story is first told
@@InfernosReaper exaggeration is happened bc the speaker told the story.
Exaggeration could be added to the story from the start by the people that experience the story firsthand.
I mean yeah but the problem is the exceptional story is fighting guys in Arabia but somehow we went from that to George slayer of Dragons
@@lockdown550 st george isn't about a medieval knight, the story is much older and he may have actually slayned a dragon
1:36
Oh gosh, that smile with the sign "Thumb Screw Time" caused way more laughter than it should have.
I love that you keep the videos short and not waste my time with filler.
My opinion of knights after this: “Tis but a scratch”
_Who are you, who are so wise in the ways of science?_
The Black Knight had leprosy
*_A scratch? Your arm's off!_*
@@dogedoger2606 *no it isn't*
@@IllyrianTiger99 then what's that?
I think the idea of the "questing knight" is just the narrative "hero" trope applied to the medieval period. Mythology and literature are full of stories about brave men travelling to achieve some noble goal or other, with the purpose these stories being entertainment, chronicling the past, and inspiring positive behaviour in young men.
It's basically the same story trope as one finds in Star Wars or The Hobbit. It's everywhere, even if medieval folklore.
Don Quixote is such a perfect remedy to "Questing Chivalry" for a reason.
There may have been times where a knight was tasked with negotiating or storming/infiltrating a castle for a dansel (likely a ransomed relative of a nobleman and can be male or female) but that is one in a blue moon as for those were done by people more suited for the job and its unlikely that they would try to storm or attempt a rescue unless they can't pay.
@wargent99 Fiction has often more influential than reality anyway, not just myths.
Just look at most politics between 1800 and 1900, idealized things and lies are often the source of many behaviours and decisons.
Hell, the first Fascist group, the Italian Fascismo, was built on the idealized concept of being heir to Rome, rather than entire history of the peninsula in the 1500 between the end of the Western Empire and 1900
@@Wasserkaktus No it is not, and your comment is moronic, as is this whole video. They completely missed the point of what a quest is.
@@paloma4444 *tips fedora furiously*
As I understand it from history class knights seeking service with a local lord could be tasked with a "quest" (sort of) to show their value. But most of these where menial things as was described in the movie, like showing they could fight (tournament), prove their valour in the field of battle (if there was a war on), hunt down some local robberknights (kill these and you're in) or at least pay for their own damn horse (a very common shortcoming, the idea of two crusaders sharing a horse wasn't fiction).
This was essentially a practical thing to show the knight was worth keeping around because it was better to just pay them or the problems that was described would happen and the local lords knew this. A quest was just something they could call any form of errand because it had to look "nice" and "noble" (because knights). Also saying "This knight brought order to the land as I ordered him to do." sounded better then saying "I'm simply keeping him around because otherwise he and his drinking buddies would pillage my lands."
Clearly this man has never played an rpg if he think collecting tolls or fighting local petty crime isn't a quest.
Killing rats in a basement is a quest. Gathering flowers is a quest. Talking to two people on the opposites sides of a town is a quest.
“A knight on a quest is never late, nor is he early, he arrives precisely when he means to.”
So never?
*Wizard*
Sir Gandalf the Grey of the fifth age
@@marchcross9851 Well, ya know, in a story, one tends to arrive when the plot says so
I see what you did there
We're Knights of the Round Table, we dance when ere we're able. We do routines and chorus scenes with footwork impeccable
@Stuart Aaron **aggressive foot tapping**
So you guys have internet now?
@@royhe3154 we’re knights of the round table, our shows are for-mid-able.
I have to push the pram a lot...
Well, on second thought, let's not go to Camelot. It is a silly place
0:11 - "You got my note! You've come to rescue me!!!"
“Reality is often disappointing.”
The origin of stories.
Boring hunting trip? Attacked by a dozen sabretooth tigers.
Boring trek across the mountains? Dragons. Lots of 'em.
Boring ocean voyage? Sea monsters.
Didn't do your homework? Homework-eating werewolf.
You get the idea, I'm sure.
James Bizonette went on the greatest quest for the holy grail known as your patron
Hahahaha
Oh the “Thumb Screw Time” sign is a classic!
It's less the sign and more that the guy is smiling.
New quest-ion: did thumb screws happen?
Norman knights kind of went questing in groups, only they usually had their own objectives unknown to the lords that invited them. Their formal quest was usually to help some lord somewhere far away to win a local war. Their real quest was to get invited by some far away lord who lacked soldiers so that they would be guaranteed to be one of the largest armed forces in the region and then install themselves as rulers. Worked really well in Southern Italy and during the first crusade.
While this is true, the term quest as we know it often derives from when a son who wishes to become a full fledged knight would try to find bandits to prove his worth.
Furthermore, knights often participate in jousts and large battles amongst themselves for glory and spoils of war. Often people died during these battles which resulted in local feuds which in turn caused instability.
It is worth noting that these battles were outlawed by the church because of the barbaric killings (At least in the church's eyes). However, most knights just ignored it as the church had no way of enforcing the action except by saying that they would go to Hell.
On a side note, some people believe in King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table. This is where you can find the most references of kings sending knights on quests for Holy objects. However, no notable person during the time period (Out side of the story obviously) was named Arthur. There also has been disagreements of where Camelot was located. So most scholars and historians say that the work of literature is false.
Sorry for this long comment.
The relevant name would have been something along the lines of "Arturias" (that butchering is mine), because the name is of Latin derivation, and thus would have been structured like that. The Venerable Bede (at least I _think_ he was the source on the first Anglo-Saxon invasion) mentions a high-ranking warrior (probably from a Roman occupation era noble family) of the right name, and a century or three later the name "Arthur" became really popular around the time of the _Second_ Anglo-Saxon invasion, so we can be decently sure that he existed in some form.
Similarly, a british king likely did die around the French town of Avalon while traveling to answer a summons for military aid by the Roman emperor of the time (the relative remoteness of his place of death being part of the reason it's treated as some mystical place- almost noone in Britain at the time would have been familiar with it).
It's possible that a round table may even have been associated with them, as well as a related order of knights. Some of the other names may well be right as well (e.g. Guinevere is a name from the correct culture). Even "Excalibur" is likely relevant in the same way as "Arthur", as it's likely a corruption of the Latin "ex Caliburnum" or the like, for "out of Caliburn" (as in, "made in Caliburn"). That's probably the limit of it.
The Arthur that fought the first Anglo-Saxon invasion probably was not the "rightful king", but instead just a nominal head of a coalition of similar aristocrats- it's worth noting that several are traditionally considered to be his _relatives._ Similarly, it's very possible that whoever died near Avalon was a different person. As for Lancelot, never had anything to do with Arthur assuming that Lancelot even existed (probably best to consider him a character added to win over Norman warriors), and Merlin is a corruption of someone that lived at least a century later and in Wales instead of the area where the Anglo-Saxons were fought against.
Why didnt knights go on quests?
Coz they couldnt get James Bisonette to financially support them
Hahahahahahaha
You're not early - you're just in time.
Ja
Thanks
Yes
Indeed good sir
Graciás
I was rewatching this again, and I find this informative! Thanks for the video!
I wonder if James Bosonette knows that the entire comment section praises him until the end of time.
he comments here sometimes
He does. In one comment, in fact, he called this memification of James Bisonette "weird".
Only thing left out is that one of the reasons some crusades, (particularly the first one,) took place was to get knights out of France (in particular) because they could be such a public nuisance.
The questing literature that sprung up in this period was in fact a response /to/ these non-inheriting troublemakers, trying to convince them to go around doing nice things rather than making trouble.
But since many knights were tasked with upholding law and order in their region. Surely it happened at least some times that they did things like saving hostages and raiding bandit hideouts?
Even though most probably just sent lower men to do that job I'd imagine quite a lot of them personally lead these "quests" for the sake of honor and prestige.
In the sense of retaliating against neighbors that had raided them, sure. The English & Scottish didn't get along great.
@@absalomdraconis Retaliating against your neighbor is extremely important considering they are actively trying to undermine/conquer you. Lot of people like to go "why weren't people peaceful back in the day, are they stupid?" when in reality peace was never an option.
On the Scottish border there was constant raiding and various families who were prominent in it, being fairly notorious for loose loyalty and barbarism. That area had its own distinct culture for centuries, one that ended up having a deep cultural influence on the American South of all places.
France saw mass scale raiding by the English and England was occasionally raided by the French navy.
In England and most other lands that weren't borderlands there were laws to enforce and criminals who fled into the woods were made outlaw (literally the law didn't apply to them) and male peasants had the duty of joining local posses (yeah, that's where it comes from) to hunt them down, local notables would almost certainly be leading any said hunt.
The Holy Roman Empire and Italy were often in a mess and there was all sorts of trouble one could get up to.
Spain, Prussia and the Holy Land were in a constant state of religious war and one could gain a name or more importantly to most knights forgiveness of ones sins for fighting there. The Holy Land also had a permanent knight shortage, and were desperate to keep hold of any who came to fight, you could move quickly up the social hierarchy with but a little skill and there were an overabundance of rich widows and daughters looking for a husband and the were a lot less picky than in Europe (though compared to today there was already more willingness to marry down), the one caveat was that there was good reason for these opportunities existing, you were probably going to die fighting Muslims. There was a reasons it's destiny was closely tied to how many Normans there were kicking around.
Poland was another interesting place, but it was kind of a backwater. Hungary had a powerful entrenched nobility who you'd likely not want to get involved with.
The Balkans were the same as ever and it was best to avoid the place unless you were part of an army traveling though or you really had to be there for some reason.
The Byzantine Empire held rich office and pay but the were heretics who refused to acknowledge the supremacy of Rome and they were rightly suspicious of Latins as despite their effectiveness when facing Muslims they tend to have little motivation against anyone else, also they occasionally went rough, captured a castle held by the Muslims, declared their own kingdom and started getting up to King Arthur level shit.
Russia was both heretic, and past the pagans so unless you were a Scandinavian merchant with a longboat there wasn't much reason to go that far.
Scandinavia had lost a good deal of prominence so unless you were Scottish you probably weren't going to have to bother with them.
Ireland was as it ever was, if you wanted to fight savages in a bog during an endless series of petty wars against petty clans that went no where then great, just remember that your descendants will likely integrate into the clans there marry into and the next generation will have to put them to the sword as well.
Going out of bounds of Christendom was an interesting form of suicide to pick, best case you'd be enslaved and sold to a fat Arab to be molested for the rest of your days.
Iceland was a pretty nice place if you thought that Europe had too much going on and not enough pickled fish.
I love this channel's sense of humor in its animations
So knights acted pretty much like me in damned near every open world RPG I ever played and robbed looted pillaged and chased butterflies whenever possible. Good to know.
"During periods of instability, the knights went to town... And robbed it." 🤣🤣🤣
Especially in war as Plundering is just a normal part of war in that time, in fact almost every Kingdom has a "policy" that should a city not surrender than the attacker has a right to plunder it.
On other cases where Mercs are involved when they are denied payment than they would sack a city, this was actually the reason why the 4th Crusaders actually sacked Constantinople because the Byzantine Pretender didn't give them their pay.
That made me laugh too 😆
thank you for doing this videos, they are good and also helps me rest my mind :)
These just keep getting better and better
You just crushed everyone's hopes and dreams
Ah yes, James Bisonette. It's always James Bisonette.
Or was it actually Spinning 3 Plates?!
Did I just see a Red vs Blue reference at 1:32? Alright, cool.
Your animation style is really cool
@History Matters I'VE MADE SUBTITLES FOR 30 OF YOUR VIDEOS. Please can you add them because YT have a new policy that *only you* can add subtitles? The viewers can't add subtitles anymore - it's impossible - YT removed the feature due to spammers & not many people were writing subtitles
It’s expected that they didn’t...but we do have war stories.
Just enjoy this channel throughly!
Knights when they run out of money:
We gotta rob that train Dutch.
of course after they spend it
"ONE LAST JOB ARTHUR!"
Yer in a wrong era fellow
James bisonette is the best knight for history matters
:D
At 1:47 it looks like a small party of northern Italy is under water
I’m a man of simple things. I see a history matters video and it is immediately watched, o matter when or where I am.
Always 3 minutes of comedy gold with historical learning. What more could you want
To Camelot
“Card declines”
On second thought let’s not go to Camelot tis a silly place
2:10 I like how unimpressed Jesus is at the whole Crusade thing. I'm confident JC would *not* be a fan.
"My disappointment is immeasurable and my day is ruined."
Just a short comment to thank you for you're work and for explaining things we're not getting teached in school
1:32
Wait. That's illegal.
Damn, last time I was so early the medieval knights were *GOING TO THE HOLY LAND TO FREE IT FROM THE INFIDELS*
*infidels. They believed
@@grantwalter2243 ah yes I forgot that word its suits better thx
Knight: Let's go on a quest!
A few hours later.
Knight: Give me all your money!
So nobody else sees giant exclamation points over people's heads when they want me to do stupid tasks? Guess I'm getting therapy.
0:11
Loved that ”Holy Grail“ reference!
Gotta love the pop culture references! Nice work on this one
'' Knights and Questing. Name a more iconic duo."
Me: Usa and oil. Russia and winter. Japan and anime. China and censorship. etc.
Britain and tea.I mean we British started a whole fucking war over it
Germany and Fuhrer
I am sorry.
@@mohdadeeb1829 oh god no.
@@mohdadeeb1829 i think you should have put Germany and Beer
@@cgt3704
Spain and Caudillo
Italy and Duce
Portugal and Estado Novo
Mercenaries did actually go on pretty neat adventures. I would research Robert Guiscard, the Norman mercenary whose greatest quest was storming Rome to break the Pope out of captivity by assaulting an army 5x bigger than his own. He then set controlled fires around Rome to form a smokescreen to aid his retreat and he got the Pope out of Rome unharmed.
2:10 Love the stigmata on the big J
I like to imagine at least a few times a Knight had a "quest" the equivalent to "Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court", where he's taken on a quest to rescue a damsel, and it turns out that it's just a farmer and some pigs. So, he buys the pigs and calls it a successful quest.
New Idea: What about Japanese Samurai? Didn't they have to be paid off to not start killing each other?
Yes, and they had the same problem with robber knights (called ronin in Japan) they had in feudal Europe. Basically, weak central government + lots of autonomous local warlords = trouble.
I'd assume there was at least some questing. Probably during the Dark Ages when different lords wanted to take over their neighboring lords' territory.
Either that or rescuing someone who was ransomed. Or finding the witch. Or collecting taxes (treasure) from the local hostile population. Or depopulating a village (pest control quest). Or being a message courier (travel to new lands). Or escort a group of travelers through dangerous territory (Knights Hospitalier).
Video: 1:54
Me: Crusades Time?
History Matters: Crusades Time
History Matters: *Says my name at the end of the video*
Me: *Screams like a little girl* Finally!!!
Edit: Jesus it hits differently when your thanked for your support. Thank you so much you spiffing chap for your dedication to teaching the masses 😁😁😁
Either youtube is messing up, or you have no likes or replies
@@heliveruscalion9124 I posted this like half an hour ago. Give it time
@@matthewshipley739 wait i'm stupid lmao, thought you meant you were thanked in the replies
@@heliveruscalion9124 Haha xD no worries man
Haha, I noticed a new name at the end
“Questing” to retrieve holy artifacts MUST have happened. How else do you transport relics from the Holy Land to Europe? Sure it was probably not some epic adventure, more like being a delivery boy. But being assigned to escort relics on would be seen as quite romantic compared to, collecting toll.
You say that, yet in earlier times they would go off questing, they'd go to a foreign nation that was at war (during a time their own lands were at peace) and sign up as mercs. So as to remain in peak fighting condition. This practice was fairly common.
I would say yes:
-Wars (and especially crusades).
-Duels between knights before battle (or during siege).
-Jousting challenges (protecting bridges).
-Risky embassies.
-Exiled knights trying their luck.
This help me with my project
Chivalric tales say that knights went on "quests," I'd say they went backpacking through Europe before it was cool.
Just the act of traveling was an adventure in those times. A pilgrimage is kind of like a quest I suppose.
While Pilgrimage is common for Knights "Questing" just didn't happen though its likely that they did some things like negotiating a Ransom or freeing a kidnapped Lord but those are very rare as there are other people for those jobs.
I don't know why exactly, but I find those half-closed eyes on some of your characters to be super funny.
Caboose at 1:32 was the most hillarious easter egg in all of your videos 😂😂😂
I still love the videos but happened to putting sources in the description? The last few videos haven’t had them and as a history grad student I loved seeing them
Then be a student and revise. Look for your own sources.
get destroyed childhood...
I only liked because of your username
I hadn’t even noticed that he makes so good videos without any background music at all
Image of the Kaunas castle - nice. Got my approval stamp.
I used to be an adventurer like you, then I took an arrow in the knee
A fellow Skyrim fan I see.
Real answer: They didn't know the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow, thus they had to stay home.
was it african or european?
I don’t know that.. *gets flung*
1:31 Words can't describe how much I love this channel
Should do an episode on the differences between knights and samurai!
“Knight’s didn’t go on quests”
Way to kill the mood
This video is moronic. Knights were soldiers. Of course they didn't regularly go on quests, but of course once ina while there was a special mission and some went, which are the exceptional stories we hear exactly BECAUSE they are exceptional
Was history matters speaking slowly??
I don't know why, but this just immediately made me think of Quest Sprout from the Swords comic
The fact that he showed master chief at the “That’s illegal” part is hilarious 😆😂🤣