England's Favorite King Liked France Better | The Life & Times of Richard the Lionheart

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    Here's the link to the dramatic reenactment of Richard's Crusade in the Holy Land: www.magellantv.com/series/war...
    And the battle at Chateau Gaillard that changed the course of England's French holdings forever: www.magellantv.com/video/ch%C...
    Music (in order of appearance):
    Kevin Macleod - Immersed
    Kevin Macleod - Hidden Past
    Kevin Macleod - Screen Saver
    Kevin Macleod - Angevin
    RPG Playlist - Tavern/Festival Music - Kesh Jig
    RPG Playlist - Tavern/Festival Music - An Comhra Donn/Rights of Man
    Kevin Macleod - Five Armies
    Seb Skelly - Trolololo for Brass Quintet

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  • @JackRackam
    @JackRackam  Před 3 lety +244

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    • @jakespacepiratee3740
      @jakespacepiratee3740 Před 3 lety +3

      Jack, I would highly recommend you look into William Lyons Mackenzie, the guy who tried to do America, in Canada. After failing to get Canadians to peacefully rebel from 'Britsh colonial thraldom', He actuslly started a short-lived pro-American anti-British "Republic of Canada" whos flag is literally the word LIBERTY in big red letters, and two American-esc Stars. Looks pretty cool to me.
      The Republic of Canada only lasted two years with some boys doing a Summer-Camp on an Island before being kurbstomped by the UK. America did not really care.
      Oh, there was also the "Republic of Lower Canada" which lasted a bit longer, and was more French-Canadian, while the Republic Williams tried to make was more American-Canadian in ideals and culture. Oh, he also later said that Canada should be straight-up be annexed by America. I guess he was salty that his rebellion failed.

    • @stoopidphersun7436
      @stoopidphersun7436 Před 3 lety

      Do a vid on the rhodesian bush war

    • @xyzstain
      @xyzstain Před 3 lety

      Wait....was that the band of the hawk in the mercenary shot?

    • @neilbuckley1613
      @neilbuckley1613 Před 3 lety +1

      Hey Jack , I can see that he regarded England as free bank, but he waged an awful lot of war in France, Richard must of killed a hell of a lot more Frenchmen than English, so they do have something to like about him.

    • @Christobanistan
      @Christobanistan Před 3 lety +1

      Signed up for WARRIORS!

  • @awzthemusicalreviews
    @awzthemusicalreviews Před 3 lety +2553

    "People actually died for this" sums up European history better than any book ever could

    • @evryatis9231
      @evryatis9231 Před 3 lety +83

      any history tbh, look at the indians/american indians or africans, or even asians.
      Yeahhh..

    • @Catman2123
      @Catman2123 Před 3 lety +146

      Pope in 2020: “Take up your sins with the lord yourself if you are unable to attend confession.”
      The 5,000,000+ people who died during the reformation: “Are you shitting me?”

    • @forickgrimaldus8301
      @forickgrimaldus8301 Před 3 lety +22

      @@Catman2123 actually they were in the low million as the population density of Europe was small but still why did the whole of Europe mobilized for war after #Protestant, #Reformation and #MartinLuther became trending topics?

    • @comradepolarbear6920
      @comradepolarbear6920 Před 3 lety +13

      @@forickgrimaldus8301 cuz why not.

    • @forickgrimaldus8301
      @forickgrimaldus8301 Před 3 lety +6

      @@comradepolarbear6920 oh thats right it was Fun

  • @vanbaguette7368
    @vanbaguette7368 Před 3 lety +1294

    I'm from Austria and we love Richard. The money England used to buy his freedom was used to renovate the capital and build a whole new city. Thanks Richard, very cool.

    • @dandyl1on
      @dandyl1on Před 3 lety +176

      I grew up in the city funded by his ransom and now live in the capital. Thanks Richard, very cool!

    • @Julianna.Domina
      @Julianna.Domina Před 3 lety +69

      As just an American whom adores little Austria, very cool, Richard!

    • @user-sg4ov7ng4h
      @user-sg4ov7ng4h Před 3 lety +41

      Don't have anything to say but, thanks richard, very cool!

    • @palehorse6655
      @palehorse6655 Před 3 lety +19

      What's the city called back then if it's not Richard's ransom in whatever language you guys spoke back then I will be disappointed

    • @nose766
      @nose766 Před 2 lety +16

      If Austria wasn't as rich it wouldn't have had as a big a population as it did during the late 1800s, giving Hitler an opportunity to be born.
      Richard literally caused the holocaust

  • @GiselleGewellle
    @GiselleGewellle Před 3 lety +2510

    England: *starts crying into hands*

    • @Kerriangel
      @Kerriangel Před 3 lety +264

      Ireland and Scotland: *pointing and laughing*

    • @Veriox22
      @Veriox22 Před 3 lety +57

      Into thy hands, o lord

    • @mojotheaverage
      @mojotheaverage Před 3 lety +78

      And binge drinking and eating Norwegian fish and chips like an ex downing a tub of ice cream

    • @uptank8461
      @uptank8461 Před 3 lety +23

      dude,,,,, too soon

    • @raulpetrascu2696
      @raulpetrascu2696 Před 3 lety +5

      Pepehands

  • @CivilWarWeekByWeek
    @CivilWarWeekByWeek Před 3 lety +1703

    England's king liking France, this is the ultimate betrayal

    • @invictidomini6846
      @invictidomini6846 Před 3 lety +132

      Vive la France 🇫🇷!!!!

    • @cgt3704
      @cgt3704 Před 3 lety +79

      How could you do this to me, Senpai

    • @dr.vikyll7466
      @dr.vikyll7466 Před 3 lety +52

      @@invictidomini6846 Vive la Roi

    • @tomaszzalewski4541
      @tomaszzalewski4541 Před 3 lety +86

      Well, considering that his family was technically from France...

    • @forickgrimaldus8301
      @forickgrimaldus8301 Před 3 lety +96

      Nah most of them were French anyway, as the main reason as to why the 100 years war happened was because the French line and the "English" line of the Family disaggreed on who gets France.

  • @theoador1050
    @theoador1050 Před 3 lety +1623

    Right off the bat Jack sounds like he's trying to tell his friend that their partner is cheating. This is going to be a good one

  • @Crick1952
    @Crick1952 Před 3 lety +663

    England: "No! He loves me! He told me it doesn't mean anything! He's going to leave France and come back to me!"
    *sobs into hands*

  • @jackukridge5381
    @jackukridge5381 Před 3 lety +643

    Great death, distracted by a guy defending himself with a frying pan and didn't notice the kid with the crossbow until it was too late because he was too busy laughing.

    • @ianlilley2577
      @ianlilley2577 Před 3 lety +20

      Sounds like he was a rabid dog

    • @game_boyd1644
      @game_boyd1644 Před 3 lety +26

      It's really funny that something similar happened to Pyrrhus of Epirus

    • @Adhjie
      @Adhjie Před 3 lety +2

      @@game_boyd1644 ditto king of general funne

  • @bagasdwiseptyan
    @bagasdwiseptyan Před 3 lety +745

    "Imagine simping hard for an Angevin"
    - This post was made by Capetian Gang

    • @tomaszzalewski4541
      @tomaszzalewski4541 Před 3 lety +39

      4/10 - not enough Louis

    • @Stopitpls
      @Stopitpls Před 3 lety +22

      Where’s my Plantagenet squad?

    • @popkhorne5372
      @popkhorne5372 Před 3 lety +1

      @@tomaszzalewski4541 or ludwig, or clovis lel ^^

    • @Adhjie
      @Adhjie Před 3 lety +1

      @@Cjnw fick lmaoポルマオ

    • @Adhjie
      @Adhjie Před 3 lety

      hittite lima gang

  • @padairua8129
    @padairua8129 Před 3 lety +513

    Ireland: “this video may be embarrassing for England?”
    [leans closer and pulls out pen and paper]

    • @seandegidon4672
      @seandegidon4672 Před 3 lety +29

      Aside from France, Austria and Scotland, Ireland may be the only place marginally better for the better-knight-than-king Richard. His father gave leave to Norman-Welsh Marcher Earls/Barons to launch the first (nominally) English invasion of Ireland. The better part of the island was conquered, when the protagonists got distracted. Barons got the land they wanted and started looking for wives, while Richard launched so many wars in the opposite direction that follow-through was hollow. Soon it would be reported that "your Majesty's subjects are more Irish than the Irish themselves," and the King's writ was null beyond the Pale.

    • @jeffcampbell1555
      @jeffcampbell1555 Před 3 lety +4

      @Aldo Steel UNITED KINGDOM: Oh...wicked, funny Aldo.
      IRELAND: Tá mé ag dul squash tú cosúil le fabht (I'm gonna squash ya like a bug.)

    • @malleableconcrete
      @malleableconcrete Před 2 lety +2

      FYI, Ireland was given to John when Henry II was splitting up his son's inheritance, there's a big castle built by him in Limerick.

    • @Grim_Sister
      @Grim_Sister Před 2 lety +9

      Every country that was colonized by England at some point: “Do tell”

    • @CollinMcLean
      @CollinMcLean Před 2 lety +1

      @@jeffcampbell1555 I thought "I'm" was Taim? Or is that only as an introductory? I'm only a few weeks into the basics of Irish Gaelic so I'm not sure on a lot of it...
      (Please forgive the lack of accents I don't know how to do that on my laptop keyboard)

  • @aleksandarvil5718
    @aleksandarvil5718 Před 3 lety +791

    Everyone: Richard the Lionheart
    Me, as an intelectual: *Richard Cœur de Lion* _(Norman French: Le quor de lion)_

    • @JackRackam
      @JackRackam  Před 3 lety +210

      And then of course there are the people who call him Richard Oc-e-Non, but they're probably posers

    • @morningnapalm9963
      @morningnapalm9963 Před 3 lety +54

      His name is Liquor the Lion. What a boss

    • @aleksandarvil5718
      @aleksandarvil5718 Před 3 lety +16

      @@morningnapalm9963
      *Le quor de lion* = _“Heart of Lion”_

    • @morningnapalm9963
      @morningnapalm9963 Před 3 lety +28

      @@aleksandarvil5718 La quor = Liquor the Lion
      = Drunk Lion

    • @honotenshi
      @honotenshi Před 3 lety +17

      Screw it, he's the Drunken Heart of a Lion.

  • @xenotypos
    @xenotypos Před 2 lety +119

    His father was french too, not just his mother. Henry II (father of Richard) was just the first Plantagenet to get the English crown, but was the son of the count of Anjou, a french noble. The Plantagenet/Angevin house was from the kingdom of France to begin with.

  • @scottcallahan5029
    @scottcallahan5029 Před 3 lety +873

    Richard lionheart comes home
    England: your home late
    Richard: umm
    England: I know about aquitaine and trying to sell London
    I don’t know why
    Richard :
    Moneys

    • @gabrielaubry1334
      @gabrielaubry1334 Před 3 lety +81

      Richard: "Well...WARS EXPENSIVE!"
      England: "ALL YOU DO IS SIT INSIDE ALLDAY, FIGHTING WARS!"

    • @forickgrimaldus8301
      @forickgrimaldus8301 Před 3 lety +9

      Just goes to show how expensive a crusade is.

    • @jairoukagiri2488
      @jairoukagiri2488 Před 3 lety +2

      @@forickgrimaldus8301 And keeping your keep well stocked to hold out sieges

    • @timurthejerk9270
      @timurthejerk9270 Před 2 lety +4

      Richard: you know how expensive a crusade is
      England: no but what would’ve help is if you had won it

    • @scottcallahan5029
      @scottcallahan5029 Před 2 lety

      @@timurthejerk9270 clap clap clap 👏 Clap 👏

  • @rin-joh8644
    @rin-joh8644 Před 3 lety +593

    The only thing Richard liked more than France was war.

  • @antivalidisme5669
    @antivalidisme5669 Před 3 lety +106

    "What? An Austrian duke?"
    "Where do you think we are? Mexico?"

  • @1000eau
    @1000eau Před 3 lety +143

    Me, an Aquitainian : Yeah, he is our senpai, England

    • @tomaszzalewski4541
      @tomaszzalewski4541 Před 3 lety +12

      Top 10 anime plots

    • @1000eau
      @1000eau Před 3 lety +33

      @@tomaszzalewski4541 England-chan is jealous, and would like to reconquer Richard-kun, but he loves Aquitaine-chan, but he is busy fighting in the Holy Land, how will it turn out ? You'll know it in the next episode of Lionheart Crusaders !

    • @whathell6t
      @whathell6t Před 3 lety +9

      @@1000eau
      Dude! You just described the first arc of Kamen Rider Saber.

    • @1000eau
      @1000eau Před 3 lety +5

      @@whathell6t Oh, cool, I didn't even know I did that or know about that, I'll check it out

  • @pacificll8762
    @pacificll8762 Před 2 lety +38

    I'm not trying to rub salt into the wound but, as a Frenchman (living in New Aquitaine), this does put a smile on my face..

    • @xavier01110
      @xavier01110 Před 2 lety +7

      How is Richard viewed in Aquitaine? In England we look up to him like a God and he didn't even like us so it would be a shame for him if the people he loved so much didn't care about him😂

    • @smal750
      @smal750 Před 5 měsíci +4

      ​@@xavier01110
      they litteraly forgot he was french

  • @nowhereman6019
    @nowhereman6019 Před 2 lety +62

    "John's more of a Shinji than a Rei"
    John now has my undying love.

    • @extragoogleaccount6061
      @extragoogleaccount6061 Před měsícem +1

      I didn’t watch said popular piece of media. Can someone explain the reference?

    • @neh1234
      @neh1234 Před 7 dny

      @@extragoogleaccount6061 It just means Prince John at the time wasn't a good boy, he was just a pushover.

  • @Atairy
    @Atairy Před 3 lety +221

    Ok gotta ask:
    Am I the only one who was picturing the lions from the Disney Robin Hood animation movie everytime he says Richard or John?

    • @3asianassassin
      @3asianassassin Před 3 lety +29

      Well considering they are based on them, of course

    • @LuinTathren
      @LuinTathren Před 3 lety +2

      Of course not.

    • @DanielGalimidi
      @DanielGalimidi Před 3 lety +18

      Considering they're literally them and that the video has a Disney Robin Hood frame, I'd say you're right on the mark.

    • @UnderTheVeil
      @UnderTheVeil Před 3 lety +5

      Absolutely. Or Patrick Stewart from Robin Hood Men in Tights

    • @slein1055
      @slein1055 Před 3 lety

      I know I was picturing Sir Patrick Stewart

  • @the_luckiest_charm
    @the_luckiest_charm Před 3 lety +233

    "and could just buy a bunch of mercenaries." sees berserk band of the hawk. *sniffles*

    • @freakrx2349
      @freakrx2349 Před 3 lety +26

      Too bad Griffith would eventually go on to kill most of his friends and try to create his own kingdom with monsters created from the asshole of H.P lovecraft’s mind

    • @dogeking007
      @dogeking007 Před 3 lety +20

      Berserk man of culture I see

    • @acharonim4659
      @acharonim4659 Před 3 lety +5

      Yep those poor bastards LITERALLY suffered because griffith's insatiable ambition by brutally being offered up as a blood sacrifice to some demonic entities.

    • @navilluscire2567
      @navilluscire2567 Před 3 lety +11

      I mean the *"kingdom of Midland"* that Griffith's Band of the Hawk fought for during the latter years of the hundred years war between Midland and the Tutor empire (or was it the "Chutor" empire?) within the Berserk setting was basically *"not-France"* and the 100 years conflict was also a spoof of the real world's hundred years war (actually lasted about 116 years!) between the monarchs of France and England and their backers. Honestly a gritty fantasy world that's based around the 'hundred' years war in a *"not-Europe"* world is a pretty awesome idea for a rpg or tabletop game!

    • @ultimategamer876
      @ultimategamer876 Před 3 lety +1

      They have one it’s called Warhammer

  • @merrittanimation7721
    @merrittanimation7721 Před 3 lety +216

    In this episode, Jack Rackam stages an intervention.

    • @anonymouscausewhynot
      @anonymouscausewhynot Před 3 lety +26

      Yeah, he’s pretty much telling England “Look, mate, you deserve better. Break up with him.”

  • @timfortune9
    @timfortune9 Před 3 lety +163

    We need a Robin Hood story where it's shown that despite all the good Robin had done in his name, Richard doesn't care. And for the massive cognitive dissonance of realizing that, even in his own way, John cared more for England than "Good King Richard".

    • @demi-fiendoftime3825
      @demi-fiendoftime3825 Před 2 lety +35

      I could see that ending with Robin once he realizes the truth just leaving going north to Scotland or east to mainland Europe tears in his eyes as he looks back at his home at the betrayal that the king he thought was the villian cared more then the false hero he idolized.

    • @AudieHolland
      @AudieHolland Před 2 lety +36

      That is basically what the final episode of "Robin: the Hooded Man (1984-1986)" is about.
      Good King Richard returns, thanks Robin for a job well done, reprimands his brother John and the Sheriff of Nottingham.
      Then he immediately starts planning another campaign and asks Robin and his merry men to join his forces.
      When Robin has second thoughts, Richard is not pleased...

    • @nirfz
      @nirfz Před rokem +9

      I remember when our teacher showed us the Costner Robin Hood movie back in school in the first hafl of the 90's (at the end of a schoolyear when all marks were already fixed) and after the scene with Conery she mentioned that Richard Lionheart was late because "we" had imprisoned him for disresprecting our Ruler during the crusade.
      So any time in any Robin Hood movie i watched and Richard was at least mentioned this little bit of information came up in my head.

    • @gabrielaubry1334
      @gabrielaubry1334 Před rokem +16

      Prince John: "Do you know WHY I had to tax England to high heaven?"
      Robin Hood: "Because you are a greedy and wicked tyrant!"
      Prince John: "NO! Because mother drained the royal treasury to pay King Richard's ransom from the Duke of Austria!"
      Robin Hood: "WHAT?"
      Prince John: "Apparently the Good King Richard was arrested under suspicion of murdering someone on behalf the King of Jerusalem!"
      Sir Hiss: "And he was arrested by the man whose banner he gravely insulted during the crusades."

    • @JaysonVaughn
      @JaysonVaughn Před 7 měsíci +2

      @@gabrielaubry1334 ah a I believe man of culture judging from the last one speaking

  • @tomaszzalewski4541
    @tomaszzalewski4541 Před 3 lety +40

    England:
    Richard:
    France:
    Richard: What's up gorgeous

  • @rockstar450
    @rockstar450 Před 2 lety +37

    As someone with English ancestry my biggest surprise was Saladin was actually the honourable and upstanding man in the conflict and not much can really be said about Richard

  • @MrLuchenkov
    @MrLuchenkov Před 3 lety +103

    To be frank, his choices boiled down to:
    1)Crusades: adventure, pillaging, saving princesses, shouting deus vult.
    2)Aquitaine: good wine, sunny year-long, gorgeous women, amazing beaches.
    3)London: fish, chips, cup of tea, bad food, worse weather, Mary fucking Poppins.
    I can understand why he'd rather spend his time in the first two and tried to auction off the last one to pay for it.

    • @kategrant2728
      @kategrant2728 Před 3 lety +44

      England didn't even have chips or tea yet. Even more depressing.

    • @vericulum6810
      @vericulum6810 Před 2 lety +11

      There wasn't even tea in London back then or chips or frying just slted hearing.

    • @MrLuchenkov
      @MrLuchenkov Před 2 lety +3

      @@vericulum6810 It was a quote from Snatch, the movie, mate. :)

    • @ennui9745
      @ennui9745 Před 11 měsíci +4

      Yup. And England didn't even have the tea and the potatoes back then, so it was just bad food, worse weather, and Mary Poppins. 😂

    • @falconeshield
      @falconeshield Před 5 měsíci

      Women. Haha.

  • @justinanthonysanchez7015
    @justinanthonysanchez7015 Před 3 lety +74

    England: Honey, where are you going?
    Richard I: I'm just gonna buy some cigarettes, dear, I'll be right back

    • @randomlygeneratedname7171
      @randomlygeneratedname7171 Před 3 lety +6

      To be honest he was married to France and England was his side chick.

    • @anonymouscausewhynot
      @anonymouscausewhynot Před 2 lety +3

      @@randomlygeneratedname7171 Nah, Aquitine is his side chick. But, he likes her more than his wife.

    • @randomlygeneratedname7171
      @randomlygeneratedname7171 Před 2 lety +1

      @@anonymouscausewhynot What if I say, England was the forced arrange marriage for politics. His the King of England but never there.

    • @anonymouscausewhynot
      @anonymouscausewhynot Před 2 lety +6

      @@randomlygeneratedname7171 omg yes! Then England actually fell for him, but Richard didn’t. F for England.

    • @ennui9745
      @ennui9745 Před 11 měsíci +1

      Richard the Lionheart: Went to the Middle East to buy milk.

  • @jakespacepiratee3740
    @jakespacepiratee3740 Před 3 lety +274

    Richard the Lionheart: "This is good." *Points to England*
    "But I like this better." *Points to France.*

    • @elbentos7803
      @elbentos7803 Před 3 lety +15

      ... and Normandy...
      ... and Anjou...

    • @elbentos7803
      @elbentos7803 Před 3 lety +16

      ... that is, France.

    • @retardcorpsman
      @retardcorpsman Před 3 lety +6

      el bentos
      And Paris..
      And Bordeaux...
      And Dijon....

    • @elbentos7803
      @elbentos7803 Před 3 lety +4

      @@retardcorpsman the point was to underline that Richard interest not only rested in Aquitaine but in a lot of other parts of western France as well (lest you cannot understand why he fortified Château-Gaillard in Normandy, or why he died during a siege in Limousin,
      for instance)...

    • @forickgrimaldus8301
      @forickgrimaldus8301 Před 3 lety +16

      People seemed to forget that to Richard and a lot of English Monarchs at the time saw France as basically part of the Crown I.e the King of England was also ruler of France as they are decended from French and Norman Noblemen.
      There was no such thing as Nationalisim nor even Patriotisim at the time as the Concept was fairly Modern, instead Family inheritance and honor were more prevalent, which was probably why despite Richard having no love for England and was hated by his Contemporaries was Praised by later Chroniclers.

  • @evryatis9231
    @evryatis9231 Před 3 lety +38

    intense happy french sounds

  • @SEAZNDragon
    @SEAZNDragon Před 3 lety +21

    My dad was born in Malaysia right before they became independent from the UK. He was given the English name of Richard after Richard I and was miffed he was a Francophile.

  • @florian8599
    @florian8599 Před 3 lety +71

    I just read Ivanhoe... And let's say: Sir Walter Scott portrayed King Richard as this mercurial guy who you can't trust to be your friend and always comes too late...

    • @samrevlej9331
      @samrevlej9331 Před 3 lety +9

      Well, Scott was Scottish, so I guess we know where the resentment comes from...

  • @DellDuckfan313
    @DellDuckfan313 Před 3 lety +74

    Part 2: Richard dunks on the treasure chest so hard everybody gets mad at King John, signs Magna Carta in humiliation

    • @oxtheunlikelycontemplator2682
      @oxtheunlikelycontemplator2682 Před 3 lety +8

      Fun fact John actually got the Pope to declare the Magna Carta invalid and made his proclamations attesting the same. In other words the Magna Carta was reduced to a historical document fairly quickly.

  • @misanthropicservitorofmars2116

    Describing a historical figure as being like Shinji is incredible.

  • @mrsupremegascon
    @mrsupremegascon Před 3 lety +19

    As an Aquitain, all I can say is :
    "Did you looked at you England? Seriously, do you think he is your king because he find you pretty. Huh, you are not good enough for him honey. You don't even make wine."

  • @ChieftainHawke
    @ChieftainHawke Před 3 lety +30

    Lets me honest, literally every Norman and Plantagenet king like France better. And i
    cant blame them. France is literally next to everything.

    • @jonathanwebster7091
      @jonathanwebster7091 Před rokem +4

      Ehhh not by the later Plantagenets: once the majority of the continental territories were lost, the royal family and the Anglo-Norman aristocracy gradually became anglicised, and came to identify more with England than France.
      Richard I's nephew, Richard of Cornwall, is recorded by Walter Map as being able to speak English fluently, and his other nephew, Henry III gave his sons the 100% Saxon names of Edward and Edmund.
      Going forward, Edward I definitely could speak English fluently too (he apparently learned it as a child), and Edward II and Edward III could also speak it-although the first language of all three would have been Norman-French, though even so, it was becoming increasingly debased, full of English loanwords and increasingly unintelligible with French as spoken on the continent.
      And then, by the time we get two generations forward from that to Henry IV, the royal family are speaking English as their first language.

    • @ForeskinWillis
      @ForeskinWillis Před rokem +3

      ​@@jonathanwebster7091 Yes of course and that's why later they try to conquer it for more than a 100 years . Cmon the first king of England to actually speak English as a first language is ''supposed'' to be Henry V and historians are not even sure about that. France was simply the bigger, richer, most populous kingdom in all of Europe at that time so yeah they always wanted it you can't foul me on that. The real English nationalism actually starts with the Tudors after the 100 years war. Before that the kings learned English to appease some of their subjects but Norman French / Roman language was still seen as the language of the nobility.

  • @torcaace
    @torcaace Před 3 lety +100

    The video in a nutshell:
    Richie: hey guys sorry i'm late to the crusade, i was doing stuff
    Aquitaine: I'm stuff
    Richie Rich: OMG Aquitaine, no!
    Austria: haha Richard you are wanted for murder.

  • @BraKahan
    @BraKahan Před 3 lety +188

    Did.... Did Jack Rackam just sneak in a Neon Genesis Evangelion reference?!?!?

    • @JackRackam
      @JackRackam  Před 3 lety +75

      I don't know if that counts as sneaking, but it's definitely there

    • @luis-mora4444
      @luis-mora4444 Před 3 lety +9

      4.0 soon, so yeah, gotta build it up the hype somehow.

    • @edgardox.feliciano3127
      @edgardox.feliciano3127 Před 3 lety +2

      Timestamp?

    • @BraKahan
      @BraKahan Před 3 lety +5

      @@edgardox.feliciano3127 4:53 GOTCHU FAM

    • @SeruraRenge11
      @SeruraRenge11 Před 3 lety +11

      And the Band of the Hawk from Berserk is there too.

  • @gobanito
    @gobanito Před 3 lety +29

    That's because Richard was French and so was his entire family. Richard's mother Eleanor wasn't the only one born in France, Henry II was also born in France. Also All three of them are buried in France in Fontevraud Abbey.

  • @chrissjepsen
    @chrissjepsen Před 3 lety +54

    Berserk and Eva in a historical piece on an English crusader king framed like an intervention...this is why I'm subscribed. Never change Jack!

  • @librarianontheloose
    @librarianontheloose Před 3 lety +27

    Austria is that dude you end up inviting to a party because he's standing there with the dudes you ARE inviting to the party and you can't be rude.

  • @darkoneforce2
    @darkoneforce2 Před 3 lety +22

    The kings and nobles of England came from Normandy (William the Conqueror), and none of them spoke english until the 1400s. Henry V was still trying to get them to speak english.

    • @oxtheunlikelycontemplator2682
      @oxtheunlikelycontemplator2682 Před 3 lety +5

      I was going to point that many of Anglo Saxon nobles were still around but then they ended up heavily intermarried with the Normans.

  • @jakespacepiratee3740
    @jakespacepiratee3740 Před 3 lety +129

    England: "Wait, our King loves France?"
    Richard the Lionheart: "Always have been."

    • @mattgrele6318
      @mattgrele6318 Před 3 lety +25

      Of course he loved france who would choose that wet soggy island over aquitaine

    • @jamaphy8621
      @jamaphy8621 Před 2 lety +2

      @@mattgrele6318 me apparently

    • @smal750
      @smal750 Před 11 měsíci +1

      ​@@jamaphy8621sick mind

  • @frankdecron1306
    @frankdecron1306 Před 3 lety +19

    Most of the nobility and monarchs of England from 1066 to maybe Henry V, but arguably end of the Hundred War, saw England as simply a colony for wealth and manpower to be extracted for for conflicts in France and the Mediterranean world.

  • @Identitools
    @Identitools Před 3 lety +40

    If you speak french you would love "Confessions d'histoire", they have made two episodes about Alienor and Richard, real good stuff with fantastic actors!

  • @CollinMcLean
    @CollinMcLean Před 2 lety +15

    That little comedic oops aside, William the Lion was actually a pretty good king and his standard (which got him his epithet in later centuries by Scottish chroniclers) became the Royal Banner of Scotland under his successor Alexander II. The Rampant Red Lion on a gold field flown in representation of the Scottish Monarchs.

  • @arturochambers27
    @arturochambers27 Před 3 lety +58

    Jack rackam: uploads video.
    Everyone on CZcams: YES! New video!

    • @cgt3704
      @cgt3704 Před 3 lety +2

      Its about the Betrayal of Lionheart
      Everyone: 😥

  • @dehavillandvampire
    @dehavillandvampire Před 3 lety +24

    Richard's main mistake in bumping off that rival was to use an assassin class servant, everyone _knows_ they're the weakest!

    • @ElBandito
      @ElBandito Před 2 lety

      The assassins succeeded in killing the target.

  • @ferrjuan
    @ferrjuan Před 3 lety +17

    England= Sugar Momma
    Aquitaine= His true love
    Levant= Side chick

  • @austinreed5805
    @austinreed5805 Před 3 lety +55

    If England and France were united, they could’ve conquered Western Europe for Centuries.

    • @pablomonsalve3911
      @pablomonsalve3911 Před 3 lety +25

      There are a lot of logistical problems of having an empire where half of it is in an island deep into the sea. Ask the North Sea Empire (1013-1042)

    • @cgt3704
      @cgt3704 Před 3 lety +8

      @@pablomonsalve3911 or the Roman Empire

    • @pablomonsalve3911
      @pablomonsalve3911 Před 3 lety +11

      @@cgt3704 yes, that is a great example too. They outright abandoned it to redirect their resources elsewhere and damage control

    • @cgt3704
      @cgt3704 Před 3 lety +4

      @@pablomonsalve3911 and because it took ages to conquer it and Scotland was still out of their reach

    • @Veriox22
      @Veriox22 Před 3 lety +10

      France alone can be called western europe ny itself

  • @SamAronow
    @SamAronow Před 3 lety +60

    I don't know if I brought this up with Fred the Antichrist, but Acre is pronounced "ah-ker."

  • @CynicalHistorian
    @CynicalHistorian Před 3 lety +97

    Ah, my cat's namesake

  • @hellothere4858
    @hellothere4858 Před 3 lety +17

    "More of a shinji then a rei" that is brutal

  • @Alssadar
    @Alssadar Před 3 lety +10

    Another fun thing that was touched upon was that Eleanor had been married to King Louis VII of France, but Louis then annulled the marriage because she was only giving him daughters. With that, she was free to marry Henry I (after a bit of Louis complaining that she couldn't), helping him end the Anarchy and giving him 4 sons, while it took Louis two more wives to finally have Philip. So that makes Henry and Philip's feud not only between rival kings, but also between men whose half-siblings were half-siblings of the other.
    I enjoyed Sharon Kay Penman's quintet of books of Henry and Richard, and highly recommend them for people interested about the period.

    • @ForeskinWillis
      @ForeskinWillis Před rokem

      He actually divorced her probably because she had a suspicious relationship with her uncle Raymond of Poitier who was count of Eddessa in Syria

  • @Eddboy33
    @Eddboy33 Před 3 lety +54

    This just made me like Richard the Lionheart even more

    • @joellaz9836
      @joellaz9836 Před 3 lety +9

      Frenchman detected

    • @lhemnenn4713
      @lhemnenn4713 Před 3 lety +11

      ​@@joellaz9836 You know that since Guillaume/William the Conqueror, the kings of england were basically Frenchman. Until King Henry VI that is.

    • @Tamaki742
      @Tamaki742 Před 3 lety +2

      @@lhemnenn4713 He also didn't like England. What is with people who didn't like England being kings of England? I mean, I get it, it's more territory. But it always sounds like taking over a project you're not gonna care about in a year.

    • @lhemnenn4713
      @lhemnenn4713 Před 3 lety +9

      @@Tamaki742 For lords and noble back then it was just a question of title and heritage, (power, taxes revenus, influences). The concept of nation, culture heritage, ethnicity didn't really exist, and even if it did, it doesn't matter to them. Why would a noble care about the language the peasants (of any land they append to possess), in their eyes the idea of nation (like we use today) wasn't the point or even in their interest really.
      It a complicated issue to explain though, because it varies across the world and time period.

    • @Tamaki742
      @Tamaki742 Před 3 lety +1

      @@lhemnenn4713 Well, guess that's why most empires fail eventually.

  • @comettamer
    @comettamer Před 3 lety +9

    "England, uh...Richard never loved you!" Classic Jack Rackham episode opening. You sir are absolutely brilliant.

  • @Xerxes2005
    @Xerxes2005 Před 3 lety +23

    Well, Henry II was also French and liked France better. And John would probably have like France better if he didn't lose it all...

  • @madambutterfly1997
    @madambutterfly1997 Před 3 lety +50

    That Evangelion reference was so distasteful I love it

  • @dlugi4198
    @dlugi4198 Před 3 lety +19

    To be fair that co-monarch thing worked well for Aurelius.

  • @greenoftreeblackofblue6625
    @greenoftreeblackofblue6625 Před 3 lety +26

    I like how Brittany was a Kingdom for a while and Wales was two douches but Wales gets recognized more nowadays.

    • @samrevlej9331
      @samrevlej9331 Před 3 lety +8

      As a French person, don't tell Bretons that. You'll have them throwing cider pitchers at you and the druids attempting to curse you. Oh, and they'll sick the pigs on you, too.
      Plus Breton is a scary language to be cussed at in.

    • @erwannthietart3602
      @erwannthietart3602 Před 2 lety

      Heh you can thank XIXth century France and it completely refusing to teach Breton at school destroying the language and tearing away its capital region to create an artificial region uniting the former duchy of Anjou with the region of Vendée (aka former rivals of Brittany itself).
      Honestly its no wonder it doesnt get much recognition, even on local scale the locals debate for where Nantes should belong in Brittany or Loire-Atlantique is fierce, so they want the governement to decide.
      Governement doesnt to have nearly 50% of the pop there to be unhappy with their decisions so they send the problem back to the locals to decide .
      Things aint gonna change anytime soon

  • @declanmugford987
    @declanmugford987 Před 3 lety +145

    These are lies, lies spread by the French
    P.s this is sarcasm

    • @jacques8221
      @jacques8221 Před 3 lety +24

      no one spreads lies better than the English (sarzcasm)

    • @adrien5116
      @adrien5116 Před 3 lety

      @@jacques8221 *cof* *cof*

    • @grinchmafia7295
      @grinchmafia7295 Před 3 lety +6

      His parents were both born and originated in what is now France. He was just born in England and mostly raised in France. It's funny how you guys view him as English when he barely spoke a word of it.

    • @ANSELAbitsxb
      @ANSELAbitsxb Před 3 lety

      @best general What about otto von bismark?

    • @lesenigma2536
      @lesenigma2536 Před 2 lety

      We dont lie, we just dont tell the whole truth

  • @hyperion3145
    @hyperion3145 Před 3 lety +6

    Everyone's talking about this betrayal but I am more impressed someone acknowledged that the Occitans exist

  • @paranermal
    @paranermal Před 3 lety +18

    I didn't know I had a favourite King. Does this mean I have a favourite Queen too?
    Also, I love your tie for this episode.

  • @JenniferinIllinois
    @JenniferinIllinois Před 3 lety +10

    England: Richard we love you.
    Richard: Uh yeh, how about we just be friends?

    • @tomaszzalewski4541
      @tomaszzalewski4541 Před 3 lety +9

      Then he sees France and is like:
      What's up gorgeous

    • @gontrandjojo9747
      @gontrandjojo9747 Před 2 lety +1

      England: Richard we love you.
      Richard: Désolé, je ne comprends pas, je ne parle pas anglais.

  • @Pyrus425
    @Pyrus425 Před 3 lety +120

    Did... did you just make an Evangelion reference when talking about history?

  • @prismaticc_abyss
    @prismaticc_abyss Před 3 lety +12

    I actually live in Annweiler, the city that has the Castle Trifels in it, the one Richard Lionheart got imprisoned in.

  • @maartenboy37
    @maartenboy37 Před 3 lety +7

    2:46 A Berserk reference here! A surprise to be sure, but a welcome one.

  • @AudieHolland
    @AudieHolland Před 3 lety +15

    And on the pedestal of his statue in London, it says:
    *Richard Coeur de Lion*

    • @lesenigma2536
      @lesenigma2536 Před 2 lety

      Ehehehehehe oui oui ehehehehe

    • @anonymouscausewhynot
      @anonymouscausewhynot Před 2 lety

      I'm so sorry for laughing...

    • @AudieHolland
      @AudieHolland Před 2 lety

      The statue was erected during the Victorian Age, when wealthy British families were hiring French-speaking nannies who taught the children that it was 'maman' and 'papa.'
      Not the simplistic mom and dad.

    • @ForeskinWillis
      @ForeskinWillis Před rokem

      @@AudieHolland During his time he was called ''Le quor de lion'' not ''the lionheart''

    • @AudieHolland
      @AudieHolland Před rokem

      @@ForeskinWillis That was my point.
      And I don't know what you're trying to spell: Liquor de lion?

  • @archdornan3068
    @archdornan3068 Před 3 lety +7

    As a Englishmen I can confirm am going to cry my self to sleep tonight

  • @maestro56777
    @maestro56777 Před 3 lety +13

    That Rei>Shinji joke was hilarious

  • @cgt3704
    @cgt3704 Před 3 lety +61

    This Richard is nothing like the one from Robin Hood. Hes just like King John

    • @ianlilley2577
      @ianlilley2577 Před 3 lety +5

      At least John ran his kingdom right?

    • @cgt3704
      @cgt3704 Před 3 lety +19

      @@ianlilley2577 if you refer to "with his nobles hating him so much that they force him to sign Magna Carta" as right then yeah he did.

    • @forickgrimaldus8301
      @forickgrimaldus8301 Před 3 lety +16

      Yes he was not a Good person but John was really not any better as the Crown was in massive financial debt and he lacked the military skills of Richard lossing most of France in the process,
      Richards solution to the Financial deficite was to win against France or at least hold it till a truce can be meet, while John increased the tax rate to the point that the Nobles Rebelled (really they can't pay off the Debt with the economy they had as it was a few times larger than Englands GDP).

    • @neilbuckley1613
      @neilbuckley1613 Před 3 lety

      @@forickgrimaldus8301 Big plus point for Richard, every second he was on the throne was one less second John was on the throne.

    • @forickgrimaldus8301
      @forickgrimaldus8301 Před 3 lety +6

      @@neilbuckley1613 Really the 2 brothers are the opposite of each other in the way they lead, Richard was a War Commander born to fight and lead armies as he deligates much of the running of the Kingdom to his Lords (which was probably why later Chronichlers like him more despite unintentionally causing a financial crisis), while John was more adminstrative and perhaps had he been crowned during peace time would have faired better, he was also more controling than Richard as he was more of a Bureacrat.

  • @mikehocksbig
    @mikehocksbig Před 3 lety +10

    Wasn't expecting to see a picture of Geoff Marshall tbh

  • @onecertainesquire486
    @onecertainesquire486 Před 3 lety +56

    I wouldn’t say he is our favourite king...
    But Goddamn why won’t he love us back, WE WOULD OF DONE EVERYTHING FOR YOU WHYYYYYYYY

    • @lesenigma2536
      @lesenigma2536 Před 2 lety +2

      Mine now >:)

    • @ForeskinWillis
      @ForeskinWillis Před rokem

      That's so cool to be French seriously as even your kings are a part of our history HAHAHAHAHHAHAHA

  • @aleksandarvil5718
    @aleksandarvil5718 Před 3 lety +5

    8:00 - 8:05 Richard the Lionheart; Philippe Auguste (to Duke of Austria):
    **YEET**

  • @aaronpaul9188
    @aaronpaul9188 Před 3 lety +3

    Henry II was also from France. He was born in Le Mans. In fact I dont think a single English king since the Norman Conquest spoke English until Edward III.

    • @mkmc94
      @mkmc94 Před 2 lety

      False he was born in Oxford.

  • @alex_zetsu
    @alex_zetsu Před rokem +2

    This is the 1100s, building an epic castle and hiding in it until the enemy goes home actually works a lot of the time.

  • @eacalvert
    @eacalvert Před 3 lety +2

    Ty for your videos... Having something to watch that can actually help distract me when my anxiety is getting really really bad

  • @ameanasaur
    @ameanasaur Před 3 lety +2

    Keep on keeping on dude. You make quality content and alot of us wait for your posts.

  • @twoscarabsintheswarm9055
    @twoscarabsintheswarm9055 Před 3 lety +6

    This is absolutely depressing, Alexa play God save the Queen *starts to drink tea sadly, the sun starts to set*

  • @TheHiddenStudios
    @TheHiddenStudios Před 3 lety +3

    Woah I just realised the guy that plays King Richard in that documentary also played him in the BBC Robin Hood TV Show

  • @akingofdashit
    @akingofdashit Před 3 lety +2

    Thank you for using a darker background, makes night time viewing that much more enjoyable 🙏

  • @LisaCaudill001
    @LisaCaudill001 Před 3 lety

    Everytime I think I've seen your best...you upload another one..Thank you

  • @smal750
    @smal750 Před 10 měsíci +4

    Ah england and its long history of having french kings

  • @MisterTipp
    @MisterTipp Před 3 lety +8

    7:39
    I want that picture of them all in a car on my wall

  • @skellorelli2515
    @skellorelli2515 Před 3 lety +7

    Man, I really need to replay defender of the crown.

  • @nickwalker4936
    @nickwalker4936 Před 3 lety +3

    >Shows a discolored Band of the Hawk when talking about mercenaries
    >”more Shinji than a Rei”
    Jack is basically laughing at us now

  • @georgewilson7432
    @georgewilson7432 Před 3 lety +8

    At least all this malarkey was justified when Mel Brooks Made Robin Hood: Men in Tights.

  • @nakedsnake869
    @nakedsnake869 Před 3 lety +3

    Thanks Jack, ur channel is helping me cope with the lack of Sam O Nella uploads😭

  • @KittyKat-xg4tx
    @KittyKat-xg4tx Před 3 lety +1

    I love your humor and energy!!

  • @zombietacos9983
    @zombietacos9983 Před 3 lety +14

    The only thing missing are the adoption forms

  • @felixk1843
    @felixk1843 Před 3 lety +6

    Finally a new Jack Rackham Video 😍😍😍👏
    Lover ur vids mate, ur one of the best

  • @mojotheaverage
    @mojotheaverage Před 3 lety +9

    As a British person I can say with confidence: Richard I was a twat

  • @silentspirit8923
    @silentspirit8923 Před 3 lety +11

    4:54
    Get in the Eva Shinji!

  • @infiniya5157
    @infiniya5157 Před 3 lety +3

    I thought it wasn’t possible to love this channel more and then you make that sweet Evangelion reference

  • @whifflermr6168
    @whifflermr6168 Před 3 lety +34

    Is it just me but I don't like the new chalk board drawings and preferred the old style better.

    • @jasmijnooms2242
      @jasmijnooms2242 Před 3 lety +6

      i think the style was interesting but because of everything being black white and gray i found myself getting distracted

    • @CarlosHernandez-lt7yu
      @CarlosHernandez-lt7yu Před 3 lety

      And the tone too. It has gotten less funny these past two episodes. Is still good though

  • @jvtagle
    @jvtagle Před 3 lety +3

    England: I love you Richard
    Richard the Lionheart: I love Emi- I mean France

  • @hemangchauhan2864
    @hemangchauhan2864 Před 3 lety +1

    Love the beautiful graphics on this video

  • @michaeljohnangel6359
    @michaeljohnangel6359 Před 3 lety

    You are GREAT, man!! Thanks!!!!

  • @beaumontjean6418
    @beaumontjean6418 Před 3 lety +6

    Ironic, the first nickname of Richard the Lionheart was "Richard le Poitevin" (count of Poitiers 1172-1199) and also nicknamed "Richard de Poitiers" and not of England during the 3rd Crusade. He wanted his bowels to rest in Aquitaine the land of his mother, his heart in Normandy for his loyal norman vassals and his body in Anjou the cradle of the Plantagenet dynasty, but nothing for England... How ironic

    • @noahtylerpritchett2682
      @noahtylerpritchett2682 Před 2 lety +3

      I made my own video about this. During the 100s year war and before. The Norman, Anjou, Bois, Plantaganid and such dynasties didn't think of Britain as anything except as a territory. During before the end of the 100s year war, with the exceptions of archers, most troops came from in and around France. English and Welsh troops have always exist. But most troops were from France or around it in the "English army" really the Anjou and Norman etc. armies. If England won the 100s year war then the nobility of Norman and Anjou and other descent would view themselves as French not English, and France would Gallicize England.
      French speaking and French cuisine and all that. Which is why I emphasize the Normans French culture and maternity and language. And not call them Norse despite their paternal fathers.
      Look at the names and ancestors of the royal family. It was only after the 100s year war did the nobility Anglicized or even speak English

    • @ForeskinWillis
      @ForeskinWillis Před rokem +2

      @@noahtylerpritchett2682 Peoples who say's Normans were actual north men's are just coping and do not want to admit that they were almost fully French or more precisely old French/nobility

    • @noahtylerpritchett2682
      @noahtylerpritchett2682 Před rokem +1

      @@ForeskinWillis true

  • @highwizardzanzar2593
    @highwizardzanzar2593 Před 3 lety +4

    As a Scotsman and completely unbiased.....I approve and am completely fine with this........🕺🤸💃😂

  • @jonathanwebster7091
    @jonathanwebster7091 Před rokem +1

    Fun fact: despite Richard I feeling most at home in the Occitan culture of his mother's native Duchy of Aquitaine, and speaking French as his first language, Richard was actually born in England (in Oxford, actually, in Beaumont Palace, as was his brother John), and was also raised in England during his father's campaigns against Scotland.
    We don't always love our home town, especially if it's a bit of a dive.

  • @macelu0433
    @macelu0433 Před 3 lety +1

    This is hands down your best video yet only because you used Ingmar Bergmans depiction of death from "det sjunde inseglet" at 1:58