"only 2% resulted in execution, and they were one of the first institutions to dismiss confessions obtained via torture" Wow, Spanish Inquisition, I gotta admit I didn't expect that.
"The Spanish Inquisition gives a month of notice" Ahh the spanish bureaucracy, being a pain in the ass to the spanish people since ancient times until these days.
@@POCLEE 16th century, actually, and it was not so much a take at the Spanish bureaucracy but rather at Philip II, who was notorious for making lengthy preparations for anything and everything, plus, had a habit of seeming indecisive on many issues and would let his courtiers bounce proposals while he kept his views to himself, thus creating the impression he needed an eternity to reach a decision. Many of this was deliberate on his part, he prided himself on never showing emotions and posing as a completely impenetrable person, one which those around him could never truly guess what he was thinking of. The actual saying went more along the lines of "if Death was Spanish, we would all live to see a 100".
One of the biggest eye openers for me was learning that not only was the Spanish Inquisition not as bad as I had always been lead to believe, but that there was a French Inquisition and it was apparently a *bloodbath*
Uh, the Spanish Inquisition SURPRESSED the only witchcraft hysteria in Spain, in the Basque territories. The SI thought the idea of witchcraft a ridiculous superstition, and the vile mysognistic _Mallus Mallefactorum_ a ridiculous judicial manual.
Plus, persecution of witchcraft was banned in 1604 after the only major witchcraft trial held in Spain in Zugarramundi (near the French border, not a coincidence), torture was practised only through three methods that could never draw blood, mutilate or permanently damage the individual, the accused could not be tortured for periods of more than 1 hour and 15 minutes, and confessions uttered via torture had to be confirmed. In the Americas, only Spanish people were held accountable to the inquisition, leading to people bribing authorities to change their status from Spanish or mestizo to Indigenous to avoid being tried and there were numerous cases of prisoners in civil jails blaspheming to be transported to Inquisitorial jails, which were notably more lenient.
Intersting fact Athagualpa (last incan emperor)'s death was completely ilegal by inquisition standards since he repented and converted Maybe life in prision but never death wich is why pizarro lost its governorship
@@Reiner547Yeah the Spanish Crown was seriously pissed when they found out Pizarro put Atahualpa in a kangaroo court and executed him, the standard in Europe was that citizens were not allowed to kill a monarch regardless of his origin.
@@scintillam_dei there is a lot of bad part about spain you left out,also you can't count water as your empire,no one can really settle on the water and make an empire out of it,thats just straight up stupid,honestly your comment is biassed too
@@hectoristoomuch So you're a hypocrite who counts deserts but not oceans with more resources and trade routes. And you called the British stupid because they say "Hail Britannia! Britannia ruled the waves!" LOL! You are not as smart as you wish you were. You haven't proven Spain did anything wrong. Get to it. Of course... it did do some things wrong like push Roman Catholicism which is a counterfeit "Christianity" misrepresenting Jesus' way.
I think they should’ve mentioned the 700 year long Reconquista that happened right before this, where the Inquisition first started, for more context. For example where it came from, why it was created and why especially the Muslims were disliked on the Iberian Peninsula. They had a very, very good reason. It’s not just „oh different faith, we suddenly dislike you after such a long time“ which you might conclude when you have no context. (tl;dr for those who don’t know, Spain and Portugal spent 700+ years reconquering, reshaping and repopulating their Land from the North African Muslims that tried to conquer western Europe, while the Ottomans tried conquering eastern Europe up to Austria)
Indeed, and the sephardi jews first helped the muslims when they betrayed the visigoths and started their conquest, and sabotaged many christian conquests. So much enmity towards both jews and muslims by the iberians did not come out of nowhere, people in power were not stupid to believe in every thrown around rumours as people like to say today.
@@MajinObamaand that advance of the ottomans was also stopped thanks to the spanish and italians forces in the Battle of Lepanto, one of the blodiest naval battles in history. "By the blood of our people are your lands kept safe!"
People tend to forget that torture was considered an expected and normal part of the legal process for thousands of years at this point, some cultures wouldn't even accept admissions of guilt unless they were obtained through torture.
Yeah, and a lot of people don't realize that torture increased in the justice system the more Roman law was revived. In early Republic/Empire being a citizen exempted you from torture but non citizens and slaves were tortured as a matter of procedure. In late antiquity when most people were citizens this was changed so the lower classes (humiliores) were tortured as a matter of procedure while those of higher classes (nobilis) were exempt. That is why nobles were generally exempt from torture in later centuries.
It should also be noted that the primary method of torture by the Spanish Inquisition was putting a cloth over someone's face and using a pitcher of water. In other words waterboarding. It was considered less cruel than other forms of torture.
Thing about witch hunting was that, while the Church generally didn't believe witchcraft was real, they still saw it as a sin/crime to attempt to perform witchcraft. Their reasoning was, chanting a spell won't actually curse someone, but if you chant a spell BELIEVING that it will curse someone, you're still guilty of ATTEMPTING to do wrong. Like how, if you fire a gun at someone intending to kill them, it's attempted murder, even if it turns out that (unbeknownst to you) the gun was unloaded, so your victim was never in actual danger.
It feels so weird that a religion that believes in angels, demons, essentially magic, and high alchemy, would suddenly not believe in witchcraft. Like, bro, they literally exorcised demons from people, couldn’t they just believe that one of those evil bois just lent its power to someone?
Although you're right about the attempted murder analogy, you're still wrong about them not believing in witchcraft. You've never heard of possessed people being possessed, because they were doing some stuff they weren't suppose to? (Aka witchcraft and other demonic practices) In cases throughout history you could actually see the effects of witch-practicing cults, like possession, and also, although rarely, the witch/wizard would have "powers" of some sort. These things still go on today. Ever heard of Satan and people selling their souls? It's a somewhat rare thing now, but if you ever listened to any documentaries about Rockstars don't be surprised if they mentioned any satanic stuff. One example of this would be the band who performed the popular "Hotel California". They followed an Irish druid. Anyway don't do ouiji board kids. And drugs.
@@arcturus4762No but it's easy to consider why, let's take the animal kingdom as an example; We have horses, we have donkeys, we have mules, we have zebras, why don't we have unicorns? It should exist since we heard about them right? Like, their existence should be right at the corner of discovery right? We have reason to affirm unicorns do not exist in the same way the Church does not believe that a demon can give powers to a human, the Church has reasons to believe that is not possible and believe me they would know since they're the ones who compiled all of the Sacred Scriptures into the Bible.
@@yibithehispanic Honestly, you have a point. Though I would take their words with a pinch of salt. The Catholic Church's texts and beliefs are filled with add-ons that they wrote hundreds of years after the Bible. I appreciate that you know that while they compiled the books, the Bible is not a Catholic book and actually predates the Catholic Church by over 200 years. Also, they blatantly ignored the explicit warning to not add any more text to the sacred scriptures, so I wouldn't trust them to come up with a 100% faithful analysis tbh
@S-Tizayl Zirereza Of course he did. Just like Biden was fully aware of and encouraged his sons nepotisim. And just as Democrats tanked the impeachment on purpose in the hopes of winning in 2020 in the name of justice. They all do wrong, and they all want to be Dictators.
It's an interesting note that the spanish inquisition became famous mainly because protestant kingdoms didn't have an institution with that name. Although they did the same things, they made sure quite successfully that the spaniards were acknowledged as the worst of all. Truth is other kingdoms committed the very same tortures and kills, and in some cases in greater numbers than the spanish institution. Good examples are the baltic crusades carried by Denmark, Sweden and Germany, the cathars massacres in France, the executions of catholics in protestant countries, or the witchhunts Europe-wide based on the german book Malleus Maleficarium.
Lets be charitable and honest, the albigensian crusade to crush the cathars was necessary, they were a gnostic perverse suicide cult that was using scripture to push their beliefs, they had to be put down
And to be honest Spain might be the one gathering the most crap for whitchhunting, but it didn't hold the most of them - the Holy Roman Empire did, with marginal diffrence between Protestant and Catholic countries. It was mainly because in Holy Roman Empire the ruler would take all of the property of the trialed individual, so it was in their interest to accuse them of such.
I love that, in an essentially serious history video, they felt it necessary to address Monty Python’s famous “No one expects the Spanish Inquisition!”
It's such a universal mental association that I think that failing to mention it would be counterproductive - i.e. viewers would be unable to think of anything else and would not take in the video. At least that's what my Monty Python possessed soul believes.
Witchcraft trials were rare even in supposed 'hotspots' and of those most of the people accused were released. The whole period gets majorly exaggerated in modern times.
Not mentioning that it had its peak in XVI-XVII centuries, way AFTER every proposed date for end of middle age (though it had its roots in 1300s) fun fact: a report from an Italian skeptical society tells that in russian principalities more MALES than females happened to be condemned for witchcraft
The Catholic Church actually discouraged witch hunting a fair bit, or just say that witches don’t exist in general. Since witches tend to be pagans that worship there pagan gods, if they were real witches with real powers to them it would mean there gods to some extent are real, which doesn’t work with the Catholic doctrine since the Christian god is suppose to be the only God to them. While it might vary Pope to Pope, the Catholic Church in general ignored the existence of witches and see any accusations as just mad ramblings. It was until the Protestant reformation when other church’s split away from the Catholic Church, when witch burnings became more common in Europe.
@@brandonlyon730 addendum to this: it was possible to find yourself on trail for heresy for making accusations of witchcraft, since accusing someone of being a witch meant believing in whitcraft and therefore pagan gods.
@@brandonlyon730 The people in medieval times who were pagan (ie. in the Baltic) were attacked for being pagan. People accused of witchcraft were believed to be worshippers of the devil and practitioners of black magic. The idea that witches were secret pagans is new age nonsense.
i remember reading somewhere awhile ago that it was a somewhat common practice in iberia at the time to claim to be possessed when accused of a crime, for it prompted your case to get sent to the inquisition and they were seen as more lenient and less prone to death sentences due to (generally) not being alligned to local nobles/burghers (who might have influence over the common court and screw you if given reason.) If you were catholic, of course.
It was easier than that, about 1 in 4 cases investigated by the inquisition were accusations of blasphemy and rude language, so criminals blasphemed to be judged by the inquisition instead of the secular justice because trials were not only fairer and without torture, they also had the best, cleanest and safest jails in the medieval world.
The Spanish inquisition has also been thought to be that bad because of the dark legend ( leyenda negra ) a series of misconceptions about Spain in general made by, at the time, enemies of Spain. Very few people now about this.
In general, the Middle Ages' bad reputation were started by embittered Protestants and then philosophers who exaggerated their already exaggerated claims.
It's honestly incredible that the truth has taken centuries to reach the Anglo world. The Black Legend was written when Spain was the biggest world power and its rivals wrote all the fake stuff they could come up with. Since Spain was not doing any propaganda campaign back then because it didn't care about Europe's opinion, they themselves started believing the fake info was real 😂
Good video: I'm stunned that there are some people who seriously believe that the Spanish Inquisition burned tens of millions of people (no exaggerating, at least two people I have encountered genuinely believe this). There was a great BBC time watch documentary called "The Myth of the Spanish Inquisition" which gives a true picture of the reality of the Inquisition. Based on their records, it is estimated that 3000 people were executed by the Spanish Inquisition over a 300 year period. Make no mistake, that's 3000 too many, but to make a near contemporary comparison Henry VIII is estimated to have executed around 10,000 people during his 38 year reign.
As a Spaniard, the biggest crime the Spanish inquisition did to us was to hold us back in social, economical and cientific progress for centuries. You can't explain our slow decline without seeing the power of the inquisition rising: the forbade books, imprison intellectuals, forced universities to kept a pious and religious orientation more than a cientific and exploring one, etc. I thank Napoleon for destroying that miserable institution.
DanRyzESPUK To be clear, in no way shape or form was the Inquisition good for Spain in any way. That said, though the inquisition was a factor, the decline of Spain from 1600 onwards was not down solely to the Inquisition: Plague, a vast empire which went from being a huge source of wealth, to a colossal economic burden etc etc were factors as well. Also, you mention several fields of progress and education: was there not a golden age in literature around 1600 onwards in Spanish literature? (Cervantes to name just one of many) Velazquez, Zurburán and Goya all lived during the period when the Inquisition existed. Not disagreeing with you, just saying that the Inquisition wasn’t the sole cause, and there was a golden age in Spanish literature and Painting during this same period.
@@DanRyzESPUK The Church was the leading scientifical institutions. You were held back by incompetent kings, and failed wars. Napoleon destroyed your empire, not the inquisition
It isn't 3000 too many. The King is God's minister to for vengeance against those that do evil. Heresy (and the faithlessness of the Jews) is evil. In fact it's more evil than murder bc it is a sin directly against God
Spanish inquisition tortured and burned less people in 300 years than the english and the dutch in 10 year. And thats a fact. So much black legend here.
Antonio Moya Catalán creo que no entiendes lo que he escrito. Digo que la inquisición española torturó y ejecutó a menos personas en 300 años que los ingleses y alemanas en 10 años.
When you had a trial by the inquisition, it was more likely that you would get a fair trial, considering the times. But if you had a trail by secular authorities, whatever the country, things would be always manipulated against you (manipulated in favour of the one in power). They would torture till the accused confessed although he didn't commit the thing he was accused of. On the contrary, the inquisition, most of the times, tried to search for the truth of the matter. And no. Joan of Arc wasn't judged by the inquisition. There were some pro-England corrupt and bought clergy-men involved (but not from the inquisition), and also secular authorities. It was a sham. They needed an excuse for her to be put to death. A political move. No much time later, the inquisition made a revision of the case, and they found out all the brutal irregularities, and they officially declared it was a false trial. And she was canonized (made saint). This was like a few decades later, IIRC. Witch trials were more of a Modern Era thing. And they happened a bit more in northern protestant countries. The problem was printing press. The book Malleus Malleficarum got viral, even when the church officially considered it a bad book (prohibited), but it was too late, printing press made it viral (that was a new phenomenon). So witch trials were condenmed by church authorities, but they happened (not so frequently as people now believe they did) in towns with mass hysteria and small secular authorities who had read the book.
Not to mention witch hunts and trials tended to happen relatively more often in Protestant areas (North Germany, England) than in Catholic areas (Iberia, Italy, France). No to say those places didn't have their problems...
So, you're saying that there is a historical precedent for media being used, with intent, to fire up mobs to commit atrocities? Interesting... I wonder if that sort of thing is possible in this day and age? Surely, we're immune to that sort of low information group-think by now.
The condemnation trial of Joan of Arc was super irregular, granted, but let's not pretend her rehabilitation trial wasn't political too. While the original jury was certainly pressured by the English (and the list of irregularities is super long), it was still conducted by the Church, just by pro-bourguignon clergy, with theological support from the University of Paris. And it was very much an inquisitorial trial
In Mexico the Spanish inquisition actually helped the natives and converted us really successfully. The inquisition treated us better than the castizos back in spain some time cause of how brutal the Spanish governors in Mexico were
A big part of the inquisition was cracking down on the nobility using accusations of heresy and invoking gods name to kill their political opponents. It also functioned as an anti-corruption movement by the catholic Church.
@@barney6888 I like the episode where the keep showing you a diagram of a particular tree between skits and then as the credits roll the point out that tree in the background. Killed me with laughter.
I'M very very glad about this episode, since I think that fairly recent research (especially ones done by Heny Kramer into the Inquisition's archives) revealed many of these misconceptions, but so far it has failed to materialise in public intellectual thought.
@@martonk i've herad about a jewins author(i forget his name) who actualy aslo resecered this topic and he also saed that the bad reputation was from outside spain.
Indeed, I agree with you. I also consider worth noting that the Spanish Inquisition did keep records and documents unlike most other inquisitions throughout history. Additionally, and while in no way defending its brutality and concept, the scope of the historical period must be considered.
The Spanish Empire was the biggest in history because while they sing that "Britannia ruled the waves!" the Brits always had to share those waves with the French and others, while on the other hand the Spanish Emperor during the Iberian Union shared NO ocean with any rival although he did share the Mediterranean, the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf with Turks just to keep them from going out into the big oceans. Since earth is more water than land, that means SPAIN had the biggest empire in history! :-) Only hypocrites count deserts but not oceans which have more resources and profitable trade routes. The Mongol Empire drowned in the Spanish lake, the Pacific Ocean! Check out the video "Why England is inferior to Spain!" which also proves that Spain did not commit a genocide as the Black Legend claims, unlike the macro-evolutionist Brits and also the Germans who joined them in the USA which got independent thanks to Spain only to backstab Spain later on. I'm very glad I'm Spanish and not British. And check out my realistic maps in Age of Empires 2. I did a map of the world where I recreated the empire on which the sun never set, a phrase the Brits stole.
@@vedsingh9785 Spanish is more spoken in th western hemisphere than English. Also, Spain was the first to go around the world. The Brits were just followers. Iberians were trailblazers. Spain was exceedingly rich, and you wish your nation has the glory Spain got by the grace of God.
@@scintillam_dei And now it's a backwater nation. Look, I don't hate Spain and I'm not English but you have to realize Spain is nowhere close to where it used to be, just like England and France. So what's the point in trying to brag about your nations old glories when it doesn't even retain its old empire?
I can see why the Spanish Inquisition would disregard any confessions from someone who was being tortured realizing that people will say anything to get the pain to stop. Which is exactly what happened to the Templars Knights.
Fun fact: Most of the inquisition's black legend came from exagerated tales of a traitor advisor that fled to france after the failure of his plot to set the king against his half brother.
Finally someone sheds some truth! I did a history paper on the Spanish inquisition during High school. It was mainly a focus on the social impact of the inquisition but I did mention how they weren't as bad as people like to think. Big problem is that every time I mention that they aren't as bad as commonly depicted. I get labeled as a religious extremist.
Templar foot bones tho; look up the inquisition and those three words and youll see that some of the horribleness claimed about the Spanish Inquisition was based on actual facts and what was rly happening... If only to a small few (eg. Templars)
@@SylviaRustyFae The Templars were destroyed by the king of France who wanter there money. The Templars Gand Master at he moment he was excuted said that the King of France would join him before the year was out, almost a year to the day the king of France died, of what I do not remember.
"You have been accused of Heresy!" "What? I protest this accusation!" "So you admit to being a protestant?" "What? No, I mean.....just take the money......"
sorry for ruining it, but, in spanish, the protestant were mostly called "reformators" o "Reformistas" so... the joke dosent make quite sense. Yes, im not popular at parties
@@tiaspalace6475 Im just saying, that in spanish (cause the inq was spanish) we dont call them "protestant" so... the joke dosent make sense because nobody would accuse you of begin "protestant" because you protest on an accusation. We call the protestant reformation by its second word. reform, reformer, reformist.
@@Mitaka.Kotsuka I'm LESS popular at parties! The Spanish Empire was the biggest in history because while they sing that "Britannia ruled the waves!" the Brits always had to share those waves with the French and others, while on the other hand the Spanish Emperor during the Iberian Union shared NO ocean with any rival although he did share the Mediterranean, the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf with Turks just to keep them from going out into the big oceans. Since earth is more water than land, that means SPAIN had the biggest empire in history! :-) Only hypocrites count deserts but not oceans which have more resources and profitable trade routes. The Mongol Empire drowned in the Spanish lake, the Pacific Ocean! Check out the video "Why England is inferior to Spain!" which also proves that Spain did not commit a genocide as the Black Legend claims, unlike the macro-evolutionist Brits and also the Germans who joined them in the USA which got independent thanks to Spain only to backstab Spain later on. I'm very glad I'm Spanish and not British. And check out my realistic maps in Age of Empires 2. I did a map of the world where I recreated the empire on which the sun never set, a phrase the Brits stole.
But since the Luther church and the English protestant church are not the same how do they distinguish between the two back then or just call them reformator?
I remember watching a television program on the Spanish Inquisition once that made a point about how it wasn't as bad as everyone seems to think it was. But since the program was aired on a Catholic-specific television station, I wasn't sure if the channel was just trying to whitewash it or not. Thanks for confirming.
I saw it too. The historical researcher they had on for that wasn't a Catholic, either. Besides, unlike Protestants, Catholics aren't about whitewashing. We're always about guilt tripping ourselves and self accountability.
Catholics as a rule don't do the whitewashing thing. You forget we've put a corpse on trial before. We believe a public sin requires public repentance. This is why Joan of Arc is a Saint for instance. Members of the Church did wrong, the Church set it right. It's why the Church seriously listened to objections of the Protestant rebels originally and made changes to the law surrounding things like how much a priest is permitted to take for something like offering a mass for someone's intentions. The entire world operates in opposition to the Catholic Church. Whether it be a Pagan, an Atheist, a Gnostic, a Jew, or a Protestant. It isn't the Church that hides history from the masses. Is every member if the Church perfect? No, no one is. We've had legitimately evil clergy throughout history. No one knows that better than a Catholic.
History Matters, Thank you very much for putting the Spanish Inquisition into context of it’s time period. Many documentaries that talk about the Spanish Inquisition seem to leave that out, instead comparing the Spanish Inquisition to modern times. Also, little bonus history fact. In the vast majority of cases an inquisitor was not a full time job. In most cases when there was an accusation of heresy, a local priest would be temporarily given the title of inquisitor. After the inquisitor finished the investigation, he would then go back to being a priest.
Thank you for this. I just came back from Ted-Ed's video about the Spanish Inquisition and saw them just repeat the usual myths associated with the Spanish Inquisition.
Read some Rodney Stark on this subject: the tougher authorities were the civil authorities; the Catholic Dominicans frequently were able to avoid imposing the harsher penalties. The civil authorities were concerned about political subversion, while the Church was concerned for the souls of the accused. Two very different objectives, sadly linked together.
In Spanish there simply wasn't a witch hunt craze. The big moral panic there was the fear of crypto-jews and other "false christians", and since a large part of the population had a Jewish or Muslim ancestor somewhere, no one was really safe.
Great video that shed some light about the real Inquisition. I would have added some cultural aspects that impacted on today's Spanish thought and culture. One of the Inquisition's main responsibilities was the cultural alignment of literature to the Catholic dogma. For instance, those books containing too much fantasy were no favoured by the censorship. During the Middle Ages, it was common finding fantasy books about the Arthuric legends, but from the establishment of the Inquistion onwards, they gradually vanished. The story of Don Quixote reflects the above mentioned fact. Who is the main character interested in bringing don Quixote back to reality? Right, the priest. Was it a metaphor written by Cervantes? Probably he did it unconsciously. What it is uncontestable is that no Spanish author could have ever produced such a fantasy book as Harry Potter. Magical realism surged in the only area where the intervention of the Inquisition on society was testimonial: the West Indies.
@@brandonlyon730 French and Britain each spent over half a century in a state of permanent civil war between Catholics and Protestants, _plus_ the thousands of innocent victims of the witch hunts. So yeah, one could argue that the Inquisition was the lesser evil in comparison. But the Inquisition also had a chokehold on free speech, critical thought and the exchange of ideas, and this left Spain lagging behind the rest of Europe in intellectual and scientific development for several centuries, so there's that too.
@@ArkadiBolschek the inquisition wasn't this huge barrier to science, people attribute the comfortable house arrest of Galileo as a prime example of inquisitorial zealotry blocking science but he was placed there because of 2 reasons, 1 the majority of rome at that point believed Tycho brahe's model and were abrasive to the Copernican model, and 2) Galileo was just an asshole who did a big no no in rome, insult the pope.
Reminds me of "The Great Noise" in Sweden, were rampant accusations of witchcraft lasted for a few years, but some towns lost 30% of their entire population to execution.
@@louisduarte8763 Sweden used to be extremely religious and fundamentalist for a long time. That part of our history is often forgotten. In The Great Noise, the topic came up of what to do with "witches" that were pregnant. The prosecutions were performed by the local government, usually village elders and councils, and in one instance they asked the people of the town how to proceed. The overwhelming majority argued that it was better to kill the child in the womb so it might go to heaven, then have it be born and risk it's eternal soul to be in the clutches of Satan. Higher instances of government, provincial in this case, stepped in and put a stop to it.
I thought I liked this channel but after they actually bother to research for this topic, in which everyone just exposes popular folklore without attempting to investigate the truth behind what they say. Now this channel is between the few ones that has my attention and in which I expect not to be fooled. So basically thank you for your integrity
@@adriancampos8640 Well, as long as you have different sources interrogation works almost every time as lying becomes very hard and eventually you can get them to confess the truth. The problem with torture is (besides how inhumane it is) that the victim will spew out whatever you think you want to hear in order to make you stop, so it's been proven to be way less effective then plain interrogation. Remember when KSM confessed under torture that Al Queda had a massive network in North Dakota I think (or Minnesota?) leading to the NSA looking for the mysterious network for moths till they realized it was just KSM telling them what they wanted to hear?
They don’t torture normal prisoners it’s only either people who threaten national security or military individuals
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@@evanhall06 and if they expect to be tortured they already have a story about something that LOOKS real but it isn't so they can lead the ones torturing that person into a dead end or even a trap.
Considering how long it took for them to get their country back, it's easy to understand why the Catholic Church in Spain would be a little bit on edge
@@СтефановићКараџићSpains monarchs historically have been super Catholic. Protestantism didn't take root there specifically bc they expelled the subversive Jews
Actually, the primary method of torture was a cloth over the face and a pitcher of water. In other words, waterboarding. Hence the "no blood" sign in the video. They called it the "water cure" because confession is good for the soul.
@@nonnayerbusiness7704 Any source? They rather tied the person bent over a sawhorse and forced them to drink litres of water. When the stomach and the bladder were outstretched it was very painful.
Thank you for bursting the bubble of the Black Legend. Yes, it was brutal by modern standards but nowhere as bad as by its time's, which is how History should be considered altogether. The propaganda labor led by the English, French, Dutch and even Italians, as historian Elvira Roca Varea has published in several books, has exaggerated a reputation out of any proportion and I'm glad people are taking matters into their own hands to educate others better. Thank you!
You should give some numbers (more than % or % to apply to a total numbers) ! We had around 100 to 500 executions. For comparaison for this time : In England, each year, they executed twice what the inquisition did in 100 years ....
When Santander (a Spanish bank) took over Alliance Leicester in around 2011, I was chatting with a bank employee, who was very surprised as the news was just announced. I retorted, "No-one expects the Spanish acquisition." Funny at the time.
Love your work! Also please make more videos on Spain under Philip II as that is module for my History A-Levels, and your videos are the only thing that help me to remember specific detail ;)
I imagine, though, that the Spanish Inquisition didn't mind a reputation for ruthlessness, seeing that it probably made people more willing to confess up front.
"only 2% resulted in execution, and they were one of the first institutions to dismiss confessions obtained via torture"
Wow, Spanish Inquisition, I gotta admit I didn't expect that.
NOBODY expects that!
Bc modern society is run by enemies of Christ. They've mislead the world
Well, it's one of their main weapons: surprise.
@@thorvaldrvargeblod4603 I thought it was "surprise" and "fear?"
@@DoctorX101 well, it's surprise and fear....and an almost FANATICAL devotion to the pope..!
Everybody expects the “nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition” jokes
I expected that!
I didn’t expect that
Well nobody expected the Spanish Inquisition guys to actually be quite chill for their time..
Nobody expected the "Everybody expects the 'nobody expects the Spanish Inqusition' jokes" joke
@@Zombie1Boy This is a comment about your comment about a comment about comments about "nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition" comments
Spanish Inquisition: 2% of our trials result in the death penalty
Joe Stalin: You Gotta Pump Those Numbers Up, Those Are Rookie Numbers
reference caught
Don’t talk to me if it’s not at least 50%
Kulaks shouldnt have horded grain
I'm sorry did you just call Joseph *Vissarionovich* Stalin a Joe Stalin?
lmao both from georgia
@@TeamTwiistz they shouldn't have children either but you have to eat something
"Most People expected the Spanish Inquisition"
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Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition
"The Spanish Inquisition gives a month of notice"
Ahh the spanish bureaucracy, being a pain in the ass to the spanish people since ancient times until these days.
"Hope Death is from Madrid, so he'll take forever to reach us!"
--a common Spanish joke in 17th (or so I heard)
@@POCLEE 16th century, actually, and it was not so much a take at the Spanish bureaucracy but rather at Philip II, who was notorious for making lengthy preparations for anything and everything, plus, had a habit of seeming indecisive on many issues and would let his courtiers bounce proposals while he kept his views to himself, thus creating the impression he needed an eternity to reach a decision. Many of this was deliberate on his part, he prided himself on never showing emotions and posing as a completely impenetrable person, one which those around him could never truly guess what he was thinking of. The actual saying went more along the lines of "if Death was Spanish, we would all live to see a 100".
Kyrie Matamoro actually they were a pain wherever they set foot in the world.
@@Alusnovalotus Yes, but actually no.
@Miguel Cervantes Yo duermo abajo...
One of the biggest eye openers for me was learning that not only was the Spanish Inquisition not as bad as I had always been lead to believe, but that there was a French Inquisition and it was apparently a *bloodbath*
Albigensian Crusade moment
If I'm not wrong the inquisition of the Holy Roman Empire killed over 40,000 10 times more than the French one.
Robespierre reaccs
Saint Bartholomew's night massacre: 20,000 French Hugenots in one night.
@@Nacho2002b lmao
"My time in Spain
- Was tortured
- They took my stuff
- Lovely food
3/10"
LOL
Same, but we called as Asian Latinos
@Great Side Bro tranquilo no ha dicho nada malo y su apellido a mi tampoco me suena muy guiri
@Great Side Debeerias viajar un poco...
s is silent
Worst of all, I didn't expect it
"How do you know that she is a witch?"
"WHY SHE TURNED ME INTO A NEWT!"
"A newt?"
"I got better."
Sir Bedevere would've qualified for the job of inquisitor.
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Uh, the Spanish Inquisition SURPRESSED the only witchcraft hysteria in Spain, in the Basque territories. The SI thought the idea of witchcraft a ridiculous superstition, and the vile mysognistic _Mallus Mallefactorum_ a ridiculous judicial manual.
You mean she made you a US Congressman?
Newt Gingrich?
yes.
All these Monty Python quotes, here!
Plus, persecution of witchcraft was banned in 1604 after the only major witchcraft trial held in Spain in Zugarramundi (near the French border, not a coincidence), torture was practised only through three methods that could never draw blood, mutilate or permanently damage the individual, the accused could not be tortured for periods of more than 1 hour and 15 minutes, and confessions uttered via torture had to be confirmed. In the Americas, only Spanish people were held accountable to the inquisition, leading to people bribing authorities to change their status from Spanish or mestizo to Indigenous to avoid being tried and there were numerous cases of prisoners in civil jails blaspheming to be transported to Inquisitorial jails, which were notably more lenient.
Intersting fact Athagualpa (last incan emperor)'s death was completely ilegal by inquisition standards since he repented and converted
Maybe life in prision but never death wich is why pizarro lost its governorship
@@Reiner547Yeah the Spanish Crown was seriously pissed when they found out Pizarro put Atahualpa in a kangaroo court and executed him, the standard in Europe was that citizens were not allowed to kill a monarch regardless of his origin.
Good to know that the Spanish Inquisition had standards.
TheConqueringRam professionals have standards
@@scintillam_dei there is a lot of bad part about spain you left out,also you can't count water as your empire,no one can really settle on the water and make an empire out of it,thats just straight up stupid,honestly your comment is biassed too
@@hectoristoomuch So you're a hypocrite who counts deserts but not oceans with more resources and trade routes. And you called the British stupid because they say "Hail Britannia! Britannia ruled the waves!" LOL! You are not as smart as you wish you were.
You haven't proven Spain did anything wrong. Get to it. Of course... it did do some things wrong like push Roman Catholicism which is a counterfeit "Christianity" misrepresenting Jesus' way.
@@hectoristoomuch PS Yes, I'm biased. No one isn't. My admitting to my bias means I'm honest, unlike you.
No one expects the Spanish Inquisition to have standards!
- Was tortured
- They took my stuff
+ Lovely food
3/10
God I love your channel
My fave joke was the "well" one.
But my family was expelled from Spain others were tortured and killed and you guys think it's a trivial matter?!?!?!?!
Food is indeed quite tasty here
@@AlexToussiehChannel Your family how many generations back? Around what year are we talking about here?
5/7 nice with rice
Glad to see an English spoken channel non biased and doing a proper investigation about this matter.
I think they should’ve mentioned the 700 year long Reconquista that happened right before this, where the Inquisition first started, for more context. For example where it came from, why it was created and why especially the Muslims were disliked on the Iberian Peninsula. They had a very, very good reason. It’s not just „oh different faith, we suddenly dislike you after such a long time“ which you might conclude when you have no context.
(tl;dr for those who don’t know, Spain and Portugal spent 700+ years reconquering, reshaping and repopulating their Land from the North African Muslims that tried to conquer western Europe, while the Ottomans tried conquering eastern Europe up to Austria)
Indeed, and the sephardi jews first helped the muslims when they betrayed the visigoths and started their conquest, and sabotaged many christian conquests. So much enmity towards both jews and muslims by the iberians did not come out of nowhere, people in power were not stupid to believe in every thrown around rumours as people like to say today.
@@MajinObamaand that advance of the ottomans was also stopped thanks to the spanish and italians forces in the Battle of Lepanto, one of the blodiest naval battles in history.
"By the blood of our people are your lands kept safe!"
@parditapardiu that's an interesting quote. Can you tell me more about it and context?
2:38 "And their torture was less severe."
Get... The Comfy Chair!
Gender changer
Oh no! Not the comfy chair!
@@kellydalstok8900 *screaming in terrror as he's forced into the comfy chair as the screams slowly turn to relaxed sighs*
"Now we will tell him bad jokes until he spit out the names of his leaders."
Let him eat cake...with gluten!
People tend to forget that torture was considered an expected and normal part of the legal process for thousands of years at this point, some cultures wouldn't even accept admissions of guilt unless they were obtained through torture.
Yeah, and a lot of people don't realize that torture increased in the justice system the more Roman law was revived. In early Republic/Empire being a citizen exempted you from torture but non citizens and slaves were tortured as a matter of procedure.
In late antiquity when most people were citizens this was changed so the lower classes (humiliores) were tortured as a matter of procedure while those of higher classes (nobilis) were exempt. That is why nobles were generally exempt from torture in later centuries.
thanks Vlad.
Damn
It should also be noted that the primary method of torture by the Spanish Inquisition was putting a cloth over someone's face and using a pitcher of water. In other words waterboarding.
It was considered less cruel than other forms of torture.
@@nonnayerbusiness7704 TBH rather be water boarded than get a knife under my nails or pulling teeth.
Thing about witch hunting was that, while the Church generally didn't believe witchcraft was real, they still saw it as a sin/crime to attempt to perform witchcraft. Their reasoning was, chanting a spell won't actually curse someone, but if you chant a spell BELIEVING that it will curse someone, you're still guilty of ATTEMPTING to do wrong. Like how, if you fire a gun at someone intending to kill them, it's attempted murder, even if it turns out that (unbeknownst to you) the gun was unloaded, so your victim was never in actual danger.
It feels so weird that a religion that believes in angels, demons, essentially magic, and high alchemy, would suddenly not believe in witchcraft. Like, bro, they literally exorcised demons from people, couldn’t they just believe that one of those evil bois just lent its power to someone?
Although you're right about the attempted murder analogy, you're still wrong about them not believing in witchcraft. You've never heard of possessed people being possessed, because they were doing some stuff they weren't suppose to? (Aka witchcraft and other demonic practices) In cases throughout history you could actually see the effects of witch-practicing cults, like possession, and also, although rarely, the witch/wizard would have "powers" of some sort. These things still go on today. Ever heard of Satan and people selling their souls? It's a somewhat rare thing now, but if you ever listened to any documentaries about Rockstars don't be surprised if they mentioned any satanic stuff. One example of this would be the band who performed the popular "Hotel California". They followed an Irish druid. Anyway don't do ouiji board kids. And drugs.
@@arcturus4762No but it's easy to consider why, let's take the animal kingdom as an example; We have horses, we have donkeys, we have mules, we have zebras, why don't we have unicorns? It should exist since we heard about them right? Like, their existence should be right at the corner of discovery right? We have reason to affirm unicorns do not exist in the same way the Church does not believe that a demon can give powers to a human, the Church has reasons to believe that is not possible and believe me they would know since they're the ones who compiled all of the Sacred Scriptures into the Bible.
@@yibithehispanic Honestly, you have a point. Though I would take their words with a pinch of salt. The Catholic Church's texts and beliefs are filled with add-ons that they wrote hundreds of years after the Bible.
I appreciate that you know that while they compiled the books, the Bible is not a Catholic book and actually predates the Catholic Church by over 200 years. Also, they blatantly ignored the explicit warning to not add any more text to the sacred scriptures, so I wouldn't trust them to come up with a 100% faithful analysis tbh
History matters: the Spanish inquisition was expected
Me: *visible confusion*
Doubt
@@sjsbviufvibwvuspi wasnt expecting that
They gave you a month notice but it was delayed for a month
Your 2 months notice is up off to jail with you now
Fining people for making false accusations seems pretty sensible!
You are both idiots. BOTH parties lie through thier teeth on a regular basis.
It's something Curt Doolittle is fond of.
@Gary Allen TDS spotted
@S-Tizayl Zirereza Of course he did. Just like Biden was fully aware of and encouraged his sons nepotisim. And just as Democrats tanked the impeachment on purpose in the hopes of winning in 2020 in the name of justice.
They all do wrong, and they all want to be Dictators.
@@bv5998 you can't fine politicians for doing their job. Even though the process was hopeless from the beginning.
It's an interesting note that the spanish inquisition became famous mainly because protestant kingdoms didn't have an institution with that name. Although they did the same things, they made sure quite successfully that the spaniards were acknowledged as the worst of all. Truth is other kingdoms committed the very same tortures and kills, and in some cases in greater numbers than the spanish institution. Good examples are the baltic crusades carried by Denmark, Sweden and Germany, the cathars massacres in France, the executions of catholics in protestant countries, or the witchhunts Europe-wide based on the german book Malleus Maleficarium.
Facts.
Lets be charitable and honest, the albigensian crusade to crush the cathars was necessary, they were a gnostic perverse suicide cult that was using scripture to push their beliefs, they had to be put down
And to be honest Spain might be the one gathering the most crap for whitchhunting, but it didn't hold the most of them - the Holy Roman Empire did, with marginal diffrence between Protestant and Catholic countries. It was mainly because in Holy Roman Empire the ruler would take all of the property of the trialed individual, so it was in their interest to accuse them of such.
I love that, in an essentially serious history video, they felt it necessary to address Monty Python’s famous “No one expects the Spanish Inquisition!”
And show the nice red uniforms.
...serious?
It's necessary
I expected it.
It's such a universal mental association that I think that failing to mention it would be counterproductive - i.e. viewers would be unable to think of anything else and would not take in the video. At least that's what my Monty Python possessed soul believes.
Witchcraft trials were rare even in supposed 'hotspots' and of those most of the people accused were released. The whole period gets majorly exaggerated in modern times.
Not mentioning that it had its peak in XVI-XVII centuries, way AFTER every proposed date for end of middle age
(though it had its roots in 1300s)
fun fact: a report from an Italian skeptical society tells that in russian principalities more MALES than females happened to be condemned for witchcraft
Also it is important to note that witchcraft trials were done in order to stop the people from just killing the people they believed to be witches
The Catholic Church actually discouraged witch hunting a fair bit, or just say that witches don’t exist in general. Since witches tend to be pagans that worship there pagan gods, if they were real witches with real powers to them it would mean there gods to some extent are real, which doesn’t work with the Catholic doctrine since the Christian god is suppose to be the only God to them. While it might vary Pope to Pope, the Catholic Church in general ignored the existence of witches and see any accusations as just mad ramblings. It was until the Protestant reformation when other church’s split away from the Catholic Church, when witch burnings became more common in Europe.
@@brandonlyon730 addendum to this: it was possible to find yourself on trail for heresy for making accusations of witchcraft, since accusing someone of being a witch meant believing in whitcraft and therefore pagan gods.
@@brandonlyon730 The people in medieval times who were pagan (ie. in the Baltic) were attacked for being pagan.
People accused of witchcraft were believed to be worshippers of the devil and practitioners of black magic.
The idea that witches were secret pagans is new age nonsense.
I still love the fact that any extreme torture depicted on this channel will only have a reaction of mild annoyance from its victim
Everybody doesn't expect the Spanish Inquisition, but nobody expect the PORTUGUESE Inquisition.
The what!?
Well said, but...
NO ONE EXPECTS THE MEXICAN INQUISITION
except Alucard
Portugal caralho
princeofayossia Devolve o nosso ouro português babaca! ~ Brasil
@@victorgontijo380 Sou BR cacete, só tô comentando um meme genérico.
i remember reading somewhere awhile ago that it was a somewhat common practice in iberia at the time to claim to be possessed when accused of a crime, for it prompted your case to get sent to the inquisition and they were seen as more lenient and less prone to death sentences due to (generally) not being alligned to local nobles/burghers (who might have influence over the common court and screw you if given reason.) If you were catholic, of course.
Yoy need to get better readings
@@sobrevalorado You*
Now people just claim to be mentally ill.
It was easier than that, about 1 in 4 cases investigated by the inquisition were accusations of blasphemy and rude language, so criminals blasphemed to be judged by the inquisition instead of the secular justice because trials were not only fairer and without torture, they also had the best, cleanest and safest jails in the medieval world.
@@flynntom8057 possibly an interjection
The Spanish inquisition has also been thought to be that bad because of the dark legend ( leyenda negra ) a series of misconceptions about Spain in general made by, at the time, enemies of Spain. Very few people now about this.
In general, the Middle Ages' bad reputation were started by embittered Protestants and then philosophers who exaggerated their already exaggerated claims.
It's honestly incredible that the truth has taken centuries to reach the Anglo world. The Black Legend was written when Spain was the biggest world power and its rivals wrote all the fake stuff they could come up with. Since Spain was not doing any propaganda campaign back then because it didn't care about Europe's opinion, they themselves started believing the fake info was real 😂
I love how everyone getting burned alive in your videos just looks mildly annoyed. Like “oh, this again” 🙄
Aesssseseseseswseseseseseswwwweeeeeeeee
First time?
What the fuck did I have a stroke here 2 months ago
@@retsreinyrelgeinthrelaveri1456
Glad you’re okay
Good video: I'm stunned that there are some people who seriously believe that the Spanish Inquisition burned tens of millions of people (no exaggerating, at least two people I have encountered genuinely believe this).
There was a great BBC time watch documentary called "The Myth of the Spanish Inquisition" which gives a true picture of the reality of the Inquisition.
Based on their records, it is estimated that 3000 people were executed by the Spanish Inquisition over a 300 year period.
Make no mistake, that's 3000 too many, but to make a near contemporary comparison Henry VIII is estimated to have executed around 10,000 people during his 38 year reign.
As a Spaniard, the biggest crime the Spanish inquisition did to us was to hold us back in social, economical and cientific progress for centuries. You can't explain our slow decline without seeing the power of the inquisition rising: the forbade books, imprison intellectuals, forced universities to kept a pious and religious orientation more than a cientific and exploring one, etc. I thank Napoleon for destroying that miserable institution.
DanRyzESPUK To be clear, in no way shape or form was the Inquisition good for Spain in any way. That said, though the inquisition was a factor, the decline of Spain from 1600 onwards was not down solely to the Inquisition: Plague, a vast empire which went from being a huge source of wealth, to a colossal economic burden etc etc were factors as well.
Also, you mention several fields of progress and education: was there not a golden age in literature around 1600 onwards in Spanish literature? (Cervantes to name just one of many) Velazquez, Zurburán and Goya all lived during the period when the Inquisition existed.
Not disagreeing with you, just saying that the Inquisition wasn’t the sole cause, and there was a golden age in Spanish literature and Painting during this same period.
@@DanRyzESPUK The Church was the leading scientifical institutions. You were held back by incompetent kings, and failed wars. Napoleon destroyed your empire, not the inquisition
@@DanRyzESPUK Y ni siquiera eso es correcto.
It isn't 3000 too many. The King is God's minister to for vengeance against those that do evil. Heresy (and the faithlessness of the Jews) is evil. In fact it's more evil than murder bc it is a sin directly against God
Alternate title: How Unexpected was the Spanish Inquisition
Spanish inquisition tortured and burned less people in 300 years than the english and the dutch in 10 year. And thats a fact. So much black legend here.
And most of those tortured and burned in England and Netherland were Catholics.
asdfg hahahahaha hahaha stop jocking, there’s too much black legend in u
Antonio Moya Catalán creo que no entiendes lo que he escrito.
Digo que la inquisición española torturó y ejecutó a menos personas en 300 años que los ingleses y alemanas en 10 años.
Didn't expect that
@@asdfg8899 "Que los ingleses y los neerlandeses* en 10 años" Solo una pequeña correción :)
When you had a trial by the inquisition, it was more likely that you would get a fair trial, considering the times. But if you had a trail by secular authorities, whatever the country, things would be always manipulated against you (manipulated in favour of the one in power). They would torture till the accused confessed although he didn't commit the thing he was accused of. On the contrary, the inquisition, most of the times, tried to search for the truth of the matter.
And no. Joan of Arc wasn't judged by the inquisition. There were some pro-England corrupt and bought clergy-men involved (but not from the inquisition), and also secular authorities. It was a sham. They needed an excuse for her to be put to death. A political move.
No much time later, the inquisition made a revision of the case, and they found out all the brutal irregularities, and they officially declared it was a false trial. And she was canonized (made saint). This was like a few decades later, IIRC.
Witch trials were more of a Modern Era thing. And they happened a bit more in northern protestant countries. The problem was printing press. The book Malleus Malleficarum got viral, even when the church officially considered it a bad book (prohibited), but it was too late, printing press made it viral (that was a new phenomenon). So witch trials were condenmed by church authorities, but they happened (not so frequently as people now believe they did) in towns with mass hysteria and small secular authorities who had read the book.
Not to mention witch hunts and trials tended to happen relatively more often in Protestant areas (North Germany, England) than in Catholic areas (Iberia, Italy, France). No to say those places didn't have their problems...
I've Heard lichtenstein GOT a nickname out of having the most brutal Witch hunts
So, you're saying that there is a historical precedent for media being used, with intent, to fire up mobs to commit atrocities?
Interesting...
I wonder if that sort of thing is possible in this day and age? Surely, we're immune to that sort of low information group-think by now.
James 1st and 6th’s witch hunting manual did not help either (Daemonologie 1597)
The condemnation trial of Joan of Arc was super irregular, granted, but let's not pretend her rehabilitation trial wasn't political too. While the original jury was certainly pressured by the English (and the list of irregularities is super long), it was still conducted by the Church, just by pro-bourguignon clergy, with theological support from the University of Paris. And it was very much an inquisitorial trial
In Mexico the Spanish inquisition actually helped the natives and converted us really successfully. The inquisition treated us better than the castizos back in spain some time cause of how brutal the Spanish governors in Mexico were
A big part of the inquisition was cracking down on the nobility using accusations of heresy and invoking gods name to kill their political opponents.
It also functioned as an anti-corruption movement by the catholic Church.
@@rainmanslim4611 u have sources cuz i wanna read more about it
@@C4shaRaM4 you can look them up if you really care
@@rainmanslim4611 and abusing those accusations is the exclusive domain of the church to deal with their political opponents.
Ah chico, os estaban entrenado para cuando llegasen los narcos.
"They definitely expected it"
You just gotta ruin the best monty python skit, didnt you?
It really is their best episode, the way it all comes together with the other skits. Truly brilliant.
If they didn't make a reference at the beginning, they clearly weren't gonna respect it at all.
Any properly done history lesson would do that.
No he didn't.
@@barney6888 I like the episode where the keep showing you a diagram of a particular tree between skits and then as the credits roll the point out that tree in the background. Killed me with laughter.
I'M very very glad about this episode, since I think that fairly recent research (especially ones done by Heny Kramer into the Inquisition's archives) revealed many of these misconceptions, but so far it has failed to materialise in public intellectual thought.
"public intellectual thought" That's funny.
@@OutnBacker i mean by that people who are not academics but give a damn about how the world works, and/or can influence public opinion.
@@martonk i've herad about a jewins author(i forget his name) who actualy aslo resecered this topic and he also saed that the bad reputation was from outside spain.
@@martonk I know. I was merely being facetious.
Indeed, I agree with you. I also consider worth noting that the Spanish Inquisition did keep records and documents unlike most other inquisitions throughout history. Additionally, and while in no way defending its brutality and concept, the scope of the historical period must be considered.
Monty Python: No one expects the Spanish Inquisition!
History Matters: Well yes but actually no.
Det var ingen nyhet. Men ingen var förberedd på Karl X motsvarighet.
@@rimmersbryggeri Vad? Jag förstår inte. Pratar du finska?
@@anttibjorklund1869 No I don't your name looked like a swedish speaker. Same as my grandmother.
@@rimmersbryggeri I'm Finnish.
Nobody expects the relative leniency of the Spanish Inquisition, expect for maybe 16th Century Spaniards
???
The Spanish Empire was the biggest in history because while they sing that "Britannia ruled the waves!" the Brits always had to share those waves with the French and others, while on the other hand the Spanish Emperor during the Iberian Union shared NO ocean with any rival although he did share the Mediterranean, the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf with Turks just to keep them from going out into the big oceans. Since earth is more water than land, that means SPAIN had the biggest empire in history! :-) Only hypocrites count deserts but not oceans which have more resources and profitable trade routes. The Mongol Empire drowned in the Spanish lake, the Pacific Ocean! Check out the video "Why England is inferior to Spain!" which also proves that Spain did not commit a genocide as the Black Legend claims, unlike the macro-evolutionist Brits and also the Germans who joined them in the USA which got independent thanks to Spain only to backstab Spain later on. I'm very glad I'm Spanish and not British. And check out my realistic maps in Age of Empires 2. I did a map of the world where I recreated the empire on which the sun never set, a phrase the Brits stole.
@@scintillam_dei Haha that empire was such a stupid idea. The British got it right by making an empire that was economically viable
@@vedsingh9785 Spanish is more spoken in th western hemisphere than English. Also, Spain was the first to go around the world. The Brits were just followers. Iberians were trailblazers. Spain was exceedingly rich, and you wish your nation has the glory Spain got by the grace of God.
@@scintillam_dei And now it's a backwater nation. Look, I don't hate Spain and I'm not English but you have to realize Spain is nowhere close to where it used to be, just like England and France. So what's the point in trying to brag about your nations old glories when it doesn't even retain its old empire?
I can see why the Spanish Inquisition would disregard any confessions from someone who was being tortured realizing that people will say anything to get the pain to stop. Which is exactly what happened to the Templars Knights.
As a Spaniard, thanks for this.
Astra Ben did your ancestor break the laws of time and space for expecting the Spanish Inqusition
There is 1 imposter among us
I would be proud of the Spanish inquisition, you got your lands back from those who took them and unified christians across europe.
La verdad es que yo tampoco sabía que era aunque también soy español
Fun fact: Most of the inquisition's black legend came from exagerated tales of a traitor advisor that fled to france after the failure of his plot to set the king against his half brother.
I like how people burning at the stake only ever have a slight look of disappointment on their face.
"You call this burning?"
"I'm not impressed at all" lol
"What is this, pine? You cheapskates. I deserve at least oak"
Short, Objective, and put things into perspective. Becoming a huge fan of yours! keep posting!
People are making Monty Python jokes, while I’m here humming Mel Brooks’ “The Inquisition” song
That is a great song. I am still waiting on History of the World Part 2 with Hitler on Ice.
FUCK THE POOR!!!!!
I'm doing both! I gotta watch that movie (and episode) again!
You cant Torquemada anything!
The Inquisiiiition! What a show!
Finally someone sheds some truth! I did a history paper on the Spanish inquisition during High school. It was mainly a focus on the social impact of the inquisition but I did mention how they weren't as bad as people like to think. Big problem is that every time I mention that they aren't as bad as commonly depicted. I get labeled as a religious extremist.
It was mostly the english protestants who spread the news about the "terrors" of the Spanish Inquisition through the Anglosphere.
Templar foot bones tho; look up the inquisition and those three words and youll see that some of the horribleness claimed about the Spanish Inquisition was based on actual facts and what was rly happening... If only to a small few (eg. Templars)
@@SylviaRustyFae That wasn't the Spanish inquisition though. That was in France.
@@SylviaRustyFae The Templars were destroyed by the king of France who wanter there money. The Templars Gand Master at he moment he was excuted said that the King of France would join him before the year was out, almost a year to the day the king of France died, of what I do not remember.
1:28 the "well" joke got me good NGL
i didn't even get it until you mentioned it 🤦🏼♂️😂
“Most people expected the Spanish Inquisition”
Internet: Actually, quantum mechanics forbids this.
No Quantum Mechanics does not, only you cant observe it and be unchanged.
Delgen1951 ok boomer
@@Delgen1951 OK boomer
@@Delgen1951 imagine not knowning what a joke is
See my video proving Quandumb is dumb.
"You have been accused of Heresy!"
"What? I protest this accusation!"
"So you admit to being a protestant?"
"What? No, I mean.....just take the money......"
sorry for ruining it, but, in spanish, the protestant were mostly called "reformators" o "Reformistas" so... the joke dosent make quite sense.
Yes, im not popular at parties
@@Mitaka.Kotsuka come on man. Do what mostly everyone did in history and find loopholes in everything. Cause this is sort of a loophole
@@tiaspalace6475 Im just saying, that in spanish (cause the inq was spanish) we dont call them "protestant" so... the joke dosent make sense because nobody would accuse you of begin "protestant" because you protest on an accusation.
We call the protestant reformation by its second word. reform, reformer, reformist.
@@Mitaka.Kotsuka I'm LESS popular at parties!
The Spanish Empire was the biggest in history because while they sing that "Britannia ruled the waves!" the Brits always had to share those waves with the French and others, while on the other hand the Spanish Emperor during the Iberian Union shared NO ocean with any rival although he did share the Mediterranean, the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf with Turks just to keep them from going out into the big oceans. Since earth is more water than land, that means SPAIN had the biggest empire in history! :-) Only hypocrites count deserts but not oceans which have more resources and profitable trade routes. The Mongol Empire drowned in the Spanish lake, the Pacific Ocean! Check out the video "Why England is inferior to Spain!" which also proves that Spain did not commit a genocide as the Black Legend claims, unlike the macro-evolutionist Brits and also the Germans who joined them in the USA which got independent thanks to Spain only to backstab Spain later on. I'm very glad I'm Spanish and not British. And check out my realistic maps in Age of Empires 2. I did a map of the world where I recreated the empire on which the sun never set, a phrase the Brits stole.
But since the Luther church and the English protestant church are not the same how do they distinguish between the two back then or just call them reformator?
I remember watching a television program on the Spanish Inquisition once that made a point about how it wasn't as bad as everyone seems to think it was. But since the program was aired on a Catholic-specific television station, I wasn't sure if the channel was just trying to whitewash it or not. Thanks for confirming.
I saw it too. The historical researcher they had on for that wasn't a Catholic, either. Besides, unlike Protestants, Catholics aren't about whitewashing. We're always about guilt tripping ourselves and self accountability.
how th would this be "whitewashing"
@@kedarunzi9139 It was a generic term for a cover up long before it took on racial connotations.
@@GaryWagers oh, right. thank you
Catholics as a rule don't do the whitewashing thing. You forget we've put a corpse on trial before. We believe a public sin requires public repentance.
This is why Joan of Arc is a Saint for instance. Members of the Church did wrong, the Church set it right. It's why the Church seriously listened to objections of the Protestant rebels originally and made changes to the law surrounding things like how much a priest is permitted to take for something like offering a mass for someone's intentions.
The entire world operates in opposition to the Catholic Church. Whether it be a Pagan, an Atheist, a Gnostic, a Jew, or a Protestant. It isn't the Church that hides history from the masses.
Is every member if the Church perfect? No, no one is. We've had legitimately evil clergy throughout history. No one knows that better than a Catholic.
History Matters, Thank you very much for putting the Spanish Inquisition into context of it’s time period. Many documentaries that talk about the Spanish Inquisition seem to leave that out, instead comparing the Spanish Inquisition to modern times.
Also, little bonus history fact. In the vast majority of cases an inquisitor was not a full time job. In most cases when there was an accusation of heresy, a local priest would be temporarily given the title of inquisitor. After the inquisitor finished the investigation, he would then go back to being a priest.
Nobody expected a video about the spanish Inquisition!
Spain: hey babe time for your every week inquisition
Spaniards: yes honey
"I will strip you, bind you on this comfy chair and then make you scream."
No one expects the socio-polical-economic factors that lead to the Spanish Inquisition!
I mean the fact that the muslims had a history of rebelling against the Castilian kings also played a role
Luís Filipe Andrade yea no. The Inquisition as used a political and economic tool with popular support. That’s why it survived for so long
Video: Most people expected the Spanish Inquisition.
Internet: *We don't do that here.*
Thank you for this. I just came back from Ted-Ed's video about the Spanish Inquisition and saw them just repeat the usual myths associated with the Spanish Inquisition.
Typical indeed.
Read some Rodney Stark on this subject: the tougher authorities were the civil authorities; the Catholic Dominicans frequently were able to avoid imposing the harsher penalties. The civil authorities were concerned about political subversion, while the Church was concerned for the souls of the accused. Two very different objectives, sadly linked together.
I missed the part comparing the trial of witches in Spain to those trials of witches held Germany and Switzerland.
Very true
In Spanish there simply wasn't a witch hunt craze. The big moral panic there was the fear of crypto-jews and other "false christians", and since a large part of the population had a Jewish or Muslim ancestor somewhere, no one was really safe.
Different video.
@@ArkadiBolschekcryptojews are still a problem today. Trump and DeSantis are 2 examples
Great video that shed some light about the real Inquisition. I would have added some cultural aspects that impacted on today's Spanish thought and culture. One of the Inquisition's main responsibilities was the cultural alignment of literature to the Catholic dogma. For instance, those books containing too much fantasy were no favoured by the censorship. During the Middle Ages, it was common finding fantasy books about the Arthuric legends, but from the establishment of the Inquistion onwards, they gradually vanished. The story of Don Quixote reflects the above mentioned fact. Who is the main character interested in bringing don Quixote back to reality? Right, the priest. Was it a metaphor written by Cervantes? Probably he did it unconsciously. What it is uncontestable is that no Spanish author could have ever produced such a fantasy book as Harry Potter. Magical realism surged in the only area where the intervention of the Inquisition on society was testimonial: the West Indies.
Anglo propaganda, as almost everything during those times towards France and Spain
@William Winter I doubt France and Britain would’ve been as merciful if they had large populations of Muslims at that time period.
@@brandonlyon730 French and Britain each spent over half a century in a state of permanent civil war between Catholics and Protestants, _plus_ the thousands of innocent victims of the witch hunts. So yeah, one could argue that the Inquisition was the lesser evil in comparison. But the Inquisition also had a chokehold on free speech, critical thought and the exchange of ideas, and this left Spain lagging behind the rest of Europe in intellectual and scientific development for several centuries, so there's that too.
@@ArkadiBolschek the inquisition wasn't this huge barrier to science, people attribute the comfortable house arrest of Galileo as a prime example of inquisitorial zealotry blocking science but he was placed there because of 2 reasons, 1 the majority of rome at that point believed Tycho brahe's model and were abrasive to the Copernican model, and 2) Galileo was just an asshole who did a big no no in rome, insult the pope.
WHAT ABOUT MOMENT
WHAT ABOUT MOMENT
You’re a propaganda
"How unexpectable was the spanish inquisition really?"
"expect the unexpectable" -VJ Emmie
Reminds me of "The Great Noise" in Sweden, were rampant accusations of witchcraft lasted for a few years, but some towns lost 30% of their entire population to execution.
300 executions are not so much killing in the XVII century
@@r.ladaria135 In a town of a thousand.
Protestants did love the witch hunts
This is the 1st time I heard of this, ever. Wow, Sweden. It's always the ones you least expect.
@@louisduarte8763 Sweden used to be extremely religious and fundamentalist for a long time. That part of our history is often forgotten.
In The Great Noise, the topic came up of what to do with "witches" that were pregnant. The prosecutions were performed by the local government, usually village elders and councils, and in one instance they asked the people of the town how to proceed. The overwhelming majority argued that it was better to kill the child in the womb so it might go to heaven, then have it be born and risk it's eternal soul to be in the clutches of Satan.
Higher instances of government, provincial in this case, stepped in and put a stop to it.
Next video: How Scary was the Red Scare?
I love how the guys in the first few frames are literally the Monty Python crew.
The old style leather flying helmet worn by Cardinal Biggles is the give away.
I thought I liked this channel but after they actually bother to research for this topic, in which everyone just exposes popular folklore without attempting to investigate the truth behind what they say. Now this channel is between the few ones that has my attention and in which I expect not to be fooled. So basically thank you for your integrity
90% of early comments.
Nobody expects the Spanish inquisition!
1:30
“Well” a actual well lol
i spat my drink out
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That got a hearty laugh from me.
He used things like this several times already.for example,when he say "see" the video would show a sea with a letter c floating
No one expects a fair overview of the Spanish Inquisition!
Catholic church: *Dismisses confession made under torture in 16th century*
21st century USA: "WATERBOARDIIIIIING!!!"
@Mike signs usa still uses torture to get information while Catholic church denounced the practice centuries ago
Well, as long as you have different sources of information to contrast from, torture isn't that bad of a method.
@@adriancampos8640 Well, as long as you have different sources interrogation works almost every time as lying becomes very hard and eventually you can get them to confess the truth. The problem with torture is (besides how inhumane it is) that the victim will spew out whatever you think you want to hear in order to make you stop, so it's been proven to be way less effective then plain interrogation. Remember when KSM confessed under torture that Al Queda had a massive network in North Dakota I think (or Minnesota?) leading to the NSA looking for the mysterious network for moths till they realized it was just KSM telling them what they wanted to hear?
They don’t torture normal prisoners it’s only either people who threaten national security or military individuals
@@evanhall06 and if they expect to be tortured they already have a story about something that LOOKS real but it isn't so they can lead the ones torturing that person into a dead end or even a trap.
Last time I was this early the Spanish Inquisition jokes weren’t terrible.
even if they tied you to the comfit chair.
Or the rack?
Thank you for pointing out that historical events need to be understood within the context of their times.
Well, looks like History Matters expected Spanish Inquisition.
Spanish Inquisition: I'm the most *feared thing*...
KGB: *Hold my vodka*...
"No Comrade! hold mine" NKVD
Trump: *Vodka*
Gestapo: *Hole my beer and bangers*
You neglected FBI: If you don't plead guilty , Gen. Flynn, we'll get something on your son, etc.
IRS has entered the chat
I may have expected the Spanish Inquisition, but I did not expect the Spanish Inquisition to have standards. Great information.
"how long will it go before the reference?" - I think, clicking on the video
answer: the very first frame.
I didn’t expect this video
Damn you beat me to it
NO ONE EXPECTS THE.....wait...
Considering how long it took for them to get their country back, it's easy to understand why the Catholic Church in Spain would be a little bit on edge
Primary reason why Spain was fanatic when it comes to catholicism. Due to centuries of oppressive rules by the muslims, you can’t blame them.
@@СтефановићКараџићSpains monarchs historically have been super Catholic. Protestantism didn't take root there specifically bc they expelled the subversive Jews
it wasn't that bad because no one expected it
Goddamnit.
Spanish inquisition: 'Burns the heretics in a fire.'
Monty Python,the true historians of our time: 'HAHA TORTURE BY SOFT PILLOWS!'
I didn't laugh at that British humour, and I laugh at most of the Impractical Jokers jokes which Brits tend to love.
I didn't expect this video to be in my recommendations.
So the Comfy Chair was more historically accurate then one would expect?
Actually, the primary method of torture was a cloth over the face and a pitcher of water. In other words, waterboarding. Hence the "no blood" sign in the video.
They called it the "water cure" because confession is good for the soul.
@@nonnayerbusiness7704 Any source? They rather tied the person bent over a sawhorse and forced them to drink litres of water. When the stomach and the bladder were outstretched it was very painful.
I love how the one being burned at the stake has his eyes half closed as if to say "Really guys? Really?".
Let’s just get this out the way, “Nobody ever expects the Spanish Inquisition!” Right now no more Monty Python references.
me: i am so tired i am going to sleep now
*history matters posted a new video*
also me: i think i have another 5 minutes
"lovely food" killed me xD
Thanks for the nice laugh after work💚
Thank you for bursting the bubble of the Black Legend. Yes, it was brutal by modern standards but nowhere as bad as by its time's, which is how History should be considered altogether.
The propaganda labor led by the English, French, Dutch and even Italians, as historian Elvira Roca Varea has published in several books, has exaggerated a reputation out of any proportion and I'm glad people are taking matters into their own hands to educate others better. Thank you!
Someone has been reading "Imperiofobia y Leyenda Negra" de María Elvira Roca Barea
basura de libraco, pura leyenda rosa, por suerte ya salió el libro Imperiofilia de Villacañas
@@f.j.carpio454 Pero si la basura de libelo es el de Villacañas, que con suerte sirve de papel higiénico.
Imagine how excited and clever I felt as I scrolled down, expecting to be the first person to make that Monty Python reference...
You should give some numbers (more than % or % to apply to a total numbers) ! We had around 100 to 500 executions.
For comparaison for this time : In England, each year, they executed twice what the inquisition did in 100 years ....
"The spanish inquisition has a certain reputation."
*NOBODY EXPECTS IT*
0:44 impossible
True. If you have a month's notice you would run away. They were arrested on the spot suspicion and the trial may eventuate with a month's notice.
When Santander (a Spanish bank) took over Alliance Leicester in around 2011, I was chatting with a bank employee, who was very surprised as the news was just announced. I retorted, "No-one expects the Spanish acquisition." Funny at the time.
You were not expecting *The Spanish Inquisiton* but *IT WAS I, DIO*
IS THAT A MOTHERFUCKING JOJO REFERENCE!?
I sure didn't expect this video ;)
This is weird, only ten comments in the ten days since it was posted? Was there a massive comment purge?
I love how the guy on fire has a look on his face like "I can't even". 😂
Love your work! Also please make more videos on Spain under Philip II as that is module for my History A-Levels, and your videos are the only thing that help me to remember specific detail ;)
"Or were, god forbid, a protestant" lmao
So I'm a protest-
Spain: *no*
I didn’t expect the Spanish Inquisition to be so lenient
No one expects the Spanish Inquisition!
*Actually*
Nobody expected that comment
Everyone expected this comment
The most interesting inquisition was in Mexico. They had no power over the Indians and mostly were the C and D graduates in college.
The Spanish also set up Inquisitions in Lima and Cartagena de Indias.
There where Indians in mexico? I thought asian immigration to the americas did not start until later?
@@josiahmartin329 Amerindians, as the cool kids call them now.
I imagine, though, that the Spanish Inquisition didn't mind a reputation for ruthlessness, seeing that it probably made people more willing to confess up front.
Didn’t expect this
XD
I mean at this point we all expected the Spanish Inquisition
I didn't expect the Spanish Inquisition to be so tame.