The Huge Battle That Named A Small Town
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Battle, East Sussex: en.wikipedia.o...
History of Battle: www.historic-u...
Best Things To DO In Battle: www.tripadviso...
Battle On Etymonline: www.etymonline...
Battle: www.battlesuss...
Battle Gunpowder Mill: historicenglan...
Gunpowder In Sussex: www.hastingsob...
Battle of Hastings Timeline: www.ancient.eu...
1066: www.english-he...
Harold Godwinson: www.bbc.co.uk/h...
William the Conqueror: www.biography....
The Battle of Stamford Bridge: www.historic-u...
Anyone watching from Battle?
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What about "Batalleur" (or some Frenchie spelling thing like that) meaning, "Juggler".
Does battlefield count?
Very close by, around 5 miles away. Visit there when we talk about the Battle of Hastings (or really, the Battle of Battle)
Went to school here
When i saw the thumbnail i immediatley knew it was the Battle of Hastings.
Same
@@aidandavies6164 Same with the title,though more apparant
Except I thought the name.was going to be Hastings
I was banking on Bulge
Same
My grandad comes from Battle and he actually was the mayor!! This is so cool, thanks for the video. He died in 2012 so it feels nice hearing about his town from a RUclips channel I really enjoy.
My dad's side of from Battle and my mum is from Normandy, so I'm pretty sure I have William the conqueror blood somewhere in my family :) I also have an English surname from my dad (and grandad) that supposedly originates from Normandy
“I used to pose for thumbnail pics in RUclips videos; then I took an arrow to the eye.”
This is almost exactly the same story of the city of Batalha in Portugal! Batalha (portuguese for battle) is a city named after the Battle of Aljubarrota (1385) which famously preserved Portuguese independence from Spain. A monastery was founded to commemorate the Portuguese victory, named the Monastery of Saint Mary of the Battle, which gave birth to the city of Batalha.
This was 319 years before though.
@@jaykilkenny4409 Your point being? It's not like the Portuguese city name was inspired by the English one, merely pointing out the unusually similar stories.
@@ChrisAn5 I wasn't saying that,listen I'm going through a stressful time with school coming up and I am really getting stressed.
It's so sad to here that Harold had the Highground, but lost. - Obi-Wan Kenobi.
Patrick, I’ve thought about words that have come from “battle”. By extension, a “battery” is a structure that is battered, say by cannon balls, and it is also a structure from which cannon batter the attackers. Also, a battery is an array of several cannon, made up of several compartments, each with its own cannon. Later in history, an electrical battery was made of many compartments or cells, but much removed from battle.
Is this the battle of hastings that should of been called battle of battle?
The nearest medieval settlements are Crowhurst and Catsfield, the town of Battle sprung up to support the Abbey which William built in penance for the blood shed that day and the Christian lives ended. The only reason Hastings is mentioned in the records is because William built a camp on the hill to the west of the fishing village of Hastings.
There's also a coastal settlement called Normans Bay that sits barely 5 miles from Pevensey, Pevensey being named as where William landed but he wouldn't have landed there as there was a Saxon fort in the heart of the town (built on the ruins of a Roman fort)
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Thank you for this elucidation.
But what happened to the cats?
Are they OK?
@@markan7550 I don't know why it's called Catsfield, tbh ... never looked into it!
Maybe I will now I'm no longer studying for my cert ed and currently not teaching due to summer holidays, also might look into Crowhurst too... head out to the Churches in both villages and try to find records!
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Maybe a variation of old surnames and not related to the animals at all.
I can't help but imagine a Battle of the Cats and Crows, tho...
Someone needs to do the animation.
I've been researching the 1066 Battle for some 7 years now and according to my results the battle should have been called "Hastings" as that was the nearest major settlement. Since then Netherfield has grown up from a manor to a village and thus should have the honour now. In fact, Battle ecclesiastical parish should have its Royal Peculiar status revoked and Netherfield should take its place. Currently my selected site for the main battle is under investigation by the Forestry Commission. I'll let you know the outcome.
Who else thought of the Kings and Queens song from Horrible Histories? I’m William the Conqueror, my enemies stood no chance. They call me the first English king although I come from France!
Thumbnail: guy with an arrow in his eye
Oversimplified viewers: He is Speaking the Language of Gods
That guy is supposedly King Harold but we now know he was chopped up into bits by the Normans
Battle of Schrute Farm, of course
The thumbnail: hey baby lemme whisper in your ear
I knew about it becasue my grandpa had the National Geographic of the 900 years of Hastings. It also made me fall in love with the Bayeux Tapestry.
Oh yes! I knew it was the Battle of Hastings by the thumbnail 😆
Loved the video, didn’t know about Battle. Will definitely go there on my next visit to England!
Oversimplified flashbacks.
The Battle Of Hastings is where the French part of my family came to England. My ancestor Geoffrey de Montbrai (later changed to Mowbray) was a close friend of William The Conqueror and fought at the battle with him. He also later officiated William's coronation.
I've been to battle it's a lovely town
You also have the Battle of Aljubarrota which a town nearby is called Battle in Portuguese
Have been watching your videos and enjoying them for a while from California, just subscribed
No mention of William's name before adopting the epithet "The Conqueror", that being William The Bastard. Though I imagine Anglo-Saxons continued to call him that anyway.
The terms "battle" and "batter" also share their etymology with "beat" (be it enemies, eggs, or games) as well as "bat" (both sticks and beasts) and "battery" (see "battering ram" for instance).
And battery farm, for intense game farming? The bringer of eggs :-)
🇬🇧 I love these obscure places with such rich histories!
If you're already in Sussex, it's not that obscure. Perhaps *because* of the rich history. All around the local area, roadsigns say "1066 Country".
D Carbs fair point but for most people it is
It's a beautiful little village too! Battle abbey is amazing!
In Central Portugal there is also a town named "Batalha" (Portuguese for "Battle"). It was named after the Battle of Aljubarrota (1385) between the Portuguese and the Castilian.
As a matter of fact, the battle sight was not there, but some 14 km away, near the village of (you guessed it) Aljubarrota.
So, Batalha got its name, not directly from the battle, but from the monastery named "Saint Mary of Victory", built there to commemorate that battle.
I guess in Aljubarrota proper there was not suitable place to build the monastery, so they went looking further north...
Being from America, it blows my mind at 5:53 that you can travel that far across the country in 3 hours. Didn't realize how small it was.
Visited Battle last year and wondered why it was called it. Didn't realize Hastings was so close by.
I live near a town called Battlefield, which, surprise, is the site of a battle from the US civil war. It was a fairly significant battle and there is a museum and park on the site
You should really do something all about my country
weird but i grew up in Hastings except its a town in Victoria Australia
You should make a video about Batalha (Battle), Portugal. Similar story about a battle that defined the history of an entire nation, but very cool because of that.
There is a cute little flash game that is meant to be somewhat educational simply called 1066, which, while by no means perfectly historically accurate, does give a good sense of the events as well and as to what some of the military differences were. Some of the tactics, differences between the troops, and the layout of the battlefield are depicted in a simple yet effective manner. I highly recommend giving it a look!
I know I’m not a patron but you might follow up this video with other towns named after battles, such as Waterloo, Iowa and my own city if Austin, Texas which was once a village called Waterloo.
There's also a village called Waterloo just north of Blarney in Cork, Ireland. (yes same Blarney as the castle and stone)
The stick that is used to guide musicians in polish is named "batuta" with the same ethomological origin
At some point Nameexplain will have to explain the name KAREN
Not in *Battle Creek, Michigan*
Is there a battle named after Battle Creek? I have a Minie ball from a battle from the civil war. I believe that the Union named the battles after the nearest creek/river while the Confederates the named the battle after the nearest town*.I think there is an exception of Gettysburg.
*It's a vague recollection so I could be wrong.
1.) Is the Abbey of St. Martin the home of the musical group “The Academy of St. Martin in the Fields? And is that short for “in the Battlefields?”
2.) In a way, was D-Day’s Operation Overlord a “payback” for the Battle of Hastings?
1. No. St Martins in the Fields probably relates to the fact that the parish was just outside the City of London.
2. No. Hastings was English v Normans and D-Day was Lots of Countries v Germany
Kevin Casey Thanks for the clarification about St. Martin. I’ve heard the Academy perform on NPR many times, and I love their music. There are probably many churches in England named for the same saint.
I was just joking about D-Day!
I thought it was going to be Batalha (Battle) in Portugal. Named after the Battle of Aljubarrota.
This was fun. But just a side note. All the videos I see about the Norman Conquest note William the Conqueror as a distant cousin, or having a distant familial relation to Edward the Confessor. In fact, his father was a first cousin of Edward the Confessor, making William a first cousin, once removed. That is not a distant cousin, that is a pretty close cousin. So the videos should say William the Conqueror was a close relation to Edward the Confessor, not that he was some sort of unspecified distant familial relation.
Gunpowder mill opened 1676, Guy Fawkes died 1606...
Do one about Memeland!(Memel) in Lithuania
I think you'll find that the French word was "bataille" not "batallie." It came to English via Old French, but it's still in use today.
I was thinking it was Agincourt 😅
woo so early!!!!!
You calle that a small town, I live in a village of twenty.
We call that a hamlet
The Battle of Hastings did not take place in Hastings. Right.
Ahhhh bro's love story. Till' battle do us part.
Oh yes John Johnson esteemed doer of job at place
3 hour drive from London to York I wish
Its like an Backstory of an lvl1 DnD character
my history is epic and glomarous... but I am smoll
This topic reminds me about the stories I've heard about some people in Russia want to rename Volgograd back to Stalingrad not just because of Stalin, but because of the Battle of Stalingrad.
I hope u explain something more daily to global people. Anyway, I like your channel.
Battle!
What about "Batalleur" (or some Frenchie spelling thing like that) meaning, "Juggler".
Well the battle of Magenta (1859) named a color...
i know this is off topic but i had the most competitive chess match ever
my friend lost to a single king
Some guy who had a plot. Hmm.... ;)
The Town of Hastings was not named after the Battle of Hastings,that's why it's called the Battle of Hastings it's called Hastings.Horrible Histories even says so.
i bet you stole the desription of the war from oversimplified
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heyyy im early
7:39
WTF = William the Fart
People commute to London from there, not the other way around.
Ppl be fighting so much but not bother to invent toilets till the 1800s. Human priorities...
Ha! Not even 20 minutes after upload
Early
4 minutes ago
it seems so stupid to fight to have a king. royalty is stupid.
"F'throne"