King Edward I - Longshanks Documentary

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  • @PeopleProfiles
    @PeopleProfiles  2 года назад +83

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    • @williamhastings4491
      @williamhastings4491 2 года назад +10

      Very good indeed

    • @CasperScott-qq6ip
      @CasperScott-qq6ip Год назад +1

      Can you do Sargon the great?

    • @robert-surcouf
      @robert-surcouf 9 месяцев назад

      A small mistake at the beginning of the video but England doesn't owned any land in France.
      It was all the Plantagenet kings that owned these lands as duke or count while they were king in England.

    • @redharrison894
      @redharrison894 9 месяцев назад +1

      Who ever played King of England was the best part of the movie after Mel Gibson

    • @jturtle5318
      @jturtle5318 7 месяцев назад

      I can't find your

  • @Edmond347
    @Edmond347 11 месяцев назад +11

    I can't wrap my head around how people lived back there. There seems to have never been a day of peace and stability. War was as common as Starbucks today. Insane.

    • @Edmond347
      @Edmond347 Месяц назад

      Agreed. But that's why few lived past 30. Life was much much simpler then. It was all about the struggle to survive rather than be an "entrepreneur," which every other person seems to be today.

  • @thewiseoldherper7047
    @thewiseoldherper7047 2 года назад +31

    Hollywood should make a blockbuster about him! His story is fascinating.

    • @terrybogars8933
      @terrybogars8933 2 года назад

      No hollywood please
      They are going to americanize it

    • @kelseyj.c7828
      @kelseyj.c7828 2 года назад +4

      I love your username ahaha

    • @chrisszuch9482
      @chrisszuch9482 2 года назад +1

      They kinda did in Braveheart that movie was just as much about him as it was William Wallace

    • @chrisszuch9482
      @chrisszuch9482 2 года назад

      @@kelseyj.c7828 But I agree a whole movie dedicated from his childhood till death would be pretty sweet

    • @thewiseoldherper7047
      @thewiseoldherper7047 2 года назад +8

      @@chrisszuch9482 yes but he was portrayed as the bad guy. I think it would be much more interesting if he was portrayed more in depth from the standpoint of a successful leader.

  • @tinman8972
    @tinman8972 Год назад +300

    Patrick McGoohan made the role of Longshanks his, it was the performance of a life time. It was memorable when his son's lover told Edward that he was skilled in the art of warfare and Edward replied "ARE you?" and threw him out a high window.

    • @annacostello5181
      @annacostello5181 Год назад +18

      Actually Edward II’s lover was a renowned winner of tournaments and performed spectacularly in actual warfare. Just sayin. Ummmm Gaveston, right?

    • @v1e1r1g1e1
      @v1e1r1g1e1 Год назад +50

      @@annacostello5181 Tin Man is talking about a scene in a movie - known to be historically inaccurate on a number of points. The only thing both History and the movie agree on, is that the future Edward II was inept.

    • @smythharris2635
      @smythharris2635 Год назад +1

      Och aye, but he was still a durtee dee generate cnut. Chomo.

    • @justinneill5003
      @justinneill5003 Год назад +25

      I remember that scene. He put his arm round Gaveston’s shoulders and appeared to earnestly seek his advice, as they walked across the chamber… until they reached the window.

    • @AnthonyEvelyn
      @AnthonyEvelyn Год назад +17

      Patrick McGoohan's performance while very good, paled in significance to the real Longshanks. In my eyes he didn't physically impose himself in the film other than the scene of him throwing his son's favourite through the window. Edward I was a larger than life character when he was alive, he was a veritable hero to the English comparable to Richard Lion Heart because of his escapades as a vicious warrior fighting in multiple battles in England Wales France and the Holy Land.

  • @TapDancerDood
    @TapDancerDood 2 года назад +20

    I have a hammered silver penny from Longshanks reign. A weird feeling holding it, knowing it was being used all those years ago!

    • @Gecko....
      @Gecko.... 7 месяцев назад

      The silver will be way older than that too, perhaps Roman and resmelted. Precious metals are rarely lost, people tend to look after it and look for it if misplaced, so much of today's in the form of coins and jewellery etc. was mined hundreds to thousands of years ago.

    • @peterneijs387
      @peterneijs387 6 месяцев назад +2

      how do know it was drunk?

  • @boxinghistory82
    @boxinghistory82 2 года назад +36

    The most underrated King of England ever to my opinion and again to my opinion, one of the greatests ! Greetings from Eastern Europe!

    • @williamwallace4924
      @williamwallace4924 2 года назад +7

      What do you know, he was a murdering bully.

    • @boxinghistory82
      @boxinghistory82 2 года назад +10

      @@williamwallace4924 I dont pretend to know a lot but comment like this is expected from you 😁

    • @liamyoung5490
      @liamyoung5490 Год назад +4

      In Scotland he is not appreciated at all

    • @boxinghistory82
      @boxinghistory82 Год назад +4

      @@liamyoung5490 Well .. I would say excpeted .. I wonder how well he is appreciated in Wales :D

    • @Moepowerplant
      @Moepowerplant 8 месяцев назад +4

      Edward being called Longshanks strongly reminds me of shirtless Vladimir Putin. So there were two Ukraines in the island of Britain alone in the middle ages.

  • @mohammedsaysrashid3587
    @mohammedsaysrashid3587 2 года назад +5

    Most informative historical chapter coverage about premodern English history

  • @howardking3601
    @howardking3601 2 года назад +6

    Outstanding presentation! Thank you.

  • @marcusstormm7591
    @marcusstormm7591 2 года назад +40

    When I saw Braveheart I thought. “Shouldn’t we get both sides to the story?” & “why did they call him ‘longshanks’?” Got em both answered here.
    I’d love for you to do one on the Marquis De Lafayette

    • @julieloper291
      @julieloper291 2 года назад +5

      I enjoyed this. I descend directly from Hugh Crawford and "Braveheart "was raised by him after his parents were killed....

    • @shaunsteele8244
      @shaunsteele8244 2 года назад +2

      I mean, if I were him I'd want to control the entirety of the island (Britain) too. I don't blame him.

    • @lyndsaycrawford
      @lyndsaycrawford 2 года назад +2

      @@julieloper291 ​ Sir Hugh was his grandfather & sheriff of Ayr. I live on what would’ve been Clan Crawford territory. Paisley, on the west coast of Scotland. They had like a wee holdfast that sat right in the River Clyde. There’s still some ruins there from it but the place has been completely developed into flats, massive office buildings & casinos. It’s still pretty cool to see though & has a little plaque explaining all the details. Do you live in Scotland?

    • @cuebj
      @cuebj 2 года назад +6

      Braveheart wasn't even the Scottish side's story. Just a film featuring characters named after people from history and some events that vaguely referenced historical events. Like most films, not historical even when purporting to be so. And Edward's side was Norman French, not English except for enforced footsoldier-serfs owned almost as slaves by the Norman French

    • @sirsaxon7039
      @sirsaxon7039 Год назад +1

      @@cuebj Nonsense

  • @thesaints-7-andrew.
    @thesaints-7-andrew. Год назад +1

    Watching from Greece.hi everybody.
    Great documentary.

  • @timdyer5903
    @timdyer5903 Год назад +3

    My ancestor, 25th great grandfather via on of John of Gaunt's offspring.

    • @thomasclerke4725
      @thomasclerke4725 Год назад +1

      My 23rd. Congratulations. through King Henry III and Eleanor Countess of Provence Berenger

    • @Jo-hc8pm
      @Jo-hc8pm 5 месяцев назад +1

      My 24 times great grandfather through his daughter Joan of Acre.

  • @robertthebruce-geniusofban647
    @robertthebruce-geniusofban647 7 месяцев назад

    A fine documentary on one of the world’s most influential and ambitious Kings.

  • @Vientianelover
    @Vientianelover Год назад +3

    1:21:21 An error, he didn't die in Scotland, he died at Burgh (Bruf) by Sands which is in England.

  • @vlady5778
    @vlady5778 2 месяца назад

    Absolutely fascinating person. What a crazy drive. Surreal

  • @brittanysparks1906
    @brittanysparks1906 2 года назад +4

    12:29 love how he says victory 😊

  • @waynejohnson1304
    @waynejohnson1304 Год назад +2

    My family goes back to Edward I, of England, on 5 family lines.

  • @katherinecollins4685
    @katherinecollins4685 2 года назад +2

    Really enjoyed this

  • @brianmacpherson6555
    @brianmacpherson6555 2 года назад +2

    Greatly information. I enjoyed this video

  • @LindaMerchant-bq2hp
    @LindaMerchant-bq2hp 29 дней назад

    I always love those early medieval english sovereigns the very first edwards ,Henry's richards

  • @bobbyrooney
    @bobbyrooney Год назад +2

    I'm pretty sure John didn't "initiate" Magna Carta.

  • @malibustacy3606
    @malibustacy3606 10 месяцев назад

    I once read he didn't like being referred to as "Eddy Baby," he would become quite animated whenever that happened.

  • @robertweeks537
    @robertweeks537 Год назад +1

    Thank you for sharing. I am a descendant of Edward 1 and many others going way back - before Normandy and Saxony.

  • @blackhawk7r221
    @blackhawk7r221 Год назад +1

    Why do people keep using the face of that actor to represent Longshanks?

  • @blakenewhouse9748
    @blakenewhouse9748 Год назад +1

    I use this to fall asleep tbh

  • @elliotbawden7205
    @elliotbawden7205 2 года назад

    The people In the movie, based on my reading, were mostly from various periods. Wallace was never seen

  • @이이-n4z8y
    @이이-n4z8y 9 месяцев назад +2

    People have always known about the small hats

    • @SuperGreatSphinx
      @SuperGreatSphinx 3 месяца назад +1

      There have been many Jewish physicians, scientists, and scholars...

    • @이이-n4z8y
      @이이-n4z8y 3 месяца назад +1

      @@SuperGreatSphinx You liked your own comment, even though you didn't make a point. Two strikes for you.

    • @SuperGreatSphinx
      @SuperGreatSphinx 3 месяца назад +1

      @@이이-n4z8y
      The history of the Jews is a history of scientific achievement.

  • @MattysModernLife
    @MattysModernLife Год назад +1

    Knew how to deal with the blue problem, lol.

  • @tropicaleasyrider1
    @tropicaleasyrider1 9 месяцев назад +2

    I am a direct lineal descendant of Longshanks and Eleanor of Castille through the line of their daughter Joan of Acre. 🙂

  • @Wulfrun-dn7do
    @Wulfrun-dn7do 2 года назад +32

    Great documentary about King Edward I. But its sad Braveheart has to be included in the title because of that horribly inaccurate movie.

    • @PeopleProfiles
      @PeopleProfiles  2 года назад +27

      All the more reason to educate people.

    • @Wulfrun-dn7do
      @Wulfrun-dn7do 2 года назад +9

      @@PeopleProfiles I agree. Thank you for the video, I definitely look forward to future videos. I feel Edward is one of more misunderstood kings of England.

    • @zacht2806
      @zacht2806 2 года назад +5

      You should see what Mel Gibson did to Jesus

    • @joshuaaudiedepositario3041
      @joshuaaudiedepositario3041 2 года назад +4

      Hahaha. Maybe it can help if the Outlaw king was included. It was a bit better in terms of adaptation. All hail Stannis Baratheon, i mean, Edward, Overlord of Scotland and Ireland, king of England. 😁

    • @vdotme
      @vdotme 2 года назад +1

      So the people who thought they learnt a bit of history watching the movie can't be drawn to a documentary that gives the actual facts misrepresented by the movie because you don't like the movie? The documentary isn't affected in any way by mention of the movie and Braveheart (not the movie) is central to Longshanks' story, his rule and heir's story too. I'd advise that you stop to think if your complaints add to the causes you think they do.

  • @tomtaylor6163
    @tomtaylor6163 9 месяцев назад

    I’m descended from Edward’s youngest daughter Elizabeth ,when she married Humphrey De Bohun

  • @joescara5517
    @joescara5517 Год назад +2

    My Lord we will hit our own men! Edward "well we will hit some of theirs to."😅😅😅

  • @VettemanLT5
    @VettemanLT5 Год назад

    Awesome but if you see around the 12 minute mark the year is 1165. Slight error but can be a confusing one to many trying to understand the real truth of what happened.

  • @LurkingObserver
    @LurkingObserver 10 месяцев назад

    Not even in his deathbed he had any mercy.

  • @JTCCWB
    @JTCCWB 2 года назад +2

    Edward I "Longshanks", King of England is my 18th great grandfather.
    Eleanor of Castile, Queen consort of England is my 18th great grandmother.
    Hugh Giffard of Yester is my first cousin 20 times removed's wife's great grandfather.
    Bartholomew de Pecche is my fifth cousin 19 times removed.

    • @dsahsdouga
      @dsahsdouga 2 года назад +1

      Cmon dude, you believe that, just look how many people say the same thing in this comment section. Doesnt make your inbred 2 inches any longer.

  • @motherflange
    @motherflange Год назад +2

    Edward I expelled the small hats from England, and then Oliver Cromwell undoes all the good work and allows them back in.

  • @brendawilkinson1708
    @brendawilkinson1708 2 года назад

    My 19th great grandfather

  • @charlesfenwick6554
    @charlesfenwick6554 2 года назад +8

    Braveheart a completely fake history.

    • @axz1001
      @axz1001 Год назад +1

      Yeah Mel’s got a habit of that

    • @pedanticradiator1491
      @pedanticradiator1491 Год назад

      ​@axz1001 what do you expect from a misogynistic anglophobic homophobe

  • @lindaname9413
    @lindaname9413 2 года назад +2

    What about the Richard the Lionhearted?

    • @PeopleProfiles
      @PeopleProfiles  2 года назад +1

      We've covered him.

    • @lindaname9413
      @lindaname9413 2 года назад +1

      Thanks.

    • @Raymondgogolf
      @Raymondgogolf 2 года назад

      Hi Linda I hope my comment didn't sound as a form of privacy invasion your comment tells of a wonderful woman with a beautiful heart which led me to comment I don't normally write in the comment section but I think you deserve this complement. If you don’t mind can we be friends? Thanks God bless you….🌹🌹🌹🌹

  • @lucasjames7524
    @lucasjames7524 2 года назад +415

    I absolutely love this particular narrator! The quality of his voice, the cadences, the volume, and the enunciation is all perfect. Excellent documentary, as always! Give this narrator a raise! 🙂💰

    • @jonnylumberjack6223
      @jonnylumberjack6223 2 года назад +31

      I was just thinking the same thing. His enunciation is excellent! It's a pleasure to listen to someone who can be relied on to not butcher the English language.

    • @HobbesCandie
      @HobbesCandie 2 года назад +15

      I particularly like the way he says "however". Don't know why.

    • @rossevans2261
      @rossevans2261 2 года назад +8

      I enjoy it, but it sounds slightly faux posh for American audiences

    • @Steven_mackenzie
      @Steven_mackenzie 2 года назад +16

      Sorry mate, not a fan of pompous english accents - and its got nothing to do with me being Sottish!!!!!

    • @MichaelEhline
      @MichaelEhline 2 года назад +7

      Hear hear. God save the narrator!

  • @JaynaeMarieXIV
    @JaynaeMarieXIV 8 месяцев назад +24

    Great job on your history series. As a historian, I believe these should be shown in schools around the world.

  • @MRHEEL-ys2rq
    @MRHEEL-ys2rq 2 года назад +165

    "A man does good work, when he rids himself of shyte."- Edward Longshanks
    Ruthless but efficient

    • @MrKbonez
      @MrKbonez 2 года назад +18

      'A man does good business when he rids himself of a turd"

    • @angloedu5499
      @angloedu5499 2 года назад +3

      Ba ha ha!

    • @nialllee2695
      @nialllee2695 2 года назад +6

      And he was the Shyte.

    • @roberthum6886
      @roberthum6886 2 года назад +12

      @@nialllee2695 no he wasn't....study who he throw out of Scotland

    • @rossevans2261
      @rossevans2261 2 года назад +1

      Then died of dysentry 🤣🤣🤣

  • @mikegrigg11
    @mikegrigg11 2 года назад +74

    Superbly done....fantastic. I really enjoyed the quality and the narration wasn't destroyed by overbearing pointless music !!

  • @bertilliozephyrsgate6196
    @bertilliozephyrsgate6196 2 года назад +25

    There's the line from "The King And I": "The worst barbarian is a weak king!" Something applicable to Stephen and Henry VI, but NOT to Edward I.

  • @manatarms7652
    @manatarms7652 2 года назад +37

    Great video, I highly appreciate the detail. Personally, I would disagree with the notion that Edward was a poor administrator, financier and logistician. He read books, oversaw law disputes, engaged in complicated diplomacy and managed the supply of his armies on a scale that was possibly never seen before in England and which led to the military successes that his predecessors and successors failed to reciprocate. I will emphasise however, that evidence is lacking and it’s possible that all this was also done by capable subordinates.
    Great video, keep up the great work. 👍

    • @anitagovan66
      @anitagovan66 2 года назад +7

      'It’s possible that all this was also done by capable subordinates'. Which in its self would have been a skill - leave the small details in the hands of the capable.

  • @MonkeysTimes2
    @MonkeysTimes2 2 года назад +65

    Side note: Edward's avatar is a picture of Patrick McGoohan, the actor who portrayed Longshanks in the film Braveheart. I agree with a comment made by one that McGoohan was in fact perfect for the part. I consider it a bit of casting genius. For those of us old enough to remember, McGoohan also was the star of the TV show The Prisoner, which, coincidentally, can be seen on Primewire. An obscure, well produced British spy show. Dry as hell, too.
    🧐

    • @ruthsingleton7753
      @ruthsingleton7753 2 года назад +5

      Secret agent series as well, lol also he was the most scariest character when I was very young, in Walt Disney “the scarecrow “ series, on Sunday nights, in America.

    • @laurieelliott9889
      @laurieelliott9889 2 года назад +2

      You are not talking about the painting, are you? That is not Patrick McGoohan. It has to have been Edward I.

    • @Apollo890
      @Apollo890 Год назад +3

      Charles Dance would be better seeing as the character Tyson Lannister was inspired by Edward I and Charles Dance played that to perfection.

    • @rabburns1382
      @rabburns1382 Год назад

      HELL DRIVERS@@Apollo890

    • @lionelhutz5137
      @lionelhutz5137 11 месяцев назад +1

      Stephen Dillane was also an excellent choice to play Edward I

  • @olsonbrandon91
    @olsonbrandon91 Год назад +9

    Half the comments on here: He is my great great great great great great grandfather and I couldn't be more proud to be so closely related to him 🥴🥴🥴 hurr durr 🥴🥴🥴 lol

    • @stephfoxwell4620
      @stephfoxwell4620 3 месяца назад

      Ridiculous isn't it?
      Virtually modern native British are related to him.

  • @carrickrichards2457
    @carrickrichards2457 2 года назад +28

    His grandfather signed 'Magna Carta' which put the monarch under the law. Though Edward killed reformist deMontfort in battle, his father nevertheless consented to the 'Marlborough statute' cementing constitutional reforms and Parliament. So Edward was England's first 'constitutional' monarch. Though he did not much behave as if 'constrained', the rules had changed.

    • @loislewis5229
      @loislewis5229 2 года назад

      King John was crossing his fingers when he signed the Magna Carta 🤪

    • @hotspur666
      @hotspur666 2 года назад +2

      @@loislewis5229 REMEMBER, ALL THIS STUFF WAS IN FRENCH ONLY!

    • @laurieelliott9889
      @laurieelliott9889 2 года назад

      The Magna Carta was in favor of the nobles, not the general populace. May have presaged very long term future changes, but not like those of much later years, pretty much after the accession of William and Mary.

    • @tTantPisForFrance
      @tTantPisForFrance Месяц назад

      ​@hotspur666 No, it wasn't. Stephen Langton, who wrote the Magna Carta, wrote it in a form of Latin that the king and none of the barons could even understand. All law in England was wrote it Latin. It was on the 10th anniversary (1225) of the Magna Carta that it was officially released in English and French so all people of the realm could understand it and not just the highest educated order of the church.
      A little bit of knowledge is a dangerous thing but then again, angry and jealous Frenchmen tend to deliberately lie about English history anyway.

  • @bennoble3177
    @bennoble3177 2 года назад +26

    Really glad you remade this, great content. Tried listening to the original after hearing your excellent mammoth plantagenets part 1 vid, but found the original narration very hard to engage with. Keep up the good work

  • @samdasilva1914
    @samdasilva1914 2 года назад +70

    I just love his narration, and as a Welsh person his pronunciation of Welsh names and places.

    • @richardgrimbleby7853
      @richardgrimbleby7853 10 месяцев назад

      It I find makes a huge difference a fine piece of art in words

    • @trenta.958
      @trenta.958 2 месяца назад

      da Silva doesn't sound very Welsh

    • @samdasilva1914
      @samdasilva1914 2 месяца назад

      @@trenta.958 It is my married name. Family name is Jones.

    • @trenta.958
      @trenta.958 2 месяца назад +2

      @@samdasilva1914 I was just having a bit of a laugh. Da Silva is originally a Galician name if I am not mistaken, which is in northern Spain. Galicians were Celtic, at least in the distant past, just how the Welsh are Celtic today.

  • @firstchoicetuber3757
    @firstchoicetuber3757 6 месяцев назад +3

    What if William Wallace have won over England and ruled england for years history will remember him for that achievement 🎉

  • @joshuaaudiedepositario3041
    @joshuaaudiedepositario3041 2 года назад +24

    Really appreciate every biography of historical figures. Keep it up guys. So that more people know what os real and fiction. 😂

  • @ashtonbarwick6696
    @ashtonbarwick6696 Год назад +8

    Honestly the claims of Edward Plantagenet’s to the British isles went back to Æthelstan, even earlier than William I The conqueror. Both were kings of England and both recieved homage from Alba, Strathclyde (Cumbria) and Wales

  • @artiedeko
    @artiedeko 2 года назад +20

    The actor that portrayed Edward
    the 1st (Patrick Mc Goohan?),
    in Braveheart..l don't think there
    is another actor that could have
    played him as good as the actor
    in the movie.

    • @brycehalvorson6270
      @brycehalvorson6270 2 года назад +3

      Patrick McGoohan is also a distant relative of Edward 1st Longshanks Plantagenet as well.

    • @cuebj
      @cuebj 2 года назад +3

      @@brycehalvorson6270 with that time gap, that's a meaningless piece of information

    • @brycehalvorson6270
      @brycehalvorson6270 Год назад

      Stephen Nicholas,. Go and study ancestry, find out your DNA ROOTS! I will not hear any negativity on this subject, especially when anyone can do it. If you are that skeptic on doing it, you just proved you have a fixed mindset. Go and study.

    • @brycehalvorson6270
      @brycehalvorson6270 Год назад +2

      Yes don't let negativity get the best of anyone. People are ignorant, want to learn, unlike people who have a fixed mindset will never be open to new things. But yes Patrick Mcgoohan is a distant relative. DNA research made it so. Can be tracked and traced same with royal documents handed down generation to generation known as Charters. Which my family has them.

    • @82566
      @82566 Год назад +3

      He did such a good job in that role and it's really neat to find out he is actually related to Longshanks thank you 😊

  • @crispfriars
    @crispfriars Год назад +2

    Disproportionate economic control from a tiny minority... sounds familiar 🤔

  • @josephforrest9472
    @josephforrest9472 Год назад +2

    To begin. Wallace was not " Braveheart " The Scots gave the name " Braveheart " to Robert The Bruce. Wallace was not married. The scenes of Wallace hob nobbing with an English Princess hundreds of miles away from London is ludicrous. Especially at the time that little girl was just 2 years of age & living in France. Wallace attacked English towns he & his soldiers were diabolically cruel. Example a small Yorkshire town the men were tortured to death. The women & children were locked inside a church & burned to death. When the Scottish king of Scotland Alexander fell of his horse & died the Scottish Lairds INVITED Edward to come to Scotland to choose a king. Lots more

  • @matthewbryant958
    @matthewbryant958 2 года назад +28

    Edward was probably one of England’s greatest kings! The man took no shit from anyone. All through history we have seen rulers be persuaded by others and also some that have been overthrown and ruled from inside enemy’s but Edward was a solid ruler no one would of even tried to fuck with him. Wish we had a ruler like this today although he was a bit harsh with the Scot’s 🤫

    • @JerroldGarrison
      @JerroldGarrison 11 месяцев назад +1

      We did…his name is Donald J Trump

    • @fiddlesticks7245
      @fiddlesticks7245 11 месяцев назад

      @@JerroldGarrison please don't compare a fantastic medieval warrior-king to a modern day entrepreneur who was buddies with Epstein and other subhumans

    • @VaderPopsVicodin10
      @VaderPopsVicodin10 5 месяцев назад +1

      What I've always found a little perplexing is the Scot's requesting Edward for help in their own affairs and NOT foreseeing the high potential of problems arising and/or that it could and would come to open a huge conflict with the King. They took too high a risk there, especially knowing Edward's ruthless disposition.

  • @mindhistorydocumentary
    @mindhistorydocumentary Месяц назад +2

    King Edward I, known as "Edward Longshanks," was not just a fierce ruler but also had a surprising love for music. Despite his tough reputation, he enjoyed playing the lute and often invited musicians to his court. This lesser-known fact adds an intriguing layer to his character in any ancient history documentary.

  • @undercoloroflaw
    @undercoloroflaw Год назад +8

    Wow. Where were you when I was being taught world history? Fantastic presentation. It was engaging, interesting and should be a reminder to all Americans WHY their ancestors left England and fled to the New World. Presently, it would appear this New World is headed back to the ways of Old England. The tyrannical winds of Old England have found their way to America, bringing the ghosts of monarchial rule with it....

    • @fyrdman2185
      @fyrdman2185 27 дней назад

      Old England tyrannical? England was more free than America. Don't blame your incompetence on us. And don't claim English heritage, most of you yanks are more German and Irish than English. Americans of English heritage are a minority now or have mixed with other groups.

  • @fredflintstoner596
    @fredflintstoner596 2 года назад +6

    Mrs Richards: "I paid for a room with a view!"
    Basil: (pointing to the lovely view) "That is Torquay, Madam."
    Mrs Richards: "It's not good enough!"
    Basil: "May I ask what you were expecting to see out of a Torquay hotel bedroom window? Sydney Opera House, perhaps? the Hanging Gardens of Babylon? Herds of wildebeest sweeping majestically past?..."
    Mrs Richards: "Don't be silly! I expect to be able to see the sea!"
    Basil: "You can see the sea, it's over there between the land and the sky."
    Mrs Richards: "I'm not satisfied. But I shall stay. But I expect a reduction."
    Basil: "Why?! Because Krakatoa's not erupting at the moment?"

  • @harrynewiss4630
    @harrynewiss4630 2 года назад +13

    Braveheart - one of the most, if not the most, laughable historical films ever

  • @nuthin4sumpthin
    @nuthin4sumpthin 10 месяцев назад +4

    Look at how England grew from the time of expulsion until Cromwell let them back in.

    • @SuperGreatSphinx
      @SuperGreatSphinx 3 месяца назад +1

      There have been many Jewish scholars, physicians, and scientists...

  • @invisibleman4827
    @invisibleman4827 9 месяцев назад +2

    If you think about it, he was probably the first effective plantagenet king. Henry II embarrassed himself by accidentally ordering his knights to murder one of his bishops, Richard I was always absent because he was too busy crusading - though his tyrannical conduct in his French lands suggest that this was no bad thing, John was so inept and unlucky that he had the Magna Carta slammed down on him, and Henry III lacked all the qualities necessary for a medieval king, Edward by contrast didn't war with his children, faced no English rebellions, cracked down on the excesses of the church and set up anti usury laws and tried to arrange it so his people would have stable governance after he was gone. Not bad for a king from a royal dynasty that up until that point had mostly been bungling vindictive clowns.

  • @shaunsteele8244
    @shaunsteele8244 2 года назад +37

    my favorite English King, seeing his stone coffin in Westminster Abbey was a highlight for me. It was actually opened in the 18th century and his remains were examined... I wonder how much of him is left these days.

    • @joe18425
      @joe18425 2 года назад +2

      Go and have a look. Mind record it and stick it on youtube !

    • @waltertaljaard1488
      @waltertaljaard1488 2 года назад +4

      Usually it doesn't do a well preserved corpse much good, when the coffin is opened and exposed to oxigin.

    • @BruceDee
      @BruceDee Год назад

      Okay who is this nut called Trump I

    • @lyndsaycrawford
      @lyndsaycrawford 4 месяца назад

      He never got put into his tomb cos that was to happen as soon as every Scot was underfoot. It should’ve happened when we were colonised in 1707 but it didn’t

    • @sakkra93
      @sakkra93 Месяц назад

      According to those who examined him, his remains were remarkably preserved. A sketch was made of his body, and it does look mostly intact. Pretty impressive for a body that had been lying in a tomb for about 500 years by that point.

  • @hawklord100
    @hawklord100 Год назад +8

    Don't forget that Edward was a Plantagenet King, A Frenchman as were all the plantagenet's. When William won at the battle of hastings and started this reign of the French, the royal family of the English King escaped to Scotland and took refuge with their cousins in Edinburgh castle.

    • @pedanticradiator1491
      @pedanticradiator1491 3 месяца назад +1

      Henry I's wife's mother was an Anglo-Saxon Princess married to the King of Scots

    • @hawklord100
      @hawklord100 3 месяца назад

      @@pedanticradiator1491 Of course, royality kept it amongst themselves

  • @aplacky
    @aplacky Год назад +2

    The writers need to get their dates straight. They keep switching from the 1100s to the 1200s

  • @VaderPopsVicodin10
    @VaderPopsVicodin10 5 месяцев назад +3

    King Edward I is forever my personal favorite of the Plantagenet line of the early Kings of England. His grandson Edward III gets all the praise, but that's partly because his blood goes back to Edward I. His rule is legendary and he truly would have bourne one imposing figure to face!

  • @OceanLily
    @OceanLily 2 года назад +3

    Did these people ever just rest. They throw down every 5 years😂 I wonder how much of this was due to boredom. When my electricity went out during lockdown and I couldn’t recharge my devices, I gave up and started self medicating within hours😂🤣💀

  • @johnnyharry4859
    @johnnyharry4859 2 года назад +5

    An extraordinarily detailed historical account, so detailed in fact that 1 wonders how we could trust its accuracy given it's detail & the fact that the events it speaks of took place between the 1200's & 1300's A.D. (Approx.). 800 yrs - that's a long time ago. It is widely believed & I suspect can be generally trusted that the peoples of Europe were quite adept at keeping reliable records of such events. Undoubtedly the volume of material from which all of the information conveyed in this presentation was drawn far exceeds that contained in the presentation itself. So we have a condensed account - necessarily, or this presentation would have had to have been much, much longer. I must confess that this condensed account does have a ring of truth to it. It certainly has been very thoroughly, impressively & artfully presented, both verbally & visually. Thank you for your efforts. I found it very fascinating.

  • @caseyh1934
    @caseyh1934 2 года назад +23

    Quintessential medieval king.

  • @masonstauffer5974
    @masonstauffer5974 2 года назад +18

    I can clearly see where George RR Martin got the inspiration for Tywin Lannister.

    • @drax5872
      @drax5872 2 года назад +3

      Yeah idk if he's said where he got his inspiration from but I'm 100% sure that Tywin is based on King Edward

    • @masonstauffer5974
      @masonstauffer5974 2 года назад +2

      @@drax5872 George RR Martin did actually admit in an interview that was shown on the World of Ice and Fire Lore of season 4 of Game of Thrones DVD set that Tywin Lannister was based off of Edward the 1st of England.

    • @drax5872
      @drax5872 2 года назад +2

      @@masonstauffer5974 Oh cool! Thanks for sharing! Definitely makes a lot of sense and they absolutely aced the casting when they picked Charles Dance for the role of Tywin Lannister

    • @scottyscott6208
      @scottyscott6208 Год назад

      Apprently He based his books on the Wars of the Roses

  • @rathertiredofthemess2841
    @rathertiredofthemess2841 Год назад +3

    It’s amazing to think…everyone of you is here because someone in your line survived the Black Death.

    • @michaelfritts6249
      @michaelfritts6249 Год назад

      All living thiings that exist today, whether single cell, plant, fungus, animal and yes, even geniuses, are evolutionionary badasses..
      Be Well!!

  • @KerriFromTX
    @KerriFromTX 10 месяцев назад +6

    The man known to history... I love when I hear these words on my autoplay

  • @kathrynjordan8782
    @kathrynjordan8782 2 года назад +67

    One of England’s greatest kings. Not only was he known as Longshanks, he was also called Hammer of the Scots. Excellent documentary on Edward I.

    • @c.w.simpsonproductions1230
      @c.w.simpsonproductions1230 2 года назад +11

      Greatest is up to interpretation.

    • @ianmuir3640
      @ianmuir3640 2 года назад +12

      All you anti Scots love that don’t you

    • @cuebj
      @cuebj 2 года назад +1

      Permanent war entirely unnecessary as far as English were concerned. All about France-based conquerors of England having been detached from their core France-based lands when John was king trying to get the land in continental Europe back while expanding their land ownership into Wales and Scotland

    • @scottishoutlaw625
      @scottishoutlaw625 2 года назад

      Rapist monster too the Scots more like a beastt

    • @madmank7881
      @madmank7881 Год назад +4

      @@ianmuir3640 it was a battle for dominance England or Scotland had to win in the end, it just happened at England had better land for farming and trade.

  • @MrSpitfireMustang
    @MrSpitfireMustang Год назад +3

    Usuary, and the loan sharks that did it should well have paid extraordinary taxes. Good work Ed.

  • @Dabshanks
    @Dabshanks Год назад +6

    His life should be a HBO series

  • @hefellump1
    @hefellump1 11 месяцев назад +2

    Didn't he request the Jewish people to leave England only to return after bank rolling Cromwell?

    • @SuperGreatSphinx
      @SuperGreatSphinx 3 месяца назад +1

      There have been many Jewish scientists, physicians, and scholars throughout history...

  • @jenniferlivingston2383
    @jenniferlivingston2383 2 года назад +3

    I think Edward heard about Louis IX acting as judge over the Jews who had instruction books teaching that a man named Jesus had been put in hell while being boiled in excrement for eternity. It made Ed disgruntled enough to kick them all out to stop that insult from flourishing; Isabella(Louis grand baby),was his daughter-in-law.

    • @ForlornFreddy
      @ForlornFreddy Год назад +2

      From the video, it sounded like he expelled them because of usurious lending practices though that may have been a smokescreen.

  • @eviljagtech
    @eviljagtech 3 месяца назад +1

    Longshanks feels like he was done dirty by the Braveheart movie.

  • @rossmcgeachy4650
    @rossmcgeachy4650 Год назад +5

    As a Scot I found this video an excellent work. I had long wondered about the extreme cruelty of Longshanks Scottish 'Crusade'. Any medieval knight on crusades witnessed and probably participated in acts ignoble of their chivalrous oath since they were at war with Non Christians.
    Wallace's fate was par for the course in medieval Britain. However the acts that Longshanks' Sheriffs and Bishops perpetrated against the Scottish civilians were beyond the pale for 'Christian warfare' which began during the English occupation of Scotland. Longshanks did not have an effective hold on Scotland because of this and he never sought to win over the hearts and minds of the people.
    When The Bruces Queen and Daughter and brother were caught, his Brother was immediately hung and disemboweled. Bruces' wife the Queen of the Scots, was hung in a cage on the walls of an English castle for 8 yrs. His daughter was locked in a nunnery. They were not released until after Bannockburn. When Longshanks caught the Welsh rebels they were simply beheaded.

    • @thomasboucher8432
      @thomasboucher8432 7 месяцев назад

      Pppppppp pop pppppppppppp

    • @jonathanlaver346
      @jonathanlaver346 5 месяцев назад

      Only reason he came for the Scots was the constant raids across the English border

    • @mheiseus
      @mheiseus 5 месяцев назад +1

      Thank you for telling the truth ❤

  • @Balrog-tf3bg
    @Balrog-tf3bg Год назад +4

    The way Edward was portrayed in Braveheart is my favorite portrayal of an English king there is. In a way it’s my stereotypical view of what a king is in general

  • @oleinspector
    @oleinspector 2 года назад +8

    Richard I bankrupted the country and through ineptitude gave the French the opportunity to begin pushing the English out of France. It's amazing how he is deified and his brother reviled when King John was left with nothing but the resentment of the barons.

    • @mikereger1186
      @mikereger1186 2 года назад +3

      To be fair, John didn’t need any help upsetting everybody around him.
      He was probably the second-worst ruler the land has ever had (the worst title being held by Aethelred II “The Unready”, who committed genocide on his own city of York, kept the country’s worst ever traitor Eadric Streona as his counselor, and almost bankrupted the land by paying Danegeld many times over).

    • @fiddlesticks7245
      @fiddlesticks7245 11 месяцев назад

      Maybe it's because he achieved great victories in Cyprus and the Levant while Philip II reneged on his vows and John was an incompetent usurper. Also he was crushing the French until he took an unlucky crossbow bolt.

  • @benjaminjacks1211
    @benjaminjacks1211 Год назад +1

    None of these Kings and queens were English .

    • @thomasclerke4725
      @thomasclerke4725 Год назад

      True, they were Norman whose ancestors were Viking and from Aquitaine.

  • @jiml9062
    @jiml9062 2 месяца назад +1

    The front cover looks too much like 'Danger Man'

  • @louise-yo7kz
    @louise-yo7kz 2 года назад +19

    A formidable man to say the least. Definitely participated in some egregious acts

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      @Raymondgogolf 2 года назад +1

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  • @Moepowerplant
    @Moepowerplant 8 месяцев назад +2

    So there were two Ukraines on the island of Britain alone back then, huh?

  • @mikeharland3358
    @mikeharland3358 Год назад +1

    A very colourful, royalist video. Trying to show the king off in a biased way. Is there any evidence at all that Richard the Lion Heart ever came to England. He was French and is buried in France. De Montfort pathed the way for Magna Carter and yet is portrayed as a rebel. Too great a royalist bias for me.

  • @amandasanchez111
    @amandasanchez111 2 года назад +10

    Super excited about this video!! Absolutely love it!!

  • @koph5664
    @koph5664 2 года назад +25

    It's amazing how Hollywood so twisted the events making King Edward as a merciless Tyrant, and Sir. Wallace the man of free peoples when he is but another Noble, even a warlord.
    It is not to say that Edward I was a model king, he had ambitions of power at French expense, and that he persecuted the Jews. However, yet he is reasonably a better king than most as took his role seriously, and more admirably, a wonderful husband.

    • @bkokohut1980
      @bkokohut1980 2 года назад

      serious??? it's amazing??? Hollywood, who twists their appearance to not be child molesting rapists? you find it amazing that they would twist these events to fit their narrative!?!?!

    • @shaunsteele8244
      @shaunsteele8244 2 года назад +10

      the movie was mostly based on the poem by Blind Harry, and various other legends about Wallace. The thing that bothered me most was the battle of Stirling without a bridge lol. That and Wallace fathering Edward III

    • @koph5664
      @koph5664 2 года назад +4

      @@shaunsteele8244 Gosh, you're right: no bridge, and a father of Edward III??? I guess they wanted to make it more attractive for the audience.

    • @waltonsmith7210
      @waltonsmith7210 2 года назад +7

      He was a man of his age and by the standards of his era he was a very good king indeed. Whatever you think of his actions, I dont think he deserved the one dimensional villianous caricature in Braveheart.

    • @koph5664
      @koph5664 2 года назад +2

      @@waltonsmith7210 I agree, he was a product of his time, but while he exhibited the errors of, I agree, he certainly did not deserve the caricature in Braveheart.

  • @michaelsinger4638
    @michaelsinger4638 2 года назад +16

    A great, and terrible, King indeed.
    And one of England’s best.

    • @LordOfLight
      @LordOfLight 2 года назад +1

      That epithet is normally applied to Edward III.

    • @drax5872
      @drax5872 2 года назад +3

      @@LordOfLight Yeah, unfortunately Edward III did not age like fine wine. Had he died just a couple of years earlier the Black Prince would have taken the throne and the history of England would be a very different story. Edward III would be known today as a great king that built a fantastic base for his equally capable heir. Instead being seen as a flawed king that worked so hard only to have all his work undone towards the end of his life and under Richard II.
      Although at the same time it did eventually lead to the great Henry V being king, who himself could possibly have been seen as the greatest monarch in world history had he not died so young.

  • @artemisarrow179
    @artemisarrow179 2 года назад +10

    This narrator's voice is really calming

  • @CoolAdam247
    @CoolAdam247 2 года назад +10

    "TELL LONGJEANS I'M SORRY !" 🤣
    - Patrice O'neal RIP

  • @josephcollins6033
    @josephcollins6033 Год назад +4

    Thank you, very much for this! This man has a nice, well-focused voice AND I CAN UNDERSTAND EVERY WORD HE SAYS!!! Well-presented throughout and so informative.

  • @straingedays
    @straingedays 2 года назад +5

    Subscribed Today, after hearing that familiar voice of that fabulous narrator.

  • @bitspider4180
    @bitspider4180 Год назад +4

    Incredible narration and very informative have a like and subscibe and keep making this amazing content

  • @paulcarey191
    @paulcarey191 Год назад +1

    ARCHERS!!! "but my king won't we hit our own troops"?? yesss well hit theirs as well.. we have reserves!?!?!!! attack!!!

  • @WesternStarTara
    @WesternStarTara 2 года назад +6

    I'm a defendant of king " Longshanks".

    • @garylyall811
      @garylyall811 8 месяцев назад

      I’m a defendant of William Wallace , let’s meet 😈

  • @hotspur666
    @hotspur666 2 года назад +1

    Funny! Not one single mention that Edward I, II,and III, and as a Normand, they spoke only in French and their troops anglo-saxons had also to pull up also their own french to speak to any of their normand bosses!😄😁😆😅😂...Accents? Well, Normand from France are the same guys that later moved to Canada and are today are speaking with the old normand accent as the Parisians' speech evolved after their civil war(more effeminate) Scandinavians from Sweden and Norway (Rollo and company)that invade Paris and settle on the coast were called NORSEMEN, then Normands.

  • @ISEEKSPACE
    @ISEEKSPACE 7 месяцев назад +1

    I don't mean to sound silly and promise to truly mean this; but watching Braveheart as a 12 year old in the theatre, the actor who played Edward The Longshanks absolutely terrified me. He stands as the ultimate villain to me, next to Scar from The Lion King and Claude Frollo from the Hunchback of Notre-Dame. Don't judge me. I was a young kid. Villains were a serious thing in the 90's. 😂

    • @sovkhan4359
      @sovkhan4359 7 месяцев назад +2

      Not silly at all my friend. Thank you for your input it’s always interesting to hear peoples stories. I agree the 90s were a different time 🤣

    • @melissastreeter22
      @melissastreeter22 Месяц назад

      Not silly. I was fully grown when I saw Charles Dance portray Edward, and he terrified me. Later, seeing him on a talk show, I was astonished to see him relaxed and engaging. A true actor. McGoohan, another first choice by a casting director.

  • @joe18425
    @joe18425 2 года назад +4

    You make take our lives, but you'll never take our buckfast

  • @williamwalker1264
    @williamwalker1264 2 года назад +2

    what the F is this? the dates bounce around from the 1100s to 1200s ? whats the chronology? BS