The Victual Brothers: Medieval German Pirates that Terrorized the Northern Europe.
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Medieval Pirates, Swedish History, Hanseatic League, Victual Brothers, Medieval Treade, Danish History, History of Pirates, Teutonic Order, Medieval Denmark, Kalmar Union, Medieval Germany, Frisia
“In a world without gold, we might have been heroes”
I love these histories.
CHOCOLATE RAIN!!!!!!!!!
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Real recognizes real!
I grew up in Wilhelmshaven, were there are the ruins of a castle called Siebetsburg and also a borough named after it. Translated this name means "Castle of Siebet", with Siebet being a frisian "Chief" who build this castle in the middleages, far before Wilhelmshaven was actually foundet. Legend says that Störtebecker himself used the castle as a base of operation, wich led to the Hanse attacking it with canons and catapults. Truth is that this story is pretty accurate, except for the Störtebecker part because we don't know if he is a actual historical person. Still the castle served as a base for the Liekedeelers and was subsequently destroyed by the Hanseatic league.
I would actually love if you could cover the history of Greek piracy in the Ottoman empire, with Ioannis Varvakis as an example he is a astonishing character, who isn't well known outside of Greece, even tho his influence on European economics was great
I never heard of it. But now I would like to see a video about the "Frisian Freedom"
I have heard of Cossack pirates raiding the Ottomans with small boats - chaikas in the Black sea. They attacked Constantinople and other cities on the coast of the Ottoman empire. There is a song about the raid of one of those cities - Varna. Archeologists found cannon balls on Snake island of the shore of Bulgaria where Cossack pirates used as a pirate republic.
Sounds similar to the Serb frontiersmen in southern Hungary during the Ottoman era, they were called "šajkaši" after their boats (shaika).
Guangzhou Bay in China (nearer Vietnam than Canton) was the base of Zheng Yi's and his wife's vast pirate fleets around 1810.
As a German, I of course know about the Victual Brothers and Störtebeker (who is sort of a folk hero and after whom a brewery in Stralsund is named) , but I never really knew that they were involved in this conflict.
Glad this was brought to my attention!
Victual Brotherhood is really interesting topic and lesser known "organisation" in history. Most people thinking about pirate history thinks Vikings -> Carribean Piracy -> maybe modern day Somalian Pirates. They don't know much beyond that
The mediterranean sea had several pirate hotspots along the north african coast (up to the early 19th century) and its the easter parts near Turkey.
Great as always, love an early morning dose of history while i work
River piracy never gets as much attention but so many places have rivers
Nice! They actually burned my hometown during the 1300's and set up a fortification called Gaddaborg near Gaddöeller Gadö, until Queen Margerthe of Denmark took it in 1398, followed by the province being pawned to the Papal states a few years later
I am from Friesland, I actually live pretty close to Dokkum. It's so cool hearing you talk about this often overlooked region!
keep up the good work, u constantly have new content
4:50 dude is a fookin legend
You might have also included the history of the island of Rugen, which was a hotspot of the Baltic Pirates, rather then Stralsund.
This guy deserves more subs
Good video to keep me company working overnight right now
Born too late to be a Viking, born too early to be a privateer
Right in time to work a minimum wage job.
It would be interesting to know when people used the word viking and when they used the word pirate.
@@willek1335 They didn't use it at all, besides maybe in some rare contexts. Infact they pretty much called them what they really were, low life sea raiders. Cowards plundering the weak and fleeing from confrontations. It's only in modern times through the revival of romanticism that people have this fantasy view of them. Nothing worse than a vikingaboo tbh.
@@abeedhal6519 That's not what I asked.
@@willek1335 doesn't matter.
Yes, a frisia video would be appreciated:)
Oh, a great choice of topic!
I would mention the Pearl River Delta, but I think that's very well known at this point. Could also say Taiwan.
When the Scandinavians got “Viking-Ed”.
They got raided quite a lot. Starting with the danes building the daneverk against the northern german saxons, then later on slavic groups raiding and settling on danish islands. There was always lots of back and forth. Most of the time the scandinavians were the ones being shit on tbh, it's just that people have such a romanticised view of all things "viking" nowadays.
Pirates in the Malacca Straights
This video is proof that piracy is not just a Caribbean thing. It is universal throughout human history.
Super interesting
"...he could drink litres of beer at a gulp, but, this is probably just a legend." *eyes sixpack of tallboys defiantly*
Viborg! (In modern day Russia)
Såd : in Fiññish
Love from Estonia
These pirates are like a cool 80's style metal band formed post 2000's.
A charming throwback to an earlier era. With its own cult following.
um what?
Interesting
wasn't the Mediterranean one of the biggest and most active hotspots for piracy for over 2000 years?
The pirates of China were so rampant at one point that all seafaring by the emperor, I think sometime in the 1800s.
Cuz weee are the pirates. I remember a movie about those guys.
PS It's such a shame it's impossible to commandeer ships on the Baltic anymore. The booze smugglers are having too easy of a job
The Barbary pirates, they raided all of coastal Europe even Iceland in 1627.
If only Skull and Bones had Jazby looking in
Drinking beer at a gulp is just a myth? You never heard of german student organisations like "burschenschaft"? 😂
the baltic for quite along time was a hotspot for piracy first example the vikings however vikingry there would pretty much be over by the 11th century and the curonian and oselian pirates who operated longer than the vikings most notably they sacked the city of sigtuna.
Images of the guy at the desk are distracting
As a minor nitpick, I think "victual" is pronounced the same as "vital".
Vittle... rhymes with brittle...or skittle
Good mercenaries in CK2 as well
Come on man, that description doesn't narrow it down very much!
pirates of Oman, Qavsem (UAE) Khark, Qeshm and Tonb which know as pirates of Persian gulf which even invaded Sumatra and Cyprus. the Cyprus one have a great story, 3 or 2 ships under control Qasem Ali khan Hormozi which was a man of free company sailed to Egypt as merchant, then attacked eastern islands of Mediterranean and then by using Spanish flag crossed Gibraltar and went to Yemen
they crossed gibraltar into atlantic, and then to yemen, dosent make sense
@@guzelataroach4450why not he circled Africa basically just like Europeans
I sometimes dream I’m about to seize a ship with my leg up in front like Captain Morgan.
The early Scots were pirates. I don't think a video has ever been done about this aspect of the Scots.
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0:35 animation looks a little janky
Where there any black plague deniers? During the Black Plague.
@Jo Jo Are humans really this stupid?
It's a lot harder to explicitly deny the science when science hasn't really been invented yet.
@@SHAHIDKC well, if you look at humans doing the very same thing now, you have your answer
@@Game_Hero and we named ourselves homo sapiens.
It’s easier to deny covid than the black plague, cthu. Compare the percentages of people killed.
Der Störtebecker ist unser Herr
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Do one about the osilians, the last viking pirates too. Viking era started and ended in Saaremaa, Estonia.
No it didn't hahaha
@@barryellis1543 it did, you just deny it
@@Citypunk nah you're just slow obviously
@@barryellis1543 bruh
Vennas?
The topic of Lutician Federation and Polabian Slavs in general would be interesting to see in future videos :D
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No
The victual Brothers were basically Vikings.
More like what people nowadays call vikings were basically just low life pirates. But there's so many vikingaboos out there nowadays it ought to offend someone stating this.
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