The Battle of Visby 1361 AD
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- The story of Valdemar Atterdag and his struggle to reclaim lands and power lost by his father, King Christian with culminating Battle of Visby in 1361.
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I live in the city of Visby and i approve of this history lesson. Every year we even try to reenact the Battle of Visby outside the old walls. If you want to ask me some questions about this battle or Visby itself, go ahead, i'll answer as many as i can.
How many people participate in the recreation? And do you document it? It would be entertaining to watch.
Matesinocasino It's usually between 80 and 100 people participating in total. It takes place during the summer at a place called "Östergravar". Here is a link: www.google.se/maps/place/%C3%96stergravar/@57.6428313,18.3021347,522m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x46f7a92b512448d5:0xc7e4254a061ed5d3!8m2!3d57.6433944!4d18.3034429
why didnt the towns people help the peasants
Living by the genuine medieval city wall is probably something special. Everyday you've got reminded of the past events. Few years ago I visited Lucca in Italy, and I was stunned by the contrast of such great example of history being just a part of a day-to-day life.
Why did the defenders fight in front of the wall instead from on top of it? Did the town not trust the peasants enough to let them in?
It seems like a waste to build such strong walls and then not use them. Especially since it was a port town and with no naval blockade it ought to have been easy to last through a siege.
I would love to see more videos about battles in scandinavia!
Which one?
battle of narva, it was a military achievement beyond imagination
The Captain I dont know of any battles in this period, I agree, as long as I can learn more about those times
The battle of lund would be cool
goff0103, that wasn't really a battle. The danish army wasn't home when it happened.
The Swedish peasants should have just let the Danes take the city since the people of Visby refused to fight with them.
Fine talk coming from the guy firing arrows into the backs of his own infantry.
Even though there were class divisions between the two, the peasants likely still benefitted from the trade Visby received
@Targaryen Dynasty if that were the case the Yeomen would've aided Valdemar's attempts to storm the city so the thirst for plunder would have been exhausted in the wealthy Visby and not in the villages and farms of the Swedes
Ramsey, then the peasents would have lost everything without trying while the citizen still didnt realy care... 🤷♂️
@@NotUnymous There would be 2000 more men though, a lot less suffering families. Think how all those men dying would have affected the harvest, fishing etc. What did they end up losing by coming under the Danes? Nothing really, just a different person to pay the tax to.
Great video! Good to put the spotlight on the Hanseatic league, often omitted in history lessons of the period.
If you do requests, then I would kindly request you to do The Battle Of the Gulden Spurs, where Flemish city militia, mostly infantry, crushed French heavy cavalry at the city of Kortrijk in 1302, making it an even earlier example of the return of infantry as a potent force on the battlefield than Morgarten or Agincourt.
It was quite impolite to describe Hanseatic League with just few sentences, as it deserves a lot more attention.
It's still better than no sentences, which is what many history books/channels give them.
Yes Gulden Spurs is nice or some Napoleonic battles that go a little bit more in detail would be really nice!!!
Wonderful, I absolutely love your style of narration, and the maps are amazing. Great job!
Don't know which maps are you talking about, but being honest, I'm not proud of the look of my "general" map with kingdoms on it. I use it for a half of a year already, and need to do anoverhaul there sooner or later.
I was a part of a dig on Gotland and we learned about this battle! Great Video!
I love watching your explanations of these historic battles! Thank you for sharing this knowledge, and making it easy to follow :)
Keep up the good work! Your videos are the perfect length and give a great idea of the events that lead up to a battle not just the battle itself
I dont understand. If Valdemar was aiming for the town of Visby all along, and the rest of the islander peasants did not like the town, why did the jutes oppose him?
Patriotism bro
DreamVikings he was still invading their land.
the poor were forced to fight, as it always has been
swedes hate danes
They probably feared to be raided and so decided it was a better course of action to unite in a considerable force than to be attacked villages by villages.
I saw a video quite some time ago about this battle. Several mass graves of the Gutes militia were found and excavated. Many of the remains showed numerous and deep wounds to the bones, especially the legs.
It looked like the Danish soldiers would slash at the legs of the Gutes, since they had little to no armour there. Then after they were brought down, the poor souls were mercilessly hacked to death.
The conclusion was it was a one sided butchery rather than a real battle.
Steven Weaver it was usual in medieval times. Along with hits to the head. Those are hard to protect spots and they render your enemy as “not a threat anymore”. any man who has taken a blow of any kind, any weapon, to the head, is no instant threat, and most wont be a threat anymore. Same applies to legs, no instant threat and most of the time a man in the ground, still breathing, is a dead man.
Steven Weaver it was usual in medieval times. Along with hits to the head. Those are hard to protect spots and they render your enemy as “not a threat anymore”. any man who has taken a blow of any kind, any weapon, to the head, is no instant threat, and most wont be a threat anymore. Same applies to legs, no instant threat and most of the time a man in the ground, still breathing, is a dead man.
yep, right from the start.
The burgers must have watched the show from the city walls and decided that surrender was the safest option.
Your videos are so good! I would rank you as the best among all the historical battle CZcams channels. Please keep making more gems like this one!
Love the videos! Keep up the solid work. Video quality is top notch
a small but very educational battle, thanks again baz!
Great video, this really is an amazing format to present history! I'd love to watch a video about the Battle of Aljubarrota, as it was one of, if not the, most important in Portugal's history, guaranteeing the country's independence and it had some cool tactics involved.
I love you! what an awesome quality! I always wait for your vids and they make my day. :)
As always, great vid. Glad you've kept the narrator!
Manzikert! Do Manzikert! The battle that ruined the Byzantine Empire and led to the Crusades!
There was at least some Restoration(The Kommenian Dynasty)that put the Empire back at it's feet and recaptured lost territories in Anatolia. But yeah it was through this dynasty that the Crusades began.
Have you played the AoE2 campaign on Manzikert? it's lit
Joshuapooleanox the fourth crusade was the real battle that led to the fall of Byzantium, no?
That was kinda the final nail in the coffin for Byzantium, it was already in decline to disease and turkish beyliks by the fourth crusade.
Valerie Aust that is true, but it was still rich and powerfull. After the crusades all whealth was shiped to Venice. It definetly sped up the death of Byzantium a lot.
I love this guy's voice
Great speaking voice. Pleasure to listen to
Its a voice actor. Dude got shat on his earlier videos because of his accent.
just recently subscribed. i cant get enough of your videos. great work dude
Channel and videos are seriously good. Look forward to them everyday! Keep up the good work!
It's a good idea to make videos about Denmark, when Geography now made their video on Denmark it blew up in the local news. For some reason we love having our stories told abroad xD
Random question: As a Dane, how was the pronunciation of names in the video?
Better than most, worse than some. The Danish language can be hard to get for foreigners, especially because we are inconsistent with silent letters. For example "Gerhard" at 0:47 we wouldn't pronounce it "Jerrard" like it sounds, but rather "Ger-hard" with a hard G and H rather than a J sound like in Jerry and a silent H. I think in general the medieval germanic languages, old Danish and old English included requires more hard and direct pronounciations.
My maternal great grandfathers name was Gerhard, lol.
Thanks, appreciate the info
No problem buddy.
Nikolaj11 i love Paul!
This is my second time watching, and I only just realised that his tax level on Jutland was above high at "Valdemar". That's the most beautiful thing I've seen in a while.
:)
The videos just keep getting better and better. Keep it up the good work! :)
another great video,i absolutely love your content and i hope you will keep making this kind of videos
I'm little fussed that that little Bro settlement wasn't brought into the narrative. Tremendous upload nonetheless!
it's not even that google gives me the word parish.
Me too bro.
Gustavo Santos masterby means master city
Gustavo Santos which is pretty neat :)
I like to imagine the people of Visby were like "Bro wtf, why didn't you help?"
You should always try describe the equipment and the type of soldiers that were present in the battle if there is enough information.
According to the horrible cutting marks at the excavated legbones from the slaughtered defenders...they had worn no legprotection....:)
There's a bit here for anyone interested, Lindy usually does a good job:
czcams.com/video/kMrTi79D2Js/video.html
czcams.com/video/HnL0wTKhCDU/video.html
There's a documentary here with some pretty decent parts regarding armor: czcams.com/video/TxkgBDaVsP0/video.html
Thank you for these videos!
I really hope you make the whole battles of this war, because i am finding it too interesting.
And im liking a lot. Keep up the good work! :D
(6:37) Key: Division with a big cross; Infantry.
Division with a small cross; Peasants.
Diagonally looking division; Calvary.
Diagonally looking division with a bow and arrow; Archers.
Infantry: saltire/st.andrews cross icon: light or heavy as indicated by line thickness
Cavalry: diagonal line icon: light or heavy as indicated by line thickness
"Artillery": ball for cannon, bow for archers, crossbow for crossbowmen
Hi, I really like this stuff.
Good design, interesting info - well done! More about Scandinavia for sure.
It would be cool to see something about the epic sea-battle of Lepanto outside Greece in 1571 - a combined force of Europeans vs. the invading Ottoman Empire.
...and also something about Cortez or Pizarro perhaps? The Renaissance period is very interesting, since there was a combination of armoured soldiers with early firearms - sort of like a transition from medieval times to the modern age. Very cool.
Keep going 'BazBattles'!
For some reason, this is my favourite BazBattles episode. I´ve already watched it a dozen of times. :D
Really like your channel, cant wait for more medieval battles.
I love this channel. Please consider the battle of the golden spurs for a future video.
BulletBill64 yes please! Are you a fellow Vlaming?
De Vlaamse Leeuw!
BazBattles wait are you Dutch or Belgian? That would be the most awesome thing ever!
he said he is polish,i believe
Rather the battle of Saint Omer, the battle of golden spurs was had no major consequences in the long run.
Can't believe I've never thought about the fact there must have been an 'old' Zealand for there to be a New Zealand.
That is in the Netherlands.
@@alexanderchristopher6237 You're thinking of Zeeland actually. Believe or not, Zealand is different.
Zealand is most populated island in Denmark and also where the capital, Copenhagen is, so most would agree with me. :V
A Jim Fan New Zealand is named after the Dutch Province though, since the Dutch were the first Europeans to „discover“ the island.
@@Usammityduzntafraidofanythin Danish area is meant to be spelt Sjaelland though, no idea why the video used 'Zealand'. New Zealand is from Dutch Zeeland. England has never handled other languages well it seems xD
@@Rynewulf Well yeah, the 'sj' sound is not an english sound, so they adopted 'zee' instead.
You do that with english place names for your own language too, don't you?
Thank you for these vids. As a student of war, i love them.
Another great episode! Can't wait for your next one :)
Make battle of Grunwald called also Tannenberg.
A new episode would be nice
Isnt that a Mount&Blade castle
Roy Valenzuela That’s Grunwalder castle.
The Battle of Grunwald actually happened, Grunwalder castle is a place in M&B named after a Rhodok general.
+ZR 2 Yeah, the guy that teached the Rhodoks to use spears and guerrilla tactics in the mountains to defend against Swadia
There's a video on the Battle of Grunwald made by kings and generals czcams.com/video/VeBOJ0bAI6Q/video.html Greetings from USA we love Poland!
do the siege of copenhagen (1659) next time
Great job as always
great video. absolutely love the map work and narrator.
this reminded me of total war rome 2 when a guy goes full eastern spearmen
Mästerby = Master village. Eyup. They sure knew what to name their villages.
Nice racism.
Really good video. Can´t wait to see the next one. Quality is so good!
after waiting many many years, finally a new bazbattles vid, thank the gods
Great video!
Just curious though, will you be covering any battles in Southeast Asia (Areas around China, Korea and Japan)?
Sooner or later, but yeah. Need to get some Far East music to match it tho.
Thanks for the reply :D
I'll be looking forward to it!
Battle of Grunwald/Tannenberg ?
RedSand WTF is wrong with you XD
No...One...Cares...
Redsand ..... You just attacked a guy who was giving a suggestion and you just say oh but Lithuania saved poland idc about that but the moment you called him a keyboard warrior (facepalm)
Bazbattles, I love your great video quality!
I wouldn't be surprised if your channel will go viral soon!
Great work! Love your videos!
Hello, I'm a new subscriber, I would like to ask if you only do Western European battles ? If not do you accept suggestions, and where can I submit them ? There's a few medieval Balkan battles I'd like to see broken down like this. I can also provide sources and additional info if you're not familiar with the historical context :)
0:35 Its not king Christian, its king Christopher II of Denmark
yeah you're right, small error... but an error none the less. I think he confused him with Christian II, also known as Christian the tyrant.
That's embarrassing. I really have no idea why I did this mistake. Hope that didn't ruin the episode for you.
oh no it was great! keep up the excellent work! your work is unrivaled on youtube at the moment.
It didn't ruin anything, on the contrary it was a very interesting episode.
Since Chrisopher is just a small footnote for the episode as a whole its quite understandable that one might confuse his name to the very similar sounding Christian. I probably only remember it since I once had a hilarious seminar about him.
If you ever feel like making an episode about terrible monarchs he is your guy.
Yes, I have the same name a a king, even if he was terrible!
I always get excited when y'all post a video
Thanks for the video.
DID NONE NOTICE THE CITY CALLED "BRO" AT 8:19 XDD
they renamed it that after watching the danish slaughter peasants. "ey man, the danish killed 2k peasants" "bro..."
Totally did, bro. :D
Bro is bridge in swedish
BoltonForTheNorth A bro too far....
+Raj Ray lmao
When the bridge goes down and Valdemar goes like: "Oh come on!" Haha, cool.
Another magnificent video yet again BazBattles. Keep it up! Million dollar companies couldn't dream of achieving the quality you produce on a regular basis.
As always very interesting and well done!
some battles with Polish winged Hussars would be cool!
sylvain falquet Yes please! Maybe you could also do some sort of unit analysis eh Baz? +BazBattles
Siege of Vienna?
Poles have a serious hard on when it comes to hussars and winged hussars.
All of their videos seem to be about medieval and ancient battles, while that formation developed in the early modern period.
However, if they want to venture into it, it would be very cool.
Personally I would recomend battle of Klushino (Kłuszyn) in 1610. It's not as famous as Vienna, but it was absolutely insane, and the led up to it was very interesting to.
is there any? polish history is very supressed
You gotta do a video on one of the battles where we swedes recked the danes, too.
the battle*
fixed that for you
So you mean that the battle of Lena, the battle of Brunkeberg, the march over the Belts and the battle of Lund, just to name a few, was just one battle? I had no idea! Your historical knowledge is truly remarkable!
DIALECTIC BOOGALOO
I though the swedes onwned you pretty badly, considering they're a huge country, only slightly smaller than Texas and in possession of former Danish heartland; while Denmark is basically about the size of Lichtenstein?
+hamstsorkxxor The only time Denmark actually "controlled" (parts of) Sweden was in the Kalmar union. They didn't conquer anything, they just got it for free, which we swedes didn't like and we recked them and gained independence.
Sweden has completely crushed Denmark once, and we were gonna take the whole country, but the Netherlands didn't want us to so we only got Skåneland instead, which is modern day southern Sweden.
Gustavus Adolphus also had plans to take Denmark. If only it wasn't for his new horse that ran straight into the enemy lines with him on its back.
Vi skal nok få hævn.
Subscribed! Keep up the great work!
Wow this was awesome thank you!
Who heard voldemort instead of valdemar? xD
jujux I did :/
He-who-should-not-be-mentioned-with-name*
If Denmark doesn't win I will question humanity
They won the battle but lost the war. It does put things in an awkward state, though - Valdemar stormed upon an island of peasants for personal gain. Unlike in fantasy, the well-armored troops won over the scrappy underdogs.
Honestly love your videos and the current narrator.
Keep it up!
love your channel and I hope you do more if you can.
Battle of Visby? more like the slaughter at Visby.
Yeah, this battle was insanely one-sided. While there were some well-equipped troops in the Gutnish army it was, overall, very poorly armed and armored. And, as was pointed out in the video, many troops were too old or young, and some were crippled. By contrast Valdemar's army, while not huge, was extraordinarily well-armed, -armored, and -experienced. Valdemar basically compensated for his army's small size by making sure it was the best small army possible.
do more videos this dude. your voice is suave and sexy.
Oh my...
He hired a voice actor. His early videos got shat on because he has a thick accent
Viper8797 some african guy did one. it sounded shit.
The guy narrating now is African. Just saying
Dan Boud no hes not..
Just discovered your channel. Brilliant stuff. You have a new subscriber.
Amazing channel! Keep up the good work! :D
Kind of anticlimactic tbh. A 'veni, vidi, vici' type of scenario.
I do like to show some less known battles too, even at the expense of lower viewership. Otherwise, it would look like all solid armies were stomped by peasants all the time, with underdogs winning 80% of all battles.
BazBattles I wanna thank you for showing this, never knew of battles in this period!
BazBattles thanks for not showing famous battles just for views
I support your choice of battles Baz!
Then you didn't notice the easter egg , Bro.
Was this even a battle?
Ricky Spanish I don't think the battle itself was of much interest, it's the effect it had that makes it notable.
it was just such a slaughter.
Ricky Spanish Yeah, I agree. But that doesn't change the affect it had.
It was a battle - real texts from the period states that the Gutes charged the Danish army and that they had ancient armor and ancient swords at their disposal.
Think of the Norsemen armies - mostly made up of farmers and peasants with some elite warriors. Now, this army had no warriors - but some of the peasants had outdated gear used by their forefathers in viking times.
They stood no chance against a modeln army though. And the cavalry spelled their doom - i've read it attacked their flanks.
It might have been slightly outdated equipment, since plate armour was the new kid on the bloc... But it wasen't surely viking age old timey equipment. Scandinavian peasant militias was generally very well equipped during the medieval period, since Leidangr laws left over from the dark ages required them to be so.
It's always neat when one of these videos is about a battle I'm not familiar with. I get to feel the suspense of finding out who wins!
Awesome part of history! I really enjoyed this.
Valdemar made Denmark great again
He killed about 3000 people for his own personal advancement just in this one battle alone - not even soldiers, but farmers who wanted to be left alone. Go ahead and tether your "made X great again" sentiment to it - that's all it means, aggrandizement at the cost of another.
@@roguishpaladin Own personal gain? bitch please he was doing it in the best interrests of the danish people. You swedes are as bad losers as they come. Sweden has done similar terrible things in the past, get off your high horse. You lost the battle, accept it.
@@ElectroIsMyReligion We swedes are losers? Who owns Gotland and Skåne today? That's right, SWEDEN. But sure keep thinking you danes are victorious in everything because you killed alot of poorly equipped peasents in the medieval age.
Samuel Skogqvist It did never say you were losers per se, merely that you clearly still were whining and moaning over the loss at the Battle of Visby. You’re acting as a sore loser not a loser. Listen the Swedish army killed loads of defenseless civilians when they sieged Copenhagen in 1659. War is never fair, it’s a brutal game of dominance and power. Keeping score of the numerous wars/battles between our two nations is Sweden the victor, you’ve won more of the wars than us, but I’m not being salty and bitter about something that happenef +500 years ago. It was a different time (literally the dark Middle Ages ffs) all of the major European powers at time committed atrocities - including Sweden.
Quit complaining and move on.
How is this a interesting battle, it's just a slaughter of peasants.
Johansson Interesting that it is of the few examples we see a much better force fight another one and get recorded. Also, mass graves and no looting of the recently slaughtered, nor of the graves, it allows us to see which kind of people were fighting then, it’s not so often that you find so much bodies, and that they kept their equipment which is an excellent insight on poor man's equipment of which we have few surviving examples.
Johansson der ist auch der Ikonen jojjkķ
Thanks you videos are the best
Its really interesting to hear about battles not commonly told in mainstream documentaries and history videos
this is some great historical information. LOVE IT.
reaally well done!
Excellent video. Greetings from Argentina
thank you for covering apart of my county´s history
pleasant narration, quality content
Nice video, keep up the good work!
I’ve shown one of my teachers your videos they like them and said might use one and of course will give you credit
Verry coll continue the good work!!
I love these videos
You do these kinda videos way to good. Though it's not like anyone would try and stop you. Keep up the good work!
Awesome content please keep it up!
Good work
Piece of art!
Just now learning about this battle.
Really cool/ macabre archaeological remains. 👍
Don't mind the comments whining about this battle not being "important" enough, this is extraordinary work here. Visby may not be a particularly big battle but the context, background and consequences is of great intrigue to any medieval historian, not to mention the battlefield of Visby stands out as one of the best preserved of all time, and as a result is of great archaeological importance.
Keep up the good work!
great vid
great jobbb , keep it coming 😁😁
Woooww new video! exciting
Great Vid! I remember i read a children novel centering about this conflict. I was quite shocked as the main protagonist and his entire family got massacred in front of the gates in the final pages
Olof Svedelid!
keep up the good work
Amazing!
top 10 channel on yt!!!!!!!!!!!! keep up the good work
I've been watching this channel for quite a bit. I must say, it's much more enjoyable every time I come back. Just carry on, mate. I was also curious about the animation. What do you guys use to create these battles? I wanted to recreate some battles personally, so I was curious.
i just saw a documental about the arqueologist founds of this battle and was asking me how was the battle, THANK YOU!!