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Just want to commend the whole team for putting together one of the hands down, most excellent military history channels on any platform. Your passion for telling great, historically accurate stories really is evident, and I'll happily recommend this channel to anyone who is looking for great historical content. You guys/gals are doing truly great work! And for that, I thank you!
I enjoyed your video, in particular the battle reconstruction with the movements of the protagonists. As I am from Germany, the video was overlayed by a very obviously AI generated voice, unfortunately showing most of the current weaknesses of this technology. Among other shortcomings (not too severe, though), it butchered the pronounciation of the name ‚Plantagenet‘. At this point of time, I rather not have any AI voiceovers. It‘s more of a nuisance than a help or pleasure, it‘s noticable artificial and that diminishes the video from minute 1 onwards.
Popular joke at the time he was found: The next time you find yourself getting angry because you’re stuck in traffic, just remember. It took Richard III 500 years to get out of the car park!
@@johnqpublic2718its a shit joke, should've watched the video and you'd know "he was hastily burried in a shallow grave without a coffin" But he's talking about when he was burried the second time
If you're ever in Leicester take the time to visit the museum dedicated to the finding of his grave and the associated history. It's very much worth a visit. Very informative.
As he spent much of his life in Yorkshire, I always thought it would have been more fitting for Richard III to have been buried in the magnificent York Minster instead of an obscure cathedral a hundred miles away.
At least this king was man enough to stand with his troops and face battle unlike the cowards of today that command from the safety being hundreds if not thousands of miles away leading men to their deaths. Much respect for the kings of the past.
@@greenfocus5236 It's not stupid. It was expected of kings to lead their troops into battle. Anything less than that was seen as cowardly & worthy of scorn. It would lead to disquiet among the nobility.
It is always said that Shakespeare villianised Richard III, but it was Tudor propaganda that started this years before Shakespeare. It was in Henry VII best interests to have Richard III seen as the evildoer. Shakespeare’s story telling aided in giving Richard III horns and a tail…
Shakespeare can not be trusted. He had Richard fighting in the Battle of St Albans in 1455. At that time Richard was 3 and a bit years old. At a time when young 13 year olds were expected to join battles, I don't think 3 year olds were.
@@gondwanaland3238 Well, it seems you're a little confused by our friend Mr Shakespeare. Never mind. Go and take a soothing medicament and have a lie down, there's a good chap.
Shakespeare was not a historian, but he was dependent upon them for the backgrounds of his plays. It's not his fault that he was dealing with manipulated, biased, and false "testimony". Henry had everything his men could find that was written by Richard destroyed -- even the king's letters to his wife Anne and hers to him. It took him 6 months to give up his search for the boys, who had been removed from the Tower so they could not be kidnapped. Once he had their attainder as illegitimate reversed he essentially did make the older one King Edward V again because the boy's claim was superior to his.
I really enjoyed the program where they found a man who had a similar deformity and had him set up with armor and tested out if such a person would be effective in a battle. Thanks for bringing up this detail on the actual battle. Charles
I saw that program too - can't remember what the name was, but it showed how the man had a special saddle and armor so was able to effectively mount and ride a horse as a person with a normal spine.
Superb video! I like how this video had both military history and mystery (just like a true crime show/documentary about how a victim died). I did not know much about King Richard and learned more from this video. Kudos to the Battle Guide team! 😊 Have a nice day!
Outstanding presentation, subscribed. Excellent video that emphasizes the extreme brutality of medieval wars where the vanquished were shown no mercy, their bodies mutilated and unceremoniously thrown into an unmarked shallow grave. Such is history.
It's one reason why in the past, they said, "the winners write history". We're so lucky to have DNA scholars, advanced forensic science and specialist scholars at fingertips.
Nowhere in history, has the phrase "History is written by the winners" been more true than when describing the life, career and death of Richard III. At least his actual death in battle and it's exact manner has been confirmed by the finding of his remains which have now been given a funeral more befitting of his station. It now seems likely that the "Princes in the Tower", that he was accused of murdering, outlived Richard himself by several years and died in separate, unsuccessful attempts to wrest the crown from Henry, who, of course, dictated what history would say, both to Shakespeare, a late Tudor playwright and this 1960s schoolboy.
My ex wife used to park on the car park spot where they found him when she used to go to Social Services with her son who has Cerebral Palsy. When they discovered Richard’s remains she was amazed.
When I visited England a few years ago I visited Richard111 tomb. It was so moving, made me cry. I was always an admirer of his because he was well beloved in the north and was a wise lawmaker.
@@dolinaj1 Get your nose out of Shakespeare, Holinshed, More -- who shelved his "history" once he understood how much bogus "testimony" he was getting -- and read some of the actual history.
I've always wondered how some buildings managed to be intact how they were when it was first built and how others got leveled and rebuilt to "current" styling and architecture throughout history. Thank you patreon supporters for making these incredible stories come to life, and to the battle guide team: keep up the phenomenal presentations with incredible graphics and overlay of the maps and terrain; absolutely love seeing the event maps overlaid the current landscape
Shakespeare toed the political line. As to popularity, who knows? And what does that mean? Farage is popular with some and seen as a traitor to the nation by others.
Very entertaining and educational! Thanks for the details on Richard III's death as well as on my 15th great-grandfather, John Howard, Duke of Northfolk.
Really, really appreciate the voiceover in Spanish, and not in a crappy robotic-totally-non-human voice. I enjoyed so much the video in my mother tongue. ❤
There's compelling entrance that his 2 nephews where not murdered in the tower but survived and tried to retake the thrown when they were old enough,there's a great doc. on channel 4
Hard to know the reality of what these people were really like as character assassination was fallback position No.1 in order to legitimise oneself, and one's actions. All accounts confirm that he died like a man, fighting at the front of his own battle, and going down fighting whilst surrounded by his enemies.
@@mikerelva6915lol is that a joke? There is so much falsity on WW2 there's a documentary which touches on it called Europa the last battle, you should watch it
"A horse a horse , my kingdom for a horse" Richard III , Shakespear . He was aledgedly to eager to enter the fray and rushed in like a wild man , ultimately getting trapped in the mud to far away from his back up , it didn't end well . Edit : Great naration and well researched , subbed 👊
He had already been involved in the battle as he was a veteran of many battles and was a well known, fierce fighter. He “rushed in like a mad man” because he saw that Henry, who was too big a coward to actually fight for the throne, was standing there with little protection, and Richard hoped that killing Henry would end the battle. Immediately. He almost succeeded and came THIS CLOSE to killing Henry! As much as I admire his skill in battle, I fully believe he did indeed have his nephews murdered. He removed ANYONE whom he felt was loyal to his brother Edward IV and would stand in his way. Research what he did to Lord Hastings, summarily executed without a trial in a set up!
Well, when your chief patron is a descendant of Henry Tudor and a rather vindictive, ruthless Queen at that, you make damn well sure to portray Richard Plantagenent as a retched, deceitful bastard as much as possible. Even going so far to give Richard a hunchback, which he never had. This was done to make Richard more of a black-hearted villain. Back in those times, having a Hunchback and a Gammy Arm ment that you were marked by "The Evil One." In the end, William Shakespeare obviously liked his head where it was. On his shoulders and not on the pointy end of a Pike.😊
Seriously though - I wrote a paper in college on how Shakespeare was most likely an amalgamation of multiple poets from the time. That Shakespeare was most likely a royal who just took credit for writing the plays and poems. Paper got an A.
The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey is a great book about Richard examining the motives of everyone in the murder of the princes from the "cui bono" point of view and Richard had none.
What you guys have done here is outstanding and incredibly interesting. I love this type of content. Can’t wait to watch the rest, especially Stalingrad, my personal favorite.
The history we have been taught all these years is from Henry Tudor 's point of view , so he would want Richard to look as a tyrant as they say history is written by the victors
Yep, Richard III, along with AH. Seen a recent documentary on the US President Abraham Lincoln: a deified individual who was a horrendous totalitarian leader.
Wow. Thank you! Having researched and written a report on this event as a student some twenty eight years earlier, I remember my amazement when this discovery was reported back in 2012.
Josephine Tey's historical detective novel, the name of which I've forgotten, has some interesting conclusions which I think are correct. The little princes' murder was a frame up. Shakespeare was a propagandist for the Tudors.
The Daughter of Time. As in Truth is the daughter of time. Richard III was much loved in the North and loyalists remained apparently for generations. He was supposedly the first to make an accused person innocent until proven guilty. Until then you had to prove you were innocent. He was the last of the Plantagenents to rule and his death led to the Tudors usurping the Crown although legitimate Plantagenent heirs survived. Including the Princes in the Tower, who the Tudors had plenty of motivation to kill and blame Richard III. So the entire Tudor line is illegitimate - all the way to this day. I read that the legitimate King of England is a man in Australia !
Excellent combination of historical sources and modern archaeology! I'm not sure why I had not discovered your channel sooner... So I will just blame faulty YT algorithm.
0:30 😮 omg the scoliosis is shocking The angle at l1 must have been causing herniated discs and impinged nerves surely 😢 if that’s moderate I’d hate to see severe
What a fantastically interesting video! Of course, all of us history nerds watched the dig and resulting findings over the years until the truth of the skeleton was revealed but to see the battle and the fall of Richard like this was thrilling. Thanks so much.
@@vicitoedemane1244 Yeah, well unless you, Mr. Know-it-all, have an accredited PhD in English Car Parks, I don't consider you as a car park expert qualified enough to make such a blanket assertion/assumption.
@@kevster2171don't think i don't see what you're doing here -- you're trying to entrap me with a straw man argument. I'm not falling for you dirty tricks.
@@nforne well they should - it would save them from complaining incorrectly that Philippa Langley wasn't mentioned when we even provided a link to her website?
I think, the poster thought Philippa should have received more of one mention ( in the notes)...not a criticism as I loved this post. If it wasn't for Philippa...well, we are here because of her, never have we known so much about an English king.
Really enjoyed your video! However, I thought it is not entirely certain that Richard III murdered his nephews, the Princes in the Tower, and that some have suggested that he may have held them captive without killing them and that it is more likely that Henry VII Tudor had them killed as they posed a threat to his new Tudor dynasty?
The Tower of London has a long article about the Princes in the Tower on their website, including a list of prime suspects. Yes, Richard III is on it, but so are Henry VII and his mother, Margaret Beaufort
One of the mounted knights in full harness who escorted the coffin through Leicester was Toby Capwell, from 2006 to 2022 Curator of Arms and Armour at the Wallace Collection.
The whole story was weird. Phillipa Langley (the head of the project) got rejected by other archologists, because she wanted the first trench on that spot, not because she knew the plans of the church, but because the parkinglot was marked with an R (it ment resered, however Phillipa said, thats a sign) Basically every historian and archologist in the world said to her (meaning) "Thats not a serious way of doing things. We are looking for facts and see if they match with our findings. You want the R to be Richard, thats not scientific and X or in this case R NEVER marks the spot." Well...she was right.
Absolutely adore your content - but the use of AI art within a product as professional as the channel regularly puts out... it's a bit meh. AI art is notorious for getting details not just wrong, but often entirely misrepresenting the subject matter it's attempting to recreate. Ultimately it ends up polluting actual sources and historical reference imagery that exists (I do a lot of visual referencing for work and search engines are a cesspit of AI falsehood at present) Please reconsider the use AI imagery - or do try run a sanity pass with an artist/historian to check that things line up (i cursory issues - The flags in the image are incorrect and no one has a face, the Bow Bridge image is attempting to recreate a far later Georgian/Victorian illustration. The cavalry charge image - medieval fantasy) Regardless of this though, awesome stuff as always and thanks for the thoroughly enjoyable video.
From Eupedia :On 12 September 2012, archeologists from the University of Leicester announced that they had discovered what they believed were the remains of King Richard III of England (1452-1485) within the former Greyfriars Friary Church in the city of Leicester (see Exhumation of Richard III). The skeleton's DNA matched exactly the mitochondiral haplogroup (J1c2c) of modern matrilineal descendants of Anne of York, Richard's elder sister, confirming the identity of the medieval king. Further tests published in December 2014 revealed that his Y-chromosomal haplogroup was G2 (not tested for downstream mutations, but statistically very likely to be G2a3 as a northern European). This however did not match the Y-DNA of three modern relatives (who were all R1b-U152 xL2) descended from Edward III, Richard III's great-great-grand-father. Richard descends from the House of York, while the modern relatives descend from the House of Lancaster via John of Gaunt. Therefore it cannot be determined at present when the non-paternity event occured in the Plantagenet lineage, and whether most of the Plantagenets monarchs belonged to haplogroup G2 or R1b-U152. Both haplogroups are considerably more common in France than in Britain, however, which is consistent with the French roots of the House of Plantagenets.
That Richard III had his nephews done away with has never been proven. An excellent piece of work, however. Richard III, of course, should have found his final resting place in York Minster and not in some obscure cathedral.
Thanks for this presentation. But: no, we don't know that Richard killed his nephews, and this: if it had been left to the historians and archeologists Richard would still be under the car park. It was due to the persistence of Philippa Langley and the Richard III Society that the recovery of Richard's remains happened at all.
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Just want to commend the whole team for putting together one of the hands down, most excellent military history channels on any platform. Your passion for telling great, historically accurate stories really is evident, and I'll happily recommend this channel to anyone who is looking for great historical content. You guys/gals are doing truly great work! And for that, I thank you!
I enjoyed your video, in particular the battle reconstruction with the movements of the protagonists. As I am from Germany, the video was overlayed by a very obviously AI generated voice, unfortunately showing most of the current weaknesses of this technology. Among other shortcomings (not too severe, though), it butchered the pronounciation of the name ‚Plantagenet‘. At this point of time, I rather not have any AI voiceovers. It‘s more of a nuisance than a help or pleasure, it‘s noticable artificial and that diminishes the video from minute 1 onwards.
I told it to my professor in 2011, that he is under the car park 😄
He was a hunchback! That's how people saw him then. Scoliosis wasn't a term widely known. His hands were indeed 'dainty.' too.
Excellent work. Thank you.
Popular joke at the time he was found:
The next time you find yourself getting angry because you’re stuck in traffic, just remember. It took Richard III 500 years to get out of the car park!
Well he never did, did he? Thanks to techies like you.
For Lew99900 🤣
Hardly. They didn't have cars 500 years ago. The longest he could have been in a car park would be about 100 years.
@@grahamtravers4522 🤦♂️
Too soon.
Interesting fact. Richard's coffin was made by Michael Ibsen, one of the descendants of his family line used to confirm the body was Richard's.
Seriously??
@@johnqpublic2718its a shit joke, should've watched the video and you'd know "he was hastily burried in a shallow grave without a coffin"
But he's talking about when he was burried the second time
@@johnqpublic2718 Yes, he is a carpenter and after it was confirmed, that they found Richard, he asked to make the coffin
This is true.
Yes, a Canadian, as was his mother who's DNA was used to confirm Richard's identity.
If you're ever in Leicester take the time to visit the museum dedicated to the finding of his grave and the associated history. It's very much worth a visit. Very informative.
if you ever visit...try to find a guide cause its a foreign land
I was there in November it really is worth a visit, then go to the cathedral and see his tomb.
As he spent much of his life in Yorkshire, I always thought it would have been more fitting for Richard III to have been buried in the magnificent York Minster instead of an obscure cathedral a hundred miles away.
I went there a few years back. It was good. Also went to see his tomb at the cathedral round the corner.
At least this king was man enough to stand with his troops and face battle unlike the cowards of today that command from the safety being hundreds if not thousands of miles away leading men to their deaths. Much respect for the kings of the past.
"stand with his troops and face battle" its actually quite stupid to be honest
I couldn't agree more .
@@greenfocus5236 Yes spoken like a true spineless slug in the era of the new man, that runs and hides in his mom's basement
@@greenfocus5236 It's not stupid. It was expected of kings to lead their troops into battle. Anything less than that was seen as cowardly & worthy of scorn. It would lead to disquiet among the nobility.
@@BalrajTakhar-u7uand Tudor stay behind, coward!
It is always said that Shakespeare villianised Richard III, but it was Tudor propaganda that started this years before Shakespeare. It was in Henry VII best interests to have Richard III seen as the evildoer. Shakespeare’s story telling aided in giving Richard III horns and a tail…
Shakespeare can not be trusted.
He had Richard fighting in the Battle of St Albans in 1455. At that time Richard was 3 and a bit years old.
At a time when young 13 year olds were expected to join battles, I don't think 3 year olds were.
@@gondwanaland3238 He was a playwright and a dramatist. Obviously his words are not meant to be taken literally, he wasn't an historian.
@ Oh no, I’m shocked and stunned. And I always thought A Midsummers Nights Dream was factual.
@@gondwanaland3238 Well, it seems you're a little confused by our friend Mr Shakespeare. Never mind. Go and take a soothing medicament and have a lie down, there's a good chap.
Shakespeare was not a historian, but he was dependent upon them for the backgrounds of his plays. It's not his fault that he was dealing with manipulated, biased, and false "testimony". Henry had everything his men could find that was written by Richard destroyed -- even the king's letters to his wife Anne and hers to him. It took him 6 months to give up his search for the boys, who had been removed from the Tower so they could not be kidnapped. Once he had their attainder as illegitimate reversed he essentially did make the older one King Edward V again because the boy's claim was superior to his.
I really enjoyed the program where they found a man who had a similar deformity and had him set up with armor and tested out if such a person would be effective in a battle. Thanks for bringing up this detail on the actual battle. Charles
I saw that program too - can't remember what the name was, but it showed how the man had a special saddle and armor so was able to effectively mount and ride a horse as a person with a normal spine.
Yes! I saw that - it was amazing!
@@barbarapaige4587Pretty sure it was "Secrets of the Dead" on PBS. it was incredibly well done
That was a PBS show and the young man with the same spinal problem was Dominic Smee.
@@barbarapaige4587 I think Dr Tobias Capwell ran the project
Still amazed they actually found him.
Philippa Langley 👏 and her intuition
Out of all the history channels I watch, you guys are by far my most sincerely favorite.
No music is a plus
@@clivebaxter6354it's there, very very faint symphonic element s, done tastily, which never happens! Great oration
Superb video! I like how this video had both military history and mystery (just like a true crime show/documentary about how a victim died). I did not know much about King Richard and learned more from this video. Kudos to the Battle Guide team! 😊 Have a nice day!
Outstanding presentation, subscribed. Excellent video that emphasizes the extreme brutality of medieval wars where the vanquished were shown no mercy, their bodies mutilated and unceremoniously thrown into an unmarked shallow grave. Such is history.
It's one reason why in the past, they said, "the winners write history". We're so lucky to have DNA scholars, advanced forensic science and specialist scholars at fingertips.
Such is human nature.
Nowhere in history, has the phrase "History is written by the winners" been more true than when describing the life, career and death of Richard III. At least his actual death in battle and it's exact manner has been confirmed by the finding of his remains which have now been given a funeral more befitting of his station.
It now seems likely that the "Princes in the Tower", that he was accused of murdering, outlived Richard himself by several years and died in separate, unsuccessful attempts to wrest the crown from Henry, who, of course, dictated what history would say, both to Shakespeare, a late Tudor playwright and this 1960s schoolboy.
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Facts! Why does everyone just go along with the shakespeare play like its solid history, when it has less validity than even Herodotus on Thermopylae
So if “history is written by the winners”, why are we having this conversation?
It’s nonsense , mate.
@@TaskForce_Raccoon And Herodotus could give even Henry VII lessons in making up stories!
@@peterwebb8732yeah we shouldn't talk at all and have no conversations that's the right answer, suuuuure man
My ex wife used to park on the car park spot where they found him when she used to go to Social Services with her son who has Cerebral Palsy.
When they discovered Richard’s remains she was amazed.
no, she wasn't. she just pretended to care.
When I visited England a few years ago I visited Richard111 tomb. It was so moving, made me cry. I was always an admirer of his because he was well beloved in the north and was a wise lawmaker.
I must respectfully disagree with your assessment. RIII could not considered a good guy at any time in his 32 years.
@@dolinaj1, except perhaps at his death?
@@dolinaj1 excepto cuando combatia por su hermano.
@@dolinaj1just shows you don’t know what you are talking about
@@dolinaj1 Get your nose out of Shakespeare, Holinshed, More -- who shelved his "history" once he understood how much bogus "testimony" he was getting -- and read some of the actual history.
I've always wondered how some buildings managed to be intact how they were when it was first built and how others got leveled and rebuilt to "current" styling and architecture throughout history.
Thank you patreon supporters for making these incredible stories come to life, and to the battle guide team: keep up the phenomenal presentations with incredible graphics and overlay of the maps and terrain; absolutely love seeing the event maps overlaid the current landscape
What are you talking about?
Your comment makes absolutely no sense at all.
According to many sources of the day Richard was popular. I don't think we can take Shakespeare's word on anything
Not to mention the reigning monarch in Shakespear's day was a Tudor, praising Richard III would be impolitic to say the least !
@@johnwatters6922 something you could have lost your head over...they didn't take to political satire that well..
Even though they knew he was dead, the people of York produced a letter saying what a great man he was.
@@johnwatters6922 And considering Shake-speare was most likely Edward DeVere, 17th Earl of Oxford, that makes sense.
Shakespeare toed the political line.
As to popularity, who knows? And what does that mean? Farage is popular with some and seen as a traitor to the nation by others.
Very entertaining and educational! Thanks for the details on Richard III's death as well as on my 15th great-grandfather, John Howard, Duke of Northfolk.
Really, really appreciate the voiceover in Spanish, and not in a crappy robotic-totally-non-human voice. I enjoyed so much the video in my mother tongue. ❤
Thanks
There's compelling entrance that his 2 nephews where not murdered in the tower but survived and tried to retake the thrown when they were old enough,there's a great doc. on channel 4
Excellent video sir
Many thanks
Well researched and animated to give a great historical account of Richard III and the battle. Thank you. 🇦🇺
However, there is no definitive proof that Richard had his nephew's murdered.
@ I’ve seen it but it’s the way he’s explained that was better.
Hard to know the reality of what these people were really like as character assassination was fallback position No.1 in order to legitimise oneself, and one's actions. All accounts confirm that he died like a man, fighting at the front of his own battle, and going down fighting whilst surrounded by his enemies.
its acheloly and wait.... history.
That's true except every war aside world war 2. The winners were honest about that war.
@@mikerelva6915lol is that a joke? There is so much falsity on WW2 there's a documentary which touches on it called Europa the last battle, you should watch it
Character assassination is still widely used today.
are you a soldier ? do you know how hold a weapon in a combat situation ? ???
"A horse a horse , my kingdom for a horse" Richard III , Shakespear .
He was aledgedly to eager to enter the fray and rushed in like a wild man , ultimately getting trapped in the mud to far away from his back up , it didn't end well .
Edit : Great naration and well researched , subbed 👊
He had already been involved in the battle as he was a veteran of many battles and was a well known, fierce fighter. He “rushed in like a mad man” because he saw that Henry, who was too big a coward to actually fight for the throne, was standing there with little protection, and Richard hoped that killing Henry would end the battle. Immediately. He almost succeeded and came THIS CLOSE to killing Henry!
As much as I admire his skill in battle, I fully believe he did indeed have his nephews murdered.
He removed ANYONE whom he felt was loyal to his brother Edward IV and would stand in his way.
Research what he did to Lord Hastings, summarily executed without a trial in a set up!
And then Edmund cut off his head... 😅
Relying on Shakespeare as a source is like relying on GRRM for a history of Europe during the Middle Ages.
Well, when your chief patron is a descendant of Henry Tudor and a rather vindictive, ruthless Queen at that, you make damn well sure to portray Richard Plantagenent as a retched, deceitful bastard as much as possible. Even going so far to give Richard a hunchback, which he never had. This was done to make Richard more of a black-hearted villain. Back in those times, having a Hunchback and a Gammy Arm ment that you were marked by "The Evil One."
In the end, William Shakespeare obviously liked his head where it was. On his shoulders and not on the pointy end of a Pike.😊
Still, the bard of Avon is still probably more reliable than the BBCtoday.
Seriously though - I wrote a paper in college on how Shakespeare was most likely an amalgamation of multiple poets from the time.
That Shakespeare was most likely a royal who just took credit for writing the plays and poems.
Paper got an A.
@@saltycanadian6190omg that would be a interesting read
@ a prof who has a degree in Shakespeare thought it was, and gave me an A
What a brilliant doco, a model of how it should be done. Clear, concise, imaginative & detailed design. Not a wasted moment.
Bedankt
Awesome video guys, well done!
Glad you enjoyed it!
The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey is a great book about Richard examining the motives of everyone in the murder of the princes from the "cui bono" point of view and Richard had none.
Yes, I read that book but had forgotten its title. It was a gripping detective story using logic,
@taniagoldman yes and it deepened my scepticism of "history"
Very good. Very well articulated. Very thorough. I enjoyed this explanation as to why he was buried under a car park.
Well done. You always do a great job of recreating history in an interesting and accurate way.
What you guys have done here is outstanding and incredibly interesting. I love this type of content. Can’t wait to watch the rest, especially Stalingrad, my personal favorite.
Yet again another exceptional video..
I wish you’d have been my history teacher I’d have learnt way more than I actually did😳🤣
Wow, thank you!
The history we have been taught all these years is from Henry Tudor 's point of view , so he would want Richard to look as a tyrant as they say history is written by the victors
Yep, Richard III, along with AH. Seen a recent documentary on the US President Abraham Lincoln: a deified individual who was a horrendous totalitarian leader.
Doesn't mean they are wrong.
@@SK-lt1soToo many holes in the Tudor fable!
Wow. Thank you! Having researched and written a report on this event as a student some twenty eight years earlier, I remember my amazement when this discovery was reported back in 2012.
Goosebumps. Now find Alfred.
And Henry I!
...and Stephen
Josephine Tey's historical detective novel, the name of which I've forgotten, has some interesting conclusions which I think are correct. The little princes' murder was a frame up. Shakespeare was a propagandist for the Tudors.
The Daughter of Time. As in Truth is the daughter of time. Richard III was much loved in the North and loyalists remained apparently for generations. He was supposedly the first to make an accused person innocent until proven guilty. Until then you had to prove you were innocent. He was the last of the Plantagenents to rule and his death led to the Tudors usurping the Crown although legitimate Plantagenent heirs survived. Including the Princes in the Tower, who the Tudors had plenty of motivation to kill and blame Richard III. So the entire Tudor line is illegitimate - all the way to this day. I read that the legitimate King of England is a man in Australia !
@annemarieritchie6741 That's the one! I saw an interview with the Australian and unfortunately it wasn't inspiring to say the least.
I'm really enjoying the variation in topics. Wonderful story telling as usual!
That was fantastic, I'm so impressed at the depth of information. I've learnt a lot. Thank you.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Fantastic! Wonderful job.
There was this joke about the Richard III being so malevolent, that he took up two parking spaces.
Très intéressant merci!
This was great quality and clearly well studied. I'm subscribing! 🙂
Excellent historical overview. Thank you
Glad you enjoyed it
Very interesting & quite informative; cheers to everyone involved in this fantastic video!🥂😃🇺🇸
Glad you enjoyed it
Excellent combination of historical sources and modern archaeology! I'm not sure why I had not discovered your channel sooner... So I will just blame faulty YT algorithm.
Interesting! Thank you.
This is some of the best content I've ever seen.
"Moderate scolicios" are you joking here?
His spine was like a U bend!
I was about to say if that’s moderate then severe must be insane
His vertebra in life may not have been as severely twisted as the reconstruction of its parts presented it in death.
Scoliosis
Great video! I would have liked to see Richard buried in York Minster as he wished, with his wife, and indeed paid for.
Me encanta q hayan empezado a doblar sus videos al español.
0:30 😮 omg the scoliosis is shocking
The angle at l1 must have been causing herniated discs and impinged nerves surely 😢 if that’s moderate I’d hate to see severe
It looks painful, doesn't it? Poor guy.
Yes, I was very surprised when he used the word “moderate”.
Fascinating, an excellent critique and summary of the death of a King of England and France.
Merci beaucoup pour cette vidéo très enrichissante👍
Great video very interesting thanks
Thanks Dan!
What a fantastically interesting video! Of course, all of us history nerds watched the dig and resulting findings over the years until the truth of the skeleton was revealed but to see the battle and the fall of Richard like this was thrilling. Thanks so much.
Crazy how bones can be preserved for almost 600 years under a car park!
Well it wasnt a car park for most of this time tho :D
@@vicitoedemane1244 Yeah, well unless you, Mr. Know-it-all, have an accredited PhD in English Car Parks, I don't consider you as a car park expert qualified enough to make such a blanket assertion/assumption.
@@leszekwolkowski9856so you are arguing there were carparks before 1755? Interesting, please explain your logic
@@kevster2171don't think i don't see what you're doing here -- you're trying to entrap me with a straw man argument. I'm not falling for you dirty tricks.
For crazy preservation. Look up St Bees Man, discovered in 1981. These bones have been lucky to have just the right soil ph and moisture levels.
These videos are brilliant
IMO - the actual battle site needs a couple monuments.
Wow, I grew up really close to mill bay and was unaware of its historical significance. Amazing video.
Awesome story!!
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Thanks for watching!
Not a single mention to Philippa Langley, why?
Mentioned in the show notes.
@@BattleGuideVT How many people read the show notes?
@@nforne well they should - it would save them from complaining incorrectly that Philippa Langley wasn't mentioned when we even provided a link to her website?
I think, the poster thought Philippa should have received more of one mention ( in the notes)...not a criticism as I loved this post. If it wasn't for Philippa...well, we are here because of her, never have we known so much about an English king.
would love to watch more videos of the more ancient battles like this one rather than the modern ones. Enjoyed this a lot, thank you!
Thank you for presenting this informative series of events leading to the discovery of Richard 111.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Wonderful video, tank you!
The UK may have remained Catholic. The Ulster plantation may never have happened. Fascinating to think that one man’s death affected so many lives.
Excellent presentation- thank you!
excellente video
New Sub here! Your illustratives,and narrative are superb!
Fascinating stuff ,i enjoyed this very much .Well done 😊 subscribed
Welcome aboard!
Excelente video.
Can you do a video on the Isle of Man as it has a rich history and you mentioned lord stanley whose family has a history there
Super interessant danke. Was mich etwas irritiert ist, das tamtam mit der Beisetzung. Als wäre er ein Held gewesen.
Really enjoyed your video! However, I thought it is not entirely certain that Richard III murdered his nephews, the Princes in the Tower, and that some have suggested that he may have held them captive without killing them and that it is more likely that Henry VII Tudor had them killed as they posed a threat to his new Tudor dynasty?
😂😂😂 stop embarrassing yourself he killed his nephews and took the throne... he done it for the exact same reason you're trying to say henry did
The Tower of London has a long article about the Princes in the Tower on their website, including a list of prime suspects. Yes, Richard III is on it, but so are Henry VII and his mother, Margaret Beaufort
@@S.D._Amersfoort that's history for ya
@@blazet300 🤐
And there is a theory they were helped to escape
One of the mounted knights in full harness who escorted the coffin through Leicester was Toby Capwell, from 2006 to 2022 Curator of Arms and Armour at the Wallace Collection.
The whole story was weird. Phillipa Langley (the head of the project) got rejected by other archologists, because she wanted the first trench on that spot, not because she knew the plans of the church, but because the parkinglot was marked with an R (it ment resered, however Phillipa said, thats a sign)
Basically every historian and archologist in the world said to her (meaning) "Thats not a serious way of doing things. We are looking for facts and see if they match with our findings. You want the R to be Richard, thats not scientific and X or in this case R NEVER marks the spot." Well...she was right.
Absolutely adore your content - but the use of AI art within a product as professional as the channel regularly puts out... it's a bit meh. AI art is notorious for getting details not just wrong, but often entirely misrepresenting the subject matter it's attempting to recreate. Ultimately it ends up polluting actual sources and historical reference imagery that exists (I do a lot of visual referencing for work and search engines are a cesspit of AI falsehood at present)
Please reconsider the use AI imagery - or do try run a sanity pass with an artist/historian to check that things line up (i cursory issues - The flags in the image are incorrect and no one has a face, the Bow Bridge image is attempting to recreate a far later Georgian/Victorian illustration. The cavalry charge image - medieval fantasy)
Regardless of this though, awesome stuff as always and thanks for the thoroughly enjoyable video.
Great video, thank you for all your hard work
Passionnant. Merci
His last minutes must have been terrifying.
From Eupedia :On 12 September 2012, archeologists from the University of Leicester announced that they had discovered what they believed were the remains of King Richard III of England (1452-1485) within the former Greyfriars Friary Church in the city of Leicester (see Exhumation of Richard III). The skeleton's DNA matched exactly the mitochondiral haplogroup (J1c2c) of modern matrilineal descendants of Anne of York, Richard's elder sister, confirming the identity of the medieval king. Further tests published in December 2014 revealed that his Y-chromosomal haplogroup was G2 (not tested for downstream mutations, but statistically very likely to be G2a3 as a northern European). This however did not match the Y-DNA of three modern relatives (who were all R1b-U152 xL2) descended from Edward III, Richard III's great-great-grand-father. Richard descends from the House of York, while the modern relatives descend from the House of Lancaster via John of Gaunt. Therefore it cannot be determined at present when the non-paternity event occured in the Plantagenet lineage, and whether most of the Plantagenets monarchs belonged to haplogroup G2 or R1b-U152. Both haplogroups are considerably more common in France than in Britain, however, which is consistent with the French roots of the House of Plantagenets.
Je viens de m abonner a votre chaîne , je vais passer du bon temps grâce à votre travail sérieux sur l histoire
Just found your chanel and love it so I just had to like and subscribe.
Enjoyed this one very much.
Solo una palabra IM PRESIONANTE. thanks 🙏🏼
Was Richard actually as bad as we have been told to believe? Did Richard have any kind of vision for the future of England other than his dynasty?
I think having your nephews killed that was your duty to protect, and taking the throne, counts as being a bad guy.
No because they ended up with the psychotic tuders
@@jamesmacpherson1182 That only means he is in “good”:company.
Don't think so, York vs Lancaster was pretty full on🤔
All this is because someone didn't sort out the drainage in the lower field...
great video , make more of these medieval ones
Können sie ein Video vom Tod Richard I Löwenherz (1157-1199) bringen. Währe sehr interessant, danke regards
Very cool video thank you guys! Subscribed!
Excellent video. I just subscribed. Thank you!
Thanks for the sub!
Didn't they find Richard's remains under a parking space marked with an "R" for 'Reserved'?😏
yes
@Maranatha1927 thought so 👍
Yup
@TheAislynnRose probably they were looking for the ♿️ space initially do you think?
Or maybe for “Richard”?
What an awesome video
That Richard III had his nephews done away with has never been proven. An excellent piece of work, however. Richard III, of course, should have found his final resting place in York Minster and not in some obscure cathedral.
Thanks for this presentation. But: no, we don't know that Richard killed his nephews, and this: if it had been left to the historians and archeologists Richard would still be under the car park. It was due to the persistence of Philippa Langley and the Richard III Society that the recovery of Richard's remains happened at all.
C'était un roi courageux et brave ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Excellent video!
Thank you very much!
There's a t shirt that says: Richard III put the "king" in "parking"
All kidding aside he was the real deal
Philippa Langley and Rob Rinder did an amazing program about the 2 princess.
Battle reenactment day is a wonderful day out at Bosworth .
Incredible! Thanks.
C'était super intéressant merci