Surviving Life as a Medieval Princess...
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- Опубликовано: 5 июл 2024
- We often think of Medieval princesses in terms of fairy tales - as beautiful young ladies waiting around, in their tall pointy hats, for some knight to come along and rescue them from a tower. But the reality was far less romantic. Let’s travel back in time now to the Middle Ages and meet some of these noble ladies and take a little look at how they navigated such an overwhelmingly male world.
Welcome to Medieval Madness...
00:00 Introduction
01:19 The Asset
03:02 The Fighter
05:14 The Idealist
06:18 The Gambler
07:20 The Scholar
08:02 The Tourist
09:06 The Architect
10:03 The Defiant One
Narrated by James Wade
Written by Lisa E Rawcliffe
Edited by Jamit Productions
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I find the fact that a nun racked up gambling debts absolutely hysterical!
You find it hysterical because you never educated yourself regarding nunnery social norms of the period.
@@warrenny no. I find it hysterical because it's not something you usually hear about, and I enjoy irony.
My apologies. I think I need one of those jump-to-conclusions mats.
Nuns are not nearly as holy as the church wants you to know
@@Badgerlust who is? 🤷🏻♀️
I recognize the painting in the thumbnail. It's from an old Irish ballad about a princess and the knight who were in love. Her father the king disapproved of the relationship and ordered the knight to be put to death. The painting is of the two lovers meeting for the last time.
I am an artist and when I saw this painting I knew I had to paint it. I think it's my favorite painting.
It’s called “Meeting on the Turret Stairs”. I bought a print for my wife on our first Christmas when we were dating. It still hangs in our house 23 years later.
spin doctors made a song called two princes about this probably
@chriswallace9113 I saw this print for the first time in a tourist shop in Ireland. It haunted me afterwards for fifteen years until I saw it pop up again and was finally able to buy it
@@TheFlowerGirl13 That's cool. The moment I saw the image and read the ballad I knew I had to paint it. It's my favorite painting and I have it in a really nice frame.
i cant even imagine being put to death because of someone i love, Sad times for the human race, absolute power corrupts absolutely. I would have said F U king if im gonna die im gonna fight and take one of you with me.
I remember laughing my ass off when I first heard the story of Stefan Milutin and Simonida (his six year-old wife). Of course, before learning about what he did to her.
i thought they waited for puberty at minimum, i also thought they had to consumate the marriage?
@@durangodavethey would usually wait until the girl was 15/16 as then she’d be fully grown and have healthy children - less likelihood of a difficult birth. Henry VII of England’s mother had him at 13 and couldn’t have any more children. It was frowned upon at the time, not necessarily for moral reasons. If a bride or groom were children they would be brought up together in the groom’s household, but would generally not consummate a marriage until they were 15/16 . They married younger to secure a good alliance etc. Awful really! Poor kids.
@@durangodave according to Wikipedia he did not wait and he messed up her uterus making her unable to bear kids
@@mhknfh3049 OMG so evil so sad for her, the mentality back then was just nuts.
@@durangodave I can see if RUclips will let the link stay
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simonida
I saw the series the white queen and the white princess, They focus on the war of the roses. They had an accurate depiction how how medieval ladies lived and behaved.
Those series were actually quite far from medieval reality for women but they were a nice semi-romanticized view.
@selecttravelvacations7472 they were very accurate, but of course, with all tv shows, they took creative liberties.
Really interesting video, as always. We often don't hear about Medieval Princesses (or any Medieval female's escapades).
Great video! Would love to see more videos about women in the middle ages
Edward and Eleanor are my favorite. They are My 22nd Great Grandparents.
Wow. You're really lucky😅
You're of royal blood 👍🥰
shoutout Braid, the best game about a princess 👸
Gonna check it out!
I have this print on the thumbnail! I absolutely love it!
Please tell me the name and the artist! I want it!
The Meeting on the Turret Stairs by Frederic William Burton
I just found you about a week ago and have been binge watching nearly everything. Great work. I love the style of your stuff and great voice-over. There are plenty of pictures with good info, just great work, man. I would definitely like to see more torture related or illnesses/books/drawings etc. I'm not sure. You have covered a lot already. Anyways, thank you again for the solid content.
excellent, well done and thumbs up 👍🙏💥
Never underestimate the ire of a kitty cat
Some cool history!
Made my day to see a new video from you!
I genuinely look forward to your videos every week. Great stuff.
I watched your video and right after I was compelled to jump onto a wooden table and dance a little Jigsaw!
hi can you do a video explaining what all the levels and positions mean. Example, count, chancelor, duke, dutchess, and so on...
Baron, duke, count, king, emperor. They’re just higher orders of rulers who rule those of a lower order beneath them. Of course, in reality there was nuance involved and some lords of lower rank were in fact stronger than those above them. .
@@revolution94ful thanks, its just hard for an american to grasp. For example during the queens funeral and kings cerimony recently there were so many calls of introduction i lost count and with every one i thought nice title but what does it mean. Are some of them just job titles?
@@durangodave no problem, I did make an error in saying dukes were subordinate to counts though as it was actually the opposite. Baron, count, duke, king, emperor. A good predictor of how you were labeled depended on how many counties you controlled. As far as modern dukes and such I’m not sure, I know historically that it was the case that they’d have power of counties within their domain.
And in the UK, we have earls instead of counts. But the wives of earls are countesses in line with their European counterparts.
Imagine a baron as being like a mayor incharhe of a town the count incharge of a county the Duke like a governor incharge of a region/state/province the king incharge of a country and emporer leads an empire of countries
Getting rescued from towers every so often is easy
For the under 30’s
😆I know this is a serious topic, but I keep thinking of Blackadder Series 1 when listening to this...
Haha the Spanish Enfanta? 😂 A tier episode 😂 I adore the bit where Baldrick gets him to dress up like the Earl of Doncaster & it backfires 😂😂😂
@@zarabee2880 Exactly!! Her interpreter sent me over the cliff!🤣🤣🤣🤣
Hey MM, could I ask what music you used in this video? Its really nice actually
It's just medieval lift music
@@Joanna7428 still very nice. You know what it’s called?
Very interesting lives of the medieval princesses who took a bath 2-3 times in their lives. Stinky royalty 😂👃
Take this with a boulder of salt everyone I believe ladies were used as cash cows😢
This is a hard pill to swallow, but women are still traded today.
@@thegodofsoapkekcario1970 it's not even close to how it was back then
@@Ronam0451 Of course not, but to disregard it is also incorrect.
@@Ronam0451Oh yeah? Have you been to India? Or the US? My daughter went to get a therapeutic massage and a lady speaking Russian ran out to tell her that it "wasn't THAT kind of massage place." (My daughter speaks Russian because of her dad and grandparents) She saw women peeking from the back and one had bruises. We left immediately and ran to report them to the FBI. It turned out that they were a VERY busy traffic site.
@@koriw1701what's the location brether. I Need a massage.
At least she is rich
Exactly. Being monied always makes things less dreadful. 👸🏻
I think game of thrones show did an excellent job pulverizing the romanticized ideals of medieval courtship & pageantry the galant knight, fair ladies, princess and even queens.
Could you please name the artists and paintings?
9.33 - I'm a bit confused. That picture is of the medieval fortress of Tervuren, which was once used as a hunting lodge by the Dukes of Brabant. There are only a few remnants of walls and cellars to be seen (oldest bits from around 1200 according to the heritage site). It was constantly modified and extended over the centuries, but ultimately got destroyed. Do you happen to have a source for the building work Margaret has done? I can't find much about it, but it sounds interesting. Margaret's husband, Duke Jan II, died in the castle in 1312, maybe of because of kidney stones. Actually, the engraving at 4.28 is a theoretical portrait of Jan. Thx
Joan was the sister of henry iii, not henry ii
I would hate being a pawn in my father's game.
Ooo like i like i
What's the name of the painting on 5:45?
It's an AI image. Not real. And I think it's very dishonest and disrespectful of MM to use such fakes, when they is really good and authentic medieval artwork he could use. But he just doesn't give a toss.
At the very least he should have a disclaimer that he's just faking these.
EDIT: The proof is in the two towers in the upper right corner, as well as the strange looking "castle" top left.
It's a photograph of The Shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham (Anglican)
Google image search is your friend.
Eleanoras story sounds bad ass.
Let me tell you, it was rough.
What does the painting at 3:57 have to do with anything? Lol
That's not a princess; a prince or a king, that's a portrait of an Italian youth by Sandro Botticelli...
This is so interesting and clearly a lot of time has been spent on putting the information together and illustrating it. You have a nice voice but you speak so fast, that it's hard to follow. Would it be possible to slow down a bit? Thanks.
Why were they kinda bad at drawing back then?
I have a theory that the materials were too expensive so you couldn't practice with the medium, you had to practice in the dirt with a stick or something. Idk if that is true tho, maybe they had a cheap way, maybe they just thought it was funny to make everyone look bad.
I wonder if these images are even historic rather than modern reproductions.
These pictures are AI
I read some time ago, that they didn’t believe in doing the likeness of the person for religious reasons or superstitions. I don’t remember well now, I should look that up again. I do remember it was quite interesting.
The same thing will be said about our artwork in a couple of years. They weren't bad at drawing. There are hundred of masterpieces, it just a lot of people didn't care for realism. That was considered boring. Art is more than that, anyways.
@@watchmehope6560 Are you sure these are authentic drawings from the past?
6:57 You need to be careful when using AI. Specifically, watch out for deformed faces and hands, AI has a hard time with these.
Shit, are these AI pictures? Genuinely thought these were real artworks. I feel silly.
@@MacLeoddddto be fair, hands are probably one of the hardest things to draw, so medieval artists' work something looks like AI.
@@valentinkambushev4968 Some of the people have three hands!!
@@MacLeoddddmost of them are real
I'm convinced that this is medieval art. What makes you think that it's AI? (aside from the hands anyway) the faces and dress are classic form.
First.🤴
Narrator sounds so bored and like he's just going thru the motions in this one.
love this channel but i always think what a burden it was to be a woman in these times. being married off for political gains and no real place in society unless you played the game of thrones to affect change. also the hygiene was probably not good 🫣
Great painting choice for the thumbnail, only for me to click and be barraged by AI pictures with no historical value or accuracy.
If you're not going to find suitable material for the video, write a book instead. Or tell ChatGPT to do that for you.
I don't think you know as much about art as you think you do.
@@annafirth6738 Your reply conveys no information.
@@Marcotonio I'd suggest that you pick up a book on medieval art then. Or actually try an AI art program and see what they look like. As it is, you're triggering yourself over dumb things, and I'm worried for your blood pressure.
Is there anything else I can do to infer information from basic statements for you? Perhaps a short general article on learning for fun, or directions to your nearest library?
@@annafirth6738 I stand corrected, I picked up "a book" (TM) and it had medieval instructions on how to generate royal portraits such as 3:52 using PrattleGPT IV.
@@Marcotonio Some of them are AI, but the vast majority aren't.
The narrator sounds bored
Unfortunately they had to marry rich and fat smelly lords, Oh the horror
Yeah, it's awful! If only she could live the harsh and uncertain life of a peasant woman!
@@valentinkambushev4968 God forbid the plague and famine
Sounds like what Melania has been going through since 2005...
@@koriw1701 I don't think she enjoys it much by the looks of it lol
@@koriw1701she's an adult. She can leave if she wants. Hush.
You speak too fast 😏
Yes there’s no space to digest the information and the accent affects the pronunciation of the names. But I appreciated the effort put into the video it’s well edited.
And you can change the speed of the video 😏
This video was misnamed. It should have been called “Quick, boring side notes about various female nobles in the Middle Ages”.
Haters gonna hate
Geez, what are you doing here then if you don't like it? Please don't let the door hit you in the ass on your way out.
It was actually a interesting. Video
What do you want, a personal princess diary? This video was titled just fine.
no it’s called youtube video i listen to before my nap
I wish you'd stop using AI images. It's lazy and dishonest. Respect authenticity and the originals. There's plenty of authentic images to use, why do you want to fake it???
6:55 is just appalling.