England's Favorite King Liked France Better | The Life & Times of Richard the Lionheart

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  • Опубліковано 13 гру 2020
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    Here's the link to the dramatic reenactment of Richard's Crusade in the Holy Land: www.magellantv.com/series/war...
    And the battle at Chateau Gaillard that changed the course of England's French holdings forever: www.magellantv.com/video/ch%C...
    Music (in order of appearance):
    Kevin Macleod - Immersed
    Kevin Macleod - Hidden Past
    Kevin Macleod - Screen Saver
    Kevin Macleod - Angevin
    RPG Playlist - Tavern/Festival Music - Kesh Jig
    RPG Playlist - Tavern/Festival Music - An Comhra Donn/Rights of Man
    Kevin Macleod - Five Armies
    Seb Skelly - Trolololo for Brass Quintet

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  • @JackRackam
    @JackRackam  3 роки тому +244

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    • @jakespacepiratee3740
      @jakespacepiratee3740 3 роки тому +3

      Jack, I would highly recommend you look into William Lyons Mackenzie, the guy who tried to do America, in Canada. After failing to get Canadians to peacefully rebel from 'Britsh colonial thraldom', He actuslly started a short-lived pro-American anti-British "Republic of Canada" whos flag is literally the word LIBERTY in big red letters, and two American-esc Stars. Looks pretty cool to me.
      The Republic of Canada only lasted two years with some boys doing a Summer-Camp on an Island before being kurbstomped by the UK. America did not really care.
      Oh, there was also the "Republic of Lower Canada" which lasted a bit longer, and was more French-Canadian, while the Republic Williams tried to make was more American-Canadian in ideals and culture. Oh, he also later said that Canada should be straight-up be annexed by America. I guess he was salty that his rebellion failed.

    • @stoopidphersun7436
      @stoopidphersun7436 3 роки тому

      Do a vid on the rhodesian bush war

    • @xyzstain
      @xyzstain 3 роки тому

      Wait....was that the band of the hawk in the mercenary shot?

    • @neilbuckley1613
      @neilbuckley1613 3 роки тому +1

      Hey Jack , I can see that he regarded England as free bank, but he waged an awful lot of war in France, Richard must of killed a hell of a lot more Frenchmen than English, so they do have something to like about him.

    • @Christobanistan
      @Christobanistan 3 роки тому +1

      Signed up for WARRIORS!

  • @awzthemusicalreviews
    @awzthemusicalreviews 3 роки тому +2553

    "People actually died for this" sums up European history better than any book ever could

    • @evryatis9231
      @evryatis9231 3 роки тому +83

      any history tbh, look at the indians/american indians or africans, or even asians.
      Yeahhh..

    • @Catman2123
      @Catman2123 3 роки тому +146

      Pope in 2020: “Take up your sins with the lord yourself if you are unable to attend confession.”
      The 5,000,000+ people who died during the reformation: “Are you shitting me?”

    • @forickgrimaldus8301
      @forickgrimaldus8301 3 роки тому +22

      @@Catman2123 actually they were in the low million as the population density of Europe was small but still why did the whole of Europe mobilized for war after #Protestant, #Reformation and #MartinLuther became trending topics?

    • @comradepolarbear6920
      @comradepolarbear6920 3 роки тому +13

      @@forickgrimaldus8301 cuz why not.

    • @forickgrimaldus8301
      @forickgrimaldus8301 3 роки тому +6

      @@comradepolarbear6920 oh thats right it was Fun

  • @vanbaguette7368
    @vanbaguette7368 3 роки тому +1294

    I'm from Austria and we love Richard. The money England used to buy his freedom was used to renovate the capital and build a whole new city. Thanks Richard, very cool.

    • @dandyl1on
      @dandyl1on 3 роки тому +176

      I grew up in the city funded by his ransom and now live in the capital. Thanks Richard, very cool!

    • @Julianna.Domina
      @Julianna.Domina 3 роки тому +69

      As just an American whom adores little Austria, very cool, Richard!

    • @user-sg4ov7ng4h
      @user-sg4ov7ng4h 3 роки тому +41

      Don't have anything to say but, thanks richard, very cool!

    • @palehorse6655
      @palehorse6655 3 роки тому +19

      What's the city called back then if it's not Richard's ransom in whatever language you guys spoke back then I will be disappointed

    • @nose766
      @nose766 2 роки тому +16

      If Austria wasn't as rich it wouldn't have had as a big a population as it did during the late 1800s, giving Hitler an opportunity to be born.
      Richard literally caused the holocaust

  • @GiselleGewellle
    @GiselleGewellle 3 роки тому +2510

    England: *starts crying into hands*

    • @Kerriangel
      @Kerriangel 3 роки тому +264

      Ireland and Scotland: *pointing and laughing*

    • @Veriox22
      @Veriox22 3 роки тому +57

      Into thy hands, o lord

    • @mojotheaverage
      @mojotheaverage 3 роки тому +78

      And binge drinking and eating Norwegian fish and chips like an ex downing a tub of ice cream

    • @uptank8461
      @uptank8461 3 роки тому +23

      dude,,,,, too soon

    • @raulpetrascu2696
      @raulpetrascu2696 3 роки тому +5

      Pepehands

  • @CivilWarWeekByWeek
    @CivilWarWeekByWeek 3 роки тому +1703

    England's king liking France, this is the ultimate betrayal

    • @invictidomini6846
      @invictidomini6846 3 роки тому +132

      Vive la France 🇫🇷!!!!

    • @cgt3704
      @cgt3704 3 роки тому +79

      How could you do this to me, Senpai

    • @dr.vikyll7466
      @dr.vikyll7466 3 роки тому +52

      @@invictidomini6846 Vive la Roi

    • @tomaszzalewski4541
      @tomaszzalewski4541 3 роки тому +86

      Well, considering that his family was technically from France...

    • @forickgrimaldus8301
      @forickgrimaldus8301 3 роки тому +96

      Nah most of them were French anyway, as the main reason as to why the 100 years war happened was because the French line and the "English" line of the Family disaggreed on who gets France.

  • @theoador1050
    @theoador1050 3 роки тому +1623

    Right off the bat Jack sounds like he's trying to tell his friend that their partner is cheating. This is going to be a good one

  • @Crick1952
    @Crick1952 3 роки тому +663

    England: "No! He loves me! He told me it doesn't mean anything! He's going to leave France and come back to me!"
    *sobs into hands*

  • @jackukridge5381
    @jackukridge5381 3 роки тому +643

    Great death, distracted by a guy defending himself with a frying pan and didn't notice the kid with the crossbow until it was too late because he was too busy laughing.

    • @ianlilley2577
      @ianlilley2577 3 роки тому +20

      Sounds like he was a rabid dog

    • @game_boyd1644
      @game_boyd1644 3 роки тому +26

      It's really funny that something similar happened to Pyrrhus of Epirus

    • @Adhjie
      @Adhjie 3 роки тому +2

      @@game_boyd1644 ditto king of general funne

  • @bagasdwiseptyan
    @bagasdwiseptyan 3 роки тому +745

    "Imagine simping hard for an Angevin"
    - This post was made by Capetian Gang

    • @tomaszzalewski4541
      @tomaszzalewski4541 3 роки тому +39

      4/10 - not enough Louis

    • @Stopitpls
      @Stopitpls 3 роки тому +22

      Where’s my Plantagenet squad?

    • @popkhorne5372
      @popkhorne5372 3 роки тому +1

      @@tomaszzalewski4541 or ludwig, or clovis lel ^^

    • @Adhjie
      @Adhjie 3 роки тому +1

      @@Cjnw fick lmaoポルマオ

    • @Adhjie
      @Adhjie 3 роки тому

      hittite lima gang

  • @aleksandarvil5718
    @aleksandarvil5718 3 роки тому +791

    Everyone: Richard the Lionheart
    Me, as an intelectual: *Richard Cœur de Lion* _(Norman French: Le quor de lion)_

    • @JackRackam
      @JackRackam  3 роки тому +210

      And then of course there are the people who call him Richard Oc-e-Non, but they're probably posers

    • @morningnapalm9963
      @morningnapalm9963 3 роки тому +54

      His name is Liquor the Lion. What a boss

    • @aleksandarvil5718
      @aleksandarvil5718 3 роки тому +16

      @@morningnapalm9963
      *Le quor de lion* = _“Heart of Lion”_

    • @morningnapalm9963
      @morningnapalm9963 3 роки тому +28

      @@aleksandarvil5718 La quor = Liquor the Lion
      = Drunk Lion

    • @honotenshi
      @honotenshi 3 роки тому +17

      Screw it, he's the Drunken Heart of a Lion.

  • @padairua8129
    @padairua8129 3 роки тому +513

    Ireland: “this video may be embarrassing for England?”
    [leans closer and pulls out pen and paper]

    • @seandegidon4672
      @seandegidon4672 3 роки тому +29

      Aside from France, Austria and Scotland, Ireland may be the only place marginally better for the better-knight-than-king Richard. His father gave leave to Norman-Welsh Marcher Earls/Barons to launch the first (nominally) English invasion of Ireland. The better part of the island was conquered, when the protagonists got distracted. Barons got the land they wanted and started looking for wives, while Richard launched so many wars in the opposite direction that follow-through was hollow. Soon it would be reported that "your Majesty's subjects are more Irish than the Irish themselves," and the King's writ was null beyond the Pale.

    • @jeffcampbell1555
      @jeffcampbell1555 3 роки тому +4

      @Aldo Steel UNITED KINGDOM: Oh...wicked, funny Aldo.
      IRELAND: Tá mé ag dul squash tú cosúil le fabht (I'm gonna squash ya like a bug.)

    • @malleableconcrete
      @malleableconcrete 2 роки тому +2

      FYI, Ireland was given to John when Henry II was splitting up his son's inheritance, there's a big castle built by him in Limerick.

    • @Grim_Sister
      @Grim_Sister 2 роки тому +9

      Every country that was colonized by England at some point: “Do tell”

    • @CollinMcLean
      @CollinMcLean 2 роки тому +1

      @@jeffcampbell1555 I thought "I'm" was Taim? Or is that only as an introductory? I'm only a few weeks into the basics of Irish Gaelic so I'm not sure on a lot of it...
      (Please forgive the lack of accents I don't know how to do that on my laptop keyboard)

  • @scottcallahan5029
    @scottcallahan5029 3 роки тому +873

    Richard lionheart comes home
    England: your home late
    Richard: umm
    England: I know about aquitaine and trying to sell London
    I don’t know why
    Richard :
    Moneys

    • @gabrielaubry1334
      @gabrielaubry1334 3 роки тому +81

      Richard: "Well...WARS EXPENSIVE!"
      England: "ALL YOU DO IS SIT INSIDE ALLDAY, FIGHTING WARS!"

    • @forickgrimaldus8301
      @forickgrimaldus8301 3 роки тому +9

      Just goes to show how expensive a crusade is.

    • @jairoukagiri2488
      @jairoukagiri2488 3 роки тому +2

      @@forickgrimaldus8301 And keeping your keep well stocked to hold out sieges

    • @timurthejerk9270
      @timurthejerk9270 2 роки тому +4

      Richard: you know how expensive a crusade is
      England: no but what would’ve help is if you had won it

    • @scottcallahan5029
      @scottcallahan5029 2 роки тому

      @@timurthejerk9270 clap clap clap 👏 Clap 👏

  • @antivalidisme5669
    @antivalidisme5669 3 роки тому +106

    "What? An Austrian duke?"
    "Where do you think we are? Mexico?"

    • @blueeyed5074
      @blueeyed5074 3 роки тому +6

      At least he wasn't killed within 3 years :))

    • @antivalidisme5669
      @antivalidisme5669 3 роки тому +2

      @@blueeyed5074 You stole my words ;)

  • @xenotypos
    @xenotypos 2 роки тому +119

    His father was french too, not just his mother. Henry II (father of Richard) was just the first Plantagenet to get the English crown, but was the son of the count of Anjou, a french noble. The Plantagenet/Angevin house was from the kingdom of France to begin with.

  • @rin-joh8644
    @rin-joh8644 3 роки тому +593

    The only thing Richard liked more than France was war.

    • @uem941
      @uem941 3 роки тому +50

      and GOD.

    • @elbentos7803
      @elbentos7803 3 роки тому +16

      And his favorites knights 🥰

    • @cgt3704
      @cgt3704 3 роки тому +36

      And both women and killing muslims

    • @realmario979
      @realmario979 3 роки тому +26

      And hiding in castles

    • @elbentos7803
      @elbentos7803 3 роки тому +18

      And crossbow bolts...

  • @1000eau
    @1000eau 3 роки тому +143

    Me, an Aquitainian : Yeah, he is our senpai, England

    • @tomaszzalewski4541
      @tomaszzalewski4541 3 роки тому +12

      Top 10 anime plots

    • @1000eau
      @1000eau 3 роки тому +33

      @@tomaszzalewski4541 England-chan is jealous, and would like to reconquer Richard-kun, but he loves Aquitaine-chan, but he is busy fighting in the Holy Land, how will it turn out ? You'll know it in the next episode of Lionheart Crusaders !

    • @whathell6t
      @whathell6t 3 роки тому +9

      @@1000eau
      Dude! You just described the first arc of Kamen Rider Saber.

    • @1000eau
      @1000eau 3 роки тому +5

      @@whathell6t Oh, cool, I didn't even know I did that or know about that, I'll check it out

  • @nowhereman6019
    @nowhereman6019 2 роки тому +62

    "John's more of a Shinji than a Rei"
    John now has my undying love.

    • @extragoogleaccount6061
      @extragoogleaccount6061 2 місяці тому +1

      I didn’t watch said popular piece of media. Can someone explain the reference?

    • @neh1234
      @neh1234 7 днів тому

      @@extragoogleaccount6061 It just means Prince John at the time wasn't a good boy, he was just a pushover.

  • @pacificll8762
    @pacificll8762 2 роки тому +38

    I'm not trying to rub salt into the wound but, as a Frenchman (living in New Aquitaine), this does put a smile on my face..

    • @xavier01110
      @xavier01110 2 роки тому +7

      How is Richard viewed in Aquitaine? In England we look up to him like a God and he didn't even like us so it would be a shame for him if the people he loved so much didn't care about him😂

    • @smal750
      @smal750 5 місяців тому +4

      ​@@xavier01110
      they litteraly forgot he was french

  • @the_luckiest_charm
    @the_luckiest_charm 3 роки тому +233

    "and could just buy a bunch of mercenaries." sees berserk band of the hawk. *sniffles*

    • @freakrx2349
      @freakrx2349 3 роки тому +26

      Too bad Griffith would eventually go on to kill most of his friends and try to create his own kingdom with monsters created from the asshole of H.P lovecraft’s mind

    • @dogeking007
      @dogeking007 3 роки тому +20

      Berserk man of culture I see

    • @acharonim4659
      @acharonim4659 3 роки тому +5

      Yep those poor bastards LITERALLY suffered because griffith's insatiable ambition by brutally being offered up as a blood sacrifice to some demonic entities.

    • @navilluscire2567
      @navilluscire2567 3 роки тому +11

      I mean the *"kingdom of Midland"* that Griffith's Band of the Hawk fought for during the latter years of the hundred years war between Midland and the Tutor empire (or was it the "Chutor" empire?) within the Berserk setting was basically *"not-France"* and the 100 years conflict was also a spoof of the real world's hundred years war (actually lasted about 116 years!) between the monarchs of France and England and their backers. Honestly a gritty fantasy world that's based around the 'hundred' years war in a *"not-Europe"* world is a pretty awesome idea for a rpg or tabletop game!

    • @ultimategamer876
      @ultimategamer876 3 роки тому +1

      They have one it’s called Warhammer

  • @MrLuchenkov
    @MrLuchenkov 3 роки тому +103

    To be frank, his choices boiled down to:
    1)Crusades: adventure, pillaging, saving princesses, shouting deus vult.
    2)Aquitaine: good wine, sunny year-long, gorgeous women, amazing beaches.
    3)London: fish, chips, cup of tea, bad food, worse weather, Mary fucking Poppins.
    I can understand why he'd rather spend his time in the first two and tried to auction off the last one to pay for it.

    • @kategrant2728
      @kategrant2728 3 роки тому +44

      England didn't even have chips or tea yet. Even more depressing.

    • @vericulum6810
      @vericulum6810 2 роки тому +11

      There wasn't even tea in London back then or chips or frying just slted hearing.

    • @MrLuchenkov
      @MrLuchenkov 2 роки тому +3

      @@vericulum6810 It was a quote from Snatch, the movie, mate. :)

    • @ennui9745
      @ennui9745 11 місяців тому +4

      Yup. And England didn't even have the tea and the potatoes back then, so it was just bad food, worse weather, and Mary Poppins. 😂

    • @falconeshield
      @falconeshield 5 місяців тому

      Women. Haha.

  • @tomaszzalewski4541
    @tomaszzalewski4541 3 роки тому +40

    England:
    Richard:
    France:
    Richard: What's up gorgeous

  • @Atairy
    @Atairy 3 роки тому +221

    Ok gotta ask:
    Am I the only one who was picturing the lions from the Disney Robin Hood animation movie everytime he says Richard or John?

    • @3asianassassin
      @3asianassassin 3 роки тому +29

      Well considering they are based on them, of course

    • @LuinTathren
      @LuinTathren 3 роки тому +2

      Of course not.

    • @DanielGalimidi
      @DanielGalimidi 3 роки тому +18

      Considering they're literally them and that the video has a Disney Robin Hood frame, I'd say you're right on the mark.

    • @UnderTheVeil
      @UnderTheVeil 3 роки тому +5

      Absolutely. Or Patrick Stewart from Robin Hood Men in Tights

    • @slein1055
      @slein1055 3 роки тому

      I know I was picturing Sir Patrick Stewart

  • @justinanthonysanchez7015
    @justinanthonysanchez7015 3 роки тому +74

    England: Honey, where are you going?
    Richard I: I'm just gonna buy some cigarettes, dear, I'll be right back

    • @randomlygeneratedname7171
      @randomlygeneratedname7171 3 роки тому +6

      To be honest he was married to France and England was his side chick.

    • @anonymouscausewhynot
      @anonymouscausewhynot 2 роки тому +3

      @@randomlygeneratedname7171 Nah, Aquitine is his side chick. But, he likes her more than his wife.

    • @randomlygeneratedname7171
      @randomlygeneratedname7171 2 роки тому +1

      @@anonymouscausewhynot What if I say, England was the forced arrange marriage for politics. His the King of England but never there.

    • @anonymouscausewhynot
      @anonymouscausewhynot 2 роки тому +6

      @@randomlygeneratedname7171 omg yes! Then England actually fell for him, but Richard didn’t. F for England.

    • @ennui9745
      @ennui9745 11 місяців тому +1

      Richard the Lionheart: Went to the Middle East to buy milk.

  • @timfortune9
    @timfortune9 3 роки тому +163

    We need a Robin Hood story where it's shown that despite all the good Robin had done in his name, Richard doesn't care. And for the massive cognitive dissonance of realizing that, even in his own way, John cared more for England than "Good King Richard".

    • @demi-fiendoftime3825
      @demi-fiendoftime3825 2 роки тому +35

      I could see that ending with Robin once he realizes the truth just leaving going north to Scotland or east to mainland Europe tears in his eyes as he looks back at his home at the betrayal that the king he thought was the villian cared more then the false hero he idolized.

    • @AudieHolland
      @AudieHolland 2 роки тому +36

      That is basically what the final episode of "Robin: the Hooded Man (1984-1986)" is about.
      Good King Richard returns, thanks Robin for a job well done, reprimands his brother John and the Sheriff of Nottingham.
      Then he immediately starts planning another campaign and asks Robin and his merry men to join his forces.
      When Robin has second thoughts, Richard is not pleased...

    • @nirfz
      @nirfz Рік тому +9

      I remember when our teacher showed us the Costner Robin Hood movie back in school in the first hafl of the 90's (at the end of a schoolyear when all marks were already fixed) and after the scene with Conery she mentioned that Richard Lionheart was late because "we" had imprisoned him for disresprecting our Ruler during the crusade.
      So any time in any Robin Hood movie i watched and Richard was at least mentioned this little bit of information came up in my head.

    • @gabrielaubry1334
      @gabrielaubry1334 Рік тому +16

      Prince John: "Do you know WHY I had to tax England to high heaven?"
      Robin Hood: "Because you are a greedy and wicked tyrant!"
      Prince John: "NO! Because mother drained the royal treasury to pay King Richard's ransom from the Duke of Austria!"
      Robin Hood: "WHAT?"
      Prince John: "Apparently the Good King Richard was arrested under suspicion of murdering someone on behalf the King of Jerusalem!"
      Sir Hiss: "And he was arrested by the man whose banner he gravely insulted during the crusades."

    • @JaysonVaughn
      @JaysonVaughn 7 місяців тому +2

      @@gabrielaubry1334 ah a I believe man of culture judging from the last one speaking

  • @merrittanimation7721
    @merrittanimation7721 3 роки тому +216

    In this episode, Jack Rackam stages an intervention.

    • @anonymouscausewhynot
      @anonymouscausewhynot 3 роки тому +26

      Yeah, he’s pretty much telling England “Look, mate, you deserve better. Break up with him.”

  • @rockstar450
    @rockstar450 2 роки тому +37

    As someone with English ancestry my biggest surprise was Saladin was actually the honourable and upstanding man in the conflict and not much can really be said about Richard

  • @jakespacepiratee3740
    @jakespacepiratee3740 3 роки тому +274

    Richard the Lionheart: "This is good." *Points to England*
    "But I like this better." *Points to France.*

    • @elbentos7803
      @elbentos7803 3 роки тому +15

      ... and Normandy...
      ... and Anjou...

    • @elbentos7803
      @elbentos7803 3 роки тому +16

      ... that is, France.

    • @retardcorpsman
      @retardcorpsman 3 роки тому +6

      el bentos
      And Paris..
      And Bordeaux...
      And Dijon....

    • @elbentos7803
      @elbentos7803 3 роки тому +4

      @@retardcorpsman the point was to underline that Richard interest not only rested in Aquitaine but in a lot of other parts of western France as well (lest you cannot understand why he fortified Château-Gaillard in Normandy, or why he died during a siege in Limousin,
      for instance)...

    • @forickgrimaldus8301
      @forickgrimaldus8301 3 роки тому +16

      People seemed to forget that to Richard and a lot of English Monarchs at the time saw France as basically part of the Crown I.e the King of England was also ruler of France as they are decended from French and Norman Noblemen.
      There was no such thing as Nationalisim nor even Patriotisim at the time as the Concept was fairly Modern, instead Family inheritance and honor were more prevalent, which was probably why despite Richard having no love for England and was hated by his Contemporaries was Praised by later Chroniclers.

  • @torcaace
    @torcaace 3 роки тому +100

    The video in a nutshell:
    Richie: hey guys sorry i'm late to the crusade, i was doing stuff
    Aquitaine: I'm stuff
    Richie Rich: OMG Aquitaine, no!
    Austria: haha Richard you are wanted for murder.

  • @mrsupremegascon
    @mrsupremegascon 3 роки тому +19

    As an Aquitain, all I can say is :
    "Did you looked at you England? Seriously, do you think he is your king because he find you pretty. Huh, you are not good enough for him honey. You don't even make wine."

  • @DellDuckfan313
    @DellDuckfan313 3 роки тому +74

    Part 2: Richard dunks on the treasure chest so hard everybody gets mad at King John, signs Magna Carta in humiliation

    • @oxtheunlikelycontemplator2682
      @oxtheunlikelycontemplator2682 3 роки тому +8

      Fun fact John actually got the Pope to declare the Magna Carta invalid and made his proclamations attesting the same. In other words the Magna Carta was reduced to a historical document fairly quickly.

  • @evryatis9231
    @evryatis9231 3 роки тому +38

    intense happy french sounds

  • @florian8599
    @florian8599 3 роки тому +71

    I just read Ivanhoe... And let's say: Sir Walter Scott portrayed King Richard as this mercurial guy who you can't trust to be your friend and always comes too late...

    • @samrevlej9331
      @samrevlej9331 3 роки тому +9

      Well, Scott was Scottish, so I guess we know where the resentment comes from...

  • @ChieftainHawke
    @ChieftainHawke 3 роки тому +30

    Lets me honest, literally every Norman and Plantagenet king like France better. And i
    cant blame them. France is literally next to everything.

    • @jonathanwebster7091
      @jonathanwebster7091 Рік тому +4

      Ehhh not by the later Plantagenets: once the majority of the continental territories were lost, the royal family and the Anglo-Norman aristocracy gradually became anglicised, and came to identify more with England than France.
      Richard I's nephew, Richard of Cornwall, is recorded by Walter Map as being able to speak English fluently, and his other nephew, Henry III gave his sons the 100% Saxon names of Edward and Edmund.
      Going forward, Edward I definitely could speak English fluently too (he apparently learned it as a child), and Edward II and Edward III could also speak it-although the first language of all three would have been Norman-French, though even so, it was becoming increasingly debased, full of English loanwords and increasingly unintelligible with French as spoken on the continent.
      And then, by the time we get two generations forward from that to Henry IV, the royal family are speaking English as their first language.

    • @ForeskinWillis
      @ForeskinWillis Рік тому +3

      ​@@jonathanwebster7091 Yes of course and that's why later they try to conquer it for more than a 100 years . Cmon the first king of England to actually speak English as a first language is ''supposed'' to be Henry V and historians are not even sure about that. France was simply the bigger, richer, most populous kingdom in all of Europe at that time so yeah they always wanted it you can't foul me on that. The real English nationalism actually starts with the Tudors after the 100 years war. Before that the kings learned English to appease some of their subjects but Norman French / Roman language was still seen as the language of the nobility.

  • @SEAZNDragon
    @SEAZNDragon 3 роки тому +21

    My dad was born in Malaysia right before they became independent from the UK. He was given the English name of Richard after Richard I and was miffed he was a Francophile.

  • @misanthropicservitorofmars2116
    @misanthropicservitorofmars2116 3 роки тому +35

    Describing a historical figure as being like Shinji is incredible.

  • @BraKahan
    @BraKahan 3 роки тому +188

    Did.... Did Jack Rackam just sneak in a Neon Genesis Evangelion reference?!?!?

    • @JackRackam
      @JackRackam  3 роки тому +75

      I don't know if that counts as sneaking, but it's definitely there

    • @luis-mora4444
      @luis-mora4444 3 роки тому +9

      4.0 soon, so yeah, gotta build it up the hype somehow.

    • @edgardox.feliciano3127
      @edgardox.feliciano3127 3 роки тому +2

      Timestamp?

    • @BraKahan
      @BraKahan 3 роки тому +5

      @@edgardox.feliciano3127 4:53 GOTCHU FAM

    • @SeruraRenge11
      @SeruraRenge11 3 роки тому +11

      And the Band of the Hawk from Berserk is there too.

  • @chrissjepsen
    @chrissjepsen 3 роки тому +54

    Berserk and Eva in a historical piece on an English crusader king framed like an intervention...this is why I'm subscribed. Never change Jack!

  • @jakespacepiratee3740
    @jakespacepiratee3740 3 роки тому +129

    England: "Wait, our King loves France?"
    Richard the Lionheart: "Always have been."

    • @mattgrele6318
      @mattgrele6318 3 роки тому +25

      Of course he loved france who would choose that wet soggy island over aquitaine

    • @jamaphy8621
      @jamaphy8621 2 роки тому +2

      @@mattgrele6318 me apparently

    • @smal750
      @smal750 11 місяців тому +1

      ​@@jamaphy8621sick mind

  • @librarianontheloose
    @librarianontheloose 3 роки тому +27

    Austria is that dude you end up inviting to a party because he's standing there with the dudes you ARE inviting to the party and you can't be rude.

  • @gobanito
    @gobanito 3 роки тому +29

    That's because Richard was French and so was his entire family. Richard's mother Eleanor wasn't the only one born in France, Henry II was also born in France. Also All three of them are buried in France in Fontevraud Abbey.

  • @frankdecron1306
    @frankdecron1306 3 роки тому +19

    Most of the nobility and monarchs of England from 1066 to maybe Henry V, but arguably end of the Hundred War, saw England as simply a colony for wealth and manpower to be extracted for for conflicts in France and the Mediterranean world.

  • @Identitools
    @Identitools 3 роки тому +40

    If you speak french you would love "Confessions d'histoire", they have made two episodes about Alienor and Richard, real good stuff with fantastic actors!

  • @darkoneforce2
    @darkoneforce2 3 роки тому +22

    The kings and nobles of England came from Normandy (William the Conqueror), and none of them spoke english until the 1400s. Henry V was still trying to get them to speak english.

    • @oxtheunlikelycontemplator2682
      @oxtheunlikelycontemplator2682 3 роки тому +5

      I was going to point that many of Anglo Saxon nobles were still around but then they ended up heavily intermarried with the Normans.

  • @ferrjuan
    @ferrjuan 3 роки тому +17

    England= Sugar Momma
    Aquitaine= His true love
    Levant= Side chick

  • @arturochambers27
    @arturochambers27 3 роки тому +58

    Jack rackam: uploads video.
    Everyone on UA-cam: YES! New video!

    • @cgt3704
      @cgt3704 3 роки тому +2

      Its about the Betrayal of Lionheart
      Everyone: 😥

  • @CollinMcLean
    @CollinMcLean 2 роки тому +15

    That little comedic oops aside, William the Lion was actually a pretty good king and his standard (which got him his epithet in later centuries by Scottish chroniclers) became the Royal Banner of Scotland under his successor Alexander II. The Rampant Red Lion on a gold field flown in representation of the Scottish Monarchs.

  • @dehavillandvampire
    @dehavillandvampire 3 роки тому +24

    Richard's main mistake in bumping off that rival was to use an assassin class servant, everyone _knows_ they're the weakest!

    • @ElBandito
      @ElBandito 2 роки тому

      The assassins succeeded in killing the target.

  • @CynicalHistorian
    @CynicalHistorian 3 роки тому +97

    Ah, my cat's namesake

  • @austinreed5805
    @austinreed5805 3 роки тому +55

    If England and France were united, they could’ve conquered Western Europe for Centuries.

    • @pablomonsalve3911
      @pablomonsalve3911 3 роки тому +25

      There are a lot of logistical problems of having an empire where half of it is in an island deep into the sea. Ask the North Sea Empire (1013-1042)

    • @cgt3704
      @cgt3704 3 роки тому +8

      @@pablomonsalve3911 or the Roman Empire

    • @pablomonsalve3911
      @pablomonsalve3911 3 роки тому +11

      @@cgt3704 yes, that is a great example too. They outright abandoned it to redirect their resources elsewhere and damage control

    • @cgt3704
      @cgt3704 3 роки тому +4

      @@pablomonsalve3911 and because it took ages to conquer it and Scotland was still out of their reach

    • @Veriox22
      @Veriox22 3 роки тому +10

      France alone can be called western europe ny itself

  • @Alssadar
    @Alssadar 3 роки тому +10

    Another fun thing that was touched upon was that Eleanor had been married to King Louis VII of France, but Louis then annulled the marriage because she was only giving him daughters. With that, she was free to marry Henry I (after a bit of Louis complaining that she couldn't), helping him end the Anarchy and giving him 4 sons, while it took Louis two more wives to finally have Philip. So that makes Henry and Philip's feud not only between rival kings, but also between men whose half-siblings were half-siblings of the other.
    I enjoyed Sharon Kay Penman's quintet of books of Henry and Richard, and highly recommend them for people interested about the period.

    • @ForeskinWillis
      @ForeskinWillis Рік тому

      He actually divorced her probably because she had a suspicious relationship with her uncle Raymond of Poitier who was count of Eddessa in Syria

  • @SamAronow
    @SamAronow 3 роки тому +60

    I don't know if I brought this up with Fred the Antichrist, but Acre is pronounced "ah-ker."

  • @comettamer
    @comettamer 3 роки тому +9

    "England, uh...Richard never loved you!" Classic Jack Rackham episode opening. You sir are absolutely brilliant.

  • @Xerxes2005
    @Xerxes2005 3 роки тому +23

    Well, Henry II was also French and liked France better. And John would probably have like France better if he didn't lose it all...

  • @hellothere4858
    @hellothere4858 3 роки тому +17

    "More of a shinji then a rei" that is brutal

  • @greenoftreeblackofblue6625
    @greenoftreeblackofblue6625 3 роки тому +26

    I like how Brittany was a Kingdom for a while and Wales was two douches but Wales gets recognized more nowadays.

    • @samrevlej9331
      @samrevlej9331 3 роки тому +8

      As a French person, don't tell Bretons that. You'll have them throwing cider pitchers at you and the druids attempting to curse you. Oh, and they'll sick the pigs on you, too.
      Plus Breton is a scary language to be cussed at in.

    • @erwannthietart3602
      @erwannthietart3602 2 роки тому

      Heh you can thank XIXth century France and it completely refusing to teach Breton at school destroying the language and tearing away its capital region to create an artificial region uniting the former duchy of Anjou with the region of Vendée (aka former rivals of Brittany itself).
      Honestly its no wonder it doesnt get much recognition, even on local scale the locals debate for where Nantes should belong in Brittany or Loire-Atlantique is fierce, so they want the governement to decide.
      Governement doesnt to have nearly 50% of the pop there to be unhappy with their decisions so they send the problem back to the locals to decide .
      Things aint gonna change anytime soon

  • @Eddboy33
    @Eddboy33 3 роки тому +54

    This just made me like Richard the Lionheart even more

    • @joellaz9836
      @joellaz9836 3 роки тому +9

      Frenchman detected

    • @lhemnenn4713
      @lhemnenn4713 3 роки тому +11

      ​@@joellaz9836 You know that since Guillaume/William the Conqueror, the kings of england were basically Frenchman. Until King Henry VI that is.

    • @Tamaki742
      @Tamaki742 3 роки тому +2

      @@lhemnenn4713 He also didn't like England. What is with people who didn't like England being kings of England? I mean, I get it, it's more territory. But it always sounds like taking over a project you're not gonna care about in a year.

    • @lhemnenn4713
      @lhemnenn4713 3 роки тому +9

      @@Tamaki742 For lords and noble back then it was just a question of title and heritage, (power, taxes revenus, influences). The concept of nation, culture heritage, ethnicity didn't really exist, and even if it did, it doesn't matter to them. Why would a noble care about the language the peasants (of any land they append to possess), in their eyes the idea of nation (like we use today) wasn't the point or even in their interest really.
      It a complicated issue to explain though, because it varies across the world and time period.

    • @Tamaki742
      @Tamaki742 3 роки тому +1

      @@lhemnenn4713 Well, guess that's why most empires fail eventually.

  • @madambutterfly1997
    @madambutterfly1997 3 роки тому +50

    That Evangelion reference was so distasteful I love it

  • @JenniferinIllinois
    @JenniferinIllinois 3 роки тому +10

    England: Richard we love you.
    Richard: Uh yeh, how about we just be friends?

    • @tomaszzalewski4541
      @tomaszzalewski4541 3 роки тому +9

      Then he sees France and is like:
      What's up gorgeous

    • @gontrandjojo9747
      @gontrandjojo9747 2 роки тому +1

      England: Richard we love you.
      Richard: Désolé, je ne comprends pas, je ne parle pas anglais.

  • @dlugi4198
    @dlugi4198 3 роки тому +19

    To be fair that co-monarch thing worked well for Aurelius.

  • @paranermal
    @paranermal 3 роки тому +18

    I didn't know I had a favourite King. Does this mean I have a favourite Queen too?
    Also, I love your tie for this episode.

  • @hyperion3145
    @hyperion3145 3 роки тому +6

    Everyone's talking about this betrayal but I am more impressed someone acknowledged that the Occitans exist

  • @declanmugford987
    @declanmugford987 3 роки тому +145

    These are lies, lies spread by the French
    P.s this is sarcasm

    • @jacques8221
      @jacques8221 3 роки тому +24

      no one spreads lies better than the English (sarzcasm)

    • @adrien5116
      @adrien5116 3 роки тому

      @@jacques8221 *cof* *cof*

    • @grinchmafia7295
      @grinchmafia7295 3 роки тому +6

      His parents were both born and originated in what is now France. He was just born in England and mostly raised in France. It's funny how you guys view him as English when he barely spoke a word of it.

    • @ANSELAbitsxb
      @ANSELAbitsxb 3 роки тому

      @best general What about otto von bismark?

    • @lesenigma2536
      @lesenigma2536 2 роки тому

      We dont lie, we just dont tell the whole truth

  • @maestro56777
    @maestro56777 3 роки тому +13

    That Rei>Shinji joke was hilarious

  • @prismaticc_abyss
    @prismaticc_abyss 3 роки тому +12

    I actually live in Annweiler, the city that has the Castle Trifels in it, the one Richard Lionheart got imprisoned in.

  • @Pyrus425
    @Pyrus425 3 роки тому +120

    Did... did you just make an Evangelion reference when talking about history?

    • @silentspirit8923
      @silentspirit8923 3 роки тому +14

      He did

    • @rattheninja2877
      @rattheninja2877 3 роки тому +2

      Holdup there was an Evangelion reference?

    • @Lotus77King
      @Lotus77King 3 роки тому +14

      He did, and we love it! 😁

    • @MPHJackson7
      @MPHJackson7 3 роки тому +1

      @@rattheninja2877 4:54

    • @Lotus77King
      @Lotus77King 3 роки тому +17

      @@rattheninja2877 “I’m just saying, John’s more of a Shinji than a Rei”

  • @maartenboy37
    @maartenboy37 3 роки тому +7

    2:46 A Berserk reference here! A surprise to be sure, but a welcome one.

  • @eacalvert
    @eacalvert 3 роки тому +2

    Ty for your videos... Having something to watch that can actually help distract me when my anxiety is getting really really bad

  • @ameanasaur
    @ameanasaur 3 роки тому +2

    Keep on keeping on dude. You make quality content and alot of us wait for your posts.

  • @AudieHolland
    @AudieHolland 3 роки тому +15

    And on the pedestal of his statue in London, it says:
    *Richard Coeur de Lion*

    • @lesenigma2536
      @lesenigma2536 2 роки тому

      Ehehehehehe oui oui ehehehehe

    • @anonymouscausewhynot
      @anonymouscausewhynot 2 роки тому

      I'm so sorry for laughing...

    • @AudieHolland
      @AudieHolland 2 роки тому

      The statue was erected during the Victorian Age, when wealthy British families were hiring French-speaking nannies who taught the children that it was 'maman' and 'papa.'
      Not the simplistic mom and dad.

    • @ForeskinWillis
      @ForeskinWillis Рік тому

      @@AudieHolland During his time he was called ''Le quor de lion'' not ''the lionheart''

    • @AudieHolland
      @AudieHolland Рік тому

      @@ForeskinWillis That was my point.
      And I don't know what you're trying to spell: Liquor de lion?

  • @aleksandarvil5718
    @aleksandarvil5718 3 роки тому +5

    8:00 - 8:05 Richard the Lionheart; Philippe Auguste (to Duke of Austria):
    **YEET**

  • @archdornan3068
    @archdornan3068 3 роки тому +7

    As a Englishmen I can confirm am going to cry my self to sleep tonight

  • @LisaCaudill001
    @LisaCaudill001 3 роки тому

    Everytime I think I've seen your best...you upload another one..Thank you

  • @cgt3704
    @cgt3704 3 роки тому +61

    This Richard is nothing like the one from Robin Hood. Hes just like King John

    • @ianlilley2577
      @ianlilley2577 3 роки тому +5

      At least John ran his kingdom right?

    • @cgt3704
      @cgt3704 3 роки тому +19

      @@ianlilley2577 if you refer to "with his nobles hating him so much that they force him to sign Magna Carta" as right then yeah he did.

    • @forickgrimaldus8301
      @forickgrimaldus8301 3 роки тому +16

      Yes he was not a Good person but John was really not any better as the Crown was in massive financial debt and he lacked the military skills of Richard lossing most of France in the process,
      Richards solution to the Financial deficite was to win against France or at least hold it till a truce can be meet, while John increased the tax rate to the point that the Nobles Rebelled (really they can't pay off the Debt with the economy they had as it was a few times larger than Englands GDP).

    • @neilbuckley1613
      @neilbuckley1613 3 роки тому

      @@forickgrimaldus8301 Big plus point for Richard, every second he was on the throne was one less second John was on the throne.

    • @forickgrimaldus8301
      @forickgrimaldus8301 3 роки тому +6

      @@neilbuckley1613 Really the 2 brothers are the opposite of each other in the way they lead, Richard was a War Commander born to fight and lead armies as he deligates much of the running of the Kingdom to his Lords (which was probably why later Chronichlers like him more despite unintentionally causing a financial crisis), while John was more adminstrative and perhaps had he been crowned during peace time would have faired better, he was also more controling than Richard as he was more of a Bureacrat.

  • @aaronpaul9188
    @aaronpaul9188 3 роки тому +3

    Henry II was also from France. He was born in Le Mans. In fact I dont think a single English king since the Norman Conquest spoke English until Edward III.

    • @mkmc94
      @mkmc94 2 роки тому

      False he was born in Oxford.

  • @akingofdashit
    @akingofdashit 3 роки тому +2

    Thank you for using a darker background, makes night time viewing that much more enjoyable 🙏

  • @felixk1843
    @felixk1843 3 роки тому +6

    Finally a new Jack Rackham Video 😍😍😍👏
    Lover ur vids mate, ur one of the best

  • @mikehocksbig
    @mikehocksbig 3 роки тому +10

    Wasn't expecting to see a picture of Geoff Marshall tbh

  • @alex_zetsu
    @alex_zetsu Рік тому +2

    This is the 1100s, building an epic castle and hiding in it until the enemy goes home actually works a lot of the time.

  • @nickwalker4936
    @nickwalker4936 3 роки тому +3

    >Shows a discolored Band of the Hawk when talking about mercenaries
    >”more Shinji than a Rei”
    Jack is basically laughing at us now

  • @hemangchauhan2864
    @hemangchauhan2864 3 роки тому +1

    Love the beautiful graphics on this video

  • @twoscarabsintheswarm9055
    @twoscarabsintheswarm9055 3 роки тому +6

    This is absolutely depressing, Alexa play God save the Queen *starts to drink tea sadly, the sun starts to set*

  • @TheHiddenStudios
    @TheHiddenStudios 3 роки тому +3

    Woah I just realised the guy that plays King Richard in that documentary also played him in the BBC Robin Hood TV Show

  • @KittyKat-xg4tx
    @KittyKat-xg4tx 3 роки тому +1

    I love your humor and energy!!

  • @macelu0433
    @macelu0433 3 роки тому +1

    This is hands down your best video yet only because you used Ingmar Bergmans depiction of death from "det sjunde inseglet" at 1:58

  • @MisterTipp
    @MisterTipp 3 роки тому +8

    7:39
    I want that picture of them all in a car on my wall

  • @infiniya5157
    @infiniya5157 3 роки тому +3

    I thought it wasn’t possible to love this channel more and then you make that sweet Evangelion reference

  • @michaeljohnangel6359
    @michaeljohnangel6359 3 роки тому

    You are GREAT, man!! Thanks!!!!

  • @jonathanwebster7091
    @jonathanwebster7091 Рік тому +1

    Fun fact: despite Richard I feeling most at home in the Occitan culture of his mother's native Duchy of Aquitaine, and speaking French as his first language, Richard was actually born in England (in Oxford, actually, in Beaumont Palace, as was his brother John), and was also raised in England during his father's campaigns against Scotland.
    We don't always love our home town, especially if it's a bit of a dive.

  • @georgewilson7432
    @georgewilson7432 3 роки тому +8

    At least all this malarkey was justified when Mel Brooks Made Robin Hood: Men in Tights.

  • @nakedsnake869
    @nakedsnake869 3 роки тому +3

    Thanks Jack, ur channel is helping me cope with the lack of Sam O Nella uploads😭

  • @jvtagle
    @jvtagle 3 роки тому +3

    England: I love you Richard
    Richard the Lionheart: I love Emi- I mean France

  • @beaumontjean6418
    @beaumontjean6418 3 роки тому +6

    Ironic, the first nickname of Richard the Lionheart was "Richard le Poitevin" (count of Poitiers 1172-1199) and also nicknamed "Richard de Poitiers" and not of England during the 3rd Crusade. He wanted his bowels to rest in Aquitaine the land of his mother, his heart in Normandy for his loyal norman vassals and his body in Anjou the cradle of the Plantagenet dynasty, but nothing for England... How ironic

    • @noahtylerpritchett2682
      @noahtylerpritchett2682 2 роки тому +3

      I made my own video about this. During the 100s year war and before. The Norman, Anjou, Bois, Plantaganid and such dynasties didn't think of Britain as anything except as a territory. During before the end of the 100s year war, with the exceptions of archers, most troops came from in and around France. English and Welsh troops have always exist. But most troops were from France or around it in the "English army" really the Anjou and Norman etc. armies. If England won the 100s year war then the nobility of Norman and Anjou and other descent would view themselves as French not English, and France would Gallicize England.
      French speaking and French cuisine and all that. Which is why I emphasize the Normans French culture and maternity and language. And not call them Norse despite their paternal fathers.
      Look at the names and ancestors of the royal family. It was only after the 100s year war did the nobility Anglicized or even speak English

    • @ForeskinWillis
      @ForeskinWillis Рік тому +2

      @@noahtylerpritchett2682 Peoples who say's Normans were actual north men's are just coping and do not want to admit that they were almost fully French or more precisely old French/nobility

    • @noahtylerpritchett2682
      @noahtylerpritchett2682 Рік тому +1

      @@ForeskinWillis true

  • @silentspirit8923
    @silentspirit8923 3 роки тому +11

    4:54
    Get in the Eva Shinji!

  • @skellorelli2515
    @skellorelli2515 3 роки тому +7

    Man, I really need to replay defender of the crown.

  • @onecertainesquire486
    @onecertainesquire486 3 роки тому +56

    I wouldn’t say he is our favourite king...
    But Goddamn why won’t he love us back, WE WOULD OF DONE EVERYTHING FOR YOU WHYYYYYYYY

    • @lesenigma2536
      @lesenigma2536 2 роки тому +2

      Mine now >:)

    • @ForeskinWillis
      @ForeskinWillis Рік тому

      That's so cool to be French seriously as even your kings are a part of our history HAHAHAHAHHAHAHA

  • @inxendere
    @inxendere 3 роки тому

    Those assasins from Fate was a nice touch. Fantastic as always Jack!

  • @EatPlayNoSleep
    @EatPlayNoSleep 3 роки тому +3

    I’ve been subscribed for a while now don’t you worry

  • @highwizardzanzar2593
    @highwizardzanzar2593 3 роки тому +4

    As a Scotsman and completely unbiased.....I approve and am completely fine with this........🕺🤸💃😂

  • @mylesjude233
    @mylesjude233 3 роки тому +1

    Awesome video, also wouldnhe cool if you made a video about beloved by botb sides of the crusades Saladin

  • @brokenbridge6316
    @brokenbridge6316 3 роки тому

    He has a very interesting way of talking about history. And I like it. I like it a lot.