This video would've been spooky in vr

I especially appreciated this because in general there is so little on KZfaq about the 12th and 13th centuries. Nearly everything is earlier or later.

I need a .gif if him bent over waving his arms around 8:53 or 9:50

Is it true that most knights had no more than two arms at any time?

They needed this armour to fight evil rabbits

Hand to hand combat must have been gnarly as hell.

He briefly mentioned the rules of a shield are a little different as a left handed fighter. Being left handed myself, I have always wondered exactly what advantages and challenges it would present, as usually you are blocking heavier blows coming in from the shield side, but a lefty vs righty match up has those main attacks hitting from the sword side from both fighters. Would have loved to have seen him touch on that a little more.

Bucket helms are post 1180, with a back plate on the helm like that, closer to 1200 (13th century). Phyrgian helms were the top end of fashion for 1135 through to post 1160. Otherwise, not bad

I love it how he started the video praising the sun

This video made me grin from ear to ear. Both informative and hilarious!

So that's what you do with your weekends...

...so, this is you trowing the gauntlet in the arena of Lindibeige, Metatron, Shadeversity, Skalgrim and the like?

This is so great! Very informative. I love seeing 12th century knights/equipment - so often the later 13th/14th C. full plate armor stuff is way over represented.

I USED TO WIRK & BROUGHT MY KIDS UP REN FAIRES & I'M STILL LEARNING MORE!! THANK YOU GUYS & KEEP `EM COMING!!!

I do a bit later period, but some things should aply to this too. 1) Accordingto my knowledge, his helmet is wrong. This type should be well fitted, and you wouldn't throw it away- you'd do that with a great helm, which is, obviously, bigger, to fit the skull helmet underneath, and a bit differently constructed. 2) there's currently a lot of experimentation with fitting chainmail more closely to the body. Pictoral evidence sugests that it was the case back in medieval, and those who already did it (two guys from germany, I can't remember their names) reported great increas in comfort and agility. This aplies especially to the coif- on most pictures, we can quite clearly see, that it's well fitted to the head, not loose like a hood. 3) more and more people here in bohemia is experimenting with not wearing a padded armor underneath their mail/plates. They substitute it with rough tunik or two, or a rough civilian coat for plates. This goes hand in hand with no. 2- reenactors often look like Mischelin mascote, thanks to our overdone padding, yet every piece of pictoral evidence sugests this wasn't the case at all. By pointing out these things, I don't wanna tear down this guy, his gear looks pretty decent, my intention is just to share most recent knowledge with a fellow reenactor.

I love the idea that William the conqueror had to do the hand stand shakey dance to get his armor off.

I wish I could like this video twice. Good work, I look forward to seeing more of your content.

really enjoyed this

Absolutely FANTASTIC!!THANKS FOR THIS!

Well this is going straight into my year 7 lessons! Thanks for sharing!

Very neat summary, but I disagree with some points, like preferring the small mace instead of a sword in a period where large shields were so common. People tend to overlook the fact that sword thrusts also pack blunt impact and can be aimed at head to toe from the same position, compared to the angle limited and telegraphed swings of a mace.

I like maces. Good for bashing belgians who should have never left the Netherlands back in 1830.

This looks very good compared to some of the other videos here on YT. This general fit and the quality of the mail is so much better.

Very interesting Ed and Hillbert, thank you

Very entertaining, thank you and thank you ED.

I've seen in another video that they would wear a belt in the mail to help distribute some of the weight to the waist so it's not all on the shoulders

Please do more of this!

Very interesting info about the bluntness, I didn't know that!

Excellent video Thanks.

Beautiful mail shirt, such a small rings diameter, awesome! But still "only" wearing a gambeson is such a relief in the heat of summer until you're facing spears "oops" Thank you Hilbert, great one but Ed should train a bit with his mitaines/ shield "tactics" says the guy that pours liters of water in any HEMA suit :D Take care

This is great video.

Make more of these!

I absolutely loved this video

Thank you for filming, editing and posting this video. It has put a much finer point on medieval war habiliment(s). It is hard at times to visualize the vestments that knights were dressed in. This has enlighten my understanding of many pieces of the clothing worn. Good grief, the knights must have been extremely well conditioned and in excellent form. Can one even begin to comprehend the agony of Middle Eastern climates and full armour during any of the Crusade periods. Gives one respectful insight to what was endured. Tarah from the Great State of Texas!

Great video

This video was actually pretty interesting!

When I first tried making a long-sleeved mail shirt (commissioned by a friend) I added three expansion rings on either side of the elbows, I think set every-other row, to create a pocket that the elbow fit into when bending the arm. I also set the pocket a little further down the arm from where the elbow was (I think just made the sleeve a couple of inches longer above and below the elbow), so when the wearer brings his whole arm forward, the elbow still fits into the pocket and the sleeve doesn't slip too far from the wrist, exposing it (I also added a lace to cinch up the wrist).

8:52 that’s how you shed some scales. His shed game is on another level and is far superior to what any snake can do. Take notes all you snakes, you could learn a thing or two.

totally fascinating !!!!!

5:00 you can also make special letter strap (up-down grip) and took your hand from up to down. It will be better in formation that lefth-right grip

Very cool.

That was awesome show us more of this guy!!!! Neat chainmail btw. More videos like this please

Very handsome fellow :) Loved the video and the passion for the art

This seems to be more of a 13th century kit with the maciejowski gambeson but it still remains a fantastic kit.

Damn it Hilbert, you summoned my dog from the other room! 8:02

Now I can see what my ancestor looked like :) Ty

I feel you should make a compilation video of people taking their mail off!

Amazing, thank you and thank him for this lovely video

Yo hilbert guess what Ashtyn Jon were complaining about you in there video glad they got a strike it got them scared of stealing more history videos but they have stolen another one but atleast they had the brains to link channel

And the fight season was high summer yiyks!!

Can someone tell me, historically, about the mail ring diameter ? Would it be 1.6mm like we see everywhere on the internet or would it be more, like 2.0 or even 2.2 ? Would love to have info / source on this topic

You are supposed to put the holes in front of your eyes to see around :))

Are you with a reenactment group just wondering as I’m in one for a similar time period?

Nice video very cool stuff! his fighting was funny tho how he changes stances every time hi hits with an ither hand😂

The Macarena was priceless!

who is this ed fella and how can we follow him? fb info's not current, pls do update

very interesting. can you shed some light over german high medieval armour? i really cant find anything about medieval german armor other than late medieval plate and gothic armor and i would really like to see how a german soldier or noble would be armed during the 11-13th centuries.

Early-mid 13th century*. Ventail needs work, the coif is too high on the brow and perhaps some minor tailoring is needed on the hauberk. Not sure about the vented gambeson, perhaps done in warmer climates such as the Holy Land. The armpit/shoulder generally being a very good spot for a lance. Aside from that, nice stuff. Also if you're struggling with removing your hands from maille mittens, try a horizontal slit on the bend of your fingers.

Absolutely based lad

Also, that bit at the end where he was basically "doing a handstand" to get that mail coat off of him? That is precisely why Knights had SQUIRES, so they didn't have to fall head over heels to get themselves out of their armor!

They should show this in school

Your shield. When worn on the back .... you have it upside down. The long strap or 'guige' should still be strung over the shoulder and neck in the frontal combat position to take its weight, whilst the other two straps for elbow and hand are being used. I suspect your hauberk needs higher slits at front and back if you want to either ride or run!

Didn't Knights of this time period also have an over-tunic covering the top of the mail suit? Or was that not standard issue for all Knights and just restricted to orders like the Templars and Hospitallers?

Sword by heron armoury! Very good reenactment swords

Great helm is worn specifically for charges straight ahead.

Aftet getting hit wearing period correct armor with a sword, I can confidently say a sword will also break bones with similar efficacy as a mace would. Getting hit in the weenus is no laughing matter despite being called the funny bone.

I love the chainmail dance.

Jeez and people went through pitched battles in that stuff and crossed through Anatolia in the dead of summer wearing it...that's stamina!

note: he says his armor is around 1150-60 which is true except his helm is more of a 1220-30, enclosed helms werent being made until 1180

Really shows how hard it would be to be a knight

This guy Ed mentioned that he wasn't even wearing the mail pants and the metal chest plate And he was already sweating profusely. Wow

I saw this video on my recommended twice and thought "what the hell is this" because of the thumbnail, then I saw History with Hilbert made it, and like a simple man, I see that name, I click on the video.

I have this vague suspicion that a lot of modern shield reconstructions have mistaken the outline of an old Lego shield pattern for a historically accurate kite shield pattern.

Can you do 17th century armor

I could swear that secret helms come in after the 12th century.

I hate bucket helms. There are so ugly and are used far too frequently for western armored warriors from this period. Awesome video though! 😁

I see the sheilds now come standard with a pillow 😉

Do you make memes for the asnac Facebook page?

Very nice armour, the armour in the video would have been given to a lowly castle or town guard, they could not afford a suit of armour, only nobles could. In, battle legions of men would wear this basic protecton and have been lead by one or two fully armoured knights perhaps. Important to know is that a knight would have an extremely muscled and toned body under the armour, a nobleman would undertake excessive exercise and body training regularly, wearing the suit over time as well as frequent movement adds extra weight and exhaustion so a body needed to be at peak fitness. In these sense, many movies and so on depict a knights body accurately. Modern military and excessive workout training take inspiration from the ancient workout routines

the new bannerlord looks lit

I never knew chainmail was taken off that way

I confused this for Kingdom Come: Deliverance. You're near a dead-ringer for Henry.

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I almost thought that this video was from Kingdom Come Deliverance

Not an expert on armour but pretty good engineer, why wouldn’t a knight use a rounded helm to avoid a blade catching the edge and lodging into the bucket?

however, the main task of a knight thus dressed would have been primarily pure horse charge. Seldom pedestrian sword fighting. Charge, pull away rinse repeat.

His padding is way too thick, but his kit looks good for the kind of practice I’m sure he does👍

The Coat of Plates wouldn’t of been worn under the Hauberk, it would’ve made worn on top. Look at the effigy of St Maurice to give you a good example.

Did any one else hear someone shout "hes annoying me" at 5:16

Love the enthusiasm but there are some oddities in there. Understanding it's two years old, is Ed interested in constructive criticism?

That helmet doesn't look very historically accurate to me. Other than that, cool video. Good to see you're still producing content.

5:25 did you just get your shield out of the way to attack? that's a perfect way to give the enemy a chance to hit you

POV: you are a random peasant this knight pulled over to practice on

the reenactor should cast to monty python !! great video mate!

Can hear Metratron from the distance getting triggered.

This should have been called Hilbert almost dies from a crusader

I always imagined you were younger

Michael Biehn is auditioning for a role as a medieval knight?

Im no expert in XII century armor, but although is still being discussed, I thing this man's kit would classify as overly padded.

Are you able to have the actual weapons in Britain or must they be blunted?