Battle that Turned Crusaders into Cannibals - Ma'arra 1098 - First Crusade 4K
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Kings and Generals animated historical documentary series on the First Crusade continues with the aftermath of the battle of Civetot of 1096 ( • People's Crusade: Batt... ) during the so-called People's Crusade of the First Crusade and the battle of Nicaea of 1097 ( • Princes' Crusade Begin... ) as the Princes' Crusade began. The Crusaders continued moving into the Asia Minor and had to fight against the forces of the Seljuk Sultan of Rum Kilij Arslan in Dorylaeum ( • Battle of Dorylaeum 10... ) and after the victory over the sultan, the road to Syria was open, leading to the Siege of Antioch in 1097-1098 ( • Siege of Antioch 1097-... ), but the partial victory of the crusaders in this siege was followed by a counter-attack of various Seljuk generals, leading to the biggest battle of the First Crusade - the battle of Antioch ( • Biggest Battle of the ... ). In the aftermath of the battle, the crusade almost collapsed, as the infighting between the princes became too difficult to resolve leading to a Civil War like situation ( • Civil War of the First... ). Despite this situation, Crusaders managed to retain some of their unity and continued deeper into Syria, where they fought at Ma'arra. Unfortunately, that was the battle that turned them into cannibals.
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India vs Pakistan all wars . Particularly the 1971 by the great Sam manekshaw .
Shows that the crusades were not about faith not led by the faithful, corrupt templars burned on the stick by corrupt kings assassinated by corrupt popes. Never underestimate the human degeneracy
They killed everyone! 😰😡
Beside, Muslim Army doesn't kill everyone. In war they only kill kill soldiers, After victory they give mercy. Study About victory's of Prophet Muhammad (S), Omor (R), Salah Uddin (R). Because Allah (the only God) sent prophets not to kill people but to invite them Straight path & make them worshiper of Real Only one God.
13:37 "After encircling the city, Raymond dispatched two other Raymonds..." This is getting out hand, now there are three of them.
We should not have made this bargain
There's a reason why Toulouse is also known as "Vila Mondina" (City of [Ray]monds) in Occitan hehe
No, it was the same Raymond, he just divided by mitosis.
Great reference !😂👌
Never enough Raymond's. 8 April 1271 Krak de Chevelaiers would not have gone the way it did, but for enough Raymonds. France 1940 neither. Never enough Raymond's. French women they look nice but they need to be doing their bit, a bit more.
The First Crusade really was an epic, bizarre adventure that somehow succeeded.
@@dindin8753 power struggles, random prophets killed in ridiculous tests...
@@dindin8753 Divided? They were almost all time since there existence divided, expect in regional aspect cause Christians in Middle East lived with muslims peacefully together Even after crusade
Im not religious by any means,the fact that this crusade succeded is enough to believe in some sort of divine action,so many times they could all been dead and somehow they always made It out alive and succeded,its insane
The crusades may have been more successful if the crusaders would have stopped crusading. Instead of consolidating they would keep raiding caravans. But I guess they couldn't change their ideology from crusading to co existence.
@@P3ntom "Christians lived with Muslims in the middle east peacefully" If by lived peacefully you mean Christians being treated like 2nd class citizens by their Muslim overlords then I guess that could be peaceful
Cannibal Crusaders sounds like something out of Dark Souls, but I'm surprised this actually happened.
It happens plenty of times, during famines, even poorly prepared military campaigns rarely gets this bad though.
They forget to add how it is accustomed that women are considered property and only established liberty in Victorian to this day... so yeah you can guess what happen to womens in this age...
I am not... I would do the same thing if I was starving and they would be already dead.
@@richardides2035 hell nah
Am surprised you are surprised
With all the problems it had, it's truly a wonder how this crusade managed to succeed
Bad leadership from the enemy.
Alot of wealthy fed up crusaders lmao 🤣 killed many too 😡
I'm Muslim btw
Muslim infighting helped a lot.
Sometimes crazy can be unexpectedly successful
I gotta admit, even though the 1st crusade was considered the most successful I can’t believe how divided they were 😅
Greed...
One of the reason they succeed was that the Muslim world was even more divided
It just showed how unprepared the caliphate was at this point.
If this was the success, imagine how much of a clusterfuck the ones that fail were, lol
@@hairyballs089 The Caliphate did almost nothing in this crusade lol
The only things missing from this to be considered an authentic Crusader Kings experience are an instance of incest, an inheritance crisis and the crusade getting randomly cancelled, leaving behind confusion and bordergore.
One need only to look closer and I'm sure you will find it.
If it were Crusader kings:
The pope calls for a crusade against Kingdom of Jerusalem
Raymond: spent 60,000 francs to direct the crusade to Egypt, since it’s the richest of all Muslim kingdoms
Success
It's almost as if the game was made with these historical events in mind... but that would be silly of course
It feels like the crusaders spun a wheel to decide how they were going to react to a situation. Will they use an incredibly clever tactic? Will they listen to the ramblings of a madman? Will they be reasonable and practical? Will they foolishly bicker with each other? Will they resort to cannibalism?
It feels that way if you believe the myths and pop culture memes. Read John France’s book on the first crusade. They won because they had brilliant leadership.
I think that's why the Arab historians and biographers like Ibn Munqith viewed franks and western europeans in general as some kind of subhumans, physically strong but brainless and savage🤷♂️
@@tjo6252 The Europeans 1000 years ago were very different from today's nice, soft Europeans. They were incredibly violent, even the Romans called them barbarians
@@RealCrusadesHistory Obviously not.
Imagine being so narcissistic you really believe you can walk through a fire without harm.
Isn't that basically Game of Thrones Viserys? (Or was it some other insane Targaryen?)
People were very religious at that time. He may have believed he was being directed by God. Voluntarily walking thru that fire, is an indication that he truly believed he would not be burned. In many countries today, there Eastern monks who voluntarily set themselves on fire because of their religious beliefs. So, it's not beyond belief that ancient peoples were as equally religious.
The man was truly mentally ill, to a life melting degree.
@@williamromine5715 There is however the major difference that the Buddhist monks in question know beforehand that they are going to die and do it as a form of ritual suicide. They do not expect to withstand the flames due to their faith or anything like that.
@@arcotroll8530 My point is that there are people who truly believe in God, to the extent they will die for that belief. To "modern" people it's not conceivable that rational people can believe in a higher power. The person in the video had to be narcistic(sp), or a con artist. I was just trying to point out that he might have truly believed he was doing God's bidding.
Hey guys, for some reason, many of you were note notified about this previous episode in this series: ua-cam.com/video/RywLZ9h-Cfg/v-deo.html It is interesting, I promise. Oh, and 2nd episode of our Alternative History Mongol Invasion of Europe: ua-cam.com/video/-ExErb3tDxg/v-deo.html Also, this video is available in 4k, check it out!
Thanks, came here looking for it.
I am amazed by the quality you guys are delivering. Every day you upload amazing videos and the quality never drops. Amazing work 👏👏
"Decisive Christian Victory Meme"
Masterofrolfness is our god
Is it a victory?
As Pyrrhus king of Epyrus said after a big victory with massive losses and his servants congratulated him: "If we keep winning like this we our opponents will eventually be victorious."
When a crusader sees an infidel family 🍖 🗿
@@samdegoeij6576 Yeah, but the First Crusaders utterly annihilated their enemies and won the war, unlike Pyrrhus.
The details that you have animated, wow man
Another great video! loving this series
One of my favourite series so far :)
The adventures of all the cruzaders leaders sounds great as a story for a movie or a tv series, one when we all follow the lives of each and everyone of them as charactes
I'd watch that. It is a super complicated story with many colorful characters.
Watch Holy kingdom of 2003. Pre-third Crusade and fall of Jerusalem. The director version one.
@@KingsandGenerals they would paint Muslims like week and greedy people
@@mohammedkhan2303 I don't think so. It depends on the production, but the overall trend right now is to show the merits of all sides. Some people are actually annoyed that almost everyone in the media is portrayed gray right now.
@@superm530 You mean Kingdom Of Heaven? ‘Cause yeah, that movie is freaking awesome (and Orlando and Eva are so hot argh-)
It is heavily fictionalized, though, so keep that in mind.
"Normans, numbering 10,000 in all,
Joined him but detached themselves from the rest of the army,
and ravaged the outskirts of Nicaea,
Acting with horrible cruelty to the whole population;
Babies were hacked to pieces, impaled on wooden spits and roasted over a fire;
Old people were subjected to every kind of torture."
- Anna Komnene, Alexiad on siege of Nicaea (the actual first time they cannibalized the population)
"Some people said that, constrained by the lack of food, they boiled pagan adults in cooking-pots, impaled children on spits and devoured them grilled."
- Gesta Tancredi (1105)
They were terrified and horribly afraid.
The smell of meat drew them to the wall;
The Ribauts were watched by 30,000 pagans,
Not a single one with cheeks dry of tears.
There was great mourning for the people they were eating.
- Peter the Hermit
After that writes “tastes better than pork or venison,” and defecating afterwards on the tombs of the cemetery
Most comprehensive account with regards to Maa'ra is given by William of Tyre; Saracen spies are clearly hiding among the Crusaders’ troops, since the enemy steadily anticipates every decision made by the Christian barons, to the point that the situation is becoming unbearable for the commanders. Bohemond claims in front of the council that he has found a solution to the problem and asks permission to implement it. At sunset, he demands for all imprisoned Saracens to be killed, placed over the embers, cooked and served to the barons. He further asks to spread the word about what is happening in his camp: he wants all spies still dwelling in the camp to race off with fear but, most importantly, to survive in order to share their knowledge of these events with their commander and with their entire community.
"The innkeeper gathered to dine, he sent his knights and made for Turks to come who he had in the region been pleasant. He had their throats cut and put them in pots and roused them with fire and the people demanded that it was and that they would eat them at table as their SACRAMENT. The thing spread around the innkeeper, what was done at the Buiamonte truce and everyone ran to see that novelty. The very Turks who had come there to atone were very frightened, and they seemed to linger in leaving the innkeeper for fear that the same would not be done as much of them. When they came to their lords who had sent them, they said that those people who were placed on the seat were harder than stone..." (Heracles vols.,IV, 22)
- William of Tyre
Fantastic video keep it up your doing amazing job
When I hear some people calling other nations savages and cannibals, I think back to moments in history such at these. All nations have the capacity for this brutality. No one is above this.
Muslims were tolerant more than any nation
@@vladtheimpaler5454 I served in the military and have been to Gitmo and Iraq..... unfortunately I've seen how we treat other people and it brings me shame sometimes
@@dindin8753 No one from the Middle East ever came to America and killed civilians for our oil, right? Youre tying to play the "both sides" card and that ish wont fly. We are the Empire in many instances and have destroyed dozens of democracies simply because they weren't in our best interests.
But are all nations capable of forgiving the crusaders after this event just like what the muslims did?
Muslims? 😅😅😅
Great video!
Great video as always guys!
good episode, also i when i browsed the wikipedia page. i found out that all three sources are prominent personalities during the reign of Baldwin I. maybe the cannibalism part was just a smear by Baldwin's faction to justify his position as king. Baldwin and his brother are at odds with Raymond who contended for the throne of jerusalem.
Muslim sources confirm this event
Thanks for the upload
Thanks for the video
If you plan to cover modern wars next, please do indo-pak war of 1965, war is filled with genius and incompetence from both sides. And features battle of Asal Uttar, one of the largest tank battles.
As a Pakistani I agree, it would be splendid to have an unbiased source once in a while.
hindi speakers (Pakistán, india) in general can't fight against real armies. that's why these people were under foreign rule for 1500 years, despite being huge in numbers. foreign rulers described hindus as subservient to the powerful and cruel to the weak.
@@akiogood4712 avg indian hater spotted
@@satanwithinternet2753 I'm a white-skinned Afghan. I said the truth and not hate. both modern-day pakistan and india were under foreign rule their entire miserable history. do you deny that?
@@akiogood4712 white skin , racist spotted
Nice to see another crusader video
I hope the serie continues to the rise of saladin so it can connect with the third crusade series.. what a binge watch would that be 🥹
They actually already did a Third Crusade series.
I would enjoy a video on the famous Kurdish general too.
I love your presentation and your videos are well made! Where can I find a list of the historical sources you used for this video? Thank you.
Man, Crusader Kings music is perfect for these vids. Loving to hear those tunes in the vids.
Can’t wait for the next first crusade vid, hopefully at the end or in a entirely different video you talk about the crusader states
Love these 👍
Congratulations yet again!
Nicely done video
Epic video as always! Loved every part of it next video will be the last about first crusade?
P.S there was a man called Edgar Aetheling, the exiled king of England who according to my sources was working in the Varrangian guard of the emperor and he joined the crusaded with 300 Varrangian mercenaries! This is also an interesting story to mention and proves that maybe Alexios was still involved with the crusade.
I am loving this series
*"Meats Back on the Menu Boys!"*
there is a story about Salahdin when he was kid playing in mud and smiling, his father saw him while playing he came to (kid Saladin) and lift him from floor in his hands and asked Jerusalem is under crusaders occupation you are playing here and he left Saladin from his hands Saladin fall down his father asked him Aren't you hurt? Salahdin replied I got hurt, his father again asked him so why are you not crying Sala-hu-din replied liberator of Jerusalem doesn't cry.
when sultan of arabia and north Africa Sala-hu-din ayyubi r.a (Saladin) died he won't have enough money for his funeral, behind him he only left a sword and 1 horse
Thanks!
THANKS!
please do a video on the immediate aftermath,of the the 1st crusade, Tancred the prince of galilee!
Crusader logistics: let's see what we can find when we get there
Great now do siege of Suiyang of the An Lu Shan Rebellion
I love your videos, what software do you use for animations 👍👍👍?
After Effects
Hey there everyone! I'm the writer of this series and would love to hear your feedback in the comments!
You are doing an amazing job.
How many knights were in Raymonds army of 5,000 men. Do you know?
@@jozzieokes3422 about three fiddy
Fantastic job. Keep it up
Ya boy is absolutely loving it of course ❤️
So fascinating
awesome!
awsome video make more brothers
Looking forward to the rest of this series in the mean time I’ll go back to watching Alexander the greats conquests
fantastic
The siege of Suiyang was much worse! 30.000 civilians cannibalized by the soldiers who were supposed to protect them.
Yin Ziqi had besieged the city for a long time. The food in the city had run out. The city dwellers traded their children to eat and cooked the bodies of the dead. Fear spread and worse situations were expected. At this time, Zhang Xun took his concubine out and killed her in front of his soldiers in order to feed them. He said, "You have been working hard at protecting this city wholeheartedly for the country. Your loyalty is uncompromised despite the long-lasting hunger. Since I cannot cut out my own flesh to feed you, how can I keep this woman and just ignore the dangerous situation?" All the soldiers cried, for they did not wish to eat [the woman]. Zhang Xun ordered them to eat the flesh. Afterwards, they caught the women in the city. When there were no more women left, they turned to the old and young men. 20,000 to 30,000 people were eaten. People always remained loyal.
Bro there is nothing that is more worse, just accept that this Siege was also very gruesome for the inhabitants
When I read this, I realize how metal humans used to be
The "Decisive Tang Victory" Meme...
bruh asians, that's normal, they always go bigger
Was that in the crusades? Because they said it was the worst battle of the first crusade.
"decisive crusader victory"
aaahhhhh 1 second late, oof
typed it too and late by a second lmfao
Crusaders be like
18:08
'You talk the talk, now, you will walk the walk 🚶♂️ '
Fire 🔥 📛 🔥 📛 🔥
Here we go again!
excellent
I come from the city of maara . I didn't know about this sad tragic event 😢. What a brutal savage people they were the crusaders.
Saladin revenge them
Cope Saracen.
@@JoaoVitor-wp9zg because you are a brutal animals.
Your people got rkt and it serves you lot right for being bad.
@@SerkAk And Richard the Lionheart kicked his ass in the battles of Acre and Arsuf
Crusaders: God is WITH us!
*Crippling Starvation*
Crusaders: God has FORSAKEN us!
only sinners suffer, the righteous are shown thru the crisis by the will of God.
If you are suffering, therefore, you have sinned.
(Theorectially that is)
@@SuperChuckRaneyReally so all my suffering comes from my sins?
It is so wierd coming from the super informal Victoria Era video back to normal KaG content is so wierd lol.
It’s scary how crazy hunger can make a person!
Here I was, fully expecting Peter to have an asbestos robe!
This series reminds me of the first Fire Emblem.
Peter the Burnt, guess George must have used this as inspiration.
Crusaders be like…
What a great video! The Crusades were fascinating. Even in such violent times the barbarism and savagery of Christians must have been shocking!
what a terror
13:38 Raymondception!
The VPN companies use same commercial servers, which are not being tracked and blacklisted by all the tech companies.
Muslim tribesmen often beat the heavily armored crusaders simply because the crusaders had too much pride and could never be cohesive and work together without back stabbing each other. Like on paper the crusaders should have been able to wipe the fucking floor with the Persians...but often times the Persians and Muslims slaughtered them.
The pride of a few men will lead to the end of us all.
Persians? they were the seljuk turks….
Interesting.
Wow, things really went to hell the second Raymond became the crusade leader.
NOT THE BEES
At this point i would not even be surprised if they managed to conquer jerusalem just because everyone went off the city on a sunday trip and left the doors open
* Not Provençals but Occitans (among which probably some Provençals, yes)
They had practice eating Jesus every Sunday
I’m Christian and this made me nearly choke on pad se ew 😂
Please a video of the Mexican- American War
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Please add subtitles (Persian) to your channel Thank you 🙏🏻
Come on the crusaders didn't eat humans
They did
When will the Hannibal series continue, or is it over??
Considering all the Crusaders and other armies did on a regular basis, eating the corpses of other humans really isn't the worst or the most debased.
What if the entire VPN industry is just a giant data mining effort LOL
The Crusaders are working smarter, not harder.
How did they manage to throw hives of bees in such great numbers? Did they have that much in the city?
Tang Dynasty: “Hold my bowl of human meat.”
Most origin of cannibalism is due to hardship
What about Jeffrey Dahmers cannibalism? He had a job and income.
Is there any chance you will continue the byzantine reconquista?
Yep, working on it
7:30 so who took the tower exactly ?
Had no idea how greedy and selfish all the Crusaders were.
I thought they were like the Jedi who don't fight for attachments but for righteousnous.
Day 1 of asking Kings and Generals for more Indian history.
The entire crusades is a forever-reminder of just how crazy religion is and how it's as self destructive as it's outwardly destructive.
How many Raymonds are too many?
Yes
Ah yes the exotic taste of human flesh. Plus 30 to strength minus 50 to mercy.
✌
9:50
Wasn't the original goal to reopen Jerusalem to pilgrims? They got an offer for that but refused it. Why?
No, it was to conquer it.
Hey who brought this ladder.?
Trial by fire…literally never a good idea 😂
This is a rosy picture of what had actually happened, in fact, the cannibalism was driven by fervor and terror tactics first and foremost rather than hunger
Guibert of Nogent, a contemporary state the reason explicitly: "Moreover, when the pieces of flesh were found among the pagan bodies at Ma’arra, and elsewhere, during a terrible famine a hideous rumor (based on something that had been done furtively and very rarely) circulated widely among the pagans, that there were some men in the Frankish army who eagerly fed upon the corpses of Saracens. To circulate this rumor among them even more vividly, the men carried the battered corpse of Turk out in full view of the other Turks, set it afire, and roasted it as if the flesh was going to be eaten. Then they learned what had happened, thinking that the charade was real, they grew even more afraid of the fearlessness of the Tafurs than of our other leaders. Like the ancient paganism the Turks were tormented more by unburied bodies than any Christian seems to be concerned with his soul of fears damnation." (Guibert de Nogent, VII) Deeds of God, p. 86
Guibert tries to exonerate what was done, by saying it was done rarely, However another contemporary, Gesta Tancred, using hunger again says:
"Some people said that, constrained by the lack of food, they boiled pagan adults in cooking-pots, impaled children on spits and devoured them grilled."
However, Peter the Hermit writes:
They were terrified and horribly afraid.
The smell of meat drew them to the wall;
The Ribauts were watched by 30,000 pagans,
Not a single one with cheeks dry of tears.
There was great mourning for the people they were eating.
After then writes “tastes better than pork or venison,” and defecating afterwards on the tombs of the cemetery
Most comprehensive account with regards to Maa'ra is given by William of Tyre; Saracen spies are clearly hiding among the Crusaders’ troops, since the enemy steadily anticipates every decision made by the Christian barons, to the point that the situation is becoming unbearable for the commanders. Bohemond claims in front of the council that he has found a solution to the problem and asks permission to implement it. At sunset, he demands for all imprisoned Saracens to be killed, placed over the embers, cooked and served to the barons. He further asks to spread the word about what is happening in his camp: he wants all spies still dwelling in the camp to race off with fear but, most importantly, to survive in order to share their knowledge of these events with their commander and with their entire community.
"The innkeeper gathered to dine, he sent his knights and made for Turks to come who he had in the region been pleasant. He had their throats cut and put them in pots and roused them with fire and the people demanded that it was and that they would eat them at table as their SACRAMENT. The thing spread around the innkeeper, what was done at the Buiamonte truce and everyone ran to see that novelty. The very Turks who had come there to atone were very frightened, and they seemed to linger in leaving the innkeeper for fear that the same would not be done as much of them. When they came to their lords who had sent them, they said that those people who were placed on the seat were harder than stone..." (Heracles vols.,IV, 22)
It was not done out of hunger, nutritional purposes but to terrify the population, not to mention the insanity of the crusaders themselves. this is clear by looking at the OTHER RECORDED EPISODE OF CANNIBALISM during the Siege of Nicea by a contemporary.
Anna Komnene writes:
"Normans, numbering 10,000 in all,
Joined him but detached themselves from the rest of the army,
and ravaged the outskirts of Nicaea,
Acting with horrible cruelty to the whole population;
Babies were hacked to pieces, impaled on wooden spits and roasted over a fire;
Old people were subjected to every kind of torture.
Further reading:
Eating enemies, eating sins by Pantalea Mazzitello
Terror in the Old French Crusade Cycle: from Splendid Cavalry to Cannibalism by Sarah-Grace Heller
The Social Structure of the First Crusade, CH2 by Conor Kostick
Gesta Tancredi: "Some people said that, constrained by the lack of food, they boiled pagan adults in cooking-pots, impaled children on spits and devoured them grilled."
nutritional purposes
But this accounts were written by rival Christians that were seeking to damage their reputations further in an attempt to gain influence within the newly created Crusader stats
@@v4enthusiast541 the circumstantial evidence is overwhelming.
@@v4enthusiast541 these accounts were written by the crusaders themselves what are you talking about
I've stopped trusting Kings and Generals channel. They seem some sort of Crusader Apologists to me.
Muslim sources also wrote the same description of putting bodies on skewer and barbecuing them. The pope back then was also very corrupt and power hungry. This was no holy war. This was just massacre.
1291 crusader movement collapsed by the very sword they justified their existence, i guess they learnt the lesson in verse the hard way
Mathew 26:52 ... “Put your sword back into its place. For all who take the sword will perish by the sword.
Stories like this that make you realize how disgusting people can be.
Especially Europeans.. but somehow they are admired by history nerds
Yeah, those Saracens were unbearable.
@@saabit_0321 Muslims are better
@@retrogamingfrenzy2373 They all flock to Christian countries
Well finally 💀