One bizarre facts about every King and Queen of England (Part 1)
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Ate too many eels after his doctor told him not to eat too many eels 😂
Like wtff😂😂😂
That’s the proper way to go😂
He rather die than quit. Okay now I want to know how eels taste.
"I am the King and you're not my mom"
My man said "bet" 😂
"do not eat too many eels, your highness." "bah, nonsense." and then he died.
Regarding the popularity of Richard the lionheart a quote from The Fiddler on the Roof comes to mind: “may God bless and keep the Tsar…… far away from us”
This comment made me wheeze 😭😭
Tbh whenever i go out for sushi im ALWAYS getting several eel & cucumber rolls 😂 mans got good taste!
"It's just eels, what's the worse that could happen?" -guy that died from eating eels
“I’m the king! I’ll eat as many bloody eels as I damn well please!”
Richard I being out of the country meant all of the tyranny under his reign was blamed on the nobles rather than him, while he was seen as the brave king fighting infidels, who would one day come back and put everything right again. Basically he wasn't in the country long enough to be hated.
While the King’s away, the nobles will play!
Honestly this was THE move. If he stayed they would have hated him. He could claim his victories protected Britain, be seen as a man of action and a true protector of the realm. And if he died in a foreign land, he would have became a hero. It was a good move.
And poor John had to deal with all that mess Richard left to him.
@@alexandermarinin7036 While I'm sure John had his problems, it still strikes me as sweet that he was one of the only nobles who bothered learning English (the language of peasants at the time)
Why are u so sure that if he was in the country he would be hated?
"Prithee, Your Highness, that's one eel too many, you need to stop" "Guess I'll die."
"try me bitch" *dies*
And die he shall be
and die he did!
I'm sure he was poisoned
“No one liked him so they didn’t look into it.” ☠️☠️☠️
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@@concerningindividual629 I think that person died. Let's have a moment of silent for another lost soul then go to sleep.
i misunderstood something and thought the two kings got married at first 💀
It's cuz he spoke the s in she really quietly so "(s)he divorced him" lol
Me too
😂😅😂 you are definitely not the only one 😊
🤣 me too lool I had to go back and listen again
Saaaame
He got lost in the woods and everyone was like "yeah assassin".
I read this in an Australian accent and it sounded fucking hilarious
He got shot mate
He didn’t get lost. They found his corpse with an arrow in it.
@@lovecraftianwalrus4490 he got lost and then fell on an arrow. Case closed
“stop eating eels” that dude: i’d like to see you try and stop me
Fun fact: the hunter that “accidentally” shot William Rufus was named Sir Walter Tyrrell, and was said to be a very keen bowman. The king, before the hunting trip began, even gave Walter 2 arrows, saying, “to the good archer, the good arrows.” So, there’s a lot of speculation into the “accidental“ death, because an archer of Tyrrell’s calibre wouldn’t have taken such a impulsive shot towards a running stag. There’s a spot in the place where William was shot called the “new forest” where there’s a stone called the “Rufus Stone” commemorating the event, and close to it, there’s a fine pub called the “Sir Walter Tyrrell” named after the archer that shot William. After the event, Tyrrell fled to France and lived in exile, living quite happily while being sheltered by his friend, Abbot Suger, while Henry the 1st was happy to take the throne.
Yeah, the Robin Hood stories always gloss over the fact that Evil Prince John was taxing the poor specifically to keep paying Good King Richard's bail, because he kept getting captured by the Saracens and ransomed back.
Not the Muslims,, he was kidnapped in Germany. He beat the crap out of the Muslims every time they fought but of the three Western Kings, Barbarossa died on the way in, and he was the main show, and Phillip double crossed the Crusade and left early so he could punk on Richard, so Richard had to make a white peace and scurry home. And that's when he was kidnapped by the Germans.
@@charlottewolery558he wasn't a hero btw, the guy was a horrible ruler who couldn't careless about the land he was supposedly king of other than it being his personal tax farm.. and the bravery part is him fighting in one of the worst wars ever, the crusades, invading those people continuing the havoc that was started in the first crusade, killing innocents & natives all over like what happened in Acre. I understand the average peasant back then believing this bs was a holy war but I would hope we have more common sense now.. being that we can actually read to begin with
@@kalmon6745 someone doesn't know how wars are fought and war is the father of us all and the reason all institutions are formed.
I heard it was the French, but voluntarily stayed after bail.
@kalmon6745 nice try. there are many records from the medieval Islamic Lords that their own Muslim peasants kept escaping to live under the Crusaders. your version of events was the product of modern historians trying to mix together the crusades and colonialism.
The official explanation for William II death was a "hunting accident". The person responsible for firing the shot was his hunting master and it was never clear whether the death was deliberate or not.
Doctors: "We're all real worried about you, bud, this eel thing is a lil crazy" Him: "FACK YOU"
I'm surprised that the King Stephen fact wasn't, "responsible for a civil war so devastating by Medieval standards that the era it encompassed is simply remembered as 'The Anarchy'', a time where, 'Christ and his saints were asleep'"
It's a bit like saying "Hitler was in charge of Germany for a bit, but nobody likes him so he stopped" and calling that a fact
@markballwriter well it's not totally wrong... i guess
Imagine being such a bad king that no king is named after you 😬
Jeez..
Or that the show House of the Dragon was based on that particular civil war
Calling Eleanor of Aquitaine just a wife is a vast understatement of the power that woman had, she was incredible in trying to secure her position in nobility and her children’s positions To address the comments in replies, I’m not criticizing just saying a statement that might draw in people to look into her, it’s not that serious😂
You must watch movie, A Lion in Winter -1960s version. Get better understanding of relationship between King Henry( I forgot number) and Eleanor of Aquitaine.
Exactly. She was the most powerful woman of her time, the duchess of Aquitaine in her own right (her husbands aquired and lost the title through marriage and divorce) and she appointed Richard as her heir, even though Henry II wanted John as duke. That woman was incredible.
The big reason for her contribution to English-French tensions was that she brought along the Duchy of Aquitaine from France into England. It was one of England’s most valuable assets due to the wine industry there.
Eleonor was the mother of 3 kings of England. She spent the last years of her life under house arrest in a nunnery because she went against Henry II wishes.
They didn't say "just a wife." Adding a word like JUST changes the tone completely. When you're going to criticise someone's words, it behoves you to use their actual words...
It’s easy to be less popular than the guy who’s not there. The guy who’s not there can’t make mistakes, can’t hurt you, can’t do anything wrong really. And you can eternally compare the idiot in front of you that you hate, with the hero far away. And, maybe there’s something to that whole absence makes the heart grow fonder 🤷🏻♀️
doctor: bro you need to stop eating eels henry: nah bro henry: *dies of eel*
Henry III might habe had a long rule, on paper, but part of that is him being a child, and another part of it caused him to become a prisoner of Simon de Montfort during the Second Barons' War, and his son, later King Edward I, saved his rule at Evesham.
Henry 1: *EELS* Doctor: But sire... Henry 1: *I SAID EELS* Doctor: But your Majesty.. one more eel will kill your Majes.. Henry 1: *Puts head in bucket of eels like bobbing for apples* Thats how I imagine it.
Regarding the eels incident: People think medieval doctors didn't know anything at all because some of their information was bad, but this isn't true. They did hand out good advice on nutrition, sleep, exercise, and even psychology sometimes. They also did have some treatments that were effective, otherwise people would never have used them at all.
I want that 'Love eels shirt' my mans Henry had on.🥺
Strange fact about all of them listed here, and I'm willing to bet all of the kings and queens in Part 2: Not one English monarch achieved the age of 70, from 800 or so all the way to 1753. The first reigning septuagenarian was George II.
Must have been crazy when the guy died after reigning for 60+ years. Would have been hard to find many people who could remember a time before him.
Might want to fix the title, "One bizarre facts"
Boy, you got them🙄
@@mangot589 Not trying to "get" them, just trying to help
@@goblinoide and yet failed.
@@goblinoide they need to fix the part that says "Every King and Queen of England" since they're skipping the Anglo-Saxons altogether
Oh my word, yes! That typo is so frustrating! Check your spelling before you post, people!
The fact that Willam II was most likely killed by his own brother and left there to bleed out on his own is sad
Royal Physician: Sire, I caution you to not consume such a vast quantity of eels. You shall surly die! King Henry I: I’m the one whose head wears the crown! My word is law! I shall say when I’ve eaten enough eels! *after his stomach burst from eating too many eels* Royal Physician: I warned him, did I not?
Actually it was worse, he was either given laxatives or the eels had the negative side effect of such and he pooped himself to death
@@tigrytime658 What a shitty way to go… literally.
But then John ignored everything he’d signed for in the Magna Carta …
He definitely wasn't perfect but compared Richard who had no love for England or his country I'd say John was ever so slightly better
PLEASE make subtitles omg
Not even calling Eleanor of Aquitaine by her name, but just the "wife of King Henry II" is just insulting to that woman. She was the most powerful woman of her time, kept the rights to the Dutchy of Aquitaine (one of the richest provinces in Europe then) in her name, married two kings and even after her second husband practically jailed her, rebelled against him through their children. After his death she practically reigned over England, because her son, Richard, was never there. She also lived to be over 80 and travelled a lot during the course of her life and even was part of her first husband's crusade.
Boohoo
I like to think about old paintings like, it wasn’t a choice to be a painter and seeing horrible paintings just means your looking at someone’s work who didn’t want to be there in the first place.
Never being there can really increase popularity... it means you don't bother them much
"Every king and queen" but starts at William the conqueror.. Okeh then
Huh?
William the conqueror is the first Norman king, before him it was ruled by Anglo-Saxons
@robinrehlinghaus1944 there's about 150 years of Kings prior to William the Conqueror. One of England's greatest Kings in "Canute the Great" for example reigned before Williams conquest.
@@shawniechew and occasionally Danes.. but we don't talk about that 😂
@@TrystaneTheBlack In my mind, I always thought of a divided England when thinking of the Anglo-Saxons, but aye
The first vid I saw of this was part 5. I then over a week, randomly scroll through KZhead shorts and I have somehow gone down the list, in order too 😂
"Your Highness, you must not eat so many eels!" "I'M THE KING, YOU CAN'T TELL ME WHAT TO DO!" *fucking dies of eel overdose*
I was sure the first one was going to be "William the Conquer was known as William the Bastard before conquering England." But I suppose an exploding corpse would pretty much have to win that round.
So Henry made his lords swear fealty to Mathilda before he died, and he was widely and well known to have wanted her to succeed him. Many of those lords, however, jumped ship when Stephen promised money, land and power, and because Mathila was behaving too imperious, and arrogant (as she'd been an empress for decades by that stage) people disliked her (despite the fact that such behaviour was very expected for a king). It's infuriating when you think about it. (I'm also a direct descendant of Mathila, so I feel even more of a connection to her!!
It was noted Mathilda had armies, lots of ppl and lord loyal to her so she must have some good quality. More likely the reason got to do with money, tax money, lot of it. Mathilda was a Norman Queen and she married a NORMAN LORD. They practice centralized tax system which was good for poorer state (like Wessex) since they can get more from the central govt than they provided AND bad for the richer (East English Anglo Saxon) state. Believed it or not, most lords don't care if their King is a Queen or something just that he/she ruled in their favor.
@@cck4863 I challenge you on the last point. Many men did, in fact, care if their ruler was a Queen Regnant, and would choose a King instead.
@@sophroniel Men don't go to war, their lords DO. And war is/was expensive. Without money to back it up, no lord will be interested. Mathilda had no issue staying in London, an important major enemy city, no one give a shit she is a Queen and not a King..... until she started to collect taxes to pay her troop.
Every long and queen..Thank you very much for sharing your wonderful video.
My ancestors were the ones to find William the 2nd, they were charcoal burners collecting wood.
How dare you refer Elenor of Aquitaine as Henry II's wife. Shame
I wish they'd put subtitles over the WHOLE video, not just the beginning
Matilda also made the citizens of London angry so they refused to allow her in to Westminster. She should have been less unpleasant
They were all unpleasant but being a woman was a key factor
“William the Bastard” ftfy
More please😊
Flirtatious dancing eyebrows made me chuckle more than i should if im honest 😂
Looking foward to part 2
“I like eels, what can I say?” Last words of Henry I
King Stephen's portrait always makes me laugh
"Sire, don't eat too many eels!" "Fuck you, I'm the King!" *dies*
Richard The Lionheart proved that warriors don’t always make good kings.
Lmao i thought the note said "no skanks, sorry"😂
Fun fact: the type of eel he died from is actually considered a fish. It's called a lamprey and it has hundreds of teeth in its mouth. And it produces a lot of slime. I genuinely flabbergasted that he wanted to eat them.
Didn't know, King Steven was cross-eyed😂
Fun fact: to be more specific Henry 1st died on the toilet by getting a laxative for his constipation from eating too many LAMPREYS.
Horrible histories reference ?
@@marymutou4977 yes
The famous surfeit of lampreys indeed in 1135 …
William the conqueror- oh you thought I was going to make this easy did you?
The assassination while out hunting sounds similar to Robert Baratheons death.
I saw an original copy of the Magna Carta at Salisbury Cathedral in the 90s.
Sick! Death by Eel! 😮😮😮
Matilda, who was previously empress consort to Henry(Henri)-Holy Roman Emperor, was declared heir to the English throne by her father-HENRY 1-and sat on the throne for at least 9 months in 1141. This caused the first English Civil War between her factions/supporters, and those of her cousin’s: Stephen of house Blois(subset of house Normandy). The only reason why she did not win was because she was wildly unpopular due to her haughty attitude and disposition, from previously being empiric royalty. Would have/should have seen something to these effects mentioned in this list.
Richard I returning home to England after a truce in the Holy Lands, being held hostage n Germany and pillaging through France.: "There is no way any more bad things can happen to the Lionheart!" Some peasant with elite 360 no scope crossbows skills: "I'm about to end this man's whole career"
More! More!
"Fin" 😂
Yall idky but half their eyes got me laughing 😂 that royal blood do be prevalent 🤣
Wow, love the cross-eyed Kings portrait. Was that considered realism? 😂
Nobody tells the king how many eels he can’t eat!!!
Richard's queen Berengaria of Navarre also holds the distinction of being the only queen of England to never set foot on English soil
King John didn't sign the Magna Carta he sealed it.
And the Post Man delivered it!
King Henry the 1st died from eating too many lampreys, which are mistaken for being eels because they have the same snakey, slender body. Lampreys are closely related to hagfish and sharks.
One of my most favorite facts about English monarchs is their long held obsession with controlling France to the point that a large number of them had their downfalls due (in no small part) to the much aggrieved English barony who were tired of fighting for lands they didn’t really want themselves.
Well, back then they weren't really English, more like French nobility who just happened to be Kings of England
Richard the 1st wasn’t just “out the country” he was out Crusading baby!
Educational!
What I do love is the fact the French Normans invaded but in the end we got a Celtic king and Germans back in the RF. .. the anglo Saxons came from German Tribes and the fact the crown of England went to Scotland is funny.
Oh. U should have started from Edward the confessor. Also about William the conqueror. He was so fat that his sarcophagus (a human shaped coffin) was so small that it caused his body to explode. The stench was so bad that all the monks and everyone else ran away. GCSE history came in clutch.
The story of King Stephen and Empress Matilda is the inspiration of the Game of Thrones prequel House of the Dragon
King Richard 1 was probably liked the most cause he was there lol.
I though you were gonna say “William the Conquerer was the first King of England”
“Don’t eat so many eels your highness’s “ “Bet challenged accepted “ Dies
Wasn’t George 3 the one that lost his mind? And he ruled for MORE than 56 years? That’s honestly hilarious!
Queen Mathilda sounds awesome
John got it so bad he is the only ruler so far to never have another ruler named after him.
William The Conqueror is said to have burst at his funeral because supposedly he was so obese that after he began to decay his body exploded.
Dude for a second there I honestly thought they said that two kings ditched the wives n got married. Lmao obviously I had to double back. But either way it’s super funny n does seem like a lot of person vendettas lol
I love eels too.
Henry’s wife was known to be that type of person. You left out a few more details 😂
Henry II's wife was Eleanor of Aquitaine, who was 10 or so years older than him
Bro forgot King Arthur
All of those are like the most obvious facts about each King that everyone knows
Magna Carta is not a bizarre fact, I feel robbed
To be fair Richard was fighting the crusades so that’s the reason he was so popular
George III was the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Not the King of England since the crowns were joined by James VI (The First) and then in 1707 the Kingdoms of England and Scotland were united by Parliament.
I find it sad that everyone was so eager to get rid of William that nobody bothered with investigation when he finally died. 😢 Also, what's with Henry I and eels? 🤔 "Kind of impressive to be less popular than the guy who was never even there" DAMN! That was a solid burn 😂😂😂😂😂
John being less popular then his brother who was never around makes sense to me. Because an absent manager is MUCH easier to deal with than actively bad one.
Richard I was oft out of town on business (the Crusades).
My ancestors were Normans from Aigle, and actually fought under William the Conqueror during the conquest of England.
Ugh! Cowards the lot of you! 😂😂😂
For those who have the Robin Hood legend ruined for them, keep in mind John was still a pretty terrible ruler and the earlier stories don't really name a specific King.
King Charles the third, has massive "Fingers" 😂😂
You should have said "every ruler." There are a heck of a lot of queens not mentioned here.
Can you put some subtitles in these? You talk really fast for a non english speaker :)
For the first one William was never ment to be the king but in 1066 the battle of Hastings happen and William won against the other king harald godwinson
“One bizarre facts”? Uh, that typo makes my brain hurt.
The eel caught in London at that time came from the same river where the city's sewers drained into. So medieval eel were no better than today's junk food.