Where are the mediaeval Kings of England buried?
In this video we will look at the burial sites of each mediaeval King of England and what happened to each site.
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The Anglo-Saxon chronicles.
Asser's Life of Alfred the Great.
Britain's royal families, Alison Weir
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Kings, Queens, bones and Bastards, David Hilliam.
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I never knew that about Royal Britain, Christopher Winn.
A great and terrible king, Marc Morris.
The battle of Hastings, Jim Bradbury.
Richard III and the princes in the tower, A.J. Pollard.
The kings and queens of England and Scotland, Maria Costantino.
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King John, Marc Morris.
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A few things, the footage of the sites was a year long project and filmed on a Samsung S21 and a Google Pixel Pro 8. so if you like to support the channel you can on Patreon or KZhead channel membership. www.patreon.com/embracehistoria Because this was a long video the editing was a lot simpler, with mainly stock footage filmed by me.
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I think Middle Age England ended when the Tudor ascend the throne. From that moment onward it’s Renaissance.
When I attended school in the late 2000s, we're taught the middle ages in England ended with the rise of the Tudor dynasty, I disagree with that theory and prefer the theory that the middle ages in England ends with Henry 8th, to quote my other video on the matter. "So to summarise the middle ages in England ends with King Henry because of the monumental changes to England he implemented, the physical landscape changing and the fact that England was no longer a member of the catholic church."
“I won’t poke at the subject today” I see what you did there lol
This was really interesting thanks
Glad you enjoyed it
Enjoyed very much
Brilliant. Thank you.
Glad you liked it.
amazing video
Glad you think so.
Well done, taking a subject that could (should) have been intolerably dry and making it worth listening to.
Well, throw in some dry humour and a shakespeare quote and it's more interesting to write about.
Not far in so idk if you'll cover them but what happened to alfred the great's family resting places is aggrivating.
I love this but my jam is really the Dark Age kings!
Same, I really enjoyed filming at Glastonbury Abbey, sadly there's just not much on the early Kings of England.
@@Embracehistoria So true. My goal in life is to take a vacation to Britain and see the ancient sites and my ancestors castles. I’ll certainly still be tuning in for your future content, really great work my friend. Thank you for sharing your work with us.
I'm watching your Anarchy series. Was Matilda known to be a beauty? What do the sources tell us?
Sadly, I've never come across any description of her.
Contemporaries describe her as 'very beautiful', but there is no detailed description of her appearance. It is also important to not take the accounts as seriously as they may have just said that based on her status and propaganda.
French Revolution destroyed so much French history 😒
By design
@@baseballworldwide9439 By a movement
Yes, France had a great monarchy, it went for a long time. Yes, I understand both sides for the French Revolution and the Monarchy but the French Revolution becomes another bloodbath and called the “Terror”
The English wigs played a role @@Shane-Flanagan
Bran the blessed was buried under the tower of London
Yeah, but what about when Brian Blessed dies?
*Many say King John was the worst English monarch.
Yep, he was pretty bad, but I have argued that Henry 8th was the worst.
Easily @@Embracehistoria
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Things just went from bad to worse, for Edward II. His wife, and her boyfriend forced him from power. Oof!
Literally, my wife's boyfriend lol.
However, Edward's son, Edward III had boyfriend, [ Roger Mortimer ] hanged after he seized power in a coup, mummy was given genteel house arrest.
Harold was hit in the eye by an arrow and was then ran through by Guillaume le Batard. Gytha Thirkelsdottir offered Guillaume the weight in gold of Harold's body, but Guillaume refused and ordered his men to throw Harolds body off the nearby cliff into the English Channel, so Harold never had a burial site. If they are looking for a DNA match for the pelvis of Alfred The Great, they could ask me for comparison, as he was my direct 34x Great Grandfather. Lord Sherlock
As outlined in this blog, King Harold's shattered remains were reputedly interred by his friends at Waltham Abbey in Essex. There is a marked grave there. England would have been a much happier country if 'our King Harold' had won or otherwise survived the Battle of Hastings. Nor would countless French folk have suffered centuries of slaughter and strife caused by endless assaults on France that were triggered by French speaking Angevin and Plantagenet kings the aftermath of the Norman Conquest.
Might of had more wars with the Danes who knows lol
The normans certainly put a stop to them 🤣
"Mediaeval" - that spelling variation has entirely too many vowels in a row
Tis the British way!
The fact that all of this English history was lost just because fat Henry VIII wanted to divorce his wife is deplorable. Definitely England's most scummy king.
You sir are based. 👍
Unpopular opinion: Henry II has to be one the most horrible Kings of England, when you look at the broader spectrum. The guy was a bad husband, was incompetent enought that his sons went on a civil war with him, was responsible for one of the worst Church scandals (Thomas Beckett's murder). And even the Angevin Empire is still sad because Louis VII didn't deserve this as he was one of the most loyal kings of Christendom, and had gone on a Crusade personally, and almost died in Anatolia. And Henry II himself never had the balls of going to a Crusade, even so with so much time and resources on his hand, and even with the real threat of Saladin. He could have avoided Hattin, but he was too worried about sleeping around, with a prostitute even. If he had at least been smart enough to see women would have liked seeing him saving Christendom. Empress Matilda went on a civil war for nothing, really. While I was watching this video, my mother while walking around said you had a sexy voice lol, and my sisters agreed. We're from Évora Portugal, you'd have been quite lucky if you had been of the Englishmen during the Crusades in Portugal.
He was a very power hungry man, and the job of running that empire eventually killed him, as he was just worn out, his legs were a mess and he had painful sores. I think he was a good mediaeval king for the time period. And thank you haha.
It got shafted🤣 by those luciferians aka protestants 🤣
king knud, canute, the great.. in all other lands, except in england as *the great*... the most underated *english king of all time*, and his wife queen emma of normandy...virtually forgotten about, as wife and regent...also mother to edward the conffesor... as for king alfred the great, probably the most overated, king of some of the english.. asser the bishop, plays his part in the *wessex conquers the universe ,propaganda*,...., alfred was no arthur..
True, he actually existed.😄
Well, Queen Emma does make an appearance in this video.