Mercia Explained in 11 Minutes
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The Kingdom of Mercia lasted for more than five hundred years. Such a long period of time brought change to all aspects of Mercian life, and it is the role of history and this book to follow that change through the centuries. But it wasn’t just the kings and queens that changed. The events of the period resonated within social and cultural life, religious beliefs, artistic expression, and trade. Everything evolved under the patronage of Mercia, the Anglo-Saxon Kingdom of England.
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the pronunciation is off the charts in this one
I'll admit it, _the last kingdom_ brought me here
DESTINY IS ALL
Ditto
Me too I’m currently on season 5 which makes me sad 😢
My chesterfield court summons brought me here
Same
Yea we lost so much historical knowledge of Mercia when the Vikings burnt down our monasteries, churches and libraries. Across Britain.
Not the worst North American pronunciation of Cirencester I've heard however, it should be Si-ren-ses-ter. I understand how tricky it can be. There are places quite local to Cirencester called called Alcester and Towcester which by the same logic should be pronounced as Al-ses-ter & Tow-ses-ter but are actually pronounced as Als-ter and Toast-er (exactly like the kitchen appliance). There tends to be very little logic in English place name pronunciation, many of which people inevitably get wrong until they hear it being pronounced by a local or by taking the time to look it up online.
R'N E's
So posh
A lot of people don't care for this, but they should and it's interesting.
All one of them? You guy's punch sure do high don't ya?
@@badlaamaurukehu Yes. I know that for sure. They should teach that in school and let us know that early medieval England mattered so much.
Please do one the Hapsburg Dynasty!
Shire - pronounced as
‘beer’ not ‘spire’. I’ve lost count of how many Americans I’ve had to correct over this.
With regards to Mercia not being mentioned by anyone after 1049, try looking up Leofric Earl of Merica who was Husband to Godiva. They were real people, (although the naked ride through Coventry is almost certainly myth). Their son Ælfgar was one of the last Anglo Saxon hold outs against William the Bastard after the Norman Conquest.
Penda was the most agressive ruler in Mercia.
This missed out a lot of interesting history during the Mercian Viking age, the early stages of the West Saxon Mercian alliance and Danish controlled Mercia
Danish and Mercian are the selfsame people. By way of the Anglos.
@@NorvelCooksey not in this context
This would be like saying that the modern day English are the same as those that were on the Mayflower in the 17th century
The Angles arrived around the 5th century, and established themselves into many different tribes, the Mercians being one. The Danes arrived in the 9th century
From 878-918 Mercia was formally separated between Mercians (Anglo-Saxons) and Danes
@@michaelmccomb2594 so where did the Anglos come from if not southern Denmark/Norway ??
@@NorvelCooksey Angles came from what is now modern day Denmark and Northern Germany
But they came from these areas to England during the Anglo-Saxon invasion/migration in the 5/6th century. Where as the Vikings were mostly Danes and Norse, who came to England in the 9th century.
They were similar genetically, linguistically and culturally, but not the same.
They came from similar places, but at different times
@@michaelmccomb2594 all of them are western Northern Europeans. I am 60% Old English. Are you trying to tell me, my people didn’t come from southern Norway. When the Romans pulled out of the island?? Was the island not called Anglos land? Did southern Norway not become Denmark? If they had stayed there would they not be Danish today?
Am captivated bye the miercian peoples,I'm writing A book about the mercian golden age,with as much fact as possible! From penda to Beyond Offa
Do not forget King Aethelbald one of my favourites amazing books John Broughton wrote about him.
But yeah Mercia was the main Anglo Saxon Kingdom and its fall to Wessex with Edward the Elder absorbing passing over little Ælfwynn carving the way to true centralisation under Wessex they deserved more than that.
Also, the anachronistic pictures are misleading. Americans watching might wind up very confused or more confused than when they started.
Woeful, wasn't an Anglo-Saxon, no, it's merely and adjective to describe the pronunciation here. For the county of Derbyshire, try "Daa-bee-shuh".
Mercia was full of Roman legacy.
Tamworth was the capital of mercia
The Romans built road and still roman remains today, although barley standing just some walls and a medieval holding cell still intact. It's creep down there at night camping, a place a called Alvescote priory
First time I heard of them
Counties aren't countries. Being an American, I'd hope you'd know the difference between Cook County and the country that is the USA.
Also, Derbyshire is pronounced
Go to Tamworth
Interesting
Love your videos but your pronunciation of many English place names make me wince. Maybe check them out in advance, it would be most helpful.
Hwice was next level mispronunciation.
You should make a video on North American history and do that for all of the places, don’t be so hypercritical it’s really not that big of a deal, people from different places pronounce a lot of different letters differently lol
pronounced shere not shire..
Reminds me of game of thrones
Mercia was a Roman afterthought.
About as accurate. People only don't know what to know about Rome because of Roman influence itself.
Quite the conundrum.
because GOT was heavily influenced by English history, But mainly influenced by the 'The War Of The Roses'
Ac Valhalla brought be here
I read that as merica
Some strange sounds I’m hearing 😂
Ok, was I the only one who read this as 'Merica'🇺🇲🦅
😂😂😂
No
I thought that mercia was a latin name like beniccia a and deira or maybe came from Frankish who knows😂
Offa's Dyke? Who can make history up like this? Oh yes the Inglish. So where were the Anglo and the Saxon kingdoms across the channel when the Romans were here? And who on the planet had dual tribal identity on the continent in those days? Plus who invented Shakespeare from German in a couple of centuries?
"Couple of centuries" ...and I thought my maths was bad! What's worse is that was actually the most coherent (but wrong) thing you said above!!
On god I thought this video was about the USA
This would've been 'ok' if he hadn't had mispronounced the shires. You'd think that a knowledge-based base such as this would've done their research to know how to say names properly!
Thats why I doubt he pronounced Hwice correctly as well.
@@jonathanthorne2399I've always pronounced it as Hw-ice. Him doing it as Hw-is-eh is new to me
hate the way americans pronounced shire , its pronounced 'shere'
So much historical inaccuracies here
I agree
People forget that there was still natime britons in myrcya ( mer chi ya ) Tamworth was the capitol next valley was walsall (wahl hahl) valley of the Welsh still spoke Britonic for hundreds of years which slowly became extinct
Once part of cornovii before Roman colonial then reverting to Powis ( meaning pagan) untill the Angles arrived they more than likely had the same gods and integrated more than we know ( you can't trust the anglo Saxon chronicles for truth )
We have no proof of a battle between Saxons Britons
Most people have to understand that even before Roman occupation Britons still traded with Germanic tribes the Roman's used them as auxhillaries in their legions who's to say when Constantine took his cohorts from Britain that many of them stayed due to having families and being settled already
Hence the stories of King Arthur