The Opening of the Tomb of King Edward I in Westminster Abbey
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This video is an exploration of the tomb of King Edward I in Westminster Abbey. It is an unusual tomb and the treatment of the king's body in the middle ages was unusual too. When the tomb was opened in 1774 the remains of the king were found dressed in his coronation robes and wearing replicas of the coronation regalia.
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When I made my first visit to Westminster Abbey, a priest was preparing to hold a prayer service next to St. King Edward the Confessor's tomb and invited us in the vicinity to join him. That was an experience I would never forget. Thank you for shedding light on his tomb.
That’s wonderful. It is such an experience going in there Mary.
In rough numbers, 25 generations back, everyone has 33.5 million ancestors. The population of Europe in 1300 was around 54 million, so every person today of European ancestry has about a 50/50 chance of being a “direct” descendent of Edward I. Congratulations all of you royals out there.
Me only five generations im in the late 1700's so me be just 10 or 12 generations...Diana and I have same Great great grand father
But only 1 in 200 people are descendants of ghengis Khan? Something doesn't make sense. Are you saying Edward l was more fruitful than Ghengis Khan?
Go back more generations to Adam and Eve. Now we are all sons and daughters of God. Much more prestigious!
@@eneeland Adam and Eve??? Lol that's a fairy tale. Come on man....
@Human I'm a descendant of Williams Grandfather, your just a youngster 🙂
It's satisfying to listen and watch this presentation of history from a reliable source. Thank you.
My pleasure.
I agree, Crystal.
I visited the spot where he died on Burgh marsh on the Solway Firth, 4 miles from Carlisle. There is a Victorian monument there. Very atmospheric and the village and church where he lay for a few days is still there right on the western stretch of Hadrian's wall. Lovely place.
Yes it is very atmospheric the area is steeped in history from Romans to a unidentified Spaceman although Allan pronouncement Brough by Sands is wrong he said Boro, it is infact pronounced as Bruff.
Who jesse james .i think this is the wrong thread
@@martinbrown7587 'unidentified spaceman'? R (Australia)
The missing wrought iron grill from King Edward the first tomb was removed in 1821 on the instruction of Sir Francis Chantrey along with many other tomb railings screens & grills that where cleared away in preparation for King George the 4th’s coronation. Some such as the Eleanor grill & the railings around King Henry the 7th’s tomb have since been returned. Lady Margaret Beaufort’s tomb railings are now used as the the gates to Piddletrenthide school in Dorset !
How fascinating, thanks for sharing this detail Peter.
@@Soda3000Pop ill be sure to go back in time to 1821 to tell them
This is interesting. I wonder why they did this. I know its royalty, but still. If ghosts exesist it would be because royalty get their dead bodies removed from the original grave. I find it a bit disrespectful, but interesting. Because, history. May they rest in peace.
@@Soda3000Pop If they hadn't been removed then, someone would have removed them in 1940-42 for the war effort. I remember as a young boy seeing the stumps of iron railings on garden walls, along public buildings and older parks.
From tomb to school railing. Seems a tad bit distasteful but I am sure they look quite smart. 😉
I have only recently come across your presentations on KZhead and find them all fascinating. As a historian who runs my own local history website, mainly for the benefit of other people I don't know and have never met, I really appreciate all the time and effort you put into this, for the enjoyment of others. Thanks Allan.
Very much obliged! I'm glad you're enjoying my channel!
I manage a local history page, focusing on Northern NY, on Instagram. I may not personally know everyone who comes across the research I share, but the comments I get are full of gratitude and a genuine interest in learning more. It's what keeps me going!
According to ancestry records, Edward I is my 25th great grandfather. Thank you for this informative video.
Time to make a claim to the English Throne 😂
😂😂😂😂😂
King Edward I corpse was measured to be 6.2 ft in height. Considering he was entombed in 1307 and this was 1774 you can even say he may've been 6.3 considering shrinkage of over 400 years.
He was probably taller than that in his prime years. We shrink as we get older (he was 68 years old when he died) and coupled with the body shrinkage over 400 years. He might have been around 6'.5" in his prime. He must have been a very impressive/imposing looking figure. You can definitely see why they all called him longshanks.
I agree, maybe 6'5". I shrank a whole inch in about 4 years in my 60s. Damn!!
@@janebrown1706 I'm 64 and I've shrunk at least 2" in the last 30 years. I'm about 5' 7" now
@@janebrown1706 Would hate to lose an inch!
@@fokkerd3red618 How tall were you 30 years ago? (only joking). I'm also 64 and I've shrunk just an inch since my younger days. I'm now at 5' 8". We were once the same height!
Thank you for this deep dive. I love your channel. And it is so refreshing to learn about the reopening of a royal tomb in which the remains are treated so respectfully, and nothing is taken or disturbed (beyond what is necessary to observe the remains).
Oh my gosh I sooooo wish I could have been there when they opened that tomb. As someone who loves history this stuff is SO fascinating to me.
Desecrating a tomb is indeed pretty interesting, perhaps hundreds of years from now someone will desecrate your tomb and find it interesting
Oh me too
@@funny3scene thats not desecration. Thats preservation and documentation of historical figures. People who influenced the world we know today. Btw. Id have ABSOLUTELY- no problem with someone preserving my body over literally centuries or even looking upon me. Ill be somewhere else. Wont bother me none especially if I were a figure that was important. None of us have that dignity or importance or opportunity for that matter. Do you think any of the ancient bones that were exhumed that helped rewrite history, science (be it evolution of our species from Neanderthal to the modern human) or our human experience is desecration? I think most people wouldnt. Many holes in history have been filled because of that archeology. Many scientific advances have been solved because of those discoveries. No different here. His curiosity is also no different. Hes not asking to turn em into display cases or attaching strings to em and making em dance like a marionette. 😂 I think you are being a way bit too sensitive..
When my school went on an excursion to London, we were there and we told our school captain to open the grave so 2 of us can see the king, snap pics and post a documentary that will be used for a film in May 2023. The site was grotesque. We even got the king standing on his legs with support from a Senegalese girl we took along. People especially museums have been asking for copies of the pics for 20million $ but we ain't sharing. My sku is in Gambia, but I live in usa, Los Angeles.
@@funny3scene ....And, yet, here you are, enjoying the fruits of a, as you put it, "desecration" of somebody's tomb -- with drawings and everything. What a hypocrite you are!
This was such an exciting presentation. A glimpse of history, a moment in time connecting us to men living lives, hearts filled with love and dreams...thank you so much🐈🐾
well said
Mummification seems the order of the day from Crusadin times up to Tudor times.some bodies of crusader knights having been encased in pine resin and wax like a time capsule and that oñce dried out they remain in a pristine condition for over 700 years.one recently from a church near York was so perfect that a post mortem was carried out to see how he died.his sister in a coffin next him was just bones,but he was perfectly intact.the Monks who prepared his body for for shipent from Eastern Europe to England had done a superb job.his lead capsule was in perfect condition.dessication would have bèñ done with rock salt.
@@tonikeep4420 wow..that is so interesting thank you
@@tonikeep4420 Gives me goosebumps, so exciting.🐈🐾
Fascinating! Edward l was a Giant of English history. He was a King of an interesting time period of England and Western Europe. He went on Crusade,his campaigns in Wales,and continuing tense relationship with France. And of course his affairs in Scotland. And the way he dealt with his fathers thorn Simon De Montfort was brutal but necessary to establish his dynastic authority. Well done!
Love him or loath him, he was a successful medieval king by the standards of his time and the amount he achieved in his lifetime was extraordinary.
@@allanbarton Agreed. The modern preoccupation, to judge by our Standards and to misunderstand historical context. Also the whipping boy for all the ills of the modern world. The Anglo Saxon/English.
Why was a crusade sent to wales thought it be jerusalem they went
I would very much enjoy a thorough video on the tomb of Elizabeth I and her sister Mary describing where they are exactly buried beneath the Abby and when if ever the tomb has been entered since their death.
I will do that soon, thanks for the suggestion.
I think Dean Stanley opened the grave around 1870 on Victoria's instructions to find out where everyone was buried. Missing James I turned out to be with Henry VII. I think there is a drawing of Elizabeth's simple oak coffin.
Would be interesting to see some information about their tomb.
@@kayt9576 Dean Stanley's paper on the royal graves is on the web somewhere I've read it
Yes that would be awesome. It would of course put the propaganda that she was a boy to rest. And what was she buried with?
I think it a miracle that the body is so well preserved.
Unless I missed something, that is a drawing from 1774, right? It may not be that well preserved today. I confess to some morbid curiosity about its current condition.
@@EmdrGreg I think you right about that, but still!
@@marthavanbeek-putters Yes, even then it was amazing that it was preserved that well. Perhaps at some point in the future, given the history of his remains, his coffin will be opened again some day.
A forensic specialist wrote a book, which I read but can recall neither the name of the author nor the title, in which he averred that he was called upon to assist in the exhumations of some old burials. The only bodies that seemed to him to have been in any state of good preservations were those enveloped in linen shrouds, whether cere cloth or not. Of course, the ancient Egyptians wrapped their mummies with linen bandages but, for most of their history, that is the only sort of cloth they wove. They did not use wax on the bandages, so that addition to the linen arose elsewhere. When lead began to be used for burials, that doubtless helped, as well. I plan to be cremated but, if I were to choose burial, I would probably put in my will that my remains should be wrapped in a couple of linen table cloths. One never knows ones fate, even beyond death, and one could become archaeology!
@@marianneluban3347 is this book written by John Hunter, Barry Simpson and Caroline Hurdy?
From America, thank you for this. Here, where what little history we have is held in contempt by many, we need to hear from those who value their past and revere their elders. Even if the memory is somewhat flawed.
I live in Pa & found myself watching the history of Pa. It blew my mind! I never knew any of this. I get we need a national curriculum, but kids need to be taught their state’s history as well as county
Yep, open up a GoFundMe account for preserving American leaders! OOPS! Looks like someone's got a head start on the last 2! 😱
Deeply fascinating and illuminating Alan. At least Edward 1's body was spared some of the rigors that many of the other bodies of royals have experienced!
Thank you Allan for this most fascinating tomb opening and history of Edward 1 of England. It is amazing to see his face, in particular, so well preserved and it was marvellous to learn of his Royal clothing and buriel regalia. Most interesting that the Kings and Queens also continue to have continued this custom for their Coronation. I wonder if the late Queen Elizabeth was buried in this manner; it seems she was not. Xxxx
I’ve seen this tomb at Westminster Abbey. Amazing I didn’t think it could be be for a king at first, it was so plain..😊
Thank you for this very fascinating video and description! To me, knowing I descend from this monarch, among many others, I find it all the more fascinating to learn about him, his life and history.
Captivating. I have always been fascinated by Edward. And to 'see' him as described in his coffin is amazing. Thank you sir.
wonderful!!! I love British Royal History!! kisses from Brasil!!!
Amazing, fascinating! Every little detail you've given about this is much appreciated. Thanks so much!
One of my favorite videos. Thank you for the clear vocal explanations pertaining to the items being shown - much easier for us to look and listen at the same time!
Glad you enjoyed it, thanks for watching!
Thank you for this fabulous historical Voyage: Henry III and Edward I. Saint Louis IX, King of France a fantastic historical Figure. Edward I attempted to join forces with Louis IX in Tunísia, during a new Cruzade. To no avail, the French King contracted the plague and passed away there in 1270 .
This was great. I love when tombs have been opened and drawings made so I have a clue of what these old kings and queens looked like.
Hi Allan! So many of these venerated traditions go back to Edward the Confessor. Absolutely fascinating.
A truly fantastic video. Been listening while typing out my essay on something totally unrelated. But great listening and genuinely kept my brain entertained and your voice is just so smooth when talking. Thanks!!
Fascinating as always. I think that it’s interesting that both Edward I and his wife Eleanor died and had funeral processions that started in the northern part of England and then processed south to Westminster Abbey. It’s too bad that the beautiful Eleanor Crosses that Edward had built at each place his wife’s funeral procession stopped at for the night are mostly gone.
I'm going to do a series on the funeral procession of Eleanor. I live in Lincoln and ss I type sat in my living room, I am thirty yards from the site of the first Eleanor cross - under my feet is the site of the lost monastic church where her body rested before its journey south.
@@allanbarton Looking forward to that. They overnighted in Dunstable which is just round the corner from me. Dunstable would also be where Henry the Eighth first agitated for his divorce.
Allan, I’m so jealous that you literally have history at your feet! I will so look forward to your videos about the Eleanor crosses. When I was 9 my school teacher read us the wonderful and award winning children’s book “The Door in the Wall” by Marguerite DI Angeli about a knight and his lady’s son who contracts polio or some other sickness that can result in a person becoming crippled while his parents are off with Edward and Eleanor and their court, is left by the servants who either run away or die from the epidemic, and is taken under the wing of a monk who helps him learn many important life lessons and how this young man helps save a castle on the Welsh border from Welsh marauders. I wanted to know everything that I could find about Edward and Eleanor, the steps to knighthood, the monastic system, etc. It’s become a lifelong passion since then. Your videos are giving me a whole new perspective on this period of time in English history.
Your videos are incredibly fascinating…. they go to places/subjects not found in normal history content. Personally l would love a series on funeral details of all the medieval kings… but maybe that’s asking too much.
@@margaretmeadowcroft8539 I've got all the time in the world to do that - it is eventually my intention. Glad you are liking the videos.
Thank you for this video, several years ago after some bargaining with officials in the Abbey I was allowed access to see the tomb of the confesser for myself. (I was also granted access to a closer look at the newly revealed cosmati pavement, a fantastic afternoon that was). A lovely lady who was my guide and was an associate Dean I believe explained this tale to me and I found it to be absolutely fascinating. Such an amazing area surrounded by the reposing remains of so many famous monarchs. I always advise anyone who visits the Abbey to really go for it when asking for access to places that are usually off limits to the casual tourist. Be polite. Be honest about why you are there. Most importantly bring money. Like the ferryman of Greek myth it is possible to pay your way into the underworld. Nice video. Consider me subscribed.
What are Charon's dues these days?
@@theoztreecrasher2647 a donation for the upkeep and the promise of a pint in the red lion in Whitehall. Greek myth would have been very different if written today haha.
@@DMEB 😉 Achieved the same result with a couple of old soldiers guarding a Regimental Museum in Warwick for entry just after the official closing time quite a few years ago. 😁
During one of my visits to the Abbey in 2009 (I'm from the US) I happened upon a small group of folks climbing the stairs to access the St Edward shrine area. I asked to join and was welcomed to join an Anglican service. As I recall, a priest (bishop?) from a distant English church conducted the brief service - about 10 - 15 minutes - directly in front of the Shrine. I could barely contain my disbelief and excitement of sitting in the presence of not only the Shrine but the other tombs of early English kings. And no, I was not asked to donate money, but I later contributed a 20 pound note for upkeep of this historic and sacred place.
@@dukeofhaas Had a similar experience in the Greek Islands many years ago. Removed my tourist's hat and joined a small group of Yanks (some of whom knew the ritual) to witness a service in a small Orthodox Church. At the finish rendered unto Caesar's Provincial Consiglieri before departing. Next day passed the Pater on the street and got a gently smiling acknowledgement. Made me feel quite beatific and put a glowing halo around my devout Heathen head! 🙄😏
Marvelous! Edward Longshanks!! Thank you - yet again.
Having recently returned from London and having visited some of the historical sites and buildings my interest has been ignited. After London our visit to Bayeux and the famous tapestry certainly added fuel to my keen interest. Glad this site showed up today.
GREAT video, Allan!! Thanks for sharing!!💖💚👍
Really, so very interesting. Well researched, written and presented. Keep up the good work - it's nice to have something worth watching.
I'm so glad you're enjoying my channel, thanks for watching!
My mother who studied History at Oxford, traced back our family line. Amazingly, through hours, days, weeks and months of research, she traced our ancestors back to the early 1200's. Kind Edward the first was my Mum 21st Great Grandfather, making him, my 22 Great Grandfather... I did learn that by the time of his death, there was no money left for his tomb to be addressed in the way of the other kings and that is why it is just a plain tomb.
Shite.
He also stole the Welsh and Scottish regalia,slaughtered the inhabitants of Berwick on Tweed.War Criminal.
If you ever go to Scotland don't tell the scots you are related to longshanks m8 alot of Scots believe Brave heart is factual. I am sad to say
He was also my 22 times great grandfather.
@@garmo98 Bollocks.
I just came across your channel. So fascinating! I love history so this channel is a real treat. Excited to go through your videos!! 👍🏻😊 Thank you for your expertise.
Very much obliged, thank you for watching!
Thank you so much! I have learned so much from your videos. I look forward to each one.
Wonderful, as always!
Fascinating, please keep up the good work.
Amazing story....thank you for telling it!!
Great video! It does make me wonder what more modern royals are buried in, if it’s still a variant of robes or a military uniform or just a favorite dress or suit.
A fascinating window into the distant past. Loved all the gory details! Lol 😆 Thanks for doing all the research so we don’t have to!
Wow that was so fascinating you always make your episodes educational and full of information we would not had known
Glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for watching.
Great, thank you! The antiquities of England are an envy of other, not so fortunate nations.
Really interesting. Amazing how they managed such preservation.
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He looked as if he could’ve just raised out of the coffin and greeted the world. Very amazing preservation! Wonder if he’d still look like that today? It’d be interesting to see. He was definitely one of the greats!
Unless, of course, you’re Scottish…
@@ScorpDaddy ...or Welsh...or a peasant of any breed!
Or Jewish
He was a monster
@@mcdell6970 or just of his time.
Ah, yes, King Edward the 1st, my favorite Plantagent King, alongside Richard the 3rd, both brave men! 🥰
Thanks for another great lesson.
Very interesting description of King Edward's burial and entombment. Thank you.
Thanks for watching, I'm glad you enjoyed it!
I have been binge-watching these videos on my television ever since I discovered your channel. I can't subscribe from my TV so thought I'd better do so on my computer. Thanks for your excellent presentations, which are exactly the sort of content I love to see. I am a descendant of the Cockayne family of Ashbourne, tombs in St. Oswald's church. Perhaps you'll find yourself at Derbyshire someday and will do a film in there.
I know the Cockayne tombs well, Ashbourne church (the medieval glass partly paid for by this family) was in my PhD thesis way back. An amazing set of monuments. I will be back in Derbyshire next year and will make a video there. Thanks for the kind words and subscription.
Still a phenomenal and fascinating insight into the countries most intriguing characters.
King Edward I "Longshanks" was my multiple-great-grandfather. I am descended from at least 4 of his children. Shortest Direct lines are at level of 21st great-grandfather. Longest lines at level of 23rd great-grandfather.
Same here! Though I'm not 100% sure what level my lines are yet 😅
Interesting to see the continuity in the coronation robes and regalia. I hope the king's coronation next year doesn't do away with this.
Given that the king’s christianity seems to be so attenuated.
@@johnschuh8616 "Comrade Karl For King!" 😜🤣🤣
A most excellent and fascinating presentation! Please keep them coming.
What a fascinating presentation!
So much interesting information! Thank you for another fascinating video!
Glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for watching.
Absolutely fascinating.
Fantastic video, thanks Allan.
Thanks Sebastian.
Thanks for sharing. A really educational piece of history.
Glad you enjoyed it, thanks for watching!
7:44 should have been great-great grandson. Wonderful documentary. Thanks
This is fascinating!! More, please!!!!!
Glad you enjoyed it 😊.
Very interesting information that your research has revealed. Thank you for sharing it! It reminded me of the opening lines from Beaumont's poem entitled, "The Tombs of Westminster Abbey"; "Mortality behold and fear What a change of flesh is here! Think how many royal bones Sleep within these heaps of stones." How much pain and sorrow our ancestor caused in his vain quest for fame and power. Ecclesiastes 8:9 How vai
Very interesting. Thank you!
Great video! Thanks.
Fascinating thank you
Absolutely fascinating and well done
Glad you enjoyed it, thanks for watching!
Very informative thank you for this glimpse in the gory history of life thereafter of Longshanks remains
Glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for watching.
The thought that Queen Elizabeth ll would be disturbed in anyway gives me the creeps! No No it must not be! Thank you for your detailed analysis anyway 🙏💟
Another fabulous video Alan. Just as an aside, I’m assuming that vol 3 of the magazine isn’t available yet? Would I be better just getting the digital copy? I think each volume is getting better and better. Anyone who doesn’t subscribe is missing out on such a lot.
I have got copies of all four and they have sent out issue four to subscribers just this week. Have you managed to subscribe? I am an admin nightmare!!!! Print copies of all four are available here and I have copies available of all of them. guildoftheophilus.com/collections/the-antiquary-magazine
Thank God he won't be Disturbed . rest in peace
King Edward I is my grandfather. I found your video as I was looking into the history of his coronation chair from 1300. I have multiple grandparents who were monarchs in all the European countries which had them, as their marriages were so intertwined. Some of the queens were even ruling their own country while being married to a king of another. Queen Jeanne I of Navarre (Spain) is one example as she was married to King Phillipe IV of France.
Extremely interesting. Thank you for the detailed video.
Glad you enjoyed it, thanks for watching!
Enjoyed, Thank YOU very much!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Extraordinary! Though he was harshly judged in the recent and partly fictional Hollywood film Braveheart, its good to know he rests in peace..as…he was laid to rest 😊 Thank you for sharing this great history with us 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👍👍
Harshly judged? He started 300 years of war. Had Berwick massacred. Wallace hung drawn and quartered. Etc etc a rotten evil soul boiling in hell with Stalin Pol Pot and various other tyrants
'Partly fictional' 😂
Braveheart was absolute tosh, but every time I think of Longshanks, I can’t help but see him with Patrick McGoohan’s face. He was the perfect actor for that role.
@@hekatoncheiros208 I'm Scottish and hate braveheart. Soon as I seen Highlands and kilts at start I knew it would be loose with truth. Wallace was minor nobility from Elderslie near Paisley. Or some think now Ellerslie in Ayrshire. Don't know why they had to lie? If they stuck to facts would have been even better film. Yes McGoohan plays a great king. And I feel pity for his son. He might have has a happy life if not for his unfortunate calling 🤔
Harshly judged in what way?
This is brilliant! Thank you for sharing 😊
Glad you enjoyed it!
Fascinating. Thank you.
Brilliant stuff! So detailed. Had the great priveledge of inspecting this chest up close several times during the Festival of Edwartide, held in October every year, when us pilgrims are allowed into the forbidden upper area of St Edward's shrine. I've clambered up those simple timber stairs! Even noting the damage to the upper edges of the King's sacophogus, from previous attempts to jemmy off the the great cover slab. Allan can you elucidate on the account that the Georgian investigators poured black molten pitch over the King, filling the sarcophogus, before replacing the tomb lid for ever more?
Yes, I had heard of the alleged pitch, as well. I do believe my face has a tinge of green after reading your account. P.S. sacophogus (sp?)
@@downtonviewer sarcophagus!!
I have heard that suggestion too - I'm not sure how true this actually is. Certainly in 1774, according to Ayloffe's report, everything was put back just as it was before and the lid of the tomb chest was additionally cemented down. All was done in the presence of the Dean.
I've read that the story of the pitch was untrue; it was reported by someone who supposedly wasn't even there. It might have been started in order to keep people from reopening the tomb. Many at the time felt the Society of Antiquaries were just a bunch of gawkers, and the dead should not be disturbed.
@@mcarp555 hence the wonderful cartoon by Rowlandson.
Thanks, for a really interesting presentation. I wonder how Edward is holding up since the last opening of his coffin?
Very interesting. This is something I like about good channels. You can always learn a thing of two. For me that’s the mean reason I watch KZhead. Thanks for the excellent video.
My pleasure. Thanks for watching.
Edward I was one of my 20th Great Grandfathers 🌹🇳🇿 New Zealand 🇳🇿
*& How does THAT make you a BeTTer Person????* *My Mother was Ann MiLLer!!!!*
Sherryle, hey cuz, Edward is my 22nd GGF. Pleased to meet cha
that was super fascinating and I am glad I clicked! But also, and also, simultaneously also, I assumed it was going to be a cool story about archaeologists in 2022 opening the tomb again to see. 😅 So I got tricked! Hahaha no worries though it was super interesting history nevertheless, and I’m American so I know less than the “average British” on such things. The part about the long, long long long history of the imperial regalia was really interesting I thought. Dude’s a mummy! A mummy Scot hammerer!
Thank you for a fabulous and informative video, sir. I am wondering, knowing how discs of the spine can shrink, is it possible that King Edward the First might have been even taller? The body was measured to be 6' 2", in the tomb. How likely is it that he might have been 6' 4" or 6' 6" in life? Thank you.
I've only been to westminster Abbey 1 time, and I will never forget it. It means mote to me as I get older and realise through my wife's work in genealogy of my DNA that I have a very interesting lot of relations lol. 1 being Mary Queen of Scott's. I really love history, that's why I had my wife check the tree, so to speak.
Thankyou, thoroughly enjoyed your upload...
My pleasure, thanks for watching!
Another excellent video in your series. You seem always to have those extra bits of information that other accounts have omitted. Keep up the good work.
Thanks very much! Glad you're enjoying my videos.
Please can you make a video about Delhi Darbar, ( George V and Queen Mary's coronation in Delhi) most people don't know but it was one of the most spectacular coronation ever .........🇮🇳👑
The BBC tv series “The Jewel in the Crown” about the Btitish Raj in India, has an opening scene from an old black and white film clip, possibly newsreel footage, of a grand procession , Pomp and Ceremony, in India showing a royal person mounting an elaborate and canopied platform, to a throne, The figure is being shaded by a parasol carried by servants following a step behind.. There are people massed all around the platform and in the foreground.. it is a very short segment, accompanied by dramatic orchestral music..Could that be a documentation of the Deli Durbar? I would love to learn more about that “most spectacular coronation”.*
Mempes wrote wonderful description in his book , illustrated with paintings by court artist of the delhi durbar, 2011 with curzon ...a very superior person !...
Yeah please! They even had a new Imperial crown of India and a set of thrones made for this ....
This is so cool! I saw his tomb whilst on my honeymoon in London!
THANKYOU ALLAN THAT WAS A FASCINATING, VERY WELL PRESENTED, VERY INTERSTING VIDEO.....
YELLING is sins (Jeremiah 33:48) Please don't YELL anymore.
@@deadghost1964 I don't dig Jeremiah...
Ever since the passing of Queen Elizabeth II I've been invested in learning about British royal history and I found your channel. I would love to see a video about Henry III creating St. Edward's Chapel and what artifacts were discovered buried in his original tomb if you haven't made one already and I missed it.
Hi Matthew, a video on Henry III's reconstruction of Westminster Abbey is going to come during the Winter as part of the coronation series - the two things are very much bound together.
@@allanbarton awesome! Can't wait
There may be something in the reference to the body of Edward I being carried into battle. Edward II continued to war against the Scots. It is alleged however that the Bruce said he feared the bones of the father more than he did the living son. Perhaps the Bruce had heard the suggestion that this had been the wish of Edward I since there is indeed no actual historical mention of any part of the body of the King being carried into battle.
Very interesting 🤔 Thankyou. Need more wonderful videos.
What a super video, thanks for this work. I really like your narration style. Peace be unto you.
Thank you very much indeed.
6’ 2” would likely have appeared gigantic by Medieval standards; of course, there must have been considerable differences in height between the various social classes. The martial aristocracy was probably significantly taller on average than poorer commoners (landless peasants, serfs) due to differences in their respective diets, but in some measure also perhaps due to selective breeding among elites. I’m exactly 6’2” (1,88 m) and merely just above the average male height where I come from. Interesting topic and great presentation - cheers from Greece! 👍
According to archéologie found it was not uncommun in the early middle age .plenty of counts or kings have the same tall.it seems the ppl got smaller during XVth and renaissance due to mini ICE age and Plague ,Wars so on...
@@DidierDidier-kc4nm C’est très intéressant et semble assez raisonable ça. Merci!
Dr. Allan I would much appreciate it if I can share this with my family historian, I and my family are descendants of King Edward 1st "Longshanks" Plantagenet. "keep the pact" that phrase we still use today. Just different words now. Our family's start was their Daughter Princess Joan of Acre. So all of this greatly intrigues me.
😂 everyone who becomes obsessed with their family tree will eventually find a way, by hook or by crook, of becoming the descendants of an English King! Only a tiny proportion of modern Britons will be able to trace their lineage reliably to this period, though there is now a big industry that does its best to lead subscribers astray. It is even less likely that those whose forebears went to the New World will be able to boast such a line of descent considering the majority of those emigrating were of the lower and poorer social classes, and so usually without the kinds of titles, deeds, professions and marriages that were noteworthy enough to document. But it’s all good harmless fun.
@@spitfires1979 But with the advances in modern science we can use the miracles of DNA technology to get a definitive answer as to which milkman's descendant has become Charlie Jugears da Thurd. 😁
@@theoztreecrasher2647 Poor old Charlie, he does have the worst ears in Christendom.
Fascinating, interesting and very well told .
Glad you enjoyed it!
Very interesting! Thanks for sharing that!
My pleasure! Glad you enjoyed it.
I absolutely LOVE this video. A part of me is conflicted-- 1 half is curious to re-open the tomb, only for the sake of the regalia buried within, and to make modern reproductions of pre-Revolution items. The other half wishes to carry on the post-Revolution traditions which we now have, and let Edward the King rest in peace. Quandary of a historian, perhaps. Overall, WOW, what a great story-- THANK YOU!
Edward died at Burgh by Sands, pronounced Bruff. His body was first laid in state at Burgh church (awaiting his son ?) to accompany the cortege south.
Very interesting and fascinating!
Wonderful ! Eye opening presentation !! I've subscribed !!!
Thanks very much, glad you enjoyed it!