A History Teachers Reacts | Oversimplified - Battle of Hastings

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Terry back here once again for another history teacher reacts video today we're gonna be watching oversimplifies video on the Battle of Hastings this video came recommended by a lot of people in my comment sections and we're gonna check that out today alright now there will be a link to the original video below I always like to promote the original content creators of these videos and oversimplified they do a great job over there so if you're into this make sure you hop over to that link of them a quick like and subscribe make sure they get the credit as well if you have any video suggestions you may put them down in the comment section or you may join our new discord server which link will be down below where you can also make video suggestions and just talk history with hopefully a bunch of history fans so be sure to do that if you want to be a part of our community alright well go ahead and get started here and started with the oversimplified Battle of Hastings this is made possible by skill share an online learning community with over 17,000 classes in just about anything you can imagine keep watching until the end of the video to learn how you can get your first two months for free England in the Middle Ages the sun is shining the birds are singing the children are playing in the village square what a wonderful time to be alive hate you're dying of dysentery and also we're being raided by biking that's all right awful time to be alive it's the Year 900 Europe is a Vikings wet dream raids galore hey you want to go raid Paris okay that particular rate didn't go too well but the king of the Franks said you guys are pretty tough and scary how about we give you land of northern France and in return you protect us from other Viking and it was agreed the Viking certain areas of Normandy and then they went full-on French converting to Christianity learning the language and making babies with the locals England also had its fair share of Viking problems in the 800 Danish Vikings had conquered most of the country but the anglo-saxons eventually managed to kick them out although they left behind a bunch of Viking settlers now this guy's King he sucks replace him with his brother and he was like hey baby how you doing and his son and then turned around and was like hey baby how you doing another son and then he died no one was sure which time to make King this one because he's older not if I have anything to do with it that works for us too then he grew up in Marin - classic story remember this one he's important then his advisors came to him and said hey man all those Viking settlers that are living here they might band together and kill you ooh well then why don't we kill them first the war it was this pissed off the Danish king who launched an invasion and the Vikings conquered England once again then the Anglo Saxons unconquered it then the Vikings reconquered it the king's family had to go into exile including Edward remember him he went to Normandy where he lived for 30 years he and his brother Alfred tried to return to England to rethink the Thurn from the Vikings but they were betrayed by the Earl of Wessex who said hey friend I'll take you to London where all the nobles are waiting to make you King oh no look out red-hot poker in the ice I can't see what and thus you can't be King Edward oh no sabotage few more Viking Kings came and went one finally died without an heir and Edward was called back to England where he became King and that's where our story begins [Music] all right here we go here's the thing about becoming a king in the Middle Ages often your entire country won't support you at first you can be vulnerable to rebellions and it's up to you to take control fortunately for Edward there was already a super powerful guy who had a lot of control over England and if Edward could get his support then England would be his who is this guy now piss it's the guy who gave my brother the red-hot poker in the eyes after an awkward moment where Edward exiled Godwin from the country eventually had to give in and let him keep his earldom possibly after Godwin gave him a bunch of gold Finn said he was very very sorry King Edward also married Godwin's daughter then Godwin died and his massive fortune was passed down to his sons who all became Earl's in particular this one became the new Earl of West being Harold Godwinson was now King Edward's brother-in-law he was a close advisor to the king a brave warrior who had proven himself in battle against the Welsh and in many ways he was almost like a coke King uh-oh Edward go to bed never although possibly for religious reasons or maybe because he wasn't happy about having to marry her he didn't boink his wife and as a result had no kids meaning there's no obvious heir to the throne meaning I'm gonna be king he does have a grand nephew it could be him no let's go with me just one person I mentioned that Edwards mother was a Norman Edward grew up in Normandy and he had a lot of Norman friends the current Duke of Normandy was William the bastard why was he called the bastard one day his father was sneaking out of his castle his advisors said where are you going to the Tanner shop white to get up 10 hahaha but that was a lie firstly because Tanner's give you leather not bands and secondly because he was really going to see the tenors daughter one thing leads to another and out comes baby William born out-of-wedlock thus an absolute bastard his father died when William was seven or eight and he became the new Juke he spent most of his childhood narrowly avoiding assassination which probably turned him into the big balls tough guy he's remembered as today you know you imagine just in these old days of monarchy how you always have to be watching your back no matter if things are good they're bad whatever it's like nobody can be trusted everyone's gone an out for you whether you're good or bad whether it's trying to movies you're bad ruler or they just want your position imagine living a life with the kind of anxiety I think that would be difficult but in 1051 the town of Alice don't tried to rubella Kinston and the townspeople beat on dead animal skins as an insult to his commoner mother william was furious and he responded by well let's just say it wasn't pretty that's the kind of guy we're dealing with here William and Edward were good friends and Edward allegedly promised that William could have the English throne after him a decade later held garments and even visited William and pledged an oath to him over holy relics promising that William could be the next king of England although it's possible Harald only did it because William was holding his family hostage so when William heard that the King was on his deathbed he said hooray I'm gonna be king so now you have two extremely powerful men who both think they're about to become the next king Sherman badly right wait this guy is the king of Norway he spent most of his life as a warrior for higher fighting for whoever would give him the most gold you name a place he probably fought a war then Poland yep Estonia yep against Pirates in the Mediterranean yep the holy lands Sicily and Bulgaria yep he got crazy rich off the back of it and was swimming in gold then he returned home and became King one of the previous Norwegian kings had made an agreement with one of England's Viking kings saying that when that Viking King died the King of Norway would get the English throne heard Rida felt that because of this agreement he was now entitled to a lot of details right he was also eager to go why not gonna make a commentary from that would turn him into a legend so when he got word that a specific bet he thought I'm gonna invade England and then I'm gonna be king so now we have three extremely power men who all think they're about to become the next king of England and that means somebody's probably about to get hurt back in England Harold Godwinson is watching over the dying King Edward suddenly he comes out with a shocking announcement hey everyone gathering that's it come closer don't be shy okay so I've got bad news the king is dead I know very sad but good news he said that I should be the next king so hooray for me and oh yeah he said that if he once told anyone else they could be king that he doesn't like them anymore and they should just stay in Normandy mm-hmm and also he said that no one should ask any further question yeah yeah okay good talk just just go on with it okay go do whatever it is you do usually it took months of preparation to crown a new king but Harold rushed it and he had himself crowned the same day King Edward was buried in Normandy all Williams advices came to him and said hey Big Willie bad news pal Godwinson has taken the English throne and William was furious so he sent an envoy to Harold who said William says you stole the throne and demands you immediately return it to him hmm let me think about that no hmm yeah he said no that bastard wait I thought you were the best dude uncle different definitions because your name is probably William immediately began gathering his armies together and preparing for an invasion of England now killing a king was generally frowned upon in Europe because they were considered to have been chosen by God himself so back in Normandy William have to get God on and write a very powerful blessing for his conquest so we went to the Pope and said God Winston made an oath to me over holy relics and then he usurped the throne can I kill him yeah sure why not said the Pope gave William his blessing meaning William now had God on his side everything was ready to go just one problem the wind it was blowing the wrong way and William had to wait with his army in Normandy while Godwinson waited with his army in the South of England they waited and waited and waited and then William said screw it and sailed for England I got shipwrecked because the wind all all away so then he decided to keep on waiting they waited for two months and the wind never changed eventually got Winston got bored and also ran out of food for his soldiers so he sent them all home and he returned to London the coast was undefended and all William could do was keep waiting while the northerly wind kept William in Normandy it was carrying her Drita and his Viking army to England hard reto landed near the old Viking city of York and defeated a regional army led by the northern Earl's and York's surrender when göransson heard about this he must have been pretty upset he had just disbanded his army and now he had to gather them all together that time on all the way north he made the exhausting journey in just four days which is crazy quick and he caught the Vikings off guard and unprepared for battle the two armies stood on either side of the River Derwent legend says that a berserker Viking single-handedly held the only bridge crossing the river dodging arrows and fending off attackers until some English soldiers got under the bridge in a barrel and gave him the old spear in the jewels Oh this gave the Vikings enough time to form a shield wall but because they've been caught off guard many weren't wearing their chainmail and armor and the English eventually defeated them killing Hardrada and with him bringing the Viking era in England to an end goodbye Vikings I know it changes finally William's fleet of over 700 ships and 14,000 men set sail and landed on the English coast at Pevensey instead of a hammer and Herald was still all the way in York his exhausted army had to march all the way south just days after their battle with the Vikings Harold made it to London and considered just staying there waiting for William to come to him but William forced Harold's hands by burning down a bunch of villages Howard's army set out and met Williams on the 14th of October 1066 and both sides prepared themselves for the Battle of Hastings the English were on a hill so they decided to stay there because it was a good defensive position the Normans approached and the two sides probably spent a while yelling at each other William and the Normans had a few tactical advantages over the English the first were the archers the Normans sent volley after volley of arrows at the English who formed a shield wall in defence then Williams sent his infantry up the hill the English threw anything they had of them and the Normans couldn't break through the field wall then the Normans next tactical advantage came into play William sent his cavalry up the hill but even they struggled to break through the shield wall defences wave after wave of infantry and cavalry came and Harold knew all he had to do was let the Normans exhaust themselves and he would win but then something a bit strange happened it's possible the Normans incorrectly believed William have been killed maybe they lost their will to fight against the shield wall or maybe it was an intentional deception tactic but suddenly the norman forces turned and ran away from the English believing they had won the English broke their shield wall and chased down the retreating Normans who then turned around encircled English troops and cut them down in the chaotic fighting that followed Harold Godwinson was killed the most popular theory being that he took an arrow in the eyes the English was cheated and William had won he was no more just a bastard man Hawker airs at Conqueror at first English nobles were reluctant to make him King but William burned down a few more villages and the nobles eventually gave in and offered him the crown as he was coronated the local villages and Westminster let out a cheer of support but William thought it was a right so he burned down the village William then had to go on a long and costly campaign of quelling rebellions and burning down villages Oliver English was just getting started nation and England went through a massive transformation under its new Norman rule English Nobles were replaced with Normans they built castles and grand cathedrals but one of the most interesting changes occurred within the English language the Normans brought their dialect of French to and emerged with Old English and ways we still live the reason I first of all a lot of you're speaking English right in our so words related to power like government judge castle and crown come from the Normans words that are considered posher or morality are usually the norman ones at first Angela Saxons probably weren't that friendly to the Normans while the Normans likely weren't that amiable towards the anglo-saxons an Anglo Saxon might come into a room but a Norman would enter into a chamber an Anglo Saxon might buy themselves a shirt while the Norman would purchase a blouse and while that filthy peasants new shirt may be fair the Norman blouse is absolutely beautiful the Normans actually considered some anglo-saxon words so crude that I can't even say them on YouTube but there's more ask an anglo-saxon what job he does and he might respond with some low-level trade such as a baker a miller or a shoemaker but a norman has a skilled trade like a painter a tailor or a merchant the anglo-saxon farmers working in that a blending together has pigs and sheep but once they were served up in a Norman banquet they became beef pork and mutton and written English changed to since many Anglo Saxons interesting right the written language was romanticized your annoying friend that says Cool Whip might just be speaking an old English dialect as the anglo-saxons originally wrote it when where and what but the Normans swamped the wnat bank and the long English a vowel sounded more like an ode to the Normans so you can thank them that you live in a home not a ham hey fun fact about William could a man couldn't read or write not in French not in English not in anything well what if I told you there is a place where you could learn French English and coming at ease if you wanted and not just that pick up musical instrument learned to code games and apps animation photography and film anything you could dream up all taught by genuine experts and you can get your first two months for free I'm talking about Skillshare yeah Battle of Hastings is very very influential for Western Europeans quite a modern heels in a way kind of being created in the English language you see which is English language is a big mutt of a lot of different languages you know I mean it's a mutt of languages there because there's so many different influences there but you're seeing where that's starting to be put together so a lot of you can probably tie a lot of your ancestral history and origins of your cultures from the effects of this right here oh this battle for a very affordable $10 a month but if you want to try it out first you can get two months for free by using this link which can also be found in the description below so check it out improve your skills and learn something new today with skill share okay all right yeah good little video there a lot of details going over the Battle of Hastings there and I knew you know about its its importance and things like tap a lot of the little details I learned a lot that's why you don't hear me stop a lot and have a lot to necessarily add that they weren't hitting them in the detail and that it's got to be about as detailed as you can get and just a brief video so that was really really interesting yeah so if you have ancestry especially the ties to England this is one of the most important events in the line of your ancestry with this because again it kind of it's going to pave the way for kind of the England that you know of and then the English language and and and yeah the England that's that's about to develop here so very cool very cool alright well that'll do it for this video again it'd be great if you supported the original creators by a just going to their the link that'll leave below also if 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Channel: Mr. Terry History

Views: 210,645

Rating: 4.9497814 out of 5

Keywords: react, history, battle of hastings

Id: 7pENSjV7zNs

Length: 15min 43sec (943 seconds)

Published: Mon Jul 15 2019