Count Artois: "What can such common people do against us?" Common People: "Boy, you 'bout to find out..."

Not peasants. Urban militia. Well trained and equipped.

The battle of Mons en Pevele in 1304, a French victory, quite cancelled the gains of the golden spurs for the Flemish. At the peace treaty, Flanders kept its large autonomy in the Kingdom of France but after losing some cities to the King and paying huge fines. Fines that were collected in the following years led to massive peasant revolts in Flanders that were crushed by the French at Kassel in 1328

Always love the battles where poorly equipped soldiers defeat the knights with tactics and terrain.

7:40 lol the ai art created a knight in armor with a golf club instead of a sword ahah.

Fantastic, as a Belgian historian, you have my thanks. Keep up the awesome videos.

I know you're very busy with the German Unification and Hungarian Independence series but would you ever consider doing one on the Boer Wars?

Saw the notification, clicked without thinking twice

Wow, your medival videos are pretty good. I would like to suggest a few topics such as Burgundian Wars and French wars of Religion. Your Hanoverian front of Seven years War is going pretty well. Keep up the work.

As a Flemish man i thank you for making this video!

Superbly written and the narrator compliments the content beautifully.

Excellent coverage and context.

I would like to see a video (or a series) about the clash between the Italian "comuni" and Frederick Barbarossa. It's a topic that I never seen treated on historic YT channel.

The sound and narration is great A+! Thanks great video

best channel to listen to imo ( history wise ) glad you are around kind sir :D

Sumptuous to the ears, truly and you reminded me of this battle, as I have had it rumored around much. The one where the Artisans pull the spurs away from the nobleman!

Excellent my friends. Thank you.

Love your channel man! Never miss a notification or premier!😊😊😊

Superb presentation!

This is like RPG. If I am peasant I would loot their asses. Nice armor

Great as always!

I love the detail that the count of artois pleaded for the live of his horse, is because it was customary for army generals and Nobelman to be spared. So he didn't believe he was in mortal danger.

I subbed. Have you made a vid about the great siege of Malta 1565 aka the last battle of the crusades? if not please do so. Its an incredible siege with no quarter given and some of the most brutal savage fighting that ever took place, where 500 knights of st.John, about 2000 Spanish, Italian and a few other volunteers and mercenaries, with roughly 3-5,000 the Maltese militia and sailors, fought and won against all odds vs 50-60000 Ottomans (including reinforcements), barbary corsairs and other muslim volunteers who fired no less than 160000 cannonballs. But God and Our Lady to whom the defenders daily prayed to, were with us and the great experienced GM La Valette proved to the world that he's a military genius.

Good job done!

i like this era i hope you do more

Like Eddard Stark said: discipline wins over numbers, nine times out of ten.

Please more videos. I love these

Great video !

This battle is a fine example of the people standing strong against an unrelenting enemy and oppressor.

Awesome video!

Good choise of a topic

Great video

Great work ❤ will you continue the hussite wars

The of your animation seems to have improved wow 🤩

great, thanks!

Bedankt

excellent

The dark humor of Belgians naming their iconic weapon "Goedendag" 👍

Danke!

Please do the battle of bouvines

Good video! I'm pretty sure that's a picture of the wrong castle of Écluse though ;)

thx

I find it interesting how different your video is in comparison to Baz battles

Has anyone else not been getting notifications from this channel?

Wars without end.Thank you for your work. The present Civilization must learn .God bless

Hi, I really like your channel. Why are you not pronouncing the Flemish towns and streams in Dutch, as you are from the Netherlands? Also, could you do a video about the Batavian revolt?

Awesome

Grapeshot would've been useful here...

Great

For the next one, I'd love to see battles where the french cavalry properly crush their opponents instead of the exceptional (?) battles where they get walloped by the underdog.

Not the first time that French 'knights' ruined the whole battle by being over confident and losing.

The arrogance of an entrenched military elite, unwilling to change or embrace innovation has been the bane of many powers throughout history!

good

a idea if you want more peasants vs knights battles, you could look at the Danish Civil War know as the Count's Feud

City states taking on a major Kingdom- that had to sting- good show.

can you PLEASE do battles with Stepehen the great????????

The part where Flemish hunt down any French, by making them say words, is also used right after the second world war in The Netherlands. German suspects had to say "Scheveningen", a place next to The Hague.

So on one hand "they adhered to the strict rule of no looting" (09:56) and on the other hand "the flemish claimed valuable loot" (16:45) Not sure how that works, but other than that, very interesting video about a part of history i am unfamiliar with. (not much of Belgiums history is taught in detail in schools in central europe)

11 July is still remembered every year because it is a the "feast day" of the Flemish Community in Belgium. 700 years after a staggering victory against French oppression, the Flemish are still fighting against a French minded country and a population of French speakers.

I'm hoping the next Age of Empires II expansion actually has a mission based on this battle. It would be fun to actually play as the Flemish.

Maybe do a video on the Battle of Visby, the peasants got a real trashing there. Think it might even have been farmers.

Battle of Hemmingstedt has a similar dynamic, an army of 10.000 of which half are elite mercenaries, loses to 6.000 farmers and burgers.

As a Buggian born and raised who's seen the city archives. It wasn't "schild of friend" it was 'Schildens Friend" Are you a frind of the gilds

Even earlier than that, during the battle of Legnano the knights of Barbarossa were defeated by basically a peasant army from Milan

Glad the "noble" well heeled learned a lesson if only for awhile.

Does anyone know where channels like this one or Kings and Generals get their music from?

I guess this is why King Charles VI of France has both titles of the Beloved and the Mad later on. Despite having mental illness, he did retrieve the lost 500 spurs later on in the aftermath of the Battle of Roosebeke. By the way, I have some crucial information you needed to keep in mind about the last Roman-Iranian War of 602-628 that you are planning to do a video about. Emperor Heraclius did sue for peace with Shah Khosrow II once he became the Emperor by sending the ambassadors to one of the Sha's generals, Shahin, who accepted the peace offer but stated that he has no authority to engage in peace talks and direct the offer to the Shah in Ctesiphon. However, the Shah rejected the peace proposal and even have the ambassadors arrested, declaring his intention to keep Syria, Egypt, Rhodes and other several islands in the Aegean Sea conquered by his forces in his Empire by claiming that he intended to put his brother-in-law, Theodosius, son of the late Emperor Maurice, on the throne. This, however, ended up dissatisfied many nobles because this war is now basically directionless. Plus, the rumor that Theodosius survived is just a rumor and nobody knows for real that the person who presented to Shah Khosrow II by the rebellious Roman magister militum named Narses is really Theodosius or not. Also, another thing that both videos I saw lacked is the proper explanation why General Shahrbaraz decided to suddenly become inactive in Syria. The reason for his sudden inactivity is because the Roman troops intercepted the Shah's letter and the Emperor offered to meet him at Constantinople. That is when he heard of what inside of the letter, which said that his second-in-command, Kadarigan, is to have him executed for failing to take Constantinople and assume command of his army. Angered by this, he switched to the Romans' side, change the content of the letter to not only just having himself but also Kadarigan and other 140 military officers to be executed on the Shah's order to ensure their loyalties to him, and leave to station in Syria throughout the whole war, allowing the Romans to terrorize the Iranian heartland unchecked until the war ended in the Roman's favor. One more thing, Emperor Heraclius sealed his alliance with General Shahrbaraz by marrying his deaf-mute son, Theodosius, to his daughter, Nike. So when you do video about this last war between the Romans and the Iranians, I hope these two contents will be added and mentioned as well.

Overconfidence and hunger for glory is kind of the norm for the "French Knights" of this era... Frankish Knights of the crusades too....

Battle of Manzikert 1071 A. D. would be a good addition to your videos

So they never went back for new lances?

They weren't even remotely close to peasants, they were wealthy burghers.

ur video and research are amazing, But showing the flemish lion with red claws and red tongue is offensive to me as a flemish person. the flemish lion with red is a compromise flag to belgium, founded in 1830. To approach the french belgium socialism. And to match the national flag. But i like ur amazing vid... 95% as a flemish guy, Great research and thank u

Battle of Balaclava, I guess?

The "schild en vriend" is historically incorrect, and comes from a phonetic error. Asking "shield and friend" isn't logical. What they did ask was *'s gilden vriend ?*, short for "des gilden vriend?", meaning "are you a friend of the guilds?" Pronounced 's gilden vriend and "schild en vriend" sound almost identical. This wrong interpretation was made "common knowledge" by Henri Conscience who wrote the novel "the lion of flanders" shortly after the Belgian independance. Because of this, the novel became very popular and his error made it's way into the literal history books.

I wonder if the modern situation in Belgium between the Flemish and French population has its roots in this period

Edmund Crouchback,Earl of Lancaster & Leicester was King Edward I's younger brother;and while the late Scottish king Alexander III's late son & heir-apparent Alexander was married to Dampierre's dau.,the subsequent Franco-Scottish 'Auld Alliance' (1295) of the same period,meant over a century later,both Scotland and Flanders-Burgundy were drawn into the armed orbit of competing sides during the Anglo-French Hundred Years Wars and their regional overlap[ie the Battle of Othee(1408) concerning Liege,etc.] ! 🙄

flanders, lion is our battle cry! (The Flemish truly have the courage, bravery and ferocity of a lion!) And next you could do Constantine the great's triumph on the Milvian Bridge!

Well.. First of all, most Flemish troops were townsmen, *not peasants*. As such they were somewhat better equipped, trained and organized. The Flemish still had ten nobles, including Guy of Namur who fought on horseback. They were greatly helped by the terrain, the French men-at-arms most likely just didn't have enough room to gain momentum. You see, the horses had to walk some distance, then they would switch to trot, and closer to the enemies they would ride into gallop, only that would make men-at-arms efficient. But it seems that the French couldn't do that because of the streams. What would happen if the Flemish had no such good terrain and no knights? Battle of Roosebeke 1382. That was a horrible defeat to the Flemish, and French revenge for Courtrai.

Wonderful historical coverage about that conflicts thank you the history House 🏠 channal....that conflict reflected french atrocities to ward's peasants and massive effectiveness of Britain 🇬🇧

Now it's farmers.

Underestimate the enemy at your own parrel...seems the French failed to learn that lesson when the Hundred Years War began

! ! ! Vlaanderen de Leeuw ! ! !

Peasants fought knights in every battle... When were armies comprised entirely of knights on both sides of a battle? Or am I missing something?

Useless captions. Either write what you say or incorporate the captions into your video

Meeetaaaaal!

Count of Artwat

Battle of Standards...

Lots of coping Wallonians in the comments.

Glory to the peasants against tyranny

France and their knights get owned more than a hundred years before their crushing defeats at Crecy, Agincourt, and Poitiers.

you gotta do battles not done before by Kings and General, Baz Battles or History marche my boy

Age of empires 2 challenge

Could this be considered the battle that ended the effectiveness of knights?

Excellent except for the fookin bloops...jeesh - don't use your grandkids for advice.

IVE BEEN BEANBOOZLED YOUR NOT KINGS AND GENERALS

Schild en vriend bitcheez

Very impressive, though Battle of Hemmingstedt is still the coolest and most lopsided win, by peasants against professionals.

Common Flemish W

The best thing about studying history is the sheer amount of times you get to watch France lose.