The Bloody Aftermath of the Battle of Hastings

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  • 'The Bloody Aftermath of the Battle of Hastings'
    In the winter of 1069-70 after the Battle of Hastings, William the Conqueror waged a series of military campaigns to subjugate northern England and consolidate his power, where the presence of the last Wessex claimant, Edgar Atheling, had encouraged Anglo-Danish rebellions.
    The "Harrying Of The North" as it became known, saw William the Conqueror's knights lay waste to Yorkshire and neighbouring shires. Entire villages were razed and their inhabitants killed, livestock slaughtered and stores of food destroyed.
    This scorched-earth operation is one of the defining episodes of the Norman Conquest, not just from a military-political perspective but also in terms of how it has shaped modern perceptions of the Normans as a tyrannical and merciless warrior class. But why were such brutal measures considered necessary and why was the north in particular targeted? Watch this video to find out!
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Комментарии • 618

  • @aaronalcock2965
    @aaronalcock2965 6 месяцев назад +22

    The harrying of the North never ended.
    Most of the wealth, land and power of 'England' is STILL held by the descendants of the Normans.
    The billionaire Duke of Westminster was once asked for advice on how to succeed and answered "Make sure they have an ancestor who was a very close friend of William the Conqueror".
    My ancestors were Northern.

  • @peterb3842
    @peterb3842 Год назад +292

    The North remembers…

    • @allenfenwick6257
      @allenfenwick6257 Год назад +14

      It’s grim up north.

    • @guzelataroach4450
      @guzelataroach4450 Год назад +5

      Norway is north, england is south

    • @RickPop85
      @RickPop85 Год назад +7

      true scots remember we bent the knee to Norman nobility bringing us the Robert the Bruce and William Wallace time nobility

    • @112chapters3
      @112chapters3 Год назад +8

      The North remembers….. still living by the same means.
      Jk

    • @Oooo-bi7bi
      @Oooo-bi7bi Год назад +3

      @@allenfenwick6257 great tune by the KLF

  • @FrogLaneStudio
    @FrogLaneStudio Год назад +83

    What a great Documentary - You guys are quickly becoming my favourite channel on RUclips. Fantastic to see new, young presenters cutting their teeth and breathing fresh life into Great Britain's treasured past.
    Thanks to all of you both in front and behind the camera.

  • @davidcrawford8583
    @davidcrawford8583 Год назад +40

    He's still called William the Bastard in Northumberland to this day.

    • @neilbarnett3046
      @neilbarnett3046 Год назад

      Yes, because technically he was. From the bayeux museum website: "Born in Falaise in 1027, he is the natural son of Robert the Magnificent, Duke of Normandy, and Arlette, daughter of a tanner. His illegitimate birth earned him the nickname of William the bastard."
      "Natural son" here means his parents are not married. Note that tanners' daughters are not nobility!

    • @jeffebdy
      @jeffebdy Год назад +1

      And even Canute by some

    • @MEAT_CANNON
      @MEAT_CANNON 6 дней назад

      Don't forget the bastard Culbertsons. We helped him. 😂

  • @Lord_Lambert
    @Lord_Lambert Год назад +35

    I'm from the North (Middlesbrough specifically) and I've yet to meet a northerner into history that calls him the conquerer. He will forever be known as the bastard.

    • @tomhirons7475
      @tomhirons7475 Год назад +2

      maybe so but he conquered the north end of story ....

    • @awedgewood
      @awedgewood Год назад +1

      I'm from Thirsk and have literally never heard anyone use anything other than "The Conqueror"

    • @InduceComb
      @InduceComb Год назад

      @@awedgewood Facts. These dunces are just liberals enraged by the necessary acts that Wiliam had to do and thus are trying to change his legacy. Their feelings are just hurt.

    • @Leenufc
      @Leenufc 4 месяца назад +1

      From. Newcastle and its defo the bastard

    • @AethelwulfOfNordHymbraLand2333
      @AethelwulfOfNordHymbraLand2333 11 дней назад

      ​@@tomhirons7475He may have conquered England but he never ruled the English. The divergence of Northumbrian English and Modern English shows this.

  • @OdeInWessex
    @OdeInWessex Год назад +21

    That was genocide, regardless.

  • @NarcolypticNinja
    @NarcolypticNinja Год назад +33

    I now understand just why GRRM used the north of England's history as part of his inspirations for GoT, etc.

  • @neiloflongbeck5705
    @neiloflongbeck5705 Год назад +58

    There's an old Teesside saying that dates back allegedly to the Harrying of the North. You say that someone who swears a lot is swearing like Billy Norman (aka William the Conqueror). The story is that when he came North to deal with the rebels hiding out in the marshes near Coatham near the mouth of the Tees, it was still cold at night and snow still lay in the north facing valleys. William stayed up late at night shivering by the fire swearing to keep warm.

    • @oldgreybeard2507
      @oldgreybeard2507 Год назад

      Unlikely - he would have forced a couple of young saxon wenches to keep him warm. Then gutted them in the morning

    • @neiloflongbeck5705
      @neiloflongbeck5705 Год назад +1

      @@oldgreybeard2507 this is the legend, how true it is I can't say.

    • @SuperStandin
      @SuperStandin Год назад +2

      I've also heard this saying here in the Northwest Ribble valley area but its not common

    • @neiloflongbeck5705
      @neiloflongbeck5705 Год назад +1

      @@SuperStandin interesting. It's a phrase that is dying out.

    • @perpetualidiocy6622
      @perpetualidiocy6622 Год назад +1

      @@neiloflongbeck5705 certainly must be dying out. lived in Teesside all my life (53 yrs) and never heard it even once until now lol

  • @davidbarrett590
    @davidbarrett590 Год назад +14

    This is a first rate historical documentary as so much of what History Hit produces. I am a firm Northerner and very conscious of the unique nature of the North and where it is rooted. I am also a Medievalist Historian. I am bound to say though that I think that the views of the broader historical context are not one that all historians share. That does not detract from the production values; nor from its coverage if the Harrying itself,

    • @frankb821
      @frankb821 Год назад

      From someone who lives in the desert southwest USA and traveled all over Europe, I can say there are no greater people or more beautiful land and communities than that northern region. Absolutely love it.

  • @Steaksauce167
    @Steaksauce167 Год назад +48

    I absolutely loved the History channel growing up. But… then it wasn’t the same one day. Keep going guys your doing amazing! Love it!

    • @cjclark1208
      @cjclark1208 Год назад +5

      We all did.. it still blows my mind how fast and dramatic the change came about.

    • @kralcverdna4806
      @kralcverdna4806 Год назад +2

      ​ @CJ Clark They literally keep redesigning the logo with less and less graphic fidelity(for the seeing impaired) every 10 years...they are aiming for those 40 year olds from the 1980s...pretty obvious but not many care because the real intellectuals left that channel in the early 2000s when we were pre-teens...

    • @tashatsu_vachel4477
      @tashatsu_vachel4477 Год назад +4

      @@cjclark1208 Cant recall the name, but it was a female CEO who took over, she decided 'history is happening all the time' and that 'reality shows make more and cost less'. The History Channel forums were closed because people didnt like the new direction and the rest is displayed on the channels today. Sad.

    • @kaizen5023
      @kaizen5023 Год назад +1

      "Ancient Aliens" says it all. Sellouts.

    • @k-matsu
      @k-matsu Год назад +3

      The History Channel died the day they discovered the marketability of the word "Aliens"

  • @maapata
    @maapata Год назад +8

    I was visiting southern Italy 2009, there was a olive trees growing next to my house planted by Normans. Quite amazing

    • @rolandrothwell4840
      @rolandrothwell4840 3 месяца назад

      That is truly amazing 👏 I'd get goosebumps thinking that wow 👌 norman olive 🫒 grove

  • @austin8775
    @austin8775 Год назад +12

    I just started a book on William the conqueror so this is coming and the perfect time

  • @lukea997
    @lukea997 Год назад +30

    So many reasons why there's a north south divide, it's rooted in 1000 years of history

    • @tomascalder6825
      @tomascalder6825 Год назад +1

      Your right, your better of up north.

    • @col4574
      @col4574 Год назад

      The divide though was evident before 1066,even by Alfred the Greats days

    • @justinwillingale2086
      @justinwillingale2086 Год назад +1

      William tje conquer is just aegon the conquer from got

    • @mitchamcommonfair9543
      @mitchamcommonfair9543 Год назад

      Moslty by industrialisation and then de-industrialisation though

  • @DJJinxC2006
    @DJJinxC2006 Год назад +1

    This was one of the best i ever saw on here, I look forward to part 2, thanks.

  • @jenniferlevine5406
    @jenniferlevine5406 Год назад +3

    Excellent documentary! Thank you.

  • @knightstemplar6243
    @knightstemplar6243 Год назад +21

    The north of England has massive rich history

    • @jarraandyftm
      @jarraandyftm Год назад +2

      And part of it has been sold to Saudi Arabia.

    • @leeharwood9624
      @leeharwood9624 Год назад +2

      @@jarraandyftm mackem

    • @jarraandyftm
      @jarraandyftm Год назад

      @@leeharwood9624 from Jarrow. Not a mackem.

    • @cambs0181
      @cambs0181 Год назад

      I wouldn't say rich.

    • @leeharwood9624
      @leeharwood9624 Год назад +2

      @@jarraandyftmI'm from jarra there's mackems in jarra and if ya not what ya winging about newcastle from then

  • @terencegamble4548
    @terencegamble4548 Год назад +8

    A very powerful explanation of a pivotal point in our history.

  • @jleechadwick
    @jleechadwick Год назад +10

    I subscribe to History Hit and aboslutely love it. It is worth every penny. I am mainly English and Scottish, and I love learning about their history. History was my favorite subject in school, and I majored in it at university.

  • @derekstocker6661
    @derekstocker6661 Год назад +7

    Thanks for this, most interesting and informing.
    I did not know about the "Slaughter of the Innocents" in the North, what a ghastly attack on the people by someone who, possibly could have been defeated at Hastings by Harold and his very brave but possibly depleted and tired army after the march north and then fight a battle, and then march south to fight William at Hastings.
    What has puzzled myself and others, is why little or nothing has been recovered from the site at Hastings reportedly where the battle took place.

    • @peterforden5917
      @peterforden5917 Год назад +5

      it is told that not a single Anglo-Saxon warrior on the march South to 'Senlac' was wound free.

  • @RichardBrennan46
    @RichardBrennan46 Год назад +1

    Thank you for your video they are amazing to watch. Keep up the good work.

  • @donmac7780
    @donmac7780 Год назад +5

    The effects are still with us today...
    Levelling Up, my arse!

  • @lions4515
    @lions4515 Год назад +6

    In many ways the north was the least subjugated area of England. The north is the only area of the country where Anglo-Saxon nobles retained more than a tiny proportion of landholding. The north retained an Anglo-Saxon aristocracy after 1086, especially in modern Lancashire, Durham and Northumberland. They were still never a majority, but in southern England Normans held 90-95% of the land versus perhaps 50-70% in many areas of the north.
    You can read about it in "The Norman Invasion of the North" by William Kapelle and "The English and the Normans, Ethnic Hostility, Assimilation, and Identity 1066-c.1220" by Hugh M Thomas.

  • @richardmoss5934
    @richardmoss5934 Год назад +12

    From the numbers given here it would seem that the north was more than decimated.

    • @OdeInWessex
      @OdeInWessex Год назад

      William was a genocidal maniac, the Putin of his day.

  • @sylotiboy4166
    @sylotiboy4166 Год назад +2

    Great channel ❤

  • @djkelleher3557
    @djkelleher3557 Год назад +2

    Fantastically informative 👌 👍

  • @terryyakamoto3488
    @terryyakamoto3488 Год назад +4

    There's a similarity between what the conqueror did and what Thatcher did in the 80's. Devastating the north economically from her southern power base and causing the people severe suffering, crushing dissent with her army of helmeted thugs. Hope it's nice and warm down there Margaret

  • @fluffycat087
    @fluffycat087 Год назад +3

    Nice , good to see what the relatives were up to in those days. Loved it.

  • @FreeFallingAir
    @FreeFallingAir Год назад +2

    I believe I'm going to love this series

  • @jayduke8554
    @jayduke8554 Год назад +1

    Excellent work!!

  • @MrTullomania
    @MrTullomania 2 месяца назад

    Well done. Very nicely written and produced. This could become an unhealthy addiction. I'm worried.

  • @katherinecollins4685
    @katherinecollins4685 Год назад

    Very good

  • @arkboy3
    @arkboy3 Год назад +14

    At 25:30 you need a quick clip of John Cleese in his Sir Lancelot gear saying, "Sorry! Sorry!".

    • @helenamcginty4920
      @helenamcginty4920 Год назад

      No we dont. Cant stand cleese.

    • @cambs0181
      @cambs0181 Год назад +1

      These video's would never be the same if you didn't have an American in the comments section, being flippant in a vain attempt to cover up their ignorance of the outside world.

  • @dcallan812
    @dcallan812 Год назад +4

    We could do with giving it a try again. great video 👍👍

  • @larrylongprong5219
    @larrylongprong5219 Год назад +7

    My father was from Darlington County Durham. I live in Australia but am very proud of my heritage.

    • @cambs0181
      @cambs0181 Год назад

      Well when you get your parole hearing, you will get to come back and see it.

    • @larrylongprong5219
      @larrylongprong5219 Год назад

      @@cambs0181 are you coming to check on the colony?

  • @israelizzyyarrashamiaak766
    @israelizzyyarrashamiaak766 Год назад +1

    Great video!!! I’m a history nerd and your channel is endless new content 🥰
    New sub 👍🏼

  • @sandman8920
    @sandman8920 Год назад +17

    We have never recovered from the Norman invasion

    • @Ganymede559
      @Ganymede559 Год назад +1

      Agreed. We also haven't really recovered from the Wars of the Roses.

  • @KSH91
    @KSH91 Год назад +4

    What about the Jutes?

  • @Richard-fv7rq
    @Richard-fv7rq Год назад +7

    Great channel, very informative. Don't know why some people need to leave nasty salty comments. Don't watch if its not for you!

  • @debbiecurtis4021
    @debbiecurtis4021 28 дней назад

    We went to Stamford Bridge battlesite this year. There's a small plaque in a small park, in the middle of an upmarket modern housing estate. There's no museum there, just a plaque.

  • @EddietheBastard
    @EddietheBastard Год назад +13

    Harold's army had marched 300 miles in a short time, and he'd failed to pick up reinforcements in order to get down to his family's lands which were being despoiled by the invaders. Those factors likely had greater impact than generalship. I would have been far more interested in the video if it hadn't spend too much time on Harold.
    Not sure how anyone can deny that the harrying of the north was an act of genocide.
    Equally appalled that anyone could claim William regretted his crimes, no action of his throughout his life indicated anything of the sort

  • @Treeman196
    @Treeman196 Год назад +18

    And now we are being replaced again

    • @dnstone1127
      @dnstone1127 Год назад +4

      1066 the Englsh nobles replaced, 2066 the English people finally replaced.

    • @Treeman196
      @Treeman196 Год назад +1

      @@dnstone1127 yes before that I think

    • @Grenadier311
      @Grenadier311 Год назад +3

      You're still above 80%. Hold the line.

    • @JJaqn05
      @JJaqn05 Год назад

      Then have more children. If it wasnt for the immigrants coming in our population would be declining

    • @Treeman196
      @Treeman196 Год назад +1

      @@JJaqn05 I've got 5

  • @danyaradimacher6581
    @danyaradimacher6581 Год назад +5

    The Harrying of the north

  • @andrewcordle2424
    @andrewcordle2424 Год назад +34

    What a horribly evil man William was 😱
    I was so glad I didn’t live back then !!! 😮

    • @leod-sigefast
      @leod-sigefast Год назад

      The Normans are still here in the landed aristocracy and their tory party. Stole our land in 1066 and still hold it with an iron grip. Trying roaming freely around OUR land our countryside of England and you will find we have very little freedoms in our land thanks to the Normans.

    • @OdeInWessex
      @OdeInWessex Год назад +4

      @@xunqianbaidu6917 Totally agree, they were raised to be ruthless, often raised away from their immediate families and brother's could be separated. I suppose it avoided the famililal feelings that may have prevented the ruthlessness needed to gain and hold onto the most important thing to their mind set - power and control.

    • @OdeInWessex
      @OdeInWessex Год назад +6

      And me, especially as someone with a very, very Anglo-saxon surname! It must have been truly, truly horrific, bit like what Ukranians are going through now. Same principle but with weapons of huge destruction.

    • @tibsky1396
      @tibsky1396 Год назад +7

      In his childhood, he was constantly pursued by assassination attempts. He just got ruthless after that.

    • @peterforden5917
      @peterforden5917 Год назад

      Istill laugh with Joy at the description of HOW William the Bastard died, falling out of his coffin, which was on a table apparently he smelt so bad they could'nt get slaves to move him at first, then he rolled out of his coffin and his body burst spreadinghis rotted intestines along with maggots over his bed chamber, a fitting end,

  • @soundknight
    @soundknight Год назад

    Cool looking

  • @ryangreene7452
    @ryangreene7452 Год назад +13

    the north remembers!

  • @gooner72
    @gooner72 Год назад +15

    I'm guessing that, as the Normans were descendants of Vikings, they get their name "Normans" from "Norse men"??

    • @GuyMaleMan
      @GuyMaleMan Год назад +4

      I thought the norman name originated from Normandy?

    • @Moonrunner58
      @Moonrunner58 Год назад +6

      I understood that the Vikings, under Rollo, were granted Normandy in order to buy them off from sacking Paris?

    • @neilbarnett3046
      @neilbarnett3046 Год назад +7

      @@GuyMaleMan Normandy was named as such because of the Normans, not the other way round. @6:40

    • @ianbaker8225
      @ianbaker8225 Год назад

      "Norman"..."Norsemen"...."Northmen" .... 4th generation Viken (Viking).

    • @mijanhoque1740
      @mijanhoque1740 Год назад

      Well the land those Vikings settled into already had inhabitants, the Normans were a mix of Norse, Western-Franks and Gauls who assimilated into French (Frankish) culture

  • @robnewman6101
    @robnewman6101 Год назад

    Wow. Interesting.

  • @darrylbutt2570
    @darrylbutt2570 Год назад +3

    History Hit is brilliant.

  • @Rusty_Gold85
    @Rusty_Gold85 Год назад

    Any reason for rotating each sentence around 5 speakers ? Have you got one expert that can release the information ?

  • @fourshore502
    @fourshore502 Год назад +3

    im always surprised that they make so little mention of the danes even if the danes came very close to ruining williams plans, not once but three times!
    first in 1069-70 they invaded and took york and had to be paid off to leave (imagine that, tough guy william having to pay danegeld)
    second in 1075 they came to help the revolting earls but were too late
    third in 1085 when they assembled the largest "viking" fleet in history with supposedly over 1000 ships but for various reasons it never sailed

  • @matthewmann8969
    @matthewmann8969 Год назад +1

    Reigned in.

  • @rockamaroque8189
    @rockamaroque8189 Год назад +2

    This looks like a great series, and I'd subscribe to History Hit and watch it and many more besides IF I could access the channel through my Roku!

    • @rockamaroque8189
      @rockamaroque8189 Год назад +1

      Thank you for your reply, but as I live in Melbourne I suspect I'm not eligible for your parcel. Cheers and keep up the good work.

    • @HistoryHit
      @HistoryHit  Год назад +9

      @@rockamaroque8189 This was a spam account that replied to you. We have removed the comment and reported the account. Many apologies.

    • @rockamaroque8189
      @rockamaroque8189 Год назад +2

      @@HistoryHit many thanks for the heads up. 👍

  • @jackwn1405
    @jackwn1405 Год назад +14

    As a Northern Englishman… this has royally just pissed me off… 😂 and to think my middle name is William 😅

  • @noahtylerpritchett2682
    @noahtylerpritchett2682 Год назад +10

    Massacres and revolts across England happened but is famous in lands north of the Humba river.
    This clearly should be seen as a pseudo proto form of colonization. As after the Harrying happened, a couple hundred Bretons, Picards, Normans, Flemings and Angevins, from Brittany, Picardy, Normandy, Flanders and Anjou regions of France, is where many of William's men come from, It's no secret they colonized and immigrated into Northern England by a few hundred if not 1000. It's no secret nor surprised as well that some French etymological surname origins are found in Northern England.

    • @noahtylerpritchett2682
      @noahtylerpritchett2682 Год назад

      @@barnsleyman32 I've seen this study.

    • @noahtylerpritchett2682
      @noahtylerpritchett2682 Год назад +1

      @@barnsleyman32 French just means Gallo-Frankish I guess.

    • @noahtylerpritchett2682
      @noahtylerpritchett2682 Год назад

      @@barnsleyman32 This study is no surprise. The Medieval French source.
      I've seen the study the day it came out.
      But no one should be surprised.
      England has French cultural influences in our, culture, customs, traditions, post Anglo-Saxon catholic French interpretation. philosophy, literature, art, architecture, attire, language, legal system.
      cuisine, attire, Arthurian myths,
      all have Norman influences mix and blended with the Anglo-Saxons.
      English culture is half Germanic half French.
      As well as our ancestry.

    • @noahtylerpritchett2682
      @noahtylerpritchett2682 Год назад +1

      @@barnsleyman32 Lastly the Normans gave us Chivalry, and also a fair bit of surnames.

    • @michael3088
      @michael3088 Год назад

      alot more goes into ethnicity than genetics, alot of that mixing was also done prior to the migration period so to say someone isn't Anglo Saxon(at least what they culturally identify as) because they happen to have a different genetic marker isn't necessarily correct and surnames were only imposed post conquest so to say someon is Norman isn't necessarily true either if they have Norman surname if it happend to be assign which I'm sure would have happend in many cases especially if they protested Norman tax and didn't take a name of their own.

  • @TimesInfinity101
    @TimesInfinity101 Год назад +4

    They thought they could sneak Emma Watson in and we wouldn't notice,

  • @maxwellkafka
    @maxwellkafka Год назад +2

    In the rest of this series, we’ll explore how the North kept cracking their heads against insurmountable odds to fail, time and time again, to rebel

  • @michaelwhite8031
    @michaelwhite8031 Год назад +7

    No way was William l a superior general to Harold ll

    • @justinwillingale2086
      @justinwillingale2086 Год назад +6

      William got lucky that his opponent had to face an army and also march that same army back down south which exhaustion carried the day for William

    • @cambs0181
      @cambs0181 Год назад +1

      Well, he won!

  • @c.philipmckenzie
    @c.philipmckenzie Год назад +4

    5 minutes in and I’m convinced this is going to be even handed and balanced.

    • @oldgreybeard2507
      @oldgreybeard2507 Год назад +2

      Just like Britain

    • @GuyMaleMan
      @GuyMaleMan Год назад

      What do you mean?

    • @fion1flatout
      @fion1flatout Год назад

      Cynical! Must admit, I was thinking I bet he voted 'remain' in spite of his red wall front haha

    • @hannahdyson7129
      @hannahdyson7129 Год назад

      ​@@fion1flatout Fiona the Red Wall voted Remain as well . Sorry that hurts to hear

    • @hannahdyson7129
      @hannahdyson7129 Год назад

      Bit like British history which is taught from the perspective of the South . Anyone would think the UK= South of England

  • @Backwardlooking
    @Backwardlooking Год назад +5

    Still a different Country with a different outlook . Unfortunately we still have the same descendants and the same neglect.

    • @OdeInWessex
      @OdeInWessex Год назад

      Precisely, well put. The Robber Baron progeny are still in charge looking after their own interests first and foremost.

    • @justinwillingale2086
      @justinwillingale2086 Год назад

      @@OdeInWessexthe barons have always looked at their own interest is why they created the Magna carta

  • @knockshinnoch1950
    @knockshinnoch1950 Год назад +5

    Great stuff. I've often wondered why thee has never been a big budget Movie or TV series about the Norman Conquest. We're constantly bombarded with Vikings and Tudors while the Norman conquest has so much to offer. NETFLIX? BBC?

    • @raytrevor1
      @raytrevor1 Год назад +1

      en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Normans_(TV_series)

    • @jackwhitehead5233
      @jackwhitehead5233 Год назад +3

      Nobody in England would watch it I imagine lol

    • @borleyboo5613
      @borleyboo5613 Год назад +2

      I would as long as it wasn’t made by the cretins that made The Tudors or The White Queen. Dear God! I still haven’t recovered from them. 😳😖

  • @ThreadBomb
    @ThreadBomb Год назад +4

    By "decimated", do you mean devastated?

    • @fionaanderson5796
      @fionaanderson5796 Год назад +6

      Well, 4.5% of the population of England would amount to 10-12% of the population of the north, so "decimated" is mathematically correct. Roughly 1 in 10 killed one way or another.

  • @davejoyford1815
    @davejoyford1815 Год назад +9

    now you see , Ireland. its not all about you .

  • @Necrovamp101
    @Necrovamp101 Год назад +3

    30 minute Documentary, 15 minutes intro about the battle of hastings and 15 minutes on the actual harrying, with hardly any detail and a million 'talking heads'. Should have had a 5 minute intro and gone into much more detail about what happened

  • @jasoncox7257
    @jasoncox7257 Год назад +4

    "350-mile journey from Hastings to London" ????? What? 70 miles in fact. Done in by satnav? Know the feeling.

  • @raymondmalone9721
    @raymondmalone9721 Год назад +2

    Is this from 1066 or 2022!!

  • @987jof
    @987jof Год назад +12

    Think she meant to say it was a Norwegian invasion in 1066? Especially since Harald Hardrada had failed to claim the throne of Denmark

    • @neilbarnett3046
      @neilbarnett3046 Год назад +2

      No, she is right. Maybe it wasn't clear which invasion she was on about, though.
      The narrative explains all this, including how Harold Godwinson repelled the Northern invasion by his brother and Harald Hardrada who were both killed at the battle of Stamford Bridge.
      William's was a "Norsemen" invasion, if you must, but via the two centuries they spent growing to dominate Northern France.

  • @martinwarner1178
    @martinwarner1178 Год назад +7

    The northern Barron's failed to aide Harold at the battle of Hastings. Harold had requested that horse men should join him to fight William. Peace be unto you.

    • @samsativa245
      @samsativa245 Год назад +6

      That's because they'd just spent their blood at Stamford Bridge 2 weeks earlier

    • @martinwarner1178
      @martinwarner1178 Год назад +3

      @@samsativa245 And, Harold was warned, by his mother, not to rush to battle William, but the fellows record tells us that he was head strong. All the advantage was with Harold, the length of the battle tells us that. The results of that loss gives us the class system of the present day(as some people believe, including me) Peace be unto you.

    • @samsativa245
      @samsativa245 Год назад +4

      @@martinwarner1178 It also gave us things like the Magna Carta, a trial by jury and the abolishment of slavery

    • @helenbarton4910
      @helenbarton4910 Год назад +6

      @@samsativa245 Those things could still have happened even if the Normans had been driven back into the sea in 1066, given that the moral arc of justice always bends forward in the long term.

    • @peterforden5917
      @peterforden5917 Год назад

      As I recall,an English historian ,Toynbee (probably misspelt!) said that the european feudal system, was originally based on the pre-islamic Iranian(Persian if you will, after the greek pronounciation of the word for the Iranian tribe, the Pers, the Medes were also Iranians )culture that Mohammed had destroyed. They the Iranians 'invented' the feudal system, according to Mr T .

  • @frankb821
    @frankb821 Год назад

    My favorite aspect of this show is seeing all the young people passionate about sharing their country's epic history. Gives me hope yet. We could use a few folks like that here in the states!

  • @andrewbradley1753
    @andrewbradley1753 Год назад +19

    I say we go again. Who's with me?

    • @TheThejatsman
      @TheThejatsman Год назад +3

      Just me and you then

    • @lukea997
      @lukea997 Год назад +7

      Wishes for Northern independence have never died

    • @lukea997
      @lukea997 Год назад +6

      Viva la revolution

    • @OdeInWessex
      @OdeInWessex Год назад +7

      Me too. I'm a bit old, not much of a fighter but I'll bring the tea and biscuits.

    • @hesterwright3674
      @hesterwright3674 Год назад +2

      @@OdeInWessex how very civilised

  • @paulgee1952
    @paulgee1952 Год назад +2

    In more recent times , it is becoming clear that Romano-Celtic Society imported many slaves to work estates and fields. So while larger group may have come after the fall of the Roman Empire , it seems after the authority of the legions left , that there was a large base of Germanic peoples already in Britain by the 5th century.

  • @justanotherbrickinthewall2843
    @justanotherbrickinthewall2843 Год назад

    I was expecting something from "The Shield Ring" ... 🤔

  • @HoopTY303
    @HoopTY303 Год назад +1

    I admit, I like that coat!

  • @Bloomazz
    @Bloomazz Год назад +12

    I don't think it's fair to otherise the North and Southern feelings towards Normans at this point. The Siege of Exeter was before this. The Battle of Hastings diminished any fighting men the South had. But actual resistance was as prevalent in the South as in the North. Although the type of fighting used by the resistance was different, certainly. And the response too

    • @johntaplin3126
      @johntaplin3126 Год назад +7

      The North had its own distinctive difference from the South from its heritage from the Danelaw, itself an invasion. But the South as well as the North suffered from the Norman yoke. In fact, so much of the issues we still suffer from in England, Wales.Scofand and Ireland stems from that.

    • @Bloomazz
      @Bloomazz Год назад +8

      @@johntaplin3126 I agree with you, I'm simply saying that the North wasn't especially hostile to the Normans compared to the South. At that point. I'm from Newcastle, which wasn't part of the Danelaw. Anglo-Saxon is the heritage here. I'm all for emphasising the North-South divide but I view that as a result of the Norman invasion and the years after it. Cultural assimilation of the South and the genocide of the North.

    • @stephenchappell7512
      @stephenchappell7512 Год назад +3

      @@Bloomazz
      We must remember though that this fault line predates the Normans (and even the English themselves) with there existing a division in Roman Britain between the Latin speaking (civilian governed) south and the Celtic speaking (military governed) north and west

    • @Bloomazz
      @Bloomazz Год назад +4

      @@stephenchappell7512 How much could that division have existed though given all parts of the island reverted to Celtic languages quickly enough? I think the Anglo-Saxon unification wiped that away, the only key difference being cultural links to Scandinavia in the Danelaw. Which were then mimicked in the South thanks to the conquest of King Canute.
      Just as the South resisted and was then crushed by the Normans. So was the North in our rebellion. The reality is in terms of 'Nobley resisting foreign invasion' Southerners can boast a much greater record than the North. Given we willingly accepted him on the throne because our Earls were shortsighted and selfish.

    • @stephenchappell7512
      @stephenchappell7512 Год назад +2

      @@Bloomazz
      It's uncertain how widespread the Latin language was spoken in southern Brythonic lands
      Although the urban settlements were already in decline, the great southern villa centered rural estates persisted into the so-called 'Dark Ages' especially in places such as the Cotswolds with the lands of the celtic Dobunni matching almost exactly those of its successor the saxon Hwicci
      We need to also consider that the Angles and Saxons were already here in 410, settled as foederati in similar fashion to the continent
      Back to persisting fault lines we can see in the Balkans that although slavs settled either side of the western (catholic) and eastern (orthodox) empire dividing line they were nevertheless affected by it even though they arrived a couple of centuries after its creation
      In similar fashion the formerly military governed celtic lands of the north and west became what's referred to as 'the north' whereas the south and east became 'the south' with any map of the north/south divide confirming this

  • @nickdonaghy6360
    @nickdonaghy6360 Год назад

    Great documentary as always. I'm a northerner from a long line of northerners (with the odd Irishman thrown in for good measure) and firmly agree with the sentiment that we never really recovered from the precedent set by the harrying

  • @conradmanley2180
    @conradmanley2180 Год назад +2

    Always great to have more insight to our collective past.
    I have been told ( some sources are vague) The Manley family were loyal to William during the uprising. We gained our family crest as a result of our service to him.
    A black hand , palm showing , fingers raised. On a silver field trimmed in red. Known as the black hand of vengeance.

  • @wicklowpiper1812
    @wicklowpiper1812 Месяц назад

    The thumbnail title says 'harrying of the North' jump to 21:00 when there is just 10mins left, for the actual harrying. Only 4 minutes describe the harrying, and the remainder is the aftermath

  • @josephbateman7742
    @josephbateman7742 Год назад +1

    "William did say 'sorry' "

  • @chicktait5544
    @chicktait5544 Год назад

    waiting for bob n vic

  • @tonymcnamara9368
    @tonymcnamara9368 Год назад +18

    Strange how when I first learned about Roman Britain, the Angles, the Saxons, the Norse, the words, "Multicultural, and Diverse society " were never used.
    Amazing, how when there's an agenda to serve, these sound bytes are added to our Historical texts.

    • @sorrysirmygunisoneba
      @sorrysirmygunisoneba Год назад

      100% it’s like when they try to say the Angles, Saxons and Jutes just migrated over peacefully and wasn’t actually an invasion. It’s trying to condition people into being submissive serfs.

    • @obscurazone
      @obscurazone Год назад +3

      Yep! Absolutely brilliant isnt it! It's so fantastic that the agenda of diversity (and how important it has been to the progression of British society) is now being directly referenced in relation to our history. Quite rightly so. Thanks for making your salient comment and highlighting a wider point about the importance of inclusivity in our societies.

  • @marktaylor6491
    @marktaylor6491 Год назад +2

    Because they saw what Thatcher did and they tried to break her record.

  • @thearousedbrick2
    @thearousedbrick2 Год назад +4

    There were also the Jutes, who settled in Kent. Also it was 927, not 937.

  • @manuelkong10
    @manuelkong10 10 месяцев назад +1

    William did not exhibit superior generalship....he'd STILL be fighting to take that hill Today if not for that arrow.
    and I don't remember reading anywhere that the arrow to Harold's eye KILLED him....it seems it was a grievous wound but that he was hacked to death later

  • @sandman8920
    @sandman8920 Год назад +6

    Most beautiful part of Britain

  • @anthonydoyle7370
    @anthonydoyle7370 Год назад +6

    350 miles from Hastings to London? Silly mistakes like this and omissions of facts spoil what is otherwise a decent documentary.

    • @lanterner6565
      @lanterner6565 Год назад

      Sounds like he went on a pillaging spree on the way to intimidate the surviving Lords in London to submit- is it possible he didn't take a direct route?

  • @michaelbuzanowski207
    @michaelbuzanowski207 Год назад

    Because it was there

  • @wilsontheconqueror8101
    @wilsontheconqueror8101 6 месяцев назад +1

    Well that was nice of William to say he was sorry for annihilating the North.😅

  • @richardpack8655
    @richardpack8655 Год назад

    No u wont mate

  • @sjl197
    @sjl197 Год назад +3

    Cmon, over three minutes at start saying what ‘we’ll tell you about’.... how about you instead tell me about it.

  • @nigelmansfield3011
    @nigelmansfield3011 Год назад +21

    Even though my family is Anglo-Norman, I can't forgive the conquest and what it did to us. A least William's death and the abuse and desecration of his body was a suitable end for the bastard of Normandy.

  • @jezzaus2124
    @jezzaus2124 Год назад

    I can't imagine marching that far, let alone fighting when I got there 😄

  • @stc3145
    @stc3145 Год назад +15

    10:15 Danish invasion? It was King Harald of Norway who invaded not Denmark

    • @thelasteinherjar6115
      @thelasteinherjar6115 Год назад +4

      The vikings tended to be classed as Danes even if they were not just from Denmark as most of the viking invaders into England did come from Denmark so they basically got lumped into the same category

    • @josephrobinson6171
      @josephrobinson6171 Год назад +5

      The English often called any Scandinavian a Dane. They just lumped them into the same group.

    • @apanapandottir205
      @apanapandottir205 Год назад

      @@josephrobinson6171 Danes are not scandinavian, they are north-germans.

    • @BamberdittoPingpong
      @BamberdittoPingpong Год назад +1

      Yeah that threw me off too, but then again all Vikings according to Anglo-Saxons were "Danes" no matter if they were Danish, Norwegian, Swedish, or Norse-Gael, they were all the same to the Anglo-Saxons and so were lumped under the Dane category. But then again, 1066 is pretty late into the Viking age where Norway and Denmark were well established nation-state Kingdoms and the English knew of their difference, so yeah it’s weird to use the term Danish here.

    • @LarsPallesen
      @LarsPallesen Год назад +3

      @@apanapandottir205 Danes are most definitely scandinavian! If you insist on calling Danes north-Germans then you might as well include Swedes and Norwegians in the same group. We're the same ethnic group with the same root language.

  • @TheMormonPower
    @TheMormonPower Год назад +1

    Aire Apparent of UK... William 😱

    • @Dryhten1801
      @Dryhten1801 9 месяцев назад

      Yet Ironically the most English-blooded King in the past 300 years

  • @damienwilloughby
    @damienwilloughby Год назад +1

    WOW the pom's knew how to kick it off.😲

    • @cambs0181
      @cambs0181 Месяц назад +1

      Yeah, then a few hundred years later we started to crack down on it using some heavy law enforcement. That's how we invented Australians.

    • @damienwilloughby
      @damienwilloughby Месяц назад

      @@cambs0181 🤣

  • @zaki2dunya321
    @zaki2dunya321 4 месяца назад

    When the kings chronicler says "god will punish him", you know you f'd up. When he died his "friends," shiw his true colors.

  • @ConstantineofRome
    @ConstantineofRome Год назад

    We will come back

  • @poil8351
    @poil8351 Год назад

    that was the goal break the back of the saxons.

  • @Texpantego
    @Texpantego Год назад

    No mention of the Starks?

  • @pezhetairosnikephoros931
    @pezhetairosnikephoros931 27 дней назад +1

    The actual video starts: 3:34.
    Jesus Maria, why so long an intro.

  • @CheshireRing
    @CheshireRing Год назад

    Phrases like "We can speculate" "this probably" suggest there is little documentary evidence, other than perhaps the Domesday record?

  • @cloudymccloud00
    @cloudymccloud00 3 дня назад

    4:58: "The Anglo-Saxons were descended from two Germanic tribes" ... there were three, actually: Angles, Saxons and Jutes (from Jutland).