Dan Snow and Dan Jones Discuss 'The Coolest Man in Medieval History'
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- The Knight's Templar were a religious military order founded in 1119 and recognised by a papal bull in 1139. The order became one of the most powerful organisations in medieval Christendom, and a large supranational administrative network set up a complex financial system which was an early form of banking.
Here medieval historian Dan Jones takes Dan Snow through the Temple Church near Fleet Street in London, explaining how the order functioned and the involvement of one of medieval England's most famous knights.
They also agree that William Marshal, buried in Temple Church after joining the order on his deathbed, was probably the 'coolest man in medieval history'.
#DanJones #DanSnow #KnightsTemplar
Templars, Hospitallers, The Teutonic Knights, Sword Brothers of Livonia, The Order of St. Lazarus, The Knights who say "Ni"
All big on the Prog Rock scene in the 70s.
@@paulh3935 I am sure I saw the 'Sword Brothers of Lavonia' the supporting local band 'Sweaty Betty'. in our Arts Centre once! the Tuetonic Knights were big on The Gay Scenes, and the Order of Lazarus just died, so sad. There was a brief revival, but it fizzled out and not much more was heard of them.
That’s funny.. showing your age there. I wonder how many people got it. 😂😀
@@Min61449 Not many. If they haven't seen it on Netflix or been told by a Minister nothing counts.
@@hogwashmcturnip8930 meow!
Boomer says what?
I have one thing to say: More Dan Jones and Dan Snow conversations!
This makes me happy, the two of you working together
Only one man had the nerve and ability to unseat Richard the Lionheart from his destrier in combat and that was William the Marshall. Trained for decades in France and fought in numerous tournaments, The Marshall was the fighting man's fighting man.
Popped up on my radar, thought it could only, possibly be about William Marshall, 1st Earl of Pembroke, and I am not disappointed, sirs.
William Marshall considered the greatest Knight, founded the town of Newross, Co. Wexford a major medieval trading hub for South East Ireland. Built Hook Lighthouse the oldest fully entact functioning lighthouse in the world on the Hook peninsula. The town of Temple, and multiple Norman ruins on the peninsula. Fascinating.
Amazing history
Marshall had one quality most others lacked: loyalty. He was truly an amazing man.
As a many greats granddaughter of William Marshal through the Marshal's daughter Eva, it was interesting, even if brief, to hear why the Marshal waited to become a Templar on his death bed. I had wondered about it and now I know. Thank you, Mr Jones.
Read Templer Silks by Elizabeth Chadwick. She wrote 3 books about him as novels but completely true to facts.It explains why he waited until his deathbed to convert.Stay well everyone.Love from New Zealand.
I too am descended from William Marshal through two daughters Isobel and Eva. Have read a few books about him. Such an interesting man. Would have loved to have known him. Must go to the Templar church next time I'm in London if I'm lucky enough to travel again from Australia.
Another descendant here.
I'm also a granddaughter through his daughters Eva, Maud, Sybil, and Isabel, but I'm also a granddaughter of the Plantagenet Kings and Simon de Montfort among many others but William is my favorite. If you love William as much as I do you have to get a copy of the biography his son William had written about his life , "The History of William Marshall". He did indeed take his Templar vows on his deathbed, and because one of the vows was chastity, he gave his wife one last kiss before he made his vow.
Another descendant of William and Plantagenets here too
I could marry both Dans and live happily ever after listening to them discussing history!....
Two scholarly hot guys!
Henry II rule really interesting, father to King Richard the Lionheart and King John, William Marshall served as their knight to all these three Kings.
And briefly to the infant Henry III!
@@Conorp77 yes, stopping the french Louis VIII taking over England at age 72 battle of Lincoln remarkable
“My life, when it is written, will read better than it lived. Henry Fitz-Empress, first Plantagenet, a king at twenty-one, the ablest soldier of an able time. He led men well, he cared for justice when he could and ruled, for thirty years, a state as great as Charlemagne's.”
Such an underrated King.
Thanks for this. I had never heard of him.
Who wouldn’t love this crossover?
My two favorite Dans!
These guys are so cool
They should have a show called "Historical Dans" about the best pranks in history
Snow and Jones go together like Morecombe and Wise.....
Smith and Jones
other notable jokers. I got it.
Brilliant, thank you
The oblong chancel was redone during the reign of Henry III, who originally intended to be buried there, though he ultimately decided to be buried in Westminster Abbey. I believe there was an earlier, slightly smaller chancel on the site, so the church was always keyhole shaped, and it would never have been just the round bit.
I knew this was William Marshal without even watching. If it’s not, it should be
Elizabeth Chadwick has written about William Marshall. A fairly new book about Marshall in Jeruzalem and what he did there. Fiction of course but very readable. It's called Templars Silk.
I’ve read her books about William the Marshal and the tale about him purchasing and then keeping hidden the length of plain white silk is a most enjoyable read and likely holds a kernel of truth. His interaction with his brothers (still fiction) but also likely and very touching. He was a very great man, the fact that he holds such fascination 800years later is a testament to that.
He was quite cool, but personally I can think of at least 3 other people that are just as cool as him.
I'm a decendant of William Marshall.
Gotz of the iron hand got snubbed
I think you might be sympathetic with William of Tyre - applauds when necessary but never misses a chance to criticize .
Example : The siege of Ascalon , 1153 .
The " suicidal" charge of 40 nights Templar led by their master Bernard .
Failure to capitalize on opportunity in war is common.
A few at the right time can, and has, made all the difference .
I believe that was their thing always..
The Fatimid defenders were well led and did not panic, as most people would.
They quickly closed the breach and trapped the Templars.
.......... ' They had bad back up . That's all.
It's certainly a good read.
« The Hospitalers »
« I would never have been able to say that order. »
« We can practice later. »
Hahahaha! Good one.
I'm Canadian, of British Ancestry. The word "Hospitalers" is easy-peasy, to speak here. I love our education system, here in Canada. I don't understand half of what, the USA speaks. I am not used to thug-talk. We share a Continent, but we don't share the same dialectssss. We understand our Motherland's tongue, moreso than our supposed, Greatest Ally. Canada is NOT the USA.
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@@rinalore Respect from the empire 🇬🇧🇨🇦
Where does somebody begin to learn all this?
OMG! The two sexiest guys in history in one programme, I am in!
What is this thing with guys named Dan??
Dan Snow, Dan Jones, Dan Brown
Its a Dan Crusade
Dues vult...
This guy is a verbal nightmare
Jesus hasn`t got a gun to anyone`s head.
The most uncoolest man in medieval history was Philip the Fair
Dan Jones thinks he’s the coolest man in history no doubt!
This fellow has a lot of miscellaneous information about the Templar Order, but he misses the main point. It was a religious order of knight-monks, whose initial mission was to protect the pilgrims from Muslim bandits on their journey from the coast (Jaffa) to Jerusalem. Founded in 1119, they were mostly French with some Italian, Flemish, and English knights. Their financial innovations came much later to support their activities in Holy Land. As an earlier comment mentions, this so-called historian is depicting the order in modern psychological-political terms. The Templar knights and sergeants took their vows seriously and endured harsh conditions for the sake of their soul and their mission. Read any reliable history (especially by Malcom Barber, Helen Nicholson and Jonathan Riley-Smith) for a more accurate and nuanced depiction of the Templars.
Thank you
Exactly
Do you expect him to give an extended history of the Templar order from its formation to its end in a short amount of time? He knew they had a filming schedule to follow, and it appears that they wanted to start from the Templars as a jumping point for discussing William the Marshall. I've read his books and he does know what the Templars were and were not doing.
This is history for the McDonald's culture. If you give it a like, you get a toy Templar!
A whole lot of wasted talk. Only about 2 minutes on William de Marshall.
What's his opinion on the baphomet and the clavicle of solomon did the knights engage in the occult? Did they mock and spit on christs cross trample etc did they engage in buggery. Where they influenced by gnostic beliefs or Muhammad isn't baphomet a represtation of Muhammad or is its sabbatical goat because I've seen baphomet depictions in templar churches in France.
just a falsehood put about so the French king and the church could steal the Templars wealth. The Templars would put the lives on the line to defend the lords teachings. They were warrior monks who believed and could recite the bible at will.
Trumped up charges. The level of torture was enough to get many to confess. Ironically the one thing DeMolay did not confess to was sodomy.
why is he telling him about this
Shame the English have lost their spiritual connection to these holy warriors
Actually the coolest man was stabbed after 3 minutes and died nameless on a battlefield
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This is now the new standard for British TV, two scruffy presenters in Tee Shirts.
Yes, let's go back to the old days when BBC radio newsreaders were required to wear dinner jackets to read the 9 o'clock News! (Or, alternatively, we could concentrate on what is being said rather than their dress sense,)
We could use another crusade now.
Dan Jones & Dan Snow together to talk history.
We're lucky Dan Carlin wasn't there or the amount of Dans would have tear the fabric of space and time apart...
We'll have to try and make that happen one day! 😂
@@HistoryHit You'll need a few hours.
Can I just comment on how tall Dan Snow must be? He towers over Jones. I'm 6ft and have stood next to and taken pictures with Dan Jones and I can see that he must have a good 3 inches in height over me.
Dan cubed.
Sorry but for a 3rd Dan you get a brown belt, minor telekinesis and the ability to break bricks and boards.
You need a 10th Dan to tear spacial reality.
I’d absolutely love to sit down and just listen to an endless conversation between these two brilliant guys.
Reciting the past does not take much, in as way of "brilliace". I do like many historians though, before I sleep
Same here
I was at the Temple when it opened one day. I went inside and for five precious minutes I had it completely to myself. Very,very cool experience.
That is truly awesome!
I love how Dan Jones looks like a total lad but is a great historical writer
He is pretty cute. He doesn’t look like your stereotypical historian at all.
His books are very well written and easy to read.
Dan Jones books on the crusades are fascinating. He has the uncanny ability to be able to turn a very complicated history with many facets into an understandable narrative
William Marshall is my 23 great grandfather and I'm reading a book about him right now.
The legend himself Dan Jones and the greatest knight to have ever lived William the Marshal. Do I sense another book coming about William Marshal?
William de Marshall * Norman heritage..
@@thgentleman9210 doesn’t ‘de’ mean of, which would mean William was from ‘Marshal’. ‘Marshal’ however was not a geographical region, it was a leading role in the English government, hence the name ‘William the Marshal’, because he was the Marshal
@@thgentleman9210 Robert de Bruce= Robert the Bruce = Robert of House Bruce = Robert Bruce, it's all the same.
The greatest knight was chevalier de bayard
@@Heisenberg882 what makes you say that
I did a stained glass replacement effigy for William Marshall in a phonebox on the embankment near temple. His story really struck me.
These guys need their own show... like battlefield Britain was with dan and his legendary dad. Going around England to castles.. and battlefields. It would be amazing. We are blessed with such a amazing history on this island... and these heroes bring it to the masses. They need a show. Road dripping about England... having a beer and a chin wag 👍. It would be a top seller !!!.
Road dripping! My mind is boggling. Does that involve tarmac? This is Dumb Down. Anyone who cites Dan Brown as a reference is in Poundshop History territory right there.
When I was a kid and getting into medieval history, the name that kept popping up and got my notice was William Marshall. He was an absolute badass for virtually his entire life.
After one tournament, William Marshall's helmet was so bashed up that the only way he could remove it was to put his head on an anvil while a blacksmith hammered it back into shape. How cool is that.
I'm a fan of William Marshal. Not only was he honourable and loyal, but he is the real author of our liberties. When King John signed Magna Carta in June 1215, he hadn't the slightest inclination to abide by it; he knew his law well, and he knew he could always discount it, as "signed under duress".
When King John died in October 1216, he willed that William Marshal - just about the most honest man he knew - should run the country on behalf of his 9-year old son, Henry III. William did so very successfully, and one of his first acts - I think as early as the November - was to re-issue Magna Carta. This and subsequent reissues ensured that Magna Carta was enshrined in our law.
Thank you for showing Jones and Snow together as it is easy to get them mixed up. Snow is a very tall guy, which TV presenter, Jones, handles professionally enough on a one-to-one ... can't get enough of William Marshall's tales of chivalry, nor of his fairy-tale integration marrying Ireland ...
Dan snow is a bit more than a television presenter.
Yes, however the two of them together becomes Jon Snow and that makes them knowing nothing.
Love the history of England, especially medieval history.
Medieval art & imagination is simply sublime. The music is something else too.
Highly recommend giving it a listen. It's otherworldly with knobs on
The Irish (for 800 years) didn't.....neither did the Scots 👍🏼
Me Too! English History Rocks!!!🥰⛪🇬🇧💖💕
@@malahammer Relationships probably would have been better under a Anglo-Saxon king than a Norman king
@@malahammer Paul, the Anglo-Normans became "more Irish than the Irish themselves".
After watching endless history clips I've come to be Dan's biggest fan! He makes everything so easy to understand, interesting, detailed enough to keep me at least glued to all his series! Thank you!
Liliana V.A. Hough definitely my favorite historian
I have all of his books...they're awesome! He's Brilliant!
Which one?? 🤣🤣
@Ellen March ..😂😂😂 Dan Jones lol
Secrets of British Castles is soooo good
Thank you. There is never enough of either Dan's work available to us viewers in the USA.
Try on TH-cam there's a tonne
I used to love Simon Templar. He was a saint.
Roger that
Emma Peel.
I named my son after William Marshal, although I reversed the names. It annoys me when people ask if I named my son after Marshall Mathers!
when you get surprised by a game reference from an historian.
Two Dan's is better than one!
I love the fact that Dan Jones is not some dusty old history professor type. He looks like your mate down the pub.
I am descended from William the Marshal among others including Robert the Bruce
Think about the physiological differences between a medieval warrior and a modern human male. William Marshall in melee tournament, sometimes with over two hundred knight participating, needed the arm and wrist strength to deliver hundreds of heavy blows, with 15 pound sword, or 20 pound mace, while on horseback. Marshall won more tournaments than any other ten knights in history, and claimed over 500 kills in battle. Mind boggling!!
I adore Dan Jones!
6:00 - As I understand it, in northeast Europe, like Poland, the Baltic nations, and western Russia, the Teutonic Knights are still invoked to scare little kids into behaving themselves.
Informative, not much true info out our way (US)...
It's said that he skewerd his horse with a lance and that's how King Richard got un horsed.
Disagree! El Cid is cooler! Would love for Dan Jones to do a series on El Cid and the reconquista.
The Templars spent a lot of time in prayer and religious activities- people like to warp history to meet modern secular standards…
What really cool about William Marshall is the he is George Washington's ancestor of which they both developed the English and American Declaration of Independence.
OH OH I am conjuring a vision where Dan and Dan follow history OR even go to pre-history sites like a LIKE a "Two Greedy Italians buddy show through history....
I LOVE William Marshall too!
My vote. William Marshal and El Cid. Can't pick between them.
Nice one Dan Snow, good Templer action
And a bunch of Spanish order. I swear he sounded like he wanted to say "and a bunch of fucking Spanish orders."
All about 'US' again. You can't do a prog involving the Templars and diss other nations! I don't remember William the sports referee as being that significant in the full story. But hey, when you live on a mouldy old rock in the middle of nowhere, you make your heroes where you can. I Am English, by the way. I left. Best thing I ever did.
My 2 favorite Dan’s!!!!
I agree William Marshal! Thought this was going to be about Edward III.
I can't get over how tall D. Snow is.
6ft 6
@Paul Kirton I know. I passed him at St. Pancras once. He towered over me at 5'10".
I’m currently reading an actual CONTEMPORARY BIO on William Marshal, the first contemporary bio on a medieval knight in history. Marshal is a true hero and legend, something that can be said of only a handful of men.
At the end "we can practise later" lol good delivery.
William Marshall vs Bertrand du Guesclin vs Sir John Chandos. Ooft that would be an interesting debate
“It was bombed”
“Oh that was German bomb damage!?”
“It was bombed”
People who know 😏
Coolest dude WM is my 26th GGF ❤❤ my most favourite ancestor🎉
Can we get Dan jones and Marc Morris to fight to the death to find out who the top popular medievalist is ? Asking for a friend
ENGLISH. Medieval ENGLISH history. It's a shame to ruin a brilliant video with a misquote (even putting it in quotation marks!) to create a clickbait title.
Disliked.
You’re right they shouldn’t have misquoted it. But Even across medieval Europe few names could compete with the life and legacy of William marshal. Jan Zizka pops to mind though as a worthy contender / superior in certain areas. And I’m sure there’s others
How is this really funny to me? The coolest man cracked me up. Amazing that they are standing right next to these legends.
Dan and Dan are my two favorite historians .
Damn, I always thought Dan Snow and Dan Jones were the same person. If they aren't standing next to each other, they look the same...
Which came first - the round temples of the Templar or the legend of Arthur & his round table?
Knew who it was before I even clicked on the video: ‘the greatest knight that ever lived’.
My local pub here in Ireland is called the Knights Templar.
The most fascinating person of the period is definitely stupor mundi, the astonishment of the world, Frederick II
I had to watch it twice . They're so hot that I didn't hear a word the first time lol
Strange taste you have in men! Maybe you are a nun?
Its so amazing to see history being celebrated instead of viewed through the lense of new times
Thank you guys so much for these kind of videos
As someone who's middle name is William, this is pretty fun 😅
No way this conversation only lasted 7 minutes.
You two could make a tv program called The Two Dans
Barbarian killers/terrorists - one word to describe them.
Dan Jones got a real makeover! He looks much hotter!!!
Dan Snow lord of Winterfell and warden of the North