What is HERALDRY for?
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- Dressed head to foot in plate steel, how can you tell one knight from another? Knights wanted to be known for their deeds, and they wanted their troops to know whose orders to follow. In this episode, Jason explores heraldry and the role that heralds themselves played on the battlefield and beyond. #heraldry #knight #medieval
• Executive Producer: Jason Kingsley OBE
• Executive Producer: Chris Kingsley
• Senior Producer: Brian Jenkins
• Producer: Edward Linley
• Director: Edward Linley
• Presenter: Jason Kingsley OBE
• Camera: Lindsey Studholme
• Editor: Lindsey Studholme
• Stills Photographer: Kasumi
• Production Manager: Kevin Case
• Audio: Liam Flannigan
• Sound Design: Liam Flannigan
Additional Credits:
• Music licensed from PremiumBeat
• Additional Camera: Darren Cook
• Additional Camera: Neil Phillips
• Additional Sound: Elizabeth Carlyon
Special Thanks:
• Chris Payton
• Ed Savage
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I am baffled, why is this channel not more popular?
Pleasant host, interesting topic, great video quality, no dramatic screaming or overly long explanation...
Was going to post this. I love this channel and would watch it if it was on the "History" channel.
This channel fills a need for European people to know how our ancestors lived on a daily basis, no matter if we now live in Canada, the U.S., Australia, etc. So much governmental educational indoctrination these days is anti-European.
helios396 -
"why is this channel not more popular?"
Well, I've only just come across it, myself. And now - it has one more subscriber !
We just have to spread the word among our History-loving friends and acquaintances. Yes ?
Vaya con Dios !
No idea, this is the best channel. Hold on.... "no dramatic screaming or overly long explanation" ...does this mean you HAVE to rant and scream to be a successful channel? We're doomed!
It's a great series, Jason and I are quickly becoming friends. There is a gentleness in his power.
This is far better content than the History Channel produces...
WHAT?!! YOU DONT LIKE SEEING PEOPLE DRIVE ON SLIPPERY ROADS?! lol
If I want to see people drive on icy roads, there are tons of Russian car crash vids on youtube ;)
Eóin MacLean there is no longer any history on the history channel.
@@kimdkus I remember what the History Channel used to be... The times.
Are you just an agent for the Men in Black trying to throw us off the Ancient Aliens conspiracy? Lol
"The medieval battleground was not a gray grim place, it was a brightly colored grim place"... 😂
Like in Warhammer!
However..... Brave, brave, brave sir Robin had a black chicken on a white background. I suspect his bloodline did go no further.
Yeah with all the red during and after the battle. Grimm indeed.
*grim grey... grim brightly coloured (but yeah, a pretty epic quote)
if you wore polished steel
Eluminating!
My grandmother on my mother's side wore a silver ring passed down to her from her grandmother. The ring had a shield with a diagonal stripe and two ermines that I used to think were angels on it. She told me the shield was our family shield, and the two ermines were because our ancestor brought two hundred Lancers to the 1st Crusade.
The fact that you were granted your own coat-of-arms is absolutely brilliant. You deserve one, for sure! I'm a huge unicorn lover and THAT is an awesome symbol. 🥰
"I am lucky enough to have been granted my own coat of arms by the court of heralds in London."
What a flex. Love this guy
honestly imagine seeing that.. huge green hills with color coordinated knights just lining your field of view... must have been literally breathtaking
I’m learning quite a lot from this channel. Love it!
Glad to hear it!
Imagine designing a coat of arms were like naming a character in an MMO.
"I want a red cross and a white background."
*That heraldry is already taken.*
"Okay then, make the cross diagonal."
*Heraldry created, Ireland.*
The Red Cross on a white background (aka St. George’s cross) isn’t really heraldry, it’s more of a quasi-national symbol.
@@TAKE_BACK_BRITAIN hey man, gi mampos
As a heraldry enthusiast, I have to say I'm gobsmacked by how much information was packed into this relatively short video - I'm very impressed!
One small clarification on the bit about quarterings - immediately after discussing combined coats of arms, Jason said that simple coat armour was more prestigious, implying that having loads of quarterings was undesirable. Because only a daughter who stood to inherit her father's (or mother's, in some cases) coat of arms and belongings would pass it as a quarter to her offspring, such marriages typically represented the combining of two powerful and wealthy families, so the number of quarterings would often correlate to the wealth and power of the bearer. Typically an abbreviated coat of arms with just four very impressive quarters would be used by such persons for practical reasons.
That's not to say that what Jason said was untrue - because younger sons would typically difference their coats of arms with marks of cadency to distinguish themselves from their brothers, cousins, etc., a simpler coat of arms typically meant that the bearer inherited more lands, wealth, and titles than somebody with more marks of cadency simply by virtue of having more (or only) eldest sons/daughters in his/her line.
And then you have abominations like those of George, Marquess of Buckingham upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2b/Stowe_Armorial.jpg/800px-Stowe_Armorial.jpg
@@Ilkeyrion To put a limit and knowledge of lineage.
@@Ilkeyrion ye gods. it's like he took every heraldry available and just claim it as his own
@@Ilkeyrion Was that mess validated by the appropriate King of Arms? It would imply careful marrying of heirs that would make the Hapsburgs look wild and romantic.
Can you help me with my Heraldry?
Having authored a homeschooling course on heraldry myself, I have to say that this is one of the clearest and most accurate representations of the major concepts I have come across. So many online sources get even the most fundamental concepts wrong (including basic terminology) that it makes one wince if they are better-informed. Jason's explanations are spot-on, from the battlefield origins to the role of the herald. Very well done for a concise summary in just under 13 minutes.
If I were to pick any "nits" at all, they would be (a) the description of a "red and black" knight (which would violate the rules of tincture, as that would represent color-on-color) and (b) the blazon of arms being "in Latin". Early on, yes, but the evolved forms on blazonry (the description of an achievement of arms in writing) would be a combination of Latin and French terms, linked together (in a strict order) in English (mainly for the benefit of the artists that would be tasked with blazoning the arms (painting them)). You can find many examples of blazons of arms online, as most countries have their own equivalent of the College of Arms (the official body of heralds in England).
(Also very cool that Jason has his own grant of arms)
"the description of a "red and black" knight (which would violate the rules of tincture, as that would represent color-on-color)" - UNLESS you have a metal fillet between the red and the black . . .
Wonderful video. Heraldry is still used in the armed forces. Look at the US Army for example. Every soldier wears some bit of what is considered heraldry on their left shoulder representing the unit they are currently assigned too. On their right shoulder is the heraldry of a unit they were deployed to a combat zone with. It still does have the effect of making sure you're known and inspiring fear in the enemy. There are Afghan people who essentially say "do not mess with the Ay Ay tribe". In reference to the 82nd airborne "All American" division. It's a square red patch that has AA in a blue circle with the word Airborne arcing over it. In the combat uniform it is very drab of course, but the reality is there. During the Vietnam war there was similar things said about the "chicken men" in reference to the 101st airborne. They wear an eagle on their shoulder. The vietnamese didn't know what an eagle was at the time or at least didn't recognize a bald eagle. Furthermore part of the matter is so friendly forces can recognize friendly forces.
Your content is perfect, right down to the trilling song birds in the background. It's truly immersive :) Keep it up good Sir. You deserve knighthood.
He is a millionare and also OBE
@@liawweileong6036 and deserved it ;)
Pinch Winters -
Chaffinches (the birds)
A very good explanation of heraldry.
Interesting story about heraldry in the modern day. A chap called Mr Fayed (you may remember him, he used to own a big grocers shop in Knightsbridge) bought Balnagowan Castle, the historic home of the head of the Clan Ross. He set up the Ross arms over a new gateway that he had built and was ordered by Lord Lyon, King of Arms, the Scots heraldic authority, to take it down as he is not the head of the Clan Ross.
This can be seen in modern times through various motorcycle clubs. Their colors and patches all have a specific meaning that not only makes a statement but also tells a specific story. This tradition didn’t end in the medieval period, it’s carried on today and can be seen all over the world.
Nice! Richard the LionHeart! A great man indeed!
This video is incredibly well done. I've sent this to countless people to help them learn more about heraldry.
Thanks!
Damn Victorians, first they make everyone believe Vikings had horned helmets, and then they also ruin knights for us - _-
That's not all they fucked up. They also perpetuated this incorrect idea that the ancient Greeks and Romans made buildings and sculptures out of white marble and just left them like that. In reality, EVERYTHING was painted intricately in very bright and bold colors.
Too much fanfiction. They r equivalent of the crazy fangirls shipping anime characters and sending death threat letters to authors if their fantasies arent met... xD kidding
This is why I’m not exactly religious, I firmly believe in god, but I don’t follow a religion exactly. Holy books must have been changed throughout history and the true meanings probably los
Lek Gashi yeeee. Religion is culture. Spiritualiy is not
@@MonographicSingleheaded that's just wrong. Spirituality was originally a Christian concept. I therefore fail to see how one would be cultural and the other not, if they were originally one and the same thing.
Jason is an Officer of the British Empire. I think that is why he is a knight and all round good egg.
Officer of the (Most Excellent) Order of the British Empire to be correct but yes his is; 'For serv the Economy'
Zac Hampton
He’s an OBE, not a knight. (A knight in said order would have the postnominal letters KBE, as well as being allowed to be called Sir.)
I rather think they meant knight in the riding on a hose sense but nm :-)
Nillie He has been knighted so he is sir jason kingsly OBE
@@Alibi117 are you sure about that? I've googled him, and can't find any mention of him being granted a knighthood?
Your mention of the armour actually being painted reminded me of when I first learned that those ancient Greek statues we're so used to seeing plain bronze or marble, were also often painted, and in quite garishly bright colours too. The artists' imaginings I've seen of those certainly give quite a different impression.
0:57 The Greeks used individual heraldry too. You can see hoplites on pottery, fighting with many different symbols on their shields, despite representing only one polis. It's certainly more likely that you'd choose something like an owl if you came from Athens or a dolphin from Taras, but if you thought that you were someone important, you'd probably choose something relating to yourself or your family, rather than the polis.
This goes back at least as far as the Mycenaeans. For instance, Diomedes wore a boar crested helmet and had a shield with the mark of a boar, signifying himself as the son of Tydeus, who was known as the boar of Adrastus' prophecy. Tydeus' own shield, however, had featured a starry night sky, with the full moon in the middle.
It's unclear what determined the patterns on Roman shields, but depictions from that era show a similar situation to the Greek one. Both for the Romans and their enemies, the general picture is overwhelmingly one of mostly unique shields. The glaring exception is a shield design found on Trajan's column, which is shown many times, including in a testudo formation, in which all of the shields feature the same pattern. The funerary stele of an aquilifer of Legio XIV Gemina shows the same design on the shield of its subject, so it's conjectured that the the testudo on Trajan's column was intended to show members of that legion; either as a whole or possibly a smaller division of the legion, such as a cohort or maniple. It's worth noting that the only Roman scutum that survives with its paint in tact looks nothing like the types of design shown in stone reliefs. It doesn't have the graphical clarity or ease of reproduction that one would expect, if those reliefs were one's only reference, so it may thus further indicate that Roman shields were generally individually patterned.
There is an illustrated list of shield patterns in copies of the Notita Digitatum, but it's not clear if the same patterns were used by all parties under the associated commands, or if they simply show the shields of the commanders.
It's certainly interesting that even major figures on the Bayeux tapestry are mostly shown without clear visual identification. The tapestry does, however, feature many emblems, in the forms of shield patterns, flags, metallic standards and the figureheads on some ships. No doubt, these represented their owners in some way or another. What seems to have appeared later is the idea of the state controlling and systematising these emblems, effectively copyrighting them for one favoured holder and telling everyone else that they were obliged to pick some other design and that it would have to get past a censorship committee to become officially recognised.
Kind of doubtful, in my opinion, that this had anything to do with the battlefield, as it's generally more useful in war for people on the same side to share uniforms, rather than be differentiated by totally random designs, which they could very well share with the enemy, as heraldic copyright wasn't at all internationally recognised.
Also not terribly likely to have much to do with knightly seals, as these very often didn't feature heraldry until after 1300, which is considerably later than the first appearances of heraldic rolls.
It seems most likely to me that the reason for the authorities to have become involved and to have mandated the use of clear and unique designs is so that nobles and their heralds could be more quickly identified at court. This adds up with the tendency of more provincial knights to be depicted without heraldry for a longer period. It also agrees with the fact that Welsh and Cornish knights were permitted to carry duplicates of English arms and vice versa - these nobles were unlikely to cross paths anywhere /except/ when campaigning for the realm.
Did the Greek heraldry change from era to era? My understanding is that in the Archaic age citizen soldiers were responsible for providing their own equipment. But in the Classical age things got more standardised. I can see a shift away from a plethora of individual symbols to a far more uniform set of designs following this.
@@glurgbarble7268 Afaik, soldiers still provided their own equipment in the classical era, though maybe not in every polis. I don't think anyone has enough information to have a really good idea of how common certain designs would be, as there's nothing written about it, so we're going on an archaeological record that's open to interpretation. You won't find many classical vases with any two shields alike, but it's arguable whether this accurately represents the reality of the contemporary soldiery.
Certainly the prevailing styles of the designs would have changed over the centuries. The descriptions of shield designs in the Iliad are radically different from those shown in later artwork, for instance.
Even in the relatively stable archaic-classical period, the art found on pottery changes a lot and we can presume that it's analogous to some degree to the art that was found on real shields (not even a fragment of which survive with evidence of paint, afaik), though there is a lot of similarity in the way that shield designs are shown across this period - polychrome ware shows the same basic plan as, for instance, Corinthian and Attic ware: the shield designs tend to be simple and bold, mostly (though certainly not always - geometric designs seem to have remained popular) with a single charge in one colour and a border in another or the same colour. This seems to change with Alexander's conquest, as Hellenistic and later shields tend to be shown more subtly painted, with shading and a greater array of colours. Broadly speaking, it's this kind of artwork that could still be found on shields from the 3rd-5th centuries AD in the eastern Roman Empire.
Uniforms for battle didn't appear until the early modern period and is definitely not a medieval thing. The idea of identifying groups of your soldiers by what they wear was not part of medieval war. Instead, people did it by each point on the chain of command just recognising the heraldry of the dozen people around them. It was inefficient, but so were many things about medieval warfare.
Fun fact: Polish heraldry isn't just for the individual it's for entire families
You'll see examples of the same symbols being used by families with completely different names so it's pretty hard to trace
(I was trying to give my husband a signet ring for our anniversary and I fell down the rabbit hole of Polish heraldry 😂)
thanks, that's interesting.
I love these videos. I always learn something. This is coming from(undergrad degree) a History Major. This is a favorite period of mine. I learn more here than I did in any class.
Thanks for watching, I'm glad it's interesting for you.
You are a gifted teacher, truly. Every Friday I am conscious that the next instalment will be on its way. Thank you so much for your hard work.
you are very kind to say so. I try to make things interesting from a personal perspective.
I love your videos. I remember watching a documentary on the battle of Agincourt and how the knights with very high positions in the kingdom were taken as prisoners to be used as ransom by either side. According to the documentary, the heraldry used throughout various battles allowed fighters to pinpoint important people out of the other men in the battle field including how much ransom they would receive if the fighter was captured.
Did not know you had your own coat of arms, that is cool!
I had shoulder cloak with some personal heraldry made for a wedding a few years back, it helped me understand the impact and importance heraldry had in the past and even now in modern day. Bring on Part 30.
It makes me think of when people have iconic tattoos they wear their desired design and people know them by it and indeed as you mentioned football badges, very intriguing subject.
When a gamer CEO knows more about history than the History Teacher.
I was like "what is this guy talking about"...and then i googled a bit and...omg, this guy deserves all the praise he got and some more
Can I say it, that this programme is much better than anything on History Channel? The knight identified himself and his house and heralds sorted all this out.
In the SCA (medieval society, which hosts the largest College of Heralds in the world), we heralds have a saying: "Your Device (coat-of-arms) is meant to identify you at a distance." This means it needs to be clear, concise, and contain good contrast to be visible in poor lighting conditions (dusk/dawn, overcast days, rain, fog, etc). We take a 5 inch tall shield design, draw & color it, and then hold it up at a distance of roughly 20 feet. If you can tell what all the parts are, idenitifying it as a specific Device distinct from other similar types, then it passes for identifying / visibility at a distance.
...We also have a saying that modern-day traffic signs are heraldic devices, because they are high-contrast and easily discernible at distances far greater than the proportions of 5" from 20'. For instance, in the heraldic language used by the SCA (Norman French 11th century, iirc) this is a traffic sign: "Argent, upon a gateaux a bar couped argent." Specifically, it would be the Do Not Enter sign, a red circle with a somewhat skinny white rectangle stretching horizontally across most of the circle's middle, all on a white background.
Argent = white (silver), and a gateaux is a "red cake" or "red circle" (you can also say "a rondel gules" since gules = red and rondel = circle). A bar is a section of horizontal banding of a specific color (argent/silver/white), and "couped" means it's incomplete, it doesn't reach the far edges of whatever it's on top of--if you've seen that Do Not Enter sign, you know that the red forms a circle, and is not two half-circles floating opposite each other. (If the white bar were vertical instead of horizontal, it would be called a "pale" instead of a "bar.")
If you're still not convinced, most European heraldry has a rule about "metals vs tinctures". The "metals" are gold/yellow and silver/white, and the "tinctures" are the other main heraldic colors, sable/black, azure/blue, gules/red, vert/green, purpure/purple. Under the heraldic rules, you almost never put yellow on top of white, because those two colors are close together. Same with blue on green, or blue on purple, etc.
But if you put yellow on anything but white, it stands out. If you put white on anything but yellow, it stands out. And ALL traffic signs are a variation of this rule. Black on a yellow or a white background, white lettering on green, blue, red, brow, and so forth...almost never yellow on a non-white background, but you can find the tincture colors on a yellow background as well as a white background.
(Brown and orange did not exist, heraldically, in the timeframe the SCA uses for its heraldic terms, but you can get away with those colors by calling something "proper" if you mean its most common color. A "deer proper" would be painted brown, and a "tiger proper" would be mostly orange with black stripes and bits of white on belly, paws, and chin.)
(Also, bored heralds on a road trip will challenge each other to blazon (describe verbally) any road signs we run across.) (...Yes, this occasionally annoys non-herald fellow travelers...)
God, it's been a while. A field argent, impaled gules, charged two lanced gules and a unicorn horn argent?
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I propose 'Argent. on a pale between two lances Gules, a horn Argent' In heraldry the colors define everything that precedes it. Therefore both the pale and the lances are by default Gules. A horn is a horn and not singled out by the animal it came from. "Heralds don't pun they cant."
Re your comment on painted armour (4:15): a similar misrepresentation of ancient Greek and Roman temples exists. We show them in bare stone, but there is evidence they were painted.
Absolutely ! And also ancient statues. They were almost never white
He does a good job describing things without visual aides, but a few more photos/illustrations still would have been nice.
Also would have been interesting to hear how you chose your own heraldry.
i read on the website that you can make requests but the herald actually designs it. it also costs $6,500 dollars
@@havelock285 what a delicious scam in this day and age
Shadiversity has a video where he talks about this same topic.
As far as I know, at least in England you have to submit some sort of "résumé" listing your education and public personal achievements to be analysed by the herald(s) to be then considered or not to qualify for a coat of arms.
He won't show you because they were so-called black people who ruled Europe. Please Google black European and you will be enlightened. Shalom
Love the birds singing in the background, I appreciate his eloquence, what a pleasure to listen to a person who is well spoken and knowledgeable. No loud out of context music, no filler words as in “ and like and kinda and that sort of stuff etc. pp....” Thank you very much for this fabulously narrated series.
Your brother and yourself *really* know how to accentuate a topic and fit so much knowledge into even 5 mins or so. The defending army says “who are we fighting against today!” Looks up at the Heraldry and says “ahhh never mind, it’s *them* again! 😁
thanks for these fantastic videos, keep doing them because they are too beautiful and interesting, greetings from Milan, Italy
I love watching these videos. He's so friendly and engaging, Which really makes everything so pleasant to watch! ♥
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Your videos are both fascinating and extremely well done. A joy to watch and listen to!
How lucky we are that your prosperity allows us to share in your knowledge. You are truly a blessing sir..
I love that you comment on how businesses use heraldic symbols and ideas today: I actually did a paper on exactly that for a class, exploring the heraldry of car companies. In fact, one company even has an actual "coat of arms" in use (Cadillac); in its original form in fact, it was copying someone else's actual family coat of arms, and the company got sued - and forced to change the design so that it would no longer be a direct copy. Fascinating stuff. Some of it has to do with, exactly as you say, visibility, being able to tell "who is that" from a distance and in a visually chaotic setting. And sometimes it's got a lot of history and symbolism behind it, too, even for the much more modern uses we see of it today.
Wonderful video!
Excellent video, I learn something every time I watch one of your videos. Thank you.
I know that the United States abhorred anything that would be reminiscent of royalty until Edwardian era, but we have finally come around and started finding out that it is rather efficient to display heraldry to identify departments, ships and military units without typing out the whole title of the aforementioned. I dealt with The Institute of Heraldry when the US Army was opening up a new unit called the Brigade Special Troops Battalion. To make the story short, I submitted all the requisite recommendations for the Coat of Arms, motto, colors, and Distinctive Unit Insignia. Needless to say, they took absolutely none of my suggestions and designed everything from scratch.
The correlation of heraldry that we did receive from the Mother Country is very similar except that the Coat of Arms is given to institutions and not people. A good example is the 148th Infantry Regiment which was the first Coat of Arms and Distinctive Unit Insignia authorized by the United States War Department in 1919. The Coat of Arms belongs to the Regiment but they do have colors which is maintained by the Command Sergeant Major and is displayed at the headquarters when the Commander is in office or when the Commander is involved in a ceremonial event. The heraldic badge that Sir Kingsley spoke of, the United States Army wears the Distinctive Unit Insignia (DUI) which is the smaller representation of the CoA and colors. In battle, the US Army wears the the subsymbol of the unit as a patch to let everyone know what organization you belong to on the Army level, Division level or Brigade level. Individual battle recognition is allowed on the personal level and can not be replicated without proper authorization, the only part of the heraldic system that intersects with organizational heraldry from the United Kingdom. The wearing of medals and ribbons that show the commendations and accomplishments of the individual fighter, each tell the story of his or her career as a warrior.
The other portion of medieval heraldry that is interesting is that the individual awards are displayed over the heart while the unit awards are displayed over the right breast (if you were with the unit when the unit was awarded the commendation). The heraldic subsymbol of the unit is displayed on the left arm while the individual awarded, "combat patch," is worn on the superior arm or the right arm to display what unit the warrior went to combat with.
I am fascinated with the correlations of heraldic protocol that has influenced the United States and how we are implementing it to not only identify departments, ships or units, but the story that is told just by seeing the colors, if you know how to read it.
Heraldry was not considered royalty, so it was stolen for use by organizations. Pittsburgh “stole” the arms of Wm Pitt, Earl of Chatham (its namesake), although I don’t know what Chatham, PA or Chatham College uses :-) .
Fantastic channel with excellent insight into the mediaeval period. As so often commented, this is head and shoulders above a lot of content found on the likes of the History Channel. Coloured armour had never occurred to me, but it makes sense, as this period in history was well know and documented for it's love of bright (some would say gaudy) colours. I am fortunate enough to live very close to Dover castle in Kent, when they recently spent a lot of money recreating the castle interior to a period of time of the 12th Century (Henry II). It is very impressive, as you would expect, as it was mean't to be a show of power, wealth and taste to visiting Kings and dignitaries from foreign countries.
Great info again Jason & thank you, I love trying to research the arms on the medieval finds I find metal detecting, sometimes it does my head in, but good when you get a result.
I think the best modern item for heraldry would be cattle brands. Your individual ranch has it's own symbol and that symbol has legal power to identify a given cow or steer as yours, and most ranches are family owned so it becomes the family symbol. My community has many ranches and its normal to see the ranches brand on the gate by the road.
interesting, thanks.
I have an Old Banner from a Knight that lived in 1200 in my town Horstmar from a German knight called Bernhard der Gute von Horstmar. My town was a castle once and still has some parts of it today. The Banner shows a Red lion on a Blue and white shield
White was how silver (argent) on the shield had to be represented, since silver tarnishes black. Not certain what Imperial heraldry blazening of the various colors (or metals, or furs) was, and I think that it changed over time, too.
these videos are so interesting and well produced! well done
why this channel doesnt have more views just amazes me
Loving the series! Keep up the spectacular work!!
Great video, there isn’t enough information on this topic readily available, thanks for doing this.
I love history, and am just now taking a serious dive into Medieval history. Love this channel, what a great companion to my personal studies. Keep up the great work.
Excellent summary and cool facts!
i always watch your videos during history lesson!
Glad you like them!
@@ModernKnight :)
This channel is a breath of fresh air!!CZcams has so many channels in which the creator tries to come across as an expert in medieval warfare because they watched the movie Highlander. This gentleman is the modern day equivalent to a knight having a stable housing some remarkable steeds In which he actually joust with.Its also nice to see he's always out in the field ither on horseback or in full armor or both. Every other channel ther sitting in front of there computer like a potted plant.
Thank you Sir for another simple, condensed view on a complicated topic.
Keep 'em rollin.
Wonderful choice & placement of words ! Such makes it very easy to understand the concepts.
Super awesome videos! I absolutely Love this type of information!
This is the best history channel i have come across so far. Simply awesome. 😊
Very nice episode.
Extremely interesting and informative as always
Keep up the videos! Best ones I have come across on CZcams !
So this guy is a gaming CEO, posts better history videos than most cable television, has a legally recognized coat of arms, is essentially a knight...
Are we sure he didn't actually *come* from the 15th century and acclimated very well?
He is not just "essentially" a knight, As an OBE he *is* a knight...
@@voorth Sorry Henk, that's not correct, although I think he deserves that honour.
He keeps his DeLorean in a shed off camera I guess.
You have such a way of engaging your audience I could listen to you all day..... Well actually I have been since I found your channel, brilliant series 👍👍👍
Thank you for a great video.
Great video!!!!
this is called staying on brand
not even 3 minutes in and i realized that even a thousand years ago we all still the same
I really enjoy this channel and the way that you present the information is easy to understand. I am aware that these were posted a couple of years ago but it would be nice if more could be added. I've heard on occasion that a Bar Sinister was added to the description of a coat of arms and would like to see a video of your knowledge on the subject.
As a history mayor i already know most of this staff but i still find your videos really intresting and quite full of informations even most historians dont know.
thanks for your support, we do a lot of research!
How fun ! On both sides of my German family ( father's name , husband's name ) , I always wondered just why there were so many smaller , quartered shields upon the one big shield .
I especially love my father's shield with it's white / grey rearing horses wearing feather like poms upon their head stalls over their polls .
This was apt for my father as he was , as I am , a professional horseman.
I so enjoy your videos , you've no earthly idea ! And that you show yourself as a real horseman is just a feather in your cap !
History is Always interesting....thankyou
The helmets of American Football teams are another great example of modern heraldry. Some reflect great animals, like the Cincinnati Bengals. Some reflect warriors, like the Minnesota Vikings. And some reflect local culture, like the Pittsburgh Steelers.
Wow. My own great great grandfather won the Knight grand cross title of the Order of Leopold from the Austrian Imperial Order of Leopold during the First World War as a Calvary officer leading a charge against a machine gun emplacement that effectively led to the breaking of the line, and winning of that particular battle. He didn’t have any heraldry bestowed upon him; however (as far as I know), and his position was not able to be passed down through inheritance.
I only know this because I have a cousin that was the professor of Sociology at WVU that taught a course abroad in Budapest each summer for the past 25 years or so.
Apparently he left with my great grandfather and his 2 brothers for the US shortly after the war for Toms Creek, VA, and became a coal miner.
He stayed in the US for about a year, then left to go back to Europe where he was a big -shot “knight” rather than stay in the US and work doing manual labor. My great grandfather and 2 great uncles stayed.
I would enjoy learning more about your particular heraldry. Such as what the symbols are and what they mean.
It would be great to have an episode about medieval battlefield tactics. I don't know much about it, but I though the reason for colours and heraldry was so you could recognise who was friend and who was foe in the thick of battle since one knight in armour looks much like any other, save for that. I would guess part of a squire's training would be to learn all the colours and heraldry by heart.
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I love your content. It's so wholesome and interesting.
Aye my bygone fathers used to fight on the fields buck naked and scare the lady folk.
Pict life.
Except they weren't fighting lol
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Hugh Gilchrist 😂 That was great.
Mine did too. They were arrested for disturbing the peace and indecent exsposure. 😉
You make me proud of my English ancestry Jason... I learn something new in every video! CHEERS.
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Seriously brilliant, just great quality films and excellent way of displaying and examining the subjects. Thank you 🙏🏻 again. Love 💕 the commitment to excellence as opposed to exaggeration the way Americans commonly represent things. Genuinely grateful
We would love to have a tour of your home Jason, if you please.
This is just such a pleasant and informative channel. Should go to Netflix to gather more eyes.
The Medieval/HEMA/Sword community of websites pretty much tops out with about the same number of subscribers as he has, except for the annoyingly unbald Skallagrim, who has around one million subs, but he mainly covered sword-related or samurai-related video games.
Excellent Content and Very informative.
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Heraldic arms are granted by a government authority in the England, Scotland, Canada, and some other countries. Elsewhere, one can assume, or design your own, but it's considered bad form, or may even be illegal, to use someone else's arms.
In America, the only official heraldic office is in the US Military, which has a formal office to govern things such as uniform patches, flags, and pennants. They use traditional heraldic language (blazon) to describe them. Other than that it's basically the wild west. Unless the arms infringe on some other intellectual property, such as trademarks, there is no legal restriction. The only thing that keeps me from painting the arms of the Prince of Wales on the hood of my pickup truck is discretion and good taste. Which basically mean nothing is preventing me from painting the prince's arms on my pickup truck.
@@sofademon5758 That's the First Amendment at work
@@sofademon5758 Too bad the Institute of Heraldry's website's been down ever since Joseph E. Davies became president.
In Scotland, misuse of heraldry - using someone else's coat of arms - is a civil tort, akin to copyright infringement. And can be legally sanctioned by officers of the Lord Lyon King of Arms.
@@@sofademon5758 There is an American trucking company called "England" that uses Richard I's personal arms (i.e., three lions in the special pose that I can no longer blazon by memory). Lese majestie, perhaps, but who is going to enforce it, unless they buy a company in the UK and use the American symbol :-)
Nice clear basic explanation. Books wee mentioned there are some nice short ones like The Observers Book Of Heraldry and Heraldry Made Simple both out of print but may be in Libraries. One quibble the English Football Team uses the Arms of the English Football Association which are based on the English Royal Arms BUT with major differences the fields is white not red the 3 lions (heraldic leopards) are blue and the are 11 roses on the field representing the 11 players in a football team.
this is just great
I first learned about Heraldry from reading an old issue of DRAGON Magazine (issue #275, published September 2000). It had two articles related to heraldry: "Instant Heraldry" (a brief overview of how heraldry could be used in a D&D game and some suggestions for them) and "Historical Heraldry" (a more comprehensive overview of the academic study of heraldry, including descriptions of heraldic elements and symbols). It was a fascinating read, and very helpful for fleshing out a medieval-style fantasy setting.
really nice thank you sir
Those are the greatest videos out there :)
10x better than the History Channel..bless you good sir
Interesting video. I've loved heraldry since I was very young. When I was briefly in the SCA (not official or really authentic, I know), I had to come up with a device to register. It wasn't easy since the Society for Creative Anachronism was about 30 years old at that point and many devices were quite lengthy in description, but I came up with one that was unique and only 8 words long: Per saltire sable and vert, four owls argent. (Owls are naturally guardant, I was told)
Thanks for sharing!
If given the opportunity at a reenactment event. I would without a question and with all confidence enlist under Lord Kingsley as a Man-at-arms and proudly wear whatever colors given to me.
I came across your channel a few weeks ago, i thought to myself you should be a historical tv presenter because ur explain everything, love ur videos, keep them coming
Thanks and welcome
I love the banner that Henry (Tudor) VII, used when fighting at Bosworth-that splendid Red Dragon🏴🏴 and the cross of St. Georges’s🏴
Great Video. Many heraldic terms, like the colors, are in old french. The use of quartering and further sub-dividing the achievement came about in the late medieval period when non-noble people were being knighted and in some countries, knighthood could be purchased. By Quarting and further dividing the achievement, one could show that the linage was nobility for several generations. It was also done to show the joining of two equally import blood lines. This is how the current achievement of Britain came about. Looking at it from left to right, top The three lions of England, and then the Scottish Lion. Bottom is the harp of Ireland, and then the three lions of England repeated. It should be noted that even if a person has their own coat of arms, when they represent another person, they would use the other person's coat of arms. Modern heralds go for a clean, uncluttered design. In England the College of Arms is under the Garter King of Arms (He doesn't need to be a knight of the Garter) and in Scotland, The Lord Lyon. Heralds are not legally required to pay taxes, but they do it on a voluntary basis. ^_* Heraldry Nerd
This video was one of my favorites! I love heraldry, and since I was a child, have found medieval history and all the various aspects of it so fascinating. Thank you for this video and the many others that are simple, clearly communicated, and interesting (not dulled down because of excess rambling)! I would love to create my own coat of arms (for fun) and turn it into a banner such as the one you have. Every time I see it waving in the opening scenes of your videos it makes me smile and I feel as excited about knights and medieval history as I was when I was a young boy.
I think its one of the earliest forms of visual management, like in battle its a quick glance n u no what it is and where everyone is, that and no bugger could read then! So pictures made up for that, like stain glass in churchs r like a cartoon strip, they tell. a story without words.
As i live in England i get the pleasure of goin to alot of churchs and they all have there own unique story to tell!
My company symbol is a shield with 2 axes crossing, I'm a combat engineer and the symbol signifies the most important tool. It's quite interesting because our military is old and most of our symbols are too - our dragoons (infantry) have an old code of arms with a lion and reads "Fortes . Fortunas . Juvat".
Painted Armour Heraldry and flags have been hobbies of mine for 40 + years and I never knew that, great video taught me something!. I think the Surcoat and helmet covers came about because of the Crusades. Knights wore cloth over the armour to keep the sun off so they wouldn't boil to death in the armour. Back home in rainy ngland it would help keep the armour dry so it wouldn't rust so quickly.
damn.. this is the first time I hear about the possibility that plate armor may have been painted, that blows my mind much like the first time I learned greek statues were colorful and not just white