The Saxon Nun Who Changed Scottish History
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- Опубликовано: 3 ноя 2023
- Who would have thought that the driver behind one of the pivotal changes in Scotland's history would be a Saxon nun? Scottish history tour guide, Bruce Fummey takes you to Dunfermline Abbey to look at the life of Edith of Scotland... later to become Matilda
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OH NO! Did I miss your birthday?
What's the link to the video on Edith's dad?
You’re 2-years older than me 😂
I’m also turning 60 next year, and the tour sounds amazing, but the dates don’t gybe with my work schedule. Any chance there might be a repeat tour in 2029 for your 65th?
Keep up the good work my friend ❤ Scotland needs a new king. Bruce Bruce Bruce..! 🛡️ 👑 🗡️
Bruce's videos are the best thing about a Saturday morning.
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True dat.
I truly must agree 👍🏻🏴
Or a Saturday ...😊😊evening
Indeed!
As a son of Dunfermline, I love seeing videos about it. Thanks so much for showing the incredible architecture of the Abbey to the world. When I was at school, history gave me up as it was just about dates. Now, much older, I can begin to appreciate the history of the country. Keep up the great work.
Love it
Seconded...the sound of music though...yikes....😅😅😅
I knew Edith/Matilda's story, though from a more Norman perspective. This was such an entertaining retelling!
I'm delighted
I missed you Mr Fumey! I HAD NO IDEA YOU COULD HOLD A TUNE EITHER! Humorist, Historian, Singer: A TRIPLE THREAT! 😂
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Yay, Edith! I'm a descendant of Malcolm Canmore and St. Margaret 😊
You rock, Bruce!
As Queen of England, Matilda was a generous benefactor. She founded the leper hospital of St Giles in Holborn, and the priory of Holy a trinity at Aldgate, and she built the first public lavatory and public bath in the city of London. She also patronised writers and musicians, she was particularly fond of music and generous to good church musicians,
She sounds like an amazing woman, the kind of ferociously intelligent, spirited, strong-willed, probably beautiful women that I always admire. The kind for whom the concept of "other people guaranteeing women's rights to her" would have been a flat insult. Because she didn't need anyone else to do stuff for her. Thanks for a great story!
@benjaminlasseter, never forget that rights like those you are talking about should also be extended to those who aren't strong enough to stand up for them. I'm having to stand up for mine in the States right now and it makes me sick to think of how many elderly women are probably getting cheated like they're trying to do to me because they don't understand what they're entitled to by law! Men who don't have education could be having the same problem too! Does that change the equation?
Nobody should have to waste their energy fighting for human rights as if it was a tournament win. All women should have access without fighting and proving they deserve it.
@@lenabreijer1311 thank you!😊
Aye Bruce, yer no turning 60. I must admit I was tempted to once but chose 22 instead, and it was the happiest fifty years of my life. Have a great birthday, and if I win the lotto, I'll come shout yer. Till then, keep them coming; I love yer yarns.
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I love your videos. I was bored with history before watching them. I didn't like genealogy. But I started watching your videos because Scotland came up. My maiden name is Cameron. My great grandparents emigrated from the Scottish Highlands to Canada in the 19th century.
Thank you for making Scotland sound much more interesting than I previously thought it was.
Dear Bruce, I could listen to you talking about history for HOURS! And the fact that I visited that magnificent abbey just a few weeks ago makes this video even more interesting! Loved it!! And the Abbey is absolutely amazing!
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Last time I was this early, Edward still had short shanks... 😂
Edit to add, love your videos Bruce, just passed your channel onto my sons best friend aka my adopted son since he loves history.
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No one could tell this story like you Bruce with that wit and humour. Love it.
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Just another excellent video Bruce, your enthusiasm is infectious!
Ah thanks
The Boris Johnson WhatsApp reference was a scream! 🤣
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Hi Bruce, tremendous video, as always!😊 I love how you tie the bits of history together that the school book writers deem unworthy of knowledge into something that suddenly makes the history make sense! I knew where David came from. I didn't totally understand why he got the Scottish throne until now! It's no wonder that history is one of the least liked subjects in school: they don't teach it right! Correctly by dates alone, yes. Right, NO! This poor churchmouse appreciates you filling in those gaps every day! Thank you!
He dropped her off at the nunnery - age 6, although possibly younger - then shows up 13 (or 7) years later to denigrate everything she'd learned and become... and I thought my dad was a schmuck!
Medieval kings, What do you do with them eh?
Thank you Bruce, for shedding light on all this great Scottish history.
My pleasure!
Love these videos, Bruce. I was so pleased to meet you when you were in Melbourne.
I hope to be back again in 2025
Grew up near the Rufus stone in the New Forest (around about where he was supposedly shot) and now live near Dunfermline. I guess I’m a thousand years too late but I’m following this story about
She is wonderful! OMG! Your choice of words and pictures you paint! These people became so vividly real to me!
Brilliant
Great video tying some threads from Scottish and English history together. Also some beautiful views of my adopted home town.
Aye the abbey looked bonny didn't it?
Thanks for providing another interesting and important piece of British Isles history. And also for giving an example of the often neglected role that women played in shaping that history.
Wonderful take on a rather under appreciated woman's role in Scottish history.
I thoroughly enjoy your videos, Bruce. I have visited Rufus’ stone in the New Forest a number of times (I may be a Geordie but Mum’s from Lymington - that’s another story) and the Sir Walter Tyrell pub serves good food. Keep up the good work 🌞
Toff - tosser "I'm bilingual!" Hilarious! 😂😂😂
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Truly amazing history of Scotland !! Love this video thank you sir
Many thanks!
@@ScotlandHistoryTours very welcome! Can not wait for awesome videos !! 🇺🇸🏴
Classic as always my friend. Love hearing about our history.
Glad you enjoyed it
@@ScotlandHistoryTourswe do....😊😊😊
Thanks! As an American, that absolutely adores your channel I certainly wish I could come to your birthday party! Perhaps a pint on the old lady!
Ah thanks so much
Wonderful! Thank you for the history and the laughs! 😀🙏🇮🇪🏴🙋😁
Our pleasure!
That pic of Sycamore Gap, on Hadrian's Wall, caused a pang.
This was fascinating! I knew nowt about it. Cheers!
Hi Bruce, just back from your show in Dunfermline - we had a great time!
Brilliant
Awsome video again bruce. Totaly helped me unscramble my scottish history with your vids and still learnin fi them always a new bit of the jigsaw in every episode. 👍🏴🏴🏴🏴✌️
Brilliant
Cheers from Finland. That 60th trip sounds awesome. 👌
Come along 😁
Unsure of financial requirements. I did survey the program though.
I love your stories Bruce! But I do get lost and confused among all the names and people... I wish for a family tree diagram or a map and names showing arrows pointing where they were going or coming. But that's probably just me. I've never been great at studying/learning history.
Having names thrown at me confuses me as well; it’s not just you.
A simple diagram or chart would be nice, especially if some have the same name.
This is quite comprehensive: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_tree_of_Scottish_monarchs
@@Ulfcytel a _simple_ one would be nice lol
I do not envy genealogists their careers paths.
Some Abbesses had control of huge estates and property prior to the destruction of the monasteries.
An other grate story, See I told you fantastic people come from my birth place. Ps the wife still talks about our meeting in the Abbey. Many thanks. 😊
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Edith/Matilda is my 26th great-grandmother.
Never would have known this without your work - thank you!
My pleasure!
Did I really hear tjhose bells playing "The Campbells are Coming"?
You did indeed🤣
Got to look up Dunfermline to find out more about those musical bells! Edit: just did - info on the Abbey’s website says those bells are played by someone sitting at a keyboard!
Love your videos Bruce, love the stories and the beautiful landscapes (from Perth, Western Australia).
Many thanks!
Just visited Dunfermline a few weeks ago and it was great
This was an excellent video as always. I thought I saw you had a video on a woman named Black Agnes, who turned an English army with less than a dozen men at arms. I just heard about the story in passing but I swear I saw that you had a video on it. (Dunbar Castle maybe???? I can't remember exactly.)
Not only do I have a video about her, she's part of my live show
@@ScotlandHistoryTours Thanks a lot Bruce. Did you do it a while back? I went through the 'videos' list but didn't find it.
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Brilliant presentation over top yet informative great story telling
Thank you kindly!
Let me tell you a story Bruce's videos should be taught in history classes at school brilliant ☺️
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Years later when William had the entire population of Yorkshire massacred, I'll bet that they had wished they'd been part of Scotland instead of England. As for toff and tosser, I'm told that the terms are pretty much interchangeable.
Matilda was certainly one hell of a great woman, worthy of being a role model for girls to admire.
While I would love to see these places for myself, it’s good enough to watch your videos. Come for the architecture, stay for your humorous and informative stories 🥰
Best Peggy Wood impression I've heard this week!
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Great video as always. I have learned so much from you, thank you.
Awesome, thank you!
Hi Bruce!! thank you for another informative video :D
Ooft. What a grim tale. That poor wee lassie. She got the last laugh though!
Another great episode Bruce.Oh the twists and turns of history of the Scots.
thoroughly, enjoyed!!
Awesome, thank you!
Another great story Bruce, but if she was born in Scotland to Malcolm Canmore and Queen Margaret how is she a Saxon ? Was it because she took the veil ( or not) in an English monastery ?
Her mum Margaret was a Saxon princess. That's why Malcolm wanted to marry her. That's also why Henry wanted to marry Edith. Of course she's also the daughter of Malcolm but let me have a snappy title eh?
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GoodMornin' Bruce from Canada
Morning! Are you coming to see one of my shows in Canada? Some of the links are up now. Have a look www.brucefummey.co.uk/shows.aspx
Is Edith "waltzing Matilda"? Or is that song about someone else? Great video Bruce.
Of course 🤔
Great video! Looking forward to seeing your show tonight!
It's the biggest show of the tour😎
@@ScotlandHistoryTours Sweet! 😁
@@ScotlandHistoryToursThis Hoosier (Indiana native) thought your show tonight was terrific. Thank you for your performance 🙂
Ah great mate. It was great fun for me
A few months ago, I was looking at my ancestry. I seem to remember having seen King David 1st of Scotland on my charts. If I'm right about that, you told me a tale of family history.
Okay, after searching through my family line, it's not David I'm descended through. It's Queen Matilda herself! Bruce, you just covered family history for me! 😊😊😊
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watched Bruce’s item on border reivers, this brought back a memory of a series I enjoyed called the Borderers. They had a very cool keep and Ian Cuthbertson was in it.
i have so many videos to catch up on! Let's gooo!
thank you for teaching about Dumferline!!
Great video!
Thanks!
"I'm bilingual" 😂 Wish we could join you on your 60th Bday tour. It'll be my 60th too. Alas, we just recently visited Scotland in September. So unless I have a rich uncle I don't know about, that's gonna be out of my budget. Great vlog.
If you’re in Canada I'll be over your way next year
@@ScotlandHistoryTours Well we do live in Minnesota. To go to Winnipeg would be like driving from London to Edinburgh. Doable.
I knew the story of Edith/Matilda. I always wondered how convents and monasteries raised very young children. Were there nannies or were some members of the religious community charged with nursemaid duties? The death of William Rufus has always been a subject of debate because some thought the king was assassinated to pave the way for Henry I. Supposedly, Edith/Matilda was beautiful .Edith/ Matilda had two children, but her flagrantly unfaithful husband fathered many illegitimate children. Edith/ Matilda was the maternal grandmother of Henry II and, therefore, the ancestress of the current Royal Family.
Hey Bruce! Come visit Kansas! Amazing place!!
I wish all man kind a future of kindness and carring. We human have so little time now
Brilliant video.
Many thanks!
yo,, back at it again I see .... really enjoy your videos .... have a good day,, sir ✌
I never went away😎
@@ScotlandHistoryTours true enough .... I'm thinking you did something to your hair .... trim maybe
Good morning Bruce!!!
Mornin
Great video! Unnecessary slam to the current BRF, tho.
Another fantastic video just one question was that a Moor influence on the buildings in this video?
There are many different stages of the buildign from the originally Norman to the 19th Century
Wilton, sounds familiar, then you say Salisbury, that's my home town (city lol
I need a Bruce foomy (sorry if it's spelled wrong) version of the sound of music as a full movie
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I love this 😊
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I'm like a scratched record why hasn't Mr Bruce got a history channel on TV untill then I will not watch TV for Scottish histoy ☘️👌Thats me saying my piece.
Get them tellt
@@ScotlandHistoryTours I do but the pretending they don't know me so what I've said is I'm going to let you do my ancestors path won't that be fun😆☘️🧚♂️👌
Wow Scotland is beautiful country I wish I could go...but I can't..
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Great video bruce 👍 👏...I also have a big birthday next year the BIg 5- 0 😱 😳🙈
Aye, I remember the big 5-0. Ah, the days of my youth
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@@junesmith852Tempus fugit/Time flys....enjoy your day...virtual cuppa...or Merlot from a very wet and windy wirral peninsula...E...😊😊😊
My sister, Matilda, is bigger than me,
She lifts me up quite easily,
I can't lift her,
I've tried and tried,
She must have something heavy inside.
David I (via Spike Milligan)
Spike, Eric Sykes and "Alf Garnett" doing a P-Take run down on British Politics. Must see if I can find that again somewhere - a classic! 😉😊
Brill....😊😊😊
History is made either by people with big heads or people with big ideas... and of course it takes the conformity of those who are too lazy or daft to do otherwise.
St Anselm of Canterbury, author of the Ontological Proof of God's Existence, has a walk-on part here which confirms his prowess at "reverse engineering." He was a master at proving what he wanted to find.
Man, I wish I could come there and party with you all for your 60th. (P.S. those bells ringin' must've been drivin' you nuts).
Scotland will be freed soon!
Nun's, unfotunately, seem to be dying breed. The Franciscan Sisters worked in the roughest part of my hometown and did good works for those in the most need. Sure, there are always things that can be pointed at. Brides of Christ ? What a title !
All I see from the Adventure tour link is an itinerary, and no way to get costs or other specifics? Hm. I have never done such a trip, so maybe I just don't get it.
email alexis@scotlandhistorytours.co.uk She deals with it all and will look after you
Blimey . you could knock me down with a thistle. !
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Damn we look good for almost 60, don’t we?
I’ll get there 11-30-24
Not so good from the hairline down🤣🤣
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I'd sure like to attend this Birthday bash. 😊 But life in the usa makes it unaffordable this time. Enjoy all!!! 🎉✌️🤓
You want to try life in the UK. We're all struggling to keep Jeff Bezos in wives😜
@@ScotlandHistoryTours Exactly supporting billionaires is a full time task.
I'm a real descendant of Robert the Bruce. Or so my mother told me! Can't say I know another thing about it! Maybe it's so! Being nearly 70 I can't say it matters much to me!
Wait, Malcolm Canmore was a Saxon? you managed to confuse me there...
HIs wife Margaret was a Saxon
It was dynastic dynasty at first sight 😊
Do the Saxons have any decendants? Bruce and what name do they go by please mate?
I don't understand the question, but previous questions suggest you already have the answer you want
@@ScotlandHistoryTours Morning Bruce, to clarify, I have been told on many ocassions that Anglo Saxons were one of the tribes that made up the English Nation so what happened to the ones that settled in other parts of the UK did their decendants remain of english decent and are they regarded as English or not?
@@ScotlandHistoryTours I realise I am a totally confused person as far as history is concerned.
We are all a mix of all sorts of folks. Picts are still there in the genetic makeup of Scotland, as are Vikings, Britons and Angles, Flemish, Norman etc
@@ScotlandHistoryTours Now I do agree with you on that one Bruce , Its just the way my gray cells work or dont work, I do enjoy your videos.
Solution to the Maria problem: you see her Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, and I'll see her Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays.
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@@ScotlandHistoryTourscheers, Bruce.
A'reyt Bruce. So King Edward was part Scottish royalty and Robert the Bruce was some Norman toffer. I saw a song about that. Normans and Saxons and Northumbrians all just English. Nun-sense?
Good video as always though.
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Hello again, best to the Danelaw...don,t forget the Bruces were part Gaelic and Brittonic....and part Wirralian these days...a certain Fiona Bruce hails from Heswall...😅😅😅...cheers/ slainte...E...
@@eamonnclabby7067 That last bit is news to me.
On a certain Hilbert channel podcast I commented that some bits seem to tie in with this. I said Hilbert should go on the 60th birthday tour.
I just spotted a comment about a battle in your parts too and was about to reply when I got your reply on this.
@@alansmithee8831...the great battle of Brunanburh/Bromborough 937AD,Wirral,namechecked albeit in Welsh in the medieval poem of sir Gawain and the green knight...
Need to edit that Hadrian's wall pic. Some idgits cut down the sycamore.
I know. There's no way I'm going all the way down there to film a less interesting picture
Blessing Fummey and crew if I the best winter holiday. I love you Bruce , Being poor is not my main reason to try to hang with you on your birthday. You can send a draon so I can hang with you. Not funny my fear of airplane almost got me kick out a stort fly Reno to San Jose. Yes I will take dragon flight thanks to Flintstone. I knew at 6 yrs old I knew it was a fear I can't stop like sailboat I can be on a motorcycles do ing the samething. Water is less painful, but is a bigger fear than airplanes
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@@ScotlandHistoryTours I wish it was being funny, but a sweaty Areican whitish woman does not look good even at your concert lol. That type of fear of fly. I get near SFO my palms are wet. I have to tell everyone I know I have that fear to meet or pick up or drop off at airports. SFO is cool to hang at since I was a kid and my poor young parents would hang and watch plains flight out. I can say only when Prsident Clinton and Obama flight out of SFO did I found My countries presdidental planes to be the coolest. I also did temp work at United Airlines before 9/1. Thanks you being yourself Bruce. Its hard to find real people.
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Coy coy Coyp super dunfy super dunfy etc etc bring yer Lang spoon fella ❤
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It aint that simple
Nothing's that simple my friend