References Reference 1, Page 47/48 of Asser's life of King Alfred. Reference 2, Page 46 of Asser's life of King Alfred. Reference 3 Page 111 of the Anglo Saxons chronicles, Michael Swanton Reference 4 archaeology.co.uk/articles/news/unlocking-the-secrets-of-the-winchester-cathedral-mortuary-chests.htm Reference 5 Page 18 Kings, Queens, Bones and bastards, David Hilliam. Reference 6 Page 113 Anglo-Saxon Chronicles, Michael Swanton. Reference 7 Page 20 King, Queen, Bones and Bastards, David Hilliam. Reference 8 Page 71 King and Queen, professor David Loades. Reference 9 Page 144 Anglo-Saxon chronicles, Michael Swanton. Reference 10 Page 19 ENCOMIUM EMMAE REGINAE Reference 11 Page 351 The Anglo-Saxons, Marc Morris. Reference 12 Page 27 Britain's royal families, Alison Weir. Reference 13 Page 148 of the Anglo-Saxon chronicles, Michael Swanton. Reference 14 Page 152, the Anglo-Saxon chronicles, Michael Swanton. Reference 15 Page 256, King Cnut W.B.Bartlett. Reference 16 Page 259, King Cnut W.B.Bartlett. Reference 17 Page 161, the Anglo-Saxon chronicles, Michael Swanton. Reference 18 Page 162, the Anglo-Saxon chronicles, Michael Swanton. Reference 19 Page 162 Edward the confessor, Peter Rex. Reference 20 Page 162 Edward the confessor, Peter Rex. Reference 21 Page 199, the Anglo-Saxon chronicles, Michael Swanton. Reference 22 Page 27 of Kings, Queens Bones and Bastards. Page 37 Britain's royal families, Alison Weir. The Norman conquest, appendix 1, Teresa Cole. Page 101 King and Queens, Professor David Loades. Page 35 King and Queens of England, Nigel Cawthorne Page 261, The Norman conquest, Thresa Cole. Reference 23 Page 219, the Anglo-Saxon chronicles, Michael Swanton. Reference 24 Page 32 Kings, Queens bones and bastards, David Hilliam. Page 194 Kings and Queen, Professor David Loades. Reference 25 Page 268 Anglo-Saxons chronicles. Reference 26 Page 111 The annals of Roger de Hoveden. Reference 27 The Revolutionary Exhumations at St-Denis, 1793 Reference 28 The embalmed heart of Richard the Lionheart (1199 A.D.): a biological and anthropological analysis Reference 29 Page 104 Chronicles of the age of chivalry. Elizabeth Hallam and Hugh Trevor-Roper. Reference 30 Page 364, Edward 1st a great and terrible king, Marc Morris Reference 31 Page 364, Edward 1st a great and terrible king, Marc Morris, Westminster abbey website www.westminster-abbey.org/abbey-commemorations/royals/edward-i-and-eleanor-of-castile Reference 32 Page 73, I never knew that about Royal Britain, Christopher Winn. Reference 33 Page 304 Chronicles of the age of chivalry. Elizabeth Hallam and Hugh Trevor-Roper. Reference 34 Page 117, Britain's royal family, Alison Weir. Reference 35 Page 128, Britain's royal families, Alison Weir. Reference 36 Page 132, Britain's royal families, Alison Weir. Reference 37 Page 264 Edward IV Glorious son of York, Jeffrey James. Reference 38 Page 264, Edward IV Glorious son of York, Jeffrey James. Reference 39 Page 151, Britain's royal families, Alison Weir. Reference 40 Page 155 Britain's royal families, Alison Weir.
Hahahaha I was listening to this in the background while working and wasn’t expecting to hear Harthacnut called a complete wanker at 12:35 🤣 appreciate the personal input!!
I was born in, and still live in Leicester. 33 years old. It was always local legend that Richard III's bones were dug up and thrown in the city's river, The Soar... until we found him under a car park 😅
He was lifted out of the river by Monks of a Cistercian Abbey which had stood on the area of the Carpark, that's why the Archeologists did Geophys on the carpark, to check if it was true, and they found his body, which was accurately identified by DNA from a living descendant of the Plantagenets.
When I attended school in the late 2000s, we're taught the middle ages in England ended with the rise of the Tudor dynasty, I disagree with that theory and prefer the theory that the middle ages in England ends with Henry 8th, to quote my other video on the matter. "So to summarise the middle ages in England ends with King Henry because of the monumental changes to England he implemented, the physical landscape changing and the fact that England was no longer a member of the catholic church."
@@AlexS-oj8qf The end of the middle ages is around 1500. In England it is 1485, the Tudors. In Europe 1492, discovery of America. In Religion 1517. Luther. Modernity arrived with the Printing press and the three masted sailing ship. Sometimes between 1450 and 1550 superstition abated. Witchcraft beliefs declined. Capitalism evolved. Feudalism disappeared.
A few things, the footage of the sites was a year long project and filmed on a Samsung S21 and a Google Pixel Pro 8. so if you like to support the channel you can on Patreon or UA-cam channel membership. www.patreon.com/embracehistoria Because this was a long video the editing was a lot simpler, with mainly stock footage filmed by me.
Yes, France had a great monarchy, it went for a long time. Yes, I understand both sides for the French Revolution and the Monarchy but the French Revolution becomes another bloodbath and called the “Terror”
Even worse, it created the French… They’re been suffering with that disease ever since, bless them! You could say it’s a catastrophe on par with “that one virus we can’t talk about online”… Especially when it started spreading to places like Canada and Africa… Luckily we managed to contain it! It’s like a lurgy you can’t rid of!🤦🏻♂️ At least when Britain had a revolution, it was the industrial kind, where we invented work.😅
There's a story in Faversham that when Henry VIII tore Faversham Abbey down King Stephen's bones were thrown into the creek. There is a plaque on one of the walls of the nearby church, St Mary's though dedicated to King Stephen and Queen Matilda. Although the Abbey was dissolved, a few of the outer buildings such as the guest house still remail.
The fact that all of this English history was lost just because fat Henry VIII wanted to divorce his wife is deplorable. Definitely England's most scummy king.
Englands most scummy kings are the original anglo Saxons who started it all. So much celtic kings will never know about. The remains of celtic kings remains will never truly be recovered like the saxon kings
@@Embracehistoria So true. My goal in life is to take a vacation to Britain and see the ancient sites and my ancestors castles. I’ll certainly still be tuning in for your future content, really great work my friend. Thank you for sharing your work with us.
Henry the sixth, for me. At least John was capable of making cognitive decisions. Even if those decisions were sometimes selfish, foolish or malevolent
While I completely understand the critique of the dissolution of the monasteries, I don't think Henry VIII was the worst medieval king of England. Henry VI, John and Richard II were disastrous for the realm, especially Henry VI. I think that Henry VIII gets critiqued harder because he is more 'well known' to the average person than the other three I mentioned.
Contemporaries describe her as 'very beautiful', but there is no detailed description of her appearance. It is also important to not take the accounts as seriously as they may have just said that based on her status and propaganda.
Matilda’s grandmother was Saint/Queen Margaret of Scotland (also princess of Wessex) (1045-1093). Margaret was well documented as being quite beautiful.
Harold was hit in the eye by an arrow and was then ran through by Guillaume le Batard. Gytha Thirkelsdottir offered Guillaume the weight in gold of Harold's body, but Guillaume refused and ordered his men to throw Harolds body off the nearby cliff into the English Channel, so Harold never had a burial site. If they are looking for a DNA match for the pelvis of Alfred The Great, they could ask me for comparison, as he was my direct 34x Great Grandfather. Lord Sherlock
As outlined in this blog, King Harold's shattered remains were reputedly interred by his friends at Waltham Abbey in Essex. There is a marked grave there. England would have been a much happier country if 'our King Harold' had won or otherwise survived the Battle of Hastings. Nor would countless French folk have suffered centuries of slaughter and strife caused by endless assaults on France that were triggered by French speaking Angevin and Plantagenet kings the aftermath of the Norman Conquest.
I'm his 45th great grand daughter via Edberga, daughter of Ethelred the Unready, who married the real Uhtred the Bold, who lived nearly 100 years after King Alfred. Don't believe Bernard Cornwell, who wrote The Last Kingdom, he was just embellishing the story. Anyway, Uhtred and Edberga's daughter married into the Scottish royalty, and then into the Lord of Tynedale's family and a few generations later, Mariotta of Tynedale married William of Featherstone, in what was then the West Riding of Yorkshire. Now it's South Yorkshire. William was descended from a Norman, Ralph Grammaticus, who took the name Featherstone when he married the Saxon heiress, Edelina, who claimed to be descended from the Bernician Kings of Northumbria. It was not until the 19th century that my great grandmother Martha Featherstone married my great grandfather John Henry Dowson. So there I am.
The Britons were a Celtic people who inhabited England before the Anglo saxons. They were forced into modern day Wales and never became kings of unified England. Plus, the story is mostly legend and has no corroborated sources
Im sitting here in America, an Irish / Norwegian dude, and am drawn to these lands. Its like a urge or feeling to be there and feel my ancestors presence of just walk the ancient paths and land. America just doesnt have the lengthy written known history like Europe. Mabey if I was native American, like many of my friends, I'd feel the same way about areas in the "New World".
Unpopular opinion: Henry II has to be one the most horrible Kings of England, when you look at the broader spectrum. The guy was a bad husband, was incompetent enought that his sons went on a civil war with him, was responsible for one of the worst Church scandals (Thomas Beckett's murder). And even the Angevin Empire is still sad because Louis VII didn't deserve this as he was one of the most loyal kings of Christendom, and had gone on a Crusade personally, and almost died in Anatolia. And Henry II himself never had the balls of going to a Crusade, even so with so much time and resources on his hand, and even with the real threat of Saladin. He could have avoided Hattin, but he was too worried about sleeping around, with a prostitute even. If he had at least been smart enough to see women would have liked seeing him saving Christendom. Empress Matilda went on a civil war for nothing, really. While I was watching this video, my mother while walking around said you had a sexy voice lol, and my sisters agreed. We're from Évora Portugal, you'd have been quite lucky if you had been of the Englishmen during the Crusades in Portugal.
He was a very power hungry man, and the job of running that empire eventually killed him, as he was just worn out, his legs were a mess and he had painful sores. I think he was a good mediaeval king for the time period. And thank you haha.
Henry the 8th was such a despot, somewhat unusual for English kings as the nobles tended to reign them in. Where were the nobles during that fat sods reign of terror?
@@spearshake4771 As an atheist, the Church of England is far better. Henry might have done it for his own benefit, but removing the power and influence of the church in politics has benefited all of us. You can even see this when you look at Catholic countries today, the Catholic church is and was a parasitic drain on resources, brutalised it's citizens and held back the advancement of science and technology with it's dogma. Compared with the Church of England, which has become mostly irrelevant...
His breaking from Rome was simply for his own gain, it may of been the lesser of two evils but at the end of the day he simply broke away from one tyranny to create another which he could fully control with his own whims so yes it’s not fair to see he’s the worst but he definitely up there with king John
Was it necessary to use the extremely offensive word "w***er" ? I was going to show this video to my mother, as my family are from Winchester, and history obsessed, but cannot do so now. I am not sure how old you are, and I am aware expletives are used so often nowadays that younger people seem to be blunted to the degree of offence those words carry to others unused to their use, This would have been a great video but for that. I urge you to please keep your language clean and professional if you wish to be taken seriously and for your channel to keep growing
Wanker aint that bad of a word. Come on now, ye british. Everyone has used wanker at one point. And ge has a fair reason to call such person a wanker too
king knud, canute, the great.. in all other lands, except in england as *the great*... the most underated *english king of all time*, and his wife queen emma of normandy...virtually forgotten about, as wife and regent...also mother to edward the conffesor... as for king alfred the great, probably the most overated, king of some of the english.. asser the bishop, plays his part in the *wessex conquers the universe ,propaganda*,...., alfred was no arthur..
Canute did some good things as King, which why his courtiers flattered him by saying that even the sea obeyed him and he had to prove otherwise to them, by commanding the waves to stop, which of course, they didn't. But Alfred stopped the Great Heathen Army of the Vikings from completely taking over the whole of England. So that when Canute took over he had to abide by English rules. Alfred also preserved the English language, otherwise we might have been speaking some form of Danish. No, Canute is not the Great in England, because he was a foreign usurper. Alfred was the Great champion of England and the English. He started the push towards one country, even if he didn't live to see it, and his grandson Athelstan was the first King of England.
@@AnneDowson-vp8lg lol knud or canute, was not some foreign clueless usurper, his father was previously :king sweyn forkbeard, his grandad the king of northumbria, by a right of descent and conquest..., his political marriage to the queen dowager : emma of normandy, who then became queen consort for the 2nd time..., its a big shame, that most history books totally ignore her, they just concentrate on her son edward the conffessor.. who was half norman , and the very lowly *house of tostig... , originally very minor barons*, who were supported and elevated by king canute the great, of the north sea empire, * canute was already king of 3 countries, ENGLAND was a mere one of the domains, also in terms of medieval europe,, was very minor realm ,compared to france.. the overated king alfred is a mere stopping point in the island of britain's history, especially his legacy, were the so called heathens , were actually *viking christians, both sweyn and canute were not heathens, but christian rulers, who for the most part, continued the anglo saxon church etc... his brief end too viking expansion, but after his death went 2000x 24/7 to at least unite england, so canute could be first ever king of england, ironic as he was not english lol... as for athelstan, his longer rule and being alfred the great grandson...also considered *overlord of most of britain, even parts of wales and scotland, at least for a brief time... however the anglo saxon chronicles to hype up his reputation and downplay his rivals and contempary rulers and the lack of centralisation even in england, his legacy going out of the window , on his own death* queen consort Edith tostig was wife to king edward the conffesor... therefore her brother earl harold tostig., was the brother to a queen and brother in law to a king, but not related to edward the conffessor... some historians, therefore claim, that king harold II tostig, had a coup or a *lowly usurper, as relative of edward the conffessor , or a candidate who was not harold II , like edward the exile~ by right of relation of blood and kin, was the best candidate... william the bastard* conqueror was cousin to edward the conffessor as a relation to queen emma of normandy..*
References
Reference 1, Page 47/48 of Asser's life of King Alfred.
Reference 2, Page 46 of Asser's life of King Alfred.
Reference 3 Page 111 of the Anglo Saxons chronicles, Michael Swanton
Reference 4 archaeology.co.uk/articles/news/unlocking-the-secrets-of-the-winchester-cathedral-mortuary-chests.htm
Reference 5 Page 18 Kings, Queens, Bones and bastards, David Hilliam.
Reference 6 Page 113 Anglo-Saxon Chronicles, Michael Swanton.
Reference 7 Page 20 King, Queen, Bones and Bastards, David Hilliam.
Reference 8 Page 71 King and Queen, professor David Loades.
Reference 9 Page 144 Anglo-Saxon chronicles, Michael Swanton.
Reference 10 Page 19 ENCOMIUM EMMAE REGINAE
Reference 11 Page 351 The Anglo-Saxons, Marc Morris.
Reference 12 Page 27 Britain's royal families, Alison Weir.
Reference 13 Page 148 of the Anglo-Saxon chronicles, Michael Swanton.
Reference 14 Page 152, the Anglo-Saxon chronicles, Michael Swanton.
Reference 15 Page 256, King Cnut W.B.Bartlett.
Reference 16 Page 259, King Cnut W.B.Bartlett.
Reference 17 Page 161, the Anglo-Saxon chronicles, Michael Swanton.
Reference 18 Page 162, the Anglo-Saxon chronicles, Michael Swanton.
Reference 19 Page 162 Edward the confessor, Peter Rex.
Reference 20 Page 162 Edward the confessor, Peter Rex.
Reference 21 Page 199, the Anglo-Saxon chronicles, Michael Swanton.
Reference 22 Page 27 of Kings, Queens Bones and Bastards.
Page 37 Britain's royal families, Alison Weir.
The Norman conquest, appendix 1, Teresa Cole.
Page 101 King and Queens, Professor David Loades.
Page 35 King and Queens of England, Nigel Cawthorne
Page 261, The Norman conquest, Thresa Cole.
Reference 23 Page 219, the Anglo-Saxon chronicles, Michael Swanton.
Reference 24 Page 32 Kings, Queens bones and bastards, David Hilliam.
Page 194 Kings and Queen, Professor David Loades.
Reference 25 Page 268 Anglo-Saxons chronicles.
Reference 26 Page 111 The annals of Roger de Hoveden.
Reference 27 The Revolutionary Exhumations at St-Denis, 1793
Reference 28 The embalmed heart of Richard the Lionheart (1199 A.D.): a biological and anthropological analysis
Reference 29 Page 104 Chronicles of the age of chivalry.
Elizabeth Hallam and Hugh Trevor-Roper.
Reference 30 Page 364, Edward 1st a great and terrible king, Marc Morris
Reference 31 Page 364, Edward 1st a great and terrible king, Marc Morris,
Westminster abbey website www.westminster-abbey.org/abbey-commemorations/royals/edward-i-and-eleanor-of-castile
Reference 32 Page 73, I never knew that about Royal Britain, Christopher Winn.
Reference 33 Page 304 Chronicles of the age of chivalry.
Elizabeth Hallam and Hugh Trevor-Roper.
Reference 34 Page 117, Britain's royal family, Alison Weir.
Reference 35 Page 128, Britain's royal families, Alison Weir.
Reference 36 Page 132, Britain's royal families, Alison Weir.
Reference 37 Page 264 Edward IV Glorious son of York, Jeffrey James.
Reference 38 Page 264, Edward IV Glorious son of York, Jeffrey James.
Reference 39 Page 151, Britain's royal families, Alison Weir.
Reference 40 Page 155 Britain's royal families, Alison Weir.
Hahahaha I was listening to this in the background while working and wasn’t expecting to hear Harthacnut called a complete wanker at 12:35 🤣 appreciate the personal input!!
I was born in, and still live in Leicester. 33 years old. It was always local legend that Richard III's bones were dug up and thrown in the city's river, The Soar... until we found him under a car park 😅
Ummm I guessit wasn’t a carpark then😊
@valcavanagh9522 Actually, it was! One of the first instances of them. French 'Cardinal Kahrpærć' invented them, and the first one was in Leicester!
Better than being buried in France ..
He was lifted out of the river by Monks of a Cistercian Abbey which had stood on the area of the Carpark, that's why the Archeologists did Geophys on the carpark, to check if it was true, and they found his body, which was accurately identified by DNA from a living descendant of the Plantagenets.
@@DanHarrisonKing can’t have been a carpark when Richard was buried 😂 It somewhat predated cars!
I think Middle Age England ended when the Tudor ascend the throne. From that moment onward it’s Renaissance.
When I attended school in the late 2000s, we're taught the middle ages in England ended with the rise of the Tudor dynasty, I disagree with that theory and prefer the theory that the middle ages in England ends with Henry 8th, to quote my other video on the matter.
"So to summarise the middle ages in England ends with King Henry because of the monumental changes to England he implemented, the physical landscape changing and the fact that England was no longer a member of the catholic church."
@@Embracehistoria there is a case that Henry VIII is the last medieval king and the first renaissance king
@@AlexS-oj8qf The end of the middle ages is around 1500.
In England it is 1485, the Tudors.
In Europe 1492, discovery of America.
In Religion 1517. Luther.
Modernity arrived with the Printing press and the three masted sailing ship.
Sometimes between 1450 and 1550 superstition abated. Witchcraft beliefs declined. Capitalism evolved.
Feudalism disappeared.
True
@@EmbracehistoriaHow does leaving the Catholic Church be considered as one of the factors to determine when the middle ages ended in England?
A few things, the footage of the sites was a year long project and filmed on a Samsung S21 and a Google Pixel Pro 8. so if you like to support the channel you can on Patreon or UA-cam channel membership. www.patreon.com/embracehistoria
Because this was a long video the editing was a lot simpler, with mainly stock footage filmed by me.
I kind of liked how the cat photo-bombed the image of the abbey before you talked about King Eadred.
He's actually a trained actor. The abbey cat.
12:24 😂took me by surprise. Amazing
“I won’t poke at the subject today”
I see what you did there lol
This was really interesting thanks
Glad you enjoyed it
French Revolution destroyed so much French history 😒
By design
@@baseballworldwide9439 By a movement
Yes, France had a great monarchy, it went for a long time. Yes, I understand both sides for the French Revolution and the Monarchy but the French Revolution becomes another bloodbath and called the “Terror”
The English wigs played a role @@Shane-Flanagan
Even worse, it created the French… They’re been suffering with that disease ever since, bless them!
You could say it’s a catastrophe on par with “that one virus we can’t talk about online”… Especially when it started spreading to places like Canada and Africa… Luckily we managed to contain it! It’s like a lurgy you can’t rid of!🤦🏻♂️
At least when Britain had a revolution, it was the industrial kind, where we invented work.😅
Fascinating subject. I’ve always wondered what happened to all our King’s bodies. Really great video, thanks, new subscriber.
Black nylon stockings please.
There's a story in Faversham that when Henry VIII tore Faversham Abbey down King Stephen's bones were thrown into the creek. There is a plaque on one of the walls of the nearby church, St Mary's though dedicated to King Stephen and Queen Matilda. Although the Abbey was dissolved, a few of the outer buildings such as the guest house still remail.
The fact that all of this English history was lost just because fat Henry VIII wanted to divorce his wife is deplorable. Definitely England's most scummy king.
You sir are based. 👍
Why does no-one know how to spell biased. BIASED.
Englands most scummy kings are the original anglo Saxons who started it all. So much celtic kings will never know about. The remains of celtic kings remains will never truly be recovered like the saxon kings
@@AnneDowson-vp8lgbased
@@AnneDowson-vp8lg They aren't trying to spell biased
I don't know where they're buried, but I have pretty good idea where they went after death.
Henry VIII did much to destroy history in order to feed his selfish desires.
That despot simply had too much power..
I love this but my jam is really the Dark Age kings!
Same, I really enjoyed filming at Glastonbury Abbey, sadly there's just not much on the early Kings of England.
@@Embracehistoria So true. My goal in life is to take a vacation to Britain and see the ancient sites and my ancestors castles. I’ll certainly still be tuning in for your future content, really great work my friend. Thank you for sharing your work with us.
Thank you all for the support on this video.
Enjoyed very much
Ohhhh myyy gosh ! You are hilarious! Nobody touched the egg and cress sandwiches 😂😂😂😂
Henry VIII was hardly the worst King of England, I'd say that's probably King John
Henry the sixth, for me. At least John was capable of making cognitive decisions. Even if those decisions were sometimes selfish, foolish or malevolent
I love a good baddie if you know what I mean
@@willgibbons1733Agreed. I'm a fan of Richard Duke of York a real patriot.
While I completely understand the critique of the dissolution of the monasteries, I don't think Henry VIII was the worst medieval king of England. Henry VI, John and Richard II were disastrous for the realm, especially Henry VI. I think that Henry VIII gets critiqued harder because he is more 'well known' to the average person than the other three I mentioned.
Well done, taking a subject that could (should) have been intolerably dry and making it worth listening to.
Well, throw in some dry humour and a shakespeare quote and it's more interesting to write about.
10:19 lovely kitty!
Great video as always man!
amazing video
Glad you think so.
Very Interesting.
Has Edward the Confessors tomb ever been opened?
Brilliant. Thank you.
Glad you liked it.
I never knew Henry VIII "suppressed" all those monasteries and was responsible for so much being lost. It put me in a bad mood.
It's ironic that his own is falling apart ( and should be left to as well)
I'm watching your Anarchy series. Was Matilda known to be a beauty? What do the sources tell us?
Sadly, I've never come across any description of her.
Contemporaries describe her as 'very beautiful', but there is no detailed description of her appearance. It is also important to not take the accounts as seriously as they may have just said that based on her status and propaganda.
Matilda’s grandmother was Saint/Queen Margaret of Scotland (also princess of Wessex) (1045-1093). Margaret was well documented as being quite beautiful.
‘And I won’t ‘poke’ at that subject today’ haha
Harold was hit in the eye by an arrow and was then ran through by Guillaume le Batard. Gytha Thirkelsdottir offered Guillaume the weight in gold of Harold's body, but Guillaume refused and ordered his men to throw Harolds body off the nearby cliff into the English Channel, so Harold never had a burial site. If they are looking for a DNA match for the pelvis of Alfred The Great, they could ask me for comparison, as he was my direct 34x Great Grandfather.
Lord Sherlock
As outlined in this blog, King Harold's shattered remains were reputedly interred by his friends at Waltham Abbey in Essex. There is a marked grave there. England would have been a much happier country if 'our King Harold' had won or otherwise survived the Battle of Hastings. Nor would countless French folk have suffered centuries of slaughter and strife caused by endless assaults on France that were triggered by French speaking Angevin and Plantagenet kings the aftermath of the Norman Conquest.
Might of had more wars with the Danes who knows lol
The normans certainly put a stop to them 🤣
I'm his 45th great grand daughter via Edberga, daughter of Ethelred the Unready, who married the real Uhtred the Bold, who lived nearly 100 years after King Alfred. Don't believe Bernard Cornwell, who wrote The Last Kingdom, he was just embellishing the story. Anyway, Uhtred and Edberga's daughter married into the Scottish royalty, and then into the Lord of Tynedale's family and a few generations later, Mariotta of Tynedale married William of Featherstone, in what was then the West Riding of Yorkshire. Now it's South Yorkshire. William was descended from a Norman, Ralph Grammaticus, who took the name Featherstone when he married the Saxon heiress, Edelina, who claimed to be descended from the Bernician Kings of Northumbria. It was not until the 19th century that my great grandmother Martha Featherstone married my great grandfather John Henry Dowson. So there I am.
@@AnneDowson-vp8lg you damn norman
English kings: palaces abbeys and castles
Richard III : CAR PARK
Well spotted gap.
Hats off to you.
Afred did not "hold sway over all of England"that is a misleading quote that the narrator read out.He was King of Wessex.
Well, blame Orderic Vitalis, I'm just quoting from my sources.
First slide… I think you will find that Henry the second and King John were not on the throne at the same time … in fact, I’m bloody sure of it!
What about Arthur? King of the Britain's?
The Britons were a Celtic people who inhabited England before the Anglo saxons. They were forced into modern day Wales and never became kings of unified England.
Plus, the story is mostly legend and has no corroborated sources
Britons.
Im sitting here in America, an Irish / Norwegian dude, and am drawn to these lands. Its like a urge or feeling to be there and feel my ancestors presence of just walk the ancient paths and land. America just doesnt have the lengthy written known history like Europe. Mabey if I was native American, like many of my friends, I'd feel the same way about areas in the "New World".
Your just american
Imagine all of the ancient Abbeys we would have if it wasn’t for one horny king with a bad temper?
Question: Where are all medieval kjngs buried? Answer they are buried in the ground somewhere on plant earth.
Um. Cnut the great was the great and he actually WAS the king of England.
No, he was not.
Not far in so idk if you'll cover them but what happened to alfred the great's family resting places is aggrivating.
Unpopular opinion: Henry II has to be one the most horrible Kings of England, when you look at the broader spectrum. The guy was a bad husband, was incompetent enought that his sons went on a civil war with him, was responsible for one of the worst Church scandals (Thomas Beckett's murder).
And even the Angevin Empire is still sad because Louis VII didn't deserve this as he was one of the most loyal kings of Christendom, and had gone on a Crusade personally, and almost died in Anatolia. And Henry II himself never had the balls of going to a Crusade, even so with so much time and resources on his hand, and even with the real threat of Saladin. He could have avoided Hattin, but he was too worried about sleeping around, with a prostitute even. If he had at least been smart enough to see women would have liked seeing him saving Christendom. Empress Matilda went on a civil war for nothing, really.
While I was watching this video, my mother while walking around said you had a sexy voice lol, and my sisters agreed. We're from Évora Portugal, you'd have been quite lucky if you had been of the Englishmen during the Crusades in Portugal.
He was a very power hungry man, and the job of running that empire eventually killed him, as he was just worn out, his legs were a mess and he had painful sores.
I think he was a good mediaeval king for the time period.
And thank you haha.
Will we ever know whether Henry 1 played any part in the death of his brother William 11...
William the Eleventh?😅
@@nickgov66😂...I meant second...
That cat knows things.
Alfred is not the only king titeld «the great» Knut was also called «the great» king of the northern empire
Bran the blessed was buried under the tower of London
Yeah, but what about when Brian Blessed dies?
"I won't poke at that subject" 😀😀😀😀😀😀😀
Henry VIII is renaissance
Henry the 8th was such a despot, somewhat unusual for English kings as the nobles tended to reign them in. Where were the nobles during that fat sods reign of terror?
Things just went from bad to worse, for Edward II. His wife, and her boyfriend forced him from power. Oof!
Literally, my wife's boyfriend lol.
However, Edward's son, Edward III had boyfriend, [ Roger Mortimer ] hanged after he seized power in a coup, mummy was given genteel house arrest.
Used to fish at Bevere wier
Why do revolutionaries always destroy precious historical sites?
Why was Henry the 8th the worst king?
They’re buried in my pocket
It got shafted🤣 by those luciferians aka protestants 🤣
*Many say King John was the worst English monarch.
Yep, he was pretty bad, but I have argued that Henry 8th was the worst.
Easily @@Embracehistoria
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No. Surely Henry VI
@Embracehistoria I agree. King John didn't have thousands put to death for disagreeing with him & he was pretty tolerant of other religions.
I assumed they were all in churches
Cantun was the great and was a king of england
"Mediaeval" - that spelling variation has entirely too many vowels in a row
Tis the British way!
There's nothing like an objective historian. And you're nothing like one.
Don't poke at it.
Henry the 8th, worst King of England? He saved us from the Catholic church. Surely King John was the worst!?
The church of England is no better tbh. Just a wolf of a different color.
@@spearshake4771 As an atheist, the Church of England is far better. Henry might have done it for his own benefit, but removing the power and influence of the church in politics has benefited all of us. You can even see this when you look at Catholic countries today, the Catholic church is and was a parasitic drain on resources, brutalised it's citizens and held back the advancement of science and technology with it's dogma. Compared with the Church of England, which has become mostly irrelevant...
Facts the catholic church was truly poison even as a a christian@@djohnson9857
His breaking from Rome was simply for his own gain, it may of been the lesser of two evils but at the end of the day he simply broke away from one tyranny to create another which he could fully control with his own whims so yes it’s not fair to see he’s the worst but he definitely up there with king John
You’re interesting but please try to lighten your voice…it’s a bit…..grey….😊
Wanker😂
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mediaeval??? lol
Henry VIII was NOT the worst king of England but the best , he freed England from the power of the Pope making England fully independent.
Lol obese tyrant
He was a tyrant, who divided his countrymen; a terrible husband, and a dreadful father.
I still dont understand why Henry the 8th is seen as a horrible king, without him the country is catholic
Was it necessary to use the extremely offensive word "w***er" ? I was going to show this video to my mother, as my family are from Winchester, and history obsessed, but cannot do so now. I am not sure how old you are, and I am aware expletives are used so often nowadays that younger people seem to be blunted to the degree of offence those words carry to others unused to their use, This would have been a great video but for that. I urge you to please keep your language clean and professional if you wish to be taken seriously and for your channel to keep growing
Shut up ya wanker
Wanker aint that bad of a word. Come on now, ye british. Everyone has used wanker at one point. And ge has a fair reason to call such person a wanker too
Unlucky
Womp womp
I’m sure your mother has heard worse than the word Wanker. So pathetic.
king knud, canute, the great..
in all other lands, except in england as *the great*...
the most underated *english king of all time*, and his wife queen emma of normandy...virtually forgotten about, as wife and regent...also mother to edward the conffesor...
as for king alfred the great, probably the most overated, king of some of the english..
asser the bishop, plays his part in the *wessex conquers the universe ,propaganda*,...., alfred was no arthur..
True, he actually existed.😄
Well, Queen Emma does make an appearance in this video.
Canute did some good things as King, which why his courtiers flattered him by saying that even the sea obeyed him and he had to prove otherwise to them, by commanding the waves to stop, which of course, they didn't. But Alfred stopped the Great Heathen Army of the Vikings from completely taking over the whole of England. So that when Canute took over he had to abide by English rules. Alfred also preserved the English language, otherwise we might have been speaking some form of Danish. No, Canute is not the Great in England, because he was a foreign usurper. Alfred was the Great champion of England and the English. He started the push towards one country, even if he didn't live to see it, and his grandson Athelstan was the first King of England.
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lol
knud or canute, was not some foreign clueless usurper,
his father was previously :king sweyn forkbeard, his grandad the king of northumbria,
by a right of descent and conquest...,
his political marriage to the
queen dowager : emma of normandy, who then became queen consort for the 2nd time...,
its a big shame, that most history books totally ignore her,
they just concentrate on her son edward the conffessor..
who was half norman , and the very lowly *house of tostig... , originally very minor barons*, who were supported and elevated by king canute the great, of the north sea empire,
* canute was already king of 3 countries, ENGLAND was a mere one of the domains, also in terms of medieval europe,, was very minor realm ,compared to france..
the overated king alfred is a mere stopping point in the island of britain's history,
especially his legacy, were the so called heathens , were actually *viking christians,
both sweyn and canute were not heathens, but christian rulers, who for the most part, continued the anglo saxon church etc...
his brief end too viking expansion, but after his death went 2000x 24/7 to at least unite england, so canute could be first ever king of england, ironic as he was not english lol...
as for athelstan, his longer rule and being alfred the great grandson...also considered *overlord of most of britain, even parts of wales and scotland, at least for a brief time...
however the anglo saxon chronicles to hype up his reputation and downplay his rivals and contempary rulers and the lack of centralisation even in england,
his legacy going out of the window , on his own death*
queen consort Edith tostig was wife to king edward the conffesor...
therefore her brother earl harold tostig., was the brother to a queen and brother in law to a king, but not related to edward the conffessor...
some historians, therefore claim, that king harold II tostig, had a coup or a *lowly usurper,
as relative of edward the conffessor , or a candidate who was not harold II , like edward the exile~ by right of relation of blood and kin, was the best candidate...
william the bastard* conqueror was cousin to edward the conffessor as a relation to queen emma of normandy..*
@@jardon8636 Cnut was not an English King. He was Danish.
Part of England was briefly in the Danish Empire
How was Henry the XIII the worst king of England?