It takes a pretty lowdown, desperate man to rob a church, any church. And when it's a king? The lowest of the low. If you think it's hot in England today, it's much hotter where Henry is.
His daughter Queen Mary was another mass murderer like her father. It runs in the family, it's in the genes. The monarchy in Britain needs to be dissolved. Having a monarchy is unwarranted in these moderntimes.
I highly doubt it was that many. Think about how many people died during that time without executions. If he executed 70,000.. he'd more than likely be the only one left in England. One other thing, he didn't control all executions. England is more than London.
The nursery rhyme of "Little Jack Horner who pulled out a plumb" was all about this time. After the dissolution of Glastonbury Abby, one of the king's men was charged with taking the deeds of various properties owned by the Abby to London. He stole a document and kept it. Once, Henry the eighth died he claimed the village of Nunny. As Shakespeare said it's an ill wind that blows nobody any good.
The Tudors were an old Welsh family and held estates on Anglesea long before Henry VIIIs father (Henry VII) claimed the throne of England. His father in turn was Edmund Tudor, 1st Earl of Richmond a descendant of Tudors of Penmynydd all descended from Tudur Hen who died in 1311. Reading between the lines they were pretty ruthless in those times, if you weren't you stood the risk of being killed yourself. Henry VIII was made of the same genes, it boded ill for anyone who stood in his path! When the Monasteries were dissolved Henry gave his Welsh allies valuable former Monastic estates and also to English allies who supported him. That might seem generous but Henry had previously sold off the (gold) plate, the glass and the lead from the roofs, and in some cases the stone. Some Priory churches were sold intact to the townspeople. Monks who went quietly were actually paid a pension and the last Prior of Christchurch became the Vicar. But Abbots who held out, like the Abbot of Glastonbury, could expect to be murdered. God alone help anyone who went against him, and there was nobody else but God to help, the others dare not. The way you might die in those times was agonising, and very, very, final. It served as a reminder to be very very careful.
His offsprings weren’t much better… they took revenge in a brutal way… Elizabeth executed the guy who brought us the potato to make fish and chips with… poor Sir Walter Raleigh.. but Blackadder would have been pleased..😏
I like the remarks 'Henry stole riches and wealth from abbey's and monasteries' or words to that effect. And where exactly did those religious institutions get this wealth from?
Hmm, religious people bequeath some of their wealth to God to glorify him or atone for their sins.. and no man on earth has the right to take it away… from any religious institutions.
@@franceleeparis37 .. I'm pretty sure Atheists could. Heck, I'll bet the IRS would definitely go after it. That wealth is better off being used than being held up in monasteries
There is something strangly serene and fascinating about super green meadows with ruins that have still the basic shapes left where the windows and door would have been and the Sun shining during Golden Hour..
You do a very good job on your videos but you never talk about the executioners who do all the torture to the people they kill they must be insane thanks I enjoy your videos
I live a 5-minute walk from Hampton Court Palace, Henry Vlll's main residence (after he took it from Cardinal Wolsey). I still have a little shiver down my back when I pass the entrance to the Palace and think that Henry would have ridden out to hunt deer in the park surrounding the Palace most days. He was a tyrant, of course, but those were tough times to live in.
@@juliandenormanville5225 Well Julian, when public education fails to teach history or attempts rewrite it, we become blissfully ignorant to why things like this happen. Hence the term “History is doomed to repeat itself.” ~ Winston Churchill. Does that clear up the “what on EARTH” question?
@@nigel900 Not really...it sounded as if you were suggesting we were about to recommence executing clergymen...I think it's more likely that we're going to start executing climate change deniers or people who profess to be baffled by the gender identity debate...I CAN see that happening....
@@juliandenormanville5225 I didn’t suggest any such thing, and you know it! The sarcasm and contempt in you words betray you. There’s not a degree of difference between the brutal, depraved and tyrannical “dictators” that were kings and queens of this period… and Socialist/Communist dictators of the president. They both torture or kill their opposition, and rewrite history. Yes, if in power, they would kill or imprison climate deniers, homosexuals and those suffering from gender dysphoria (or anyone else) that would question the power and authority of their regime. The Socialism/Communism lie has been exposed long ago, and 40+ years the Cold War caused enormous suffering and death… and yet a new ignorant generation has embraced it. There will be consequences, and it’s going to make the past look like child’s play…
Mao, Pol Pot, Gingas Khan, Hitler, Stalin and of course Henry the 8th. Sadistic murders all. But Heaven be praised. Henry became head of his own church which millions came to worship.
head of his church and people are so pathetic and brainwashed they fear and respected it. so i takes a handfull of business brutes to keep people in line. perhaps a dose of pysicdelic drugs would tell just were your going wrong..no one should.be herded
He can't be the butcher cause he wasn't the executioner him, which if he had been, most people would definitely be scared of a powerful man or king who has no problem rolling up his sleeves for some " dirty " work.
This is correct. Most monks (i.e., more than 50%) had thousands of people executed (each), including their wives as a way of moving onto the next wife. Most monks did this.
@@lucasgroves137 not sure this is true, considering the population in England in 1520 was about 4 million, hundreds of monks killing thousands every year is not mathematically possible. However, monks were parish judges and did use their power to murder, steal, rape and brutalise their parishioners.
@@engledelaffety4380 You seem to misunderstand the phrase "just as." The notion that _most_ monks were _just as cruel_ as Henry is careless; asserting it as fact is inane.
The Romans (Italians) executed millions in their stadiums for entertainment of the locals. Not the Gladiators, but broken down slaves and criminals and prisoners-of-war were slaughtered in mass.
When I consider the accession of Henry Tudor to the throne, the subsequent slander of Richard III which serious historical research has legitimately put into question and then the tyrannical rule of Henry VIII, I can’t help but draw comparisons to Donald Trump.
Helpful to hear this history. However your accent dissolves many words into a mumble. I understand about 90% of your statements. I am an English speaking American. I ask for greater articulation so your stories may continue to be appreciated. Thank you.
Canadian here. Yeah, little hard to follow. I put the captions on. Doesn't take anything away from his videos which are fascinating and well presented.
None of these properties indicated wealth! They were just buildings, pieces of rocks. Some of the other items were gold which is just a useless metal a nonsensical human arbitrary evaluation. Real wealth is modern: vehicles, electricity, uranium, agricultural machinery, etc.!!!!!
British hero my ass...that effing Satan must be burning in hell for eternity for all the murders and other atrocities he committed on this earth! No wonder he died like a dog, yes dog lap up his blood and he was so stink when he was sick and dying. People around him could not bear the stench coming from him!!
British hero my ass for murdering his wives, his family and his friends? He was a criminal and a sexual predator. Hope he is burning in hell for all eternity!!!
Henry was pretty much centered around skirt chasing, eating and executing.
Henry was centered around a male heir.
Sounds like the men of today lol
A true alpha male!
@@willldo4 Now that you mention it.. 🤔
@@johnd7435
A true bloody murderer!
Thank you sir - your work on these programs is excellent!
It takes a pretty lowdown, desperate man to rob a church, any church. And when it's a king? The lowest of the low. If you think it's hot in England today, it's much hotter where Henry is.
you can get lower than robbing a church. you can torture a human being in the name of the church
@@kirstiehiorns2702 You have a point. Henry did that, too.
Another amazing video. I love how he explains it all. Just brilliant
I knew that there were many executions during Henry's time but 70,000! What a tyrant!
His daughter Queen Mary was another mass murderer like her father. It runs in the family, it's in the genes. The monarchy in Britain needs to be dissolved. Having a monarchy is unwarranted in these moderntimes.
I didn't know that many were killed! Jeez (no pun intended).
I highly doubt it was that many. Think about how many people died during that time without executions. If he executed 70,000.. he'd more than likely be the only one left in England. One other thing, he didn't control all executions. England is more than London.
From a population of approx 2.6million. So he murdered about 2.6% of the population.
That’s a high number… never realized it was so many . Tyrannical Henry.
The nursery rhyme of "Little Jack Horner who pulled out a plumb" was all about this time. After the dissolution of Glastonbury Abby, one of the king's men was charged with taking the deeds of various properties owned by the Abby to London. He stole a document and kept it. Once, Henry the eighth died he claimed the village of Nunny. As Shakespeare said it's an ill wind that blows nobody any good.
Fair to say that Henry and Cromwell are looking up not down
Fair to say your delusional
@@gowdsake7103 when someone's beliefs get someone else so riled up it's pretty safe to say they have 0 life and need to get one before it's too late
The Tudors were an old Welsh family and held estates on Anglesea long before Henry VIIIs father (Henry VII) claimed the throne of England. His father in turn was Edmund Tudor, 1st Earl of Richmond a descendant of Tudors of Penmynydd all descended from Tudur Hen who died in 1311. Reading between the lines they were pretty ruthless in those times, if you weren't you stood the risk of being killed yourself. Henry VIII was made of the same genes, it boded ill for anyone who stood in his path! When the Monasteries were dissolved Henry gave his Welsh allies valuable former Monastic estates and also to English allies who supported him. That might seem generous but Henry had previously sold off the (gold) plate, the glass and the lead from the roofs, and in some cases the stone. Some Priory churches were sold intact to the townspeople. Monks who went quietly were actually paid a pension and the last Prior of Christchurch became the Vicar. But Abbots who held out, like the Abbot of Glastonbury, could expect to be murdered. God alone help anyone who went against him, and there was nobody else but God to help, the others dare not. The way you might die in those times was agonising, and very, very, final. It served as a reminder to be very very careful.
The Abbots of reading, colchester and glastonbury all got this on the same day
Thanks for the information. I really enjoy the visuals you provide.
Very interesting story I hadn't heard. Henry was not a good man.
Ya think🤨🤔😈
He gained huge income from taking religious properties and soon lost it all on military expenditures. So what was his gain after all?
He gained a reputation.
Actually, there's not much good to say about the reign of Henry VIII.
His offsprings weren’t much better… they took revenge in a brutal way… Elizabeth executed the guy who brought us the potato to make fish and chips with… poor Sir Walter Raleigh.. but Blackadder would have been pleased..😏
I like the remarks 'Henry stole riches and wealth from abbey's and monasteries' or words to that effect. And where exactly did those religious institutions get this wealth from?
Hmm, religious people bequeath some of their wealth to God to glorify him or atone for their sins.. and no man on earth has the right to take it away… from any religious institutions.
@@franceleeparis37 .. I'm pretty sure Atheists could. Heck, I'll bet the IRS would definitely go after it. That wealth is better off being used than being held up in monasteries
From taxing people basically. We still expect believers to give money to the church when they do now have to pay taxes to the central government
@@franceleeparis37 So they steal for a sky fairy ! well that makes sense
@@gowdsake7103 you are morally bankrupt.. you shouldn’t worry about the churches wealth… worry about your afterlife..😏
There is something strangly serene and fascinating about super green meadows with ruins that have still the basic shapes left where the windows and door would have been and the Sun shining during Golden Hour..
Great video. Fanks mate.
Henry had issues!
He did not have male issues except one Edward!
Yep, those who sup with the devil will eventually get consumed themselves.. Henry VIII, the British Taliban of the period..😏
Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely.
I think the Glastonbury festival is a further attempt by atheist establishment to dechristenisation of the area
With so many executions who was Henry ruling when not skirt chasing or filling his gut or pockets??
You do a very good job on your videos but you never talk about the executioners who do all the torture to the people they kill they must be insane thanks I enjoy your videos
I live a 5-minute walk from Hampton Court Palace, Henry Vlll's main residence (after he took it from Cardinal Wolsey). I still have a little shiver down my back when I pass the entrance to the Palace and think that Henry would have ridden out to hunt deer in the park surrounding the Palace most days. He was a tyrant, of course, but those were tough times to live in.
I have often wondered which of the nine levels of hell Henry VIII was sent to.
Imagine being Henry's groom of the stool.
If the video includes scholarly sources at the end, it would greatly help people in doing further research and verifying claims.
It appears history is doomed to repeat itself…
What on EARTH are you talking about?
@@juliandenormanville5225 Well Julian, when public education fails to teach history or attempts rewrite it, we become blissfully ignorant to why things like this happen. Hence the term “History is doomed to repeat itself.” ~ Winston Churchill. Does that clear up the “what on EARTH” question?
@@nigel900 Not really...it sounded as if you were suggesting we were about to recommence executing clergymen...I think it's more likely that we're going to start executing climate change deniers or people who profess to be baffled by the gender identity debate...I CAN see that happening....
@@juliandenormanville5225 I didn’t suggest any such thing, and you know it! The sarcasm and contempt in you words betray you. There’s not a degree of difference between the brutal, depraved and tyrannical “dictators” that were kings and queens of this period… and Socialist/Communist dictators of the president. They both torture or kill their opposition, and rewrite history. Yes, if in power, they would kill or imprison climate deniers, homosexuals and those suffering from gender dysphoria (or anyone else) that would question the power and authority of their regime. The Socialism/Communism lie has been exposed long ago, and 40+ years the Cold War caused enormous suffering and death… and yet a new ignorant generation has embraced it. There will be consequences, and it’s going to make the past look like child’s play…
Did prisoners build the Abbey
Mao, Pol Pot, Gingas Khan, Hitler, Stalin and of course Henry the 8th. Sadistic murders all. But Heaven be praised. Henry became head of his own church which millions came to worship.
head of his church
and people are so pathetic and brainwashed they fear and respected it. so i takes a handfull of business brutes to keep people in line. perhaps a dose of pysicdelic drugs would tell just were your going wrong..no one should.be herded
Add Putin to that list
@@chriscrawford1231
You are absolutely correct Chris. I did miss the St Petersburg assassin.
1.15 exactly thats why t. Cromwell was badly HATED by a lot of people......
Enjoyed your video so I gave it a Thumbs Up
Fascinating symposium.
And this is why I’m so glad Henry the Pig never got his son and instead the world was granted Elizabeth.
Henry VIII was only a butcher.
He can't be the butcher cause he wasn't the executioner him, which if he had been, most people would definitely be scared of a powerful man or king who has no problem rolling up his sleeves for some " dirty " work.
Very informative video, only let down by the see/saw monotone reading style of the commentary.
Important to note that most monks were just as cruel as Henry.
This is correct. Most monks (i.e., more than 50%) had thousands of people executed (each), including their wives as a way of moving onto the next wife. Most monks did this.
What killing people ffs hardly
@@lucasgroves137 Best comment ever...
@@lucasgroves137 not sure this is true, considering the population in England in 1520 was about 4 million, hundreds of monks killing thousands every year is not mathematically possible. However, monks were parish judges and did use their power to murder, steal, rape and brutalise their parishioners.
@@engledelaffety4380 You seem to misunderstand the phrase "just as." The notion that _most_ monks were _just as cruel_ as Henry is careless; asserting it as fact is inane.
Always click play on this channel 👍
you should read about the demise of Saint Cassian
A TYRANT. END OFF.
A very very dark man, full of paranoia, greed and lust for power.. Such are those that rule us...
Every execution is brutal.
All Henry's life consisted of was chasing women scoffing his face & executing everyone he wanted as like a sick unhinged hobby
"I'm Henry the V111, I am..." Didn't Orson Wells play him in a movie? Understand that he was hung shortly after for lousy acting.
Didnt the late Richard Whiting host Countdown??
What’s the point of a hurdle dragged by a horse ..wouldn’t they just drag the poor person by horse .. I don’t see the point of a hurdle..
More pain
Henry VIII was as brutal as Stalin or Ivan the Terrible.
Or Putin.
What? No burning sulphuric preceding the execution?
They were brutal times and we should judge them accordingly. You were lucky to live past 30 unlike today.
The Romans (Italians) executed millions in their stadiums for entertainment of the locals.
Not the Gladiators, but broken down slaves and criminals and prisoners-of-war were slaughtered in mass.
And?
True. They were a vicious lot. Guilty as hell for persecuting anybody and everybody.
'en masse'
Around 400,000 people died in the arenas. Not millions, you need to do better research.
I like your videos, they are very interesting and informative however, I need to watch the videos on mute as your drawl and accent are a bit annoying.
I was thinking the same thing. Irritating voice
Only the profiles with no profile picture dislike the video. How sad 😂😂
Thief King Henry.
Just a complete wastrel evil
When I consider the accession of Henry Tudor to the throne, the subsequent slander of Richard III which serious historical research has legitimately put into question and then the tyrannical rule of Henry VIII, I can’t help but draw comparisons to Donald Trump.
The king killed 70,000!! I wonder if he got into Heaven???!!!
The suckers...!!
Cromwell was just as bad as harry.
killing of religion, something i don't understand.
Try harder; it's really easy--Ask George Carlin!
I don't understand any religion
They were cleaning house is all
Did prisoners build the Abbey
The horrible sing-song narration, by what sounds like a socially inept eleven-year-old, is excruciating. 😫
14th November the date of birth for Prince Charles and my mother and my stepson Lennox
wjy is it acceptable for these religeous bodis to.be cruel. frustrated upstarts
Helpful to hear this history.
However your accent dissolves many words into a mumble. I understand about 90% of your statements. I am an English speaking American. I ask for greater articulation so your stories may continue to be appreciated.
Thank you.
Have you tried turning captions on? I’m Australian and understand him perfectly fine
@@stewie5101 Good suggestion. Thanks.
I’m an English speaking American and he is 99% understood!
Canadian here. Yeah, little hard to follow. I put the captions on. Doesn't take anything away from his videos which are fascinating and well presented.
@@charliewatts6895 Sorry to say, the narrative was rushed, which in my opinion spoilt what was fundamentally well researched .
guilt was established,, justice was served !!!!
Stupid thing to say.
A verry stupid thing to say
Well done Henry and Thomas help Britain break free from the grip of Rome. Dues Vault
None of these properties indicated wealth! They were just buildings, pieces of rocks. Some of the other items were gold which is just a useless metal a nonsensical human arbitrary evaluation. Real wealth is modern: vehicles, electricity, uranium, agricultural machinery, etc.!!!!!
I can barely understand what the narrator is saying.
Is English not your first language?
Yes you can
Without Henry we would be ruled by the Pope. Bit like Brexit really. So maybe he should be regarded as a British hero
Henry was once described as a “ spot of blood and grease on the page of British history” I think that is a sentiment, that’s about right.
Look at all Catholic countries Ireland, Mexico, South America, and see how we would have been.
@@tonyclough9844 yep totally screwed
British hero my ass...that effing Satan must be burning in hell for eternity for all the murders and other atrocities he committed on this earth! No wonder he died like a dog, yes dog lap up his blood and he was so stink when he was sick and dying. People around him could not bear the stench coming from him!!
British hero my ass for murdering his wives, his family and his friends? He was a criminal and a sexual predator. Hope he is burning in hell for all eternity!!!
Trump would approve.