King Louis III made himself noteworthy by becoming the first European monarch to defeat the Vikings in a pitched battle. Alas, he suffered an ignominous death in 882 while in pursuit of a young maiden while on horseback. The maiden was the daughter of a local lord, and she managed to flee through the stone gate of her father's stronghold, with the king chasing at her heels. When the king rode through the gateway, he struck his head against a lintel, fell from his horse, and fatally injured himself on the stone cobbled floor. His death caused the crown to pass to his brother Carloman II, who was much less capable as a war leader and subsequently struggled to defeat the Vikings.
Lance, I honestly find this to be one of your best episodes yet! The perfect amount of compiled historical fact made so much more entertaining by the sprinkling of perfectly timed dad jokes. Thank you for lifting my spirits after a rough day!
There was no "love" lost between King James and Graham. As a history major and lover of history, I look forward to each of your videos. Please keep up the great work! The world needs more people like the History Guy!
Caracalla was famously murdered by his toilet slave, Commodus was strangled by a wrestler in the bath, and Geta was stabbed to death at his birthday party.
Note, in French, Chrles II of Navarre's epithet means more like "the evil one", and he should not have had the French Connétable killed, as that put him at odds with tactical genius Bertrand Du Guesclin, who was named Connétable by the French king and saw to it that Charles' ambitions came to naught.
William Ætheling, the only legitimate son of King Henry I of England, died when he and his drunken companions crashed the White Ship into a rock shortly after leaving port while trying to cross the English Channel. Apparently his guards bundled him into the lifeboat but he made them turn back to try and rescue his elder half sister and the small boat was swamped. In total around 300 people died, the only survivor of the disaster was a butcher who had come aboard to try to collect an unpaid bill.
Apparently his father Luis VI thought his son was a little genius, sort of like when a fancy prep school gives the spoiled son of the richest father good grades and reports that his son, who has actually trouble spelling his own name and never does his schoolwork and throws tantrums like a toddler, is a genius. So his father takes him out of secondary school and enrolls him early in College, with the obvious results. What did his tutors told the king, most likely to get on his good side they described Phillip as wise beyond his years, and what France ended up getting was a royal little brat in his early teens that what really needed was for his father to to use the authority symbolized in his royal staff... I'll let you reach your conclusions how the King needed to "use his authority" on the prince. This is what happens when you hire someone else to raise your kids I guess...
Although that took place in the Renaissance era, I can't help but think of king Henry III of France who was assassinated as he left the privy, leading to a new round of religious civil war as the next person in the line of succession was Henry, King of Navarre, who happened to be a protestant.
Thats the exact reason, that for centuries vikings discovering the American continent about 500 years b4 Columbus was discounted, coz the sagas were the only source. And then ofc archaeologists found remains of viking settlement in New Foundland, proving the sagas right.
William III of England, and from the House of Orange, died after his horse stepped in a molehill. The mole was toasted with drinks afterwards as the little gentleman in the black velvet waistcoat.
I know with most ads there is a script or rough idea of what to say, but I hoped you had mentioned your catch phrase about pirates when talking about online pirates 🤣
Yes, historys most famous hunting accident. And probably the biggest conspiracy theory of the Middle Ages. It doesnt quite get to ignominious death tho, hunting was a very common activity, and such accidents were known to happen. Or be made to happen, we'll never know for sure.
I haven't scrolled through the comments yet, but I'm sure I'm won't be the first to post that your combination of historical information and punnery here is most reminiscent of Mr. Peabody.
Good video as always. However, several times you refer to the English as 'British'. The two are not interchangeable and certainly not before the Union of the Crowns.
You could say Boya was throne for a loss... And if James had his lawyer with him at his demise, and asked him questions, then would it have been a privy council?
I have to wonder how accurate the initial reporting was on some of these, given the historical importance of the life and death of a monarch. Sick, restrained, and soaked in highly flammable liquid? That one's in the bag!
It often depended on, who succeeded them, and what they wanted it to reflect. And that isnt limited to those, where another took the crown by conquest and ofc had huge interest in smearing their predecessor to as to cement their own seat on the throne. Was it an otherwise successful monarch, whose heir could benefit from claiming his fathers/uncles/whatevers glory? Or was it an unremarkable or incompetent or cruel ruler, where the heir needed to show a difference to cement their own grip on power? As the saying goes, the winner writes the history. And while thats usually said about war, it certainly also applies to, how these monarchs were allowed to be written about, coz back then with authoritarian rulers (same today with authoritarians really) writing anything, that the new ruler didnt want, could be quite perilous to ur health. A good example is that of Richard III of England. He was killed at the Battle of Bosworth, the last English king to die in combat, and Henry VII took the throne by conquest, having only a very tenuous connection to the English Royal family through an illegitimate line through his mother. To secure his grip on the throne, he married the eldest daughter of Edward IV, Richards predecessor and older brother, but he also instigated a comprehensive smear campaign against Richard III, describing him as an evil and hideous person both physically and mentally and accusing him of everything from being illegitimate (and as such not eligible for the throne) to having murdered his 2 nephews (the Prince in the Tower, the 2 sons of Edward IV), which Richard may have, tho there were many ppl with a lot more incentive to do so, there was no real gain in it for Richard, so it would make no sense for him to have them murdered. And we dont even know, if they were actually murdered, or if they died of disease (there was an epidemic at the time of their disappearance), or if they survived and lived out their lives elsewhere. But whatever happened to the 2 princes, Henry VII certainly had a huge benefit from making sure, that the truth never came out, and that Richard be blamed. And his descendants continued that, especially under Elizabeth I. In reality, all the claims and accusations against Richard III comes from Tudor loyalists long after his death, while the few surviving contemporary sources, that Henry VII didnt manage to eradicate, tells an entirely different story about Richard III as a person. And while Richards skeleton, when it was found, confirmed, that he had scoliosis, it also showed, that he was by no means the ugly hunchback described by the Tudor "historians", and that clothed he would only show a slight difference in height between his shoulders. Indeed, it confirmed, that his armor probably aided in supporting him, which fits better with the contemporary description of him as a very skilled and fierce warrior. So a long post, sorry for that. But I think, its a very good example of, how history is written to fit the purposes of those in power.
Centuries ago it was a church and he was buried within its walls after the Battle of Bosworth. The church was later demolished and part of the site ended up as a car park. The area of Leicester is called Greyfriars to this day.
Even better, they found him the first place they looked... because if you're looking for the grave of a king, naturally, you would first excavate the parking space that happens to be labeled 'REX'....
@@FeedScrn Yeah, he was originally buried at the altar of the church at the Greyfriars monastery, which changed hands at the dissolution of monasteries by Henry VIII (aka stealing all property of the Catholic Church in England) and eventually disappeared. Since he died in battle, and the winner (Henry VII Tudor and his descendents, especially Elizabeth I) made sure to sully up his reputation to help bolster their own tenuous seat on the throne, he was pretty much ignored aside from the Tudor propaganda, and hence very few hints of his burial place survived. Indeed, even the exact site of the Greyfriars monastery was lost over the centuries, and the archaeologists doing the dig had only an estimation based on piecing together various old maps and random written material mentioning it. Most of it is today covered by other buildings, and then theres the car park for some of those building (municipal buildings), where they were allowed to do a limited dig. And they got lucky. How they managed to positively identify him by DNA is a whole other and fantastic story, again they got lucky, as it turned out, that the option to do so will be dying out with the current generation, but if ur interested in more, I would refer to Dr. Turi King, who did the DNA analysis and tracing. She has a YT channel, and theres also a longer documentary about the entire dig, from tracing sources to try to pin point where to look to the positive identification of the skeleton.
I completely lost count of the puns by the fourth tale. It can be a royal pain trying to follow the story.🙂 My talent for tracking terms needs terrific training.
King Harald didn’t bite off more than he could chew, but he was chewed out by his opponent’s head. King Bela was unseated. King James I of Scotland fled into the toilet drain and was flushed out. You missed out King George I of Britain, who died whilst sitting on a commode…when you gotta go, you gotta go 👑
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I saw this and thought, this might be fun after all the political and medical ads that have been forced fed at me lately...it was in comparison. Thank you.
I know of another King that died on the toilet because he was so constipated from pills that he had a heart attack because his bowels were like trying to push a dry mud brick through a garden hose.
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"A man lay by the sewer, and by the sewer he died. Along came the undertaker and called it sewer side. Oh, it ain't gonna rain no more, no more..."
That episode was so punny
This episode of The History Guy was absolutely puntastic!!😂
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Got to be a world record puns per minute
King Louis III made himself noteworthy by becoming the first European monarch to defeat the Vikings in a pitched battle. Alas, he suffered an ignominous death in 882 while in pursuit of a young maiden while on horseback. The maiden was the daughter of a local lord, and she managed to flee through the stone gate of her father's stronghold, with the king chasing at her heels. When the king rode through the gateway, he struck his head against a lintel, fell from his horse, and fatally injured himself on the stone cobbled floor. His death caused the crown to pass to his brother Carloman II, who was much less capable as a war leader and subsequently struggled to defeat the Vikings.
Talk about pursuing the wrong woman!
@@joelellis7035 He had a head for war, but not for love.
Being a woman, I'd say, he got a deserved ending, other consequences of his death aside.
"Sewer-cide" . . . what a waste.
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Last night, I gave my girlfriend a medieval battle uniform to polish while I went to the bar.
She always said she wanted a night in, shining armor.
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I mean...I WANT to give this a thumb down...but I do like bad puns. I'm torn.
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Lance, I honestly find this to be one of your best episodes yet! The perfect amount of compiled historical fact made so much more entertaining by the sprinkling of perfectly timed dad jokes. Thank you for lifting my spirits after a rough day!
Today's episode's writer made good use of humor -- and your delivery of it made this obvious! Most enjoyable, Lance!
Shame he messed up the history by using British instead of English.
There was no "love" lost between King James and Graham. As a history major and lover of history, I look forward to each of your videos. Please keep up the great work! The world needs more people like the History Guy!
Caracalla was famously murdered by his toilet slave, Commodus was strangled by a wrestler in the bath, and Geta was stabbed to death at his birthday party.
If you put a period after Commodus, it would have been hilarious and explained the modern use of the word commode.
@@joshuabessire9169 it could be, I don’t know. What I do know is that the Roman emperors lived in a fairly hazardous workplace environment
Commodus must have been strangled by Christus Benoitius... (IYKYK)
Nah, Commodus was killed in the arena by Russell Crow! You know Hollywood wouldn't lie....
None of those mentioned are from the medieval period and the deaths discussed are from that period as noted in the title.
Note, in French, Chrles II of Navarre's epithet means more like "the evil one", and he should not have had the French Connétable killed, as that put him at odds with tactical genius Bertrand Du Guesclin, who was named Connétable by the French king and saw to it that Charles' ambitions came to naught.
I think you used your yearly allowance of puns😂
“Particularly biting”…. Well played, sir
William Ætheling, the only legitimate son of King Henry I of England, died when he and his drunken companions crashed the White Ship into a rock shortly after leaving port while trying to cross the English Channel. Apparently his guards bundled him into the lifeboat but he made them turn back to try and rescue his elder half sister and the small boat was swamped. In total around 300 people died, the only survivor of the disaster was a butcher who had come aboard to try to collect an unpaid bill.
The White Ship
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@@TheHistoryGuyChannel along these lines I am stunned to not hear the phrase "a surfeit of lampreys."
Apparently his father Luis VI thought his son was a little genius, sort of like when a fancy prep school gives the spoiled son of the richest father good grades and reports that his son, who has actually trouble spelling his own name and never does his schoolwork and throws tantrums like a toddler, is a genius. So his father takes him out of secondary school and enrolls him early in College, with the obvious results. What did his tutors told the king, most likely to get on his good side they described Phillip as wise beyond his years, and what France ended up getting was a royal little brat in his early teens that what really needed was for his father to to use the authority symbolized in his royal staff... I'll let you reach your conclusions how the King needed to "use his authority" on the prince. This is what happens when you hire someone else to raise your kids I guess...
Although that took place in the Renaissance era, I can't help but think of king Henry III of France who was assassinated as he left the privy, leading to a new round of religious civil war as the next person in the line of succession was Henry, King of Navarre, who happened to be a protestant.
I appreciate you and thank you for making content.
3:30 *_"... which scholars believe should be treated cautiously as historical sources."_** 😅 Now there's a gentle euphemism.*
But a guy told me it was true in a dream he had.
They are sometimes the only historical sources we have, and have proven to be surprisingly accurate in same ways.
@@TheHistoryGuyChannel No King Ironside? Sigh...
Thats the exact reason, that for centuries vikings discovering the American continent about 500 years b4 Columbus was discounted, coz the sagas were the only source. And then ofc archaeologists found remains of viking settlement in New Foundland, proving the sagas right.
It wasn't Royalty per se, but the Erfurt Latrine Disaster, of 1184, is one of the weirdest fates to befall a bunch of nobles.
I thought of that exact event too!
@@dfuher968 Once heard of, it is difficult to forget 😄👍
Excellent video, as ever. As a Sutherland, I can say we’ve always had a biting sense of irony.
Puns upon puns. A veritable plague of puns!
My FAVORITE episode so far!! Puns are my favorite kind of jokes, and you, sir, outdid yourself!! Thank you!
8:04 Either Aesop and Son or Peabody's Improbable History came to mind at your comment.
Thank you History Guy
No mention of Henry I of England, who allegedly died of 'a surfeit of lampreys'?
How awful it must be for one to lose his balls in a privy!
Great video as usual
William III of England, and from the House of Orange, died after his horse stepped in a molehill. The mole was toasted with drinks afterwards as the little gentleman in the black velvet waistcoat.
I know with most ads there is a script or rough idea of what to say, but I hoped you had mentioned your catch phrase about pirates when talking about online pirates 🤣
Great job finding a pun for every story. Interesting and entertaining
I thought King William II of England would be mentioned; he was killed by an arrow through the lung while hunting in 1100.
Yes, historys most famous hunting accident. And probably the biggest conspiracy theory of the Middle Ages. It doesnt quite get to ignominious death tho, hunting was a very common activity, and such accidents were known to happen. Or be made to happen, we'll never know for sure.
@@dfuher968the biggest Middle Ages conspiracy theory is the princes in the tower but that’s probably a close second
Thank You!
Love your videos
Fascinating!
Have a great weekend one and all!
7:54 believe I recall the "whole hog" joke from a Rocky and Bullwinkle Fractured Fairytale's from back in the day.
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@@rebeccafree9755 this is also true 😌
Maybe you could have included Baldwin V of the Kingdom of Jerusalem. He died of leprosy, and his death led to the Moslem reconquest of Jerusalem.
Love the plethora of puns! I'm positively pleased as punch!
The "PUNS" are awesome 😅
I haven't scrolled through the comments yet, but I'm sure I'm won't be the first to post that your combination of historical information and punnery here is most reminiscent of Mr. Peabody.
Sewercide mission…nice one Centurion!!
Good video as always. However, several times you refer to the English as 'British'. The two are not interchangeable and certainly not before the Union of the Crowns.
You could say Boya was throne for a loss...
And if James had his lawyer with him at his demise, and asked him questions, then would it have been a privy council?
It was England that fought the Hundred Years War not the British. Nor was Roxburgh Castle held by the Br8tish, but the English.
Great job on video
So many puns, and I am here for them!
6:25 "reign ended ignomiously" -- is "ignomious" in your vocabulary? It's new to me! Perhaps you meant the much more common "ignominious?"
A channel devoted entirely to making puns about history could be a business model.
Listen to this channel at bedtime is like sleeping with your head on an encyclopedia! 🤓
I am constantly in awe of your puns good sir.
I have to wonder how accurate the initial reporting was on some of these, given the historical importance of the life and death of a monarch. Sick, restrained, and soaked in highly flammable liquid? That one's in the bag!
It often depended on, who succeeded them, and what they wanted it to reflect. And that isnt limited to those, where another took the crown by conquest and ofc had huge interest in smearing their predecessor to as to cement their own seat on the throne. Was it an otherwise successful monarch, whose heir could benefit from claiming his fathers/uncles/whatevers glory? Or was it an unremarkable or incompetent or cruel ruler, where the heir needed to show a difference to cement their own grip on power?
As the saying goes, the winner writes the history. And while thats usually said about war, it certainly also applies to, how these monarchs were allowed to be written about, coz back then with authoritarian rulers (same today with authoritarians really) writing anything, that the new ruler didnt want, could be quite perilous to ur health.
A good example is that of Richard III of England. He was killed at the Battle of Bosworth, the last English king to die in combat, and Henry VII took the throne by conquest, having only a very tenuous connection to the English Royal family through an illegitimate line through his mother. To secure his grip on the throne, he married the eldest daughter of Edward IV, Richards predecessor and older brother, but he also instigated a comprehensive smear campaign against Richard III, describing him as an evil and hideous person both physically and mentally and accusing him of everything from being illegitimate (and as such not eligible for the throne) to having murdered his 2 nephews (the Prince in the Tower, the 2 sons of Edward IV), which Richard may have, tho there were many ppl with a lot more incentive to do so, there was no real gain in it for Richard, so it would make no sense for him to have them murdered. And we dont even know, if they were actually murdered, or if they died of disease (there was an epidemic at the time of their disappearance), or if they survived and lived out their lives elsewhere. But whatever happened to the 2 princes, Henry VII certainly had a huge benefit from making sure, that the truth never came out, and that Richard be blamed. And his descendants continued that, especially under Elizabeth I.
In reality, all the claims and accusations against Richard III comes from Tudor loyalists long after his death, while the few surviving contemporary sources, that Henry VII didnt manage to eradicate, tells an entirely different story about Richard III as a person. And while Richards skeleton, when it was found, confirmed, that he had scoliosis, it also showed, that he was by no means the ugly hunchback described by the Tudor "historians", and that clothed he would only show a slight difference in height between his shoulders. Indeed, it confirmed, that his armor probably aided in supporting him, which fits better with the contemporary description of him as a very skilled and fierce warrior.
So a long post, sorry for that. But I think, its a very good example of, how history is written to fit the purposes of those in power.
The death of Charles of Aragon was not "The good, the bad, and the ugly". It was "The good the bad, and the flambe". 😊
Who woulda thunk history was a collection of painful puns.
Puns par excellence today, Ol' Bean. 😄
Do you remember how King Richard was found underneath a road or under a parking lot? What's the story with that?
Centuries ago it was a church and he was buried within its walls after the Battle of Bosworth. The church was later demolished and part of the site ended up as a car park. The area of Leicester is called Greyfriars to this day.
Even better, they found him the first place they looked... because if you're looking for the grave of a king, naturally, you would first excavate the parking space that happens to be labeled 'REX'....
@@StuBobsGhost - Thanks for the heads-up.. no pun intended. That's such a weird story.
@@FeedScrn Yeah, he was originally buried at the altar of the church at the Greyfriars monastery, which changed hands at the dissolution of monasteries by Henry VIII (aka stealing all property of the Catholic Church in England) and eventually disappeared. Since he died in battle, and the winner (Henry VII Tudor and his descendents, especially Elizabeth I) made sure to sully up his reputation to help bolster their own tenuous seat on the throne, he was pretty much ignored aside from the Tudor propaganda, and hence very few hints of his burial place survived. Indeed, even the exact site of the Greyfriars monastery was lost over the centuries, and the archaeologists doing the dig had only an estimation based on piecing together various old maps and random written material mentioning it. Most of it is today covered by other buildings, and then theres the car park for some of those building (municipal buildings), where they were allowed to do a limited dig. And they got lucky.
How they managed to positively identify him by DNA is a whole other and fantastic story, again they got lucky, as it turned out, that the option to do so will be dying out with the current generation, but if ur interested in more, I would refer to Dr. Turi King, who did the DNA analysis and tracing. She has a YT channel, and theres also a longer documentary about the entire dig, from tracing sources to try to pin point where to look to the positive identification of the skeleton.
@@dfuher968 - A quirky, fascinating story. Thanks.
Good morning, professor! 👋🏽 😊
RUclips says this video is about 22 minutes long. It ends correctly at the 16-ish minute point and is nothing but a black screen from then on.
Yep. What's up with that?
Probably a rendering error or somesuch.
Thanks for pointing thar out. I can fix that…
love all the puns!
Talk about "ick"-noble deaths...
Please stop PUNishing me
History Guy Lance- the KING of dad jokes 😂
‘Sports, supposedly an activity of leisure but could easily cause death’ is going to endure as my definition of the term 😆
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I saw what you did Sewer Side 😅
The puns..... the puns..... the puns
I figured you'd mention the time a half dozen nobles fell through a floor and died in the sewer below
This is death by pun. That qualifies as cruel and unusual punishment
@6:20 Bela was in possession of The Holy Hand Grenade? Who knew?
Suggestion: Ig-Nobel Deaths, The Renaissance
Is today International Pun Day and I missed it? Great video and the jokes were very punny!
You had me at sewer-cide.
Good grief, the puns.
Edward II of England had a very strange (& painful) death...
6 mins of darkness by The History Guy
Fixing that- sorry
hats off to the guy @3 minutes chugging a md 20/20
How about a video of the history of the lance and how it became used as a given name.
Brother. You okay?
At least Barbarossa had a clean death.
I completely lost count of the puns by the fourth tale. It can be a royal pain trying to follow the story.🙂
My talent for tracking terms needs terrific training.
It is a big shame that leaders of countries no longer have to personally lead their troops into wars !
It's funny how people mysteriously have accidents when their existence is problematic politically.
Interesting and punny!
How about William the Conqueror... supposedly died from a festering internal wound from a saddle, but the corpse exploded during the funeral.
King Harald didn’t bite off more than he could chew, but he was chewed out by his opponent’s head. King Bela was unseated. King James I of Scotland fled into the toilet drain and was flushed out. You missed out King George I of Britain, who died whilst sitting on a commode…when you gotta go, you gotta go 👑
So his buck-toothed enemy fought him…tooth..and nail?
The JOKES in this one
Very slight change in your posture, sir.
Good Friday morning History Guy and everyone watching. Don't let a black cat cross your path or come across Jason Voorhees at Camp Crystal Lake on this Friday The 13th
Ah, sigh. It's that hot brandy that gets you every time. 👑 ❤️🔥🎉😊
How leveling. Thanks HG.
THG: MORE! Tell us more! And don’t forget the puns!
I saw this and thought, this might be fun after all the political and medical ads that have been forced fed at me lately...it was in comparison. Thank you.
I know of another King that died on the toilet because he was so constipated from pills that he had a heart attack because his bowels were like trying to push a dry mud brick through a garden hose.
If it was more profitable for a noble to be ransomed, that was preferred. Death was more likely if survival created issues.
Good night
Sewer side.
17:00 ... ?
Almost 6 min of blank screen?
5:27 Seriously? A Viking helmet with horns? lol, smh.
Great dad jokes.
pun master !