Æthelstan: The First King of the English

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  • @HistoryTime
    @HistoryTime  6 лет назад +188

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    • @exsistentialis
      @exsistentialis 6 лет назад +3

      Loved this (southern?) English accent!

    • @avishainatan857
      @avishainatan857 6 лет назад +1

      hi. do you know where in wessex was athelstan born and on which date?

    • @3John-Bishop
      @3John-Bishop 5 лет назад +1

      Time marches on.

    • @zainulzainul1880
      @zainulzainul1880 5 лет назад

      History Time Hi , I understand Brittain was populated by a people call ed Celts before the Anglo Saxons arrived . What happened to them ? Did they absorb the new arrivals ? Thanks .

    • @bethbartlett5692
      @bethbartlett5692 5 лет назад +1

      Very well done. Have you done some if these on Ireland? I would like to learn the History, and although I'm Irish - they only offered American, European, and Old World/Ancient History in the USA.
      Thank you-

  • @greva2904
    @greva2904 2 года назад +57

    Athelstan - a king almost no one in the UK is ever taught about. In fact most people in the UK have never even heard of him. For some bizarre reason UK history as taught in UK schools leaps from the Romans to the Norman invasion of 1066 with no mention of the English or how the country of England came into being. Bizarre.

    • @notgadot
      @notgadot 7 месяцев назад +4

      Truth

    • @user-sp3wd2nn3e
      @user-sp3wd2nn3e 4 месяца назад +1

      I fully intend to read "The Chronicles of the Kings of Britain" Peter Roberts (1811) to get more insight, I hear the history in this book has been largely ignored and avoided by modern revisionists.

    • @UkSapyy
      @UkSapyy 2 месяца назад

      That is because the Normans AND Christianity won... history books were re-written to reflect the Christian narrative, William the Bastard to the English became William the Conqueror in the history books. Anything that doesn't fit into the cultural brainwashing is whitewashed and that is what has happened with our history.

    • @SeanMahoneyfitnessandart
      @SeanMahoneyfitnessandart Месяц назад

      It's likely to associate your history as that of the Norman's so as not to create resentment between the people and the nobles and ruling family in modern times. If your history was that of the Saxons, you would have a country of bitter people. My ancestors were Saxon nobility, and I'm bitter lol.

    • @PhoeniX199777
      @PhoeniX199777 29 дней назад +1

      I wasnt taught many major events in our history, never learned about aethelstan, the empire or the industrial revolution, i think i may have just had a shitty history education...

  • @Musty_Justy
    @Musty_Justy 4 года назад +780

    Man I can't wait for Athelstan to grow up in The Last Kingdom!

    • @bigpeene7157
      @bigpeene7157 4 года назад +9

      Justus what season is he introduced ?????? I’m episode 2 season 4

    • @Musty_Justy
      @Musty_Justy 4 года назад +40

      @@bigpeene7157 he is mentioned in 3, and we see him in season 4 multiple times

    • @bigpeene7157
      @bigpeene7157 4 года назад +5

      Justus it’s like 4 in the morning lmao I should go to sleep

    • @Musty_Justy
      @Musty_Justy 4 года назад +5

      @@bigpeene7157 goodnight sweetheart, may your dreams be as sweet as your peene

    • @bigpeene7157
      @bigpeene7157 4 года назад +10

      Justus moving a bit fruity

  • @weavehole
    @weavehole 4 года назад +116

    We’re so lucky that those photographs survived from that period of time

  • @DarkKing009
    @DarkKing009 6 лет назад +365

    Athelstan nephew of Æthelflæd, Lady of the Mercians, son of King Edward the Elder, grandson of King Alfred the Great

    • @mikespearwood3914
      @mikespearwood3914 6 лет назад +7

      "Lady"?

    • @HistoryTime
      @HistoryTime  6 лет назад +42

      Yep. Lady.
      ruclips.net/video/1C95kW84csg/видео.html

    • @timomastosalo
      @timomastosalo 6 лет назад +25

      Not so many titles available for the women: Queen, Princess, Countess, Lady, Lady, Lady ...

    • @blackwoodrichmore4531
      @blackwoodrichmore4531 4 года назад +7

      Bloody Vikings... !.

    • @rikkcampos6
      @rikkcampos6 4 года назад +41

      And friend of Uhtred of Bebanburg

  • @ghostface1621
    @ghostface1621 4 года назад +606

    What are you talking about? Everyone knows aethelstan was raised by uhtred of bebbinburgh....duh.

    • @linoeleven
      @linoeleven 4 года назад +19

      @@tomhurley974 So is the show (and books) mostly fiction, just throwing in a bunch of the real faces and places to seem real?

    • @1jazzyphae
      @1jazzyphae 4 года назад +3

      Exactly😒😂

    • @linoeleven
      @linoeleven 4 года назад +3

      @bserpa2 Ah, thank you!

    • @mrs.schmenkman
      @mrs.schmenkman 4 года назад

      bserpa2 Actually it looks like they are going to combine the two Uhtreds that appear in the recorded history??

    • @rkzduke
      @rkzduke 4 года назад +17

      Uhtred, Son of Uhtred, with a son named Uhtred.

  • @vineethdhuplae2432
    @vineethdhuplae2432 4 года назад +39

    When viewers were first introduced to Aethelstan at the monastery, the show LITERALLY wrote: Aethelstan - The first King of the English,can't wait for season 5.

    • @kweejibodali7009
      @kweejibodali7009 3 года назад +2

      seems a bit of a SPOILER...lol! missed that one, but i could tell by the way the shows kept focusing on him, more so than the other children, that he is supposed to be significant... it's pretty obvious though had no idea he is considered first unifying king

    • @foxrodiin8858
      @foxrodiin8858 2 года назад +5

      @@kweejibodali7009 How can history be a spolier? 😅

    • @Penghujat
      @Penghujat 2 года назад

      @@kweejibodali7009 i consider it as stupid, i mean history is already written and it is a fact that aethelstan was the first king, you dont need to write an introduction that he ll be king

  • @chrismears2590
    @chrismears2590 6 лет назад +92

    Currently enjoying Sarah Foot's biography of Athelstan - a much underappreciated king.

    • @HistoryTime
      @HistoryTime  6 лет назад +17

      It's a great book. And a truly great king.

  • @PozoBlue
    @PozoBlue 3 года назад +35

    It feels like Aethelfled's role laying the bases for unification alongside her brother Edward were overlooked in this video (and in raising aethelstan). Such an underrated leader. Long live the Lady of Mercia!

  • @stevegarrett134
    @stevegarrett134 5 лет назад +91

    I love history and I love documentaries, when I work as a landscape contractor, while people will listen to music with their Bluetooth I will listen to documentaries and learn. I really, really, really like history and I like being a landscape contractor and creating artwork on peoples yards, my two passions. Our minds are muscles flex 💪🏻

    • @perspectiVe-
      @perspectiVe- 4 года назад +2

      @Andrew Brent that is a lesson learnt from father and grandfather, if you are fortunate enough

    • @1invag
      @1invag 4 года назад +1

      @Andrew Brent bravo? Like the man deserves a round of applause for being a regular human being. Alot of people enjoy documentaries... pretty much everybody without exception. People are naturally curious, it isn't a particularly special quality ffs lol. I work in a bacon factory and I'm into maths and physics. My dads a steel worker he's obsessed with bonsai fucking trees 😅 I don't know anyone who doesn't have a several niche interests. Whats wrong with listening to music anyway? Like that's some plebeian activity solely cultivated by mongaloids 😅

    • @martinsmith8185
      @martinsmith8185 4 года назад +1

      Yes, I'm the same! I listen to History podcasts instead of radio with my bluetooth headphones in my joinery workshop. Turn them off if your doing something tricky, but if your machining alot of wood or sanding etc it's perfect 👍

    • @geespar1
      @geespar1 4 года назад

      Combed Autumn bonsai fucking trees 😄

    • @WorkHardBeNice
      @WorkHardBeNice 4 года назад +1

      Do your thing Steve!
      I do the same as you, listen to something I can learn from, every day as I clean the house my husband works his butt off to buy for me!

  • @chrisadlc1
    @chrisadlc1 4 года назад +231

    “Aethelflaed Aethelflaed Aethelflaed! How many times do I have to say that stupid name!” Lol can’t wait for season 4 of Last Kingdom in a few weeks

    • @perspectiVe-
      @perspectiVe- 4 года назад +12

      It is HERE!!!!

    • @chrisadlc1
      @chrisadlc1 4 года назад +13

      perspectiVe-1998 yes and we get to see the great Aethelstan as a young boy

    • @perspectiVe-
      @perspectiVe- 4 года назад +6

      @@chrisadlc1 yeah I'm on episode 5 now it's a great season so far. Today assassins creed Valhalla trailer has released!

    • @Alistplay
      @Alistplay 4 года назад +11

      The tv series is shocking i mean how could they allow beocca to die in bebbanburgh when in the books he just dies of old age along with thyra.
      Hell even ragnar the elder dies of old age/some sort of heart disease in Dunholm.
      The reason Uhtred kills aethwold is because he kidnaps aethflaed

    • @lars1296
      @lars1296 4 года назад

      Chris De La Cruz Ha!

  • @AlannahRyane
    @AlannahRyane 5 лет назад +62

    I agree with everyone else here. Your work is excellent, brilliant, engaging and entertaining. I wish it was offered in schools along with matching the historical info with one's own genealogy and past lives. When you hit Norman barons, rebels and vikings in your own history it really brings it home. Thank you for your amazing contribution to humanity.

    • @williamanderson5437
      @williamanderson5437 3 года назад +3

      Suggest you try 'The Last Kingdom' series of 12 books (4 DVD series), by Bernard Cornwell (he who created 'Sharpe'), The 13th Book by Cornwell - 'War Lord' (available 28th July 2021), includes Wirral Archaeology's confirmation that the Great Battle occuring on The Wirral Peninsular in 937ad, around Brackenwood golf course (Storeton Woods (high ground), Bebington), nearby Red Hill Rd is said to be named as the Road ran red with blood after the battle, with the invaders seemingly being repelled past Tranmere Rovers ground & through what is now Birkenhead and into the Birkenhead Docks. The one comment that places the battle near the Humber comes from a 13th century 'Monk?' who seemingly got his rivers mixed up (why sail from Dublin (Black Pool), with many Welsh - all around North Scotland (Alba), to the east coast, when a short crossing to the River Mersey (Mearse) - the ancient border of Mercia, separating Wirral from Danelaw (now Lancashire), it just does not make sense. Sorry but there may not be a fifth season of 'The Last Kingdom' - I do hope this is changed, it is indeed an excellent series. .

    • @AlannahRyane
      @AlannahRyane 3 года назад

      @@williamanderson5437 Thank you William I agree. Trusting monks interpretation of events is like trusting the Roman's. Confusing everything.

    • @mussolini.axis.5705
      @mussolini.axis.5705 Год назад

      Yeah I had a similar sort of thing going on with that

  • @HistoryMarche
    @HistoryMarche 6 лет назад +192

    Heck, I didn't know about the size of the Viking fleet. Easily surpasses the attack on Paris. Great video!

    • @HistoryTime
      @HistoryTime  6 лет назад +26

      HistoryMarche Thanks buddy! It's important to note that the 615 ships written about by the medieval chroniclers could be an over-exaggeration. Though the fleet was certainly was one of the largest if not the largest fleet of the age

    • @HistoryMarche
      @HistoryMarche 6 лет назад +11

      Yeah I figured and I'm trying to find the exact number of ships as we speak. The Paris attack was also exaggerated, it stated that 700 Viking ships were involved, whereas less than half of that was in fact closer to the true number. Nevertheless, your depiction of events is great, I truly enjoy the flow of the story.

    • @HistoryTime
      @HistoryTime  6 лет назад +19

      Thanks mate! Also- I'm going to be covering two separate Viking attacks on Paris in an upcoming video :D

    • @HistoryMarche
      @HistoryMarche 6 лет назад +4

      Ahh, can't wait!

    • @jannes3290
      @jannes3290 5 лет назад

      @@HistoryTime awesome, can't wait

  • @stephenalfrey3067
    @stephenalfrey3067 3 года назад +7

    Ethelstan much more deserved the title of "the Great" than did his grandfather Alfred. And the listing of Kings of England should begin with him, not with William as is usually the case.

  • @Thomas-fk3xl
    @Thomas-fk3xl 4 года назад +187

    people those days be like “yeah this my kid, Æthelstan”
    People now are like: "yeah this is my kid X Æ A-12"

    • @harryleigh1200
      @harryleigh1200 4 года назад +6

      I’ve always said I’m going to call my kids Alfred and ethelstan. Girl I’ll call Ethelred alfreds daughter who was lady of Mercia

    • @samwisethebrave3858
      @samwisethebrave3858 4 года назад +3

      Zaeatwelve.

    • @funitoo
      @funitoo 4 года назад +2

      @@harryleigh1200 please don't. There is a really sh1tty estate here in Eastbourne with roads named after the viking characters, Athelstan, Ethelred, etc. Don't punish your kids with tacky names.

    • @harryleigh1200
      @harryleigh1200 4 года назад +16

      Tad Ka Athelstan and Ethelred are not Viking names they are Saxon names and they belong to some of the most important people in my English history and my descendants were Saxon so I will pay respect to some of the greatest people and the people who made England

    • @harryleigh1200
      @harryleigh1200 4 года назад +1

      Tad Ka you clearly don’t really know who the people are or you wouldn’t say this them people built England gave their life for England and defended it. The reason them names are on that program is because vikings is based off a true story

  • @Ap3xPr3dator01
    @Ap3xPr3dator01 5 лет назад +10

    Content of this quality needs more than 11min. Loved it, thanks.

  • @willbrowning2812
    @willbrowning2812 6 лет назад +22

    Extremely informative and entertaining video. The information, pictures, and music are very well put together.

  • @Quarton
    @Quarton 5 лет назад +8

    Thank you so much for this video about Æthelstan! I love this history, and I look forward to more like it.

  • @alexparris7769
    @alexparris7769 6 лет назад +174

    Nailed it. Seriously in this day and age this is probably one of the few youtube channels that really is of any value. Love your vids and keep up the good work. Too many people are historically illiterate these days and i share these as much as i can to at very least get
    People thinking again haha

    • @elbat5946
      @elbat5946 5 лет назад +1

      Alex Parris - True Story!

    • @danm8004
      @danm8004 4 года назад

      Capitalise your I's.

    • @alexparris7769
      @alexparris7769 4 года назад +1

      Dan M but i am not that important 😂

    • @scarletpimpernelagain9124
      @scarletpimpernelagain9124 4 года назад +1

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    • @roberthoward6590
      @roberthoward6590 3 года назад +1

      Beautifully done. The impression this seems to advance is that the unity of Anglo Saxon England was a multi - tiered process extending from Alfred the Great and Aethelfraed to Edward, the Elder to Aethelstan.

  • @manuelalonsodominguezvazqu2145
    @manuelalonsodominguezvazqu2145 6 лет назад +33

    First video I’ve ever seen with 300+ Likes and 0 Dislikes. Totally deserve it.

    • @williamanderson5437
      @williamanderson5437 3 года назад +1

      Suggest you try 'The Last Kingdom' series of 12 books (4 DVD series), by Bernard Cornwell (he who created 'Sharpe'), The 13th Book by Cornwell - 'War Lord' (available 28th July 2021), includes Wirral Archaeology's confirmation that the Great Battle occuring on The Wirral Peninsular in 937ad, around Brackenwood golf course (Storeton Woods (high ground), Bebington), nearby Red Hill Rd is said to be named as the Road ran red with blood after the battle, with the invaders seemingly being repelled past Tranmere Rovers ground & through what is now Birkenhead and into the Birkenhead Docks. The one comment that places the battle near the Humber comes from a 13th century 'Monk?' who seemingly got his rivers mixed up (why sail from Dublin (Black Pool), with many Welsh - all around North Scotland (Alba), to the east coast, when a short crossing to the River Mersey (Mearse) - the ancient border of Mercia, separating Wirral from Danelaw (now Lancashire), it just does not make sense. Sorry but there may not be a fifth season of 'The Last Kingdom' - I do hope this is changed, it is indeed an excellent series. .

  • @mr.gonzales3534
    @mr.gonzales3534 4 года назад +244

    Who is here because of the last kingdom?

    • @mr.gonzales3534
      @mr.gonzales3534 4 года назад +1

      I think that only Uthred is the only fiction character..

    • @DVAFP
      @DVAFP 4 года назад +1

      I’m here because of X Æ A-12

    • @josepheller8395
      @josepheller8395 4 года назад +2

      I think it's great that people are interested in history even if their interest was peaked by a TV show.

    • @mr.gonzales3534
      @mr.gonzales3534 4 года назад

      how about Rollo and Ragnar?

    • @mr.gonzales3534
      @mr.gonzales3534 4 года назад +1

      how about Rollo and Ragnar?

  • @gaius_enceladus
    @gaius_enceladus 5 лет назад +6

    Great video! I thought that I knew a reasonable amount about English history but I'm ashamed to admit that I had never heard of Aethelstan until watching this video! Many thanks for posting it!

  • @knightowl3577
    @knightowl3577 4 года назад +5

    My Grandparents came from England,Scotland,Ireland and Wales. So I had an ancestor on the winning side in all this fighting.

    • @zoetropo1
      @zoetropo1 4 года назад

      Macsen Wledig: yes, and then produced Earls of Northumbria after the Anglo-Saxons were crushed.

  • @melissasullenger8839
    @melissasullenger8839 3 года назад +2

    If that is a realistic likeness of Athelstan He was Good Looking...which is a rare thing in this day and age.

  • @trob1173
    @trob1173 2 года назад +2

    The first time I read about Aethelstan, I thought, "This is the guy that should have been called "the Great" or "the Conqueror" !"

  • @samolevski1119
    @samolevski1119 2 года назад +9

    Sorry if this has been mentioned here already but I cannot read every one of a thousand posts
    Athelstan was buried at Malmesbury abbey, a place well worth a visit for anyone into history.
    The town of Malmesbury has many things named after Athelstan including a museum, road, coach company, and a cinema at one time.
    Highgrove is nearby as is the village of Sherston, itself with historical connections according to local history - Edmund Ironside fought in the battle of Sherston as did John Rattlebone who has a local pub named after him, where princes Harry and William were often found when at Highgrove

    • @jenniferharrison4319
      @jenniferharrison4319 2 года назад

      I hope local children are taught about this period of our history. When l was at school we learnt about the Romans , maybe something about Alfred and then nothing until the Norman Conquest.

    • @cousinbenson4614
      @cousinbenson4614 Месяц назад

      There is a tunnle system underneath Malmesbury abbey built by the Roman's where he is believed to be buried.

  • @Soldmysoulforablurayplayer
    @Soldmysoulforablurayplayer 4 года назад +8

    After watching Æthelwald getting his just deserts on The Last Kingdom was so satisfying. Although for the 1st 2 seasons he was my favourite character, he was really his own worst enemy.

    • @zoetropo1
      @zoetropo1 4 года назад +1

      Humperdoo: let me guess, he was an early type of Eadric Streona?

  • @EngPheniks
    @EngPheniks Год назад +4

    the name Aethelstan was inspired by an Anglo-Saxon monk from Lindisfarne. The earliest record of Viking raid started from here.

    • @Neil-yh8uu
      @Neil-yh8uu 4 месяца назад

      What are you on about ?
      You've got to stop believing Netflix
      Why did the Vikings raid lindesfarne ?
      Why would Vikings who trade in people kill all the priests especially with them not being armed
      If you look at most monasteries you'll find a fare few graves of young boys it's the graves what aren't there what makes you think
      See my theory vikings landed on lindesfarne and found the priests/monks up to no good with young boys
      The film king Arthur tells a similar story but uses a girl instead of boys
      The Roman saying "women are for babies
      Young boys are for making love"it seems that phrase has is as old as the church itself
      I hope I've educated you
      You're welcome

  • @baileynewton8463
    @baileynewton8463 3 года назад +5

    I think this is the best part of Britains history. The involvement of the viking and the huge influence they had over parts of england.

    • @dean8542
      @dean8542 2 года назад

      The founding of the anglo saxon kingdoms is the best bit for had it not been england would not be

  • @kevingee4294
    @kevingee4294 6 лет назад +7

    Terrific, I just found your channel and getting ready to binge! Thanks for the work you do. Blessings from Texas.....

  • @stsr11
    @stsr11 4 года назад +42

    So what your saying is "Denmark owes me reparations"?

    • @zaccuda7302
      @zaccuda7302 4 года назад

      As a dane i say fuck you as i walk away with ur woman lmao

    • @stsr11
      @stsr11 4 года назад +4

      @@zaccuda7302 Like a true viking. I would say - you would bring her back!

    • @javanbybee4822
      @javanbybee4822 4 года назад

      @@zaccuda7302 are you ok there bud?

    • @veronicamatheny7453
      @veronicamatheny7453 4 года назад

      haha nice one!

    • @yasser9350
      @yasser9350 4 года назад +1

      You Britts owe half the world a hefty reparation🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

  • @damarcuscolfer1485
    @damarcuscolfer1485 2 месяца назад +1

    Whoever narrated this, I love his voice.

  • @shahstormaggedoni5854
    @shahstormaggedoni5854 6 лет назад +69

    A king who truly deserves the title "the great"

    • @shahstormaggedoni5854
      @shahstormaggedoni5854 6 лет назад +5

      though sadly it was never granted to him :(

    • @philippeblenkiron4146
      @philippeblenkiron4146 6 лет назад +13

      No, but he was known as 'Æthelstan the Glorious' :)

    • @henrymcmahon7097
      @henrymcmahon7097 4 года назад +1

      leifur vikingur who held domination through out the 18th 19th and 20th centuries, hitler and Stalin invaded the so called “superior genetics”with ease, yet whos mainland was untouched. The British isles

    • @robeh2505
      @robeh2505 2 года назад

      @@henrymcmahon7097 What the hell are you talking about? Leifur Vikingur? Was that a person or are you just insane?

    • @henrymcmahon7097
      @henrymcmahon7097 2 года назад

      @@robeh2505 that was the guys name who commented I’m guessing he changed it now

  • @kevinharrison5651
    @kevinharrison5651 5 лет назад +48

    The Anglo saxon era was awesome. Athelstan rocked ,its a pity he died prematurely. When you look at that era ,it highlights what a tragedy the later Norman conquest was. Historians like to say the Norman conquest was a beneficial thing eventually. I digress because it wiped out a vibrant culture and hybridised the original English language.

    • @zoetropo1
      @zoetropo1 4 года назад +3

      EnglishXnXproud: Anglo-Saxon romanticisation is a fiction created to please a dynasty from Saxony, the Hanovers. In truth, in the AS era you and your descendants would likely be slaves.

    • @andrewhoward7200
      @andrewhoward7200 4 года назад +1

      @Nicholas Ennos I do adore our language but don't underestimate German. The Nibelungenlied with the epic tale of Siegfried, Sturm und Drang with Goethe and Schiller that gave us the immortal Faust, even Wagner's libretti .

    • @andrewhoward7200
      @andrewhoward7200 4 года назад

      @Nicholas Ennos Study and over saturation can often be more an aversion therapy than progenitor to affection. After more than 25 years living in Germany I've learnt more to admire the language than love it-which I suppose amounts to the same thing.
      You're right about Busch, who doesn't love Max and Moritz.

    • @phoenixrose1192
      @phoenixrose1192 2 года назад +2

      Women also had more rights in AS England and feudalism which was brought over by the Normans reduced the average AS peasant (which was what most of our ancestors would have been at the time), to little more than serfs. Our relationship with the Franks, Welsh and Irish was much less contentious before the conquest also, I could go on…

    • @phoenixrose1192
      @phoenixrose1192 2 года назад +1

      It’s not like it’s lost forever, I don’t see how we can’t learn OE in schools like the Irish learn Gaelic. It can be done, it’s just case of having enough people being aware of how beautiful OE was and having the interest in reconnecting with this part of our heritage. Though it’s the English we’re talking about here…it’s become fashionable to hate ourselves these days. 😕

  • @missemeraldalfeche1005
    @missemeraldalfeche1005 2 года назад +3

    Just finished season 5 and I shed in tears in this season 😢 so many characters died :(

    • @drycell476
      @drycell476 2 года назад

      season 5 is the most emotional season :(

  • @frankiemoore9127
    @frankiemoore9127 4 года назад +21

    Proud to be Anglo-Saxon🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

  • @kweejibodali7009
    @kweejibodali7009 3 года назад +4

    Alfred ruled for 28 years ! though huge warfare with everybody especially vikings ... they say he was sickly but he is a champion...

  • @davilox07_15
    @davilox07_15 4 года назад +76

    The Last Kingdom gang where you at

    • @thomasalvarez6456
      @thomasalvarez6456 4 года назад +2

      Shame it butchered King Edward the elder

    • @NYorksElcapitan
      @NYorksElcapitan 4 года назад

      Were right here but united as one force through land and see we still prevail 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

    • @jerad248
      @jerad248 4 года назад

      We hereee!!!

  • @ianofliverpool7701
    @ianofliverpool7701 3 года назад +49

    But it was King Alfred who built the foundation for everything that followed, Without Alfred there could be no united England

    • @alansutton9388
      @alansutton9388 3 года назад +4

      Correct

    • @leod-sigefast
      @leod-sigefast 3 года назад +3

      Aye, the burh system and the rotation of the land fyrd. All great steps towards beating the Vikings.

    • @kathrynjordan8782
      @kathrynjordan8782 3 года назад

      that is true. Athelstan was the grandson of Alfred the Great. I am amazed at what those two accomplished.

    • @nole8923
      @nole8923 2 года назад +1

      @@kathrynjordan8782
      Then Aethelred the unready pissed it all away.

    • @kathrynjordan8782
      @kathrynjordan8782 2 года назад

      @@nole8923 I know. He was not ready to be king. I wonder how things wold have been if Aethelred had be "ready" to reign as king rather be called "The Unready". We can only imagine how he would have reigned if he had been "ready".

  • @wastyeasty8042
    @wastyeasty8042 5 лет назад +21

    Æthelred Unræd doesn't mean Æthelred the Unready. Æthelred means "noble council" and unræd means "bad council." That was the joke.

  • @Stopitpls
    @Stopitpls 4 года назад +12

    His father was Edward the Elder, who died at 50, but his grandfather was Alfred the a Great, who also died at 50. Imagine being remembered for being old, just as old as your over achieving dad.

  • @Knappa22
    @Knappa22 4 года назад +9

    The Welsh kingdoms weren’t ‘wild’. They were as civilised as their English counterparts with their own laws and social organisation.

    • @user-gw2zu5do2r
      @user-gw2zu5do2r 2 года назад

      Correct. The Welsh people were descendants of Roman Britons, who experienced the Roman covilization.

  • @williamrobinson7435
    @williamrobinson7435 2 года назад +3

    This is great. Wonderful presentation, and if anything, too fact packed to take in in one hit! I shall be revisiting this, and the subscribe button is a must! Well done indeed. 👍

  • @kyhtred
    @kyhtred 4 года назад +32

    So this is who Uhtred took in to raise at the end of season 4. Very interesting, good information!

    • @natekennedy7274
      @natekennedy7274 4 года назад +14

      Jay Morgan show is the best show ever , most underrated show

    • @louiemcewan4911
      @louiemcewan4911 4 года назад

      Spoilers dude...

    • @natekennedy7274
      @natekennedy7274 4 года назад

      Jay Morgan I agree about breaking bad and sopranos, I didn’t watch wire or west wing ..I’m going to check out the books, thanks

    • @nznative6615
      @nznative6615 4 года назад +1

      Jay Morgan SPARTACUS 2010 I think 🤣🤣🤣

    • @martinsmith8185
      @martinsmith8185 4 года назад

      @Jay Morgan Old Sharpes were too cheesy.. books are much better than ITV depictions. But Sean Bean was great.

  • @EBUNNY2012
    @EBUNNY2012 4 года назад +5

    England has such a late start (history-wise) and still became the greatest empire ever. Fascinating.

    • @rajakhan12346
      @rajakhan12346 2 года назад +1

      Ever 😂😂😂 you wish. The ottoman empire 👌🏻

    • @Anglo83_
      @Anglo83_ 2 года назад +3

      @@rajakhan12346 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂you having a laugh

    • @benfisher1376
      @benfisher1376 Год назад

      England, Scotland, France and Germany all became nations around the same time, so I'm not sure why you say late, in comparison with what?

  • @bearzookabear2555
    @bearzookabear2555 5 лет назад +11

    Wow, sounds like a really badass, awesome king.

  • @alexius23
    @alexius23 5 лет назад +59

    Bernard Cornwell’s “Last Kingdom” books cover this period very well

    • @jewelmathews1444
      @jewelmathews1444 5 лет назад +1

      He has become 1 of my fave authors

    • @DC-if7jx
      @DC-if7jx 5 лет назад +7

      New Keys well yeah but the big events are still accurate and that, just the protagonist is added in of course

    • @elwulfcoe1696
      @elwulfcoe1696 5 лет назад +6

      He never gets to Athelstan though, which is a shame because its the Anglo-Saxon Golden age, and imo the most interesting point in pre-Norman English history. Had he lived a bit longer, the whole of Britain might be just called England today.

    • @shurik121
      @shurik121 4 года назад +6

      @@elwulfcoe1696 Athelstan is a character in later books, and the newest one covers the death of Edward The Elder and Athelstan's ascension to the throne of Wessex.

    • @elwulfcoe1696
      @elwulfcoe1696 4 года назад +1

      @@shurik121 So do the books go on even after Uhtreds death? He is older than Edward and won't outlive him, surely. I mean... Edward lived for quite a long time!

  • @karenhanania9014
    @karenhanania9014 4 года назад +2

    Aethelstan, who knew? Super interesting. I'm definitely going to look more into him. Thanks!

  • @Camilo2002xxx
    @Camilo2002xxx 4 года назад +1

    Excellent video on King Athelstan. Thanks for sharing!!!

  • @RainBird88x
    @RainBird88x 4 года назад +6

    He should be more well known in England.

  • @HFIDOLQ
    @HFIDOLQ 4 года назад +74

    Just finished season 4. AND THIS IS SPOILERS.

    • @user-cm9sf7vs5h
      @user-cm9sf7vs5h 4 года назад +4

      Spoilers? How is something based vividly off past historic events a spoiler? 😂

    • @curlycurldream4276
      @curlycurldream4276 4 года назад +3

      A Such a good point! 😂😂 love this show

    • @eduarddv00
      @eduarddv00 4 года назад +5

      When viewers were first introduced to aethelstan at the monastery, the show LITERALLY wrote: Aethelstan - King of the English

    • @HFIDOLQ
      @HFIDOLQ 4 года назад +2

      It’s a joke. Take a chill pill. Not everyone study english history and not everyone watches the intro.

    • @williamanderson5437
      @williamanderson5437 3 года назад +1

      Suggest you try 'The Last Kingdom' series of 12 books (4 DVD series), by Bernard Cornwell (he who created 'Sharpe'), The 13th Book by Cornwell - 'War Lord' (available 28th July 2021), includes Wirral Archaeology's confirmation that the Great Battle occuring on The Wirral Peninsular in 937ad, around Brackenwood golf course (Storeton Woods (high ground), Bebington), nearby Red Hill Rd is said to be named as the Road ran red with blood after the battle, with the invaders seemingly being repelled past Tranmere Rovers ground & through what is now Birkenhead and into the Birkenhead Docks. The one comment that places the battle near the Humber comes from a 13th century 'Monk?' who seemingly got his rivers mixed up (why sail from Dublin (Black Pool), with many Welsh - all around North Scotland (Alba), to the east coast, when a short crossing to the River Mersey (Mearse) - the ancient border of Mercia, separating Wirral from Danelaw (now Lancashire), it just does not make sense. Sorry but there may not be a fifth season of 'The Last Kingdom' - I do hope this is changed, it is indeed an excellent series. .

  • @sethdavis3772
    @sethdavis3772 2 года назад +1

    Thank you! This really fills the gap for me between Edward and Aethelred "the Unready". Enjoy your videos!

  • @LayllasLocker
    @LayllasLocker 2 года назад +1

    Can't wait for the film "7 kings must die". :D ♥

  • @mikegriffiths3440
    @mikegriffiths3440 5 лет назад +6

    @HistoryTime the Battle of Brunanburh may possibly have been fought on the Wirral where I am from! this battle has always interested me and any more information on it would be greatly appreciated. many thanks for posting @History Time great channel

    • @williamanderson5437
      @williamanderson5437 3 года назад +2

      Suggest you try 'The Last Kingdom' series of 12 books (4 DVD series), by Bernard Cornwell (he who created 'Sharpe'), The 13th Book by Cornwell - 'War Lord' (available 28th July 2021), includes Wirral Archaeology's confirmation that the Great Battle occuring on The Wirral Peninsular in 937ad, around Brackenwood golf course (Storeton Woods (high ground), Bebington), nearby Red Hill Rd is said to be named as the Road ran red with blood after the battle, with the invaders seemingly being repelled past Tranmere Rovers ground & through what is now Birkenhead and into the Birkenhead Docks. The one comment that places the battle near the Humber comes from a 13th century 'Monk?' who seemingly got his rivers mixed up (why sail from Dublin (Black Pool), with many Welsh - all around North Scotland (Alba), to the east coast, when a short crossing to the River Mersey (Mearse) - the ancient border of Mercia, separating Wirral from Danelaw (now Lancashire), it just does not make sense. Sorry but there may not be a fifth season of 'The Last Kingdom' - I do hope this is changed, it is indeed an excellent series. .

    • @mikegriffiths3440
      @mikegriffiths3440 3 года назад

      @@williamanderson5437 im from the wirral mate, happy its been confirmed!

  • @h.m.d.2989
    @h.m.d.2989 4 года назад +16

    Everybody is talking about "The Last Kingdom"-and not only do I have no idea what that is, I am shocked & heartbroken at the lack of Vikings fans in the comments.

    • @freddyb.b8120
      @freddyb.b8120 4 года назад +7

      How the piglets would grunt if they knew how the old boar suffered..

    • @RobertLundbladeInto_Now
      @RobertLundbladeInto_Now 4 года назад +2

      H.M. D. Vikings fan here. Amazing times they must have been; harsh but real. How we have become so pussified is beyond me.

    • @badreddinebelabed9156
      @badreddinebelabed9156 4 года назад +7

      Maybe because Vikings stopped being a good show after Ragnar's death and because The Last Kingdom is more close to Historical accuracy compared to Vikings where everything seems so messed-up in regards to real historical events

    • @big-aimpalancapricenationi3217
      @big-aimpalancapricenationi3217 3 года назад +1

      @@badreddinebelabed9156 you mean to tell me that the last kingdom is better than the vikings??? Lol I'll wait

    • @colleenlally-ross7105
      @colleenlally-ross7105 3 года назад +1

      I love 'em both!!

  • @zozyb1
    @zozyb1 4 года назад +1

    I grew up in Handsworth, Sheffield UK, and went to Athelstan middle school.

  • @jamesgibbs6652
    @jamesgibbs6652 4 года назад +83

    Watching this I realise that the last kingdom has potential

    • @frankcrosby6222
      @frankcrosby6222 4 года назад +18

      Its awesome. I'm a big fan. Highly recommend

    • @threestepssideways1202
      @threestepssideways1202 4 года назад +6

      It has some problems, but yes it is certainly worth a watch.

    • @TheToledoTrumpton
      @TheToledoTrumpton 4 года назад +7

      The last Kingdom slowly gets better through the series. The books are even better.

    • @krzysztofhejek4630
      @krzysztofhejek4630 4 года назад +3

      Can’t wait to see if Aethelstan is in Season 5 and drives the Danes out of York

    • @roelvillarin9366
      @roelvillarin9366 4 года назад

      @@krzysztofhejek4630 when season 5 ?

  • @Super_janey87
    @Super_janey87 6 лет назад +5

    Great video! Very informative and highlights a very unappreciated English ruler

  • @danyf.1442
    @danyf.1442 4 года назад +4

    I am not embarassed to admit that I have learnt a bit of history thanks to the shows Vikings and The Last Kingdom...well at least I heard those names before 😂

  • @matthewirwin1791
    @matthewirwin1791 4 года назад +1

    Very professional documentary, well put together looking forward to binge the rest thank you

  • @FriendlyMarmot
    @FriendlyMarmot 5 лет назад +1

    This popped up in my feed this morning, and I had just reached the section in Egil's Saga that I think tells this story last night!

  • @qwertyguy12345
    @qwertyguy12345 6 лет назад +25

    I like the diversity of the names.

    • @OmegaTrooper
      @OmegaTrooper 5 лет назад +4

      athel athel athel athel athel athel athel athel athel athel

    • @leonleeson5904
      @leonleeson5904 4 года назад +6

      @leifur vikingur the same Vikings that didn't do shit when Æthelstan was large and in charge 🤔

    • @Threezi04
      @Threezi04 4 года назад +4

      @leifur vikingur I bet you're an American "of Scandinavian descent" lol. Fuck off mate, in the end the Vikings never succeeded, even King Harold managed to defeat Hådrade before being defeated by William.

    • @alicemi4155
      @alicemi4155 4 года назад +2

      @leifur vikingur What “stronger and superior genetics” are you talking about? They were basically of the same ethnic stock. Have you been drinking again?

    • @pedrocosta7938
      @pedrocosta7938 4 года назад

      @leifur vikingur why the fuck would anyone want to invade scandanavia ? Its an arctic non farmable land with no minerals no nothing, worthless.

  • @adinallsontv771
    @adinallsontv771 5 лет назад +19

    thank you, brilliant. Why they do not teach this in our schools is beyond me

    • @wasp6594
      @wasp6594 5 лет назад +6

      I suspect this is deliberately intended to deprive the English of any knowledge of where they come from and what they belong to. This could be one of the more baleful results of the Norman Conquest we are still suffering one thousand years later. Even when I was at school during the fifties, our history lessons tended to centre around the invasions and conquests of England, from the Roman to the Norman but omitted 600 years of Saxon history, or just brushed over it.
      Today, with devolution and the creation of the forced diversity, the last thing the establishment wants or needs is for the English to rediscover their identity and roots.

    • @pippo-1073
      @pippo-1073 5 лет назад +9

      Adinallson TV schools are too busy teaching kids that boys can have periods.

    • @georgek2092
      @georgek2092 5 лет назад +5

      @@wasp6594 It's not half as sinister as that. We covered the Anglo-Saxon period a ton during school, the issue was that battles (like Hastings) are a lot more interesting than cultural studies. There's plenty to learn about the Anglo-Saxons but it's much more interesting as an adult when you can fully grasp the idea of culture and what people have in common/divides us, it's nothing to do with 'forced diversity' or trying to extinguish English culture - nationalism is great for governments as it lets them hike up taxes.

    • @kenhanson27
      @kenhanson27 4 года назад

      Adinallsontv. As a lad in school in the 60's, we were taught about Beowulf.

    • @malcolmlugg9843
      @malcolmlugg9843 4 года назад

      I agree it's deprivation of knowledge deliberately. Also, the period is always in juxtaposition with the Vikings, so the Vikings take centre stage

  • @brunanburh937AD
    @brunanburh937AD 4 года назад +1

    Enjoyed this very much, thanks for your time and effort

  • @jvlleaks4399
    @jvlleaks4399 4 года назад +2

    This makes me more hyped for season 5

  • @davidarnold9324
    @davidarnold9324 6 лет назад +13

    Great video! Brushing up in preparation for Thrones of Britannia.

  • @123abcdef3
    @123abcdef3 3 года назад +9

    This makes me even more excited to watch the fifth season of the Last Kingdom. Uhtred is training Ethelstan. Can't wait!

    • @williamanderson5437
      @williamanderson5437 3 года назад +1

      The 13th Book by Cornwell - 'War Lord' (available 28th July 2021), details Wirral separating

    • @williamanderson5437
      @williamanderson5437 3 года назад

      Suggest you try 'The Last Kingdom' series of 12 books (4 DVD series), by Bernard Cornwell (he who created 'Sharpe'), The 13th Book by Cornwell - 'War Lord' (available 28th July 2021), includes Wirral Archaeology's confirmation that the Great Battle occuring on The Wirral Peninsular in 937ad, around Brackenwood golf course (Storeton Woods (high ground), Bebington), nearby Red Hill Rd is said to be named as the Road ran red with blood after the battle, with the invaders seemingly being repelled past Tranmere Rovers ground & through what is now Birkenhead and into the Birkenhead Docks. The one comment that places the battle near the Humber comes from a 13th century 'Monk?' who seemingly got his rivers mixed up (why sail from Dublin (Black Pool), with many Welsh - all around North Scotland (Alba), to the east coast, when a short crossing to the River Mersey (Mearse) - the ancient border of Mercia, separating Wirral from Danelaw (now Lancashire), it just does not make sense. Sorry but there may not be a fifth season of 'The Last Kingdom' - I do hope this is changed, it is indeed an excellent series. .

  • @kingmac28gaming10
    @kingmac28gaming10 2 года назад +1

    I want some series for king aethelstan

  • @jozzieokes3422
    @jozzieokes3422 2 года назад +1

    Season 5 of the last kingdom was great. Caint wait for seven kings must die film 🙏

  • @saybk2019
    @saybk2019 4 года назад +6

    and this is all thanks to uhtred he is the one true King behind the shadows .

  • @DedicatedSpartan
    @DedicatedSpartan 6 лет назад +8

    Olaf was good at uniting different people.

  • @rolandsalvato
    @rolandsalvato 4 года назад

    Thank you very much - saved me reading a couple of books. Great narrative and fun.

  • @finchcarvingadiamond
    @finchcarvingadiamond 4 года назад +2

    I'm a bored young woman from the United states and I found myself after a shift of work becoming fascinated with English history??? I somehow, in my fatigued stupor, have a need to learn how consistent elements of today (across the pond) began. My country is so freaking new it's almost boring.

    • @leroyjenkins2639
      @leroyjenkins2639 4 года назад

      evil spoon there’s lots of evidence of large historical events in the America’s but sadly Native Americans relied on story telling as their main form of history keeping and inevitably got deeply intertwined with folk lore and religion.

  • @satyr1349
    @satyr1349 6 лет назад +10

    Very nice work on the vid, hope you reap the reward with increased number of viewers.

  • @AndyMcSherry1
    @AndyMcSherry1 5 лет назад +6

    I love the dark ages material.. Great channel.

  • @70stunes71
    @70stunes71 3 года назад

    Videos like this make me wonder about my relatives living there in those days and any role they may have had during these battles

  • @benrowe4707
    @benrowe4707 4 года назад +2

    Would you be able to do a video on the history of Welsh kings and when Wales was once England. I would love to know more on this subject. Love the videos 👍

  • @advocacies
    @advocacies 5 лет назад +3

    If you really want deep deep history of brittain, the first technical king was cerdic, although this was unconfirmed because he is the king of wessex

  • @dedi1563
    @dedi1563 4 года назад +4

    Uhtred is helping him conquer england

  • @Cheezy_Bunz
    @Cheezy_Bunz Год назад +1

    Im fascinated with old english history like this (pre Norman invasion) and wonder what England and the English language would be like today had William I not conquered England.

  • @dhanarputra555
    @dhanarputra555 4 года назад +1

    Man, all of these history lesson from stone age to modern age pops up in my YT home after playing Rise of Kingdom.
    Æthelflæd. Lady of Mercians.

  • @shoutinghorse
    @shoutinghorse 5 лет назад +5

    Kent had long been allied to Wessex, Alfred the Great's grandfather was Egbert of Kent who became the King of Wessex and forced the submission of all the other Saxon Kingdoms of England. From then on Wessex took over the Saxon domination from Mercia.
    Alfred's dream was to defeat the Danes and for England to become one united Saxon country under his rule. Aethelstan eventually fulfilled his grandfathers legacy.

  • @timomastosalo
    @timomastosalo 6 лет назад +38

    Game of Thrones, original settings

    • @ryanaegis3544
      @ryanaegis3544 6 лет назад +11

      I said that somewhere during season 2 and everyone thought I was nuts. I could not believe how narrow minded people were to not see the blatant similarities. Heck, there is even Hadrian's Wall, lol.

    • @timomastosalo
      @timomastosalo 6 лет назад +4

      Maybe just hadn't really read history. Well, I knew mostly of Hadrian's Wall (Harren Hall, the Wall), and that Mercia was kind of THE Game of Thrones country. Then the Vikings came (the dragons) and Northern England was vulnerable. Well, in the series the 'Normans' bring the dragons, and the northern enemy is simply... cold blooded. That's of course how Vikings must've appeared for the raided populations.

    • @guneytopal1713
      @guneytopal1713 5 лет назад +4

      Game of thrones coincides with the war of the roses but these is still similarities here as well along with the Hundred Years’ War, William the conqueror and the Roman occupation

    • @Annasea666
      @Annasea666 5 лет назад +4

      Real history is way more fascinating

    • @jturtle5318
      @jturtle5318 5 лет назад +2

      GOT is my family history plus zombies.

  • @kyphe.
    @kyphe. 4 года назад +2

    Just been told by Norwegian GF that the name Æthelstan means Jewel or literally Nobel Stone/rock which makes him the jewel in the crown

    • @rolandsalvato
      @rolandsalvato 4 года назад

      I wonder if some names were applied after death, for example "The Great"...

  • @chrisgriffin9164
    @chrisgriffin9164 3 года назад

    This is set out very enjoyable, thank you for sharing.

  • @sgregg5257
    @sgregg5257 2 года назад +7

    Offa of Mercia was known as Rex Anglorum or Rex Totius Anglorum Patriae. Aethebold, Offa's predecessor, was known as Rex Britiania. Aethelstan is certainly the first king, post Danish invasion to legitimately be referred to as Rex Anglorum. In fact no English king until Edward I held as much terriroty as Aethelstan held. However like Offa before him, he had real trouble passing on that legacy of power once he died.

    • @rustybayonette6641
      @rustybayonette6641 7 месяцев назад

      Methinks Offa had a bit more trouble than Athelstan lol

  • @Damndrrtyapes
    @Damndrrtyapes 4 года назад +2

    Thanks for the interesting history lesson. Æthelstan was the first king to unite England, Kamehameha the Great was the first to rule over a united Hawaii. I wish they could compare notes.

    • @MrWatchme1989
      @MrWatchme1989 2 года назад +2

      Wait, there was a king called kamdhameha?

    • @Damndrrtyapes
      @Damndrrtyapes 2 года назад

      Indeed there was. He waged war against kings of other islands in the Hawaiian chain and united all under his rule. He even stsrted a monarchy of rulers with similar names. Google Kamehameha for more reading.

    • @MrWatchme1989
      @MrWatchme1989 2 года назад +1

      @@Damndrrtyapes so I'm guessing this is where dragonball z got the inspiration for the name.

  • @georgeking6356
    @georgeking6356 5 лет назад

    As a descendant of all of those mentioned in this video I say thanks. It's hard to keep everyone in order and this does help a lot.

  • @CountessKitten
    @CountessKitten 2 года назад

    Wow! Thanks for this! Its a great video and love the knowledge and the presentation of it! I hope you do more!!!

  • @gregcampbelle3696
    @gregcampbelle3696 5 лет назад +5

    The English are roughly 30% Germanic according to DNA. The English are essentially a people who descended from a much much earlier migration with some Germanic admixture over the years, who for a time had a Germanic culture because of the Angles, Saxons and Jutes who invaded after the fall of the Roman Empire and came to dominate politically and culturally. This is not much different than after 1066 when the Anglo-Saxon landed classes were deposed by the descendants of Vikings called the Normans who were culturally French. From that time on, the main culture of England (especially that of the nobility) came to more resemble that of mainland Europe, particularly France, which was itself culturally descended from west Francia which was a blend of "Celtic" cultured Gauls and Germanics.
    Essentially this is the history of almost the entirety of Western Europe. So-called "Celtic" or pre-Germanic people with varying degrees of German admixture who came to be culturally something else. England is no more of a Germanic country than are France and Belgium. If we really want to throw some nice monkey wrenches into the equation, the Celts themselves have a lot of DNA overlap with Germanics LOL! Let's just say if you are English, Scottish, Irish, Belgian, Northern French etc, there is a very good chance this is your story.

    • @zoetropo1
      @zoetropo1 4 года назад

      Greg Campbelle: moreover, the southern and western Germans spoke Celtic languages in Roman times.
      Worms (where the Capets originated) was a Celtic city, and the Swabian king Marbod had the same Celtic name as a bishop of Rennes in Brittany a millennium later.

  • @khalidhailin8326
    @khalidhailin8326 4 года назад +12

    Vikings: Pagans side
    The Last Kingdom: Saxons side

    • @badreddinebelabed9156
      @badreddinebelabed9156 4 года назад +4

      Nope, It's more like:
      Vikings: very unrealistic and one-sided.
      The Last Kingdom: closer to reality and real events.

    • @therandom.cowboy5526
      @therandom.cowboy5526 3 года назад

      @Badreddine Belabed and cosmetically they both look like shit.

  • @michaelmallal9101
    @michaelmallal9101 4 года назад +1

    Saw Stamford on a map here. We have Sir Stamford Raffles of Singapore. Stamford is an electorate in Singapore and also my middle name as dad was a politician inter alia.

    • @zoetropo1
      @zoetropo1 4 года назад

      Michael Mallal: Stamford Bridge was important.

  • @vilhelmhammershoi3871
    @vilhelmhammershoi3871 4 года назад

    Excellent Video. Thank you for posting!

  • @nealokelly
    @nealokelly 5 лет назад +3

    He was coronated? Past-participle or "to coronate"?!?! Crowned, maybe?

  • @carlosmartinez-qr2ot
    @carlosmartinez-qr2ot 4 года назад +3

    RUclips algorithm has a sense of humor 😂

  • @aymericgoupil2138
    @aymericgoupil2138 2 года назад

    Very instructive video ! I loved it !
    Greets from across the channel from an old enemy who became a close friend ;)

  • @domhuckle
    @domhuckle 4 года назад

    There's a growing consensus that the battle was near Went Hill and a roman Fort with a spring which is now called Robin Hood's Well

  • @robertsmith5744
    @robertsmith5744 5 лет назад +3

    This was centuries before The Plantagenets, who died off with the killing of Richard the 3rd.

    • @zoetropo1
      @zoetropo1 4 года назад

      Robert Smith: not entirely. There was Arthur Plantagenet. Also there are still the Hastings and other lines of descent.

  • @garychynne1377
    @garychynne1377 6 лет назад +15

    thank yew

  • @Mo-Khan
    @Mo-Khan 4 года назад +2

    I'm here because of Netflix and the Last Kingdom, and mostly because of Assassins creed Valhalla.... had to study Alfred the Great and his bloodline and connection to order of the ancients....
    This shit is addicting to study thanks for posting this video.

    • @williamanderson5437
      @williamanderson5437 3 года назад +1

      Suggest you try 'The Last Kingdom' series of 12 books (4 DVD series), by Bernard Cornwell (he who created 'Sharpe'), The 13th Book by Cornwell - 'War Lord' (available 28th July 2021), includes Wirral Archaeology's confirmation that the Great Battle occuring on The Wirral Peninsular in 937ad, around Brackenwood golf course (Storeton Woods (high ground), Bebington), nearby Red Hill Rd is said to be named as the Road ran red with blood after the battle, with the invaders seemingly being repelled past Tranmere Rovers ground & through what is now Birkenhead and into the Birkenhead Docks. The one comment that places the battle near the Humber comes from a 13th century 'Monk?' who seemingly got his rivers mixed up (why sail from Dublin (Black Pool), with many Welsh - all around North Scotland (Alba), to the east coast, when a short crossing to the River Mersey (Mearse) - the ancient border of Mercia, separating Wirral from Danelaw (now Lancashire), it just does not make sense. Sorry but there may not be a fifth season of 'The Last Kingdom' - I do hope this is changed, it is indeed an excellent series. .