The Normans Defeat the Pope...then Surprise Him
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- In the Norman conquest of Southern Italy, the Battle of Civitate in 1053 was as important as the Battle of Hastings in England in 1066. The Normans under the brothers Humphrey of Hauteville and Robert Guiscard faced the forces of Pope Leo IX. Support my work on Patreon:
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Civitate, 1053...a moment that would have long term consequences for the Normans and their place in the history of the Italian Peninsula. The Hautvilles play a pivotal role in this one.
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Pope Leo died a year later…
The Normans seem to literally be real life, questing adventurer knights. Travel to faraway lands, hire on with powerful empires, defeat armies many times their size and carve out legacies for themselves.
Thats where Mount&Blade took inspiration from
Your videos have officially made the Normans my favorite medieval peoples. That Norman blood sure is great stuff!
Woah these Normans are prolific, even before 1066
It appears that the Normans saw opportunity in this conflict with the Papacy; as they were able to wipe out the competition and be legitimized by the Pope. Had piety outweighed their lust for pillaging they would of ceased such actions when initially inquired by the pope. That being said the fact that they capitulated at all to the Pope shows the value they held in their faith.
In the initial dialogues, the Norman leadership promised an end to the pillaging. The problem was the Norman leaders often couldn't control the freebooting knights under them. The Norman counts at this stage weren't able to deliver the stability that the popes wanted, but shortly after this they would preside over a very cohesive and well organized state.
@@RealCrusadesHistory so a bit like the Seljuk treatise with the byzantines?
This battle took place near the town my Grandfather's family comes from in Puglia. It still bears the name "San Paolo so Civitate".
Love the Norman history
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Good work!
Absolutely fascinated.
Great vid!
This was just awesome
I am from south Italy and I find these videos very interesting and based on historical facts and not only epics.
Thanks!
Thanks for checking them out!
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Robert de la Guichard is buried in my hometown Venosa, Lucania.
He’s the Founding Father of OUR nation, the Kingdom of Sicily (that would change the name into Two Sicilies later on). His brother Roger would become the first King.
Hence, we are Napolitans (on the continent) and Sicilians (on the Island).
My surname franco-norman legacy (ferrante=ferrant) from sicily
Ferrante means "The one that Bites"
Wasn’t there a King Ferrante of Naples that had his enemies killed, stuffed and sat round a table like the Last Supper in one of his rooms of his castle ?
Love hearing about the ancestors
I’m smitten with these Normans. 💕😍
Wished I had Norman heritage.
There's a fix for that...
My surname is ferrante"ferrant" norman legacy in sicily 1090-1194
I am and I enjoy this fuckery and mayhrpem!
I do. My family even has a coat-of-arms.
I have norman heritage ;)
Too bad we don't have such Normans around today....
They are. It’s called Normandy in France. Remember D day landing in WW2
@@rifleman4005 they are nothing like the normans of old
@@Bellg they were brutish thugs like most people at the time. They were just better st it.
There are some Anglo-Norman families left but they allowed themselves to be diluted by blood, corrupted by wealth and their minds addled by Internationalism.
@@rifleman4005 idiot
were is that depiction from 2:51.
Swabian swordsmen vs norman knights would have been cool to witness
Would the Normans have had stirrups in 1066? The paintings show them.
If they're in pictures from the time then yes
The stirrups got to Europe probably in 6th AD from Middle East via Avarsm, so yes.
The tapestry was commissioned 75 years later I think . But yes
Yes, if fact it was the stirrups that allowed the normans not just charge into the enemy but fight on horse back with a sword aswell. Without the stirrups, you cant use your legs to generate power for thrusting and thrasing.
The Normans (amalgam between Suebi Vikings and Franks) come from Normandy, and are known from said noseguards on their helmets and mail armors + one of the best spear cavalry of Western Europe (they had a unique technique of holding lances accurately).
The Tapestry of Bayeux tells the tale of the Conquest of England by Duke Guillaume of Normandy (he was a relative of Harald Hardraada too).
The Normans were the best.
Wizard Wiz
Ikr
@Lazarus Zoolander Anglo-Saxon realm was conquered by Norman's...
Yes, It has the Pope's Seal of approval ! Literally !
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Woah what's with the reupload?
A few slight corrections were in order.
Real Crusades History what were the correction in question? I remember reading the comments on the previous upload about what swords the Swabians used but that isn’t mentioned in this video.
@@RealCrusadesHistory why use pictures of the tapestry which had nothing to do with the campaign in Italy?
@@dallastaylor5479 Because it gives us a good idea of what the armor and weapons would have been like. It's absolutely appropriate. I once watched one of the world's foremost Crusades historians give a lecture on the First Crusade using many slides from the Bayeux Tapestry.
Those Swabians had balls, facing cavalry on foot, and when being defeated fighting to the death rather than surrendering.
I agree. They must've been fierce fighters themselves.
@@RealCrusadesHistory indeed, it is extremely interesting to read about the German italo conflicts, such as this battle, because in the 12th century, emperor Heinrich of Hohenstaufen bought Richard the Lionheart from Leopold of Austria, with the Money that Heinrich received then from England ( 100.000 Mark ) he was able to finally invade Sicily and end the Norman rule. „Sweet revenge“ so to say. 😂
About the Swabians, they always seemed to be a warrior nation, the Suebi tribe were amongst the biggest problem makers for the Romans and the later Swabians formed the so called Swabian Confederation, helping the emperor with the dirty work, they are known for their cruelty against the Swiss confederacy and the Swiss common folk. Sadly they are mostly overshadowed by other Germanic people like the Saxons, Franks or Bavarians.
Only if all the popes troops had been swabian i bet he could of won.
Yes, if the Pope had Gut's he would die Fighting ...
@@serenemountain6769 popes are not warriors
Why couldn't the Norman's have just remained in France and Italy? William's descendants were a plague on England and in a way England has never really recovered from their misrule.
@Analyzing Male Slaveryethnically England is our real country more than France
England is becoming the most powerful country in the world after Hastings
England only became the most powerful after the battle of Waterloo in 1815. France ruled the World on and off for almost 800 years. Even today, France is number one Soft Power on the planet.
Sébastien both you and the other guy exaggerate. France was powerful in the medieval period but to say it “ruled the world “ is a massive exaggeration , it didn’t even rule all Europe , although it was one of its leading kingdoms. And in the early modern period , Spain was stronger than France until the mid 17th century. France was the most powerful country in Europe until the napoleonic wars, after that it remained strong , but weaker than England and Prussia/ Germany for sure. So French dominance actually lasted form circa 1650- 1815, 165 years , not 800 as you claim. It was perhaps even shorter , because France was already falling behind Britain by the time of the 7 years war , when it lost Canada and India to the British , who were the leading naval power at the time and also were beginning the industrial revolution.
The kingdom of sicily, right?
guillermo daniel pivetta porras conquista del Sud Italia prima di venire in sicilia
@@dolceegabnanmm3927 grazie 1000!
Il tuo nome è Guglielmo come il secondo e terzo re di sicilia( norman king)
@@dolceegabnanmm3927 et il primo re da inglaterra
Yes 1066 england :)
watch your video vs kings and general lefty bs yours is much better.
Why do the english call themselves anglo-saxons instead of anglo-normans??
The normans were much more important to history than both celts and saxons.
Charles
I always did wonder that. I think maybe the addition of Norman blood is what made the British end up becoming owner such a powerful colonial empire.
It's because the identity of England and Language of England where formed in the time of Alfred the Great.
What it meant to be English was in a time when England were fighting off the invasions from the Danes and other Northmen.
Cause the Norman’s were French and the English did not want to admit the rulers of England were French.
@Caratacus Makes sense, thank you!
@@rifleman4005 But in the early middle ages there was no french national or ethnic identity. As far as i know, people identified as bretons, occitans, franks etc