The content is outstanding, as always, and we’ve got to take a moment to celebrate your oration skills! I got full body chills when you read Elizabeth’s iconic speech. 10’s across the board, sending so much love & gratitude across the pond!💞
This is so so good! I have to show it to my Dad! My mother has cancer, so he has a lot weighing on him, but I try to curate media I think he’ll really like. It’s diverting and educational, and he’s always been interested in this topic. People are drawn to history for many reasons, and there are many to really enjoy this video. But at least for our part, you’ve helped ease things in this really difficult time for us, and you did an incredible job in both sucking us in and explaining the context really well, without dwelling overmuch on anything. Kudos, and, well, thank you.
Really interesting! I found you just a couple of weeks ago and I'm so pleased to see how much your channel has grown in that time. Thank you for these great videos!
Dr. Kat, thank you for presenting information in such an interesting way. I’ve been watching a lot of your videos recently, and I had a request! I noticed that you often talk about a ruler’s “favorite.” After watching the movie, I am more interested in how this practice started and who were historical “favorites” and how did they differ from a lover? Thank you again for your incredible content!
Many at the time and afterwards would allege that there was precious little difference between favourite and lover. For example, Edward II’s relationship with Piers Gaveston and Hugh Despenser are assumed to have been sexual in nature. They certainly contributed in driving his wife away and into rebellion - arguably ultimately costing him his throne and his life.
I just clicked on the video because: - As a native Spanish speaker, I love how British people say the sentence “The Spanish Arh-mha-da.” - Dr Kat is such an entertaining storyteller! Cheers!
@@anatolimh4250 Well, that seems fitting, as the ahh mada Did confuse us! Despite the propaganda it was the weather and Spanish internal political squabbling that defeated them, not us 'brave' Brits!
Some people often forget the Spanish Inquisition. Thank you for including it! I love your history talks. They are so informative. Please continue your series.
Curiously today, modern historiography openly recognizes that the Insquisition in Spain was one of the ones that lasted the longest and the fewest people executed in all of Europe. Incomparably less than the Protestant religious courts and let alone Calvinists of central and northern Europe. UK included. Not to mention the procedural guarantees with the right to a defense attorney that the law granted to the inmates of the Spanish Inquisition. If I myself today had to be tried by an inquisitorial court and the modern justice of some countries such as Cuba, Venezuela or many of the Islamic or Asian world, I would definitely prefer that of the Inquisition where I would have much more possibilities of being judged with more impartiality . Today history is no longer written solely by patriotic historians of the British and Dutch fan club. You can check that information on the internet.
I love your narrative of the Armada. Too many others get caught up in the number of ships and how out numbered the English were. They rarely go into the history that lead up to it. Thank you.
The Tilbury speech is absolutely genius. She motivates her subjects to fight for God and their realm, not her. She even states she will take up arms with them! Today's leaders should take lessons from Elizabeth's speeches, fortitude, courage, and love for her people.
While the Armada was attacking she hid in her palace, crying, screaming and having panic attacks in utter fear of her death. When the Armada was defeated she rode to Tilbury to give a speech, then straight after sent the army home. She then because she wanted to welsh on paying the sailors who won, kept the men imprisoned on plague ridden ships to die on mass...... It's interested Mary and Henry were utterly revolting and we know that today, Elizabeth was every bit as revolting, but somehow the public are completely propagandised to believe she was a good person and queen.
@@Fiddling_while_Rome_burns All monarchs are to varying degrees revolting, being in positions of absolute power and corrupted thus. Elizabeth was no different as you must know by your alias.
My ancestors primarily fishermen from Hastings joined the Armada fleet many according to the records were privateers (pirates) so their participation was not entirely ultruistic
Could the mermaid in the Armada portrait of Elizabeth also be a reference to her supposed descent from Melusine, the minor water goddess who was the matriarch of the St. Pol family from which her great great grandmother Jacquetta Woodville came? Curious as to whether that mermaid was meant as a sign, to rub it in Spain’s face, that she had a water goddess on her side in that battle.
Learn something new every time, thank you so much. I have heard about 1587/88 for eons but never heard about QEI's outreach to the Duke of Parma. Dr. Kat, you rock!
@@fedevida1951 So was I .It failed in Coruña and failed again at Lisbon, where the aim was to encourage the Portuguese to Rebellion That would be 2 fails? .In fact you coould say 3, as they had intended to carry on to and take the Azores.
It MUST be another factor - rarely if ever mentioned but more obvious to me perhaps as a native of Raleigh, NC - that in 1585 Elizabeth authorized the establishment of the first English colony in the New World. I can’t believe that Spain didn’t see that as a direct threat against their almost century of primacy in colonizing the Americas and the economic power that went with it. It can’t be a coincidence that 3 years later Spain was trying to invade England and, importantly, destroy her navy.
The mermaid might be a ship's figurehead. Interesting that it's underneath the window depicting the Spanish Armada's defeat by the 'Protestant wind'. Really enjoying your vids, they're excellent and great fun for breaking up isolation blues. Thanks for posting them :)
I am an American who is fascinated by the British Monarchy and I have been binge watching videos on the history of the monarchy. Correct me if I'm wrong, but does it seem that the greatest times of prosperity in English history has been when there were Queen's on the throne? Namely QE1, Queen Victoria, and QE2? And could that also be attributed to women having more moderate lifestyles and longer reigns thus providing more continuity? Just a suggestion.
Very informative and well-done. Elizabeth the 1st was such a fascinating personality. The 16th century seems like such a bloody, terrifying time. My background is music, so I see the stark contrast between the serene, beautiful vocal polyphony of the time and the historical context of conflict and violence.
It is hipocrite to talk about the Spanish armada and keep silent about the even greater disaster of the English armada one year later. By the way I am a Spanish Protestant so it clarifies my religious faith
If it is true that she refused to pay the sailors, I am again shocked at the dichotomy of this speech and promise of a prince...you are the boss, Dr Kat!
Kat, I want to know what you think about Elizabeth signing Mary’s death warrant “and not giving it to the powers whom be). I think from what I’ve read of Elizabeth she has more than a little of her fathers temper and wouldn’t have stood for a second! What’s your thoughts on this topic? I think I your doing a wonderful job 😆 Thank you so much, I love what you do🧐😛😋, and the time periods you do it in! Thank you!!
Thank you, I'm so pleased you like my content! I think Elizabeth's actions and response in this can be read so many ways; my instinct is that she found the whole event disturbing and guilt-producing. Perhaps her display of rage and grief, which was coupled with no punishment for those who acted without her permission (which she had secretly given), was about public perception - an act that she knowing played out to manipulate. However, it might also be evidence of the true conflict she felt - Mary was a threat to her life, throne and faith but she was a fellow anointed queen and family. Perhaps it is understandable that she was reticent to sign, but eventually did (wanting to hold off on sending), then flew into a true grief-fuelled rage when it was sent without permission, before eventually recognising the painful necessity of the act. What do you think?
@@ReadingthePast, thank you👌🏻. Your answers is exactly what I have been thinking for a long time. And came here to voice and put into a question. I think this whole proven plot, which Mary (ex-Queen of Scots) greenlighted. Put her niece Queen Elizabeth I into a terrible position, almost with her back against the wall. As the Law now said that anyone who did partake in a plot against the Queen/Monarch was forfeiting their life. It puts Elizabeth in an impossible situation. She must "act" and yet she doesn't want to kill a anointed "Queen"/Royal family member. I think she must have feigned some of her grief/anger towards the Counsel....maybe trying to come across "blameless" towards her people & foreign Catholic rulers. But she wasn't, by then, she had signed the death warrant. And then having it stipulate: that it may NOT been acted on and brought to it's conclusion. Is (imho) based on wishful thinking and a bit naive. There was no way back for Queen Elizabeth from the brink to where Mary had pushed the whole situation.
Still binge-watching back-to-front in lockdown. . . and, apropos of nothing : You're wearing rosy pink i/o black or (black/white)! Suits you nicely, too. Cheers from Texas!
My maiden name is Katerina Rochelle Thibidioux. I am, on BOTH sides, fully Cajun. My ancestors fled France within 3 months of the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre...and 7 months later arrived in the area of Louisiana which would shortly evolve into New Orleans. My granmama's side of the family married into the Caribe people and here the marryings and comings and goings of both sides of my family are sadly lacking in documentation of marriages, births, deaths, acquisitions of property, etc. My family's doings are therefore come into the mid 19th century mostly undocumented. It is first taken up again in 1856 with the marriage of Jean-Pierre Rochambieux (Im told this name is correct, though reading the signature in the marriage book of the little church where they supposedly wed, the signature to me is illegible.) Jean's new wife, it would seem, was illiterate. At any rate, I am here, an American as a direct result of the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre. Considering the massive embarassment presently occupying the White House, I count my blessings, and pray for Better Days In America. GOD HELP US!
From what I've been told Spain still suffers from building that armada as the Spanish King used all the trees that existed, so still today there are no real forests in Spain unless they've been planted to create parks and similar things, only in the north does it still exist small forests and as a swede living in Spain/Andalucía I sometimes miss all the forests that are in Sweden
Why English historians never talk about the disaster of the Counter-Armada expedition, next year in 1.589? In the city of La Coruña, in its main square there's a statue from the woman María Pita, a local hero who fought against the English in 1.589. Greetings. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_Armada.
Because it is not very impressive. Imagine you are the single most powerful state in Europe, and are defeated by a tiny island. Then, said island launches a counter attack, actually lands troops on your soil but is eventually repelled. It is like if Cuba landed troops in the usa. No wonder the Spanish tried to sweep this event under the rug.
Dr Kat, who recorded these speeches? Or did Queen Elizabeth 1 write them before speaking them? Were they her words or like today they were written by her ministers.
My mom always said that she was a descendant of ‘the Spanish Armada.’ She had dark hair & eyes and olive skin yet born in Scotland. Alas my siblings and I are all fair.
I had a friend whose name was Costello. Of Irish descent, she claimed that Costello was a corruption of Castile. Some of those unfortunate Spanish sailors ended up shipwrecked in Ireland. Really, it was just luck and some poor execution by the Spanish, that the armada was defeated. If the wind had been different, who knows, they might have landed in England and repeated the feats of William I.
@@jasperhorace7147 I'm so sorry, sir, but Costello mostly is an italian name, not spanish. Nothing to see with Castile. In fact, here in Spain very few people calls "Castilla". It is an uncommon name or surname. Castilla mainly is a region's name, nothing else. Greetings from Spain.
@@danoninonino1864 I didn’t explain that well. According to my friend the Irish gave them the name Costello because they came from Castile - it wasn’t the name they came with.
All these years, I never understood just how the ministers could justify executing Mary Queen of the Scots. Now I do. They wrote a law for the Queen's safety. Now I am suspicious they got this law written so they could specifically use it against Mary at some point.
Dr. Kat, I love your videos. Thank you for sharing your knowledge. Would regular people (non-nobles) would have heard Henry VIII was considering breaking from the Catholic Church? And, would the initial reaction from those folks be shock or mostly go about their everyday lives? I know eventually folks are persecuted for their faith but is this an everyday fight?
Could you do one on astrology? I enjoy all your talks and would love to hear about your insight on this subject relating to rulers using it. Like Elizabeth and John Dee.
The Spanish Armada defeat had more to do with terrible timing bad luck with the weather for the Spanish than anything else most BBC documentaries always portray the English Navy as vastly superior with their fast and nimble ships and the incredible exploits and triumph of Sir Francis Drake. very similar to the Battle of Agincourt and the English victory against the numerically superior French the victors always write the official narrative and gloss over or leave out certain unattractive facts nationalistic pride always gets in the way of an accurate account .. Thank you Dr Kat your by far my Favorite Historian of this era David Starkey being the other one.. Cheers from Salt Lake City Utah,
When Drake raided Cadiz was he like the head of private company contracted to the English crown-sounds familiar.Thanking for explaining whole of the events leading up to and including the the Armada without any of the unnecessary modern fanfare we usually get.
Again I totally am confused. Elizabeth signed the death warrant of Mary. Why would she sign it and then say don't use it? Why would she not have had it destroyed? I think that's just a bit of Elizabethan spin... but hey what do I know? I wasn't there and am by no means an historian. However, every time I hear that Elizabeth didn't mean for the death sentence to be carried out why sign it?
I'm up to 1587 in thus account (execution of Mary QoS) and commend you on your distillation of half a century's events into less than 20 minutes. That said, I must note that you've skipped entirely over the 2 Geraldine Wars in Ireland which, despite Elizabeth's attempts to ignore them, increased the general instability confronting the English Crown & confronted it with the threat of a war on two fronts (three, if northwestern Scotland is factored in).
Another fab video. Thank you. I don’t buy for a second that Elizabeth didn’t know the execution of Mary would take place once she signed the document. Amongst many other considerations, someone would have been used, and an example made of them, for executing a Queen Regnant without orders to do so. I see this as a cowardly way of having her killed knowing what an abomination it is to execute an anointed Queen who wasn’t her subject, and who therefore cannot be accused on treason. The more I read about Elizabeth the less I think of her and the more I see an over glorification on this woman
Popes in that time were often nothing more than pawns in hands of kings & rich rulers. Who fought over lands & city-states and important trading port/cities in Italy and around the papal seat in Rome. "Protecting" a Pope and "securing his safety" while threatening to burn Rome down was not an unusual thing.
Just questioning your statement that the English people accepted Mary Not because of faith but because bloodline. At that time I wonder how many committed Protestants were in England and how many thought of themselves as Catholic (Just without Rome) as Henry did to the end of his life. Was there a yearning in many people in England that time to return to the familiar, time-worn modes of worship as well as wishing an heir of Henry to be on the throne.
I think faith could certainly have been a factor for some, or indeed, many. It’s quite hard to excavate an “average” of faith, especially in these conflicted periods, because the historical record tends to show the extremes - those willing to die for their faith. What I do think is there would have been a lot of noble and, indeed, wealthy people who held former monastic lands that had reason to feel concerned about a Marian rule. Equally, the burnings that came to mar the reputation of her reign does signal that, in faith terms, she was subject to fairly considerable opposition.
@@ReadingthePast I think that looking at Pilgrimage of Grace and especially the Prayer Book rebellion (as it was near to the beginning of Mary's reign) could yield some interesting insights. Do you know if anyone has done any scholarship on those issues? I think I'll drive back into David Loades "Mary Tudor," Because I don't remember if there were any large scale/popular rebellions or uprisings due to religious matters.. Was any urge for a large uprising squelched by her terrifying executions of Protestants? By the way I have a bachelor's in medieval studies (interdisciplinary). As always, thank you so much for your videos. They are wonderful!!!
Wow of course - its obvious now, but I never thought of the Spanish Inquisition as a source of terror for the British - In light of that, keeping English a protestant country and away from Rome was to keep the people safe from some very nasty business.
I think like the saying; "Love is wasted on the Young" so also School can be wasted on the Young. Not many of us enjoyed their curriculum or certain subjects, when they were young. Often later in live we find our real interest & likes. And subject matter and facts seem to stick much better. So who says you can't go "back to school"? Or study (online) when you are older. If anything wets your appetite - go for it!!👌🏻
Dr Kat, was Mary Stuart still a queen in 1586? her son, King James VI was the sole monarch of Scotland, he did not share the throne with his mother. Surely Mary was logically an ex-Queen not a regnant prince.
She died long before her son ever took the thrown. (In England) Elizabeth was Queen until she passed March 24, 1603. When they locked up Mary they made her abdicate to her son. So she was just an ex-queen. She was kept a prisoner for almost twenty years before they be-head her. Such a sad story. Mary QOS is my 1st cousin 13xs removed (as well as Lord Darnley her second husband, they were first cousins.) I’m also related to Elizabeth because they were cousins as well. I’ve been obsessed with all these people my whole life! Well I hope I helped answer your question.
Suzi Sale are you speaking with me? I’f so I’d be happy to share pictures of my family tree with you. If you weren’t then forget this message. P.s. I also have some knowledge on Henry Fitzroy. ( Fitzroy actually means son of the king.)
No, Queen Mary of Scots was no longer a reigning "Queen", when James was anointed King of Scots (at the age of thirteen months) in 1567. His mother "Queen" Mary of Scots had fled and was forced to relinquish her crown/throne to her infant son. But Queen Elizabeth I still saw her niece Mary as an by GOD appointed & anointed Royal. Making all the decisions and steps she had to take after Mary fled to English soil very difficult. Mary remained a real thread to Elizabeth I and her reign.
This is by no means the full story The Armada lost because of its own internal problems, such as quarrels between the Invasion army they were supposed to have picked up in the Netherlands the Navy and King, the weather. etc. She knew full well when she gave that speech that the threat was over. As for 'hanging around' the poor sods left were trying to get home! They had to go up around Britain and back down the other side. Lizzie also left many of our mariners on their ships to starve, because she could not or would not feed or pay them. This was far from a victorious moment, it was a shameful one.
Philip had given orders that the fleet and the army should meet and then cross the Channel to invade. He did not give order how to execute that plan, which would be sheer impossible due to logic problems. But Philip had given clear orders about how to behave writing a page long issue about cursing aboard, I think seriously thinking that God would grant him victory for pious behaviour alone. Philip was a control freak and tight his commander hand and foot. Philip had exelent communication channels. News fron the Netherlands could be in a week on his desk. Where it lay then for a month, before he could make up his mind.
Dear Dr. Kat...I just want to tell you that your lovely voice-- a WOMAN'S Voice-- repeating Elizabeth I's "Let Tyrants Fear" speech reduced me to helpless tears. My America is at present in the hands of an ADMINISTRATION so inept as to seem corrupt...and our President is a Global LAUGHINGSTOCK and EMBARRASSMENT. My grandfather fought in WWII and was awarded the Bronze Star. My eldest brother died of Agent Orange from Viet Nam, but they BOTH flew Old Glory in their yard until the day they died. Now, president Biden is backing a push to have the BLACK LIVES MATTER flag-symbol of a disgraced organization under investigation for fraud and tax evasion---REPLACE OUR STARS AND STRIPES. I am sick to my soul. I ask you how YOU would respond if your Union Jack were facing the same dishonour. I pray cooler, wiser heads will prevail...or there will be blood in the streets. But your melodious voice reading that speech was a clarion call to me to take possession of as many of my beloved Flags as I can....and pray. FOR STRENGTH. AND PEACE. With Deepest Thanks, Katerina Harper
I think this particular Spanish Armada was unavoidable. So many things had gotten Spain in the mood for a fight/war. As England was once again a Protestant Nation governed by an unmarried and heretic Queen ("bastard" daughter of Ann Boleyn - "the cause" of Queen Catherine dethronement) and failed marriage alliances with Spain and the "murder" of Catholic Mary. The Spanish King who saw himself as 'Defender of the Catholic Faith' had to act...trying to restore Catholic rule back to England and it's remaining "oppressed" Catholic population, and stop the spread of Protestantism any further. It must have been a huge humiliation for Philip II of Spain.
If I remember rightly, it was actually more economic. The Englieh were screwing with their trade routes and backing the Rebellion in the Netherlands, which Spain ruled then. I don't think anybody in power really gave much credence to religion, it was just a useful tool, and the Vatican had power Just like now. It was a handy banner to inspire the plebs and peasants. Nothing changes.
The content is outstanding, as always, and we’ve got to take a moment to celebrate your oration skills! I got full body chills when you read Elizabeth’s iconic speech. 10’s across the board, sending so much love & gratitude across the pond!💞
Such a treat to have found you
This is so so good! I have to show it to my Dad! My mother has cancer, so he has a lot weighing on him, but I try to curate media I think he’ll really like. It’s diverting and educational, and he’s always been interested in this topic. People are drawn to history for many reasons, and there are many to really enjoy this video. But at least for our part, you’ve helped ease things in this really difficult time for us, and you did an incredible job in both sucking us in and explaining the context really well, without dwelling overmuch on anything. Kudos, and, well, thank you.
I hope your mother gets better soon and you and your father find solace during this trying time.
Really interesting! I found you just a couple of weeks ago and I'm so pleased to see how much your channel has grown in that time. Thank you for these great videos!
mutegardener It’s grown hugely hasn’t it! Very much deserved.
You are my best TH-cam recommendation EVER 🙌🏼👏🏽
So glad I discovered u Dr Kat. Binging on you videos. Would love to see something on Edward 4th women affairs and onchristphet Marlowe. BIG
THANKS!!!
Dr. Kat, thank you for presenting information in such an interesting way. I’ve been watching a lot of your videos recently, and I had a request! I noticed that you often talk about a ruler’s “favorite.” After watching the movie, I am more interested in how this practice started and who were historical “favorites” and how did they differ from a lover? Thank you again for your incredible content!
Many at the time and afterwards would allege that there was precious little difference between favourite and lover. For example, Edward II’s relationship with Piers Gaveston and Hugh Despenser are assumed to have been sexual in nature. They certainly contributed in driving his wife away and into rebellion - arguably ultimately costing him his throne and his life.
Thank you! That is something that’s been so interesting to me. I’ll definitely look into Edward II now!
I just clicked on the video because:
- As a native Spanish speaker, I love how British people say the sentence “The Spanish Arh-mha-da.”
- Dr Kat is such an entertaining storyteller!
Cheers!
As a dweller in Spain for 15 years and a really bad speaker, should it not be Am a da? or something??? Please advise. I need all the help I can get!
@@hogwashmcturnip8930 uh rather like a pirate "arrrrrr" mada, not like youre confused "ahh" mada
@@anatolimh4250 Well, that seems fitting, as the ahh mada Did confuse us! Despite the propaganda it was the weather and Spanish internal political squabbling that defeated them, not us 'brave' Brits!
I thoroughly enjoy all your videos! Thanks for the educational and entertaining vlogs.
Some people often forget the Spanish Inquisition. Thank you for including it! I love your history talks. They are so informative. Please continue your series.
That's because 'No-one expects the Spanish Inquisition!' ;)
Curiously today, modern historiography openly recognizes that the Insquisition in Spain was one of the ones that lasted the longest and the fewest people executed in all of Europe. Incomparably less than the Protestant religious courts and let alone Calvinists of central and northern Europe. UK included.
Not to mention the procedural guarantees with the right to a defense attorney that the law granted to the inmates of the Spanish Inquisition. If I myself today had to be tried by an inquisitorial court and the modern justice of some countries such as Cuba, Venezuela or many of the Islamic or Asian world, I would definitely prefer that of the Inquisition where I would have much more possibilities of being judged with more impartiality .
Today history is no longer written solely by patriotic historians of the British and Dutch fan club. You can check that information on the internet.
I love your narrative of the Armada. Too many others get caught up in the number of ships and how out numbered the English were. They rarely go into the history that lead up to it. Thank you.
Woohoo! I found one of your videos I'd missed. It's always a treat when a new one pops up. 💜
Very interesting! I’m happy having found your channel. Thank you🌷
I absolutely adore this video! Such an interesting story alongside some incredible and telling art.
The Tilbury speech is absolutely genius. She motivates her subjects to fight for God and their realm, not her. She even states she will take up arms with them! Today's leaders should take lessons from Elizabeth's speeches, fortitude, courage, and love for her people.
She knew they had already 'won' Just Spin, just like now
While the Armada was attacking she hid in her palace, crying, screaming and having panic attacks in utter fear of her death. When the Armada was defeated she rode to Tilbury to give a speech, then straight after sent the army home. She then because she wanted to welsh on paying the sailors who won, kept the men imprisoned on plague ridden ships to die on mass...... It's interested Mary and Henry were utterly revolting and we know that today, Elizabeth was every bit as revolting, but somehow the public are completely propagandised to believe she was a good person and queen.
@@Fiddling_while_Rome_burns All monarchs are to varying degrees revolting, being in positions of absolute power and corrupted thus. Elizabeth was no different as you must know by your alias.
Your videos have made my quarantine much better! I have been doing historical sewing and these videos provided entertainment while I sewA
Excellent video Dr. Kat! I would love to see a video done on Elizabeth’s spymaster Walsingham!
All I think about is the art of pinning when I look at a portrait from the time period. You've taught me a lot
You are awesome Doctor Kat! So glad i found you! 😁😍
Love the art and your enlightening interpretation..
My ancestors primarily fishermen from Hastings joined the Armada fleet many according to the records were privateers (pirates) so their participation was not entirely ultruistic
Could the mermaid in the Armada portrait of Elizabeth also be a reference to her supposed descent from Melusine, the minor water goddess who was the matriarch of the St. Pol family from which her great great grandmother Jacquetta Woodville came? Curious as to whether that mermaid was meant as a sign, to rub it in Spain’s face, that she had a water goddess on her side in that battle.
Learn something new every time, thank you so much. I have heard about 1587/88 for eons but never heard about QEI's outreach to the Duke of Parma. Dr. Kat, you rock!
Those were personal wars based on ego. I loved how you described the painting at the end.
Such an awesome and beautiful explanation for and of the Spanish Armada's efforts against England. Thank you, Dr. Kat.
Please can we do one on the English Armada as that is never mentioned!
Maybe because it failed misreably? Twice?
@@fedevida1951 So was I .It failed in Coruña and failed again at Lisbon, where the aim was to encourage the Portuguese to Rebellion That would be 2 fails? .In fact you coould say 3, as they had intended to carry on to and take the Azores.
you are sensational; thank you for sharing history with us.
It MUST be another factor - rarely if ever mentioned but more obvious to me perhaps as a native of Raleigh, NC - that in 1585 Elizabeth authorized the establishment of the first English colony in the New World. I can’t believe that Spain didn’t see that as a direct threat against their almost century of primacy in colonizing the Americas and the economic power that went with it. It can’t be a coincidence that 3 years later Spain was trying to invade England and, importantly, destroy her navy.
The mermaid might be a ship's figurehead. Interesting that it's underneath the window depicting the Spanish Armada's defeat by the 'Protestant wind'.
Really enjoying your vids, they're excellent and great fun for breaking up isolation blues. Thanks for posting them :)
I am an American who is fascinated by the British Monarchy and I have been binge watching videos on the history of the monarchy. Correct me if I'm wrong, but does it seem that the greatest times of prosperity in English history has been when there were Queen's on the throne? Namely QE1, Queen Victoria, and QE2? And could that also be attributed to women having more moderate lifestyles and longer reigns thus providing more continuity? Just a suggestion.
She's my favorite English monarch!
GREAT , GREAT SHARE ........THANK YOU , FOR SHARING...........
Very informative and well-done. Elizabeth the 1st was such a fascinating personality. The 16th century seems like such a bloody, terrifying time. My background is music, so I see the stark contrast between the serene, beautiful vocal polyphony of the time and the historical context of conflict and violence.
It is hipocrite to talk about the Spanish armada and keep silent about the even greater disaster of the English armada one year later. By the way I am a Spanish Protestant so it clarifies my religious faith
Please do a video on Catherine Howard!!
Love your channel and you
Hi Christina, thank you so much, that's a really lovely thing to read! I hope you have a wonderful weekend!
If it is true that she refused to pay the sailors, I am again shocked at the dichotomy of this speech and promise of a prince...you are the boss, Dr Kat!
Kat, I want to know what you think about Elizabeth signing Mary’s death warrant “and not giving it to the powers whom be). I think from what I’ve read of Elizabeth she has more than a little of her fathers temper and wouldn’t have stood for a second! What’s your thoughts on this topic? I think I your doing a wonderful job 😆 Thank you so much, I love what you do🧐😛😋, and the time periods you do it in! Thank you!!
Thank you, I'm so pleased you like my content!
I think Elizabeth's actions and response in this can be read so many ways; my instinct is that she found the whole event disturbing and guilt-producing. Perhaps her display of rage and grief, which was coupled with no punishment for those who acted without her permission (which she had secretly given), was about public perception - an act that she knowing played out to manipulate. However, it might also be evidence of the true conflict she felt - Mary was a threat to her life, throne and faith but she was a fellow anointed queen and family. Perhaps it is understandable that she was reticent to sign, but eventually did (wanting to hold off on sending), then flew into a true grief-fuelled rage when it was sent without permission, before eventually recognising the painful necessity of the act. What do you think?
@@ReadingthePast, thank you👌🏻. Your answers is exactly what I have been thinking for a long time. And came here to voice and put into a question. I think this whole proven plot, which Mary (ex-Queen of Scots) greenlighted. Put her niece Queen Elizabeth I into a terrible position, almost with her back against the wall. As the Law now said that anyone who did partake in a plot against the Queen/Monarch was forfeiting their life. It puts Elizabeth in an impossible situation. She must "act" and yet she doesn't want to kill a anointed "Queen"/Royal family member. I think she must have feigned some of her grief/anger towards the Counsel....maybe trying to come across "blameless" towards her people & foreign Catholic rulers. But she wasn't, by then, she had signed the death warrant. And then having it stipulate: that it may NOT been acted on and brought to it's conclusion. Is (imho) based on wishful thinking and a bit naive. There was no way back for Queen Elizabeth from the brink to where Mary had pushed the whole situation.
Still binge-watching back-to-front in lockdown. . . and, apropos of nothing
: You're wearing rosy pink i/o black or (black/white)! Suits you nicely, too. Cheers from Texas!
My maiden name is Katerina Rochelle Thibidioux. I am, on BOTH sides, fully Cajun. My ancestors fled France within 3 months of the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre...and 7 months later arrived in the area of Louisiana which would shortly evolve into New Orleans. My granmama's side of the family married into the Caribe people and here the marryings and comings and goings of both sides of my family are sadly lacking in documentation of marriages, births, deaths, acquisitions of property, etc. My family's doings are therefore come into the mid 19th century mostly undocumented. It is first taken up again in 1856 with the marriage of Jean-Pierre Rochambieux (Im told this name is correct, though reading the signature in the marriage book of the little church where they supposedly wed, the signature to me is illegible.) Jean's new wife, it would seem, was illiterate.
At any rate, I am here, an American as a direct result of the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre.
Considering the massive embarassment presently occupying the White House, I count my blessings, and pray for Better Days In America.
GOD HELP US!
From what I've been told Spain still suffers from building that armada as the Spanish King used all the trees that existed, so still today there are no real forests in Spain unless they've been planted to create parks and similar things, only in the north does it still exist small forests and as a swede living in Spain/Andalucía I sometimes miss all the forests that are in Sweden
Why English historians never talk about the disaster of the Counter-Armada expedition, next year in 1.589? In the city of La Coruña, in its main square there's a statue from the woman María Pita, a local hero who fought against the English in 1.589. Greetings.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_Armada.
Well, of course that one has been written out of British history! Because they did not come out of it covered in glory!
Because it is not very impressive. Imagine you are the single most powerful state in Europe, and are defeated by a tiny island.
Then, said island launches a counter attack, actually lands troops on your soil but is eventually repelled. It is like if Cuba landed troops in the usa. No wonder the Spanish tried to sweep this event under the rug.
Dr Kat, who recorded these speeches? Or did Queen Elizabeth 1 write them before speaking them? Were they her words or like today they were written by her ministers.
My mom always said that she was a descendant of ‘the Spanish Armada.’ She had dark hair & eyes and olive skin yet born in Scotland. Alas my siblings and I
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I had a friend whose name was Costello. Of Irish descent, she claimed that Costello was a corruption of Castile. Some of those unfortunate Spanish sailors ended up shipwrecked in Ireland. Really, it was just luck and some poor execution by the Spanish, that the armada was defeated. If the wind had been different, who knows, they might have landed in England and repeated the feats of William I.
@@jasperhorace7147 I'm so sorry, sir, but Costello mostly is an italian name, not spanish. Nothing to see with Castile. In fact, here in Spain very few people calls "Castilla". It is an uncommon name or surname. Castilla mainly is a region's name, nothing else. Greetings from Spain.
@@danoninonino1864 I didn’t explain that well. According to my friend the Irish gave them the name Costello because they came from Castile - it wasn’t the name they came with.
All these years, I never understood just how the ministers could justify executing Mary Queen of the Scots. Now I do. They wrote a law for the Queen's safety. Now I am suspicious they got this law written so they could specifically use it against Mary at some point.
Did the sailors on the Armada really wash up on the shores of Ireland?
I would be interested to hear your thoughts on the Shakespeare Authorship debate. Thanks for all you do for us History lovers!!!
Thank you for a most interesting video.
Suggestion for topic is how the Swedish crown prince Eric (XIV) almost proposed to Elisabet the I.
Dr. Kat,
I love your videos. Thank you for sharing your knowledge. Would regular people (non-nobles) would have heard Henry VIII was considering breaking from the Catholic Church? And, would the initial reaction from those folks be shock or mostly go about their everyday lives? I know eventually folks are persecuted for their faith but is this an everyday fight?
Could you do one on astrology? I enjoy all your talks and would love to hear about your insight on this subject relating to rulers using it. Like Elizabeth and John Dee.
Who did Filip II of Spain want to put on the English throne if he had defeated England in 1588 ??
Anna-Karin Schander , himself.
This is fascinating! I love Queen Elisabeth I and this speech is galvanizing! What a woman!
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That speech. What a woman she was.
The Spanish Armada defeat had more to do with terrible timing bad luck with the weather for the Spanish than anything else most BBC documentaries always portray the English Navy as vastly superior with their fast and nimble ships and the incredible exploits and triumph of Sir Francis Drake. very similar to the Battle of Agincourt and the English victory against the numerically superior French the victors always write the official narrative and gloss over or leave out certain unattractive facts nationalistic pride always gets in the way of an accurate account .. Thank you Dr Kat your by far my Favorite Historian of this era David Starkey being the other one.. Cheers from Salt Lake City Utah,
Excellent video. I think it goes a long way in explaining why ultimately MQS had "to go".
Can you talk about the Berkeley family
When Drake raided Cadiz was he like the head of private company contracted to the English crown-sounds familiar.Thanking for explaining whole of the events leading up to and including the the Armada without any of the unnecessary modern fanfare we usually get.
Charles V. was elected Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire of German Nation and as Carlos I. king and not "Emperor of Spain"
Here in Spain everybody calls as "El Emperador Carlos V" or "Carlos I de España y V de Alemania". All together as you read. Both ways. Greetings.
Did not storms in the north see wreck many of the Ships of the Armada ??
Rather on the Atlantic Ocean off the Coast of Scotland's Outer Hebrides islands. ✌🏻
Again I totally am confused. Elizabeth signed the death warrant of Mary. Why would she sign it and then say don't use it? Why would she not have had it destroyed? I think that's just a bit of Elizabethan spin... but hey what do I know? I wasn't there and am by no means an historian. However, every time I hear that Elizabeth didn't mean for the death sentence to be carried out why sign it?
I'm up to 1587 in thus account (execution of Mary QoS) and commend you on your distillation of half a century's events into less than 20 minutes.
That said, I must note that you've skipped entirely over the 2 Geraldine Wars in Ireland which, despite Elizabeth's attempts to ignore them, increased the general instability confronting the English Crown & confronted it with the threat of a war on two fronts (three, if northwestern Scotland is factored in).
Another fab video. Thank you. I don’t buy for a second that Elizabeth didn’t know the execution of Mary would take place once she signed the document. Amongst many other considerations, someone would have been used, and an example made of them, for executing a Queen Regnant without orders to do so. I see this as a cowardly way of having her killed knowing what an abomination it is to execute an anointed Queen who wasn’t her subject, and who therefore cannot be accused on treason. The more I read about Elizabeth the less I think of her and the more I see an over glorification on this woman
Hadn’t realised that the Pope was under Katherine’s nephew’s ‘ protection ‘ at the time of the petition
Popes in that time were often nothing more than pawns in hands of kings & rich rulers. Who fought over lands & city-states and important trading port/cities in Italy and around the papal seat in Rome. "Protecting" a Pope and "securing his safety" while threatening to burn Rome down was not an unusual thing.
Could the mermaid be a mocking reference to Mary, Queen of Scots, who was called a mermaid (prostitute) by her subjects after she married Boswell?
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Just questioning your statement that the English people accepted Mary Not because of faith but because bloodline. At that time I wonder how many committed Protestants were in England and how many thought of themselves as Catholic (Just without Rome) as Henry did to the end of his life. Was there a yearning in many people in England that time to return to the familiar, time-worn modes of worship as well as wishing an heir of Henry to be on the throne.
I think faith could certainly have been a factor for some, or indeed, many. It’s quite hard to excavate an “average” of faith, especially in these conflicted periods, because the historical record tends to show the extremes - those willing to die for their faith. What I do think is there would have been a lot of noble and, indeed, wealthy people who held former monastic lands that had reason to feel concerned about a Marian rule. Equally, the burnings that came to mar the reputation of her reign does signal that, in faith terms, she was subject to fairly considerable opposition.
Also, thank you for taking the time to offer this insightful question 🌟
@@ReadingthePast I think that looking at Pilgrimage of Grace and especially the Prayer Book rebellion (as it was near to the beginning of Mary's reign) could yield some interesting insights. Do you know if anyone has done any scholarship on those issues? I think I'll drive back into David Loades "Mary Tudor," Because I don't remember if there were any large scale/popular rebellions or uprisings due to religious matters.. Was any urge for a large uprising squelched by her terrifying executions of Protestants? By the way I have a bachelor's in medieval studies (interdisciplinary). As always, thank you so much for your videos. They are wonderful!!!
Wow of course - its obvious now, but I never thought of the Spanish Inquisition as a source of terror for the British - In light of that, keeping English a protestant country and away from Rome was to keep the people safe from some very nasty business.
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You make me want to go back to school.. lol...
I think like the saying; "Love is wasted on the Young" so also School can be wasted on the Young. Not many of us enjoyed their curriculum or certain subjects, when they were young. Often later in live we find our real interest & likes. And subject matter and facts seem to stick much better. So who says you can't go "back to school"? Or study (online) when you are older. If anything wets your appetite - go for it!!👌🏻
@@stoker1931jane Very true, though the saying is "Youth is wasted on the young", not "love". Still, a very great comment
@@made-line7627 oeps😅, you are so right 👍🏻. In Dutch we have the saying Love is wasted on the young✌🏻
Dr Kat, was Mary Stuart still a queen in 1586? her son, King James VI was the sole monarch of Scotland, he did not share the throne with his mother. Surely Mary was logically an ex-Queen not a regnant prince.
She died long before her son ever took the thrown. (In England) Elizabeth was Queen until she passed March 24, 1603.
When they locked up Mary they made her abdicate to her son. So she was just an ex-queen. She was kept a prisoner for almost twenty years before they be-head her. Such a sad story.
Mary QOS is my 1st cousin 13xs removed (as well as Lord Darnley her second husband, they were first cousins.) I’m also related to Elizabeth because they were cousins as well. I’ve been obsessed with all these people my whole life! Well I hope I helped answer your question.
I would luv to know you line , and more about Henry Fitzroy
Suzi Sale are you speaking with me? I’f so I’d be happy to share pictures of my family tree with you. If you weren’t then forget this message. P.s. I also have some knowledge on Henry Fitzroy. ( Fitzroy actually means son of the king.)
No, Queen Mary of Scots was no longer a reigning "Queen", when James was anointed King of Scots (at the age of thirteen months) in 1567. His mother "Queen" Mary of Scots had fled and was forced to relinquish her crown/throne to her infant son.
But Queen Elizabeth I still saw her niece Mary as an by GOD appointed & anointed Royal. Making all the decisions and steps she had to take after Mary fled to English soil very difficult. Mary remained a real thread to Elizabeth I and her reign.
@@stoker1931jane They were cousins
Did Mary ware a wig
This is by no means the full story The Armada lost because of its own internal problems, such as quarrels between the Invasion army they were supposed to have picked up in the Netherlands the Navy and King, the weather. etc. She knew full well when she gave that speech that the threat was over. As for 'hanging around' the poor sods left were trying to get home! They had to go up around Britain and back down the other side. Lizzie also left many of our mariners on their ships to starve, because she could not or would not feed or pay them. This was far from a victorious moment, it was a shameful one.
Philip had given orders that the fleet and the army should meet and then cross the Channel to invade. He did not give order how to execute that plan, which would be sheer impossible due to logic problems. But Philip had given clear orders about how to behave writing a page long issue about cursing aboard, I think seriously thinking that God would grant him victory for pious behaviour alone. Philip was a control freak and tight his commander hand and foot. Philip had exelent communication channels. News fron the Netherlands could be in a week on his desk. Where it lay then for a month, before he could make up his mind.
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That is your color!!
This is one of England's finest hours. The defeat of the Spanish Armarda and the defeat of the Germans in the Battle of Britain.
Every time I hear you say Edward the sixth, it almost sounds like you are saying Edward the sick!
And he was!
Yes but the two windows at her shoulders are later addition Victorian I think
Dear Dr. Kat...I just want to tell you that your lovely voice-- a WOMAN'S Voice-- repeating Elizabeth I's "Let Tyrants Fear" speech reduced me to helpless tears. My America is at present in the hands of an ADMINISTRATION so inept as to seem corrupt...and our President is a Global LAUGHINGSTOCK and EMBARRASSMENT. My grandfather fought in WWII and was awarded the Bronze Star. My eldest brother died of Agent Orange from Viet Nam, but they BOTH flew Old Glory in their yard until the day they died. Now, president Biden is backing a push to have the BLACK LIVES MATTER flag-symbol of a disgraced organization under investigation for fraud and tax evasion---REPLACE OUR STARS AND STRIPES. I am sick to my soul.
I ask you how YOU would respond if your Union Jack were facing the same dishonour. I pray cooler, wiser heads will prevail...or there will be blood in the streets.
But your melodious voice reading that speech was a clarion call to me to
take possession of as many of my beloved Flags as I can....and pray. FOR STRENGTH. AND PEACE.
With Deepest Thanks,
Katerina Harper
By the way the Spanish English war was won by Spain and this is never mentioned by English historians
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This speech was never delivered by Queen Elizabeth before the battle serious historians admit
FYI I love the bright colors on you... not impirtant or relevant, I know... but Ive got something to say... why not share it?
I think this particular Spanish Armada was unavoidable. So many things had gotten Spain in the mood for a fight/war. As England was once again a Protestant Nation governed by an unmarried and heretic Queen ("bastard" daughter of Ann Boleyn - "the cause" of Queen Catherine dethronement) and failed marriage alliances with Spain and the "murder" of Catholic Mary. The Spanish King who saw himself as 'Defender of the Catholic Faith' had to act...trying to restore Catholic rule back to England and it's remaining "oppressed" Catholic population, and stop the spread of Protestantism any further. It must have been a huge humiliation for Philip II of Spain.
If I remember rightly, it was actually more economic. The Englieh were screwing with their trade routes and backing the Rebellion in the Netherlands, which Spain ruled then. I don't think anybody in power really gave much credence to religion, it was just a useful tool, and the Vatican had power Just like now. It was a handy banner to inspire the plebs and peasants. Nothing changes.
Hogwash McTurnip you’re well off there, religion was the glue that held society together, it was everything.
Ain't religion great!! Wouldn't it be nice if now, almost 500 years after this mess, we finally get over religion. Please!!!