This is probably the most ego boosting comment I have ever received 🥰 I am going to screenshot this to look at when the imposter syndrome strikes - thank you ever so much 🌟🌟🌟
Dr. Kat’s work is consistently academically interesting, but also has this casual, conversational tone that makes it feel like your exceptionally well-read friend is just relating something interesting they’ve discovered. I love every single one of these videos!!😊
I share these with my Mom weekly and we both adore them. I have a feeling she is going to really enjoy this one. Thank you Dr. Kat for allowing me to share a great 30-60 minutes with my Mom.
Catherine de Valois played the long game, breeding against France's enemies the Plantagenets. She was the mother of Henry VI, the mental weakling who was the end of the Hundred Years War and, thus, of the House of Lancaster. She was then the grandmother of Henry VII, who finished off the House of York. England never recovered her French prizes.
Thanks for another fascinating Friday. Had never connected the mental illness dots between Charles VI of France and Henry VI....Yeah, and you can always rely on Pepys to keep things interesting!👑
I have wondered about that for years. As you may know, it is dangerous to diagnose illness from so long ago, but the similarities are so very striking, and only one generation removed.ff
Thanks for a clear and concise canter through the life of Catherine. And best of all, a quotation from my very favourite 17th century writer, the glorious Samuel. What a man.
So glad you did this video! I always think of her as the grandmother of the Tudor dynasty. I literally live for Friday afternoons because of your videos! You rock Dr Kat!
When you mentioned a diarist at the beginning, I though of Samuel Pepys, then immediately dismissed the thought, as he lived in a much later time. Oh, my goodness, what a surprise to learn that the had actually kissed Catherine's remains -- and a surprise to learn the her remains had been viewed by the public for all that time! Thank you for your excellent history lessons. I have enjoyed all that I have (so far) heard. 🙏🏼
Interesting life she lived. I become very thankful for the time and place I live in when I think of the restrictions she was subject to as a Dowager Queen (and restrictions for women in general in her lifetime). 👸🏰
I really enjoyed this talk. This is a great story by any standards and youve got to admit,it has a definite Mills & Boon take to it. I learned this story from the Jean Plaidy novel covering it. Her books are really well researched and that author also had a knack of making the minor characters interesting too,all the Isabellas,and Joans,and Blanches. I love that Catherine found a good man and went ahead. Poor little baby,ill starred child. Even a strong character like William the Conqueror or Louis the Sun King wouid have struggied with a start like that,and indeed they did,but being arrogant and bloody minded has always been a good survival technique. Ive always felt that poor Henry VI would have been so happy living a simple life in a village or maybe as a monk.
Yes, History Calling also suggests Henry might have been happier as a monk. She says fairly often that he was just not cut out for the brutal realities of medieval kingship.
When you mentioned a diarist in the beginning, I was thinking, "Wait, could it be 'Naughty Sammy'?" But then I saw the dates & no, of course not... only to have him appear after all. 🤣 Her life was rather interesting. I hope she managed to find some happiness in all of that.
I have only just discovered these wonderful videos- hooked already! Just wondered if Dr Kat might like to comment on the story that Catherine de Valois either saw Owain swimming naked in a river as she was crossing a bridge or that he fell into her lap whilst dancing? Also, it is rather amusing to consider that we name Owain's descendants by using his grandfather'n name Tudur (English Tudor) rather than the name of his father Maredudd (English Meredith). The Royal House of Meredith doesn't have quite the same ring to it, does it?
Was just sharing about “The King” yesterday. It was a surprising find for me a few years ago. Very lucky to have you here this morning with factual details. Thank you for the knowledge you drop for us. Such a Covid gift you are for me.
Yes! I discovered Dr. Kat early into lock-down and even saw her channel do a big blow up of subscribers. Sharing her research and knowledge from England is a gift to me.
I had heard about the desecration of her body before but your discussion has helped me a great more to understand her role in history. My question is, did she finally come to love her first husband, and was her second marriage one in her mind, of protection from other factions that would do her harm? Her life must have seemed so precarious to her. A real pawn used by so many other people. Poor girl.
the madness of Charles VI, the king of glass, was transferred to his grandson, Henry VI, through, I can only assume, Catherine of Valois and England, and perhaps through her second marriage, reached into the Tudor dynasty to bad effect in Henry VIII, her great great (I think) grandson.
Small detail but this lighting is so refreshing in the sea of overly bright, washed out faces on YT. It’s just nice to see a normal looking person! Love the content as always Dr Kat ❤️
Another amazing video! I love the histories of the women of history you have done - so much suffering, even in death, these women have faced. Thank you again! 👑👑👑👑👑👑
Thank you, once again, for a very interesting video. This is such a fascinating time. Was Catherine also touched by psychiatric issues before she died? I think what surprised me the most was how young she was at the time of her death.
So many died young during those times, though. Girls would marry as teenagers and often die from complications of childbirth in their 20s. Making it to 30 was really doing something.
I would be interested in an explanation why the Tudors fancied themselves in line for the throne. It seems rather unconclusive. And yet Jasper Tudor and Margerete Beaufort went to great lengths to put Henry VII on the throne.
Lol'd at "So, for those of us keeping track, that does mean that through these marriage plans, Catherine's intended future father-in-law was the one who had deposed her elder sister's husband." Reminded me of the Duke of Wellington's comment from Young Victoria after King William IV berated the Duchess of Kent: "Families. Who'd be without them?"
👸 there were a few things that I wasn't really knowledgeable about... The fact that she had to hide her marriage that I did not know... But I find this more fascinating because I am a descendant of King James, though I don't know which one I think it's Mary bolin... All the way up to the royalty now.. including King Charles and his children and strange enough princess Diana... So I find all of this quite interesting
A very engaging and informative presentation of a convoluted life - good pace of narration!!! Thank you. - A period of history where it seems hard for most of us to remember who did what to whom, why, where and for what reason!!!!
SAME!! I try to see it live every Friday but I missed it today. It's okay. We can try again next week. Have a groovy weekend and happy Friday, Fellow History Lover. ❤
Very interesting! I cannot help but see Kenneth Branaugh as Henry V and Emma Thompson as Catherine de Valois, and it's very nice to get more accurate information on the wooing and marriage aspects of their relationship. How terrified she must have been! Samuel Pepys proudly bragging about having kissed the desiccated corpse of Queen Catherine is rather disgusting - not the way you presented it, only his awkwardly worded description. I am certain Her Majesty would have given him a good sharp smack on the chops, had she been alive; I hope so, anyway.
Dr. Kat!! I just learned on Cunk - which is hilarious and I was surprised to actually learn something - that the name "Tudor" was used as a derogatory name to the Tudors as it hearkened back to their podunk Welsh ancestor, and in fact, only Richard III used it. So....what surname did they use? Or did they not use a surname? I mean, surely, they weren't just known as Henry, Arthur, Mary, Elizabeth etc? Or maybe they were?
At this time Welsh surnames were patronyms, with 'ap' meaning 'son of' So Owain was Owain ap Meredudd ap Tudur in other words, Tudur was the first name of his grandfather. So there is nothing inherently derogatory about it but a name typical of a nation can be used as an insult, as in Taffy was a Welshman, Taffy was a thief, which is derived from an English mispronounciation of the Welsh name Dafydd. I'm not sure what options Owain had, except those two names and he is recorded in Catherine's household as Owen Meredith. However, Owen's grandfather Tudur (pronounced 'Tidder' not 'Tew-der', by the way) was a close relative of the famous Welsh leader ('rebel') Owain Glyndwr so it may be that people used that name rather than Meredith to underline how dodgy the family were.
Thanks! This helped me understand how Henry VII was able to justify grabbing the throne. I can't find the emojis, sorry. I'd love to stick a queen in here somewhere.
I’ve often wondered if Catherine passed the genes for mental illness on to Henry VI. We don’t know if Edmund Tudor would have suffered from mental illness as he aged but obviously Jaspers Tudor didn’t. And neither did Henry VII, however he could have carried it as a recessive gene and handed it to Henry VIII. He may have had mental health problems in later life.
I wonder the same, especially as Charles' mother, uncle, and grandfather all had mental health problems too (though in his mother's case, a good argument is made for severe postpartum depression, since her breakdown came after the birth of her sixth child, and she recovered within a few months). Then again, we don't see much mental illness like that popping up in the families of Catherine's siblings (that I know of, correct me if I'm wrong), so who knows.
It’s like you defend a thesis in every video, which are *addictive* in the best way. 👸
This is probably the most ego boosting comment I have ever received 🥰 I am going to screenshot this to look at when the imposter syndrome strikes - thank you ever so much 🌟🌟🌟
Agreed! 👸👑
I think it's definitely true!
It is always good to hear about the background and ancestry of Middle Ages monarchs.
Queen 👸!!! Love hearing the story of Catherine !!
Catherine’s life is so interesting, but it is horrible how she was not able to rest after her death.
Dr. Kat’s work is consistently academically interesting, but also has this casual, conversational tone that makes it feel like your exceptionally well-read friend is just relating something interesting they’ve discovered. I love every single one of these videos!!😊
I share these with my Mom weekly and we both adore them. I have a feeling she is going to really enjoy this one. Thank you Dr. Kat for allowing me to share a great 30-60 minutes with my Mom.
In Kenneth Branaugh's Henry V, Catherine is played by Emma Thompson, then his wife.
Catherine de Valois played the long game, breeding against France's enemies the Plantagenets. She was the mother of Henry VI, the mental weakling who was the end of the Hundred Years War and, thus, of the House of Lancaster. She was then the grandmother of Henry VII, who finished off the House of York. England never recovered her French prizes.
Thanks for another fascinating Friday. Had never connected the mental illness dots between Charles VI of France and Henry VI....Yeah, and you can always rely on Pepys to keep things interesting!👑
I have wondered about that for years. As you may know, it is dangerous to diagnose illness from so long ago, but the similarities are so very striking, and only one generation removed.ff
Wow, the dots were so clear
Thanks for a clear and concise canter through the life of Catherine. And best of all, a quotation from my very favourite 17th century writer, the glorious Samuel. What a man.
So glad you did this video! I always think of her as the grandmother of the Tudor dynasty. I literally live for Friday afternoons because of your videos! You rock Dr Kat!
She was! Through Henry VII and Elizabeth of York’s daughter Margaret, the current monarchy is descended.
Every time - EVERY TIME - you blow me away. I always learn something and I always want more! ❤
When you mentioned a diarist at the beginning, I though of Samuel Pepys, then immediately dismissed the thought, as he lived in a much later time. Oh, my goodness, what a surprise to learn that the had actually kissed Catherine's remains -- and a surprise to learn the her remains had been viewed by the public for all that time!
Thank you for your excellent history lessons. I have enjoyed all that I have (so far) heard. 🙏🏼
We definitely need a Dr Kat’s video on Margaret Beaufort 👑👸🏻
Another fabulous video, you can do nothing poorly, Dr. Kat, your brilliance always shows through!❤
I second this!
Interesting life she lived. I become very thankful for the time and place I live in when I think of the restrictions she was subject to as a Dowager Queen (and restrictions for women in general in her lifetime). 👸🏰
I really enjoyed this talk. This is a great story by any standards and youve got to admit,it has a definite Mills & Boon take to it. I learned this story from the Jean Plaidy novel covering it. Her books are really well researched and that author also had a knack of making the minor characters interesting too,all the Isabellas,and Joans,and Blanches.
I love that Catherine found a good man and went ahead. Poor little baby,ill starred child. Even a strong character like William the Conqueror or Louis the Sun King wouid have struggied with a start like that,and indeed they did,but being arrogant and bloody minded has always been a good survival technique. Ive always felt that poor Henry VI would have been so happy living a simple life in a village or maybe as a monk.
Yes, History Calling also suggests Henry might have been happier as a monk. She says fairly often that he was just not cut out for the brutal realities of medieval kingship.
know so much more about this remarkable woman now than i did 30mins ago
🤱Wish we had more of her personal thoughts and letters
When you mentioned a diarist in the beginning, I was thinking, "Wait, could it be 'Naughty Sammy'?" But then I saw the dates & no, of course not... only to have him appear after all. 🤣
Her life was rather interesting. I hope she managed to find some happiness in all of that.
Poor Catherine! She had a rough way to go before and after she died!😢😢
I have only just discovered these wonderful videos- hooked already! Just wondered if Dr Kat might like to comment on the story that Catherine de Valois either saw Owain swimming naked in a river as she was crossing a bridge or that he fell into her lap whilst dancing? Also, it is rather amusing to consider that we name Owain's descendants by using his grandfather'n name Tudur (English Tudor) rather than the name of his father Maredudd (English Meredith). The Royal House of Meredith doesn't have quite the same ring to it, does it?
Yeah, the “Meredith rose” doesn’t have quite the same ring to it. 😀
Was just sharing about “The King” yesterday. It was a surprising find for me a few years ago. Very lucky to have you here this morning with factual details. Thank you for the knowledge you drop for us. Such a Covid gift you are for me.
👑♥️🐇⏱️🫖
Covid???
Yes! I discovered Dr. Kat early into lock-down and even saw her channel do a big blow up of subscribers. Sharing her research and knowledge from England is a gift to me.
You Tube kept me sane during quarantine, that’s for sure!
I had heard about the desecration of her body before but your discussion has helped me a great more to understand her role in history. My question is, did she finally come to love her first husband, and was her second marriage one in her mind, of protection from other factions that would do her harm? Her life must have seemed so precarious to her. A real pawn used by so many other people. Poor girl.
Your videos are amazingly informative and fun to listen to while I study.
Thank you so much, Dr. Kat.
the madness of Charles VI, the king of glass, was transferred to his grandson, Henry VI,
through, I can only assume, Catherine of Valois and England, and perhaps through her second marriage,
reached into the Tudor dynasty to bad effect in Henry VIII, her great great (I think) grandson.
Queen Catherine of Valois sounds like a hoot. And an interesting character in history.
A ‘Queen-y’ 👍🏼 for Dr. Kat!! 👸🏼
I got a last minute ticket to Henry V this summer and was so charmed and surprised by the proposal scene. A very memorable experience!
Small detail but this lighting is so refreshing in the sea of overly bright, washed out faces on YT. It’s just nice to see a normal looking person! Love the content as always Dr Kat ❤️
Another amazing video! I love the histories of the women of history you have done - so much suffering, even in death, these women have faced. Thank you again! 👑👑👑👑👑👑
Why would anybody just go and kiss a corpse for a birthday present?? It's wild and disturbing. Poor woman 👸🏼
This. 👄 💀 I was literally saying, “Ew ew ew EW!” aloud as she read that quote. 👸 or 🚫👸 that’s 🤢.
I quite enjoyed this video about Catherine of Valois, thank you.👑
Thank you, once again, for a very interesting video. This is such a fascinating time. Was Catherine also touched by psychiatric issues before she died? I think what surprised me the most was how young she was at the time of her death.
So many died young during those times, though. Girls would marry as teenagers and often die from complications of childbirth in their 20s. Making it to 30 was really doing something.
Closing my workweek watching your channel has become a ritual. Wonderful content ❤👑
❤just saw you on channel 4 documentary! Had a fan girl moment😊 thanks for another great video👑
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Henry V has always been my favorite Shakespeare play, so I loved this video!! 👸🫅🏻
I would be interested in an explanation why the Tudors fancied themselves in line for the throne. It seems rather unconclusive. And yet Jasper Tudor and Margerete Beaufort went to great lengths to put Henry VII on the throne.
Love your work!😊😊😊❤❤❤
Lol'd at "So, for those of us keeping track, that does mean that through these marriage plans, Catherine's intended future father-in-law was the one who had deposed her elder sister's husband." Reminded me of the Duke of Wellington's comment from Young Victoria after King William IV berated the Duchess of Kent: "Families. Who'd be without them?"
Love your work. Thanks so much!. I did join History Hits. Your podcast and History Hits has opened a whole new world for me.
I love learning little more with each person. ❤
Cathrines life is very interesting, I know you focuse largly on england but would you consider making a video about her mother Isabella?
I love your analysis and humor! 🎉
I’ve read about her a bit. She is fascinating, marrying for 💕. Thank you for all your wonderful content!❤❤❤
👑I love your channel Dr. Kat!
👸 there were a few things that I wasn't really knowledgeable about... The fact that she had to hide her marriage that I did not know... But I find this more fascinating because I am a descendant of King James, though I don't know which one I think it's Mary bolin... All the way up to the royalty now.. including King Charles and his children and strange enough princess Diana... So I find all of this quite interesting
❤👑 awesome as always!
This video was very interesting. I didn't know very much about Catherine of Valois. Sadly 😔 her remains were not treated very well.👸
I adore these videos. You are best surprise find on TH-cam 👑👑
Thank you 😊
i always enjoy listening to your history. i seem to learn something new every episode. you, my dear, are a real queen!🤴👸🧚♀️🧝♀️💃👭
Loved this. Can you do a video on Augustus, Duke of Sussex, the 6th son of George III, I am reading a bit about him in a book about Kensington Palace.
❤ another wonderful video, thank you! Your material is always well researched and beautifully presented 🎉 kudos!
I love the consistency of the rhythm of your intro
It calms my soul
Was lovely to hear all about this queen ❤
Thank you so much.
Great refresher course. I'd learned much of this; but forgot certain things. My brain isn't what it used to be.
Great story !👑👑👑
A very engaging and informative presentation of a convoluted life - good pace of narration!!! Thank you. - A period of history where it seems hard for most of us to remember who did what to whom, why, where and for what reason!!!!
Fascinating life. 👑
Loved your presentation
Thank you Dr. Kat.
Have you read Margaret Fraser's The Boys'Tale? It involves Edmund and Jasper.
This was Marvelous!👑👑👑
I do love ❤️ it when historical womfwn figure out how to control their own life and happiness. 🤴
great video and delivery, had me captivated.
👸🏻🏰for the algorithm! Loved the video!
Missed the live - so sad
SAME!! I try to see it live every Friday but I missed it today. It's okay. We can try again next week. Have a groovy weekend and happy Friday, Fellow History Lover. ❤
Hope to make it next Friday - have to remember it's on Friday late morning on the East Coast of the USA
He was a man of his time 👑 baby boy 🇬🇧
Wonderful! 👑👑👑👑👑
Enjoyed v much!
🍄 Thank you for your hard work!
Another fabulous video. Thank you 👸
Fabulous as always! I would love to see a discussion with you and Dan Snow or Dan Jones.. or have fun dressing up with Lucy Worsley
Thanks Dr Kat I do enjoy your videos.👸🏼🌹
Very interesting! I cannot help but see Kenneth Branaugh as Henry V and Emma Thompson as Catherine de Valois, and it's very nice to get more accurate information on the wooing and marriage aspects of their relationship. How terrified she must have been! Samuel Pepys proudly bragging about having kissed the desiccated corpse of Queen Catherine is rather disgusting - not the way you presented it, only his awkwardly worded description. I am certain Her Majesty would have given him a good sharp smack on the chops, had she been alive; I hope so, anyway.
100% about the Kenneth Branagh depiction of the play, and the scenes with Katherine.
That’s a wonderful movie, and the score is magnificent, one of the best movie soundtracks ever.
Always enjoy your videos. They are very informative. ❤
Great video Dr. Kat!
Thanks for covering another woman!
What about Tacinda Tudor? You mentioned Margaret, why didn't you mention her?
Queen❤❤❤❤ great video!
👑Great video.
👑👑Thanks, as always fascinating.
❤️ this. Thank you.
Fascinating and brilliant as always. Brava!! 👸
Another fantastic video!👑
Loved this one! 🥳❤️
Catching up on your channel again after an extended trip. Loved finding out about the queen that creepy Pepys did kiss.👸
Thank you for another great video.
👑⚜💥⚜👑 Very enjoyable video!
Thank You!🎪
Loved the video!!!!👑
Thank you
Thanks for a very informative video. 👑
leave it to Pepys to make things extra weird!!!
Dr. Kat!! I just learned on Cunk - which is hilarious and I was surprised to actually learn something - that the name "Tudor" was used as a derogatory name to the Tudors as it hearkened back to their podunk Welsh ancestor, and in fact, only Richard III used it. So....what surname did they use? Or did they not use a surname? I mean, surely, they weren't just known as Henry, Arthur, Mary, Elizabeth etc? Or maybe they were?
At this time Welsh surnames were patronyms, with 'ap' meaning 'son of' So Owain was Owain ap Meredudd ap Tudur in other words, Tudur was the first name of his grandfather. So there is nothing inherently derogatory about it but a name typical of a nation can be used as an insult, as in Taffy was a Welshman, Taffy was a thief, which is derived from an English mispronounciation of the Welsh name Dafydd. I'm not sure what options Owain had, except those two names and he is recorded in Catherine's household as Owen Meredith. However, Owen's grandfather Tudur (pronounced 'Tidder' not 'Tew-der', by the way) was a close relative of the famous Welsh leader ('rebel') Owain Glyndwr so it may be that people used that name rather than Meredith to underline how dodgy the family were.
@@myfanwyalexander1218 Thank you!
@@myfanwyalexander1218 Thank you. Very intresting to know 💕
😊👸 I'm not sure what to add. I love your videos
Thanks! This helped me understand how Henry VII was able to justify grabbing the throne. I can't find the emojis, sorry. I'd love to stick a queen in here somewhere.
I love how the portrait of Henry with his fingers curled makes it look like he’s typing something. Phillips Gregory fanfic? 😄
I love your videos.
Love your videos, I really enjoyed this subject thank you so much xxx
I’ve often wondered if Catherine passed the genes for mental illness on to Henry VI. We don’t know if Edmund Tudor would have suffered from mental illness as he aged but obviously Jaspers Tudor didn’t. And neither did Henry VII, however he could have carried it as a recessive gene and handed it to Henry VIII. He may have had mental health problems in later life.
I wonder the same, especially as Charles' mother, uncle, and grandfather all had mental health problems too (though in his mother's case, a good argument is made for severe postpartum depression, since her breakdown came after the birth of her sixth child, and she recovered within a few months).
Then again, we don't see much mental illness like that popping up in the families of Catherine's siblings (that I know of, correct me if I'm wrong), so who knows.