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The two Anglo-Saxon kings that were pivotal in establishing England were Alfred the great and then his grandson Athelstan. Athelstan completed the work of Alfred the great in establishing the boundaries of the nation of England in around A D 950. .
A key point of William the Conqueror is that he made it illegal to own slaves. This spread down the centuries to the years of the transatlantic slave trade which led to Britain fighting militarily and politically against slavery when the principle of enslavement is completely against the English ethic. The slaves at the time would have been all white anglo-Saxon or Viking slaves depending on who won the battle. It isn't only black peoples who experienced slavery for those who have entrenched ideologies
Good point, but perhaps it should be remembered that it was not for any altruistic reasons that William banned slave-ownership in England. It was just another way of dispossessing all Anglo-Saxons above the level of serfs. You're certainly right about the result, though: the concept of slavery within first England's and then Britain's shores became a completely alien and then, eventually, a repulsive one.
Edward the Elder, the son of Alfred the Great, also played a large part in the establishment of the English state. With the help of Mercia, ruled by his sister Æthelflæd, Edward managed to expel the Danes from much of England. By the end of his reign, all lands south of the River Humber were under his control.
Alfred was the one who turned the tide against the Danes, but Edward was the one who laid much of the groundwork for his son Æthelstan to complete the unification of England and be declared the first King of the English.
On the Bayeux memorial is listed the commonwealth men killed with no known grave in the 1944 Battle of Normandy. The inscription when translated into English from Latin reads, “We, once conquered by William, have now set free the Conqueror's native land."
A shame the programme in question didn't go further back to the pre-Norman kings.
alas, no-one is interested...but i take your point and agree with it....Netflix and Amazon won't be interested in the story
@@nedeast6845 I don’t know if that’s true though. I just think it’s not popular to teach that part of history.
No our Queen is not German, SOME of her ancestors were also Scottish, she is descended from Mary, Queen of Scots and HER ANCESTORS and the Queen's mother was Scottish, there are also English and Danish ancestors
The last monarch who was _not_ born in Britain was George II, in 1683. It amuses me that the kinds of people who tend to argue that the Royals "are German" are typically very pro-mass-immigration types. For _no other family in the country_ would they say that to be considered British you need to go back even a hundred years, let alone over 300.
Visit Salisbury Cathedral in the beginning the Bishops are French, about 300 years the names become Anglo. Not offended you started with 1066, but its like starting a book leaving out the first couple of Chapters. The Scots offered land to the Normans to stop them having wars in Scotland, names that still survive till this day.
They are indeed Viking Frenchmen. (Norman=Northman) You have to wonder what would have happened if William had lost Hastings- the Norman conquest seemed to set us back a hundred years. There was armed resistance to William hence what’s known as “The harrying of the North” plus the exploits of Hereward the Wake (possibly who the Robin Hood legend was partly based on)
The Saxons had established themselves since the Romans left and possibly Alfred and his family were the greatest monarchs and visionary’s England ever had. There is an excellent series by Michael Wood covering Alfred and his children but unfortunately it doesn’t seem to be available on You Tube.
My family were part of the Norman invasion force as mentioned in the doomsday book. Our reward for partaking was 200 acres of land in Somerset. I believe this land was lost on the gaming tables of 17th century London. Incidentally the Normans were of Viking descent. Norman being the abbreviated word for Northmen.
@ richard gane : If my memory of long-ago history lessons serves me well, that record of land ownership was actually Domesday Book ; a semi-intelligent guess suggests from Latin 'domus' and by extension domicile or even domain? (from which the french derived.........can't remember !!)
Similarly the county of Norfolk meant abbriviated for Northmen aka the Vikings of Danish origins. If I am right?
Norman is short for Norseman. They were Christian Vikings. The region the Normans conquered is essentially the boundary of England (and Wales) today.
Well, they were more French/Vikings really as the king at the time - Charles the Simple established an alliance with Rollo the Viking, who became a ruler in 913 over the Norman territory of Franks and Vikings and these people collectively became known as the Normans.
You forgot Ireland
He was originally called William the bastard because there were questions about his birth… probably from Harold. He called himself conquerer afterwards though.
Actually a thousand years between the Roman and Norman conquests. Some of us Romans are still here! My family name is Latin and not English. In between are waves of Angle and Saxon immigration from areas that are now parts of Denmark and northern Germany, so the English language is a Germanic language with a lot of Latin and Greek incorporated into it, and it has some Old French that was brought in by the Normans.
Winston Churchill was a very keen wordsmith, who made a point of writing his famous 1940 post-Dunkirk speech ("we will fight them on the beaches..." and ending "... we will never surrender") out of words derived from Old English, except for the very last word, which was derived from the Old French "sur rendre" (to give up). It was a diplomatic dig at the French for their surrender in 1940 that will have gone over the heads of most citizens in both countries listening to his Commons speech.
England is the lands established by Athelstan. And populated by the Anglo Saxons.
And I'm vaguely irritated by the starting with William.😲
I don't think the date 937 AD has any resonance
History is simply the winners version of what happened for example, an Englishman called Swan invented the light bulb before Edison but, nobody remembers Swan, and schoolchildren are taught Edison was the inventor
Edison “invented” the light bulb some 18 years after Joseph Swann invented and demonstrated the very same thing. Inaccurate American history I guess.
Quite right, Swann saw the light a long time before Edison ever did
The beginning of the Channel Islands' connection to the British Crown. As part of Normandy, many islanders fought for William. Although descended from Norsemen, many islanders tended to be on the short side, interestingly.
I think he was originally known as William the Bastard and refashioned his own name for historical purposes. He was also the one to ban the slave-trade and built over 500 castles as well as rebuilding every major church in the country.
He was known as 'William The Bastard' to his enemies in France because he always managed to defeat them. In England, he is known as 'William The Conqueror', but I think that was later in a historical perspective, because there have been four kings of England called William. William, Duke of Normandy, was the first.
I'm offended that you started with William the Conqueror, but I'm totally okay with you essentially calling me a mongrel.
You guys were great on stacey dooley sleeps over. really made her welcome loved it. I must admit I couldn't believe you guys showed up on there lol.
The "Harrying of the North" is what happened to York. William was savage!
The first Normans to settle in Normandy were led by the famed Viking Rollo, he was given land in Normandy by the French king in return for fending off Viking raiders on French shores. In fact the word "Norman", is derived from "North men", men from the north, Vikings.
@ Postmodern Family. Only 2:32 in and a correction needs to be made concerning Battle Abbey. I think English Heritage base the battle here for 2 reasons. Firstly, the chronicle of Battle Abbey. Walter de Lucy, abbot, was having an argument with Bishop of Chichester about why Battle Abbey was a Royal Peculiar. So de Lucy had the Chronicle written to “prove” that it was the site where a king of England died. The Chronicle is available online if you want to read the relevant parts found by John Grehan. William of Malmesbury writing around the same time also places the death of Harold at Battle Abbey “by tradition”. Secondly, the Victorians carved a stone that said Harold died here - but they had to move it 6ft to make it more accurate.
There’s quite a bunch of us “nuts”, armed with our reasons, that dispute English Heritage’s claim that Battle Abbey is the site of the Battle. Just imagine going around Battle Abbey picking up every arrowhead, every link of chain mail and even the bones of horses killed in the battle to leave the site pristine and bereft of archaeological objects.
I loved learning about the battle of Hastings in school. It's one of the few things I can remember enjoying learning about. My village is a battle ground for the time of 1066. In the center we have a large moat and baily around it and next to that a 200+ year old church. I was fascinated by all of this as a kid.
You should start with the Unification of England in 927AD by Æthelstan, the first King of England. This new "English" country which emerged with a legal system based on the classically educated Alfred the Great's (Æthelstan's grandfather), a proto-parliament (the Witenagemot), and a devout but quite noticeably and unusually liberal culture by contemporaneous standards, particularly in terms of individual liberty and rights for "freemen" (for instance of property ownership), enjoyed by both males and females to varying degrees, is far more interesting to me these days than the disastrous conquest in 1066 by the Norman William the Bastard which swept it away. For instance, primogeniture was a Norman law; it did not exist in Anglo-Saxon society. Also, Anglo-Saxon law severely punished assaults against women by men: Norman law did not.
After William's death, almost 400 years of various types of internecine-dynastic conflict continued right up to 1485 when the Tudors emerged, resulting in a seemingly endless series of wars with France which went on and on and on - and on - for 800 years until 1815 (some think we're actually just in a prolonged inter-war period!).
I've often wondered what England would have been like now if Harold had managed to stop his cavalry from throwing away victory in one, hot-tempered charge (so the story goes).
My partner and myself have family lines which date back to WtC. My ancestor fought in the Revolt against King William Rufus and my partners ancestor fought on the side of King William Rufus. So may have fought each other face to face!. The revolt failed and those who fought against the King were spared as long as they did his bidding. Which is what my ancestor did and was given lands in Wales for his work. Around the Breacons area. This was the family seat for some 600 years. The place was called Gunterstone..And to fit in better with the locals my ancestor changed his surname to Gunter. I believe this is the origin of the Welsh surname Gunter. My maternal great grandmothers maiden name.
What the Normans bequeathed to England was the Class System. And notice the language: We eat pork and beef and mutton (porc boeuf et mouton) and the peasants, the Saxon serfs tended the swine and the cows and the sheep. And guess who got to eat the best of the meat! There were a few Saxon Earls who remained but it was the Dukes and the Barons who ran the show. The Norman barons got land in Scotland also - Robert the Bruce was a Norman. or his immediate ancestors were. The barons were so powerful they could tell the king what to do -- think: Magna Carta!
Viking was a job title not a race or country. No mention of the Welsh/Celtic monarchy. The Tudors were a Welsh dynasty
You are quite correct, Norman is derived from Norsemen
My favourite fact about the battle of Hastings was that they all stopped for lunch.
Same families still own the land since conquest!
Yes, 1066 is THE most famous date in British history, bar none. When King Harold Godwinson and the Saxons decimated Hardrada’s army in the north, they effectively ended the Viking Age for good, which also meant the end of around 500 years of Britain’s shores being raided and pillaged and the people being murdered by them. This victory is unfortunately usually overshadowed by the defeat at Hastings a couple of weeks later, when his army would’ve been exhausted and the stress of two simultaneous invasions by two of Europe’s most formidable threats had seriously taken its toll on his health, especially given the epic march up to the north of England and back, which was reportedly done in record time. The defeat of the Vikings is not only overshadowed by the conquest, but - as if to add insult to injury - it has been regrettably satirised by historians in pedalling the belief that Harold is the hapless figure that met his end with an arrow to the eye. Of course, an arrow to the eye would’ve been lethal, but it grossly oversimplifies the complexities of what took place and does Harold’s legacy an enormous disservice.
The most feared fighters at the time were the English House Carls. Do not forget that after a forced March they completely routed Herald Hardrada. To say that after another forced March that William swept the English aside is also wrong, after fighting for most of the day William fell off his horse and (as ever) the Scots could not resist breaking ranks and ran downhill to try to get to him, this resulted in the cavalry killing them, when Wlliam saw this he
Repeated the rise to the same effect.
Ruse
Yet William the Conqueror wasn't called the Conqueror. He was known as the Illegitimate, because he was the Illegitimate son of Duke of Normandy and a Tanners Daughter (Herleva). Sanlac is bloodlake
Not sure if I heard correctly but Mont Saint-Michel and St. Michael's Mount are 2 separate places, the former located at the corner of the Cotantin ( or Cherbourg) and Brittany peninsulas and the latter off the Cornish Coast.
Yes the Normans were of Scandinavian descent but they did speak French and so William's invasion of England is the reason why we now say beef-burger instead of cow-burger and pork sausage instead of pig sausage.
You may find it useful to look at pre William as there is a lot of good stuff around , when the Anglo Saxon arrived they fought the Britons and drove them West who at the time complained to the Pope in Rome about it but he didn't do anything so they had to live in a new place called Wales.
When the chiefs of Anglo Saxon had their land they gave some to the villages , usually not good , and this was divided evenly to such an extent that if some of the land was rubbish every person got a equal share of the bad land , the same happened to the good land etc , to make sure that nobody was using land not theirs or misused the land 12 villages were appointed to inspect the land and were called a jury !! . Perhaps this is why the English like to play fair ??
There is a village in I think in Leicestershire were there is still some land divided and it's inspected by a jury of 12 persons
After Harold's death at Hastings, Edgar Aetheling was 'elected King of England, but never crowned(he reigned from Oct. to Dec.), but exiled himself to Scotland when William arrived in London.
William was absolutely hated in England. When he died his corpse was left for days to rot and ended up exploding due to the gases built up inside him. It would be interesting if you did a review of Queen boudicea. There is so much history to england that it’s hard to know how britain developed until you study the different episodes. Also king John would be interesting and the magna carta !The tapestry of bayeux is utterly fascinating to study. It depicts the actual historical events!
Wouldn't the gases have leaked out his arse equalising the pressure?
@@eadweard. no when you are dead your body including your sphincter muscles no longer functions so gases from the body cannot be released!!!
@@billmayor8567 Blimey! Interesting. This whole death business sounds like one to avoid.
Try & find the time to view the youtube footage of Courtney Cox's delving into her past on'Who do you think you are'.
I appear to have found it: czcams.com/video/-WPTkfWC9AM/video.html
Thanks for the tip. Had no idea Courtney Cox's ancestor built Berkeley Castle - used to live nearby in the Cheltenham-Gloucester area for most of my life.
The "still longstanding ramifications of the nearly 1000-year-old conquest for people today" are POSH PEOPLE!😁
I believe that the English language was first written down by Chaucer in the Canterbury Tales.
Not true,the Anglo Saxons were a literate people with a well organised society based on the rights of the people from all levels of society.The first example of written English I can think of is the Anglo Saxon chronicles,I'm pretty sure that there law codes that were written earlier and religious texts commissioned by the great Alfred but I couldn't name them
Alfred was sent to Rome twice by his father when he was young to cement ties with Wessex and the papacy.I think the great scholars of the Britons(Welsh)had the most influence on his religious and literally development,Asser being the most obvious example.After the wars with the Danes Alfred commissioned the translation of the bible into English and of course the chronicles which are all written in English ,roughly 5 centuries before Chaucer
I think Chaucer is probably middle-English. Anglo Saxon is old English, and the epic poem / story Beowulf is considered one of the earliest examples of English..........or so I’ve read !
I hope we have been treating you well.
Tapestry, History written by the victor! English a Germanic language. Honestly you probably know less now than you did before watching! Also the "French" Court eventually spoke Anglo Saxon.
I heard a comment about Mont St Michel, but didn’t hear what you actually said. It’s similar to St Michael’s Mount, but is on the coast of Normandy, in France, rather than Cornwall. The Bayeux Tapestry is also in Normandy.
Queens Elizabeth II both parents were born in England, her grandparents were born in England, great grandparents were born in England, so to say she is German because George I was a German and Prince Albert was a German is nonsense, yes she has German ancestors.
Harold was the last true Monarch of England!
English is more Germanic based with hundreds of years of adaption and change than french and Latin and follows different rules unlike french, Spanish, Italian and others.
The Normans are the reason we have a different word for the meat and the animal it comes from. Cow - from Anglo Saxon farmers; Beef - from Norman French who ate it, etc.
You imply that after the Romans the next conquest of Britain was by the Normans. What about the Angles and the Saxons? Not to mention Vikings who occupied eastern England (Angle Land) until they were absorbed into the new united kingdom by Athelstan. Your ignorance of your adopted home is astounding.
To be fair, we generate more history than any of us will ever know, and that's why historians tend to specialise.
@@davemac1197 You don't have to specialise to know that post-Roman Britain was invaded and conquered multiple times. That is no small detail, especially as it includes the origins of the name "England".
As they have chosen to raise their children here a 600 year total void in the country's history is rediculous.
@@mimikurtz4061 - the main invasions were AD 43 and 1066. I was schooled here in the UK, so while those two dates are engraved on the inside of my skull, I can't give you a signiificant invasion date in between. There were successive waves of Anglo-Saxon immigration, but like the current wave of middle-eastern immigration into the country across the Channel, I can't point to a specific year because it's been happening over many.
As our dear leader might say - donnez-leur une break.
@@davemac1197 Some Angles and Saxons may have immigrated, but there were mainly specific large influxes and sudden changes in culture which could only result from invasion and subjugation. We don't have dates because, unlike the Romans and Normans, they didn't keep written records.
All people living here should be aware that it happened, otherwise how would they know that post-roman Pretain changed to Angle Land, and that the inhabitants facing the vikings and Normans were Saxons.
William the conqueror and Jeremy Clarkson connected in one article, well done.
Most of Britain was viking land for about 100 years before that, vikings, Norman's, Frank's, Anglo saxon are all pretty much the same germanic people's, so I would of thought the transition was pretty straight forward, only the nobles and royal courts spoke French, everyone else still spoke germanic languages
Do you have a link for the full video? I love these things!
The long-standing ramifications? It created the current class system, and I seriously mean that. For 400 years or so, England was governed by kings whose first language was French (and the first ones didn't speak any English). They were born and died in France, owned land in France, and married French princesses. Their supporters, the aristocracy, were exactly the same. The old Anglo-Saxon rule was more equal. England became a colony with all the effects that had.
So as for the land, Felipe, William overthrew the entire Saxon nobility overnight and replaced them with Norman French nobles. So there may be those of us descended from our original aristocracy and don’t know it, nor ever shall.
"The Royal Family are German"? Just how long does a family have to live here to be considered British? The last monarch who was not born in Britain was George II in 1683.
Cool
"honi soit mal y pense "
It means: "shame on anyone who thinks evil of this"
that is Norman
it is stamped on a British passport, as are the two lions of Normandie
Honi soit qui mal y pense.
@@jerribee1 mais oui, je suis d'accord, pardonez moi mon francais
Super interesting vid!
Felipe and Lillian back with a new video on ......
William the Conquer and the Battle of Hastings.
Edit:
The Norman aristocracy still owns all the same land holdings ...oh you say that.
From what I understand English language gets its legs a few hundred years after 1066,"middle English " comes about in 1400's.
Felipe you are so right about how the land and who owns it is the source of power/ wealth .
The King James Bible was written to cement English as the language of the people.
The Anglo Saxons came from outside the British Isles.
Does anyone know Where to find the documentarie
Are you guys still posting? I only ask because I've been subscribed for a few years but I haven't watched any of your content for some considerable time now as I have had alot going on & I've managed to drift away from your channel? Reviewing your postings I can see appears to be at least 1 year old whilst most are from 5 years ago?
I don't think this was the best history programme to watch. But suffice it to say, the history of Britain is fascinating. But I would say that. I'm a Brit!
I believe the parliament actually still use a variant of French in proceedings
Why start at Bill the Bastard.
ouch that 360p quality lol. 240p FElipe I know your american but how did you not know about 1066 lol
Dieu et mon droit
The French like to think they did all this. .i don't think so
The harrowing of the North was a very cruel thing.
Hope your going to number them.
He wasn't French, he was Norman.
Sorry, can't type.....I meant to say he WASN'T French but was Norman.
@@chips1889 - you can edit (or delete) your comments. Click on the three little dots at the right hand side for the menu options.
@@davemac1197 Trying that now....yes that works....thanks mate. But at my age I might just forget : ( ).
@@chips1889 - no problemo.
No one was French as we hear today, even the king of the Franks, but the Normans were part of the Medieval French speaking world anyway: Like the Burgundians, Francilians, Picards, Angevins, Poitevins, Champenois etc...
William's conquest brought England back into the classical world of Rome and Greece, and took it out of the Scandinavian orbit. Without William, England would have evolved more like Sweden and Norway.
Ass-backwards (to borrow a phrase from our American cousins). Our misadventure with Parisian café culture was comparatively short-lived. Most of our roots are from northern Germany and Scandinavia, although my own familiy on the male line are actually Roman.
God what you’re watching looks old
The harrying of the north was very real and a terrible thing 😔
Us Welsh are the true people of this land. Cymru am byth.
Nah, the Bell Beaker People were here before you.
@@jerribee1 Hunter gatherers were in Wales long before the beaker people, these are the true British. We came from the Iberian peninsula 10000 years ago and Welsh DNA is near identical to those of the Basque people and much different to our English neighbours.
Everyone who has English ancestry will be descended from William the conquerer, he is my 28th great grandfather.
Hiya Filipe and Lillian, My ancestrial line comes from Mary Queen Of Scots and her son James 1st of England and 6th of Scotland, I hope you are doing Henry the 8th in your new series, there was talk of Henry the 8th marring Mary queen of scots Mam,also called Mary, but Mary said "I'd rather keep my head firmly on my neck"
And as a Welsh person, I find it amusing that the English people in the comments below say that England was conquered by Vikings not by the French. I think they are embarrassed to admit losing to the French, but the Normans were French even if their distant ancestors came from somewhere else. C'est ca.
Proof positive the only good thing that ever came out of France was the boat to England
William the Conquerer wasn't actually French, he was descended from vikings
Mais non - we love everything French, except the French!