The Plantagenets: The Rise of Lancaster Documentary
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2:17:22 Henry V
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A correction on something that was said in the video about Joan of Kent, she was actually the granddaughter of King Edward I of England, not great-granddaughter, her father Edmund of Woodstock, Earl of Kent, he was the youngest son of Edward I of England through his 2nd marriage to Princess Marguerite of France, so just a little correction, so her and Edward the Black Prince were 1st cousins, 1x removed
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I don't know why, but I'm really enjoying these documentaries about the Plantagenets. I'm not even English, like, at all. But the Plantagents are VERY interesting.
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It's basically back to back novels of romantic thrillers. They were the inspiration for Game of Thrones,
These are absolutely superb. Thank you for preparing and presenting these.
There is indeed a hunger for this type of intelligent programming. Again, thank you!
It's incredible, they even got a real Englishman from the 1700s to voice the documentary 🤠🙌💪
1700s? Do you even know how they spoke in England back then?
@@Shinobi33 been there, done that 👍🤣
Somehow I doubt the gentleman narrating is a “real” gentleman from the 1700. Goodness the bloke would be 400+ old!!!!
funny.ha,ha
@@grrriallen7192your math is fuzzy, by about 100 yrs, lol.
I am so blown away by how far time goes back.. its crazy to think of these people living the life that existed so so so many moons ago.. we really are just here for a small blip. One day itll be our generation people cant believe ever was. 🤯
It's not even 2500 yet. It's a lot closer than we tend to realize at first. The same US Army that dropped an atom bomb in WW2 still had horses. Crazy when I think about it.
You guys are among my top favorite channels for documentaries. We all appreciate you putting up these compilation videos.
Glad you like them!
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I as a history nerd admit I can't think of The Plantagenats without thinking of The Lion in Winter. (Otoole got robbed for the Oscar)
Eleanor of Aquitaine was one of the most fascinating Queens of 2 countries.
Eleanor was smarter than any of them.
I agree
Every family has their ups and downs.
I also liked "Lion in Winter", especially the acting, but found the one-liners out-of-place.
@@nortonyatzee7254 if he can find a way Montecito duke will usurper and crown himself as Arry IX
Another great series. Thank you for uploading them in groups this way, I love to fall asleep to the solid narration while I learn. Looking forward to the next part already!
I GO TO SLEEP TO THEM AS WELL.. LIKE A BEDTIME STORY
Me too! ❤
Mee too
I absolutely love all of these documentaries. Please keep them coming. They're very interesting. I can watch them for hours on end.
I enjoyed these histories. I was surprised that Shakespeare wasn't mentioned in the discussion of Edward V.
The murder of Edward was a shocking crime that already been much discussed for a century before Shakespeare began publishing his historical plays.
I love that I can listen to these without actually watching when needed.
Thanks you The People Profiles! I have a fascination with the Plantangenet Dynasty. I've said before and I'll say it again the Tudors are overrated compared to the Plantangenets! I really enjoy these videos and have been waiting patiently for this follow up!
I agree it's a fascinating period in England's history.
When Adam delved and Eva span who was then the gentleman.......
You should watch _The Hollow Crown_
Tudors are really a cadet family of the Plantagenets. And the Tudors were better rulers hence why you find them overated. They rarely had rebellions, coups etc
@@kincaidwolf5184 Yeah, by modern standards they were absolutely Plantagenets. Henry VIII was doubly so since his mother was Elizabeth of York (the daughter of Richard, Duke of York who was Plantagenet on both sides) and his grandmother was Margaret Beaufort, the great- great-granddaughter of John of Gaunt.
It's just that descent from the female line was not considered all that great back then.
*edit: Elizabeth of York was the _granddaughter_ of Richard, Duke of York.
Thank you!
I absolutely love your attention to detail; the narrative (s) you have created are totally believable nd the videography is truly evocative of the era.
Love this channel also. WHO COULD NOT LOVE HISTORY? I READ MANY BOOKS, BUT THESE VIDEOS I LOVE ALSO. Thank you.❤
Thanks for the great videos. They have taught me quite a bit, and broadened my sense of History.
Your documentary compilations are top-notch and greatly appreciated. The immersive narration truly brings history to life, especially with figures as captivating as Eleanor of Aquitaine.
Good king Henry was a very determined & faithful king who cared his country his people & his family.🤴
Thank you for showing this.
Wonderful to watch this on a Saturday night.🙂
Charles VI of France and Richard II of England were both teenagers in 1390 and had vigorous correspondence with each other. Both lamented the oversight of their lives by adults, and the church. They became friends and enjoyed some time of peace as they grew older. The "Hundred Years War" was mostly a regional matter, and did not figure large between the Kings.
Oh. This is interesting. I would like to know more about him through his correspondences.
We never hear anything about what he said privately.
Same for Queen Anne & Joan of Kent. I'd love their personal thoughts to be
published & analyized, at least explained for the modern mind.
yeeey part 3 is here! ty for your hard work!
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thank you for this opportunity for me to be able to watch this great video of the kings of England
Love this channel especially the vids on the English monarchy !! Maybe you could do William the conquer or harold
These series are fascinating and thank you.
A really good presentation. Thank you very much.
These Plantagenet documentaries are captivating! I love your compilations and appreciate the ability to listen without watching.
Wycliffe and Tyler are amongst a number of English heroes that belie the fact that we don’t do revolutionary politics and thought here
Just did my mother’s stepbrother’s genealogy. Found Margaret Plantagent in his direct line. Our line are a bunch of peasants.🤣🤣🤣
I found Anne Plantagenet in my great great grandmothers line. My brother linked me back to being king Edward 3rd 22nd great grand daughter I think it was
The Black Prince - whose armour is exhibited in the Cathedral of Canterbury, left no good memories in France. He was the most ruthless knight known for killing injured prisoners, slaughtering whole villages and cities and putting fire on them. So yes, the Black Prince deserved his name (regardless of the colour of his armour).
Didn’t he cut their vines as punishment too? Pretty harsh in wine country
Is Richard 2nd the black Prince?
@dsd no his father was
Black Prince would be more appropriately named if he were called the White Primce based on history
@@marymeeks6680 Yawn. Get a grip. It's obvious that you've never studied African or Asian history. If so, you'd know they were just as brutal as any European leader/nation/army. Did you just think time started 400 hundred years ago? Lmfao. Or was it created in a vaccum? You trashing on white people just proves how little you know. Smh. No race is more "guilty" of atrocities than any other. History proves that to be fact. Feel free to research that....
I love this channel so much. I cannot get enough of it.
Wycliff was ahead of his time.
Henry the 5th would gave changed history hugely had he survived
Really interesting historical stuff
Thanks
Thank you for this interesting documentary on my ancestors.
Don't forget that the Plantagenets are the descendants of a French dynasty. They descended from William the Conqueror , duke of Normandy ( so French ) and vassal to the King of France.
I think the first Duke of Normandy was a Viking named Rollo.
@@kraykray4446 yes, correct. William was a descendant of Rollo.
Absolutely correct 👏🏻👌
And he descended from the Viking explorer Rolo so Guillaume the conqueror was himself a decent of the vikings so yeah
"English" is pretty much a term we use for modern England but we all know England was just a melting pot of conquering peoples, Celts, Romans, Saxons, Vikings, Normans... one of the most multicultural nations of all history
Thanks!
Thank you!
Great documenteries thankyou 🙂
Brilliant love it
This was excellent.
Just came across your channel and I'm hooked much love Arlene from Scotland 🏴 xoxoxo
Welcome!
The editor really likes that close-up of a hand rolling a gold nugget between fingertips, like it's God's Booger or something. I hope they use it in every video!
Excellent!
Plantagenet Kings were thus the richest family in Europe and ruled England and half of France. Their name came from planta genista, the Latin for yellow broom flower, which the Counts of Anjou wore as an emblem on their helmets. What's in a name? Imagine having a royal dynasty, called the Brooms! Though they could have swept their way across the land?
Actually, the name "Plantagenêt" in French sounds like "Broom" in English 🙂 "Plante à genêt" 🙂
Just think about our own level of freedom. We, as a people exist in a time when the king of England still exists and we are free to study the history of the monarchy in the greatest detail. The king really has no say in what we do. And yet he still a still king and, let’s say that the learning of all this information makes the people suspect and sews hatred of the king upon his subjects. He really just can sit idly by. I’m talking about new King Charles. If we then think about the various dukes and earls and princes etc, they too are affected by this and we can use them as examples in relation to this video. Europe at the time had various kingdoms that defined countries after the fall of the Roman Empire.
In modern times we have media moguls and tech leaders and industrialists and fuel barrons. All of these interrelated ventures are modern day equivalents, each vying for dominance and annexation of the others. They all see this king that still exists and that still has huge wealth and these guys are eying him as something ripe for the picking….. if only they can use the media to manipulate the people into a final revolt. And we are those people. They want to use the riffraff (us) to take him out.
In a way, the kingdoms of old still exist, but are on a higher technological battlefield. And they are ALL using US to amass their wealth and power.
if you read blackett and wilson you will see the parasites that are kings/queens of england are anything but.
Very true.
It is always interesting to see how much influence the de Clare and the de Vere family have in English history. From being patrons of Chaucer, to becoming the greatest writer this world have ever known. Hamlet being his autobiographical work. Yes the great Edward de Vere, 17th earl of Oxford. The de Vere were also on the battlefield, when Richard III fell at Bosworth field. Amazing history, that of England. Very excellent documentary, very well presented, thank you.
Richard II apparently was a bully, and you alluded he was a narcissist- fascinating stuff- would love a few details of this behavior in future videos, if you make them. The beauty of your videos are how you tie all the wars, plagues, uprisings chronologically with an excellent depiction of the current political reasons.
I think 💬🤔 they were all a little narcissistic
How do you measure the grandiosity of a king?
waiting for your video on John of Gaunt
The chat feature on the HAL app is a good start, just wish you could do group chatting.
Love your documentary on the Plantagentants (sic)sorry!!
Just checking if anyone else thought that the middle dude on the thumbnail looks like Robert Downey Jr
But prettier
Downey Jr. vibes on the middle guy
We didn't notice that!
No vibes ..... it is Downey !
Henry 4th sounds good but rest of the Nobels were hopeless.
Killing the lolards was bad.
I just figured out why I found this so confusing:
If you hover your mouse over the video progress bar, where it shows the chapter names, they aren't actually correct. In the video description, it says "The life and reigns of King Richard II, King Henry IV and Henry V of England."
But the chapters are named Henry VI, Edward IV, and Richard III.
Are those chapters named automatically? Or did someone get drunk while naming them?
Is that Ben Stiller, Robert Downey Jr and Daniel Craig on the thumbnail?
In the thumbnail, the guy in the mide.looks like Rob Stark
The guy in the middle is a dead wringer for Robert Downey Jr 😂
Thumbnail made me think it was RDJ for a second there
Part four when?This is true history.
As cruel as the Black Prince was in warfare he did some curious things.
One was serving the captured king of France as a servant.
The other thing that I wish there was more info on, is his relationship with Joan.
It appears he waited many long years for her to be available to marry.
That has me so curious! 💕❓
William Seale is my ancestor lol. Like no, for real. 😮That rebel is the reason I'm here 😂
I imagine when it was clear the child, Richard, was next in line, many grown men fawned over him & everything was at his disposal.
That could give him the idea of being powerful. The execution of his supporters may have been a bitter pill, too.
For some reason i think he was miscast, a victim of circumstance. Too bad we don't know more about the personal
attitudes of his parents & wife, Anne, & himself, for that matter.
His association with baby Jesus shows some very deep or misguided grandiosity.
It is so hard, without documentation, to judge something from such a distant & different time.
What a great content.
Regarding Henry IV. - one can be a good king for his time and country. Though the outcome of one’s action lead to something bad. Can we call him a bad king? Or Henry V.? What are the foundations of the war of the roses? Surely it is easy to name Richard II. As root cause. Or is it his father?
Who knew Robert Downey Jr. was a time traveler?
Edward 3 is my 28 great great grandfather on my mother side
Edward III is my 17th GGF .
The Plantagenets: The Inspiration for "The Game of Thrones". But in the Middle Ages it was the Norm to be that Ruthless on the Battlefield. War was very different before the invention of guns.
Yeah as soon as gunpowder ended up on the battlefield everyone started living quite peacefully.
of the conflict occurred in that country.The House of Plantagenet
Carolingian Empire (800-888) is a historiographical term which has been used to refer to the realm of the Franks under the Carolingian dynasty in the Early Middle Ages. This dynasty is seen as the founders of France and Germany, and its beginning date is based on the crowning of Charlemagne, or Charles the Great, and ends with the death of Charles the Fat. This Empire can be seen as the later history of the Frankish Realm or the early history of France and of the Holy Roman Empire.
The Angevins, also known as the House of Anjou, were a noble family founded in the early years of the Carolingian Empire. They first emerged as part of the minor feudal nobility, in what would soon be known as the Kingdom of France during the 10th century. After Geoffrey III, Count of Anjou inherited Anjou from his mother in 1060, the family began to grow in prominence, soon acquiring Maine. After going on crusade and becoming close to the Knights Templar, the Kingdom of Jerusalem was received through marriage by Fulk of Jerusalem in 1131. The senior line of the family branched off to become the House of Plantagenet, assuming the nickname of Geoffrey V of Anjou, its founder, eventually going on to rule the Kingdom of England, Lordship of Ireland, Principality of Wales and various other holdings in the vast Angevin Empire in 1154.
The House of Plantagenet, a branch of the Angevins, was a royal house founded by Geoffrey V of Anjou, father of Henry II of England. Plantagenet kings first ruled the Kingdom of England in the 12th century. Their paternal ancestors originated in the French province of Gâtinais and gained the County of Anjou through marriage during the 11th century. The dynasty accumulated several other holdings, building the Angevin Empire that at its peak stretched from the Pyrenees to Ireland and the border with Scotland.
Edward III, House of Plantagenet (13 November 1312 - 21 June 1377) was King of England from 1327 until his death and is noted for his military success. Restoring royal authority after the disastrous reign of his father, Edward II, Edward III went on to transform the Kingdom of England into one of the most formidable military powers in Europe. His reign saw vital developments in legislation and government - in particular the evolution of the English parliament - as well as the ravages of the Black Death. He remains one of only five monarchs to have ruled England or its successor kingdoms for more than fifty years.

Edward was crowned at the age of fourteen, following the deposition of his father. When he was only seventeen years old, he led a coup against the de facto ruler of the country, his mother's consort Roger Mortimer, and began his personal reign. After a successful campaign in Scotland in 1333, he declared himself rightful heir to the French throne in 1337, starting what would become known as the Hundred Years' War. Following some initial setbacks, the war went exceptionally well for England; the victories of Crécy and Poitiers led to the highly favourable Treaty of Brétigny. Edward's later years, however, were marked by international failure and domestic strife, largely as a result of his inactivity and bad health.
The Hundred Years' War
The Hundred Years' War was a series of separate wars waged from 1337 to 1453 by the House of Valois and the House of Plantagenet, also known as the House of Anjou, for the French throne, which had become vacant upon the extinction of the senior Capetian line of French kings. The House of Valois claimed the title of King of France, while the Plantagenets claimed the thrones of both France and England. The Plantagenet kings were the 12th-century rulers of the kingdom of England, and had their roots in the French regions of Anjou and Normandy.
The conflict was punctuated by several periods of peace, before it finally ended in the expulsion of the Plantagenets from France (except from the Pale of Calais). The final outcome was a victory for the house of Valois, which succeeded in recovering early gains made by the Plantagenets and expelling them from the majority of France by the 1450s. However, the war nearly ruined the Valois, while the Plantagenets enriched themselves with plunder. France suffered greatly from the war, since most of the conflict occurred in that country.
The "war" was in fact a series of conflicts and is commonly divided into three or four phases: the Edwardian War (1337-1360), the Caroline War (1369-1389), the Lancastrian War (1415-1429), and the slow decline of Plantagenet fortunes after the appearance of Joan of Arc (1412-1431). Several other contemporary European conflicts were directly related to this conflict: the Breton War of Succession, the Castilian Civil War, the War of the Two Peters, and the 1383-1385 Crisis. The term "Hundred Years' War" was a later term invented by historians to describe the series of events.
The war owes its historical significance to a number of factors. Though primarily a dynastic conflict, the war gave impetus to ideas of both French and English nationalism. Militarily, it saw the introduction of new weapons and tactics, which eroded the older system of feudal armies dominated by heavy cavalry in Western Europe. The first standing armies in Western Europe since the time of the Western Roman Empire were introduced for the war, thus changing the role of the peasantry. For all this, as well as for its long duration, it is often viewed as one of the most significant conflicts in the history of medieval warfare. In France, civil wars, deadly epidemics, famines and marauding mercenary armies (turned to banditry) reduced the population by about one-half.
Richard II, House of Plantagenet (6 January 1367 - c. 14 February 1400) was King of England, a member of the House of Plantagenet and the last of its main-line kings. He ruled from 1377 until he was deposed in 1399. Richard was a son of Edward, the Black Prince, and was born during the reign of his grandfather, Edward III. At the age of four, Richard became second in line to the throne when his older brother Edward of Angoulême died, then heir apparent when his father died in 1376. With Edward III's death the following year, Richard succeeded to the throne at the age of ten.

As an individual, Richard was tall, good-looking and intelligent. Though probably not insane, as earlier historians used to believe, he may have suffered from a personality disorder or disorders, which may have become more apparent toward the end of his reign. Less of a warrior than either his father or grandfather, he sought to bring an end to the Hundred Years' War that Edward III had started.
In total fifteen Plantagenet monarchs, including those belonging to cadet branches, ruled England from 1154 until 1485. The senior branch ruled from Henry II of England until the deposition of Richard II of England in 1399.
After that a junior branch, the House of Lancaster, ruled for some fifty years before clashing over control of England with another branch, the House of York, in a civil war known as the Wars of the Roses.
The House of Anjou was Moorish as was the Holy Roman Empire.
@@nattybwhiye1712 how do you work that out?
The truth can't be obscured forever, my pedantic associate.
@@nattybwhiye1712 you haven't explained how they are Moors?
@@pedanticradiator1491 What's to explain, the oldest bones in Europe do not match phenotypically, with the modern European. As such, it has been concurred that, the paleolithic European was a dark skinned man (Moorish), and at some point, been over run by hordes of wild men from their East or Rus. These people were called Vandals, Suebi, Visigoths and various others. Such is shown in the 15th (1440) century medieval tapestry called "Wild Men and Moors", since you wanna feign ignorance. Look it up☝ They wear headbands like the Phoenician, Cannanite paleo- Hebrew, North African or Moor (Mahurim)(Mauharin). They also were not just Moorish, but Hebrew, Christian and Moslem exo and esoterics throughout Europe. Be it France, Germany, Switzerland, down to Iberia.
Where's the sound???
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Impeccable content as usual,thank you from the bottom of my heart 🥶🤍
Tell us more about "The Wonderful Pollyament," please. Does it have something to do with Jennifer Aniston?
The timestamps are not correct. They are the ones for the next video.
Oh hey, my ancestors!
Me too
Hello cousins
Same hello family
Mine too.
The Greeks have gods the daughters of Asclepias, who is like Imhotep, Joseph, but just a mythological myth whatever, but his daughters were known as like the goddesses of cleanliness, healing, sanitation, they were basically nurses and doctors who know how to wash their hands and keep everything clean, and could heal people from near death. Why don’t these no English people know about that stuff
They did. They used honey and vinegar as disinfectant for wounds, they successfully managed to pull an arrow out of Henry Vs face. Though they wouldn't aware of how infections spread, that didn't really come until the Victorian era.
What’s most important: is that Henryv’s hat or does he just have really dodgy hair?
It seems that there was a very odd fashion for bowl haircuts-shaved on the sides and back and even all around. Not a good look.
Is there someone who can give me the summary please
His name was Sir Edmund and he was known as the Black Adder.
Henry IV Is my husband and i's twelve great grandpa he's the father of henry the eighth
Henry VII (7th) is the father of Henry 8th
some of my ancestors from my mother’s side of the family
My ancestors
King Henry the Fourth the son of Joan of Lancaster is very good king and died with achievements for the REALM !
Why does he say parloomeant am I missing something here?
How did this end up in my feed? Almost as bewilderingly unenjoyable as Shakespeare. Sorry, William ...
Too much influence of Michael de la Pole lol!
The guy in the center of the thumbnail looks like Brandon Rogers. Just saying.
700 years ago. All those lives. All their work and wars and infighting at court. What was the point of it all? Life is absolutely pointless.
The names get confusing, hard to follow who's who
i wonder if they had butter back in those days?
Yes they did and cheese and most other dairy products
Yeah,hundred year war,let's change.
I think Henry 4th did what he had to do
Lmao where did it go after he died? Hmm lemme think. America. Separation of church and state is kinda key here.
Richard the 2nd was both
Listed out of order? They keep saying the same thing. And what’s up with the weird, up close eye pictures?
THIS SISSTEM HASN'T changed one BIT! ONLY THIS time the British people are fighting BOUTH the governments and the Monakey?.
This should of had king herny 6 tbf
Henry VI, Edward IV and Richard III will be the last Plantagenet episode as their reigns cover "The Wars of the Roses"
That is correct
Henry the 5th was an awesome fighter and a good king but life is life and he got sick and died,I feel ge would have done much more if he had not died
He died of exhaustion. Maybe he shouldn't have fought so much.
He was more fun as Prince Hal.
All that death, For Nothing!!!
Probably more like Richard III and Henry IV "discussed" things. As in, it was forced, somehow.
I think you mean Richard II. Richard III was born after Henry IV had died
The Plantagenet known as the shewolf
Who was the Plantagenet known as the shewolf and was she as evil as history tells us
@@sandraswannell4170I think they might mean Isabella, the she wolf of France Edward 2nds wife and Edward 3rds mother she ended up in rebellion of her husband (for a whole host of reasons) and alongside her lover imprisoned Edward 2 and put Edward 3 on the throne
@@sandraswannell4170 The famous "Shewolf" was not a Plantagenet, but a Capetian of the French royal family : Isabelle de France, daughter of Philippe IV le Bel (Philip the Fair) 🙂 She married Edward II, who was a Plantagenet.
When you say Aquitaine was english it's falsification of history. The Plantagenet king of England was also Duke of Aquitaine. The Duchy of Aquitaine isn't like any other duchy on England's land. Before they became kings of England the Plantagenets were French Dukes of Anjou and Normandie (first and second lion of their armorial), later they extended their Domaine by mariage and became dukes of Aquitaine (third lion of their armorial). So Aquitaine was the Plantagenet french domaine and England was their other domaine on the british island. the English king armorial shows clearly these different domaines : the cross for England, and 3 lions of french domaines of Normandie, Anjou, Aquitaine (homeland of the Plantagenet).. Aquitaine Belonged to the King not to England. Like Canada and England today, you can't say Canada is English because they share the same monarch 🎉
Was called the black prince because of his swarthy appearance. He was black people .
No he wasn't
Life is stranger than fiction. These stories are astonishing. I think they all suffered from brutal personality disorders. That might explain why America is in decline.