Greetings from a big fan of english history from Bucharest...I have always belive that history is nr 1 lesson for a man/ woman in order to find the roots of their ancestors and preserving the national identity ....just as in a family...to know your grandparents , parents and soto pass to your own children same torch of pride and knowledge... many thanks Dan Snowden☺
@@stallion78 Quite right....This is a job for every country to promote such lessons of their own history....England is a good exampke in that respect....
I love these videos about the Normans. Both sides of my father’s family come from Norman lines and unfortunately I never had the opportunity to learn about them in school.
No worries they were probably children of Norman rapes , so it might bring back bad memories. FYI almost everyone in Britain has Norman blood if their ancestors were new immigrants. So congratulations most of uk is your relatives genius.
I want a Dan Snow & Bear Grylls crossover episode. In this version they storm the beach at Hastings, parachute into Battle then scale the castles using nothing but their accents.
Meanwhile, Ray Mears has already established an entire feudal system, built a castle, and conquered France in the time it took Dan and Bear to meet and shake hands. No disrespect to Dan or Bear but Ray is the real deal.
I quite enjoy the learning curve. Its beautiful. My mother wants to see real castles. I'd rather build her one. I wonder how much this would cost presently. Hey a dude can dream right.
interesting approach to Public History, wish there could be a parallel documentary series of the Norman conquest of Sicily which was basically in the same period (1061-1091)
@@historicaandrelated2921 yeah if you RUclips search history time should be able to find it. Has some pretty good ones on the Seljuk Turk invasion of Anatolia and the start of the first crusade. It’s a pretty good channel especially its crusades and Middle Ages material
Watching this after listening to most of the British history podcast season 8 & 9. Love to have the visual - but interesting contrasting point of view given.
My ancestor was the Baron of Shipbrook. Castle isn't there anymore. His name was Richard DeVernon. Fought with William the Conqueror at the battle of Hastings.
One of my earliest ancestors hugh de whelock, was a nobleman there in the area of Wheelock cheshire. It's believed he was norman because of the prefix de before his name. It's close to the border of Wales and would've seen lots of history from the Irish, welsh, anglo saxons and Norsemen. Almost a crossroads of sorts
How come Steven is considered the last Norman king? He was succeeded by Henri II, great grandson of William, who was among other titles, duc of Normandy as well as Anjou, etc.... Richard the lionheart and John Lackland were Williams great great grandsons.
Probably because Henry II’s claim to the throne was through his mother, Matilda. Since his father was Geoffrey Plantagenet, historians mark his ascent as the beginning of the Plantagenet line. It’s a technicality, since this line was quite fertile, it’s safe to assume everyone up until the Tudors had an ancestral connection to William the conqueror
⚔️Castle & market spacing.The USA’s Pony Express, was mostly used for newspapers & business; lasting 18 months, and it was very efficient: The USA’s comparison, was the Pony Express, having 190 stations, that took 10 days to cover. Riders averaged 87miles/ day; changing houses average of 10-15 miles/ day.🛡
I would love to hear some commentary about the relations between the Norman conquerors and the locals. Was their rape, pillaging and plunder; or did the Anglo/Saxon peasant who survived the initial confrontation acculturate to Norman rule? What administrative changes to place? Oppressive taxation or intermarrying among the groups and assimilation?
My surname and male side of the family come from France. They owned lands in Normandy and Picardy. My ancestor left France and went to England in the early 15th century. The family lived there for over 3 centuries before coming to America. My Mother’s name is from Normandy and is descended from a Knight that is listed by Wace as having fought at Hastings. They owned lands in Gloucestershire and were well to do. God be with England and France! 🏴⚜️🏴⚜️🏴⚜️
I’d love an expert opinion on our little village in s/w France . It’s built inside the kings of England’s winter garrison . The castle has been reclaimed into houses but you can easily see matériels that have been reused and the external walls , towers and port cullas and path of the moat are visible . Thé black prince killed most of the kings knights , drove their support crew over a wooden bridge to France and then burned it apparently .. we’re very near the Richard thé lion heart route and Charlemagnes Abby and tower are ten minutes away by car. The locals don’t seem very interested to be honest … I suppose there’s so much of it still here ..
I find it quite baffling because the castle was destroyed several times over 1000 years . The romans used it on their salt route as well. It needs a good unravel
@@ashleysaenz5830 i don’t want to put too much personal info on a public forum (I’m sure you’ll understand ) but if you’re genuinely interested Send le a messenger message
Fascinating! I now Paul Martin Renfry as a good Facebook friend, and my own Skidmore ancestors supposedly descended frm the Scudamores (but I have my doubts).
I think William wanted to check Fitz-Osborn's ability to accumulate power by giving him the Welsh March. Many of the other holding of Norman lords were small and scattered far apart so, this would be a less obvious continuation of the same concept.
Is it true the Normans spoke no English nor did they learn it for many decades ? Or that French was the language at Court prior to the Conquest and Richard the Lionheart and the Plantagenets spoke French as Eleanor of Aquitaine was also married to the French king prior to Henry ?
In the British peerages, marquess outranks earl (count) because historically a marcher lord was more important than the earl of an internal county not on a contested frontier. In England, marcher lords were on both the Welsh and Scottish borders. Warrior king Henry V, born Henry of Monmouth, descended through his mom from the Welsh Marcher Lords of the de Bohun family, hereditary Constables of England. As a Welshman by birth, Henry could count on the support of Welsh archers, especially from South Wales, since on behalf of his usurping dad, HIV (!), he had defeated the last Prince of (North) Wales, Owain Glendwr.
@@graceamerican3558 I’m an American, too, but lived in England. Replying from my phone in Chile, rather than laptop, hence the handle rather than real name. Daniel Boone descended from the de Bohuns. I’m descended from his uncle. The two Quaker Boone brothers immigrated from Devon, across the Bristol Channel from the Welsh Marches in Monmouthshire. As its name suggests, Monmouth lies near the mouth of River Monnow, where it meets River Wye, which flows into the Severn Estuary. The Monnow and Wye form much of the South Wales border with England today. The South Wales Borderers were a famous British Army regiment, 1689 to 1969.
@@graceamerican3558 I went to grad school there, 1973-75. Lived part of the time in the Cotswolds, so was close to the West Country and Wales. Have been back only once, but stayed in London without getting to the countryside. Like you, I’d know better what to look for now than then.
Hannibal Lecter was played by Anthony Hopkins. Anthony Hopkins is of Welsh descent. That is why there were so many castles on the Norman/Welsh borders.
My how the wonderful amazing English, and I do mean that, forgot so conveniently that Matilda of Flanders was descended from Alfred the Great, and Charlemagne! Was it then the Norman period? Or was it the British period under another name? Trust that the British wrote the history favoring the usurper and vilifying the rightful King of England. Henry I's wife Matilda was not the first woman with full claim to be the mother of Kings.
The Normans built the Tower of London to submit the Saxons and impose their advanced culture over them. I dont recall such a complete victory by very few over such great number in all History ! The Anglo saxons culture was completely wiped out !
Since I believe in such things, I can wait to cross the veil and watch all of history in the exact ways it happened. (Of course I could do one of those RUclips hypnosis sessions and go find the Akashic records. 💫😂)
The Normans with the French culture , langage (they were completely francised ) and franco nordic origines , brought naturelly the langage and French culture to the British isles . It is an exemple of our history . A page of european history book.
This narrator keeps on talking about England at a time when the Rulers of Norman England were French speaking and the Anglo Saxons were their surfs. These Normans soon suppressed Anglo Saxons, dominated their towns and controlled their lives. They were not so successful in Wales, despite their attempts to exclude the Welsh from the villages that they constructed around their “ Roman Castles”. The Welsh played “ Hit and Run” terrorized the Normans and kept them in limbo. The Welsh, despite Colonization by brutal Warmongering Imperialists withdrew and advanced while maintaining their language and culture. Today the “English “ after Engxit have become the 51st State of the U S. The British I.e. the Scott’s, Welsh and Irish will soon Each and All return to the EU, a peaceful project free from warmongering and Colonization! ♦️♦️♦️ It time the Welsh made the same demands on the return of their properties from the so called English -Anglo Saxons, Norman-French, or Hanoverian- German Mixed bag and their hangers on. The photography in the video was just as amateur as the narrator. ♦️♦️♦️
Greetings from a big fan of english history from Bucharest...I have always belive that history is nr 1 lesson for a man/ woman in order to find the roots of their ancestors and preserving the national identity ....just as in a family...to know your grandparents , parents and soto pass to your own children same torch of pride and knowledge... many thanks Dan Snowden☺
One is kinda lost without one own past and your forfather's historie. I feel, sadly, that historie are under attack today.
@@comfusedWorldpassanger3399 True, very true...
It is good. But all I really see is English history. Would like to see some other European country histories for once
@@stallion78 Quite right....This is a job for every country to promote such lessons of their own history....England is a good exampke in that respect....
@@stallion78 that's why it's in English...
I love these videos about the Normans. Both sides of my father’s family come from Norman lines and unfortunately I never had the opportunity to learn about them in school.
Didn't they do the same oppression in Africa?
From one side on both my paternal lines are Norman and the other my maternal lines are anglo Saxon
My fathers line is Norman. Normans were an amazing people
@@johnharris3335 Yeah, tell that to the people they subjected 🤔
No worries they were probably children of Norman rapes , so it might bring back bad memories.
FYI almost everyone in Britain has Norman blood if their ancestors were new immigrants. So congratulations most of uk is your relatives genius.
I want a Dan Snow & Bear Grylls crossover episode. In this version they storm the beach at Hastings, parachute into Battle then scale the castles using nothing but their accents.
Meanwhile, Ray Mears has already established an entire feudal system, built a castle, and conquered France in the time it took Dan and Bear to meet and shake hands.
No disrespect to Dan or Bear but Ray is the real deal.
So interesting, and gorgeous landscapes. Really enjoying this series.
What a brilliant telling.
Thank you. 😊
What a delightful vid! Thank you Dan and crew. What a beautiful island! One thing I regret is to never have come there when I was young!
OMG! They're talking about my family. My 9th Great Grandfather was Thomas Emmott Scidmore(Scudamore) born in 1600. Immigrated to Massachusetts
please shut Up liars
I quite enjoy the learning curve. Its beautiful. My mother wants to see real castles. I'd rather build her one. I wonder how much this would cost presently. Hey a dude can dream right.
It would be cheaper to buy one you can get one in irland for 10,000 american dollars. It has over 40 rooms
Dan Snow is unmatchable! I would love to visit White Castle! Fabulous ! That’s what comes to mind when I think of a “castle”! Superb!
5:16 “I always imagined it like, tentacles of Norman influence, spreading ever further inland.” 😔😆
interesting approach to Public History, wish there could be a parallel documentary series of the Norman conquest of Sicily which was basically in the same period (1061-1091)
History Time did a great series of documentaries on the Norman conquest of Sicily and battles against the Byzantine empire in Italy.
@@mattstakeontheancients7594 really? Is it available somewhere?
@@historicaandrelated2921 yeah if you RUclips search history time should be able to find it. Has some pretty good ones on the Seljuk Turk invasion of Anatolia and the start of the first crusade. It’s a pretty good channel especially its crusades and Middle Ages material
Thanks for this upload!
Watching this after listening to most of the British history podcast season 8 & 9. Love to have the visual - but interesting contrasting point of view given.
My ancestor was the Baron of Shipbrook. Castle isn't there anymore. His name was Richard DeVernon. Fought with William the Conqueror at the battle of Hastings.
Interesting video. Thank you. But why - WHY? - must the editors allow the background “music” to overpower the narrative?
I hate it too.
Great stuff! Thanks.
One of my earliest ancestors hugh de whelock, was a nobleman there in the area of Wheelock cheshire. It's believed he was norman because of the prefix de before his name. It's close to the border of Wales and would've seen lots of history from the Irish, welsh, anglo saxons and Norsemen. Almost a crossroads of sorts
Mr. Snow is living history.
Wow.
Oh, man. That is absolutely wild. You ever wonder where places like those are these days...
Allowing the minority to what?!. Um... Fey, confuse linguistics between the ages...
How come Steven is considered the last Norman king?
He was succeeded by Henri II, great grandson of William, who was among other titles, duc of Normandy as well as Anjou, etc....
Richard the lionheart and John Lackland were Williams great great grandsons.
Probably because Henry II’s claim to the throne was through his mother, Matilda. Since his father was Geoffrey Plantagenet, historians mark his ascent as the beginning of the Plantagenet line. It’s a technicality, since this line was quite fertile, it’s safe to assume everyone up until the Tudors had an ancestral connection to William the conqueror
learned it in High school _
great video.
⚔️Castle & market spacing.The USA’s Pony Express, was mostly used for newspapers & business; lasting 18 months, and it was very efficient: The USA’s comparison, was the Pony Express, having 190 stations, that took 10 days to cover. Riders averaged 87miles/ day; changing houses average of 10-15 miles/ day.🛡
I would love to hear some commentary about the relations between the Norman conquerors and the locals. Was their rape, pillaging and plunder; or did the Anglo/Saxon peasant who survived the initial confrontation acculturate to Norman rule? What administrative changes to place? Oppressive taxation or intermarrying among the groups and assimilation?
My surname and male side of the family come from France. They owned lands in Normandy and Picardy. My ancestor left France and went to England in the early 15th century. The family lived there for over 3 centuries before coming to America. My Mother’s name is from Normandy and is descended from a Knight that is listed by Wace as having fought at Hastings. They owned lands in Gloucestershire and were well to do. God be with England and France! 🏴⚜️🏴⚜️🏴⚜️
Delete that
@@smal750 what?
I’d love an expert opinion on our little village in s/w France . It’s built inside the kings of England’s winter garrison . The castle has been reclaimed into houses but you can easily see matériels that have been reused and the external walls , towers and port cullas and path of the moat are visible . Thé black prince killed most of the kings knights , drove their support crew over a wooden bridge to France and then burned it apparently .. we’re very near the Richard thé lion heart route and Charlemagnes Abby and tower are ten minutes away by car. The locals don’t seem very interested to be honest … I suppose there’s so much of it still here ..
How interesting! What is the name of the castle?
I find it quite baffling because the castle was destroyed several times over 1000 years . The romans used it on their salt route as well. It needs a good unravel
@@ashleysaenz5830 I’m sorry to say I have no idea … we have ( in French ) road of the knights of the king , road and impass of the castle.
@@nevillebonner6244 Aw too bad! Regardless I love that you shared your story of this town!
@@ashleysaenz5830 i don’t want to put too much personal info on a public forum (I’m sure you’ll understand ) but if you’re genuinely interested Send le a messenger message
Fascinating! I now Paul Martin Renfry as a good Facebook friend, and my own Skidmore ancestors supposedly descended frm the Scudamores (but I have my doubts).
Normans were 5th columnists in 1050..Edward lived in Normandy before becoming the King of 🇬🇧England.
“William Fitzosbourne”…………..how does Osbourne feel about that ?
I think William wanted to check Fitz-Osborn's ability to accumulate power by giving him the Welsh March. Many of the other holding of Norman lords were small and scattered far apart so, this would be a less obvious continuation of the same concept.
thank you
The normans introduced mutton, beef, pork, and venison to the English-before 1066, they only had sheep, cow, pig, and deer.
🐑 🐄 🐖 🦌
Mutton is sheep and pork and is pig
Ahahaha sigh
@@iamjustsaying4787 yes.yes indeed
Touche
whoosh
Kinda like Sir Anthony Robinson's Walking Through History.
Interesting.
Pretty interesting stuff
great video _
Is it true the Normans spoke no English nor did they learn it for many decades ? Or that French was the language at Court prior to the Conquest and Richard the Lionheart and the Plantagenets spoke French as Eleanor of Aquitaine was also married to the French king prior to Henry ?
Yes actually they didn’t start speaking all English at court until the Tudors.
So beautiful 👌 awesome 👌 really amazing 😍 i love watching here 🤟😍
Every time I go to England and Ireland I see these “Ruins” and I think to myself “Why don’t they reconstruct that ? “.
Removes the authenticity
David Macaulay would have made this piece in animation with more funding from PBS and Arthur Vining Davis foundation.
Halfway through through the video and he has yet to explain who needed to be controlled and who the threats came from.
i like anglo.norman Castle。
In the British peerages, marquess outranks earl (count) because historically a marcher lord was more important than the earl of an internal county not on a contested frontier. In England, marcher lords were on both the Welsh and Scottish borders.
Warrior king Henry V, born Henry of Monmouth, descended through his mom from the Welsh Marcher Lords of the de Bohun family, hereditary Constables of England. As a Welshman by birth, Henry could count on the support of Welsh archers, especially from South Wales, since on behalf of his usurping dad, HIV (!), he had defeated the last Prince of (North) Wales, Owain Glendwr.
Thank you. As a yank I love y’all’s history.
@@graceamerican3558 I’m an American, too, but lived in England. Replying from my phone in Chile, rather than laptop, hence the handle rather than real name.
Daniel Boone descended from the de Bohuns. I’m descended from his uncle. The two Quaker Boone brothers immigrated from Devon, across the Bristol Channel from the Welsh Marches in Monmouthshire.
As its name suggests, Monmouth lies near the mouth of River Monnow, where it meets River Wye, which flows into the Severn Estuary. The Monnow and Wye form much of the South Wales border with England today. The South Wales Borderers were a famous British Army regiment, 1689 to 1969.
@@blastulae I lived in England a very long time ago for about 9 months. I truly was like to go back this time with a far different point of view.
@@graceamerican3558 I went to grad school there, 1973-75. Lived part of the time in the Cotswolds, so was close to the West Country and Wales. Have been back only once, but stayed in London without getting to the countryside.
Like you, I’d know better what to look for now than then.
@@blastulae I was going to bring up the Daniel Boone connection too. Looks like we may be cousins! We have a lot of cousins.
My sur name would have been de heris in 1066. This eventually changed to Harrys and then Harris.
Hannibal Lecter was played by Anthony Hopkins. Anthony Hopkins is of Welsh descent. That is why there were so many castles on the Norman/Welsh borders.
I thought the Normans were Vikings from Norway.
They were.
They were French/frankish viking descendant but were not viking anymore ( french language, culture etc)
Interesting. Not knowing England’s history, I’m not sure if this was good or bad that the Normans won this battle.
Had to give up after the 2nd commercial.
Does anybody still live in any of these castles?
OMG someone using a map!
Ah, yes. William the Bastard did indeed keep busy.
thank yew
My how the wonderful amazing English, and I do mean that, forgot so conveniently that Matilda of Flanders was descended from Alfred the Great, and Charlemagne! Was it then the Norman period? Or was it the British period under another name? Trust that the British wrote the history favoring the usurper and vilifying the rightful King of England. Henry I's wife Matilda was not the first woman with full claim to be the mother of Kings.
Thankyou, that's fascinating to ponder.
Do you know of any good videos on this subject?
Please share.
Cheers!
@@dudleyvandergriff8174 History is interesting. Check on Wikipedia. There are other videos here too.
You call those mountains? Round these parts thems hills.
The Normans built the Tower of London to submit the Saxons and impose their advanced culture over them. I dont recall such a complete victory by very few over such great number in all History ! The Anglo saxons culture was completely wiped out !
Since I believe in such things, I can wait to cross the veil and watch all of history in the exact ways it happened. (Of course I could do one of those RUclips hypnosis sessions and go find the Akashic records. 💫😂)
Where are the Mountains
Sorry !!!
Dan Snow....forgive me....
Whitecastle...later sold slider hamburgers!
Fun fact-White castle hamburgers was founded in Wichita Kansas. I have passed the original site hundreds of times
They tried to be Normal
There has to be hamburger comment here somewhere.
The other vikings
The Normans with the French culture , langage (they were completely francised ) and franco nordic origines , brought naturelly the langage and French culture to the British isles .
It is an exemple of our history . A page of european history book.
BAM!! Like # 420!!!!
Colonizing? The prior people, enslaved, built these fortresses.
Turning this off.
Al gore - rythm
This narrator keeps on talking about England at a time when the Rulers of Norman England were French speaking and the Anglo Saxons were their surfs. These Normans soon suppressed Anglo Saxons, dominated their towns and controlled their lives. They were not so successful in Wales, despite their attempts to exclude the Welsh from the villages that they constructed around their “ Roman Castles”.
The Welsh played “ Hit and Run” terrorized the Normans and kept them in limbo. The Welsh, despite Colonization by brutal Warmongering Imperialists withdrew and advanced while maintaining their language and culture.
Today the “English “ after Engxit have become the 51st State of the U S. The British I.e. the Scott’s, Welsh and Irish will soon Each and All return to the EU, a peaceful project free from warmongering and Colonization!
♦️♦️♦️
It time the Welsh made the same demands on the return of their properties from the so called English -Anglo Saxons, Norman-French, or Hanoverian- German Mixed bag and their hangers on.
The photography in the video was just as amateur as the narrator.
♦️♦️♦️
Not french
Where do you think “Normandy “ was/is? Check your map of France…