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Chess represents the social dynamics in court. The king is fat and can't move and the queens nagging can reach him anywhere.

Our pleasure. I've not played for many years but have fond memories of doing so.

@@ModernKnight Beware of the Upside Down!!!😁🤣🥰

That sounds like a fun game

@@ModernKnight That makes me feel better, considering my mind automatically changed the thumbnail title to *How Fast Can A Mediaeval King LEVEL?*

As a player, I have had exactly that conversation. At the time we based our info on the film 'Hidalgo', but I like this source better.

Thanks again! much appreciated.

That engagement.

Yes!!!

For the algorithm!

Then you should see Ghost, one of his other horses

He just wanted to gallop! Especially when the wind was in his hair...🥰

@@LadyMcBite Ghost is a handsome strong horse! But my favorite is good old sturdy Bramble!🥰🥰🥰

My thoughts too, even 600,000 is low, normally I'd expect to find content like this above a number with at least a decimal point.

Some just swapped horses at set points...

Thank you.

Endurance riding event is a bit different situation than a medieval person wanting to get from location A to location B to do thing X. I mean you can cover a lot of ground pretty fast if you're running a marathon, but what about wanting to be ready for work in your destination - not to mention safe and not in need of a specialist doctor, sports trainer & whole team to look after your bodily condition? Both people and animals are considerable less adventurous when they don't have access to 21st century medical care, nutrition and comforts at the end of the day.

@@AnnaMarianne you also need to consider modern people are no where near in daily conditions of back then much tougher than people now.

@@elizabethjansen2684 Yes especially someone with experience on campaign and a lot of physical training from teenage years. Might have used multiple horses as well since even Knights would have more than one horse with them.

Thanks, glad we can make you feel happy!

I have studied dressage under an instructor from the British Horse Society she was very good . She held 3 day events at her farm. I was invited to enter a dressage schooling show. I understand what your doing.

He looks so proud when he is under saddle❤❤❤❤❤

@@susanbishop5349 you should watch other videos. The ones where he interacts with his horses, are magnificent to watch. His horses have a true affection for him. You can see it in the way they follow him, keep their eyes on him, and just the simple interactions they have, it really is heartwarming to watch.

He built his fortune as co-founder and CEO of the video game developer Rebellion. So that would be why he has access to epic music.

So accurate about horse behavior! Warlord is so cool.

You spelt it right hen

glad we've educated and entertained you a little. Hope you get better soon.

not sure that necessarily speeds things up though. Having had to lead horses myself, what it allows is longer time in the saddle, as you can swap mounts. we know roughly how far they rode in a day and I wondered how fast that was.

@@ModernKnight Longer time in the saddle is definitely appreciable, though the best thing is a chain of fresh horses Pony Express style (though they were far from unique in history). In the 1893 Ride to Chicago, the contestants brought multiple horses, as just the matter of reducing their fatigue by spreading the workload will improve your time over several days. It's also handy if one of your horses is injured and has to be left behind, of course.

@@ModernKnight Is it possible that they could have run the horses fast and when they reached a specific town or way point location, had either prearranged, would buy (its the king) or commandeer (its the king) new steeds for the next leg/day?

Swapping horses out is doable in THEORY, but if I remember right, it was historically used more for couriers delivering letters or package delivery. A formal relay road with stagecoaches or post-riders requires a LOT of infrastructure and logistics in place, and there are practical limits to King X's ability to gallop up to Lord Y's castle and demand however many fresh horses he needs. I'll just focus on three of the most obvious "sounds cool, but how are we ACTUALLY going to pull this off?" issues: 1) You need the whole party to be mounted, which is pretty hard in practice. A lot of accounts for noble retinues tend to focus on the nobles, their children/relatives (who, by the way, may be too young or infirm to ride LONG distances), and their high-status retainers. However, their civilian servants (who most likely don't have ANY horses, let alone well-trained ones that can cover 55 miles a day), supply wagons and pack animals (who have the bulk of the party's food and cargo, and I'm pretty sure you need food when you're under high exertion), and foot guards (again, they obviously don't have horses) may have usually been "implied" if not completely left out of records. Most armies actually traveled SLOWER than civilians because they had to make sure they didn't leave their many supply wagons and camp-followers behind, or the BACK HALF of their divisions (so a given army division would spend a nice few hours of the day just waiting for people to leave or catch up). This means a given army normally covered 8 or 12 miles a day, and 20-30 miles for a Roman legionnaire's hard infantry march was usually only done in an emergency. 2) Who's going to pay for all these horses? And who's going to pay for the people to TAKE CARE of all these horses? If you have five stops from Point A to Point B, one person needs five mounts, so just twenty people need a hundred horses, and that's EXPENSIVE for preindustrial societies. What do these horses do when they're not being ridden between stops? And what happens if you LOSE them? Standing armies were nonexistent in a lot of preindustrial warfare because a full-time fighting man usually couldn't have another job in peacetime, since he needed to keep in fighting shape... but if the army is more of a "reserve militia" and the men DO have jobs in peacetime, THEN you risk your economy sinking like a rock if you lose them. As what happened with World War 1, if you lose too many men in battle and a lot of the survivors are traumatized or disabled, this can easily affect the country/region for YEARS if not generations. The same balancing act would be needed for the relay system of horses. 3) Once you have all your infrastructure and supplies in place, everyone needs to trust each other with the welfare of a LOT of horses. All that time spent training horses, and all the supplies and buildings and support-staff you need for this system? Nobody wants these horses to be injured or killed, and they definitely don't want them STOLEN.

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thanks, and yes, it's always fun to see what I can discover by doing.

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Thanks for watching us, and I'm glad you like our work.

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he deserves to be.

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Thanks for your support!

thanks!

Thanks for your feedback. I do like actually trying things out.

Jason Kingsley I wish I had the opportunities you have 😁 Also I had to laugh when I saw a knight on a beautiful horse with... A phone 👏😂

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Wiccad Witch I’d love to do that too, but don’t have access to a gaited horse sadly. Not many about in England as far as I know. You should do the experiment,

Wiccad Witch I was hoping to see a comment like this. I’ve seen some video of the smaller, gaited horses used for travel in Middle Age Europe. It was remarkable how much ground they could cover & how smoothly they rode.

@@jasonkingsley2762 Are you familiar with the book The Medieval Warhorse: From Byzantium to the Crusades by Ann Hyland? I'm remembering her talking about Medieval gaited horses at some point, bred for their smooth rides. I just flipped through it again and can't find the reference, but what I did find were a lot of examples I'd underlined about how long it took various groups of riders to go from place to place, what impedimenta they were travelling with, etc. If you don't have the book -- although you may well, because it's so much on topic of a lot of your experiments with your horses -- I HIGHLY recommend it. (P.S., Thank you so much for your channel! I find it SO useful!)

Glad you like them!

Thanks!

@@ModernKnight No, *I* have to thank *you* for creating this show. It' great.

Glad you enjoyed them.

@@ModernKnight OMG the heroes themselves! Such a quick response

Thanks for your support. I only have a little time at the weekend to make videos, so we can only manage 1 every two weeks roughly. It’s my hobby.

yes it's gone a bit crazy recently.

At 125k now so :) Jason and the team have brought something very nice to the table indeed!

288k right now

we're working on finding more viewers, but I do this for fun and education in my spare time, so if one person learns one thing then I'm happy.

thanks for finding us!

There were also specific buildings for that purpose. The stable where I work was a „Pferdewechselstation“ („Horse-changing-station“) because it was between larger towns.

Thanks, yes I'm trying to rediscover some of the ways medieval horses might have moved, but a lot of the skills havebeen lost.

@@ModernKnight That's true! Historical horsemanship has so many to offer. Its like closed book torn in pieces. Its really hard to get throught but rewarding. Thank You for your answear and hard work You do! Have amaizing time exploring medieval times!

@@ModernKnight I forgot to add yesterday. I have a theory that in medieval times there were several ways of collecting a horse. One of them may be the most "iconic" one and seen the most often in manuscripts - when horse has his hind legs close to each other and front in the air, riders legs then are enormously forward and horse's head position is specific , what's more propably the horse has "freedom in withers , shoulders and neck" especially that this idea of different contact was present in later periods

interesting information, thanks.

one day it would be great to do that sort of thing.