The Sack of Rome 1527 - The Darkest Hour of the Landsknechts

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  • Опубликовано: 19 июн 2024
  • On the 6th of May 1527 an army of emperor Karl V, enraged and completely beyond the control of its commanders, sacked the city of Roma - this event is also known as Sacco di Roma. The soldiers plundered as they pleased. Rome was aflame. This video explains how contemporary historiography recounts the Sack of Rome.
    #history #education
    This video is a collab with the pike and shot channel. His video can be found here: • Sack of Rome 1527 - Wh...
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    Bibliography:
    Hook, J., The Sack of Rome 1527, Basingstoke 22004.
    Shaw, Ch. / Mallet, M., The Italian Wars 1494-1559 (War, State and Society in
    Early Modern Europe), Harlow 2019.
    Sherer, I. A Bloody Carnival? Charles V’s Soldiers and the Sack of Rome in 1527, in: Journal of the society for Renaissance Studies online, last updated 1. Dec. 2019.
    Primary Sources:
    Buonaparte, Jacopo, II Sacco di Roma, ragguaglio storico attribuito a Jacopo Buonaparto, Florence 1527.
    Guicciardini, Luigi, II Sacco di Roma, Paris 1564.

Комментарии • 576

  • @SandRhomanHistory
    @SandRhomanHistory  3 года назад +240

    Edit: The quote about Attila is actually correct, it's just a quote of a contemporary witness. However, as many of you have pointed out the 410 sack of Rome was by the Visigoths under Alaric. Sorry for the error, it always annoys us when we miss these details :S
    Edit 2: Both numbers of Swiss Guards present in Rome are correct. There were 189 Swiss Guards covering the pope's retreat but about 2000 were present in total (this is according to Hook, J., The Sack of Rome 1527, 2004.)
    This video is a collaboration with the pike and shot channel. This guy is making great content covering the early modern period and definitely deserves some love.
    Check him out: ruclips.net/video/FbjXwkvMdEg/видео.html

    • @pikeshotBattles
      @pikeshotBattles 3 года назад +4

      Nice work my fellow historians. And thanks for the shout out!

    • @Sofus.
      @Sofus. 3 года назад +2

      😎

    • @brandonrico6223
      @brandonrico6223 3 года назад +1

      Wow i just subscriber to him pike and shot chanel check him out

    • @Nly737
      @Nly737 3 года назад +1

      Your editing and story telling quality is amazing as ever. May I though recommend getting a better mic? It might bring the entire quality to a new level. Your voice is great to listen to but the mic quality seems a little off.
      Thanks for the good content and have a great day!

    • @richardross1754
      @richardross1754 3 года назад +2

      Your video was great but it ended so abruptly it seemed like. If you could wind them down and have more of a finished vibe at the end. That would be great

  • @Alias_Anybody
    @Alias_Anybody 3 года назад +914

    Not paying your mercs: Bad idea
    Not paying your mercs deep inside enemy territory: Surprisingly good idea

    • @testaccount4191
      @testaccount4191 3 года назад +99

      its like not feeding your pet tiger living in your house and it eating a bugler

    • @NLTops
      @NLTops 3 года назад +130

      It really depends on two things:
      a) How wealthy is your opponent?
      b) How difficult is the siege at hand?

    • @celdur4635
      @celdur4635 3 года назад +83

      @@NLTops Yeah, your enemy could just pay your mercenaries and gg.

    • @JonatasAdoM
      @JonatasAdoM 3 года назад +16

      What would happen if you were to send them in a suicide mission?
      I'm always surprised my mercenaries don't desert me and just accept they're disposable units in Medieval II.

    • @slinkerdeer
      @slinkerdeer 3 года назад +6

      @@JonatasAdoM actually mercenaries are excellent early game powerful units. You should use militia for cannon fodder or peasants

  • @mariushunger8755
    @mariushunger8755 3 года назад +704

    Karl V. :"oh nooo, can't reach my mercenary army ravaging my enemies, oh noooo"

  • @Thraim.
    @Thraim. 3 года назад +320

    >Not paying your mercenaries
    That's a bingo on the "getting your ass kicked" card.

    • @celluskh6009
      @celluskh6009 3 года назад +16

      Seemed to work out for him.

    • @michimatsch5862
      @michimatsch5862 3 года назад +8

      It worked for him so well.

    • @patriciusvunkempen102
      @patriciusvunkempen102 3 года назад +9

      it weren't his mercenarys but his enemys mercenarys that also had some lutheran influences and saw the pope as a bit of a leech on germanys butt

    • @njnmnm
      @njnmnm 3 года назад +1

      Unless you are Dom Pedro 1

    • @shmabadu
      @shmabadu 3 года назад +2

      You just say, “Bingo”.

  • @mark12strang58
    @mark12strang58 3 года назад +76

    That preacher who predicted that Rome would be plundered in the flowing two weeks must have had a good knowledge about what was going on outside Rome.

    • @jukahri
      @jukahri 3 года назад +30

      Or most likely was a post-hoc addition.

    • @jonathanwilliams1065
      @jonathanwilliams1065 3 года назад +3

      Let’s also mit forget what happens 10 years earlier
      This pope really was evil

    • @saguntum-iberian-greekkons7014
      @saguntum-iberian-greekkons7014 3 года назад

      Time Traveler

    • @wizardsummoner9124
      @wizardsummoner9124 3 года назад +5

      Or probably one of thousands of doom preachers who ended up being somewhat correct by luck.

    • @itarry4
      @itarry4 3 года назад +2

      He or some other nut probably said the same thing every day of the week on some form or another.

  • @AudieHolland
    @AudieHolland 3 года назад +36

    A regretful Charles: "This is such a tragedy... But you brought it upon yourself, pope!"

  • @yt_krg
    @yt_krg 3 года назад +537

    Ahem
    In the heart of the holy see
    In the home of Christianity
    The seat of power is in danger

  • @RafaelCosta-oi3be
    @RafaelCosta-oi3be 3 года назад +51

    A gut wrenching story that was well narrated, thank you! This was one the darkest moments in history, and you portrayed it very vividly

    • @asdallah2159
      @asdallah2159 Год назад

      Hi, Jesus has died on the cross so that (and perhaps, there is more) we may be forgiven for our sins (perhaps for everyone). Jesus rose from the dead! 🙏
      Please accept Jesus as your Lord and Savior. Jesus is the way, the truth and the life and no one comes to the Father except through him.🙂🙏

  • @jamaicanewshub9582
    @jamaicanewshub9582 3 года назад +58

    Burbon fighting in the League Cognac, how funny is that

  • @marctroyanosky6539
    @marctroyanosky6539 3 года назад +391

    I feel like there is always a madman ranting and preaching doom in the streets. Only a matter of time till one of them gets it right. (:

    • @Bird_Dog00
      @Bird_Dog00 3 года назад +53

      True. That's one way how prophecies work. If you keep telling me "tomorow you die." every day, sooner or later, you will be right.

    • @Harrier_DuBois
      @Harrier_DuBois 3 года назад +27

      If a madman rants hard enough he can even start a religion.

    • @vanivanov9571
      @vanivanov9571 3 года назад +9

      Why do you call him mad, when he was correct? Doesn't this show that if you had heard him speak, you would have ignored him and mocked him, and would've died with the people of Rome as a result? So, rather than he who spoke the truth being mad, you who prefer to be like those who DIED seem mad.
      If the case is actual, there is no explanation, other than God sending him. He promised death like Sodom, in 14 days... and the idea of a siege ending in one day is completely absurd, as is suggesting Rome itself would be sacked, and the fact it was such brutal sacking worse than even the barbarians a millennium ago. And instead of a traditional sacking, it lasted a fitting 7 MONTHS long, and destroyed Papal authority.
      This was not an ordinary event, but one that stands out in history.

    • @niu9432
      @niu9432 3 года назад +14

      @@vanivanov9571 There are some alternative explanations, but first we need to have a look at the dates:
      The Duke left Arezzo on 20th of April 1527. Holy Thursday took place on 27th of April 1527. The army reached the walls of Rome on 5th of May 1527 and breached the walls on 6th of May 1527.
      So we can think of a couple of plausible explanations:
      1) Brandano knew that the imperial army is coming (or at least heard the news) and knew how many days of marching is needed, more or less, to reach Rome. He thought that it will give him the applause of the people and give him vehicle to power (like was in the case of Savonarola), hoping that victorious Emperor will support him (thus making him end up different than Savonarola.
      2) Brandano was a "sleeper", meant to sow discontent at the right moment. The prophecy was surely demoralising as the defenders probably had a vivid memory of it during the defence. It was also a convenient excuse to the Emperor "Sorry guys, I did not want the army to sack the city, but ... Deus Vult".
      3) Brandano was just a simple guy that wanted a reform of the church. He knew about the army and thought that such message would be an impulse for change (his prophecy was similar to the one of Savonarola, talking about the "new Cyrus").
      Conclusions:
      A) If You have a prophet of doom around, check his sponsors ;)
      B) If God exists, he/she/it definitely IS NOT an alien as he/she/it performs below average on maths (I'm assuming that the aliens are great at maths, due to space travels and shit :D). There is no way to fit 14 days between 27th of April and 6th of May :D

    • @niu9432
      @niu9432 3 года назад +2

      @buymebluepills It's not a taboo, we just laugh at it :D It does not allow to draw any meaningful conclusions as it is not replicable or reproducible. Thus it is always open for interpretation and on top of that it it always so general that if by any chance it doesn't materialise, the author can always say that he had something more symbolic in mind ;)

  • @philRminiatures
    @philRminiatures 3 года назад +67

    Your videos are getting better and better, can't believe it, we are in the heart of the action!👌👌👌

  • @palanikumar7877
    @palanikumar7877 3 года назад +76

    Attila the Huns (or Any Hun) for that matter didn't sack the Rome. In 410 Rome was in deed but by Visigoths led by their King, Alaric.

    • @saguntum-iberian-greekkons7014
      @saguntum-iberian-greekkons7014 3 года назад +1

      He said it in the comments, the first ones that they recognized they did a mistake

    • @ChevyChase301
      @ChevyChase301 2 года назад +2

      Huns of belisarius sacked Rome

    • @palanikumar7877
      @palanikumar7877 2 года назад +1

      ​@@ChevyChase301 Not quite, they took part as mercenaries (Cavalry Auxiliaries in Roman Term) in the Roman (Eastern or Byzantines as we call them later) army. They didn't sack, but rather liberated (or conquered Rome). Sacking is completely different from conquering or liberating.

    • @ScapularSaves
      @ScapularSaves 2 года назад +1

      @@palanikumar7877 There was one last Roman-Byzantine in this Last Stand named Konstantine Paleologos - titular Despotate of Morea and later Commander of Papal Guard after this most dreadful sacking. What irony! His father Andreas willed the title of Roman Emperor to Spanish Crown in his last will and testament. And this !

    • @WarPigstheHun
      @WarPigstheHun Год назад

      @@saguntum-iberian-greekkons7014 you played total war Attila too!?

  • @luigin649
    @luigin649 3 года назад +32

    With all the stuff happened in Italy, it's still one of the countries with the hightest number of arts and cultural elements. Just imagine if nobody would have made wars in its Territory...

    • @J-IFWBR
      @J-IFWBR 3 года назад +8

      I think sometimes unsteady and unsave times, produce the greatests works of art & culture. So i would not only look at the destruction but also at the possibilities for new things to grow out the destruction. Also Rivalry & Competition often lead to extreme negative measures like war is. But also they lead to very prestene forms of cultur and art.
      So i think you can not realy sepparate the Italian Art and Architekture from its history.
      Nonetheless war is bad and should be when ever possible avoided. I mean whats the worth of all the masterfull painting, that get made to show the horrors, or to praise the victors, or to just be more splendid then the ones of someone else, compared that to a single live. The paintings are just dust in comparison.

    • @rc59191
      @rc59191 Год назад +1

      Italians can be their own worst enemy sometimes.

  • @ragzaugustus
    @ragzaugustus 3 года назад +167

    I still love so many Pope's have been saved the Emperor Hadrian, that big cylindrical castle? That wasn't a castle originally, it was a Mausoleum, the relics inside were long lost when the Pope took over.

    • @VideoMask93
      @VideoMask93 3 года назад +15

      @@leonardodavid2842 I wonder if he was referring to Hadrian because he had it built originally?

    • @londonspade5896
      @londonspade5896 3 года назад +13

      @@VideoMask93 Yes, this guy was just being autistic

    • @LionKing-ew9rm
      @LionKing-ew9rm 3 года назад +21

      He means Castel Sant'Angelo...

    • @LuizAlexPhoenix
      @LuizAlexPhoenix 3 года назад +13

      The actual fuck? I am reading this to mean that several popes were saved by Hadrian, since they used a mausoleum he built as their castle. Is that it? What about the relics? I can't read this at all, someone call a code breaker.

    • @sedrfghbn
      @sedrfghbn 3 года назад +3

      is this english?

  • @andy_NQ
    @andy_NQ 3 года назад +50

    Nice ! it's a good weekend when i see SandRhoman's new video.

  • @brokenbridge6316
    @brokenbridge6316 3 года назад +147

    What a terrible affair the Sack of Rome must have been this time around. The people inside must have felt like the Apocalypse was coming to them and their city. Great job.

    • @javilorenzana
      @javilorenzana 3 года назад +4

      Great job to whom?

    • @asdallah2159
      @asdallah2159 Год назад

      Hi, Jesus has died on the cross so that (and perhaps, there is more) we may be forgiven for our sins (perhaps for everyone). Jesus rose from the dead! 🙏
      Please accept Jesus as your Lord and Savior. Jesus is the way, the truth and the life and no one comes to the Father except through him.🙂🙏

    • @Jiub_SN
      @Jiub_SN 4 месяца назад +1

      @@asdallah2159Jesus died on the cross only for his believers, he doesn't care about anyone but his believers. Also, show me him please

  • @NLTops
    @NLTops 3 года назад +96

    Rome does not fall in one day.
    Landsknechts: Hold my pike.

    • @utubrGaming
      @utubrGaming 3 года назад +4

      Alaric: Hold my foederati

    • @vincentbaelde-millar670
      @vincentbaelde-millar670 3 года назад +3

      Rome had been dead for 1000 years, it's not surprising.

    • @NLTops
      @NLTops 3 года назад +1

      @@vincentbaelde-millar670 I have no idea what you're on about.

    • @johnconnor8206
      @johnconnor8206 Год назад +1

      @@vincentbaelde-millar670 less than a 100 years actualy

  • @saguntum-iberian-greekkons7014
    @saguntum-iberian-greekkons7014 3 года назад +33

    Only Julius Caesar can get away by not paying his troops

    • @alessandrogini5283
      @alessandrogini5283 2 года назад +10

      Or alexander the great

    • @hannibalburgers477
      @hannibalburgers477 2 года назад +1

      lmao that name must be the most random thing I have seen today

    • @starwarsfamilyguy0
      @starwarsfamilyguy0 2 года назад

      Only Julius Caesar can get away by not paying his troops

    • @TaRAAASHBAGS
      @TaRAAASHBAGS Год назад +2

      Didn't Caesar, eventually, make good on all his promises to his veterans?
      Similarly, there was probably a lot more loyalty amongst legionaries to their republic and general than that of pure mercenary rabble.

  • @LarpFan17
    @LarpFan17 3 года назад +25

    Germans need a long time to get pissed off, but be aware what happen when you reached the point 😅

    • @htf5555
      @htf5555 3 года назад +4

      risking your neck for a year and not even getting half a ducat. its understandable, but still..

  • @stephanl1983
    @stephanl1983 3 года назад +31

    Sacco di Roma, still an important date for the Swiss Guards of the Holy Father, it's the day New recruits make their oath to the Pope!

  • @ferrjuan
    @ferrjuan 3 года назад +72

    Germans/Spanish Mercenaries: It’s free real estate!
    Henry VIII: F@$k! There goes my divorce to Catherine of Aragon!
    Anne Boleyn: Why not make yourself head of the Church of England.
    Henry VIII: It’s free real estate!

    • @kyomademon453
      @kyomademon453 3 года назад +5

      Charles V: wait ur not supposed to attack rom... Nevermind go on

  • @Ghonosyphlaids
    @Ghonosyphlaids 3 года назад +17

    Another excellent video. Thanks for all the hard work you do, man.

  • @YoreHistory
    @YoreHistory 3 года назад +8

    So very well done. Great job SandRhoman!

    • @rc59191
      @rc59191 Год назад +2

      Hope you start making videos again man I and many others miss your work.

  • @fritzfeuerdorn2833
    @fritzfeuerdorn2833 3 года назад +3

    Your production quallity is superb! Keep up the good work!

  • @mancroft
    @mancroft 3 года назад +2

    Outstanding as usual! Thank you.

  • @toshjones6667
    @toshjones6667 3 года назад +4

    I love the art style and content of your videos. Bravo!

  • @Big_E_Soul_Fragment
    @Big_E_Soul_Fragment 3 года назад +145

    *[Insert Sabaton's The Last Stand reference here]*

    • @Sofus.
      @Sofus. 3 года назад

      😈😈😈

    • @elasolezito
      @elasolezito 3 года назад +15

      Then these 189 in the service of Pope
      They're protecting the line against thousands of cheerful tourists
      Giving their lives in Vatican's service
      Thy will be done.

    • @ivantan42
      @ivantan42 3 года назад +5

      @ŇøHă Ģ. FOR THE GRACE AND THE MIGHT IF THE LORD
      IN THE HOME OF THE HOLY

    • @leofisher407
      @leofisher407 3 года назад +3

      @@ivantan42 FOR THE FAITH FOR THE WAY OF THE SWORD
      GAVE THEIR LIVES SO BOLDLY

  • @michaelday5605
    @michaelday5605 3 года назад +3

    I just found this channel. Great job with the narration and animations!

  • @mandalortemaan7510
    @mandalortemaan7510 2 года назад +10

    Then, 189 in the service of heaven. They're protecting the Holy line. It was 1527, gave their lives on the steps to heaven. They will be done!
    For the grace, for the might of our lord! For the home of the Holy!

    • @warmaster3544
      @warmaster3544 8 месяцев назад

      For the faith, for the way of the sword
      Gave their lives so boldly
      For the grace, for the might of our lord
      In the name of his glory
      For the faith, for the way of the sword
      Come and tell their story again
      Under guard of 42
      Along a secret avenue
      Castel Saint'Angelo is waiting
      They’re the guard of the Holy See
      They’re the guards of Christianity
      Their path to history is paved with salvation

  • @deadshepherd666
    @deadshepherd666 3 года назад +53

    The early modern period was horribly chaotic, wasn't it. Sack of Rome by Imperial (holy roman) mercenaries, the English executing their own King, the Thirty Years War, Great Plague of London, rise of absolutism, Europe in a constant state of war with itself... the medieval tendencies were worn out, broken and useless, feudalism, Church totally ineffective, meanwhile the modern elements were unpredictable and deadly. It could have easily ended in another dark age. Paradoxically it was the development of warfare, its incipient technical advances and new spirit of professionalism, discovery and exploitation of the New World, that saved Europe.

    • @defyjayy8335
      @defyjayy8335 Год назад

      Good thing it’s dying out and it keeps staying that way

    • @fbskxnwkdnworkir
      @fbskxnwkdnworkir Год назад

      @@defyjayy8335 eat shit N

    • @defyjayy8335
      @defyjayy8335 Год назад

      @@fbskxnwkdnworkir cope harder

    • @asdallah2159
      @asdallah2159 Год назад

      Hi, Jesus has died on the cross so that (and perhaps, there is more) we may be forgiven for our sins (perhaps for everyone). Jesus rose from the dead! 🙏
      Please accept Jesus as your Lord and Savior. Jesus is the way, the truth and the life and no one comes to the Father except through him.🙂🙏

  • @Punaeased
    @Punaeased 3 года назад +6

    Love this channel! Great storytelling, info and art!

  • @RabbitW1zard
    @RabbitW1zard 3 года назад +3

    Dude thats truly awesome

  • @robinmarks4771
    @robinmarks4771 9 месяцев назад +1

    I absolutely love your content and your art style. Thank you for producing such excellent videos! I'd like to offer a minor critique though. Having studied both the landsknecht and fashion trends of the time, it's my understanding that pluderhosen didn't really begin to become popular until the 1540s, reaching widespread popularity late in the 16th and early into the 17th centuries. Seeing that the events of this video occurred in 1527, it seems like pluderhosen would've appeared much less commonly than they do in the video's art. Not a big deal at all, but just thought I'd point it out. Cheers!

  • @vanivanov9571
    @vanivanov9571 3 года назад +22

    7 Months of plunder... that was a harsh time. Do we know how verifiable the story of the prophet and the skull was?

    • @Franfran2424
      @Franfran2424 3 года назад +3

      7 months of occupation. Not much left to plunder after the initial week

    • @vanivanov9571
      @vanivanov9571 3 года назад +4

      @@Franfran2424 Since it was Rome, it may've taken a long time to search out, and organize all the valuables. After the indulgences especially, Rome was loaded, so it probably did take a lot of time just to move all the loot.

  • @asfm2
    @asfm2 3 года назад +8

    Me just finishing the Unbiased History of Rome a week ago: *Minding my own business*
    RUclips Algorithm: Hey check out the sequel.

  • @clintmoor422
    @clintmoor422 3 года назад +9

    finally, i was waiting for u to bring us some more videos about the landsknechts. thx.

  • @johnbockman6078
    @johnbockman6078 3 года назад +32

    The Vatican Library was spared the acting leader of the Landsknechte made it his headquarters, so it didn't go the way of the Library of Alexandria, which ironically was accidentally burned down by the Romans under Caesar.

    • @kornaros96
      @kornaros96 3 года назад +3

      Thankfully.

    • @javilorenzana
      @javilorenzana 3 года назад

      Ironically how?

    • @johnbockman6078
      @johnbockman6078 3 года назад +4

      @@javilorenzana Caesar didn't want it burned, but it was burned nonetheless. $hit happens. On the other hand, the Protestant Landsknechte would have gladly burned the Vatican Library, but not while their acting leader was residing there.

    • @briantarigan7685
      @briantarigan7685 Год назад

      that fire is overrated, the library is not completely destroyed as the fire only engulf a warehouse, many famous scholars and famous writers are still recorded as scholars of Alexandria in the late 1st century BC and early first Century AD people like Didymus Chalcentrus, the guy who produced up to 3000-4000 books that would be impossible without Library resources, Geographer Strabo in 20 BC also still visiting this Library
      the Library are rather slowly declined in scholarship reputation as other great libraries across mediteranian rises, and even other libraries in the city Alexandria sprung up, making many records being diverted there.

  • @Jesse_Dawg
    @Jesse_Dawg 2 года назад +7

    Great video. Please make more like this. I wish there was a little more follow up with what happened to the mercs and their massive treasure? Did they make it out of there unharmed or did another army chase them down? How did that war conclude? Anyways I love these videos. Please make more

    • @rc59191
      @rc59191 Год назад +1

      Well as far as I know they all returned home after they sacked Rome but I agree I also like to hear about the aftermath and lasting consequences of these kinds of incidents.

    • @asdallah2159
      @asdallah2159 Год назад

      Hi, Jesus has died on the cross so that (and perhaps, there is more) we may be forgiven for our sins (perhaps for everyone). Jesus rose from the dead! 🙏
      Please accept Jesus as your Lord and Savior. Jesus is the way, the truth and the life and no one comes to the Father except through him.🙂🙏

  • @Waffel1512
    @Waffel1512 3 года назад +14

    For the Grace for the might of our Lord for the home of the holy!

  • @dgrmn12345
    @dgrmn12345 3 года назад +27

    Then the 189.
    In the service of heaven
    Theyre protecting the Holy Line
    It was 1527
    Gave their lives on the steps to heaven
    Thy Will be done!

    • @casparvoncampenhausen5249
      @casparvoncampenhausen5249 3 года назад +4

      For the Grace, for the Might, of our Lord

    • @paulenan9636
      @paulenan9636 2 года назад

      well, looks like the will was either not done, or was rather messed up, lol

    • @randomnuclearakita4532
      @randomnuclearakita4532 2 года назад

      @@casparvoncampenhausen5249 For the home of the holy, For the faith, for the way of the sword ,
      Gace their lives so boldly !

  • @tillbuschmann7222
    @tillbuschmann7222 3 года назад +6

    Jeden Sonntag wieder eine Freude

  • @andersschmich8600
    @andersschmich8600 3 года назад +2

    Great video! What Music do you use if I may ask?

  • @villiamkarl-gustavlundberg5422
    @villiamkarl-gustavlundberg5422 3 года назад +30

    Pike and shot channel
    released a video of the sacking of Rome at the same time as Sandrohman.
    Clicked om SR's video first.

  • @landonsmith2154
    @landonsmith2154 Год назад

    I hope to learn the names of the songs you play on here so much!
    I really love these documentaries

    • @rahimlabib915
      @rahimlabib915 Год назад

      Rome falls in a single day
      Landsknechts and spanish hired mercenaries:- YEH LETS LOOT THE FUCK OUT OF ROME
      Henry viii:- ah fuck here goes my divorce to catherine of Aragon
      Anne Boleyn:- you can make a separate church
      Henry viii:- let's do that
      Pope clement vii:- WELL FUCK YOU MARTIN LUTHER 😡😡😠😠😠😮😮😒😒😒😢😢😢😢😭😭😭😭😭

    • @rahimlabib915
      @rahimlabib915 Год назад

      Rome falls in a single day
      Landsknechts and spanish hired mercenaries:- YEH LETS LOOT THE FUCK OUT OF ROME
      Henry viii:- ah fuck here goes my divorce to catherine of Aragon
      Anne Boleyn:- you can make a separate church
      Henry viii:- let's do that
      Pope clement vii:- WELL FUCK YOU MARTIN LUTHER 😡😡😠😠😠😮😮😒😒😒😢😢😢😢😭😭😭😭😭

  • @Zaitekno
    @Zaitekno 3 года назад +8

    YES es gaht wiiter mit dim geile content!

    • @nebojsag.5871
      @nebojsag.5871 3 года назад

      Sorry, I don't mean to offend, but which German Mundart/Dialect are you speaking? Swiss perhapse? It seems very far from Standard German, but it isn't Plattdeutsch, so I default to Swiss.

    • @Zaitekno
      @Zaitekno 3 года назад +1

      @@nebojsag.5871 It is Swiss-German, indeed.
      Actually it's pretty close to standard German, with a little training and experience every German could understand it. The people used to hearing 'Dialects' like Austrians or Bavarians etc. usually understand it right away. No sorcery involved.
      Swiss-German derives from high alemannic, whereas Platt-Deutsch aka Flat-German derives, as the name indicates, from low alemannic.

  • @haarzuilensboy0308
    @haarzuilensboy0308 Год назад +3

    can't believe that german landsknechts attacked rome to make a sabbaton refrence

  • @DirtyMardi
    @DirtyMardi 3 года назад +12

    It was Alaric of the Goths who lead the sacking of Rome in 410, not Attila, who would become to menace Italy some 40 years later.

    • @kyomademon453
      @kyomademon453 3 года назад

      Seems like a tradition for the spanish to sack rome every once in a while

    • @enoppp167
      @enoppp167 2 года назад

      @@kyomademon453 Alaric wasn't Spanish

  • @derptrolling4740
    @derptrolling4740 3 года назад +3

    Rome became conqueror's ATM (3) three times. The landschanets became the 4th.

  • @demilung
    @demilung 2 года назад +1

    Dying Swiss Guards - Man, I hope some sweeds make a kickass song about this

  • @hidupsehat5205
    @hidupsehat5205 3 года назад +5

    im the mood for some eu4

  • @ValerietheLovelyDeadlyItalian
    @ValerietheLovelyDeadlyItalian 3 года назад +4

    FOR THE GRACE FOR THE MIGHT OF THE LORD, FOR THE HOPE OF THE HOLY

  • @frankyoungbloodsax6000
    @frankyoungbloodsax6000 3 года назад +37

    When my Protestant friends say only Catholics have done bad stuff...

    • @jonathanwilliams1065
      @jonathanwilliams1065 3 года назад +6

      He’s wrong about the Landsknechten
      They were not Protestant but nominally Catholic, as was the rest of the imperial army
      However as would be demonstrated in the 30 years war most mercenaries have no god but mammon

    • @jonathanwilliams1065
      @jonathanwilliams1065 3 года назад +7

      @Albert Fels the final solution wasn’t even tonight of in 1933 and Hitler was pagan

    • @LuizAlexPhoenix
      @LuizAlexPhoenix 3 года назад +1

      @Albert Fels I mean, that is some class a sectarian BS. People try to put the nazis on everyone else's side of the spectrum but those fuckers were chummies with everyone at one point or another. In the Church's case they pretty much held complete power over the Vatican at least, so you can argue that the Vatican was acting to save itself over others. But it's not like half the world wasn't doing that or outright cooperating with the nazis, even the nation that ultimately crushed the beast, bearing and inflicting the heaviest losses, had to make deals with them to buy time as the rest of the world declined alliances to attack Germany.

    • @jonathanwilliams1065
      @jonathanwilliams1065 3 года назад +3

      @Albert Fels then he was “lapsed”
      He was involved in the occult, regardless of how his mother resided him, and he replaced Christianity with a religion that worshiped him called “positive Christianity” as a way to maintain power over the Christian population of Germany but he was a pagan, or perhaps even a satanist, as was much of the Nazi leadership
      He wanted Christianity to “die a natural death”

    • @jonathanwilliams1065
      @jonathanwilliams1065 3 года назад +3

      @Albert Fels Positive Christianity had its focus on Hitler
      Shirer 1960, pp. 238-239.
      You stop lying

  • @WarPigstheHun
    @WarPigstheHun Год назад

    "The Air was Filled with Smoke and Blood."
    "They made Ready for War..."

  • @GeneralSocietyInc
    @GeneralSocietyInc Год назад

    What is the song starting at 6:05?

  • @funfacttrivias2121
    @funfacttrivias2121 3 года назад +2

    Those swiss guards thou proved thier the best mercenarry for thier loyalty and bravery no wonder they outlive the landsknechts to dis day

  • @skyhappy
    @skyhappy 3 года назад +1

    It's horrible to think how someone can walk into your city, break into your home, and kill or rape you

  • @YaminoSeigi
    @YaminoSeigi 3 года назад +2

    Germs are at it again

    • @rahimlabib915
      @rahimlabib915 3 года назад

      Rome falls in a single day
      Landsknechts and spanish hired mercenaries:- YEH LETS LOOT THE FUCK OUT OF ROME
      Henry viii:- ah fuck here goes my divorce to catherine of Aragon
      Anne Boleyn:- you can make a separate church
      Henry viii:- let's do that
      Pope clement vii:- WELL FUCK YOU MARTIN LUTHER 😡😡😠😠😠😮😮😒😒😒😢😢😢😢😭😭😭😭😭

    • @mabeSc
      @mabeSc 2 года назад

      Germs being germs - from antiquity till WW2.
      Who knows what they are gonna pull next, though? 🧐

  • @johnmcgehee5484
    @johnmcgehee5484 3 года назад +3

    Funny how you can draw a straight line from the sack to the sinking of the Armada.

    • @metralla
      @metralla 3 года назад +2

      You can make a triangle if you draw another line to the english Armada in 1589

  • @Alonkis251
    @Alonkis251 3 года назад +3

    Mostly known by the name 'the end of Rome Renaissance'

  • @dryingpaint6375
    @dryingpaint6375 Год назад +2

    The Imperial Army had planned to attack Rome from the beginning. Charles V wanted Charles de Bourbon and his men to kidnap the Pope and bring him to Spain where he would be forced to sign a treaty like Francis I after the Battle of Pavia. Obviously Charles V didn't intend for the soldiers to do as much damage to the city as they did, but he still ordered, or at least approved, of the attack nonetheless. Judith Hook presents a lot of strong evidence for this in The Sack of Rome; a book which is cited in this video. It's odd that he didn't mention it at all. Geoffry Parker's "Emperor: A New Life of Charles V" also has some good information about this.
    Also, the Landsknechts were still mostly Roman Catholic if they can be said to have belonged to any religion at all. There were some sympathizers of Martin Luther among them, including Frundsberg himself, but the were not the majority. The Papacy was despised by almost everyone at that time. As Francesco Guicciardini, who served it for a number of years, put it, "I don't know anyone who dislikes the ambition, the avarice, and the sensuality of priests more than I do.... Nevertheless, the position I have enjoyed with several popes has forced me to love their greatness for my own self-interest. If it weren't for this consideration, I would have loved Martin Luther as much as I love myself-not to be released from the laws taught by the Christian religion as it is normally interpreted and understood, but to see this band of ruffians reduced within their correct bounds".

  • @ignacejespers8201
    @ignacejespers8201 3 года назад +3

    Kinda weird question, but where did all the art booty end up? Did it vanish without a trace? Is it back in Rome or is it in some obscure private collection? In German musea perhaps?

  • @pacoramon9468
    @pacoramon9468 2 года назад +2

    Rome wasn't build in one day but surely it was conquered in one day.

  • @jont2576
    @jont2576 3 года назад +1

    u would think such an important city of historic significance,where important art and treasures are kept,where the most important person lives and an economic center, they would at least beef up their defenses heavily and maintain a strong army.......with surrounding cities and castles acting as buffers.......

  • @mw9053
    @mw9053 3 года назад +4

    The League of Cognac got me
    🥃😉👌

  • @DiscothecaImperialis
    @DiscothecaImperialis 2 года назад +2

    Rome had been sacked by same peoples of different Era.

    • @mabeSc
      @mabeSc 2 года назад

      Same barbaric peoples, from antiquity till WW2.

    • @DiscothecaImperialis
      @DiscothecaImperialis 2 года назад

      @@mabeSc Is this included British and Americans (through Anzio) in 1944?

  • @JudicialBrat
    @JudicialBrat 3 года назад +15

    FOR THE GRACE AND THE MIGHT OF THE LORD!

  • @heneraldodzz4978
    @heneraldodzz4978 3 года назад +8

    Sabaton Sabaton Sabaton Sabaton

  • @tandemcharge5114
    @tandemcharge5114 3 года назад +1

    I can hear them coming

  • @shogun242424
    @shogun242424 2 года назад

    Good video. However, I feel the missing part of the narrative is what happened next ? No consequences ? When did all the wealth go ? No retaliations ?

  • @H0kram
    @H0kram 3 года назад +5

    Sounds like it was hell on Earth for quite a while..until another " victorious " siege happens elsewhere and hell moves therefore into another place..
    War is unbelievably nasty.

  • @dornier2643
    @dornier2643 3 года назад +123

    Bratwurst: 3
    Spaghetti: 0

    • @ModMax69
      @ModMax69 3 года назад +9

      that's a spicy meatball

    • @vynonyoutube1418
      @vynonyoutube1418 3 года назад +9

      Make it 3, we're counting Genseric and Alaric too.

    • @therac197
      @therac197 3 года назад +2

      What do the Arabs get?
      Because they successfully raided Rome too

    • @riograndedosulball248
      @riograndedosulball248 3 года назад +3

      @@therac197 they tried to and didn't succeeded. Like Attila

    • @therac197
      @therac197 3 года назад +1

      @@riograndedosulball248
      Well depends on how do you define success. They didn't get into the city proper but plundered everything outside of the walls, including the Paul's Basilika / Vatican

  • @herzkine
    @herzkine 2 года назад

    Isnt St. Peter a little too finished here when they began building in 1506 for over a hundred years . Nitpickers galore, but such great work sets its own bar high.

  • @phineascampbell3103
    @phineascampbell3103 2 года назад

    4:00 gosh, that's a lot of roads out of Rome going to other places! Someone should make some sort of expression or something about that. "Loads of roads leave Rome," maybe. I dunno, but I feel that's got a ring to it

    • @phineascampbell3103
      @phineascampbell3103 2 года назад

      "if you're travelling somewhere Rome's a good place to start from because of all the roads in every direction there." Hmm, maybe that one's a bit clunky, we can work on it...

  • @LionKing-ew9rm
    @LionKing-ew9rm 3 года назад

    I'd like to know more about this Charles V guy!

    • @J-IFWBR
      @J-IFWBR 3 года назад

      his empire was so wast the sun never set in it i was told before. =)

  • @fips711
    @fips711 3 года назад

    Wow.

  • @juanpablo-co6zw
    @juanpablo-co6zw 3 года назад

    I guess some things never change

  • @vanders4198
    @vanders4198 3 года назад

    I love the animations of the channel but I'll be honest, the cracking/crunching noise is really irritating.

  • @Emanon...
    @Emanon... 3 года назад +2

    Sacking of Rome? Between 410 and 1943, it was just called Tuesday...

  • @freerbx793
    @freerbx793 3 года назад +2

    *Breathing in*
    THEN THE 189

  • @MikaelKKarlsson
    @MikaelKKarlsson 3 года назад +15

    I wonder, do we know of any still standing city that has been sacked more often than Rome?

  • @sjsm8578
    @sjsm8578 2 года назад +3

    Sounds like Karma for sacking Constantinople

    • @mabeSc
      @mabeSc 2 года назад

      Both cities getting sacked by the same kind of barbaric tribes, kind of funny to be fair.
      What a shame that Constantinople was sacked, though.
      Am sure if that Alexios the Coward did use his Varangian Guard the peasant Latin army would have been crushed.

  • @ghostjager8190
    @ghostjager8190 3 года назад

    What would expect after a whole year of no payment... It wasn't weeks or a few months but a whole year and to think he kept trying to be duplicitous...

    • @rahimlabib915
      @rahimlabib915 3 года назад

      Rome falls in a single day
      Landsknechts and spanish mercenaries:- YEH LETS LOOT THE FUCK OUT OF ROME
      Henry viii:- ah fuck here goes my divorce to catherine of Aragon
      Anne Boleyn:- you can make a separate church
      Henry viii:- let's do that
      Pope clement vii:- WELL FUCK YOU MARTIN LUTHER 😡😡😠😠😠😮😮😒😒😒😢😢😢😢😭😭😭😭😭

  • @fabianofonda6758
    @fabianofonda6758 3 года назад +7

    Church told only about the protestants landschnets, but the Charles V army had Catholic Spaniards and Italians and they sacked the city too.

    • @johnnydavis5896
      @johnnydavis5896 3 года назад +5

      Correct - the idea the reason the Vatican was violated is that they were Protestant is rubbish - these guys had no respect for anything regardless of their 'religion.'

    • @observationsfromthebunker9639
      @observationsfromthebunker9639 3 года назад +2

      That's true! The Italian and Spanish soldiers in the Imperial army also hadn't been paid, and when they heard the Landsknechts were marching on Rome, they fell in behind. According to a Roman citizen who was witness to the sack, "the Germans were bad, the Italians worse, and the Spaniards worst of all."

    • @J-IFWBR
      @J-IFWBR 3 года назад

      well violence is universal, its not specific to a certain breanch or group of people, every attempt to tell a different story usually just leads to more violence down the road.

    • @Burgermeister1836
      @Burgermeister1836 3 года назад +1

      Latin bias against the Germans is the main reason the Reformation happened anyway. No lessons learned there it seems.

    • @deutschesvaterlandfankanal
      @deutschesvaterlandfankanal Год назад

      ​@@Burgermeister1836 i had now discovered the eastern church,the fagpope could die as if i care at all

  • @ofsabir
    @ofsabir 3 года назад +5

    Can you make a video about sacking of Constantinople too?

  • @franckvermont1926
    @franckvermont1926 3 года назад +4

    Were they punished afterwards ?!

    • @TheManofthecross
      @TheManofthecross 3 года назад

      from what i guess nope they were not at least on the record. anyway

    • @user-fi2fk2ei7o
      @user-fi2fk2ei7o 2 года назад

      punish for what ? after all this is war between the pope and HRE
      Charles V of course happy , he took Rome without have to pay the merc
      in this era sack of city is very common after the city refuse to surrender

  • @nicholas3354
    @nicholas3354 Год назад

    I found the original source which provided some of the claims. This is what it says about what they did to the nuns:
    "The nuns did scream frightfully while the rude soldiers were dragging them through the streets, and ill-treating them - it was enough to melt a heart of stone!"
    Is there reason to understand this report to be specifying that the nuns were raped? The way the whole letter is written, emphasizing that no one was respected, seems to limit us to seeing it as the nuns being the ultimate example of no one being respected, being they would have been reputed as harmless female clergy. If it is speaking of the nuns as the furthest example of no persons being respected, then it is not saying they were acted on in a specific way, but rather that they were a specific people who were being acted on just as everyone else was acted on.
    Is there a justification, which I am yet unaware of, for interpreting this as specifying rape? That specific sort of action sounded out of place to me, given the sensibilities of the era, which is why I was skeptical enough to check, and what I found does not read to me as justifying the specific claim made in this video.
    I'm not saying it would be out of place for there to be isolated instances of it; obviously in such an atrocious circumstance the worst of it is almost without limit, but as characteristic of the event it seems out of place to the era, and the letter is speaking of what was characteristically occurring rather than of isolated instances. If the claim in the video is somehow justified, then I would like to have the correct understanding of that, but otherwise my best assessment is that modern sensibilities were imposed on the text to an incorrect result.

  • @germaxes199
    @germaxes199 3 года назад +1

    When one does things like that it only means they have so much envy and will never be a part of such a community.

    • @rahimlabib915
      @rahimlabib915 3 года назад +1

      Rome falls in a single day
      Landsknechts and spanish hired mercenaries:- YEH LETS LOOT THE FUCK OUT OF ROME
      Henry viii:- ah fuck here goes my divorce to catherine of Aragon
      Anne Boleyn:- you can make a separate church
      Henry viii:- let's do that
      Pope clement vii:- WELL FUCK YOU MARTIN LUTHER 😡😡😠😠😠😮😮😒😒😒😢😢😢😢😭😭😭😭😭

  • @swordsmen8856
    @swordsmen8856 Месяц назад

    For the Grace for the might of our
    Lord, For the home of the Holy
    for the faith for the way of the sword
    gave their lives so boldly

  • @LieutenantDangleBerries
    @LieutenantDangleBerries 2 года назад +7

    There’s only 135 Swiss Guards guarding the Vatican nowadays. It would only take about 400 armed attackers to conquer it. There’s about $15 billion there. That’s $37.5 million each, if all the attackers survive.
    Who’s coming with me?

    • @ChevyChase301
      @ChevyChase301 2 года назад +1

      I went to Vatican today and most of them have halberts and knives… so maybe less than 400

    • @Demicleas
      @Demicleas Год назад +3

      @@ChevyChase301 oh they have guns. Who do you think those men in black suits are that follow the pope when he leaves the Vatican?

  • @TheRedFox1995
    @TheRedFox1995 3 года назад +10

    Martin Luther commented: "Christ reigns in such a way that the Emperor who persecutes Luther for the Pope is forced to destroy the Pope for Luther" (LW 49:169)

    • @youcanthandlethetruth5433
      @youcanthandlethetruth5433 3 года назад +3

      Luther was a buffoon and this had nothing to do with him. And fun ily enough in the aftermath when the Pope and the emperor reconciled, the emperor laid the smackdown on all the protestant forces in the lands. Not till the 1630s did the protestants have some marginal success in the HRE

  • @thetayz72
    @thetayz72 Год назад

    Always tragic to hear the true evil we're capable of. Imagine really believing in a final judgment after death and still doing this just for money and the love of cruelty. Despicable

    • @jamesmacpherson1182
      @jamesmacpherson1182 Год назад

      And what about the evil the Catholic Church has committed over the centuries?

    • @thetayz72
      @thetayz72 Год назад

      @@jamesmacpherson1182 ? ? What about it

  • @deutschamerikaner
    @deutschamerikaner 3 года назад +5

    There better be Last Stand memes or I’ll...

  • @alexanderren1097
    @alexanderren1097 3 года назад +1

    FOR THE GRACE FOR THE MIGHT OF OUR LORD
    FOR THE HOME OF THE HOLY

  • @hyypio764
    @hyypio764 3 года назад

    Charles couldn't even care enough to put on his pants

  • @swordsmen8856
    @swordsmen8856 3 года назад +3

    Sabaton should be in this comment section.

  • @luis437
    @luis437 3 года назад +20

    7:20 Sorry, but Rome was never sacked by the Huns, but by the Goths under Alaric in 410.
    Just a side note, still nice video 👌🏻

    • @johnbaker4246
      @johnbaker4246 3 года назад +4

      @LagiNaLangAko23 Correct, Pope Leo met with Attila and whatever he said convinced Attila to turn around.

    • @danielolsson7134
      @danielolsson7134 3 года назад

      @@johnbaker4246 And this is why the Pope is so powerful now. As before this meeting they were not so powerful.

    • @SandRhomanHistory
      @SandRhomanHistory  3 года назад +6

      Thanks for pointing it out. I added the following to the pinned comment:
      The quote about Attila is actually correct, it's just a quote of a contemporary witness. However, as many of you have pointed out the 410 sack of Rome was by the Visigoths under Alaric. Sorry for the error, it always annoys us when we miss these details :S

  • @phineascampbell3103
    @phineascampbell3103 2 года назад

    "filled with the milk of hatred"!? Gods, I hope I never get anyone wanting to fill ME with their hate-milk, i don't think that sounds like anything I'd want

  • @johnconnor8206
    @johnconnor8206 Год назад

    It made a good song

  • @leafymarmot6348
    @leafymarmot6348 3 года назад +1

    For the grace for the might of our lord for the home of the holy

  • @chrismichael6048
    @chrismichael6048 Год назад

    That's why Machiavelli discourage the employment of mercenaries because their loyalty and discipline are questionable and dubious