Edmund Ironside: The Last Warrior King of Wessex

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In the year 1013, Sweyn Forkbeard, the powerful Viking King of both Norway and Denmark invaded England and usurped the throne of King Æthelred. Sweyn led a huge force of Danish and Norse raiders, many of whom were still pagan warriors who worshipped the pantheon of Norse Gods. Upon Sweyn’s death later that year however, Æthelred, despite being remembered as ‘the unready’; meaning bad counsel, was invited back to reclaim the throne of England. Sweyn’s young son Cnut however had other ideas, and amassed himself a large army out of the ashes of his fathers and launched his own invasion. England was in turmoil. For the first time since the time of the Great Heathen Army well one hundred years before during the time of Æthelred’s ancestor, Alfred the Great, the very survival of England hung in the balance against an onslaught of Vikings, this time led by a King. Except this time, England had no great defender such as Alfred. Æthelred was renowned as being a weak ruler. He was ruthless, but indecisive and pursued a policy of appeasement rather than organising a decisive campaign against the invaders.
Æthelred died in 1016 however and a very different man, his young son Edmund, seized the throne for himself. It was Edmund who would assemble an English force to push back the Vikings to the sea. Edmund was a warrior prince, he had spent much of his life upon the battlefield, and amassed a small fortune of weapons and armour, most notably wielding a great longsword once possessed by Offa, the revered Anglo-Saxon King of Mercia from centuries before. After securing the throne of Wessex after defeating the English elite who had sided with Cnut after Æthelred's death, Edmund pushed forward, defeating Cnut time and time again, relieving his siege of London, before finally meeting him for once last decisive battle at Assandun. In the years to follow, Edmund would be remembered under a very different title to his father, he was given a name which reflected his valour in battle and his courage. Edmund Ironside.
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@HistoryTime 6 жыл бұрын

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@andymoss2490 5 жыл бұрын

Am I missing something here(8.24),Harold Godwinson was the crowned king in 1066,William the Bastard was the duke of Normandy.i know all the various claims and counter claims about who was the rightful this, that and the other, but they are the simple facts.(sooner be at the top of the hill with the king than at the bottom of the hill with a bastard).Like the vids., all the same and happily subscribed.

@zachdietrich4648 5 жыл бұрын

thanks for your work! any chance you can do a piece on Mael Bethad Mac Findlaech? love to see what you make of the truth behind the Tragedy. again, great stuff. thanks.

@trevordutton634 3 жыл бұрын

I have only one issue, there is no evidence that the Vikings, Danes or Anglo Saxons fought battles on horseback. They may however have skirmished whilst travelling.

@mijanhoque1740 2 жыл бұрын

They did him such a big injustice in Vikings Valhalla and ruined his character

@Sophietargaryen 2 жыл бұрын

Agreed

@dontgivamonkeyz 2 жыл бұрын

Anglo-Saxons of that period in general have been dealt a massive injustice by the show Vikings and other shows like it.

@mijanhoque1740 2 жыл бұрын

@@dontgivamonkeyz The only show which give Anglo-Saxons the shine is The Last Kingdom

@korvos4317 4 жыл бұрын

Even though Cnut fought edmund, he still had respect for the man and visited his grave, cnut was a great leader even if he wasn't english.

@johnbuckley6051 4 жыл бұрын

He was still a cnut though.....

@Justin.Martyr 4 жыл бұрын

*YES!!!! ENGLISH People are the Best!!!!* *OnLy a few non EngLish, ever Get to be Great!!!!* *Too Bad that Jesus wasn't EngLish!!!! Jesus would have been a BeTTer Person!!!!*

@nicolaipedersen5090 4 жыл бұрын

Cnut is Danish.

@willelm88 2 жыл бұрын

@@Justin.Martyr Spare us your juvenile sarcasm.

@Justin.Martyr 2 жыл бұрын

@@willelm88*

@davidmckenna5751 4 жыл бұрын

Anglo Saxons hard as nails love our ancestors

@vCLOWNSHOESv 2 жыл бұрын

Fighting those vikings had to be a terrible day.

@kingdubbs143 2 жыл бұрын

Yes indeed. Long live Anglo Saxon heritage and honor.

@dun_sidhe112 Жыл бұрын

no they are not. and with a name like mckenna why would you be for the WASP

@historywithhilbert146 6 жыл бұрын

Great video as always, with the latest content you're really painting a masterpiece of Dark Ages Britain video by video! Good stuff, keep it up my man! Hilbert

@HistoryTime 6 жыл бұрын

History With Hilbert thank you man!!

@judsonwall8615 2 жыл бұрын

I’ve recently read what I would call the saga of the lives of Aethelred the Unready, Svein Forkbeard, Cnut the Great, Edmund Ironsides, and the kids of all those mentioned. And I don’t know why anyone hadn’t told me before, but it’s one of the most heartbreaking, absolute best stories in history. What happened to the family of Alfred the Great is a tragedy, but one hell of a story.

@judsonwall8615 2 жыл бұрын

@dane Make sure to follow the infant kids of Edmund Ironsides lives. The last of the line of Alfred the Great (on the male side, at least) died in a cabin in the woods of northern England as an old, lonely man. He tried his best for a while to fight William the conqueror after Hastings, but eventually bent the knee and ended up working for his kids, going on a pilgrimage journey to Italy, and living out his old age in the north. But yeah, William the conqueror could’ve never happened without Svein Forkbeard.

@formzino 5 жыл бұрын

A lot of these images come from Osprey history books. They're great!

@englishhousecarl9019 3 жыл бұрын

Edmund Ironside was the Richard the Lionheart of the Anglo-Saxon period.

@EggandChris 6 ай бұрын

at least Edmund cared about the English

@DarkKing009 6 жыл бұрын

Edmund Ironside > Æthelred the Unready

@HistoryTime 6 жыл бұрын

For sure! Thanks for stopping by!

@williamcooke5627 6 жыл бұрын

It's worth noting that our present queen descends from Edmund Ironside. His granddaughter St Margaret became Queen of Scotland; and her daughter Edith married Henry I, youngest son of William the Conqueror. Their daughter Matilda was the mother of Henry II.

@owlman6240 5 жыл бұрын

Michael Anderson she is German, but he is still technically correct

@Justin.Martyr 4 жыл бұрын

*Liz Warren is 2% Indian!!!!* *Liz Windsor is .0000002% Edmund!!!!*

@Hereticalable 4 жыл бұрын

@@MichaelTheophilus906 Most European royals are related. The Queen is no more German than I am Irish because my grandmother was from Cork and moved to England and married an Englishman.

@sahil47 4 жыл бұрын

It's worth noting that William the conqueror descended from Rollo, a viking

@Hereticalable 4 жыл бұрын

@@sahil47 Why is that worth nothing? The Normans were not pagan vikings. The culture, beliefs and societal structure was very different to the Vikings...who also became Christians.

@sentvero2025 5 жыл бұрын

Poor Harold Godwind getting that arrow through his eye. 😞

@wyverntheterrible 4 жыл бұрын

It's unlikely he did tbh. More likely he was targeted by a planned assault of four knights during the battle, who had sworn to take him out. It was better propaganda to portray an arrow, as it would appear as an 'act of God', and reinforce Williams claims that he was an 'oath-breaker'.

@RubioNegroZaravia 6 жыл бұрын

My 29th great-grandfather (and loads of other folks' as well). If you are interested in this period of English history, I highly recommend Justin Hill's historical novel "Shieldwall", which tells the story from the perspective of Godwin Wulfnothson.

@SirKabawl 16 күн бұрын

I just started looking into my ancestry and it seems a lot of the work is already established. I just found out I'm related to Ironside one way or another too. Interesting to say the least.

@Lazyguy22 6 жыл бұрын

Edmund wasn't actuall killed, merely confined to a wheelchair, whereupon he became a detective.

@Jane20121985 6 жыл бұрын

"he was given a name"....Edmund Bur

@ShaneFlett 5 жыл бұрын

WHEELS.. AND THE LEGMAN. (80's beatcop music plays while playing a montage of action shots of wheels and the legman)

@thelstanedwardsson4374 3 жыл бұрын

Aren't we forgetting someone here? King Harold 2nd (Godwinsson) was a Wessex Warrior King too... RIP Battle of Hastings 1066 🙁 I know he wasn't of the Wessex lineage - but still. Great videos and presentation of this documentary as always though. 😊

@Stuart36 6 жыл бұрын

Great content, brilliant narration and music choices are bang on

@leornendeealdenglisc 6 жыл бұрын

Amazing, man. keep it up.

@HistoryTime 6 жыл бұрын

Leornende Eald Englisc Thanks mate!!

@carausiuscaesar5672 4 жыл бұрын

I canute believe how good this video is!i was aethelunready for it!

@jbussa 5 жыл бұрын

Edmund Ironside and his leet loot! I wonder what boss mob he had to solo to get that bad ass sword.

@frg2583 5 жыл бұрын

Excellent as usual!

@arthurfrayn2652 6 жыл бұрын

Great vid, and always nice to see a little Angus McBride art in your productions...

@woody500z 6 жыл бұрын

Great channel, you deserve more subscribers!

@HistoryTime 6 жыл бұрын

Thanks mate means a lot!

@jamellfoster6029 3 жыл бұрын

Had Edmund Ironsides lived, how different England, Britain, & the English language would have been... Edmund's son Edward, & grandson, Edgar Aethling could possibly have succeeded peacefully to the throne thus no Norman conquest...

@thecrow7 6 жыл бұрын

edward the confessor ... the true patron saint of these isles

@danielpatrick3761 6 жыл бұрын

what? How? You'll have to talk me thru that one. He was weak, utterly failed in providing an heir and brought in many Normans to his court, which caused much consternation amongst the English, and also provided William a very fanciful claim to the throne. More like the Quisling king of England than anything else....

@sentvero2025 5 жыл бұрын

Edward was a little bitch

@wildfire9280 4 жыл бұрын

@@sentvero2025 no u

@tonytye8963 3 жыл бұрын

Weak weak king, usless, should have named Edgar Atheling his heir. The whole claim that William had would have been blown out of the water. Edgar Atheling was a truer heir because he was decended from an older child of Ethelred, so a truer heir than Edward the Confessor himself, nevermind William of Normandy. Harold had no claim at all.

@TrainYourBrain464 5 жыл бұрын

Please make a video about Edward the confessor

@dupeesfashionconsultant4204 3 жыл бұрын

I despise that in the American schooling system from 1st grade all the way until college we learned such a tiny bit of history, I may be biased because history was always my favorite. For our entire School career with the exception of Greece and Rome we basically rush and gloss over all of world history right up until the discovery of the Americas ( and even then we learn complete inaccuracies about the discovery. And yes i get if you're taking us history, but we learn world history, but there was so much unbelievable and amazing history before the us. Even in us history I feel we have to go all the way back to antiquity because we can draw direct lines from the thousands of years before America and see how they directly affected the us today. It's just a shame, I'm us history we get pre revolution then a ton of American revolution and war of 1812 ( which is a joke) and so on. Meanwhile is the 15 years of social studies classes we were never once told about the 30 years war or even the humdred years war. I could've asked anyone in my highschool if they knew what the 30,80 and 100 years wars were and I guarantee 99 percent would have no idea which is baffling. Arguably and in my opinion I truly believe the 30 and 100 years wars had more impact on the development of America even more so than the American revolution and especially the war of 1812. It's sad mad....even just English history have thousands of years of intriguing and amazing history. I don't know I just think it's a failure of our systems. If there were any way to do it I truly think that the us and United kingdom should learn domestic history and then in 11th and 12 the grade have teachers from the UK teach. American students world or at least European history and vice versa with American teachers in europe

@colinp2238 6 жыл бұрын

Another great video but I felt that you could have indicated the battle sites on the map as you were talking about them as the names do not have a meaning with placing them. Have you considered doing , Stirling, Bannockburn and Culloden?

@bredmond812 6 жыл бұрын

I read a book that suggested that AEthelred should be called the "Unread", because it is just a better translation. It wouldn't confuse people into believing he wasn't ready. I know the popular way to write it is "Unready"

@irenejohnston6802 3 жыл бұрын

Raed means council ie unraed negative/opposite. Nothing to do with reading. He wasn't illiterate. Possibly given bad council by his advisors. This epithet attached to him later

@garychynne1377 6 жыл бұрын

thank yew gare

@marcelob.678 4 жыл бұрын

Whats the song from the very beggining of the video? The links are from songs later on in the video.

@desertrose2059 5 жыл бұрын

So great to see my 27th g-grandfather proven with documentation, Edmund Ironside! Thank you so much!

@Justin.Martyr 4 жыл бұрын

*Idiot, make Up a BeTTer LIE!!!! It has been 40 Generations, since Edmund!!!!*

@wood7206 6 жыл бұрын

2:31 Great video, but wasn't Athelstan the eldest brother and Egbert the second son?

@TrainYourBrain464 5 жыл бұрын

Make a video about offa

@svenvdb6115 4 жыл бұрын

@ 3:22 "Danegeld" as tribute. Fact: the word for money in Dutch/Flemish is "geld". Thought it might be interesting to share with you😊

@user-bl6so2iw3y 4 жыл бұрын

In German too. Looks like a western Germanic word.

@arawn1061 3 жыл бұрын

Do you think the Swedish Guld and English gold is related to Geld?

@svenvdb6115 3 жыл бұрын

@@arawn1061 I'm not sure. In those days metals like gold or silver were used as currency so it's perfectly possible there's a link.

@marcelob.678 5 жыл бұрын

Whats that song in the background at the beggining? None of the links in the description match.

@Luckyheraclius89 5 жыл бұрын

Malivamar idk mate

@jordini3381 4 жыл бұрын

@@Luckyheraclius89 good job very useful comment 😂

@kylerenneberg3069 4 жыл бұрын

Its Spelt Sweyn but its definitely not pronounced how you pronounced it! The wey is pronounced as a V! So it would be pronounced Sven Forkbeard

@cdanerz3677 25 күн бұрын

Theres a reason why they called him ironside, he shown the great Anglo-Saxon spirit that some of us English have

@davidmcgarry8910 Жыл бұрын

Edmund's great-granddaughter, Edith, married Henry I of England, and their grandson became Henry II, so Edmund's line lives on.

@danielpatrick3761 6 жыл бұрын

Aren't the pictures of him fighting on horseback unlikely? Generaly Anglisc armies fought on foot during this period, shirley?

@paulgalligan1916 3 жыл бұрын

Shirley shot in the temple

@JesusisLorddeusvult 2 жыл бұрын

My names not shirley

@jrgennielsen9465 2 жыл бұрын

Forkbeards final army was probably more than just Danish-Norwegian . There have through Sweins wife ,a swedish queen also been swedes.There very probably also has been slavic troops from Proto-Poland and/or from the northern coasts of Pommerania. Probably he also had welsh troops. Knud and swein both died young ,and there has been speculation in Denmark if they had a seldom genetic disease which made them die so young. If Swein and after him Knud had reached a higher age ,the world maybe would look different now, Had Knud reached an age of 75 he first would have died in 1070. A long life for Knud had made Norman invasion impossible and stopped much Viking activity . For the anglo-saxon farmers this probably had been the best option ,if one considers what happend after norman conquest.

@chrismears2590 6 жыл бұрын

Hi History Time, could you provide me with a source for Edmund's possession of Offa's longsword? Not the same hunnic sword Charlemagne gifted to Offa?

@HistoryTime 6 жыл бұрын

Hi Chris, It's written in the will of Æthelstan Ætheling, the eldest son of Æthelred who died in 1014. You might be able to find it online with a bit of searching. As to it being the same longsword gifted by Charlemagne, we can only speculate... (it would be pretty cool though)

@moviephone6307 3 жыл бұрын

Cool

@moviephone6307 3 жыл бұрын

Ikr

@moviephone6307 3 жыл бұрын

Lol

@moviephone6307 3 жыл бұрын

Replying to my own posts

@paulbutterworthbillericay 3 жыл бұрын

Did they fight on the hill of Ashingdon or on the slopes between Ashingdon & Canewdon, its fascinating the whole saga, by building the church at Ashingdon King Cnut paid great respect, it obviously had an effect on him, & England lost its nobility in that one battle

@johnmacneill7489 4 жыл бұрын

soooo in the end the Vikings won

@davidtownsend6092 2 жыл бұрын

I'd say Harold godwinson but OK.

@dksand0135 5 жыл бұрын

What about..Utirid Ragnerson..Cant forget about him..

@kylerenneberg3069 4 жыл бұрын

And just so you're aware the word pagan was used as a derogatory term by the Christians the religion was not known as pagan! It was known as Norse or modern day Asatru which means true to the old gods

@elgranlugus7267 3 жыл бұрын

Ásatrú is more of a modern invention. We have no records of how the norsemen called their own religion, and probably they used the word "heathen" too, for the christians.

@ethanpeeler3147 18 күн бұрын

😂😂😂

@kylerenneberg3069 18 күн бұрын

@@ethanpeeler3147 Not sure what the fuck is funny.... Don't be disrespectful to my gods..