The Fight for Scottish Independence | The Life & Times of Robert the Bruce
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March 19, 1286. King Alexander III, whom you might vaguely recall from the Haakon IV video as a king who existed, is dead. His only heir is his three-year-old granddaughter, who was also the daughter of the king of Norway and married to the crown prince of England, it was beginning to look like the band was getting back together! Then she died. And now, well, there was no obvious successor, and a lot of people had a claim to the throne. The council who was ruling the kingdom on the queen’s behalf decide in order to prevent civil war that they need a third party to weigh in, someone totally divorced from the situation with no interest in Scottish politics. And unfortunately they chose... the king of England. Who chose a guy, then quickly deposed him and put an Englishman in charge. Thus the stage was set for the wars of Scottish independence, featuring a lot less blue facepaint, a lot more backstabbing, and just a little bit more numberwang.
Fun fact, for some reason this video is showing up as the 6th or 7th result for Numberwang on CZcams just because it shows up once in the subtitles. I wonder what happens if I put Numberwang in the description and tags a couple of times. Numberwang.
Music (in order of appearance):
Kevin Macleod - Scottish Jigs
Kevin Macleod - Hidden Past
San Francisco Symphonic Assembling covering Monty Python - King Arthur's Theme
Kevin Macleod - Court of the Queen
Kevin Macleod - Final Battle of the Dark Wizards
Kevin Macleod - Eternal Hope
Kevin Macleod - Reign
Kevin Macleod - Volatile Reaction
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I’m so pissed I never even knew this video existed and it’s a blast, also the Monty python music when we cut to London is hilarious
@@TheOfficalBiggestBird lol, technically this video isn't released yet
@@JackRackam Dang it isn’t? Well hope you continue to keep at it with the amazing videos. You really are entertaining while keeping sometimes obscure historical topics known.
You are aware that these Scottish laird "titles" are scams. Right?
Edit: also, these scam sites are sometimes money laundering schemes or phishing scams on top of being regular scams as well. Be very careful everyone.
I haven't seen EstablishedTitles before but there's thousands of these websites that boldly claim that you can legally call yourself a lord/laird or lady or whatever and they always put in the small print that people calling Scottish landlords "lords" or "lairds" of "Glenmore" is a colloquial term/joke and it doesn't legally entitled you to anything.
The house of lords even decided to weigh in on this and the court of Lord Lyons (the guy responsible for all arms and bearings in Scotland, as well as records of noble genealogies) directly stated that:
"The ownership of “souvenir” plots of land of a few square feet or thereby such as are marketed from time to time, is insufficient to bring anyone within the jurisdiction of the Lord Lyon King of Arms."
As far as I'm aware the only way of "officially" buying any sort of feudal (let alone an actual peerage title) title in the UK is through manorial lordships and even that's rife with scams and the house of lord again came out and warned people to not only fall for these scams (and then call and complain to them that is) but that manorial lordships only entitle you to getting a "Lord of X Manor" on your ID and that's about it.
Scottish laid titles absolutely can't be bought and sold and especially not with useless tiny "souvenir" plots. It doesn't entitle one to anything.
I just find it strange how so many people skip from Wallace's victory to Bruce's, as if there weren't 11 years of buffer-zone with various other rulers in between.
Because this isn't a video about a certain timeline, but Bruce's history
Maybe read up on Wallace's victory. I mean he was there. I'll give him that.
It was a 10minute video.
"Who you might recall as a king who existed"
The best kind of king
Exactly! It's hit or miss with the ones who didn't exist, but when it comes to the ones that did, you always know what you're in for
@@JackRackam Yeah. Grotesque tyranny. Vive la République !
@@JackRackam and it’s not usually good tbh
Do a video about Puyi, from him being a child Emperor, then losing the mandate of heaven, then puppet of warlords and Japanese, then becoming a civil servant in the PRC.
Yeah, that would be a great video.
There’s a movie about him, The Last Emperor
Imagine becoming a dedicated Communist Emperor
@@bosunbill9059 yeah.... imagine..
All the while being obsessed with phones
Robert the Bruce is a textbook example of learning from your past mistakes, changing things up, and then winning in the end.
A rare thing in rulers, considering how failures often end, but magnificent when it happens. Heraclius certainly comes to mind for that archetype as well.
Or ironically Edward 1 in the second barons war
Right there with Emepror Alexios then
"By this point Wallace doesn't matter anymore"....and the wail of millions of Braveheart bros was heard around the galaxy.
Eh I didn’t like the movie. Wasn’t historically accurate in terms of weapons and armour and such.
@@danb9460 Or events that took place. I guess it was a little off.
Who cares lol It was just entertaining I loved the movie and the premise behind it regardless of accuracy
The irony being that the epiphet "Braveheart" referred to ROBERT THE BRUCE & not William Wallace Until Mel Gibson's movie.
Robert had once made a solemn vow to go on pilgrimage to the Holy Land, but never had time to do so while getting war-torn Scotland back on its feet. So, after Robert died, his buddy Sir James Douglas/Black Douglas took King Robert's actual HEART in a box while crusading in the Holy Land.
@@thisasiankidistrashfordram374 Bruce was never referred to as Braveheart/Brave Heart and his heart is buried in Melrose Abbey, as per his final wishes. He did request that his heart be taken to the holy land first but the crusade never materialized so instead, John Douglas and co took it with them to fight the Muslims in Spain. Unfortunately, almost the entire group was killed in the first battle so the heart and Douglas's body were sent back to Scotland and the heart finally laid to rest in Melrose.
William Wallace: “Who are you?”
Robert de Bruce: “I’m you, but successful… and less famous, but hey, you win some, you lose some”
Less famous abroad, but ol' Bruce is the one on the notes up here.
D-Did he just sneak an ad into the general storytelling? Well played Rackham well played...
That made me lol
A good topic for the future: Thomas Alexandre Dumas. The Real life count of Monte Cristo. He was the son of Hatitian Slave Woman. He became a high ranking general in the French Army during the French Revolutionary Wars. His son Alexandre Dumas used his father as the inspiration for his books like the Count of Monte Cristo.
Also Brian Boru King of Ireland would be a great topic.
Would love to see one on Brian Boru
@@comettamer It would be perfect of a March/St Patrick's day episode
Don't forget how Dumas won battles for NAPOLEON, then butted heads with ol Boni (who tried to restore slavery in the colonies). Taken as POW & denied pension when he got out.
I have to say Outlaw King is one of my favourite historical or historical drama movies plus that is also one of the few ones that the production and director actually tried to make it as accurate as possible(armour, everyday clothing, traditions of the time, actual events etc...). This film deserves as equal recognition as Braveheart.
Robert the Bruce in general is a fascinating individual in history.
Yeah I couldn't believe how much I enjoyed this film
Chris Pine actually doing a half decent Scottish accent.
And then they screwed it all up by having a final battle that did not remotely resemble the real one/s (Battle of Loudoun Hill and Battle of Bannockburn), and placing Edwards I and II where they should not have been. Also, the everyday clothing generally lacked the most common color of Scottish clothing of the time, yellow. They get a C for effort.
@@westrim I don't think its that bad, they definitely messed a few things up but they got so much right I'd atheist give it a B
edward 2nd didnt fight at loudoun hill
It gives me the warm fuzzies how literally every retelling of the Scottish war for independence is more interesting than Braveheart because it uses the ACTUAL history which is already cool and doesn’t need embellishments.
Edit: also interesting thing Jack didn’t have time for, John Balials (no idea how it’s spelled,) still kicking around and this entire time he’s still the papal recognized king of Scotland, so Robby and his mates write this big letter to the pope arguing that unlike most monarchs the PEOPLE of Scotland chose him to be king, and this document is still an important piece in Scottish nationalism as it basically declared only the Scottish people could choose their ruler which has all sorts of later consequences when we get to the Jacobins.
It's John Balliol btw.
You mean Jacobites? Jacobins are the French hardcore revolutionaries.
@@avantelvsitania3359 I didn’t get any sleep last night lol
Braveheart is still a highly entertaining movie, just not very historical
@@magivkmeister6166 I'm not a fan of 'Braveheart', but to be fair to it, it's adapted from a novel rather than (initially at least) purporting to be a true account of history.
Honestly, Edward I would be an interesting video on his own. Survives the Hassasin's, took over Wales, helped popularised easter eggs and escaped capture by tiring out the horses they had.
I'm sorry. Easter Eggs? I am picturing a euphamism?
@@blenderbanana Nope, he had 450 eggs covered in gold leaf and sent to his court as a easter present.
@@givemethelamp2652 And Not worth a single I-Phone Processor. Even the gifts sucked; back then 😒
@@blenderbanana Hey, could he worse - he gave Wales a ring of iron after their rebellion and, after his wife died, planted 12 crosses all across England, with the most famous one in Charing Cross.
Jack Rackam If you do a video of Edward The 1st then mention that he was a anti Semite who expelled Jewish people from England which was wrong.
I didn't even notice the yellow bar creeping acrols the screen until that one nobleman yelled, "Oh my god, I think we're in an ad".
El Cid, and Robert the Bruce within the same week? Awesome!
9:06 Edward II confusing the circular and rectangular schiltrons. The circular was indeed only good for defense, but Robert was using the rectangular schiltron at Bannockburn, and that one was effective on offense as well as defense. And yes, I did watch K&G's short explaining the schiltrons.
Wallace was the one who fought the English at Stirling
@@Bobthebuilder-yq6bw Ah, I got confused due to Stirling being mentioned as the castle in video, but the battlefield not being mentioned. Will fix the original comment after posting this reply
It's fine just thought you wanted to know
@@Bobthebuilder-yq6bw funnily enough it has been debated that Andrew Murray was the true tactician behind the victory at Stirling bridge perhaps explaining the tragic loss at falkirk led by wallace
What I learned... Robert the Bruce's life was one long Monty Python sketch.
👍
I absolutely lost it at the Australian bruce 😂
"Okay, everyone who is isn't from the 13th century out! Out!"
A bunch of guys in plate armour (most rather fantasy-looking) stay anyway. :)
👀
It's Bobby Bruce! I love this guy in Civ 6 he's always fun to play with/against
(A song from Sabaton's "The Last Stand" album on the subject of Bannockburn begins playing ominously in the background)
An English account of the wars for the Scottish crown - “1291: That’s Numberwang! 1296: Yes! That’s Numberwang! 1297: I’m sorry, that’s not Numberwang. 1300: that’s it! That’s Numberwang!! 1314: Oh dear, I’m afraid that isn’t Numberwang.”
"A history of England 1066-present as told by Numberwang"
but is it Wangernum?
I wonder when zero first appeared on Numberwang. You haven’t made it as a number until you’re on it.
Pretty sure the accents for the majority of both sides in the main conflict here should be "hon hon hon oui oui baguette"
Robert the Bruce and Edward were both Anglo-Normans and primarily spoke French.
@PHX Swan That's Gaelic mythology. Scythians are specifically Indo-Iranian which means they definitely are not actually the ancestors of Celts though. More like cousins. (though there is actually a lot of leeway here as people in the past used "Scythians" _very_ broadly to refer to numerous steppe peoples. Of course not all of these should be treated as the same as the 'real' Scythians.)
It's an interesting story, but it's about the same to me as the Sagas claiming Thor is descended from Agamemnon or everyone and their dad claiming to be Trojan. At least if we think of them as the same as the Saka we actually recognize as Saka/Scythians today.
@PHX Swan Yeah, I know it's from his letter. I'm saying people back then made assumptions based on myths too. The English thought they were descendant from Trojans at the time.
All Indo-European cultures are descended from the Yamnaya culture of the Pontic-Caspian Steppe, North of the Black Sea. They're not Scythians but Scythians are some of their descendants. The thing is Scythians are an Iranian people and don't predate the Halstatt and La Tène cultures associated with Celts. So they'd be more like cousins.
Not saying it isn't fine to believe it though.
Exactly! Most people have no idea about that fact. Movie after movie just reinforce a false perception people have of that period in history.
"That formation is only good for defense, so let's force them to play defense!"
Mr. Rackam, I have been saying this for a long time but you are criminally under-subbed my friend. Your content is some of the most fascinating and entertaining to watch amongst all historical CZcamsrs. I genuinely get filled with excitement as well as intrigue as soon as that notification comes across my screen. Keep up the fantastic work and I wish all the best for you in the future! Also if you would ever like a voice actor with a proper Scottish accent please let me know. I would love to just be a part of the process. Much love and thank you for all you do in this community!
That wee island mentioned is Rathlin (Reachlainn) off the coast of County Antrim, there’s a folk tale about how Robert was sheltering in a cave when he watched a spider successfully weave a web no matter how many times the wind blew it apart.
A good future video to follow on would be Robert’s attempt to get his brother Edward made Ard Rí (High King) of Ireland
Is that the story about "third time makes the charm"?
In my town there is a park where Robert the Bruce fought a battle against the English and won. John Bailol’s wife Lady Divorgilla carried his heart to a town and it’s still in the abbey
Which battle was it?
@@manatarms7652 I don’t know it’s name.
"Well, it's a bit chilly, innit?" made me laugh out loud!
Unusual for there not to be a rug pull moment and he succeed in everything.
Gotta mix it up to make sure the rug is still there to be pulled
An honor to be here Lord Jack Rackham!
Your ad transitions are completely flawless and incredibly amazing.
God Jack Rackam, some days I think you’re the spiritual successor of Monty Python🤣🤣🤣
I don't think I've ever heard higher praise
I’m still waiting on your John Paul Jones episode. Man had balls denser than the sun and an absolutely unquenchable thirst for British blood
And he too was a Scot. John Paul Jones was born in Arbrigland, Dumfriesshire, Scotland.
And not a single mention of a spider. Nice one, Jack. Also, now all I want is a video about Good Sir James Douglas (AKA, Black Douglas, AKA, one of the most badass warriors in Scottish history).
As an English man i thoroughly dislike this video! Nothing but a treacherous rebellious vassal that got lucky with big pointy sticks and muddy ground. Can believe we lost to a bunch of guys in skirts with little purses on there belts.
Joking btw, love the video!
I just have to admire the way that the advertisement was every bit as ridiculous as the rest of the video. I love how they do history here, it's like having Dudley Moore and Peter Cook teaching history from the stage.
Even back in the Middle Ages the English we’re watching Numberwang. Learn something new everyday
I just downloaded the entire series for watching offline then I scrolled down and found this
The fact you mentioned numberwang is bloody amazing mate.
I like how he released this one during the platinum jubilee in England
It's also the Platinum Jubilee in Scotland
The Queens mum was Scottish.
@@dontgivamonkeyz I thought Elizabeth I was born in England?
I gotta say thank you for these videos; just spent two days in and out of consciousness getting through covid and playing your videos on repeat was my lifeline.
The Monty Python music transition was perfect
OMG Jack this has to be one of the best videos you have done so far! I couldn't stop laughing. You have got such a gift for dry humor with your quick wit! Thanks for a great end to my week. Cheers!
The sponsorship killed me. That was fuckin amazing
I legit yelled "YES!" when I saw the thumbnail. Bruce was a bada**, and we need more content about him.
That add. I'm crying. That was so funny
"Oh Lord, I think we're in an ad!"
Lost my schit with the That Mitchel and Webb look reference...no wonder your accents are so surprisingly good! And thaaaaaat's Numberwang!
As a kid , I heard the story of the king Robert and the spider who never gave up. I realised later that the King was Robert Bruce.
I love the little touch of Monty Python Holy Grail music.
you just made this video so you could do a Scottish accent, didn't you?
Also, you NEED to make a video(s) about Queen Isabella (the she-wolf of France), Edward II, and Edward III.
I second that suggestion.
Your videos are becoming better and better. Good job man.
The Outlaw King was a pretty good movie
i just found this channel on recommended page
and i love it
That Napoleon and King of Spain reference at 1:10 was so niche it took me by surprise that i even got it. Well done Rackam.
By far the best ad read I’ve ever seen on CZcams
Ok yours add reads are top tier!
That was such a clever and funny way to include the ad u never cease 2 amaze me
I freaking love this channel!!even your adds are funny! I didnt have fast forward through it haha
That was your smoothest ad so far. It took me a minute to realize that it was an ad
Sabaton fans, wya?
NOW THAT THE TIME HAS COME TO FIGHT, SCOTLAND MUST UNITE!
WE’LL MAKE A STAND ON STIRLING GROUND
You have the best ad reads on CZcams. Actually the only time I don’t just spam the right side of my screen
Jack...you should probably know that established titles is a scam.
I found you from UsefulCharts and at first I thought, “OMG so rowdy 🙄 ” - 2 mins in... OMG ! 🤣 Subscribed!
You really just baked that adread perfectly
I've Been Looking Forward To This
yo I love your videos so much. I am scottish and I find the history so epic tbh.
Thank you for that Numberwang reference 🙏
Please do a video on Baldwin IV his life is short but glorious defeating one history’s greatest generals
Greatest leaders? Yes. Greatest general? Ehhhhh.
@@arawn1061 Saladin actually made up for the loss and conquered Jerusalem
@@ethancash8870 Yeah and it only took like 10 years
@@arawn1061 But how he did it was incredible
@@ethancash8870 That i wont deny. Saladin is THE Goat
Absolutely love all the Monty Python and the Holy Grail references!^^
That ad reel was smooth
Jack I knew you cared
Only half a century?
@@carrie4696 Maybe he meant half a millennium?
@@robertkirchner7981 I did. I didn't notice that a first.
In other words, your typical sibling rivalry between neighboring countries
You never fail with your videos and I was out of breath from the Ad
This wasn't even up 30 before I clicked on it! It popped up as a notification and I clicked it before it even settled in the notification window!! 😄
Oh my God, I think we have an ad! :) best ad segue ever.
The voice acting in this is impeccable.
That ad was A+
Yooo, you should make a Playlist with your videos in historical order
Learning aboot the broosse on another channel- great timing !
Everything about this is glorious. Between the Python references, “long time nae seen”, and Numberwang there is nothing to dislike about this video.
This has to be the best way to incude an ad I've ever seen.
This man makes the best segway ads in all of existence istg
Man ads like these make me want to watch em! Good job! xD
I just found this. When i was going to listen to your work while working
lol, welcome to the cool kids club finding this before it goes live
@@JackRackam epic
I thought OP was a time traveler because he was so early.
Today on ‘every American thinks incorrectly they can do a Scottish accent.’
Seriously imagine putting on an ‘Indian’ accent for a history of Chakravatin.
I have to say, this was the most clever and funny way to insert a ad
Ah ha! I already know all this because I studied it as part of my Higher History course! I have bested you at last Mr Rackam!
This seems to be less about how great Robert the Bruce was and more about how appallingly incompetent Edward II was, guess that made it topical to pride month at least.
Great “Numberwang” reference!
OMG that was the funniest ad insert ever! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Best ad segue I've seen in s video.
Banger ad 🔥🔥
Best advertisement ever! 😂 I'm not even going to complain. Excellent 😂😂😂
That ad was great.
Holy bagpipes Batman! I can't believe you did it! I wish you had covered the Bruce's invasion of Ireland too though.
Oh man that is a fustercluck worth a video on it's own.
Robert The Bruce. The OG King in the North.
Nice accents, nice jokes, nice video in general. Well done Jack
Jack deserves so much more attention than he receives…this world is a tragedy.
That ad was beautiful
That sponsor was REALLY smoothe
Love the Numberwang reference
The Monty Python and the Holy Grail red was perfect and made my day
"Oh my God I think we're in an ad" LMFAO