1066 – one of the most famous years in English history. In a succession crisis like no other three warlords separated by hundreds of miles and savage seas vied for control of the English throne in a series of bloody battle.
From Harald Hardrada’s crowning victory at Fulford to the renowned Battle of Hastings Dan Snow travels across England to visit the places where history was made. With the help of experts, including Marc Morris, Emily Ward and Michael Lewis, he discovers the story behind the battles and the tales from inside the walls of power. This is the story of 1066.
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What people miss about King Harold is just 3 weeks before Battle of Hastings, he marched 190 miles in 4 days to defeat the Vikings in the Battle of Stamford Bridge, ending Viking raids in England. And only after 3 days of resting at York, he had to rush back more distance in less than a week to face William.
Had he defeated William, this feat would have gone down as one of the greatest ever achieved in history…. but it was not to be
The early gang is here!
Is this not an old video?
Sloppy grammar. Sovereigns are crowned,not coronated.
Bloody Normans! William really was a Bastard. And in my mind, every British monarch ever since has been a usurper. Witan accepted Harold, so he was legit. William won , and there went the neighbourhood.
I'm fed up with the misconception that Harold got an arrow in the eye – he was hacked to bits by an elite Norman hit squad that went for his flag of arms. It all started with water damage in the middle ages on the Bayeux tapestry , the repair changed the man that was mistakenly identified as Harold from a soldier throwing a spear to a soldier getting an arrow in the eye – it's near where its written Harold killed in French or whatever language is used. If you look deep enough you can find out for yourselves, it's not exactly hidden – all those teachers telling the wrong story for centuries parrot fashion done a bad service as history teachers.
normans were nothing but medieval thugs.
why do i always get a 'subscribe' icon appearing periodically , when i already have done so? Sort it out please.Thank you,
House Scylfing is a clan of the sons of Odin and House Alpin is a clan of the sons of Fergus the Great. Both of the lost royal line of the Tribe of Dan, the descendants of Hercules- AKA Samson. Learn your history; 1066 marks the date the ENTIRETY of the British mainland was ruled by Jews including Northern Ireland, which was ruled by a clan of Spartans (Also lost Jewish descendants of Hercules) called the O'Neils IIRC.
Germans fighting French… in Britain.
Makes sense.
Didn't everything change England forever?
I think I may have seen this before.. Is that called 'deja vutube'?
Nice one Dan and team. 🌟👍
They now believe that the battle didn't take place at the abbey, but rather literally just down the road where a mini-roundabout now sits.
“Coronated” 😂😂 a new word. Does it mean something like ‘crowned’ ?
Interesting/depressing fact most land in England is still owned by the decedents of noblemen given land by William The Conqueror.
William was truly a great general and commander of men. He first commanded an army when he was 19 an won it. And i cannot think of a battle he lost.
Godwinson on the other hand was a one trick pony. His only strategy was surprise. It worked at Stamford Bridge, but not at Hastings. He just sat on the battlefield at Hastings and did nothing. When the Saxons broke rank and chased the Normans, he could have ridden up to them and ordered them back in line, but chose to do nothing.
William was proactive and even during the times when he seemed to be losing, kept the initiative. That's why he won.
Of course we have a fantastic DEI hire plopped into the narrative.
Great video, the lesser taught stuff about Fulford and Tostig was very interesting
I don't know who the young person at 7:00 is/was but surely she knows that 'coronated' isn't a word, try crowned ?
End the British Monarchy!
King Chuck just got a £45million bonus from the taxpayer for doing absolutely nothing – as usual.
Meaning of coronate in English:
to put a crown on someone's head in an official ceremony that makes that person king, queen, etc. Some people think this use is not correct and prefer to use the verb "crown.": King Charles was coronated, greeted with great excitement from some but apathy from others.
I wish History HIts paid streaming service was as good as there YouTube channel. The service stinks some of there Docs are 13min and you have to keep pressing play about 20 times to watch a 60 min plus program. But when they put the same thing on YouTube it plays the whole thing with no interruptions if you don’t have ADs. And I don’t like watching podcasts. Just saying
Too much B roll in this. The strength of YouTube is it's density of information. This is more like watching a BBC production with loads of padding, tempting us to become disinterested and move on. This is a shame, because a lot of thought and effort has been made here.
Bloody Normans! Apart from ending slavery in England, introducing common law, and building magnificent architecture, what have they ever done for us?
This Battle Result happened because of appearance of Halleys Comet
Same Halleys Comet appearance destroyed Chola Kingdom in India ( British India ) at the same time
The very first sentance says the battle took place at Senlac Hill. I'd like to see the evidence for such a statement as there is much debate, and none of it conclusive yet, about the location of the battle, be it a roundabout near Battle or nearer Heathfield. It does make be skeptical of the truth of the whole video, indeed, History Hit in general.
It was a wonderful historical coverage episode about 1066 AD …around British throne…amongst three ambitious figures….thank you 🙏 (history Hit ) channel for sharing
Heading to the comments section to see what the REAL experts have to say
It’s mad the level of Warlords who invaded England. What’s more shocking is that Harald Hardrada lost, the man was a seasoned battle commander, travelled all the to the Middle East fighting for the east Roman Empire and he gets unstuck by Godwinson, who’s army is so knackered marching up and down the country they in turn are in no state to take on the Normans. World history changes on the toss of a coin who ever won that year, madness.