I used to work as a tour guide at the Queens House in Greenwich in the 2000s and I would tell the story of Jeffrey’s life… I even went to his cottage in Oakham… fascinating to see this in 2024!
Some children were literally starved into the appearance of “dwarfism” for monetary gain in that era. … Much like micro pigs that “amazingly!” grow like weeds when not starved half to death. Human history is truly remarkable in its lack of humanity with regards to the unborn, infants and small children
He really did have a roller coaster of a life. I can relate. He went up, down, up, down, up, and down. He must have been so very strong on the inside to endure what he did.
The pants that belonged to hudson and were auctioned off in 2022 were 29 cm or 11.4 inches in length. To me this casts serious doubt as to whether he was actually 18 inches tall. If this was his body length from waist to ankles or even to the bottom of his feet then it would have left, what, about 6 1/2 inches for his torso and head? I don’t think so. He was tiny i have no doubt it but probably closer to 2 feet tall, his being tiny and proportioned is what really made people fascinated by him. I have seen primordial dwarves in modern times and they are similarly proportioned and also quite rare.
His pants then, if as seen in pictures, were breeches, tying below the knees. These were often poofed-up to give a balloon-like appearance. It’d be more accurate maybe, to figure that 11.4” length, halved by the poofing of them. So, maybe As-Worn, they might have been more like 5” or 6” to cover from his waist to below knees. The lower legs would likely have been slightly shorter than his thighs, so, maybe 4”. That leaves about 9” for upper torso & head. That could maybe fit the 18” height.
@@GlossyHop 18” at birth, is within normal limits for newborn. So, yes, very unusual for a mini-person to stay at that height as they mature-but not impossible. What does seem impossible, is for one so tiny, to somehow develop proportional body dimensions, & stay that tiny-but it’s possible their body might “mature” in height some, to be a bit more proportional. He could easily have been malnourished, vastly slowing growth-in olden times, it was used to create miniature humans, specifically to sell to royals…a very heinous practice. And, measuring tools then, we’re not necessarily standardized. Those pants auctioned, could have been some he wore when he started to grow (guessing that happened when he got better nutrition, sunlight, & maybe exercise). Long ago, PT Barnum invented the term, “midget”, referring to little people who were proportional (as-in, legs not bent & out of proportion, for instance, like with many dwarfs), but that term was also used as a derogatory slur. But hey-if you got to be pampered pet of a Royal (not all were treated well tho), it was maybe a different story.
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I think its fascinating that he grew while in North Africa...perhaps the change of climate, change of diet, or the regular heavy exercise affected his glands.
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It's amazing what people thought of illness and disease throughout history. So often it was wrongly diagnosed and believed to be a curse! Thank you for this enlightening look at such an example. The art used here, helped to establish the time period. Very well done. ❤❤❤
How does someone who is only 18” tall ride a horse! For the visual, a Barbie doll is 12”. He would not have reached my knee and my kids when newborns were 5” taller than him. I have no doubt he was a dwarf, but i highly suspect history has embellished his true height.
The video did say he was given a special saddle. I grew up with horses and a good horse is not difficult to control. I have seen many tiny children control enormous beautiful beasts. With the special saddle and maybe a few other accommodations it does not seem unlikely to me that he did ride.
There was no way you can believe he was 18 inches tall and also that he rode a horse and handled a gun. Nearly 4 feet as an adult, whoch he seems to have admitted to, still made him a midget
I believe he was a primordial dwarf because they are tiny but in perfect proportion. It’s highly unlikely he was only 18” tall. The drawings show him sitting on a horse….18” would be the size of a child’s doll. He would hardly have been able to function in any situation requiring the strength of even a 3 year old. More likely he was at least 3.5 ft.
Google 'Jeffery Hudson height' And the first thing that pops up is "and 14 years old and tall less than 35.4 in. (circa 90 cm.), Jeffrey Hudson (1619-circa 1682). At the age of 30, Hudson reached his final height of 42 or 45 in. (106-114 cm)."
Misleading title: Hudson didn't "define the 17th Century" and nothing in the video supports this claim. He was just a dude whose life had some extraordinary moments and who survived 25 years of North African slavery.
Treated like a pet.....punished like a man. The dichotomy. I'd be interested in the study of why he grew while being abused. Hormonal timing? 19" to almost 4 feet? oh, they had no idea what "caused" dwarfism, but I'm sure they made up fantastic stories. NO, they made him into a pie for fun? Ugh. He must have been gifted with a sense of humor as well, as he seemed to go along with the stunts. Charm and it would be extremely helpful in his position. Fascinating person.
@@toscadonna And earlier eg Debbie Reynolds in 'singing in the rain' Things bursting out of cakes was a well known stunt for big events during Royal/prestige events, cut the crust and songbirds burst out and fill the room etc.
Reminds me of that scene from “Boardwalk Empire”, when the leader of a troupe of dwarf entertainers was trying to double their payment for a humiliating performance. “Why’s that so humiliating?”, the mob boss who hired them asked. “What would you call it?” (Dressing as leprechauns for a St Patrick’s Day party). “Show business”, he said matter of factly.
Wow, I should be so lucky as to be exploited by a queen for being tiny. I’m wondering what other work prospects there were for a very small little person. Most occupations were not well suited to little people.
My ancestor would have known Hudson. My many times great grandfather was Baron of Orior who was at the Court of King Charles 1st. He fought in the English Civil War on the Royalist side !
I grew up in Oakham and his small thatched cottage was on the walk to town low and squat and right beside what had become a very busy road .I saw that his home had been modernised recently and it looked to me to have lost its character inside.
My goodness for being tiny in form , he was quite intelligent! He lived along time which I think was amazing for the Era, and to experience all those things I am glad I saw this video 😊😊
What a lot of commentors are forgetting that back in the 17th century the people of the time were smaller than we are now. I think for every generation is an inch taller than the last.
Yeah they were shorter sure but it’s not like they were 3 feet tall, lol, and an inch per generation is just crazy. The average height of a man in the US today is about 5 feet 6 inches. Let’s say 25 years per generation, hudson was born in 1619 so 405 years ago, divide that by 25 and that was 16.2 generations ago which we will round off at 16. According to your suggestion this would mean the average height of a man in 1619 would have been 4 feet 2 inches which seems excessively short to me, but possible i guess. However if we followed this logic further back to the year 1300 and do the same math we would end up with an average height for men of 3 feet 1 inch or 37 inches. So, go back 37 more generations to the year 375 and we would have a height of well, 0, lol. Just saying.
All 3 of my newborns were born 22 inches long. Most little people are also considerably taller than this. So it’s got to be exaggerated. No doubt he was short. But not 18”.
Guinness World Records recently recorded The Worlds Tallest and Smallest Women.The smallest is 24 inches so my point being anything is possible. The internet, while informative, is not the absolute answer to every question. To me, it was Mr. Hudson’s ability to adapt to each new situation that was the story. ❤ The point was a small man led a big life .
I find it interesting how when commenting or writing about people's lives there seems to be a complete utter failure to try to grasp the point of view of the individual and the times that they lived in. This set is begun as though this man was treated poorly. Treated poorly, compared to what? 99% of the population or better lived in abject poverty and misery their entire lives. This individual who today we might might refer to as handicapped or special needs, was indeed exceptionally fortunate. The fact that he had to squirm out of a pie add parade up and down a table in front of elites shows how indeed fortunate he was. If you had not been scooped up by the elites of the day, it's not likely he would have seen age 10. Compared to what challenge. If you disagree with me I challenge you to put your cell phone down for an entire month and not pick it up. It's likely that would be called a hardship today.
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Semantics. "Die" is guttural, so it can be seen as a type of disrespect to say that someone "died." Many use the euphemism "passed" as an alternative. It doesn't necessarily have a spiritual connotation. I assume that's why you had a problem with its use, though.
If the 17th century portraitist, Anthony van Dyck, is to be credited with painting with any proportional accuracy, then Queen Henrietta Maria must not have been much, if anything, over 40" (3' - 4") herself!! Poetic licence is very much in play when some people, even Wikipedia, report Jeffrey Hudson's height to be a mere 18".
Barber surgeons were different from physicians and considered to be lesser healers. Physicians had a more formal education. You wouldn’t want to be treated by either of them!
Hudson murdered a royal. That’s the worst crime one could commit back then. And that Royal didn’t want to duel with him. How do you convince yourself to harm someone who’s 18” tall? It’s absurd. The Royal would’ve been shamed for life for fighting this tiny man; it was such an unfair fight.
@@AltaMirage Absolutely. He was an object, little more than a toy, exploited for the amusement of the aristocracy. I suspect he was abused, as there is some evidence that folks him were sexually exploited, including as children by those who owned them. They were beaten. I can only imagine how much he resented all the jokes and cruel comments. He would not dare to insult them in return, but had to play along in order to keep the secure place the Queen had given him. If you were to read about the conditions of most people who were different from the norm during, you would be horrified. In many cases he would have been closer to the slavery he experienced after he was captured. For the most part, they were considered oddities, not human beings.
What was the horrible act he committed? Yes, dualing was outlawed, but it wasn't a horrible act, it wasab agreed upon dual. Did he know the other man had a toy gun? If so then yes, it was terrible.
My premie twins were 16 inches and they were 7 weeks early! I wonder his size at birth. It sounds as though he was born of normal size . Very strange to consider a grown man 18 inches tall.
@DavidJohnRedwood I’d say it’s not clickbait but rather a story of a dwarf that turned into loads of fantasy. I grabbed the tape measure and put 18 inches on the wall. Zero chance the details are correct here. Also googled primordial dwarfism ( we have a family in town that was on the news). It’s very obvious they are dwarfs. So my best assessment is 1. Royal people were disgusting humans beings to collect humans. 2. Royal stories are fantasy that’s fisherman’s large fish that go away story. He was probably 3 ft tall. At any rate it’s useless mind rot like much of TH-cam and I have months of recovery to rot the mind. Carry on
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I remember the gyno saying...she's a long one! He later saw her 6'6" father and laughed. She finished out at 6.0. (I'm 5"4") "Sweetie, can you reach that for mommy?" LOL
Think he would've been a perfect spy or killer for his queen he could sneak in & out and could hide easy but they judge by size of the dog instead of the fight of the dog he may have been 18 inches but inside he was Goliath
I wish there wasn't background noise. It detracts from the very good narration. Many channels do better with good narration and no auditory distraction.
Great vid! Thank you! Interestingly Hudson believed that the he gained in height during his captivity not on account of "hardships" but on account of being regularly sodomised whilst a slave.
About height snd other neasures I read that neasures were taken from the kings body His foot was the foot neasure or so it was written Eighteen inches masy have been taller than present dsy measure That he was proprtional was the remarkable thing
18” is the size of a small baby. How can a body that stays the size of a newborn, become proportional? Maybe, he was taller than 18”, but media-spread to be so small…?
I used to work as a tour guide at the Queens House in Greenwich in the 2000s and I would tell the story of Jeffrey’s life… I even went to his cottage in Oakham… fascinating to see this in 2024!
Some children were literally starved into the appearance of “dwarfism” for monetary gain in that era. …
Much like micro pigs that “amazingly!” grow like weeds when not starved half to death.
Human history is truly remarkable in its lack of humanity with regards to the unborn, infants and small children
He really did have a roller coaster of a life. I can relate. He went up, down, up, down, up, and down. He must have been so very strong on the inside to endure what he did.
The pants that belonged to hudson and were auctioned off in 2022 were 29 cm or 11.4 inches in length. To me this casts serious doubt as to whether he was actually 18 inches tall. If this was his body length from waist to ankles or even to the bottom of his feet then it would have left, what, about 6 1/2 inches for his torso and head? I don’t think so. He was tiny i have no doubt it but probably closer to 2 feet tall, his being tiny and proportioned is what really made people fascinated by him. I have seen primordial dwarves in modern times and they are similarly proportioned and also quite rare.
His pants then, if as seen in pictures, were breeches, tying below the knees. These were often poofed-up to give a balloon-like appearance.
It’d be more accurate maybe, to figure that 11.4” length, halved by the poofing of them.
So, maybe As-Worn, they might have been more like 5” or 6” to cover from his waist to below knees. The lower legs would likely have been slightly shorter than his thighs, so, maybe 4”. That leaves about 9” for upper torso & head.
That could maybe fit the 18” height.
@@allanplant8756 The pants were measured using today’s measurements.
Exactly! Most babies are born over 18” long so I don’t buy that at all.
⭐It is common to measure the length of pants, from waist to hem on the out-seam.
@@GlossyHop 18” at birth, is within normal limits for newborn. So, yes, very unusual for a mini-person to stay at that height as they mature-but not impossible.
What does seem impossible, is for one so tiny, to somehow develop proportional body dimensions, & stay that tiny-but it’s possible their body might “mature” in height some, to be a bit more proportional.
He could easily have been malnourished, vastly slowing growth-in olden times, it was used to create miniature humans, specifically to sell to royals…a very heinous practice.
And, measuring tools then, we’re not necessarily standardized.
Those pants auctioned, could have been some he wore when he started to grow (guessing that happened when he got better nutrition, sunlight, & maybe exercise).
Long ago, PT Barnum invented the term, “midget”, referring to little people who were proportional (as-in, legs not bent & out of proportion, for instance, like with many dwarfs), but that term was also used as a derogatory slur.
But hey-if you got to be pampered pet of a Royal (not all were treated well tho), it was maybe a different story.
Greatness isn’t measured in stature but in the greatness of your works and how you react to adversity
Unless it is basketball
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Um, are you living in the world today?
@ loving every minute of it!!! Lotta half empty types usually they’re either lazy with a head completely empty! Tons of greatness and good works though and planting positive seeds into the future and faith in God are the keys to the universe
@@julianshepherd2038 lol 😂 true that
I think its fascinating that he grew while in North Africa...perhaps the change of climate, change of diet, or the regular heavy exercise affected his glands.
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The comprachicos had different methods for creating dwarfs.
he was probably 4ft to start with and exaggerated his previous size to 'enhance' his celebrity
18" is SO FUKING SMALL lol
Or, it's hype to sell their popularity. Everyone loves a good story.
It's amazing what people thought of illness and disease throughout history. So often it was wrongly diagnosed and believed to be a curse! Thank you for this enlightening look at such an example. The art used here, helped to establish the time period. Very well done. ❤❤❤
The British Museum listed him at 45 inches as an adult.
Thank you bc 18" seems unimaginable. Babies are born at 17" - 22" long typically.
No, they listed him as 46 cm. It wasn't until his 30th year that it is reported that he measured in at 42 in.
How does someone who is only 18” tall ride a horse! For the visual, a Barbie doll is 12”. He would not have reached my knee and my kids when newborns were 5” taller than him. I have no doubt he was a dwarf, but i highly suspect history has embellished his true height.
Right 18 inches
He must have used a ladder.
The video did say he was given a special saddle. I grew up with horses and a good horse is not difficult to control. I have seen many tiny children control enormous beautiful beasts. With the special saddle and maybe a few other accommodations it does not seem unlikely to me that he did ride.
That's what I thought!
The video said special saddle.
The English pub sign ,'' The Dwarf and Giant '', commerates these two people
Well, he lived his best life. Seeing things from a different angle. What a large hearted small man.
I’m trying to work out how Yorkshire could possibly be on the way back to England from the Netherlands…
Have you checked out ferries and the other ways to hitch a ride on commercial or private ship?
They were like toys. Possessions and property not persons. It’s disgusting.
There was no way you can believe he was 18 inches tall and also that he rode a horse and handled a gun.
Nearly 4 feet as an adult, whoch he seems to have admitted to, still made him a midget
Poor Hudson.
He certainly had a knack of being in the wrong place at the wrong time.
I believe he was a primordial dwarf because they are tiny but in perfect proportion. It’s highly unlikely he was only 18” tall. The drawings show him sitting on a horse….18” would be the size of a child’s doll. He would hardly have been able to function in any situation requiring the strength of even a 3 year old. More likely he was at least 3.5 ft.
Enjoyed very much but would be better knowing his age at each stage
Google 'Jeffery Hudson height'
And the first thing that pops up is "and 14 years old and tall less than 35.4 in. (circa 90 cm.), Jeffrey Hudson (1619-circa 1682). At the age of 30, Hudson reached his final height of 42 or 45 in. (106-114 cm)."
Im sure he would be shocked his pants were sold for 10,000 pounds 350 later
Fascinating docu, and very well done!
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Misleading title: Hudson didn't "define the 17th Century" and nothing in the video supports this claim. He was just a dude whose life had some extraordinary moments and who survived 25 years of North African slavery.
I wonder if he inspired CS Lewis to write the Mouse Knight in “The Chronicles Of Narnia”.
Treated like a pet.....punished like a man. The dichotomy. I'd be interested in the study of why he grew while being abused. Hormonal timing? 19" to almost 4 feet? oh, they had no idea what "caused" dwarfism, but I'm sure they made up fantastic stories. NO, they made him into a pie for fun? Ugh. He must have been gifted with a sense of humor as well, as he seemed to go along with the stunts. Charm and it would be extremely helpful in his position. Fascinating person.
Girls used to pop out of cakes all of the time in the 70s and 80s. It’s a well-known gag.
@@toscadonna And earlier eg Debbie Reynolds in 'singing in the rain'
Things bursting out of cakes was a well known stunt for big events during Royal/prestige events, cut the crust and songbirds burst out and fill the room etc.
Diet was the reason he grew.
In fairness pets were punished in those days as well they even had trials for them even farm animals that got particularly rowdy.
Reminds me of that scene from “Boardwalk Empire”, when the leader of a troupe of dwarf entertainers was trying to double their payment for a humiliating performance.
“Why’s that so humiliating?”, the mob boss who hired them asked.
“What would you call it?” (Dressing as leprechauns for a St Patrick’s Day party).
“Show business”, he said matter of factly.
Wow, I should be so lucky as to be exploited by a queen for being tiny. I’m wondering what other work prospects there were for a very small little person. Most occupations were not well suited to little people.
choking on a pickle is a euphonism, think about it.
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My ancestor would have known Hudson. My many times great grandfather was Baron of Orior who was at the Court of King Charles 1st. He fought in the English Civil War on the Royalist side !
Great video!
I grew up in Oakham and his small thatched cottage was on the walk to town low and squat and right beside what had become a very busy road .I saw that his home had been modernised recently and it looked to me to have lost its character inside.
18 inches tall? seems unlikely
There are several primordial dwarfs who are/were 21-25 inches tall... So it is possible, and even likely.
My goodness for being tiny in form , he was quite intelligent! He lived along time which I think was amazing for the Era, and to experience all those things I am glad I saw this video 😊😊
One’s intelligence has nothing to do either their size.
Lots and lots of people lived a long time back then. Not everybody died at 35
WTH has one's size to do with their intelligence??
I very much enjoyed that and I am subscribing!
Bless his heart. Rest in peace Hudson, you are not forgotten.
It wasn't the hiding in the pie crust, it was the baking that made it uncomfortable!
;)
He had Primordial Dwarfism, I reckon.
Or Idiopathic Growth Retardation
I thought so too but I don't think people affected with this live till 60 nowadays so how did he manage all the way back then?
People with that condition look very different and don't normally survive to 20 years old.
Absolutely his features are very different. @michaelcaffery5038
Even in the paintings , his size is far more than 18 inches as is shown in the size comparrison between him and a spaniel dog
This is a wonderful story
I read the book. Very good.
No it made him fashionable. For them to keep them at court. As you mentioned they were gifted. To royal friends.
I had to google him and found his armor bruh
What a lot of commentors are forgetting that back in the 17th century the people of the time were smaller than we are now. I think for every generation is an inch taller than the last.
Ya, but never below 5’5” average or 65” , 18”??! even little people like that’s another thing….that’s generational inbreeding
Yeah they were shorter sure but it’s not like they were 3 feet tall, lol, and an inch per generation is just crazy. The average height of a man in the US today is about 5 feet 6 inches. Let’s say 25 years per generation, hudson was born in 1619 so 405 years ago, divide that by 25 and that was 16.2 generations ago which we will round off at 16. According to your suggestion this would mean the average height of a man in 1619 would have been 4 feet 2 inches which seems excessively short to me, but possible i guess. However if we followed this logic further back to the year 1300 and do the same math we would end up with an average height for men of 3 feet 1 inch or 37 inches. So, go back 37 more generations to the year 375 and we would have a height of well, 0, lol. Just saying.
The queen had her own private collection of oddities it's disgusting how they were exploited much like in the late 1800s with the elephant 🐘 man
Enjoy your stories, nice video
All 3 of my newborns were born 22 inches long. Most little people are also considerably taller than this. So it’s got to be exaggerated. No doubt he was short. But not 18”.
Guinness World Records recently recorded The Worlds Tallest and Smallest Women.The smallest is 24 inches so my point being anything is possible. The internet, while informative, is not the absolute answer to every question.
To me, it was Mr. Hudson’s ability to adapt to each new situation that was the story. ❤ The point was a small man led a big life .
Loved this!
Dude was livin' large
He was 3'6"
The Oakham Brewery make a very nice beer called JHB, Jeffrey Hudson Bitter. Nice!
Love and peace.
Very good!!
Still wondering what “horrific act” he committed?
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@@Justin.Martyr by the mores ( Standards) of the day that was hardly “horrific”.
@@bradpaul8576 did you watch the video at all?
@ yes, I watched all the way through. I still cannot find the “ horrific act”.
The duel
I find it interesting how when commenting or writing about people's lives there seems to be a complete utter failure to try to grasp the point of view of the individual and the times that they lived in. This set is begun as though this man was treated poorly.
Treated poorly, compared to what? 99% of the population or better lived in abject poverty and misery their entire lives. This individual who today we might might refer to as handicapped or special needs, was indeed exceptionally fortunate. The fact that he had to squirm out of a pie add parade up and down a table in front of elites shows how indeed fortunate he was. If you had not been scooped up by the elites of the day, it's not likely he would have seen age 10.
Compared to what challenge.
If you disagree with me I challenge you to put your cell phone down for an entire month and not pick it up. It's likely that would be called a hardship today.
Hand to hand confrontation? Hand to shin confrontation, maybe?
But little man had a force multiplier.
Just one thing people don’t “ pass “ they “” die “”.
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Energy dose not cease to exist so yes I would use pass. Seeing as the energy in humans passes to a different form of energy
Semantics. "Die" is guttural, so it can be seen as a type of disrespect to say that someone "died." Many use the euphemism "passed" as an alternative. It doesn't necessarily have a spiritual connotation. I assume that's why you had a problem with its use, though.
@@FirstLast-vr7esdisrespect to say someone dies! Guttural is disrespectful?! Let’s hope the French don’t get to hear…
@@djpokeeffe8019 I used guttural in the wrong context, but yes. It's just a harsh way to put it. So, people often use the euphemism "passed" instead.
That's not 18" .
If the 17th century portraitist, Anthony van Dyck, is to be credited with painting with any proportional accuracy, then Queen Henrietta Maria must not have been much, if anything, over 40" (3' - 4") herself!! Poetic licence is very much in play when some people, even Wikipedia, report Jeffrey Hudson's height to be a mere 18".
When you say Doctors, you do in fact mean to say Barbers?
Barber surgeons were different from physicians and considered to be lesser healers. Physicians had a more formal education. You wouldn’t want to be treated by either of them!
Nobody here has heard of primordial dwarfism. Where they are born tiny and stay small?
He wasn’t a dwarf. He was a midget.
It's my understanding that a small person who's anatomically correct is a midget not a dwarf.
The correct term is vertically challenged.../sigh
I'm surprised he wasn't described as a midget, as, unlike dwarves, he was in proportion - at least according to the drawings of the day!
Thank you
Lol ye the queen sent him w her husband because she knew that story about "securing a midwife " was sus
Choked on a pickle 🥒 lmao
What kind of horrific act exactly did he commit? Or yet another clickbait
Oh, they're referring to the duel. Not quite as "horrific" when viewed through the lens of their century.
Hudson murdered a royal. That’s the worst crime one could commit back then. And that Royal didn’t want to duel with him. How do you convince yourself to harm someone who’s 18” tall? It’s absurd. The Royal would’ve been shamed for life for fighting this tiny man; it was such an unfair fight.
@@toscadonna The royal didn't come to the duel to reconcile, he came to further insult him. He died from his own stupidity.
his opponent in the duel had a water pistol...Hudson had a real gun and shot him to death...that's quite horrific eh?
@hughiepearce given the fact that he obviously didn't know that in the first place - then no
He went from a farm to a royal court and Hudson was unhappy 😂
Happiness is nit a function of wealth.
Clearly you have not experienced a Royal Court.
@@sharonkaczorowski8690 Nor of being an object of distraction and ridicule kept as a pet by the powerful.
@@AltaMirage Absolutely. He was an object, little more than a toy, exploited for the amusement of the aristocracy. I suspect he was abused, as there is some evidence that folks him were sexually exploited, including as children by those who owned them. They were beaten. I can only imagine how much he resented all the jokes and cruel comments. He would not dare to insult them in return, but had to play along in order to keep the secure place the Queen had given him. If you were to read about the conditions of most people who were different from the norm during, you would be horrified. In many cases he would have been closer to the slavery he experienced after he was captured. For the most part, they were considered oddities, not human beings.
@@AltaMirage He had food, a warm place to stay, nice clothes, etc., very different from living on a small farm during that time.
Great video! I'm sure he would have sold his soul to be of normal size.
What was the horrible act he committed? Yes, dualing was outlawed, but it wasn't a horrible act, it wasab agreed upon dual. Did he know the other man had a toy gun? If so then yes, it was terrible.
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Someone who is kind and intelligent …finally ❤ bless you 🙏🏼
My kids were born taller…
My premie twins were 16 inches and they were 7 weeks early! I wonder his size at birth. It sounds as though he was born of normal size . Very strange to consider a grown man 18 inches tall.
@DavidJohnRedwood I’d say it’s not clickbait but rather a story of a dwarf that turned into loads of fantasy. I grabbed the tape measure and put 18 inches on the wall. Zero chance the details are correct here. Also googled primordial dwarfism ( we have a family in town that was on the news). It’s very obvious they are dwarfs. So my best assessment is 1. Royal people were disgusting humans beings to collect humans.
2. Royal stories are fantasy that’s fisherman’s large fish that go away story.
He was probably 3 ft tall.
At any rate it’s useless mind rot like much of TH-cam and I have months of recovery to rot the mind. Carry on
@DavidJohnRedwood btw his wiki page doesn’t clear up his height lol Google was a dead end
Right now there is a 21” tall man. There is no reason to assume he was born normal sized.
Mine too !
18” tall? Come on. That has to be an exaggeration.
18 inches? Ok....
He was a midget, not a dwarf.
oh snap, Game of Thrones was a documentary...
This would make a great movie
Wonderful story, really really annoying background music
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I like it 😅
How did an 18” tall man beat a full grown man in a duel?
He shot him. The other guy didn't have a proper gun.
When he laid on his back he was even taller 😵😳
Joe Rogan could play him in the movie
😂😂😂😂😂😂
I’ll put in to make that happen
Tyrian Lannister
The illustration at 18:15 shows him to be around 8” tall 🤣
My son was 22.5 inches at birth
Mine was 23.75 inches at birth. His sister 21 inches.
I remember the gyno saying...she's a long one! He later saw her 6'6" father and laughed. She finished out at 6.0. (I'm 5"4") "Sweetie, can you reach that for mommy?" LOL
My my ... you've obviously never chocked on a pickle Ma'am ...........
He was smaller than most newborns!
Think he would've been a perfect spy or killer for his queen he could sneak in & out and could hide easy but they judge by size of the dog instead of the fight of the dog he may have been 18 inches but inside he was Goliath
Children are 'little people'.
I wish there wasn't background noise. It detracts from the very good narration. Many channels do better with good narration and no auditory distraction.
Has this been turned into a movie yet?
18 inches is questionable in my opinion
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Great vid! Thank you! Interestingly Hudson believed that the he gained in height during his captivity not on account of "hardships" but on account of being regularly sodomised whilst a slave.
Great story...should be a movie 😢
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Most babies are born at least that long. What sort of dwarfism is this?
Is this OG Tyrion ?
About height snd other neasures
I read that neasures were taken from the kings body
His foot was the foot neasure or so it was written
Eighteen inches masy have been taller than present dsy measure
That he was proprtional was the remarkable thing
18” is the size of a small baby. How can a body that stays the size of a newborn, become proportional?
Maybe, he was taller than 18”, but media-spread to be so small…?
@ 6:00 - "She" went hunting and enjoyed good food.
How would they verify the provenance of the pants?
Why I never knew!
It was but a small crime
What was the “horrific act?”