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  • Danny Dyer visits Henry VIII's Hampton Court Palace, the old stomping grounds of his ancestor Thomas Cromwell, where he also discovers his links to the Seymour's.
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  • @leonewest2239
    @leonewest2239 3 года назад +52

    In a portrait of Thomas Cromwell by Hans Holbein, Danny absolutely has inherited his ancestors eyes , and facial structure.

  • @harriette2000
    @harriette2000 4 года назад +105

    Danny is a bloke who handles the initial findings about his great grandmother with compassion. It is a joy to see his delight when the extraordinary tale of his forebears is unearthed. To all those begrudging people who carp on that his heritage is no big deal and that ‘everyone is related to royalty’ should reflect that there have been just one or two other people on UK WDYTYA who have found out that they were related to Edward the 3rd and they were toffs in the first place. The whiners should review the video and note how impressed the historians and genealogists are at Danny’s bloodline. It can’t be that common if they are reacting this way. Good on the geezer! He’s funny and personable.

    • @jamessimpson6971
      @jamessimpson6971 4 года назад +10

      harriette2000 Everyone is related to royalty. 99% of Britons are descendants of Edward III and 100% of Europeans are directly related Charles I due to his excessive affairs and marriages leading to 18 children who all went on to have ten of their own etc. However, the reason that Danny Dyer’s bloodline is so extraordinary is the fact that he is also related to some of the greatest Brits in history, such as the Seymour and Cromwell family and also Louis XI of France and William the Conqueror.

    • @johnwhittington2998
      @johnwhittington2998 4 года назад +4

      @@jamessimpson6971 those sound like definitive stats their James.

    • @carokat1111
      @carokat1111 3 года назад +8

      @@jamessimpson6971 People say that but I do not believe it is true. My lines are all humble origins to the early 1600s so far.

    • @jacobdjjsjj2418
      @jacobdjjsjj2418 3 года назад +3

      @@jamessimpson6971 nah

    • @MrGksarathy
      @MrGksarathy 2 года назад +6

      Six Degrees of Separation absolutely applies to genealogy, but that doesn't make Danny Dyer's family history any less cool. It just makes everyone's history potentially amazing.

  • @Schneefernerkopf
    @Schneefernerkopf 5 лет назад +66

    I love his voice. So soft and sonorous.

  • @thordisfynehair9442
    @thordisfynehair9442 4 года назад +28

    Love listening to Danny's family history that is peopled with oodles of well-known folk & royals. Danny may not be rich in money, but is rich in family history!

  • @NDiaz-et6hc
    @NDiaz-et6hc 5 лет назад +70

    Oh my, I have to say, a week ago I had no idea who Danny Dyer is. I start watching his journey of discovery of his family history, understanding only every other word, but I am a new fan from across the pond! I feel for Danny when he stops to think of his journey and then learns of his roots, it's truly inspiring :) Cheers Danny 'Earl of Essex', from Canada

    • @bonniefain4164
      @bonniefain4164 4 года назад +5

      Hi, i also am decended from edward the 3rd -& the 4th a little further down the line so we're cousins many times removed or what ever you call it.were family

  • @susancarroll9499
    @susancarroll9499 5 лет назад +112

    We must remember that they are talking about Thomas Cromwell NOT Oliver

    • @fatemaq363
      @fatemaq363 5 лет назад +9

      Susan Carroll do people seriously not know the difference lmao

    • @MsBhappy
      @MsBhappy 5 лет назад +6

      @@fatemaq363 As a British dual citizen living in Canada, I have never heard of either

    • @mjrussell414
      @mjrussell414 4 года назад +22

      OldSoulMillennial Then you are sadly under educated.

    • @ds1868
      @ds1868 4 года назад +14

      Please remember that Richard Cromwell and Oliver Cromwell belong to the same family - they were collaterally related. Therefore Danny Dyer is also collaterally related to Oliver Cromwell.

    • @najkraemer3117
      @najkraemer3117 4 года назад +8

      @@MsBhappy Oliver Cromwell lead the armies of parlament against the king during the english civil war.

  • @lwhite530
    @lwhite530 4 года назад +20

    It’s still amazing that he can trace his relatives this far!

  • @pamwatson5905
    @pamwatson5905 3 года назад +9

    Hilarious. 'In a way I'm sort of the Earl of Essex '. Go on Danny!

  • @cappygolucky
    @cappygolucky 4 года назад +21

    The guy looks like he reeks power look at the eyes faaark
    The resemblance is phenomenal

  • @mtcannon2541
    @mtcannon2541 2 года назад +4

    This is the best example of getting to really understand w/full appreciation who enflueced your DNA.

  • @sophj95
    @sophj95 3 года назад +7

    Thomas Cromwell is my 15th great uncle making Danny my 17th cousin.

  • @Vic35102
    @Vic35102 4 года назад +3

    Most gracious prince I cry for mercy mercy mercy

  • @aliciao.5731
    @aliciao.5731 4 года назад +22

    I'm excited to go back 6-7 generations, imagine 15!

  • @johnjosmith42
    @johnjosmith42 4 года назад +19

    Someone buy the man some Hilary Mantel books already.

  • @KishaAmenio06x
    @KishaAmenio06x Год назад +1

    Great vlog

  • @Thebigbluemeany
    @Thebigbluemeany Год назад +5

    You know... actually, thinking about Cromwell from 15th Century Putney as a bit Danny Dyer-like but also super competent at governace sort of helps you understand why a man like Henry VIII might have liked him and how he had the charisma and physical toughness to rise as high as he did. If Thomas Cromwell was more like Dyer than he was like Mark Rylance in Wolf Hall... you know I can still see it working.

    • @si4632
      @si4632 4 месяца назад

      Super intelligent and evil of course

    • @si4632
      @si4632 4 месяца назад

      Wolf hall classic anti catholic twaddle is she dead now 🤪

  • @shoshanahsusanbrenner2224
    @shoshanahsusanbrenner2224 4 года назад +20

    I'm directly descended from the first Earl of Pembroke. He was married to King Edward IIIs daughter, Margaret in 1359. I also seem to have a direct connection to Queen Anne Boleyn if the ancestry is correct.

    • @marshaboody9069
      @marshaboody9069 4 года назад +1

      When Anne said "Let them eat cake"🍰 She was giving them the very best flour to eat,the cake flour.👑

    • @isd4154
      @isd4154 3 года назад

      @Bookshelf Anne said "let them eat cake." I met her and she said it

    • @marksadler4104
      @marksadler4104 2 года назад

      I'm descended to Edward iii through his son John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster....that's providing if the ancestry is correct.

    • @RLaHive
      @RLaHive 11 месяцев назад

      Me too. Through both Elizabeth Marshall and the De Clare Earls of Hertford and also through Eva Marshall.

  • @jaana944
    @jaana944 4 года назад +4

    Danny is so sweet!

  • @philkearney0577
    @philkearney0577 5 лет назад +16

    This bird defo has a soft spot for my dyer 😍😂

  • @hilaryc3203
    @hilaryc3203 4 года назад +30

    I'm also descended from the Cromwell's and to be honest it's never been something to be proud of. We can go back many centuries, and while I have a passion for history, being descended from the Nobility and Kings isn't that special; as my brother says "for every gentle born family, there were some real bastards who got them there."

    • @nayten0324
      @nayten0324 3 года назад +5

      It’s more impressive to be a descendant of a famous person or something from the Victorian era because they have way less descendants than someone from medieval times. For example, being a descendant of Charles dickens is imo way more cool and exciting than being a descendant of one of the old kings

    • @hilaryc3203
      @hilaryc3203 3 года назад +5

      @@nayten0324 I agree. I'm descended from quite a few ancient kings - me and about a million other people ha ha. It comes with a few really neat stories, but I'd rather have Charles Dickens :)

    • @cambs0181
      @cambs0181 3 года назад +4

      It's strange how people on these comments who see it as not really a big deal, are the ones who have made an effort to search through hundreds of years of ancestry to find some form of nobility! Average generation is 25 and then your ancestor number doubles every generation, that's a lot of people.

    • @hilaryc3203
      @hilaryc3203 3 года назад

      @@cambs0181 Really, you seem to have your knickers in quite the knot there. tut tut. You are assuming I searched through hundreds of years to find some form of nobility? Whilst it is interesting to know the path of ones lines through time, not all is research. Many families, mine included, have always known. The Cromwell were the low men on the totem pole as far as nobility is concerned. Just because someone is renowned, it doesn't make him noble.
      Obviously, there are scores of people descended. I really don't know what point you are trying to make other than you think I need to be taken down a notch. LOL Did that brighten your day sweetheart?

    • @sophj95
      @sophj95 3 года назад +2

      I'm a descendant too,
      Thomas was my 15th great uncle.

  • @shawnchristopherwhite3271
    @shawnchristopherwhite3271 4 года назад +1

    'kin A! Love this episode!

  • @consman22
    @consman22 3 года назад +3

    People need to watch the mini series wolf hall

  • @beastieber4345
    @beastieber4345 5 лет назад +5

    Danny Dyer is my favourite actor

  • @beastieber4345
    @beastieber4345 5 лет назад +9

    I really can't believe that Danny Dyer is royalty

    • @TopGunSGA
      @TopGunSGA 5 лет назад +8

      No, but Danny Dyer is also descended from William the Conqueror

    • @ds1868
      @ds1868 4 года назад +7

      @@TopGunSGA most of us are descended from William the Conqueror. It's just a question of proving it. Nothing special about it at all

    • @ioannesimagiste200
      @ioannesimagiste200 4 года назад +10

      @@ds1868 It actually is special because Danny descends from Edward III in a direct, legitimate line. Most people are descendants of royal bastards or natural children of distant royal relatives.

    • @haydenslife6203
      @haydenslife6203 4 года назад +1

      @@ioannesimagiste200 well I'm a relative of oliver but surely a large percentage of the UK would be

  • @Deborah-yc8rp
    @Deborah-yc8rp Месяц назад

    I have been fascinated by Thomas Cromwell since I was about 11. I would be thrilled if I thought I was a descendant of his.

  • @thedemonnoof4383
    @thedemonnoof4383 4 года назад +3

    I'm desscended from exiled nobility. Descendant of Baderon.

  • @helloschoales
    @helloschoales 3 года назад

    Epic

  • @annettew5
    @annettew5 2 года назад +1

    Cool, I'm also related to the Cromwell's too.

    • @DanceySteveYNWA
      @DanceySteveYNWA 2 года назад

      We're all related, it's just a matter of going back through the lineage

  • @annastinehammersdottir1290
    @annastinehammersdottir1290 2 года назад +7

    Make no mistake Danny: your ancestor was better educated and sharper than all the Lords thrown together and everybody knew it and disliked it. May I suggest Hilary Mantel's award-winning triptych of novels - she gets under the skin and psyche of her subjects and her take on Cromwell is extraordinary.

    • @dianaverano7878
      @dianaverano7878 Год назад +1

      Those " Lords" came from " good families of the elite" while Cromwell had " wit"
      Yup that generates resentments from those who felt Cromwell did not " belong", as Cromwell is from a commoner descent.

    • @si4632
      @si4632 4 месяца назад

      Wolf hall is just anti catholic twaddle 🤣 fiction

  • @logandickenson1
    @logandickenson1 4 года назад +3

    Thomas Cromwell is a great grandfather of mine. Small world.

    • @haydenslife6203
      @haydenslife6203 4 года назад +2

      Oliver Cromwell is a great grandfather of mine on my grandmas side of them family

    • @logandickenson1
      @logandickenson1 4 года назад +2

      haydens life then that would make us distantly related! What part of the world are you from?

  • @littlecherryful
    @littlecherryful 3 года назад +2

    I loved Danny dyer what a legend !

  • @Tyler.i.81
    @Tyler.i.81 4 года назад +2

    Who would have thought it.

  • @leonarhanneken2629
    @leonarhanneken2629 Год назад

    Thomas Cromwell is in my family tree. So hello cousin

  • @ianstewart2252
    @ianstewart2252 Год назад

    Danny hardest man in fkn history ...related same as half the fkn country ..

  • @lauraleecreations3217
    @lauraleecreations3217 Год назад

    ❤️❤️❤️

  • @paulreader7353
    @paulreader7353 4 года назад +3

    Sir Edward Neville beheaded at the the tower ,1538 My wife’s 13 great grandfather because he fell
    out with Cromwell over who owned a priory in kent

  • @sarahisreal7879
    @sarahisreal7879 5 лет назад +7

    I like this man well connected like Boris Johnson

  • @ChristopherMarshburn
    @ChristopherMarshburn Год назад

    Hope he goes to Hever Castle and sees his ancestor’s prayer book. His religious faith has been until recently underestimated.

  • @ChrisRubeo
    @ChrisRubeo 3 года назад +3

    A person has 32,000 15th Great Grandfathers.

    • @JamesHolmez
      @JamesHolmez Год назад

      True, but knowing who a few of them are is better than knowing you have 32,000

    • @RLaHive
      @RLaHive 11 месяцев назад +1

      This assumes a simplified model where there is no intermarriage between family lines and no shared ancestors due to common ancestry. In reality, due to intermarriage within communities and populations, many of your ancestors from different lines could be related to each other. In my case, especially as it gets to nobility, my families are certainly intertwined. My 12th and 15th great-grandparents were cousins.

  • @zellah
    @zellah Год назад

    Cromwell!! Yikes!

  • @beastieber4345
    @beastieber4345 4 года назад +1

    I.love dannydyer

  • @brillsmith2207
    @brillsmith2207 Год назад

    i Descend form the duke of Norfolk lol

  • @cherylmcmanus3669
    @cherylmcmanus3669 2 года назад

    We a re cousins! Thomas Cromwell is my 13th Grand Uncle!!

  • @gloriahanes5338
    @gloriahanes5338 3 года назад

    Now London Bridge is in Lake Havasu, Arizona in America ....remind me not to walk on this bridge its probably haunted.

  • @graphiquejack
    @graphiquejack 5 лет назад +23

    Cromwell was a grubby, greedy courtier like all the others. You could admire him for rising from nothing based on his ability, but it's hard to forgive him for falsely accusing Anne Boleyn of incest, adultery and treason. He played with fire, pulled down a queen, and got burned forcing Henry to marry another one. Eye for an eye, I'd say.

    • @shoshanahsusanbrenner2224
      @shoshanahsusanbrenner2224 4 года назад

      I agree, GraphiqueJack.

    • @francesca9423
      @francesca9423 2 года назад +2

      Although Cromwell absolutely orchestrated the plot, and deserves the blame in that way, I’d say Henry also deserves a good deal of blame in that equation. I don’t think Cromwell would’ve done it without the kings permission.
      And tbh I think he was a good deal better in some ways than many of the other noblemen. He tried to do a lot for the common people, which is more than can be said for the rest of them

    • @graphiquejack
      @graphiquejack 2 месяца назад

      @@francesca9423I have a feeling Henry wanted another annulment, but Cromwell wanted Anne dead, both to make sure she couldn’t cause trouble for Henry, but also for himself. And let’s not forget that the main falling out Anne had with Cromwell was that he wanted the spoils from the monestaries to go to the king, his cronies, and himself. Anne actually wanted the money to go to hospitals, colleges and other civic institutions that could help the poor. I don’t see Cromwell as caring too much for the common man, sorry to say. If he was, he wouldn’t have orchestrated the downfall of a queen who actually was acting for the people.

    • @francesca9423
      @francesca9423 2 месяца назад +1

      @@graphiquejack a lot of academics disagree with you on that actually - Henry pushed for execution, he wanted her dead, not the other way around.
      Also Cromwell did want money to go to the king, yes, and there was corruption absolutely, but he also wanted monasteries to stay open as colleges, he didn’t want them all closed, and he also wanted money to go to social reform. The poor laws he had drafted do factor in the replacement of the social services the monasteries provided. His role in the dissolutions is much more complicated than the simple conceptualisation you described allows for.
      I could also bore you with a whole list of policies he implemented/tried to implement for the poor, and a lot of good he did/tried to do, but then this comment would get way too long. Like even the people he patronised/his court circle were made up of the ‘commonwealth men’ interested in social policies. It’s not his fault some of the more major changes he pushed for didn’t get through parliament.
      And his argument with Anne (although that was part of it) is more complicated than solely the issue of monastic funds.
      But yeah I wouldn’t say he cared for the common people, social reform, and education if there wasn’t plenty of evidence for it - even his contemporaries remarked on it, and lamented the loss of that after his death. none of the other ministers seemed to have cared as much

  • @nomdeplume2213
    @nomdeplume2213 2 года назад

    Wait so if hes related to henry III and Henry the XIII killed Cromwell doesnt that mean his ancestor killed his ancestor? Or were the Henry's not related?

  • @McMxxCiV
    @McMxxCiV Год назад

    It's all pretty amazing until you calculate that, with a conservative estimate of 4 children per generation going on to have kids of their own, Cromwell would have over a quarter billion descendants (4 to the 14th power), so every single person in the UK would be a descendant through four different intertwined branches.

  • @irenemisconi9876
    @irenemisconi9876 5 лет назад +2

    M

  • @SarahSmith-nr2wj
    @SarahSmith-nr2wj 2 года назад

    😆

  • @mcfcguvnors
    @mcfcguvnors 3 года назад

    babe...lmao

  • @AshLoRo
    @AshLoRo 3 года назад

    Dany looking up to god, hearing Cromwell father had a pub 🤣🙈..... Dany you dont have a real Pub. The cringe.

  • @justineharper3346
    @justineharper3346 Год назад

    I’ve always had a deep fascination with Anne Boleyn, which is why I’ve never liked Thomas Cromwell. I’ve always seen him as a villain. I guess there’s always two sides to every story though

    • @si4632
      @si4632 4 месяца назад

      She was just as bad as he was both revolutionaries

    • @si4632
      @si4632 4 месяца назад

      Both wanted to steal church land and money which acted like the social security for the poor

  • @peterkrauss6962
    @peterkrauss6962 3 года назад +1

    Guy sounds posessed

  • @kingjoeyflite2777
    @kingjoeyflite2777 2 года назад

    Once again
    My moms dna came back Richard lll
    Not these wanna bes

  • @Philippositivity
    @Philippositivity 4 года назад +8

    So he’s related to Boris Johnson. 🐥💜🦋Average Global Temperature remains 14 degrees Centigrade since 1850.😎Your welcome.

  • @karengayehammat4199
    @karengayehammat4199 Год назад

    We should all say we have the female ancestors blood running through our veins , shouldn't we , that's how it actually works biologically .

  • @michaelcox545
    @michaelcox545 3 года назад +4

    Wouldnt feel to bad for Thomas Cromwell and his making on Tower Hill, he was the one who stitched up Anne Boleyn as well as the 5 other men that were hung drawn and quartered on false accusations of infidelity to Henry VIII.

    • @suechapman5822
      @suechapman5822 3 года назад

      The men weren’t hung, drawn and quartered - they were beheaded.

    • @francesca9423
      @francesca9423 2 года назад

      he orchestrated the charges, but I don’t think he would’ve done it if it wasn’t what Henry wanted

  • @uck8978
    @uck8978 5 лет назад +3

    Don’t know much about Danny Dyer, not his fan... a lowbrow learns about his exceptional origins

    • @galehall5742
      @galehall5742 5 лет назад +20

      What an unfortunate comment.

    • @terrynstasha
      @terrynstasha 4 года назад +12

      How incredibly rude!

    • @hanz090
      @hanz090 4 года назад +8

      Someone jealous? Lol

    • @ladymaiden2308
      @ladymaiden2308 4 года назад +3

      @@hanz090 yep. You nailed it I'd say.

  • @cavl894
    @cavl894 4 года назад +2

    Remainer plonker

    • @Zombehnation1001
      @Zombehnation1001 4 года назад +2

      Danny dyer has more economic knowledge than you, just think about that