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- In the late 1400s in Tudor England, knights were born and bred to face combat, both on the battlefield and the tournament ground. We explore the intriguing world of medieval tournaments, highlighting the role of knights as both warriors and symbols of heroism. We also delve into the Field of the Cloth of Gold, a lavish and opulent tournament hosted by Henry VII in 1520, which became a symbol of power and prestige in Europe. This event, with its extravagant pageantry, marked the zenith of medieval tournaments.
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This may be the first time Sean Bean has lived to the end of a film.
Sharpe would like a word...
Sean Bean?????
Yea it's about the Tourney of the Hand of the king
Yeah, a relative to Mr Bean 😂
@@peter-fuppe-fuchsyou beaned me too it !
He's the original black adder 😮
😂😂😂😂😊
@@TheCosmosagan , W.B Yates, greatest poem of english language.
Thats not Sean Bean. Thats Boromir the future steward of Gondor!
Imagine the explosive stench after taking that off after wearing it for a week straight
"I don't fight in tournaments because when I fight a man for real, I don't want him to know what I can do."??
Young Toby Capwell? Well, isn’t this a pleasant surprise?
Thank you very much for uploading such a wonderfully well done documentary
Amazing doc but that one guy didn't blink one damn time
How many sex workers has Toby choked?
Methinks some people in this documentary have a bit too rosy image of knights....
Yup, once I learned about the battle of Towton especially burial 16 my perspective changed
Small typo in your description, it's Henry VIII, not Henry VII, and the armor you show from 37:38 while explaining that Henry commissioned an armor for the Field of the Cloth of Gold, isn't actually the one he commissioned, is the one they ended up stuffing him into, and it is nowhere _ near_ the quality of the one they originally made for him, but didn't have the time to finish, which can be momentarily seen in the background @38:43, _that's_ the one that virtually has no gaps, _that's_ the one he commissioned. But otherwise, good job.
Holy crap, sean bean didn't die before the end
He didnt die in national treasure either
😂 best comment.
@marcusfridh8489 you're right, another rare gem
Rats. I should've checked the comments before I posted essentially the same joke. Cheers.
@@marcusfridh8489 no, but my soul did.
This is the exact video I was looking for👍 what a great watch.
i just love that gall talking about her obsession with the knights in the beginning of this vid. time barriers just fade for her.
Absolutely amazing video
What a fantastic documentary all the passion in these experts of their field truly is heartwarmimg. And sean bean to top it off. Just wonderful.
Karen Watts is a gem 💎 😊
She's the best Karen I've ever seen.
Cringe
It was so nice to see them both talk about their love of armor!
When you can feel someones passion. Lovely
What's up with the random 49ers mannequin 8:38 lol
Wow...such an informative documentary...as a child long time ago i used to watch films of knights ..the round table and everything related with this topics..but to see and hear all this explanations by all this experts is simple another level...you must excuse my ignorance ..but i presume all this armours were only for the elite people who can afford it...again..nice documentary..👍👍🇸🇻
wasn't a full set of armor and a longsword a lil more than what a peasant could earn throughout his entire (admiteddly short) life?
37:36 "They were curious about each other's physicality 😬"
That museum looks like the pinnacle of Elder Scrolls player homes :D
Elder Scrolls is for, and made by, people who want to explore the deep recesses of what was possible in the past, but don't want to be limited by what the current world has to say about it. Overall TES is a very deep reflection of real human history, philosophy, and mythology. TES even has "Dragon Breaks" which are metaphysical events that allow multiple overlapping continuities to persist in the same universe. Meaning, more than one mythology can be true at the same time; even contradicting ones. Some races have multiple origin stories; this can be explained as different sources creating different entities in separate timelines, and then having them converge into the same species later. Going on a tangent though lol.
@@abominationdesolation8322 "Going on a tangent" has never been more evident than in your random post on Dragon Breaks. Morrowind will always be my favorite for lore. Re-rolling as an unarmored projectile throwing stealthy altmer focused on alteration and mysticism and immediately raiding the +10/10 attribute ring directly west of the starting point coast line sounds soooo much fun. Then head slightly east and north, loot the falling man and gather shrooms for the first balmora mage guild quest... OH THE JOY
Sir Ron Swanson was very informative in the most practical and realistic way possible.
I agree sir, very informative and thorough
I love this series !
WOW, THIS WAS FANTASTIC
Imagine if firearms had never been developed. This would be the pinnacle of warfare technology man to man.
I'd love to visit these museums and see all the armor and I suppose they know the history of some of the suits, such as do they have the Black Prince's armor? I'd imagine they do... or maybe his spare armor.
Gotta love the fact they have a NFL (San Francisco 49ers) uniform in the armor museum.
I came here to see if anyone else noticed. I wanted to say something, especially with it being a British museum (obviously. Lol!). Interesting. I guess they see it as an evolution of armor. It makes sense
@@BrottenGuyI noticed that too.
I wonder how Sean Bean feels about AI doing his voice.
One does not simply enter a fighting tourney
Ah, Mr. Sean Bean and his wonderful voice!!
Imagine a bunch of aliens watching this and going "nah we'll keep staying away, we will just send some flying objects to try and distract them from this nonsense".
fantastic
Spending a lot of time trying that upper leg piece on
Good documentary, bad dental hygiene.
and winter is coming
Reenactors…….this is what playing D&D as a kid leads you to become.
Cosplay and larpers as well
Kids who play D&D requisitely have more friends than I do as an adult
@@nothanks9503 Touche’
@@nothanks9503 of course they do. All their games rely on social connections and community. I'm always impressed with anyone who will dress up and totally embrace a character, while in public. I'm overly shy, and worried about looking stupid, which ends up making me look stupid.
Toby Capwell is a treasure in himself in this field. He has designed and has had harness built to actually fight in and that formed the basis of his doctoral dissertation. His English armor, in black and gold is stunningly gorgeous while being absolutely functional. That harness is for fighting on foot, so naturally he had a second made that is optimized for mounted combat and the list. Talk about living the dream, Dr. Capwell has certainly lived his, while taking his lumps in a knightly and manly manner.
Henry VIII gave up fighting in tournaments after he was unhorsed at a tourney in 1536. He sustained head and limb injuries, some before that event, that plagued him for the remaining 11 years of his life. Some of the changes observed in Henry were mental; he was mutilated in mind and body by his lifelong love of knightly combat. Henry VIII died at the relatively young age of 55 as a very old man.
He’s from a few towns down the road from where I’m from :)
55 years old was considered to be old back in those days. The life span was kind of short .
@@audreyricci6383 Actually, average life spans were shorter then mostly due to the very high rates of infant and child mortality. That was true of the US also in the mid 19th century. Medical science reduced infant mortality rates after the middle of that century and that accounted for most of the increase in average longevity. That means that late 60s into 70s was not uncommon for an adult life span. Henry abused his body for most of his life, with gargantuan appetites for food, drink, women and fighting, so he died a very old man st the relatively young age of 55.
a man to my heart no gay shit.
He refers to himself in the third person…
Fun fact. Most knights showed signs of PTSD, and some even killed them selves.
For once, Sean Bean made it to the end
Who was the young French knight who eventually posted announcements inviting all comers on certain dates in certain cities? He traveled Europe and won so many times he would essentially book a field, have his tents set up for a part of the year and wait for challengers. I keep forgetting his name. His records are very detailed about weapons, techniques and injuries.
I think you might be referring to Jean le Maingre, also known as Boucicaut.
Having an itch must have been agonizing.
Toby is gettin' upset! @12:20
34:00 the voice sound like sharpe.
The Knights of Malta, at that time, were no less than 100x more vicious than any Knight in the English kingdom.
The largest in existence ...? That is in fact incorrect, the largest is in Austria located in Graz / Steirische Waffenkammer.
Did they have ice in wine glasses?
"Suttle"? Its "subtle". The b is there to dull the t sound.
Ron Swanson without a beard
Moustache
It’s incredible they could go a week without pooping. Was it the mead? Yogurt?
Bro, Ned can explain everything forever please.
I been a Hally-mage since 1997' I always prefer Halberd. Poll-axe or whatever u wanna call it.
8:34, why the HELL do they have a SF 49ers uniform and helmet on the mannequin?? 🤣
Like seriously Toby has probably been in every medieval documentary there is lol
Is Sean Bean narrating this or am I going crazy?
I want the man narrating to narrate my life. Is it Sean Bean?
3 or 4 mm of steel ?
i doubt the armor plate is 4 mm thick. a light armored vehicle has that armor :D
@17:46
8:37 why is there a 49ers player 😂
the first prosthetics were invented then
I wonder what his name was; the first knight to be shot by a gun; the last knight.
So history wants us to believe that knights were the rich politicians of yesteryear ? Really ? Cuz those guys arent the fighters of any recent history
yes knights were politicians
Sharpe ⚔
I didn’t know if I had accidentally advanced to Different video of “Tim and Eric awesome great job“ while Watching that reenactor explain his armor
The narrator sounds exactly like Sean Bean.
The armor is cool, but the American jousting enthusiast’s fake British is even more impressive.
And his inability to use google as well
That guy is mean to dogs for sure.
i'm pretty sure that wig is on backwards
My experience is 1996-2011 wearing body armour as part of a swat team. Regular training and assessment in 30°c temperatures. Wearing kevlar and ceramic plates, thigh rig, pistol, belt, braces, load carrying overvest, ammunition, stun grenades, balaclava, helmet. The description of breathing and moving in medieval times, if having everything just right, taped fixed together, being able to don the gear, and help your buddy to, vision protection, a feeling of confidence in your skill and armour. It is pretty accurate.
Militarized po-lice, eh?
I was in the USMC infantry, I couldn't agree more
You guys are nothing like a knight. It's not comparable at all.
@@ongobongo8333 Youre right. We are bigger, stronger, faster, smarter, more skilled, better trained, with better weapons, better armor, we have better medical and logistical support. You are correct, our superiority makes comparison irrelevant, any combat between knights and modern soldiers would be finished in seconds. It would be the kind of fight the victors would regret winning, it would be butchery, not a fight
@@cascadianrangers728 and you forgot to say you guys are humble too 🙄
*Over dramatic music playing, over gritty warriors preparing for a fight in the muddy, grey middle ages*, I am thinking oh no, this is one of those documentaries again, but then as the narration starts, I'm thinking: wait, is that Sean Bean, and realize it can't be anyone else. It is still Sharpe, it is Boromir, the son of Denethor, it is the golden voice and accent of the man himself, and I end up watching the silly document anyways. EDIT: Then I see, couple of seconds onward, dr.Tobias Capwell, and think this can't be so bad then, after all.
What were king’s injuries, that led to his demise?
Primarily head injuries that affected his brain 🧠 changing his whole personality and thought processes.
The Woodstock of the middleages
Boromir is that you??
I feel like I’m playing civ lol
Man, is it just me or does Toby seem like a person who yells at his wife behind closed doors and is verbally abusive to service workers?
Maybe it's the unblinking, aggressive eye contact he's making with some off-camera producer.
If anyone knows it's Boromir Stark
Holy shit...I started playing Civilization VI again recently and just realized this is the same narrator as in the game lol.
Fun Fact: while England 🏴 was still in the medieval ages figjting with knights during the War of the Roses, Spain 🇪🇸 was alteady colonizing America 🇺🇸 🇺🇸 🇺🇸 🇺🇸
Not quite. The wars of the roses ended in 1487...
At least they were killing each other and not causing genocide
And Spain spent basically the entire middle middle ages in constant unending pointless civil wars... over and over and over and over
@@jordansmith8937😉👍👍👍🇸🇻
Chivalry is dying, if not already dead, and rightly so. Modern women have destroyed it. The day of honor and respect are long gone.
poleaxe = axe on a pole it is not complicated
yeah I get it other languages would say it differently poll axe meaning head axe??? cause the axe is on the head of the shaft??? have we seen many effective axes where the axe is mid shaft?
I’m too lazy to watch the whole
Thing but what did they use for lubrication of the articulated armor parts?
lol this expert talking about "when I hit someone on horse back"... he thinks he a real knight lmao!!
I’m only 12 min in, and I really hope they’ll explain how they pee. 😀
Ned Stark as the narrator makes this even better.
it is bloody soldiering!
Ned Stark????
Great doc but tudor isnt medieval
SÓ TEM EU DE BRASILEIRO AQUI ?
The end fighting scene was pathetic they could have done a better job. Watch some vintage chinese kung fu movies of 1970's were they fight with swords, halbart puts this to shame.
Give me a Break one hit from me and the joint would never move
Good vid but I find it awful that your society has taken the title of sir and turned it into a reward you get for becoming famous or popular. A word that used to mean honor and respect now has nothing to do with either. It's just a title you throw around to make people feel good. It's a shame!
The og Ironman
The title of this video is a lie. 45 minute discussion about armor and 2 minutes about one tournament.
Man, I forgot how (nearly) successful Ned Stark’s *“Medieval Fun-Time World”* was! So brutal and bizarre! Turn out for their renaissance festival was great that year, despite poor Ned & Robert Baratheon’s their near fatal encounter’s with Peter’s tainted kitten meat burgers! And not to mention Robert’s other (eventually fatal) injury biting his own tongue when announcing the joust! Hard to believe all this history occurred only a little more than 10 yrs ago! Truly one of the best moments to be alive! back when “Jazz Hands” could forgive any number of farts. If all this sounds nuts, look it up. It’s a similarly “graphic” documentary on how tournaments were conducted in t
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Fighting with melee weapons while wearing knight armor should be a right of passage for ALL men. Ballistics are good for protecting grandmas from muggers... but men need to be able to fight without being harmed or harming each other. Not serious harm at least.
Maybe because it's my ancestry it seems so unnecessary and torturous
Sean bean: littles our home with psychiatrist psychiatrist labeled announcements annoying shame messages and information mindfulness. Held only with restless syndrome selves ideal if no choice refuse to choose attention animation productive. 5:30
"Throughout history, men and women have faced one another in personal combat." Excuse me, women? I thought this was supposed to be a serious documentary, not feminist nonsense. If you're willing to lie to your audience like that, I can't trust anything else you say. I want to know what actually happened, not your fictional version of history.
Women did not fight wars nor should they.
The “late 1400’s? The Tudor period didn’t begin until the mid 1480’s. I think what you meant is the late 15th century and conflated the name of the first decade of the century with the name of the entire century because you got confused about how to add 1 to the name of the century.
Forgotten? Is it really forgotten or just a very expensive and unnecessary trade that has a painfully small demand? There are very few people getting paid to make armor because we don't need armor anymore.
Worst background music
0:36 Dumbest helmet design ever. One upward thrust and it’s gone.
Try and hit that gap while homeboy is trying to get you, I guarantee it's a lot harder than you think. There's a good reason the sallet was an extremely popular helmet for so long.
That’s probably what Henry V thought too.
So there was a " womens " league in medieval combat sports ???? LOL.
NOPE.