@@TheDarthranc0r I usually only see copyright claims when someone tries to make money off anothers video. Luckily at least on the historical side of things it doesn't happen all that much if at all.
I’m actually from Hastings, it’s cool to hear people talk about the history of my town, since Hastings has never really had anything big happen here outside of 1066.
At least you're from the real Hastings. When I was a kid, my mom's parents lived in the US state of Nebraska, which has a lot of small towns named after places in England. Thus, I grew up thinking that the Saxons and Normans somehow traveled across the Atlantic and half of North America to fight for the English throne at Hastings, Nebraska, and that New York was named after the town of York, Nebraska! XD
I have watched most of the videos that you are reacting to and I cannot thank you enough on how much more satisfying it is to have someone give more insights on them.
They were almost twins, same blue eyes, same beard. People would mistake them for one another in formal events. They were really close too calling each other Georgie and Nicky. It must've broke George's heart to not grant Nicholas asylum during the Russian Revolution.
Habsburg one is funny as hell. From a certain point on they are basically going parcour all over the map while still making sure to only marry themselves.
Useful Charts is a really good channel, it’s great 👍 For those who don’t know: He explaines things really well and his videos are always interesting. From gods to kings and things in between, this guy does charts about more or less everything.
26:45 Some quick context on why you can have a ruling king with a queen for a wife, but a ruling queen has a prince consort, in European feudalism the female titles were always assumed to be lower in rank than their male counterparts. This was important because for the purposes of rulership, everything hinged on one person being ultimately in charge. Co-rulers, as he said, were vanishingly rare.
When you have a passion for something and know a ton of things makes a really good video EVEN better. I really enjoyed how you filled the gaps the original "author" left out. A glorious video, loved it Keep up the great work :D
@@gamerwidowyt7759 He's obviously not talking about Philip because he was never was set to become king. I believe he's referring to Prince Charles. Also, you spelled Philip incorrectly.
Visit Arundel castle if you come here, one of the biggest and possibly the oldest castle in the UK. Parts of the keep are well over 1000 years old and it's the most picturesque place. Like something out of lord of the rings
Thank you so much because of you i startet studying history much more intense then before and i realy discovered a passion and after summer i get to go to a university to study Roman history I owe you so much
Would love you to react to falklands war oversimplified P.S. massive fan of the channel amazed at how quickly this channel has grown keep doing what you are doing
I havent heared of this channel before but im very happy i did now! And this mutch details of the line of English Kings is Amazing! Im enjoying it so mutch thanks for making the content ❤️
Hey! First comment. Love the channel! Just a quick note though, on the Viking invasion and Harold Godwinson. You mentioned it was Danes that led the Viking army, while it was infact Norsemen, led by the Norwegian king Harald Hardraade. Just had to chime in as the Norwegian saga of Kings is near and dear to my heart, and in particular Harald, as his death in many ways signaled the end of the Viking age.
Also, you are absolutely correct in that Harold's brother joined the Vikings in the fight. In fact, he is the one that persuades Harald to invade England, to exact revenge on his brother for sending him into exile.
In year 5 I visited one of king John’s favour castles on a school trip and we found out that he died due to eating peaches and cider, the peaches had only recently been discovered and John wanted to be the first person in England to ever have them but because of the long journey to get to the castle they were rotten and mouldy but he ate them anyway. Got dysentery and died.
Hi history guy, New to the channel and loving it, I really like the HOI4 Content too. I look forward to looking over your videos to further progress my knowledge on history
The current UK royal family isn't that German anymore. The mother of Elizabeth II was of Scottish and English ancestry, and, of course, Diana was very English, and so is Catherine, Princess of Wales. So that means her children are very English. Btw, a queen regnant, if she marries, shouldn't be expected to change the name of her "house." Her husband most likely has no claim to the throne, certainly not greater than hers. Why should his name determine the name of the dynasty going forward?
I've seen/read claims that the wife of William the Conqueror, another Matilda, was a descendent of a daughter of Alfred the Great. That daughter married a Count Baldwin, and from that union, another Count Baldwin, several generations later, had the daughter who married William I and was the mother of Henry I.
You should have a look at the Irish history. From the Easter rising, The war of Independence, the civil war. All happened in such a short amount of time in Ireland
>As of this recording, Queen Elizabeth is currently in her 68th year on the throne She's waiting till next year to go out, I know it, she would totally do it on purpose.
This was actually a good combination. The original lays out the family tree quite well, but didn't go into detail much. I found your elaborations (annotations?) about the whys/reasons some of the shifts happened very useful. I am a bit curious about the shift back and forth between patrilineal descent of the throne and allowing children of both genders to inherit. I would love to learn when it was one way or the other, and why the changes were made. Also curious if the shifts came about mainly/only due to political/religious reasons, like that shift were it didn't matter that the throne was inherited by a woman or a foreign prince, as long as he/she was a protestant and not a catholic.
It was George Orwell who said that there was more royal blood descendants working in the inns and fields of England than in the House of Windsor, simply because the medieval kings had so many illegitimate children. One statistician reckoned that in a room full of 100 Englishmen, 80 would be descendants of Edward 111, because he had so many children. That means many Americans will also be descendants of medieval English kings.
It's true! When I started researching my ancestry in-depth a little over a year ago, I found a staggering 132 claimed lines of descent from King Edward III through 7 of my 8 great-grandparents (the one exception being a great-grandmother whose parents were both Danish peasants who emigrated to the US as teens in the 1890s). Even assuming that some of these claimed lines are spurious (everyone wants to be descended from someone famous), the sheer number of them and the widespread nature of the lines argues that at least some of them are valid. To put things into perspective, I'm an American from the Midwest, and all of my great-grandparents and more recent, and all but three of my great-great-grandparents, were born as US citizens. There also aren't any strong family traditions of our being of royal descent. So if it's true in my case, how much more so for those whose families never left England?
Oh will you get a kick out of Oversimplified's "Mini Wars #3 - The War that Changed the English Language". Excellently covers the events leading up to 1066 in what is now classic Oversimplified fashion. I know you'll get around to it eventually, but may as well give you a heads up.
@32:17 George V was also the Duke of York as well. After his older brother Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence and Avondale died, he became engaged to his brother's former fiancee, Mary of Teck.
Just for an accessible pop-history light read, Dan Jones' book (imaginatively titled "The Wars of the Roses") is a pretty good introduction to the topic.
My grandmother on my dad's side kept a lot of the genealogy stuff from that side of my family for a while and I was able to find out some interesting info from her when I had to do a family tree project in 7th grade back in middle school.
19:20 Chris, while it is correct that Owen Tudor was not technically of the royal rank, he was not lowborn, as Tudors had been a very strong family ruling Ynys Mon (Anglesey) and some other lands in Northern Wales.
'I will not yield one step, today I either die as a king or I win.'- Allegedly Richard III's last words to an advisor before leading his retainers into combat at Bosworth. As a both an Englishman and a fan of history, I've always had a soft spot for Richard III as IMO he was our last 'real' Warrior Monarch/Baddass. I read that during the battle of Bosworth, he managed to get so close to engaging in combat with Henry Tudor, that he managed to cut down Henry's personal standard bearer. When you come to the UK, you should come visit Leicester (my home city) and visit Richard's resting place. Keep up the great content!
That standard bearer was the father of Charles Brandon and therefore a great grandfather to Lady Jane Grey who briefly became Queen. I've always had a soft spot for Richard as well...and Leicester is definitely on our itinerary!
Ah, interesting! I didn't know of that link to Lady Grey. You touched on this in the video, but it's very interesting peeling back the layers of essentially the Tudor smears of Richard III from 'adjusted' portraits to Shakespeare's plays. I did a module on the Wars of The Roses when I was at university, and I didn't really appreciate until I did some in depth reading into the conflict how influential the emergence of the printing press in Western Europe was around the same time period. In school I was always pointed to the importance of the early printing press being for mass producing the Bible, though an area of real impact was the production of the first types of propaganda pamphlets- which is as interesting as it is depressing come to think of it... If you do end up coming to Leicester you should also visit the Battlefield Centre at Bosworth. It's a good place BUT, it is a bit awkward how they built it on the supposed site of the battlefield, only to discover later they got the site wrong! XD
i kinda wish we got the same and similar exact story format and documentary video for other monarchies such as France, Germans and Spain. most videos i've discovered are mostly skim trough and jumps trough many monarch's reign in favor of next major historical event to the country. While i get why they did that, i want to know what are those each of every kings and queens doing during their reign so i get a bigger picture on what's going on. It's easier for me to understand how things happened that way
Alfred the Great is my 45th great grandfather. Am also descended from some famous Vikings and Normans. You usually find that people who were fighting each other one century, 200 years later, their descendants are marrying each other.
30:04 William IV had (I believe) 10 children with his mistress of 20 years. Now he did have a daughter, Elizabeth with his wife, but she died after a few months. Now one of their younger brothers, Prince Adolphus married and had a daughter, Adelaide. Her daughter was Queen Mary of Teck, Elizabeth II's grandmother.
Why would her being twice divorced matter? Wasn't their switch to Protestantism and the creation of the Church of England largely done so that the monarch could divorce without consequence? Why would it be a problem now?
I've wondered why the Church of England didn't honor divorce. It's a major reason the Church exists. I think the Church considers Henry's "divorces" to be "annulments." Technical difference, I suppose.
Me and my family done some research our self and we found out that our name surname stems from the Irish family of the o’dougans or something like that. They were a family in the Middle Ages that were basically above the law as they claimed to be descendants of a drewid who supposedly put a plague on Ireland, killed John the Baptist, turned people into stone and flew in a flying machine. Sorry for it being so long of a comment but I thought it was a interesting fact about my family history
It's all literary fiction but I think you would probably like the "Pillars of the earth" book by Ken Follet. It's framed in the events after the white ship sunk and the years after with Stephen and Matilda. There was a mini series adaptation of 10 episodes a few years ago.
There is a royal proclamation issued by Queen Elizabeth II in 1952, the year when she was crowned the Queen, declaring that the royal house was to remain known as the House of Windsor stating "Will and Pleasure that I and My children shall be styled and known as the House and Family of Windsor, and that My descendants, other than female descendants who marry and their descendants, shall bear the name of Windsor." It is portrait in the Season 1 of The Crown.
"Pierre Basile" who killed Richard the Lionheart was an archer/knight not a cook... :D And the information you add during the reaction is very interesting, thanks for that! ;)
I didn't know that trivia about Edward the Confessor pointing on his deathbed, but I wonder if that's a hidden joke in The Death of Stalin that you mentioned recently. Great movie, but you see the actor point... At the maid. Everyone dismisses it and the race is on.
You forgot to mention that King John was such a disaster as king that there has never been another King John since. John of Gaunt, of the Lancaster Branch, was at one time a strong contender for the throne, but one of the principal arguments against him was that his name was John, and there could never be another King John.
My aunt is a big genealogy researcher, and traced the family name back to 1066 but there's hardly any details of the period from the family arrival in the colonies to 1066.
Actually the Viking invasion of 1066 wasn’t Danes, but Norwegians under King Harald Hardrada (look him up, he was awesome! Sometimes called the Last Viking). There were probably some Danes there too, though.
Edward VI's will, which named Lady Jane Grey as his heir, bypassed Jane's mother, who was the daughter, of Frances Brandon, Henry VIII's sister, Margaret and his friend Charles Brandon. This was because John Dudley, Duke of Northumberland, who influenced Edward's will, married his son, Guildford Dudley, to Jane. The Duke would thus remain the power behind the throne.
"Unready" was really "unraed" which means "badly counseled". It's worth noting that Emma or Normandy was married to both AEthelred and Cnut, and was the mother of Edward the Confessor, Harthacnut, and Harold Harefoot. She was also the sister of William the Conqueror's father. Matilda was 11 years older than Geoffrey Plantagenet, who was said to be the handsomest man in Europe. If Richard the Lionheart's brother Geoffrey hadn't died in a tournament, he would have succeeded Richard as King, instead of John, John wanted to make sure that there was nobody else's claim to the throne, so he had Geoffrey's son, Arthur, killed at the age of 12. If Arthur had succeeded, he would have been King Arthur. Henry VIII's older brother was also an Arthur.
Unless Jane Seymour did something horrible like cheat on him, I imagine Henry VIII would have remained with her. He would not want to jeopardize his son's legitimacy.
Oh so basically he shamelessly cheated on his wives then turned around and murdered them because HE decided to accuse them of what HE HIMSELF did TO them
@@noorbohamad5796The King cannot have his child(ren) and heirs legitimacy questioned. So yes, that's why a King can cheat, but the Queen cannot and it is considered treason.
Hey... thanks for the reaction 🙂
Why am I even surprised to see you here? xD
Cool you found this
Glad to see content creators thanking others using their videos as opposed to just copyright claiming them.
@@TheDarthranc0r I usually only see copyright claims when someone tries to make money off anothers video. Luckily at least on the historical side of things it doesn't happen all that much if at all.
UsefulCharts How Do You Make Those Family tree charts? Only Asking Because I Have No Idea How You Do It!
I’m actually from Hastings, it’s cool to hear people talk about the history of my town, since Hastings has never really had anything big happen here outside of 1066.
Oh don't be so sure. There was the second battle of Hastings in 1964, between mods and rockers. ;)
Especially since that actually happened in Battle 😉😂
lol, cool!!! :)
I don't know, Liam. You were born, and that was pretty big. I'm American. You're a huge deal over here. ;-)
At least you're from the real Hastings. When I was a kid, my mom's parents lived in the US state of Nebraska, which has a lot of small towns named after places in England. Thus, I grew up thinking that the Saxons and Normans somehow traveled across the Atlantic and half of North America to fight for the English throne at Hastings, Nebraska, and that New York was named after the town of York, Nebraska! XD
I have watched most of the videos that you are reacting to and I cannot thank you enough on how much more satisfying it is to have someone give more insights on them.
Queen Elizabeth II is immortal every time we say God save the Queen she gains an extra year to her life 🤣
Joke Stolen From Reddit
@@juicetinonion9570 not everything was posted on reddit first @-@
@@JeremyTheBreadKnife In this case it was
redditors are so annoying lol
@@juicetinonion9570 this is a really common joke bro I guarantee you that guy from Reddit “stole” it as well
Useful Charts
is a brilliant channel, so glad to see you react to this!
The consistency is uncanny, keep it up!
OMG King George V looks EXACTLY like Nicholas II. and I only know that because of your videos!
They were almost twins, same blue eyes, same beard. People would mistake them for one another in formal events. They were really close too calling each other Georgie and Nicky. It must've broke George's heart to not grant Nicholas asylum during the Russian Revolution.
Yeah, like twins. It sucks that his Prime Minister had to take the fall for King Gerorge V’s decision…
You should check out the other royal family trees. Even though it might not be your speciality it would interesting to hear your thoughts nonetheless.
Habsburg one is funny as hell. From a certain point on they are basically going parcour all over the map while still making sure to only marry themselves.
Useful Charts is a really good channel, it’s great 👍
For those who don’t know:
He explaines things really well and his videos are always interesting. From gods to kings and things in between, this guy does charts about more or less everything.
I love seeing this channel grow you have really been booming these past few weeks and months. Keep up the great content👍
I love Useful Charts and it was so awesome to hear this extra context behind all the names. I hope you react to more of their videos
OMGGGGG YESSSS Been following that channel for years, he is just so soothing and so satisfying
Dude this channel only exists since about one year
Ah yes the gaming channel we all love then you are right and honestly he deserves way more subs them he has
@Croatian_gamer [SGE007] personally I thought she mean Useful Charts
@@timothynoak5967 same
I have this poster. LOVE it! Helps so much when watching British history documentaries.
26:45 Some quick context on why you can have a ruling king with a queen for a wife, but a ruling queen has a prince consort, in European feudalism the female titles were always assumed to be lower in rank than their male counterparts. This was important because for the purposes of rulership, everything hinged on one person being ultimately in charge. Co-rulers, as he said, were vanishingly rare.
When you have a passion for something and know a ton of things makes a really good video EVEN better. I really enjoyed how you filled the gaps the original "author" left out. A glorious video, loved it
Keep up the great work :D
Rest in peace to Prince Philip.
Yea R.I.P
God Save the Queen! Soon to be God Save the King!
RTR
@@gamerwidowyt7759 He's obviously not talking about Philip because he was never was set to become king. I believe he's referring to Prince Charles. Also, you spelled Philip incorrectly.
@@gamerwidowyt7759 I think (not sure) he is refering to prince Charles. He will become King when the Queen dies.
Visit Arundel castle if you come here, one of the biggest and possibly the oldest castle in the UK. Parts of the keep are well over 1000 years old and it's the most picturesque place. Like something out of lord of the rings
Thank you so much because of you i startet studying history much more intense then before and i realy discovered a passion and after summer i get to go to a university to study Roman history
I owe you so much
Would love you to react to falklands war oversimplified
P.S. massive fan of the channel amazed at how quickly this channel has grown keep doing what you are doing
I havent heared of this channel before but im very happy i did now! And this mutch details of the line of English Kings is Amazing! Im enjoying it so mutch thanks for making the content ❤️
Hey! First comment. Love the channel! Just a quick note though, on the Viking invasion and Harold Godwinson. You mentioned it was Danes that led the Viking army, while it was infact Norsemen, led by the Norwegian king Harald Hardraade. Just had to chime in as the Norwegian saga of Kings is near and dear to my heart, and in particular Harald, as his death in many ways signaled the end of the Viking age.
Also, you are absolutely correct in that Harold's brother joined the Vikings in the fight. In fact, he is the one that persuades Harald to invade England, to exact revenge on his brother for sending him into exile.
i think he probably said that, or got confused, because back then the english called all norsemen danes
Ah yes, the uncle of the infant king trying to control the kingdom.
Makes me want to watch Warring States Oversimplified again.
Confucius shakes his head in disgust at this behavior…😢
In year 5 I visited one of king John’s favour castles on a school trip and we found out that he died due to eating peaches and cider, the peaches had only recently been discovered and John wanted to be the first person in England to ever have them but because of the long journey to get to the castle they were rotten and mouldy but he ate them anyway. Got dysentery and died.
Hi history guy, New to the channel and loving it, I really like the HOI4 Content too. I look forward to looking over your videos to further progress my knowledge on history
The information you add during the reaction is very interesting. Keep up the good work!!
your videos usually drop between 12 to 3 am in my time but i stay awake every night and watch them, that's for your great content 👌
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@@timothynoak5967 iran
I just bought the poster because of this video. My mom is going to love it!
The current UK royal family isn't that German anymore. The mother of Elizabeth II was of Scottish and English ancestry, and, of course, Diana was very English, and so is Catherine, Princess of Wales. So that means her children are very English.
Btw, a queen regnant, if she marries, shouldn't be expected to change the name of her "house." Her husband most likely has no claim to the throne, certainly not greater than hers. Why should his name determine the name of the dynasty going forward?
I've seen/read claims that the wife of William the Conqueror, another Matilda, was a descendent of a daughter of Alfred the Great. That daughter married a Count Baldwin, and from that union, another Count Baldwin, several generations later, had the daughter who married William I and was the mother of Henry I.
This one was great. I love getting the added knowledge from you.
Your knowledge is impressive sir.
Love the bits about Alfred, Edward and Aethelstan. Especially after watching Last Kingdom.
Its great that you're reacting to 1 of my favorite TH-cam channels
You should have a look at the Irish history. From the Easter rising, The war of Independence, the civil war. All happened in such a short amount of time in Ireland
>As of this recording, Queen Elizabeth is currently in her 68th year on the throne
She's waiting till next year to go out, I know it, she would totally do it on purpose.
Isn't she in her 69th year on the throne? February 2022 will be 70 years she's been Queen.
This was actually a good combination. The original lays out the family tree quite well, but didn't go into detail much. I found your elaborations (annotations?) about the whys/reasons some of the shifts happened very useful.
I am a bit curious about the shift back and forth between patrilineal descent of the throne and allowing children of both genders to inherit.
I would love to learn when it was one way or the other, and why the changes were made. Also curious if the shifts came about mainly/only due to political/religious reasons, like that shift were it didn't matter that the throne was inherited by a woman or a foreign prince, as long as he/she was a protestant and not a catholic.
It was George Orwell who said that there was more royal blood descendants working in the inns and fields of England than in the House of Windsor, simply because the medieval kings had so many illegitimate children. One statistician reckoned that in a room full of 100 Englishmen, 80 would be descendants of Edward 111, because he had so many children. That means many Americans will also be descendants of medieval English kings.
It's true! When I started researching my ancestry in-depth a little over a year ago, I found a staggering 132 claimed lines of descent from King Edward III through 7 of my 8 great-grandparents (the one exception being a great-grandmother whose parents were both Danish peasants who emigrated to the US as teens in the 1890s). Even assuming that some of these claimed lines are spurious (everyone wants to be descended from someone famous), the sheer number of them and the widespread nature of the lines argues that at least some of them are valid. To put things into perspective, I'm an American from the Midwest, and all of my great-grandparents and more recent, and all but three of my great-great-grandparents, were born as US citizens. There also aren't any strong family traditions of our being of royal descent. So if it's true in my case, how much more so for those whose families never left England?
The wives are so much more than 'divorced, beheaded, died, divorced beheaded survived'
Well, I know this was 3 years ago but I have watched this again as had forgotten some of it! Best wishes from Sussex!
I am so pleased at how this channel has grown!
7:49 everyone is related to each other if you go back far enough
My 15th great grandmother was named Mary Beaton. She was a friend on Mary Queen of Scotland. She also was there when James l and Vl be born.
33:23 He should definitely go by Arthur the 1st :))))
Oh will you get a kick out of Oversimplified's "Mini Wars #3 - The War that Changed the English Language". Excellently covers the events leading up to 1066 in what is now classic Oversimplified fashion. I know you'll get around to it eventually, but may as well give you a heads up.
That alternate Jacobite line video was interesting too.
R.I.P Prince Philip of Greece and Denmark
Good video, but the viking invasion was a norwegian invasion led by Harald Hardrada (from Trondheim, Norway) and his vikings.
@32:17 George V was also the Duke of York as well. After his older brother Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence and Avondale died, he became engaged to his brother's former fiancee, Mary of Teck.
Being from York, PA, right across the river from Lancaster, ive always wanted to learn more about the war of roses but never got around to it.
Just for an accessible pop-history light read, Dan Jones' book (imaginatively titled "The Wars of the Roses") is a pretty good introduction to the topic.
Love this - I’m fascinated by history - thank you.
Always amazing to see the circle that is the royal family tree
It's not just every royal families in Europe, practically every person of European decent can trace their family tree back to Charlemagne.
My ears perked up when you mentioned the Greenhill family, from Birmingham.
My sister married a Peter Greenhill, from Birmingham, back in the '60s.
5:02 it was not a coincidence that it stayed within the family because even though they were elected they did have to be from a certain family
7:46 i know this is true but it gave me a good laugh
My grandmother on my dad's side kept a lot of the genealogy stuff from that side of my family for a while and I was able to find out some interesting info from her when I had to do a family tree project in 7th grade back in middle school.
I heard from somewhere that the greenhills were once kings and emperors…
Have you heard the Horrible Histories Monarch Song?
I think you'd like that one!
19:20 Chris, while it is correct that Owen Tudor was not technically of the royal rank, he was not lowborn, as Tudors had been a very strong family ruling Ynys Mon (Anglesey) and some other lands in Northern Wales.
Great videos! Thank you so much for your work. And yes, you should definitely watch Outlander! Diana Gabaldon’s research is astounding 🥂
'I will not yield one step, today I either die as a king or I win.'- Allegedly Richard III's last words to an advisor before leading his retainers into combat at Bosworth.
As a both an Englishman and a fan of history, I've always had a soft spot for Richard III as IMO he was our last 'real' Warrior Monarch/Baddass.
I read that during the battle of Bosworth, he managed to get so close to engaging in combat with Henry Tudor, that he managed to cut down Henry's personal standard bearer.
When you come to the UK, you should come visit Leicester (my home city) and visit Richard's resting place.
Keep up the great content!
That standard bearer was the father of Charles Brandon and therefore a great grandfather to Lady Jane Grey who briefly became Queen. I've always had a soft spot for Richard as well...and Leicester is definitely on our itinerary!
Ah, interesting! I didn't know of that link to Lady Grey.
You touched on this in the video, but it's very interesting peeling back the layers of essentially the Tudor smears of Richard III from 'adjusted' portraits to Shakespeare's plays.
I did a module on the Wars of The Roses when I was at university, and I didn't really appreciate until I did some in depth reading into the conflict how influential the emergence of the printing press in Western Europe was around the same time period.
In school I was always pointed to the importance of the early printing press being for mass producing the Bible, though an area of real impact was the production of the first types of propaganda pamphlets- which is as interesting as it is depressing come to think of it...
If you do end up coming to Leicester you should also visit the Battlefield Centre at Bosworth. It's a good place BUT, it is a bit awkward how they built it on the supposed site of the battlefield, only to discover later they got the site wrong! XD
Man I loved this !! R.I.P. Prince Philip!
you should react to Rome in 20 minutes, they do a pretty good job for a 20 minute video and the narrator is just awesome
I actually bought that poster, its huge!
i kinda wish we got the same and similar exact story format and documentary video for other monarchies such as France, Germans and Spain.
most videos i've discovered are mostly skim trough and jumps trough many monarch's reign in favor of next major historical event to the country. While i get why they did that, i want to know what are those each of every kings and queens doing during their reign so i get a bigger picture on what's going on. It's easier for me to understand how things happened that way
Alfred the Great is my 45th great grandfather. Am also descended from some famous Vikings and Normans. You usually find that people who were fighting each other one century, 200 years later, their descendants are marrying each other.
React to the Habsburg tree next lol
Ah yes the great circle of incest
The amount of Henry's, Edwards and Richards is insane
I just started with genioligy ( dont know How its spelled)in my biology class and its really interesting and i hope you do more content like this
Genealogy
30:04 William IV had (I believe) 10 children with his mistress of 20 years. Now he did have a daughter, Elizabeth with his wife, but she died after a few months.
Now one of their younger brothers, Prince Adolphus married and had a daughter, Adelaide. Her daughter was Queen Mary of Teck, Elizabeth II's grandmother.
Why would her being twice divorced matter? Wasn't their switch to Protestantism and the creation of the Church of England largely done so that the monarch could divorce without consequence? Why would it be a problem now?
I've wondered why the Church of England didn't honor divorce. It's a major reason the Church exists. I think the Church considers Henry's "divorces" to be "annulments." Technical difference, I suppose.
19:38 Henry VII was a legitimate decent of Edward I through his son Edmund
Really enjoy your channel
UsefulCharts is excellent.. you should react to more of their videos. Awesome stuff.
Me and my family done some research our self and we found out that our name surname stems from the Irish family of the o’dougans or something like that. They were a family in the Middle Ages that were basically above the law as they claimed to be descendants of a drewid who supposedly put a plague on Ireland, killed John the Baptist, turned people into stone and flew in a flying machine. Sorry for it being so long of a comment but I thought it was a interesting fact about my family history
Did this Druid go to Israel to kill John the Baptist? I'm descended from Irish myself and this sounds like another tall tale from the pub.
Anne Boleyn is my 24th great-grandaunt and Queen Elizabeth I is my 1st cousin 25x removed
Tostig was Harold II's brother that died at Stamford Bridge.
It's all literary fiction but I think you would probably like the "Pillars of the earth" book by Ken Follet.
It's framed in the events after the white ship sunk and the years after with Stephen and Matilda. There was a mini series adaptation of 10 episodes a few years ago.
Most of Britain’s youth knows every king and queen of England since 1066 bc of a show called horrible histories
Another excellent watch thanks..
The vikings at the battle of Stanford bridge was norwegian not danish
Wondrium has a good Great Courses series covering Britain from the leaving of the Romans to 1066 William the Conquerer.
There is a royal proclamation issued by Queen Elizabeth II in 1952, the year when she was crowned the Queen, declaring that the royal house was to remain known as the House of Windsor stating "Will and Pleasure that I and My children shall be styled and known as the House and Family of Windsor, and that My descendants, other than female descendants who marry and their descendants, shall bear the name of Windsor." It is portrait in the Season 1 of The Crown.
One of the things that the chart neglected was that Queen Elizabeth II’s matrilineal line are directly descended from Robert the 2nd of Scotland.
"Pierre Basile" who killed Richard the Lionheart was an archer/knight not a cook... :D
And the information you add during the reaction is very interesting, thanks for that! ;)
I didn't know that trivia about Edward the Confessor pointing on his deathbed, but I wonder if that's a hidden joke in The Death of Stalin that you mentioned recently. Great movie, but you see the actor point... At the maid. Everyone dismisses it and the race is on.
Imagine the meme potential if Prince Charles decides to reign as King Arthur I.
You forgot to mention that King John was such a disaster as king that there has never been another King John since. John of Gaunt, of the Lancaster Branch, was at one time a strong contender for the throne, but one of the principal arguments against him was that his name was John, and there could never be another King John.
Well he (John of Gaunt) died on March just 6 months before Henry IV depose d Richard II from the throne
My aunt is a big genealogy researcher, and traced the family name back to 1066 but there's hardly any details of the period from the family arrival in the colonies to 1066.
Actually the Viking invasion of 1066 wasn’t Danes, but Norwegians under King Harald Hardrada (look him up, he was awesome! Sometimes called the Last Viking). There were probably some Danes there too, though.
Where can some of your work on genealogy be found?
You have taught me so much and I love it
Edward VI's will, which named Lady Jane Grey as his heir, bypassed Jane's mother, who was the daughter, of Frances Brandon, Henry VIII's sister, Margaret and his friend Charles Brandon. This was because John Dudley, Duke of Northumberland, who influenced Edward's will, married his son, Guildford Dudley, to Jane. The Duke would thus remain the power behind the throne.
Six the musical is all I could think about with king Henry the 6th especially when he said divorced beheaded died divorced beheaded survived
How about you react to John D Ruddy videos! Their so well done and really fun to watch. Especially his Civil War video!
I feel like they could make so many movies through the history of the royal family
the farthest back I can go through direct father's line is Theobald Comte du Chartres died around 886AD
"Unready" was really "unraed" which means "badly counseled".
It's worth noting that Emma or Normandy was married to both AEthelred and Cnut, and was the mother of Edward the Confessor, Harthacnut, and Harold Harefoot. She was also the sister of William the Conqueror's father.
Matilda was 11 years older than Geoffrey Plantagenet, who was said to be the handsomest man in Europe.
If Richard the Lionheart's brother Geoffrey hadn't died in a tournament, he would have succeeded Richard as King, instead of John, John wanted to make sure that there was nobody else's claim to the throne, so he had Geoffrey's son, Arthur, killed at the age of 12. If Arthur had succeeded, he would have been King Arthur. Henry VIII's older brother was also an Arthur.
Unless Jane Seymour did something horrible like cheat on him, I imagine Henry VIII would have remained with her. He would not want to jeopardize his son's legitimacy.
Oh so basically he shamelessly cheated on his wives then turned around and murdered them because HE decided to accuse them of what HE HIMSELF did TO them
@@noorbohamad5796The King cannot have his child(ren) and heirs legitimacy questioned. So yes, that's why a King can cheat, but the Queen cannot and it is considered treason.
For a lot of info, you can also read my book 'If I Remember Correctly!' a history book written entirely from my memory, it's funny too!