In 1066, King Harold of England was killed at the Battle of Hastings. With him fell the house of Godwin and the long line of Saxon kings came to an end. Within two months, on Christmas day of that year, William the Bastard of Normandy was crowned in Westminster Abbey. Only then, having won his crown, did the new king unleash upon the land the crushing force of his ambition and truly became the conquerer.
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those Norman dogs. i'm of anglo saxon origin.
More of this!!!!!
William the Bastard? 😃
Medieval humour was quite “Monty Python”.
Excellent narration !! Excellent everything !!
Untold numbers of the finest men to ever live, fought/killed/died defending a people that have allowed their inheritance to be given away to alien invaders.
The blood of your ancestors is crying out from their graves.
Will no one hear it?
Cant hear narrator with all that background noise
can someone please confirm if this is about the conquering after hastings, or if it's just mostly about hastings? cause i'm not interested in yet another account of hastings, but the taking of england afterwards i am.
Harold had to march his army from the south up to York to defeat the viking army of Harald Hardrada in the battle of Stanford Bridge. Then he heard
that William had invaded down south, and so had to march his exhausted and depleted army down south again to face the second invader of his county
within a few short weeks. If the Bastard had had to face a fresh Saxon army instead of one exhausted by marching and battle the outcome would have
been very different.
Was it not Alfreds burgh system that enabled Harold G to fight off a Nordic King and then still defend the Kingdom in a glorious effort? I think so
French fighting germans on british soil!
Try setting your "narration" considerably higher in volume than the background and music – it helps the hard of hearing make out what you are saying. Cheers!
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💁🏽♂️ – we can’t have a real fire burning,for insurance reasons, we’ll just add a fire sound effect all the way through with a fire overlay too, but let’s add a copper bed warming pan in this scene cause that’ll make it look really old and historically authentic.
🙎🏽♂️- Great idea 👍🏽
Copper bed warmers were not really a thing in 1066 or even 1100. They were however popular in the 17th century 😳
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Fire your sound guy and editor. 😆
Calling William the Conqueror cruel is judging him by modern day standards. Most rulers of this era were not known for their gentle and retiring nature, Saxon or Norman. The documentary above brings out many important points, however. William was a fanatic Ghristian, but the Saxons were not pagan. It is very true that Saxon resistance though sometimes fierce was haphazard and disorganized, and that is the real mystery if William's treatment of the Saxons was so brutal.
And the biggest flaw is there is only one mention of the Normans being soundly defeated which was in Durham. William lost a lot of men, but discontent because of some his poor decisions is glossed over. And once I do believe he had to employ Saxon levies to put down his own Norman nobles.
Making William's conquest appear invevitable is a disservice to history. He had his close calls. And the more I read about the conquest, it is a wonder he had to deal with so many rebellions. For a ruler with such a fearsome reputation, his contemporaries did not give him much respect.
take care
rwmccoy
We want reparations from france they oppressed us took our lands and enslaved us they made us build there castles to oppress us . 10 million for each person with Anglo celtic ancestry 😁👍🏻🏴
I did my schooling Manitoba, Canada. I took British history in the last academic year it was legal for them to teach it to us (1969-70). Why have I never heard a hint in all my life about what a tyrant William the Conqueror was??? (Canada's "multiculturalism" and "cultural mosaic" meant that teaching British history was outlawed in Manitoba. Also, we have sales tax on English language books but not non-English books, and subsidy programs for non-founding culture ethnic studies and dance, for French ethnic studies and dance, aboriginal ethnic studies and dance, but not English, Irish, Scots, or Welsh ethnic studies or dance. That was Canada in the late 1960s and early to mid 1970s.)
In 2023, this is a very timely piece of history for US and Canadian people to watch.
I found the low narration volume to be a particular problem with THIS video. But then few of the YT videos I watch are made by historians. Clear audio is definitely possible with YT. The key is to have someone over age 65 not already familiar with the material listen to the audio using the sort of speakers that regular people have on their laptops and desktops before publishing it. AND to be extra certain viewers can understand, take the time to proofread the subtitles. Even with perfect audio, people in the Canada, Australia, NZ and the USA need to have the names and placenames spelled out.
Having only those familiar with the subject, who already know the names and placenames, who maybe even have read the script, validate the audio quality before publication is the probably the problem. You need fresh ears, aged ears, and regular desktop and laptop speakers.
Conqueror. With O.
I have been listening to British History Podcast and the whole take over of William to me sounds like a total tyrant. I’d listen to that podcast. Jamie is an amazing historian.
WE ANGLO-SAXONS DEMAND REPARATIONS!!!