Princes' Crusade Begins: Battle of Nicaea - First Crusade DOCUMENTARY
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Kings and Generals animated historical documentary series on the First Crusade continues with the aftermath of the battle of Civetot of 1096 ( • People's Crusade: Batt... ) during the so-called People's Crusade of the First Crusade. The Princes' Crusade begins with French, Norman, Flemish and other nobles arriving at Constantinople and making an alliance with the Emperor of the Eastern Roman Empire Alexios I. This leads to the battle of Nicaea against the Seljuks of Rum in 1097.
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Please brother make videos on India - Pakistan war's
Please continue the series on crime syndicates Make a video about the history of the Russian mafia and the Yakuza
@@bzbxzhdb4656 keep calm 😭
I would really like to know and see about the co operation between the crusaders and the Christians living in the levant during the crusades?? Did they fight together ?? Did they get along… what was the relationship between the Christians of these lands and the crusaders??
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Crusader offers you a non-aggression pact. Reliability: Terrible. Attitude: Hostile.
I see you played TW games. A man of culture may I say.
Now I finally understand that peace treaty in rome total war was historically accurate
This hits extra hard as I just started a Latin Empire playthrough in Atilla’s Medieval mod. Lol
Just a question. I don't get why Christians believe that isis are terrorists and the crusaders not. I mean don't they both share the concept in the war. There goal was just to go to a certain city kill the people who are living there even if they were normal citizens and rob every thing they want from the city.
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The worst outcome of The Telephone Game of that century. "The french prince is waiting for us in Constantinople." turned into "The french prince is captive and the Byzantine Emperor said your mom so fat..."
And stinks, to be historically accurate. Byzantines had, like all people outside of europe at the time, far better hygiene rules than the backwards states of europe at the time had.
Why let s little miscommunication get in the way of a good crusade?
Props to Alexios for being the most succesful kindergardener of the middle ages .
Simple human greed
Intelligent maybe
"Remember. We came here at the request of the Byzantine Emperor." "Right." "And so we are here as his allies." "Of course." "Which means we can't sack his lands, nor kill his people." *crouched while he empties the pockets of a man he just murdered* "We can't do what now?"
And the classic: "First ravish, then burn, not the other way around."
Roman* Emperor
@@tornado4708 he employed them to protect the people
@@tornado4708 I think it's mostly to keep an eye on the crusaders, but the tension caused them to fight each other. Can't blame Alexios too much after what happened the first time, really.
I mean hey, why let sacking a few Byzantine lands and killing some civilians get in the way of a good crusade?
*Sounds of Greek cities being sacked by the Crusaders* Alexios I: Can you all not sack a city on your way to the Holy Land... FOR FIVE MINUTES!?
RIP Antioch
Robert of Flanders: Sure thing!
@@demetriusstiakkogiannakes1326 That definitely triggered Alexios given it had been Byzantine just 10 years prior. His own family use to be it’s governors
Nah bro it's like drug addiction .
@@tylerellis9097 And the fact it has been originally created by Greek and Greek speaking settlers also made it sad, they really hoped that the Crusaders would give the city back after the Arab control.
Alexios, low money, crumbling power, traitors around managed to basically raise a gigantic army of free high level soldiers and generals. This guy was a smart one. Imagine that same guy when the empire was at full strength ? He would have crushed the game.
Nah
His uncle Isaac was emperor in 1055 but gave the Throne to the doukas family instead of bis brother (Alexios's father) so it could have been possible
Alexios was a crafty one I'll give him that. He snatched the Crusaders prize right out from under them. Of course if he hadn't done that the people of Nicea would've met a gruesome end. So I'm sure they were glad to avoid that. My compliments to all those who made this video a reality.
Alexios must have been the most patient man to ever live. Also I find it hilarious that Stephen was such a simp that the man fully went on a whole Crusade because his wife told him to. Doubly so because this was at a time where its pretty shocking that she would even say such a thing to him. Stuff like this is why i love history, it really is stranger than fiction.
Maybe he just hated her ass and was happy for the excuse to get away from her haha.
Stephen was a spineless coward, who was responsible for lying to Alexios at the Crusader's most crucial moment, thus severing the trust between the ERE and the Crusaders.
I'm sure it was more due to the power of his father-in-law...
Not entirely accurate; women being very direct, assertive and even aggressive towards their husbands was pretty common during the period, these were women who grew up in rough households of knights and soldiers, they were accustomed to confrontation and many women were as confrontational as their husbands
Bruh everybody was hard back then they were living through the bleakest parts of history😂 plus I think her dad was op so the guy had to say yes, or else kinda
The Franks were oath-bound to turn over any liberated Roman territories (so all territories in question), but in the end the only Frank who tried to keep the oath was the one Frank who didn't actually take it, while every Frank who took the oath betrayed it. IMO the Romans were wise to arrange the surrender of Nicaea before the crusaders could win it by assault, and only Bohemond's eventual (and inevitable) treachery prevented the crusade from actually accomplishing its goals.
franks are still unreliable to this day , even the brits are more honest and reliable .
Clearly it was opposite day the day they took the oath.
@@mrlakkie1612 How so?
How did bohemond prevent them from there goals lol the crusaders achieved Jerusalem
@@almighty5839 The goal was to liberate Jerusalem and return any imperial territory to the Romans, but Bohemond fractured the Crusade into a number of petty states, engineered conflict between the empire and the Crusaders, and led to the eventual collapse of the Crusader States due to the selfishness and disunity established by his (and Tancred's) eagerness to grab lands for themselves at the expense of the broader purpose.
*Princes' Crusade* 1:53 *Crusader Armies* 2:48 Prince Hugh's army 4:35 Godfrey of Bouillons's army (Duke of Lorainne & brother of Baldwin) 9:14 Bohemond's army (Normans) 12:20 Raymond IV's army (of Toulouse) *{largest army}* 15:13 Combined force of, Robert (Son of William the conqueror & Duke of Normandy) Robert (Count of Flanders, cousin of the previous Robert) Stephen of Blois (son in law of William the Conqueror) 17:28 Organising at Civetot 18:48 *Battle/Siege of Nicaea*
Thanks
Alexios I Komnenos was a master diplomat and one of the greatest emperors to rule Byzantium.
One of the best Roman emperors. You know the quality of the fabric in hard times.
Hugh talking big and then losing most of his army and fleet before arriving at the starting point is hilarious
It gets more hilarious, wait till he gets to Antioch.
At least the first loss wasn't entirely his fault.
@@MrGksarathy The second one, however...
I was in Iznik last February. The Byzantine walls of Nikaia still stand there and the gates are almost intact. Great experience!
It is often said that the Romans saw the various kingdoms that popped up after the west fell as good-for-nothing, warlike barbarians. I can see why they would think that.
This
I mean, it’s not like they were wrong.
The Holy Roman Empire is the worst of them. A nightmarish empire with small nations in it.
Rome was a militaristic slave state. We should stope glorifying it
the byzantines were greeks not romans. they called themselfs rhomaoi but they were romans as the french are franks.
As a Greek I don’t think the Pecheneg mercenaries get enough credit for how effective they were in carrying out the emperor’s orders and punishing the Crusaders
@@Syllaeus and before that , remember marcus crassus and his encounter with horse archers...
True. Alexios paid a high price to get them Pechenegs under his fold. He suffered defeats and extreme pillaging in Thrace while Anatolia was lost after Manzikert. Then he finally defeated them soundly and turned them into his auxiliary.
They also defected to the Seljuks against the Byzantines during the Battle of Manzikert, though, so their contributions towards the safety of the empire are very mixed.
The main reason behind the First Crusade's success lies in the fact that it was perfectly timed having started just a year after the breakout of the Great Seljuk civil war
Also how the first “First crusade” (people's crusade) was so terrible that they neglected any threat thereafter!
Seljuks could not stop crusaders it has nothing to do with division of empire
@@hassanabdulsalam1000 that's the point abdul, “Seljuks couldn't stop crusade because of civil war!”
@@hassanabdulsalam1000 if they didn't have a civil war they could've stop them
@@just-some-muslim at the battle of durylayum seljuks almost defeated crusaders but crusaders were more powerful Seljuks defeated byzantine weak army does not mean they will defeat deadliest knights of Europe
The diversity of the European armies was astounding.
I am from Antochia and Turkish and my Dna Test Hablogroup came back as I1-Z61. Its a North European Hablogroup and very rare in Anatolia. So one of these Normans was probably my Grandfather.
The vast majority was Frankish.
@@Aliksander54 😂😂😂 bro with Grandfather i just mean Ancestor. Of course we are talking about 900 Years.
They mostly talked langue d'Oc (Northern France) and langue d'Oïl (Southern France), maybe some Bretons got isolated from this circle jerk of latinized frankish catholic gauls.
I feel really bad for Alexios, first of all he probably felt horrible for having to become Emperor of Byzantine Empire without Anatolia. On top of that he has to make sure that Crusaders don't burn down his Empire and if that wasn't enough he now has to supply them.... Isn't it ironic that Crusaders, "warriors of Christ", inflicted most damage on their fellow Christians if we consider all crusades especially 13th century one....
Considering they were catholic and the Romans/byzantines orthodox, they could have seen eachother as heretics, which is only slightly better than pagans.
@@DragovianMythiX Most west-Europeans don't care about differences in religion at all, especially not within christianity. It is more of a geographical indifference, but the same is true for everyone. Most people don't constantly care about what happens a thousand miles away unless it somehow impacts themselves.
@@MDP1702 change that to western europeans were raiders , in ancient times, medieval times and recent times with economic warfare they dont build great things they steal them and copy them from italy greece iran egypt etc. Doesnt matter if its odin , or whoever they say they worship theyre still vikings
@@okdude8215 🤣🤣
True fact and the world thinks Muslim Warrior's are bad guys The Crusaders did more damage to humanity in Europe and Jersulim
So the Normans went to war with each other over a prank gone bad? These Western Knights were a bunch of real sweethearts weren't they. To the Eastern Greek speakers they must have looked like a bunch of Biker Gangs. Crude, violent, ill-tempered and unpredictable.
his younger brothers William Rufus and Henry had dumped a full chamber-pot over his head, and William the conqueror chose not to punish them for it
Sons of Anarchy the crusades
To be fair, that's pretty much how they saw everyone around them, though, save for maybe the Arabs. The Seljuks, Pechenegs, Normans, Slavs, all of whom would constantly try to raid and plunder the empire's territories whenever they could.
They looked like Salvation.
Let's be real. Kings and Generals is the History channel we all want to be!
Yes
One thing that you failed to mention is that Tancred, in what might be a planned strategy, left Constantinople WITHOUT swearing the oath to return all lands to Alexios. Therefore, everything that he and Bohemont conquered, could be taken for themselves without being called oathbreakers. Also there was no mention that, after the taking of Nicea, Alexios sent a fresh offering of gifts to the Crusaders, to compensate for the lack of sacking of the just taken city.
Most of them swore to retake the lands FOR Alexios, so why should they have the right to sack it?
@@GandalfderDauerblaue Cause they were unscrupulous scoundrels.
@@ElBandito Agreed.
This is why Alexios is one of favorite byzantine Emperors, he is the most cunning bastard you would ever meet. He was that cunning that he even outsmarted Robert Giscard.
Robert actually bested Alexios in several battles. The main reason why the emperor won against the normans is that Robert died of old age during the war. After his death, they lost momentum and were forced to retreat.
@@Astatine95 bro what are you talking about, Robert didn't die, he left Greece to go back to Italy to deal with matters there, and he left his son Bohemond in charge of his army.
"It's just a prank bro!" Robert, Duke of Normandy.
It's his younger brothers William Rufus and Henry who had dumped a full chamber-pot over Robert 's head, and William the conqueror chose not to punish them for it
Ooof, the Franks and the Normans were a horrible bunch. I can imagine the intensity of Alexios's headaches dealing with those savages
No matter how many videos on the Crusades I watch, there's always something new to learn. Great video!
Thanks, I really appreciated the detailed accounts, especially of the siege of Nicaea (which I have visited). I have read several books on the crusades and don't remember coming across half of the accounts you presented in this video. I hope this continued adventure on the first crusade is prepared the same way, job well done! I have found no comparable story that equals this endeavor, The First Crusade.
Another excellent video and a press of the like button before watching the vid. Outstanding! This one of the few channels that I press the like before watching. K&G and it's sister channels are the best. Sure, the topics might not please everyone, but for sheer volume of content there are few equals. Along with having one of the best,if not the best, narrators on KZhead, Officially Devin. Thanks for the hours of edification and education. Cheers.
I love the smooth transitions at the beginnings to introduce the sponsors. Each one is unique and amazingly done! 😆😆
'crusade of cocktails' is your worst (best) sponsor segue yet lol! Fantastic content as always. Love you guys!
Terrific video! The period of the First Crusade was a fascinating time! Once the final episode airs I will probably go back again to the beginning and re-watch them all!
Check out Flashpoint history. They get deeper and it's really good
03:07 As seen from Paris, the lunar eclipse mentioned here occurred early in the morning of February 11, 1096 (Gregorian calendar date). The eclipse was total and was probably quite dark since the moon passed close to the center of the earth's shadow.
Excellent thank You for Sharing This!!
I am enjoying the political maneuvering more than the actual battles. It's going to be a great series on the first crusade.
Thank you Kings and Generals Team!
Thank you , K&G . 🐺
Really amazing work. Maybe the best yet
Jesus Christ on a motorcycle, year is 1096 and world still talks about the Dacians @2:38. I didn't believed the quote until I have checked the Google Books and at page 129 there it is, Dacians. Hats off to you, Sir! You taught me something today.
Thanks for the video 👍🏻
Amazing to see so many views for seemingly niche topics such as these. Obviously they are very well made videos, but nevertheless it does warm the cockles. Very inspiring!
Fantastic video keep it up your doing amazing job
This chanell bacame more and more a masterprice!!!!!! Thank you !!!! K&G!!!!!!!!!
oh how I love this channels content on the high medieval ages!
Love this series well done
Another great video
nice, thanks for the video
Please make a video on the siege of syracuse (213 - 212 BC). You are awesome! Keep it up!
Excellent video once again. Looking forward for more videos especially the ones with greek and eastern Roman history.
Such a well made video, thank you so much for shedding more detail to this history!
I really pity the poor people living in the country side of Constantinople, they are literally paying the price of any random conflict around them
best military campaign in human history + super nice and interasting video bro!
"K&G" - The last group went on their mission to Byzantium to meet the Byzantium king and went without issue except one of their contingency having a naval skirmish with the Byzantium fleet". Me: Nani???
In the famous words of Kennedy "There's always some son of a bitch who doesn't get the message."
Well Documented And Narrated
Most important thing I've learned from years of vids like this: when an army moves, get the fuck out of the way or hide
People keep talking about the crusaders looting and stuff, but is no one going to mention how Alexios invited them into his territory and then had his mercenaries attack them almost as soon as they arrived?
I love watching through these videos and having a moment where I audibly say "WHAT??" 23:47 they carried a small fleet. over the mountains. i love history.
Heads on stakes. Must've thought, 'that's not very _Nicaea.'_ I'll get my coat.
Banned
Good morning Kings 👍
There was a small battle in Hungary at castle of Moson when the Franck and German army arrived led by Emich and William who raid the country side!! Great episode again!! When will the episode come with fifth crusade ?????????
Also, a video on more of the history of the Byzantine empire, historymarche does a lot of that but we need your perspective and history.
"By the way, there's an inbound crusade coming for you right now." I knew this day would come! **readies weapons and armor** "Luckily, it's a crusade of cocktails delivered to your home." ....I knew this day would come! **gives cocktail glasses tiny weapons and armor**
YESSSSS FINALLY, another episode in this series
Love The vid
i like the use of the "at the gates of constantinople" OST from eu4
Never have the calming tunes of Crusader Kings seemed so appropriate.
Please finish the Alexander the Great series. That one is so amazing like the Caesar’s civil war.
Loved
Crazy story! My parents are from Nicea. And I will be there the next days if you need some pictures from there or other information just let me know
I love kings & generals
can y’all do videos about the English Civil War? I don’t see any videos about Oliver Cromwell battles, thanks
Great video, but it will be better if you write the name of the soundtracks from Crusader kings 2.
Pronunciation Note: "French" of this time was Middle French or earlier, in which the final consonant was still voiced. Thus Robert of Normandy pronounced his name with the same last syllable ("bert") as it would be in English, not Modern French. Similarly, Bishop Adhemars still pronounced the final 's' in his name.
i want this series to continue all the way to the battle of ascalon
It will
Finally an interesting video…
Crusader Kings theme on this is just spicing on the taco
FINALLLY
Great video Guys. I didn’t know that the sultan’s wife had been captured on the lake. I’m actively seeking more information about her and her further trip to Constantinople then smyrne in John doulas’s company . Would share you sources ? Tks
You know whats interesting? I am a Turkish Guy from Hatay(Antochia) and when I made a Dna Test my Y-Dna came back as "I1-Z61"! So one of these NORMAN Crusaders was my Grandfather because I1 is a North European Hablogroup.
Out of curiosity, how much Turkic DNA do you have? I always heard that people from Turkey are actually much more Anatolians than Central Asians.
@@fcalvaresi Well I'm a Turkish man who also had a DNA test and Anatolian definitely dominates our central Asian genes (You can see it clearly as we dont look like our central asian cousins). Honestly it isn't surprising to us because we're already taught at school from an early point that we're descendants of Turkic and Anatolian peoples. My DNA test included Central Asia, Anatolia, Greece/Southern Italy. Keep in mind Anatolia was a very important location for a whole bunch of different empires combine that with all the migrations and you can see the reason for our genetic diversity
@@fcalvaresi If you have Instagram, I can send you the Results. GedMatch says I am 50% Modern Turkmen and 50% Rûm(Anatolian Greek).
@@tolgacetin2799 Most Turks are like 35% Central Asian 65% Anatolia in Average.
yeah 800 years ago is too far away to be your *grandfather* lol, and you could of gotten the DNA long after that, from a soldier in the 1st world war or someone else who was a traveler or tourist to turkey It does not have to be *one* of these Normans, it could of happened much much later.
Me: *Sees sponsorship in the intro* Also me: "let's just get to the point"
Man it really wasn't just the 4th crusade. Even the first crusade where terrible from the very beginning, long before they ever became desperate.
*So much different colour rectangles damn*
Nice video
Never seen before taco ad i got before the video
Alexios Komnenos is one of the best Roman emperors. Sorry to say, but it is easy to be Trajan and Hadrian when you have the greatest army and economy of the world at your disposal. Alexios restored the empire when its fall seemed inevitable, and extended its life by 350 more years.
I see king and general and I click
I hope you take back parts of mesoamerica history, as mexica (aztec) qith the Tepanec War, wich is very intricade and well documented
its interesting what he says in the beginning about the different languages. i wonder how many things happened or didnt happen in european wars because of all these language difficulties. im guessing quite a lot.
Nice~
What a great emperor was Alexios to deal with all that things. And.... nicea garrison using greek fire, so theo knew the secret? When it was lost?
Am I the only one who was distracted by the 15th/16th century troops shown at 0:17 - 0:21? So early on it felt jarring, but perhaps that's just me. Also, how many of us said "but why let (fill in the blank) get in the way of a good crusade?"
Nice
The relief force of Kilij Arslan was only a fraction of the besieging Crusader army (even 10.000 men is much inflated estimate since he only managed to gater about 7.000 with the addition of his Danishmend allies later at Dorylaeum) yet the graphics show the Seljuk force as nearly as numerous as the Crusaders (to paint the high casualties in a more favorable light i guess). The eurocentric tendencies of the channel are well known but still, this is simply ridiculous.
or its simple mistake? stop crying ffs
The persecution complex of you guys it's also very well known. lmao.
@@undeadalex4579 There is no such thing as simple mistake in History. One simple mistake may cause significant issues
@@Kaiyanwang82 What do you mean by "you guys", what persecution complex?
@@lysandros765 "muh eurocentric" whaa whaa whaaa
Has this channel not covered Nicea before? I watch a few history channels so maybe I am confusing them. Although it is also okay if you are redoing old videos with the higher quality you can do now.
I think your talking about Nicea after the fourth crusade
Humans aren't very original and just kept fighting in the same places.
Military history at it's finest!!!!
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you never hear about these negotiations and fighting in other Crusade documentaries. Turns out the Crusaders from the first were just as deceitful as the fourth
Watch the Extra Credits video about the First Crusade. It's fun.
Godefroy of Bouillon wasn't Duke of Lorraine but of Lower Lotharingia (Lothier). Lorraine was Upper Lotharingia.
11:30 Crusader's version of Rock and Roll?
Funnily enough I have 2 ancestors who participated in the Princes' Crusade. Lord Hugh (Mothers Side) and Count Raymond IV (Fathers Side).
Aside from Kievan Rus' and the Eastern Roman Empire, does the Kingdom of Georgia can be considered as the Eastern Christian Orthodox country? Now that I mentioned it like this, why does this kingdom often being ignored when it comes to diplomacy with Christian Europe in both Middle Ages and Early Modern Period?
It definatley was and still is Orthodox christian country!Certainly there was a sort of diplomacy between crusaders and Georgian king!Right at this time and with the start of crusades King David IV stopped being vassal of the selchuks and regained Kingdoms independence.King also had Diplomatic relation with Baldvin II!In 1121 There were 100 Crusaders fighting on the side of Georgians against selchuks!After that there were many attemps of Georgians and Armenians to Join the Crusades but all of them failed!
The reason why is that georgia (and to a larger extent armenia) were more dependant on their other neighbours than the european states. Malek Shah's second son, Mohammed, was named prince of azerbaijan and tabriz and as a result maintained a strong hold on georgia, even after he ascended to the throne of the great seljuks, and so did the successors, be they seljuk or not, as they needed to keep an eye on georgia to block any raiding nomads since the conquest of anatolia generated so much wealth and drove trade to the region. The only reason georgia survived as a christian state was that the other muslim powers saw it better to keep an alien power as a border guard then try to take over the land and forcefully convert the people, and suffer rebellion in addition to the threat of the georgians undermining the guarrissons. This is why georgia today is different from historical georgia ( parts of the population converted to islam) but is still mostly orthodox christian.
@@thestatistician6076 no. That's not true st all. Many states attempted to conquer and Islamize not to mention genocide us. The problem with that is the same problem you have with Afghanistan. Georgia has some of the most formidable mountains dividing fertile valleys. Its really hard to fully occupy and very expensive.
@@thestatistician6076 You are somewhat true but Georgia was nit dependent in their neighbors since there were Muslim states sure there was Byzantine empire but during the Reign of David IV Georgia stooped being a small kingdom it became the greatest Cristian kingdom in East the golden age continued during the reign of Tamar also saying they never tried to forcefully converting it is stupid because there were many Attempts but they failed because Georgian kingdoms were Lets just say "too angry to die" or something like that Like Timur raided Georgia 8 Times Because Georgia was a Cristian state (and for other reasons) also Shah Abbas I who Killed half of Eastern Georgia's population and want it to integrate In to he's realm and only stooped because Georgian Noble's and kings wont stop revolting every year. also Majority of Muslims in Georgia are Azerbaijani Turks
@@giorgijioshvili9713 there were more muslim Georgian lived in turkey then nowdays Georgia