Thanks for working on these pre-carolingian and post-Roman Kingdom who often overlooked for their hands on bringing "dark age" on Europe by causing downfall of Rome. Would love to know if you are working on Amorian and Galician Britons..

As I Rome fan I keep thinking, foolishly, that after the Western Roman Empire fell history in Western Europe became boring for the next 200 or so years. But this video has opened my eyes, and I thank it for that. I only ever knew Gundobad as the nephew of Ricimer who put Glycerius in charge of Rome, I had no idea he did so much other stuff afterwards.

I love how you keep the year on the top left and move named markers around on the map. Makes time and place much easier to follow.

This man is THE goat

Hype! The Burgundian Kingdom, it's post-Karolingian version, and the fragmentation of it are intriguing but I haven't seen the subject given much attention on youtube history channels.

The poetic epic known as the "Nibelungenlied" from which composer Wagner derived his stories for his epic opera cycle known as "The Ring of the Nibelungenlied" was inspired by the first Burgundian kingdom with characters like Brunnhilde, Siegfried (the hero) and many others. It came however through the prism of the Norse sagas.

What a joy to find a content creator covering this part of history in such depth. And I love your usage of art and symbols for characters, armies and events. Hope your channel grows as much as the Franks did in this video!

Incredibly detailed history. Love this. To carry on: Burgundy survived as a Duchy until the 15th century, making it one of the oldest in Europe. It has enabled the Low Countries to become a world power in its wake, rivaling French dominance.

You are the goat my man. Not too much is spoken about the Barbarian Kingdoms from their migration to the Empire & afterwards because all of them except the Franks were conquered & passed on in a period of 100-300 years (409-721) I can't wait to watch this :)

I really enjoy video’s about the Germanic kingdoms, especially ones about less know kingdoms such as the Burgundian or Suebi, so I would love to see more of it!

I cannot express how good it is, you really deserve 4 millions subs

underrated channel

We need more people like you, your videos are great!!!

Ok this is crazy good. Really nice maps and animations, thanks for the upload

I especially respect your reference to later Germanic poetry and legend. To me, this is what is most important in these stories.

Keep it up bro, love your videos❤

Nice video man, the first one i have seen from you, hoping to see more

Incredible work, thank you

Thanks for this video

i just found ur channel and its amazing, it covers my favorite empires and theres so much quality. God Bless you.

Nice channel nice graphics not too overwhelming and clear simple narration 🤘

your videos are insane, you deserve more subs

Excellent video

def subscribing without a doubt

Great video, bringing attention to an obscure and overlooked kingdom, its people, and its culture. I’m so happy to finally be informed on a topic that has close to no coverage on the internet. Say, what is the next video going to be about?

Awesome video

Awesome channel! Fascinating period in History

Well done! Always an underrated time in History. The transition from late Roman Empire to early miedeval Europe is a very interesting period. 👌

I just want to thank you for making a video on the kingdoms and ongoings of this time period, it is incredibly stale and boring when trying to find information on this particular place and time and I am very grateful that someone finnaly covers it in an entertaining and informative way with good research and proper context 🙏 hope your small channel will grow, you deserve it! And hopefully you'll make a video about the Franks too in particular with all the inheritance shenanigans going on there, would definitly love to see it 🙏 anyhow, just thank you

Great video! I just discovered this channel. I don't know why, but it reminds me of tno for some reason.

Keep going your channel is absolutely wonderful!

Subbed my man

For a split second the thumbnail looked like Egypt. The blue territory of the franks looked like the sea.

Thanks so much for this video. It's the first time I see a so complete and acurate video on this subject. I'm from Vienne and I'm ashame there is no french video as good as your. I will check all your videos.

this is awesome!!! I need more lol!!!

When Burgundia resurfaced in the Middle Ages, it looked almost like Burgundia is on its first step to become one of the major powers in Europe. And when it did gain de facto independence from France, it entered into an alliance with the Habsburg of Austria. Sadly, Duchess Mary died before her time. If not, then Burgandy will survived much longer, maybe even into nowadays. But if she did survive, then her son with Maximilian will most likely become the Duke of Burgundy instead of the King of Castile unless he still married Queen Joanna of Castile like in our timeline. Sure, this means the Habsburg get to rule Austria, Castile and Burgundy if that happened. And that will terrified the heck out of the King of France for sure because with ports from both Spain and the Low Countries in Burgundy, the Habsburg can surround France by both on lands and by seas. Not to mention that this development also allowed the Habsburg to rule the Atlantic Ocean and possibly, colonize more territories in the New World than in our timeline. So King Francis might become more tolerant of the Protestant faith and may resort to asking his sister, Magaret who became the Queen of Navarre by marriage, for the refuge of the Huguenots in her husband's country when the Affair of the Placards happened and even encourage the Huguenots to colonize and claim territories in the New World on behalf of the King of France to counter the Habsburg's influence. As a result, Navarre entered into an alliance with France and became the buffer state between France and the Habsburg Spain and a large portion of the Huguenots left for the New World to expand France's territories overseas. However, this does not diminish the Habsburg's powers. Instead, they might resorted to unifying the German lands under the Habsburg banner much earlier in order to gain resources and manpower. However, the local Lutheran German rulers are not happy with this and will most likely either fled their domains or ask for the Protestant nations to intervene. And with England recently became the Protestant nation for political reasons and also because Sweden was engaged in a war for independence from Denmark-Norway, they will most likely asked King Henry VIII for an intervention. Seeing his chance to spread his influence, he might take it. However, this means leaving the northern frontiers of England to become vulnerable to raids by the Scots. Since neither options worked, they formed an anti-Habsburg alliance to resist the troops of King Charles' advance and his relatives. I have no idea how will that war ended. So this is as far as I can go.

Just discovered this treasure of channel. Thanks! I love the obscure or unknown history of the Germanic tribes transforming into the European kingdoms of later.

So happy the algorithm recommended this. I love

Very good!

youtube algorithm brought me here but the presentation keeps me here.. very insightful, always enjoyed history

Wish i had have seen this earlier… i had previously chased around maps to work out were Burgundians come from and found them jumping seemingly without merging… this kind of explains why… well done, i thank you.

You are filling in the gaps in my knowledge

Perfect❤

Marvelous job! TY very much to show some of the deep & mysterious part of the history and birth of France!

bravo!

New subscriber here, I love the detail to which you cover this obscure content, it’s excellent. I have to ask, will you ever post videos on other Roman foes such as Dacia? Or maybe over post-Roman kingdoms in Brittania such as Mercia/Northumbria?

finaly!!!!!!!!! being waiting for a burgundian video since i retired and became addicted to youtube 😁😁😁

Niceeee job

Ohh yeahhhh. The best French content creator since Toecqville

i recently discovered that my dna is 18% scandinavian while i am italian with a french grandfather. turns out my blond granpa was from Golbey, close to bourogne. those guys truly kept their nordic heritage until these days 😮

Why do you low views? Such a high quality video like this doesn't deserve this screw youtube algorithm i gusss

Great video and channel sadly underrated.

Very interesting. I have tried reading up on the history of the Burgundians, and it's not easy. I knew the broad outlines but enjoyed the greater detail.

And today, Borgogna is most renowned for their wine!🍷

Ayy Bornholm represent!

Can’t wait for you to cover a video of John i tzmiskies & Constantine V barely have much coverage of the two

What a wonderful video! You did make a mistake with Marseilles, it was taken by Gundobad bad in late 490s, in 501, Gundobad gave it back to Alaric, in exchange of military support which allowed him to defeat his brother. Granted, it was the same mistake I made with my video, because most maps are wrong about the subject matter.

The last reminiscence of this Burgandian kingdom was in the XIV-XVe century, with the Duchy of Bourgogne (french name of burgundy). The ducal house was part of the french royal family (the Valois at this time), and took advantages of the Hundred years wars to make their duche an independant kingdom, reclaiming lands and heritage of this old burgandian kingdom. At this difficult time for France, it became one of the europeansuperpower. It was crushed by the french king Louis XI and the Swiss Confederacy, killing the duc Charles the temeraire (you don't have a translation for this word in english) at the battle of Nancy, in 1477. Very cool video you did, and very good to have such interesting barbaric tribes put in light, as they modeled the Europe we know now.

Thanks for the meal bg

Yoooo u got 4.76k subs

Enjoying the video so far, but you reached Worms and didn't mention Emperor Probus sending them to Britain in 278 where they ended in Silchester in Hampshire. From here they served the Emperor against insurrections in Britain according to Zosimus. You also cut out all the cool mythical stuff about them. Lets back up a minute. The Burgundians are first of all the most famous Dwarves or Dark Elves of Germanic mythology. They descend from the Alfheim, a historic region in Sweden where the Ynglings ruled. From here they went to Bornholm then entered Poland where the Myrkvidr runs through into Ukraine. This is likely the home of the Myrkalfar, Dokkalfar, or Svartalfar. Likely being the Svartalfheim. They are defeated by Goths and then from here they went to the Rhine where they were defeated by Probus. Then sent to England, where after they then entered south down the Rhine through the Netherlands, which is a translation of Nidavellir. Which in Old English was Nithawald, or Netherforest. Though Vellir has a broader land definition than forest, so Netherlands is a faithful translation. This makes Britain, Niflheim. The Island of Mist located just North of Nidavellir in the Saga's. From Worms at the Rhine they are then moved into France-Gaul. Here they are now in Midgard, Mannheim, or Valland. Mediterranean literally translates into Middle Earth. Some of the other locations include Asgard and Vanaheim which Snorri points out as being East and West of the Don River by the Black Sea. Professor Tolkien links Ethiopia to Muspelheim in his Essay on Sigelwara land. Leaving the Jotunheim, said to be North East of the Alfheim in the Saga's, making it Finland. This helps explain the later myths of the Niflung saga, or the Nibelungenlied. Once they moved into Valland they began to speak an Oil Language rather than their East Germanic Language, making them "Foreigners" to the Deutch/Dutch people. The Root in Val can be found in Wallachia, Wales and Cornwall among other places. While Deutch and Dutch mean "of the people/nation" in reference to the (West) Germanic peoples. As the Germanic peoples did have a sense of a collective culture, even with different kings and kingdoms. The Burgundians went from one of the people to one of the enemy. Hence their poor portrayal in the myths. Though they were renowned crafts man and had hordes of riches. One such horde was recently discovered and had gold coins from Byzantium. Showing they were playing all sides to their advantage. East Romans, West Romans, and their own peoples. They would have had a lot of interactions with the Saxons dating back to Britain going up through to Brunhilda of Austrasia.

1:38 is that Siegefried of Xanten from the "Song of the Nibelungs?"

As a descendant of Chrotechildis Franklin a well researched video. Any chance of you doing a video of Childeric King of the Salian Franks or his son Merovich who gave his name to the Mervingian dynasty. Gotfried Alamannen is also a great but missing person from history. But my personal favourite is Cerdic of the West Saxons.

What a great video, I knew almost nothing about history just after the fall of western rome, perhaps you Will cover other barbarian kingdoms Such as odoacer and ostrogothic kingdom in the future.

Personally, i think Ricimer was holding the empire together on his own. I would love to see a video on him alone.

Question: by the time of Frankish conquest and start of middle age just how Burgundian see themselves as "Burgundians"? Like the concept of Burgundy was subject of obsession for house of Valois-Burgundy to create a strong state between HRE and France while the dynasty itself always see themselves as "children of Franks", were they could be counted as Burgundians or French?

I would recommend not citing Wikipedia, but looking at what articles they cite for their claims & what those contain, then list those sources as having been used. It's not just people looking down on Wiki, but "Wikipedia" itself is genuinely not the author of what is written on it. Looking at their sources also helps covering more detail (or finding mistakes).

What is the background music at the end?

In the late medieval era , the duchy of Burgundy still existed as an entity, being allied with the English, against France in the hundred years war.

wait poland was germanic back then???

Looking at harnasses and clothes in musea, it looks like the Burgundians were taller than other tribes. Is there any record of that before 800?

Burgundy can stretch from the Mediterranean to the lowlands

Do a franks video and the tensions between byzantine empre vs holy roman empire as legit successor of rome

Why would I learn about fictitious lore on fantasy settings when we have real life history?

was there like a different city called vienna or is this map weird af?

Can anyone provide me resources on where to research Burgundian origins? It's really hard to find anything concrete on Bornholm, (aside from OId Norse Bornholm means Island of Burgundians) and why they would leave Bornholm. I'm so interested in entire culture groups migrating, but I would never have guesses the Burgundians began in Bornholm!

TNO reference?

who was the real last roman emperor in your opinion?

Anyone watching in 535AD?

The first monarcs of Portugal came from French Burgundy.

And don't forget the wine 🍷 😊

For the algorithm

Good! But your sources are not clear!

So the ostrogothic kingdom was really a continuation of the roman empire, it did not have a new germanic influx, just an ostrogoth was the successor. Isn't it?

gamer state

The island of Bornholm is named after them or vice versa.

Heil the Burgundian system

Oh dear! Its like Warhammer: after rome there's only war! Someone wanna leave the EU? Thank you, learned a lot! Greetings from the old territory of the burgundians

STRENG GEHEIM

Cuillère?!? CUILLERE!!!!!!

Imagine people calling you around as Ostrogotha 😅

you flemish or french ?

when is the next byzantine vid?

Came here from Age of Empires

Oh so burgundy kingdom is Switzerland !

Omg guys is that a tno reference

Is that a.......TNO reference?

TNO

The ancient black sun

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