You mean you don't believe that Martians built the pyramids using Milwaukee cordless tools or the earth is flat and I suppose you don't believe in. There is a spaceship in Antarctica Boy. What a dummy you are
Mr. Thomas Murray. A Professor of World History. 1962- . We learned from the live, early version of The History Guy. Today we are all fortunate to be able to learn from a man who is a Professor of World History, and we thank him.
Video idea for THG: the medieval hierarchy of thieves. What's particularly humorous is the dread a victim felt from being robbed by a lowly "footpad" instead of a more glamourous crook like a horse-mounted "highwayman."
History was not only written by those that survive (victor) but by the rich and powerful as they were the only ones who could read or write (or pay someone who could).
One of the oldest surviving written ballads of Robin Hood isn't even set in Sherwood Forest or in the reign of King John. The Geste of Robin Hood is set in the reign of Edward II and takes place at The Sayles in Barnsdale Forest in the North Riding of Yorkshire (just off the A1 at Wentbridge). At that time, his primary opponent was the Sheriff of Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire and the Royal Forests.
The Weald covers inland parts of Kent, Sussex and Surrey and it's still fairly heavily wooded, Ashdown Forest being one of the best known parts. Lewes, Rye, Winchelsea and Sandwich are attractive historic towns with many mediaeval buildings and are well worth visiting for a history lover.
Robin Hood was a real person from Wakefield but was from. Edward the second’s time. Many of the locations the classic story of him are from around Pontefract (Wentbridge) & around west of Sheffield, (there is one of the Loxleys to be found & the grave of Little John In the churchyard at Harthersage) the old areas of the southern boarder of Northumbria, & of course Kirklees (Huddersfield) where Hood is buried. Even the sherif of Nottingham at the time covered these areas. That wasn’t common practice but I guess it was post the rebellion against Edward that he did suppress (later he failed) & Edward didn’t have enough loyal retainers to police England for him.
Lovely hearing a bit of local history it is just a shame other than the few hidden gems that Kent is becoming more Patio of England than Garden of England.
I am dumbfounded. I share the same last name as Wilikin. That may not seem weird to you, but my name is really uncommon. Hear your last name in a newscast? See it in the credits of a movie, or TV show? Not me, not ever, not once. Never met another with the same name outside immediate family. Once met a guy who had an ex-wife that had my name as her maiden name, but that's it. And now I hear one of my favorite RUclipsrs saying it repeatedly. It astounded me, and still does. I do appreciate this video so much, History Guy!
So this story is kind of spooky. I live in Kent not too far from where this story took place and I had no idea that any of this ever happened. One of my ancestors from Essex tried to instigate a coup against Henry The Third. My father has been researching our family tree since he was young (He's in his Sixties now) and one of the things we've uncovered is a coat of arms that we always thought was fake (and the Royal College Of Arms told us it was too) but it turns out that the coat of arms was a mix of the coat of arms from my ancestor's wife who married another nobleman when my ancestor, John De Hallingbury died (either naturally or was exectuted, we're not sure The villages of Greater and Little Hallingbury (which are now under Stanstead Airport's flight path are where he lived.
@@goodun2974 that same Steely Dan album has a song that condemns John Lennon's hippy politics. I wonder if King John is being used here as a sarcastic double entendre for John Lennon also.
@@xstatic-ow5mz , "Only a Fool Would Say That", I know; although personally, I lean more towards Lennon's vision of a more peaceful world than Fagan and Becker's cynicism. Would they say or have sung similar about MLK and Gandhi?
@@goldenghostinc , those aren't "dad jokes", they're *puns*. There is a difference; and many famous writers, posts, and historical figures engaged in punnery, including Ben Franklin, William Shakespeare, Charles Dickens, Robert Frost, Ambrose Bierce, Lewis Carroll, Oscar Wilde, Chaucer, and the Greek poet Homer. Even the Bible contains puns.
Duke Samuel Vimes, from the Discworld series has a very skilled servant named Wilikins; I think I have my theory onward from now, as to where Sir Terry Pratchett got that name. It's Vimes, with a "V", by the way.
Top O' The Morning to all my fellow history buffs. It's June 3rd. Tomorrow marks the 82nd anniversary of the Battle of Midway and Thursday marks the 80th anniversary of the D-Day Invasion of Normandy (Operation Overlord). Remember those men and women of the Greatest Generation.
William Marshall served William 2 Henry the Young King , Richard 1 “Lionheart” King John and Henry 3 . He often referred to as the Greatest Knight that ever lived! He Buried in Knight Templar church in London!
8:30 The corn of which they made their bread? I assume they mean the old style of referring to the regional dominant grains as "corn," rather than maize?
@@rlosangeleskings , flush with power, John made sure his excrement rolled downhill; it's safe to say that having porcelain thrones named after him was John's crowning achievement!
Honestly thought he was called John Lackland because he lost the lands in France, not because he was born with the expectation that he would rule no lands. Interesting!
" Here underneath this lyttle stone Lies Robert, Earl of Huntington. No archer was as he so good And people called him Robyn Hood. Such outlaws as he and his men Shall England never see again. "
Robin Hood: Men in Tights movie theme song lyrics: "We're men. We're men in tights. We roam around the forest looking for fights. We're men. We're men in tights. We rob from the rich and give to the poor. That's right! We may look like sissies, But watch what you say or else we'll put out your lights! We're men. We're men in tights Always on guard defending the people's rights. La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, La, la, la, la, la, la, la, La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, La, la, la, la. We're men. Manly men! We're men in tights. Yes! We roam around the forest looking for fights. We're men. We're men in tights. We rob from the rich and give to the poor. That's right! We may look like pansies, But don't get us wrong or else we'll put out your lights! We're men. We're men in tights, tight tights, Always on guard defending the people's rights. When you're in a fix, Just call for the men in tights. We're butch!"
Can't make 'em like Mel Brooks does anymore. I was just giddy about Patrick Stewart and Cary Elwes. And "Maid Marian" was John Ritter's wife! Love that movie!
Just to be a pedant, 'The Weald' is just olde English for 'The woods'. So saying 'the deep forests of The Weald' is redundant. There is a town in central England called Waltham on the Wolds, which translates to 'small town in the woods in the woods.' (Walth = weald = wold = woods. Ham = Hamlet.) I happen to know about the town as that's where my family sprouted.
According to the "version" of the story of Ronin Hood, it occurred prior to John becoming king. King Richard had gone to the crusades and left "Prince: John it oversee in his place. John became a tyrant, and "Robin of Locksley " rebelled and became known as Robin Hood. King Richard returned, secretly and when he learned of Johns behavior it was SHTF in merry old England. Well, that's the story I read, anyway. Great story, once again, yours is history, mine is most likely, fiction. ;-)
I noted with interest that one of knights in a drawing had swastikas on his shield. Makes one wonder how prevalent that symbol was in the medieval period as a shield marking and what it meant then. Was it still a sun symbol or did it represent something else?
Wait wait wait ... it was John's _lack_ of ruling that brought about _Magna Carta_ ... contemporary writers generally agree John's problem was incompetence rather than anything else ... spent half his reign chained to his wife's bed ...
2:45 I'm interested in the heraldry on that shield in the background. The symbols painted on it look like... something with a very long and nuanced history, but which in modern pop culture is universally associated with a specific political movement. Obviously, even if that was 'it', 'it' would far predate any rational connection to that movement in the context of a medieval manuscript. And to my knowledge, until the last century or two it was primary associated with Buddhism and the Far East, which would put it wildly out of place (both culturally and geographically) in medieval Europe. Hopefully I phrased things vaguely enough that this comment doesn't set off any RUclips alarms.
I keep a copy of the Magna Carta hanging in my front hall in case the King's Men ever show up intending to infringe on my fishing weir on the Thames. When the cops arrived, they assured me the Magna Carta doesn't work in America. Then I showed them the Constitution and they told me the same thing.
Hello! My husband is a Cassingham, and knows nothing of his UK roots. This was heart warming for us. Thank you.
"Too late to be known as John the first,
He's sure to be known as John the worst.
A pox upon the phony king of England!"
One of our all time favorite movies 5:17
"From this day forth, all toilets in this kingdom shall be known as "Johns"!"
@@rsr789 🤣
I just sang this in my head. 😂
@@shawnstout2176 🤣
Magna carta is history that deserves to be remembered
That plucky Hungarian g8rl who made King John sigh the pledge and closed the boozers at 10pm.
@@neiloflongbeck5705 That was MAGDA Carta ;]
I wish the History Guy would take over the History Channel and remind them what their business is.
You mean you don't believe that Martians built the pyramids using Milwaukee cordless tools or the earth is flat and I suppose you don't believe in. There is a spaceship in Antarctica Boy. What a dummy you are
As an Englishman I am ashamed to say I have never heard of him. Why on Earth is that. Thanks History Guy.
I know what you mean and I was born in Kent too!
Mr. Thomas Murray. A Professor of World History. 1962- . We learned from the live, early version of The History Guy. Today we are all fortunate to be able to learn from a man who is a Professor of World History, and we thank him.
Video idea for THG: the medieval hierarchy of thieves.
What's particularly humorous is the dread a victim felt from being robbed by a lowly "footpad" instead of a more glamourous crook like a horse-mounted "highwayman."
Quite possibly the best history channel around. Quirky as,.
Good Morning THG and all you history fans out there.
Monday mornings starting right.
Good morning, good morning!🌞
The weald of Kent is now mostly farmland but up until Tudor times was a massive forest
"We haven't the proper facilities to take you all prisoner"
History was not only written by those that survive (victor) but by the rich and powerful as they were the only ones who could read or write (or pay someone who could).
One of the oldest surviving written ballads of Robin Hood isn't even set in Sherwood Forest or in the reign of King John. The Geste of Robin Hood is set in the reign of Edward II and takes place at The Sayles in Barnsdale Forest in the North Riding of Yorkshire (just off the A1 at Wentbridge). At that time, his primary opponent was the Sheriff of Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire and the Royal Forests.
"A worthy man of English blood" well said. TY as always.
I think we would all adore a tour through your collection of artifacts there.
The Weald covers inland parts of Kent, Sussex and Surrey and it's still fairly heavily wooded, Ashdown Forest being one of the best known parts. Lewes, Rye, Winchelsea and Sandwich are attractive historic towns with many mediaeval buildings and are well worth visiting for a history lover.
THG always finds tales from history I have never heard before. Introducing me to new figures from the past. Thank you
Forest Pirates? Because who doesn't enjoy pirates?
Aaarrgghhh(boreal)😊
Especially if that pirate is called B. Jenet 😍
Thanks for this peek into the wars of King John and the world of Robin Hood.
Thank you for today’s lesson. Interesting variation on the legend that I have not heard before.
It always ruins my lunch when the French burn my Sandwich.
Between the history of Wilikin and Rui Bran of Whales, the legend of Robin Hood was invented by the bards combining these stories into one.
And Hood or Hode was a common nickname for criminals in this period.
I really like that tune at the beginning. Some Dandy early 60s jazz baby!
great story...I hadn't heard of him before... thanks
I'm so glad I found my way into your neighborhood a bit ago.
You continue to inform and entertain!
Hey History Guy 🤓I was just talking about Robin hood not even :45 before the video started . Twinsies 🤞
I’ve always wondered if there was a historical Robin Hood. He sounds a likely candidate. Thank you❤️🐝🤗
There are several possible candidates
@@TheHistoryGuyChannel Do you plan to do a segment on any of the others?❤️🤗🐝
@@deborahdanhauer8525 I do plan to do more.
The Pirate Monk and Robin Hood
ruclips.net/video/_fLY9MJWGXQ/видео.html
@@TheHistoryGuyChannel Thank you! I look forward to them and will check out the link❤️🤗🐝
@@TheHistoryGuyChannelPirate monks, you're on it.
Fantastic well done Sir
Weald is cognate of wild with the ae dipthong sounding like a slackjaw long i overall sound near to wild.
Remember that:
'King John was not a good man, he had his little ways
And sometimes no one spoke to him for days and days and days.'
Amazing story, another great video T.H.G.
Nice to see the old black-and-white silent videos they took in 1216.
Robin Hood was a real person from Wakefield but was from. Edward the second’s time. Many of the locations the classic story of him are from around Pontefract (Wentbridge) & around west of Sheffield, (there is one of the Loxleys to be found & the grave of Little John In the churchyard at Harthersage) the old areas of the southern boarder of Northumbria, & of course Kirklees (Huddersfield) where Hood is buried. Even the sherif of Nottingham at the time covered these areas. That wasn’t common practice but I guess it was post the rebellion against Edward that he did suppress (later he failed) & Edward didn’t have enough loyal retainers to police England for him.
Awesome -- keep them coming!
Lovely hearing a bit of local history it is just a shame other than the few hidden gems that Kent is becoming more Patio of England than Garden of England.
"We've seen the last of good King Richard....
Raise up your glass to good King John"
(Kings, Steely Dan)
Thank you History Guy
Thank you for the lesson.
The Battle of Lewes ground is fifteen minutes away from where I sit.
I am dumbfounded. I share the same last name as Wilikin. That may not seem weird to you, but my name is really uncommon. Hear your last name in a newscast? See it in the credits of a movie, or TV show? Not me, not ever, not once. Never met another with the same name outside immediate family. Once met a guy who had an ex-wife that had my name as her maiden name, but that's it.
And now I hear one of my favorite RUclipsrs saying it repeatedly. It astounded me, and still does. I do appreciate this video so much, History Guy!
The invading French treated the English poorly and robbed, raped and pillaged as they went. That made recruiting for resistance easy.
Thank you for posting this.
I appreciate you and thank you for making content.
So this story is kind of spooky.
I live in Kent not too far from where this story took place and I had no idea that any of this ever happened.
One of my ancestors from Essex tried to instigate a coup against Henry The Third.
My father has been researching our family tree since he was young (He's in his Sixties now) and one of the things we've uncovered is a coat of arms that we always thought was fake (and the Royal College Of Arms told us it was too) but it turns out that the coat of arms was a mix of the coat of arms from my ancestor's wife who married another nobleman when my ancestor, John De Hallingbury died (either naturally or was exectuted, we're not sure
The villages of Greater and Little Hallingbury (which are now under Stanstead Airport's flight path are where he lived.
Fascinating stuff I knew nothing about. Great to be educated about our own history by one of the colonials :)
" We've seen the last of good King Richard/raise up a glass to good King John....." Steely Dan
Hey, 19. 🎉
Steely Dan.
@@tygrkhat4087 , thanks ---- either I had a brain fart, or autocorrect did it!
@@goodun2974 that same Steely Dan album has a song that condemns John Lennon's hippy politics.
I wonder if King John is being used here as a sarcastic double entendre for John Lennon also.
@@xstatic-ow5mz , "Only a Fool Would Say That", I know; although personally, I lean more towards Lennon's vision of a more peaceful world than Fagan and Becker's cynicism. Would they say or have sung similar about MLK and Gandhi?
Love your videos
History Guy rocks!
My family comes from Brabant. Cool seeing it on this map.
@7:51 mins...re: movie clips..Lance and son... please list. 1922 Fairbanks?
🙏🙏🙏
..episode on Paul Harvey? ..carry on the art of storytelling...
Yes, that is a clip from Robin Hood 1922. Full movie here: archive.org/details/RobinHood1922_201406
Were the Knights of Nee encountered!?
They were behind the shrubbery
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I wonder if anyone is looking for King John's lost crown jewels that were swallowed by the mud while trying to cross the "Wash" in 1216.
Hate it when they burn Sandwich!
On the Robin Hood theme - take a look at Adam Bell.
Coincidentally Jill Bearup just dropped a fencing analysis vid in for the 90s Merry men film lol😄
Please do a video on the 1977 Afghan coup that led to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. 1977 Afghan coup deserves to be remembered.
Robin Hood went to see a doctor.
He was diagnosed with Menintightis.
Where did Robin Hood buy flowers?
Sherwood Florist.
Those are really really bad, even by my own low standards!
Sometimes a good
(or bad) subterranean joke is not inappropriate!
I checked, but I still am unable to find an option under the report button for "terrible terrible bad dad jokes". 😂😂
@@goldenghostinc , those aren't "dad jokes", they're *puns*. There is a difference; and many famous writers, posts, and historical figures engaged in punnery, including Ben Franklin, William Shakespeare, Charles Dickens,
Robert Frost, Ambrose Bierce, Lewis Carroll, Oscar Wilde, Chaucer, and the Greek poet Homer. Even the Bible contains puns.
Grinding corn for their bread. Corn as in the name used such as Barley Corn (individual barley seed).
Good morning! 👋🏽 😊
Back in the Saddle Again Naturally
Duke Samuel Vimes, from the Discworld series has a very skilled servant named Wilikins; I think I have my theory onward from now, as to where Sir Terry Pratchett got that name.
It's Vimes, with a "V", by the way.
So many hidden little gems riding on the back of that turtle
Music should be lower in the mix at the end. Just a suggestion. Great episode, again!!
Top O' The Morning to all my fellow history buffs. It's June 3rd. Tomorrow marks the 82nd anniversary of the Battle of Midway and Thursday marks the 80th anniversary of the D-Day Invasion of Normandy (Operation Overlord). Remember those men and women of the Greatest Generation.
William Marshall served William 2 Henry the Young King , Richard 1 “Lionheart” King John and Henry 3 . He often referred to as the Greatest Knight that ever lived! He Buried in Knight Templar church in London!
Present and accounted for...😎
Liked and shared.
I’ve never heard of the man , and I come from the Weald 😳
But thanks for the history lesson 😊
Makes me wonder about my heritage...
Now do Till Eulenspiegel. A German folk character, who traveled the countryside getting into mischief.
Maybe a history of guerilla warfare?
Just what I wanted. More medieval mischief from the Middle Ages. The terrible art, men in tights and the king’s game all in one.
👍👍
8:30 The corn of which they made their bread? I assume they mean the old style of referring to the regional dominant grains as "corn," rather than maize?
Lance, when are you coming to England?
I’ll be in London on the 11th.
It is funny that he was such a failure no possible heir to the Throne of England has had the name John
" We've seen the last of good King Richard/raise up your glass to good King John....." Steely Dan
But they later named the toilets Johns...so we know how crappy he was..,
@@rlosangeleskings , flush with power, John made sure his excrement rolled downhill; it's safe to say that having porcelain thrones named after him was John's crowning achievement!
Honestly thought he was called John Lackland because he lost the lands in France, not because he was born with the expectation that he would rule no lands. Interesting!
" Here underneath this lyttle stone
Lies Robert, Earl of Huntington.
No archer was as he so good
And people called him Robyn Hood.
Such outlaws as he and his men
Shall England never see again. "
Good evening from the mango farm. Finally have mangoes for the first time this year.
Neat!
Robin Hood: Men in Tights movie theme song lyrics:
"We're men.
We're men in tights.
We roam around the forest looking for fights.
We're men.
We're men in tights.
We rob from the rich and give to the poor. That's right!
We may look like sissies,
But watch what you say or else we'll put out your lights!
We're men.
We're men in tights
Always on guard defending the people's rights.
La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la,
La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la,
La, la, la, la, la, la, la,
La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la,
La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la,
La, la, la, la.
We're men. Manly men!
We're men in tights. Yes!
We roam around the forest looking for fights.
We're men.
We're men in tights.
We rob from the rich and give to the poor. That's right!
We may look like pansies,
But don't get us wrong or else we'll put out your lights!
We're men.
We're men in tights, tight tights,
Always on guard defending the people's rights.
When you're in a fix,
Just call for the men in tights.
We're butch!"
Can't make 'em like Mel Brooks does anymore. I was just giddy about Patrick Stewart and Cary Elwes. And "Maid Marian" was John Ritter's wife! Love that movie!
Really enjoyed this one. Reminds me of a strategic video game I was playing a few years ago, Crusader Kings 2.
6:46 wait wait, so he died from dysentery 🙂.
Not all that uncommon at the time.
@@TheHistoryGuyChannel just like Oregon Trail 🙂.
Just to be a pedant, 'The Weald' is just olde English for 'The woods'. So saying 'the deep forests of The Weald' is redundant. There is a town in central England called Waltham on the Wolds, which translates to 'small town in the woods in the woods.' (Walth = weald = wold = woods. Ham = Hamlet.) I happen to know about the town as that's where my family sprouted.
which comes down from Anglo-Saxon and Old German, Wald= Woods
Corn? That's a new world crop!
In medieval England it was a generic term for all grains.
👍🏻
So, how did the story move from Kent to Nottingham?
Down with Lackland John! Down with the Softsword!
Images of Bidwell Park, Chico California. In black and white
According to the "version" of the story of Ronin Hood, it occurred prior to John becoming king. King Richard had gone to the crusades and left "Prince: John it oversee in his place. John became a tyrant, and "Robin of Locksley " rebelled and became known as Robin Hood. King Richard returned, secretly and when he learned of Johns behavior it was SHTF in merry old England. Well, that's the story I read, anyway.
Great story, once again, yours is history, mine is most likely, fiction. ;-)
2:25 very interesting Hindu patterns on the knight's shield!
A symbol also found in North European/Viking cultures predating this time.
a true english hero even if he might have been flemish.
I'm just here to learn how to pronounce "Weald". 😊
I noted with interest that one of knights in a drawing had swastikas on his shield. Makes one wonder how prevalent that symbol was in the medieval period as a shield marking and what it meant then. Was it still a sun symbol or did it represent something else?
It is an ancient symbol of good luck.
I'm surprised the tube allowed you to show the shield @ 2.22 ha, ha.
..before him..ancient symbol....
You know you are following a bad leader if he is so incompetent that he even burns a Sandwich.
Wait wait wait ... it was John's _lack_ of ruling that brought about _Magna Carta_ ... contemporary writers generally agree John's problem was incompetence rather than anything else ... spent half his reign chained to his wife's bed ...
2:45 I'm interested in the heraldry on that shield in the background. The symbols painted on it look like... something with a very long and nuanced history, but which in modern pop culture is universally associated with a specific political movement. Obviously, even if that was 'it', 'it' would far predate any rational connection to that movement in the context of a medieval manuscript. And to my knowledge, until the last century or two it was primary associated with Buddhism and the Far East, which would put it wildly out of place (both culturally and geographically) in medieval Europe.
Hopefully I phrased things vaguely enough that this comment doesn't set off any RUclips alarms.
I keep a copy of the Magna Carta hanging in my front hall in case the King's Men ever show up intending to infringe on my fishing weir on the Thames. When the cops arrived, they assured me the Magna Carta doesn't work in America.
Then I showed them the Constitution and they told me the same thing.
21st, 3 June 2024
No pirates in this episode.
And doesnt every great story have pirates?