History Behind The Surrender Of Maine In Europa Universalis 4
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- Опубликовано: 9 сен 2024
- A new history video on the surrender of Maine in Europa Universalis 4. This is an event that occurs between England and France at the very start of the game. In history, this marked the start of the French reconquest of France and the decline of English holdings in France. Some have argued that this can be said to be the beginning of the end of the Hundred Years' War, with England's worst king on the throne.
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I really like the history episodes. I think a lot of the depth of EU4's content comes from the truly fascinating history that inspired it. Looking forward to more of these. - Muss
Hey Muss, glad you enjoy it and good to see someone else finds these parts of history fascinating. Keep tuned for more soon! -Lantibus
I really do not like how Margaret of Anjou is a freaking random event instead of scripted
What would you have instead?
@@TheSocialStreamers have her marry Henry if Maine is surrendered. Have a follow up event where you can make her the proper regent at the cost of 1 stability, allowing a quick way to get rid of Henry and help England in the 100 years war, or choose to get a modifier guaranteeing thr Wars of the Roses will happen soon ish.
I wish you could assassinate your monarchs in EU4. Henry is so awful as a King -_-
@@dracodeanglicus3857 you can make your lovely 0/0/0 rulers a general leading a army and their life expactency will drop significantly
@@sjoerdentius8285 I mean true, but what's better than a dagger to the back, or some poison in ye olde prized stag?
0/0/0 rulers be like 2:48
Lmaoo
I truly like this content. You do really good work with this series. Good luck with next materials (:
Thanks man, appreciate it! Work hard on these videos but its always worth it when I see comments like this
I'd just say that Tours wasn't a peace deal but a mere 6 months truce.
I hope to gain a heart from my lord as a Habsburg to gain a chin
Habsburgs chins are lovely. Very round
I've found your chanel for coincidence but this is good content.
Good work m8
Thanks! Glad to hear you like it! Out of curiousity, how did you find us? Via a suggested video or searching..?
@@TheSocialStreamers i was going through some old eu4 meme chanels from 4 yrs ago and your chanel was recomended
The Maine did not surrender. As clearly stated on the memorial in Havana harbor, It was sacrificed for Imperialist voracity. Obviously there was time travel involved and the ship killed its own great-grandfather.
The grandfather paradox in relation to a ship? That's completely ridiculous.
Which is what they WANT us to think! YOU'RE ONTO SOMETHING HERE!
I love this series! You should do the polish deluge next.
Only if you want to do it ofcourse no pressure.
Good job dude
nice explanations
but it would be nice if you made the video with subtitles or at least put the uh "lyrics" into the description because it`s sometimes hard to understand what you`re saying
(being not an english native speaker feels kinda bad dont try to do so cuz if i was a native English speaker i would not be asking for the lyrics)
anyways like
Hey man, no worries. My accent is a bit strong sometimes ahaha. I do a script so maybe I can somehow put it in the video somewhere
@@TheSocialStreamers i hope you understood me right cuz i didnt want to offense you i was talking about myself ok
Just to make it clear haha
Not at all. ahaha don't worry I'm not offended. Here's the script I wrote btw, its slightly different but roughly the same:
Maine script
Hello guys and welcome to a video on the history behind the surrender of Maine. This is an event in eu4 where England has the option to either surrender the province of Maine to the French or not. if England doesn’t surrender the province of Maine. This leads to France either deciding to enter a defensive war with England calling in all its allies or backing down from the fight. So, without further ado, lets have a look at how this event occurred and what actually happened during this time.
We begin by going back to 1444 during the 100-year war between France and England. after a long hard-fought war between Henry the 6th of England and Charles the 7th of France. Both sides agreed to have peace talks in Tours. Eventually, England and France signed the treaty of Tours. The deal was that Henry the 6th would marry Margaret of Anjou who was a relative of Charles the 7th. In return Charles would gain the province of Maine in 3 years’ time.
many English nobles thought this was a terrible idea and to freely hand over provinces to the French would be a sign of weakness and be massively unpopular in England. However, Henry the 6th insisted the peace treaty was signed and he thought it would naively bring everlasting peace between the English and the French. Henry was not known for his political wisdom and rather more interested in praying rather then governing the land.
Charles was over the moon when the peace treaty was signed and thought this was a massive diplomatic victory for France. Although the English had optimistically thought that a marriage alliance would turn René of Anjou into a major advocate for peace at the French court, therefore giving England more power in the French court. Charles thought a marriage between the England and the Anjou dynasty would not allow England to gain an alliance with a more rebellious French dynasty such as the count of Armagnac. The Anjou family was also nearly bankrupt and therefore had very limited financial resources, Rene admitted he couldn’t even put any money towards the marriage between Henry the 6th and Margaret.
Over the next few years, Charles would build up his army and prepare for war against England once more. Meanwhile England was divided on the issue of Maine and infighting began. Margaret of Anjou arrested the duke of Gloucester for his rejection of the ceding of Maine to the French.
Despite the attempts of the English to delay the ceding of Maine. Eventually with the threat of war from Charles. Henry gave Maine to Charles thinking this would lead to permanent peace. However, he had no intention of making a permanent peace. As he told the men of Reims just six months after regaining possession of Maine, he had already decided that he would recover Normandy as well. The surrender of Maine was a turning point for France since, Over the next few years Charles would slowly take more English territory in France such as Normandy and Gascony. Meanwhile Henry’s mental health began to decline. He would sometimes run around naked in the English countryside and let Margaret of Anjou assert her power over him. This infuriated the English nobles in England and eventually led to the war of the roses where Henry was overthrown.
Thank you guys for watching, please let me know what you think in the comments and check out some of my other event history videos.
So Henry was just medieval Neville Chamberlain?
at 1:26 this is a picture of Charles VI the Mad, not his son Charles VII
Excellent video tho
Top 10 bruh moments
#1 Charles going to war with England after already gaining Maine
Background music ?
Its called the renaissance music by Arany Zoltan
Noice
Good to see you round!
The Maine surrendered
Thoughts on the video Henriki?
@@TheSocialStreamers I don't think