(A squire runs to a knight's tent before a battle) Squire: "Sire! I have terrible news from the scouts!" Knight: "What is it then!? Are we outnumbered? Outflanked!?" Squire: "No sire! It's worse..." Knight: "By god... you don't mean..." (The knight runs outside and sees a mass of Burgundians dressed like larping pimps) Knight: "We've been... outstyled..."

What fashion companies try to sell men: bland suits What men really want:

Here in Holland, 'Burgundian' is still used as an adjective for someone who enjoys the finer things in life.

Everybody gangsta until the gold guilded, silver fleur-de-lis rocking, vermillion plumed bad boys glide in

"Virgin Killer: Sick with the Fairies" sounds like the album of a deathcore band dabbling in folk metal.

You know what charles the bold also wanted, but never got? Switzerland

That story about the Duke of Burgundy was the perfect image of "if you know you got it you don't have to flex it"

In Flanders, we still have the notion of a "Bourgondische levensstijl" (Burgundian lifestyle), meaning a rich and luxurious, but honestly earned lifestyle. This is typically interpreted as fine dining in good company with lots of nice fatty and richly flavored food with the appropriate wines or beers. Sipping a nice beverage with cake or tarts or other forms of baked goods while enjoying the sunset. Just a general attitude of enjoying the niceties of life after a good day's work, without ever approaching decadence or deviance.

Hope you do a whole series on this topic. Would love to see the armor used in places like Spain, Russia, etc

Such an utterly strange yet fascinating armor.

So.... Vaguely like the german style, but with 90% more bling and a lot of bonus brigandines?

Enemy Soldiers: *battlecries* The Burgundian Knights: LOADSAMONEY!

european armour lacks personality, its too efficient and streamlined with all the emphasis on practical use burgundians

Burgundian Average Joe: Hi, I'll like to join the Army. I have years of Archery training. Recruiter: Yes, Yes, you have a Longsword on you? Burgundian Average Joe: No? Why would I have a Longsword? Those things are expensive *Recruiter turn around to the other Recruiters* Recruiter: Look! We have someone here without a Longsword! *Random laughers from a distance* Recruiter: Sorry lad, but you are too poor to join us.

More fantasy books, movies, anime and role playing games need to do armor designs like this.

Burgudians is a new civ on Age of empire 2 and it is very nice to here them about them

The JoJo's of Medieval Armor. Strong, and flamboyant. Be afraid.

Fuck yeah, Toussaint armour is real! *Edit:* Holy cow, he actually mentioned the Duchy of Toussaint later in the video!

11:40 Everyone else in Burgundy: Completely over-the-top fancy guilded helmets and purple velvet. This pikeman: TF are "shoes"?

Imagine a horse completely decked in armor. Legs, neck, everything. This has nothing to do with the video, you mentioned something and then I started thinking about how that would look.

i'm a simple man i see a new metatron video i feel happy

Would love a few vids on Christian and Saracen armors of the Reconquista.

Such alien times, it's hard to believe this amazing history is real

Landsknechts: We are the fashionista of the battlefield! Burgundians show up. Landsknechts: Surprised Pikachu face

The sponsor bit about Virgin Killer? You had me at cheese men.

Burgundian knight orders an armor. Armorer: So what kind of ornaments to your armor do you want my lord? Burgundian knight: Oui

The history of the Burgundii, from the migrations at the end of the Western Roman Empire to their ultimate absorption into France in the XV century, is a fascinating field of study.

Here in Flanders a lot of our cuisine developed during Burgundian times. As mentioned, Flanders was the economic centre and under the Burgundians it could develop its culture significantly (it was a fairly safe period). So, we call people who like to eat luxurious and like to enjoy life "Burgundians". Interesting content, as always!

Fully gilded armour? So Runescape is a realistic game!

Im suprised more people didnt use headcages. Like thinner iron kinda small dome cage that goes from shoulder to shoulder over the head. So it was literally impossible to hit your head with a hammer or sword slash only spears and thrusts.

Burgundian looks interesting

Burgundy is also mentioned in the "Nibulungenlied" its a very famous German poem from the middel ages. I can highly recomend it if you are intrestet in Medival History.

I mean I knew we were ruled over by the dukes of Burgundy but it's nice to hear more about it.

Better to be worth a ransom than be dead. The richer the look the better.

Hey Metatron you ever consider making a video on the English style plate armor? its an interesting set given how the English prioritized infantry/on foot combat even for their plate armor

The story of the emperour looking "normal" and the duke like an emperour says all about them one is it and has to remind none of it the other one whants people tho think he is

I'm Burgundian, and we can still see some armour at the museum of fine arts in Dijon. :)

From the fairly basic research I did a few years back looking for a French style (King's holdings and the vassals closest to the crown) I've been able to find very little, still, there seems to be a general trend. As a general rule French Armor tend to stick to the Italian style (Armet, smooth armor, no fluting, round shapes, ...) as this is what they had been influenced by, from Italian Mercenaries in the early XVth starting to wear these new protections in the Hundred Years War, to the Italian Wars of the early XVIth. However the French adopted a certain number of distinctive elements : - They used embossing or engraving extensively, and used comparatively little etching in their armour. - Just like the Italians they really liked scenes from Antiquity - although these styles seemed to have developed simultaneously and not been copied - as the Renaissance was moving along with it's renewed interest in the classical period. - They loved floral motifs, including extensive use of the Fleur de Lys, emblem of the French Monarchy - They later transitioned their Italian style Armet to Burgonet, a helmet originating from Burgundy, which became much more prevalent as firearms made fully enclosed helmet more of a breathing nightmare than anything else. - But more than any of that, they seemed to absolutely adore the brigandine, which might also explain the relative lack of French Historical Armor (Along with a "troubled History" with the Monarchy and it's symbols) Although those trends seem to be consistent with the iconography, manuscripts and surviving examples, we have to keep in mind that : - This research was very basic no more than a few tens of hours, and relied exclusively on the trusty internet - I'm not a trained historian nor do I claim to be - There are lots of fake armour or Frankenstein armour and without access to those it's hard to assess their historical value, ... It's just a real mess. - The armours that were preserved despite the Revolution"S" tended to be very significant, very fancy or very high status armours. Maybe only kings had embossed armours, and the rest of the knights had standard Italian smooth plates, ... or maybe they were just "less" embossed. There is no way to know with virtually 0 lower-end armour still in existence. This kind of work would require someone like Tobias Capwell to do for France the same kind of work he did for England. And even then, Mr. Capwell reliance on tomb iconography would prove almost impossible given the scale of steles destruction that occurred during the Revolution"S", which is not helped by the fact that unlike England, which is an island (and thus more homogenous) France sits at the crossroads of Europe (Between England, Spain, Italy and Germany) and stayed a fairly decentralized feudal regime for very long, which means that large regional differences in armour styles are almost guaranteed. TL:DR The French probably had the most variety of armours in Western Europe, they were the most fond of dashing but putrescible Brigandines, and have the least amount of surviving pieces or iconography, bar none. In other words ... we don't know and most likely will never have any meaningful idea of what a French army in battle looked like aside from the very basic "maybe" trends mentioned above. But hey, we got castle and cathedrals though, for now ....

If you are intrested in the Burgundians look up the Book " The Burgundians: the Archfathers of the Low Countries" by the historian Bart van Loo. An exellent book.

Really fascinating, will you make any similar videos on other lesser known types of armors? Like i would personally want to see about Byzantine/Eastern Roman Empire armor.

I'm actually looking for more unknown medieval/renaissance armored warriors for a game. You're timing couldn't be better. Ps: It'd be just great if you analyzed the winged hussar's armor one of this days (one of them, since there's quite a variety of types depending on the time period. Winged hussars were around for a long time.)

Another neat armor style was worn by my ancestors Godfrey I Count of Louvain. Kind of a mashup of Gothic and Roman styles it seems.

As a Burgundian, it's lovely to see a video about this :)

Hope we get more videos on the series. Especially about the Spanish armor - like what's worn by the conquistadors; and the English Civil War armor - that are freaking bullet proof!

This style of armor just always reminds me of the knights of toussaint. Nice Video. Greetings from Germany!!!

Burgundy is my favorite medieval state to learn about, Charles the Bold was a madlad. The Burgundians were badass

Dude I'm a huge nerd for this whole topic and yet until he said Luxembourg in this video I straight up forgot about them, shad needs a new merch shirt "but what about Luxembourg" lol

new metatron vid on a Saturday is like a day off work in the middle of the week, hell yea!!

would love to see more about burgundian topics in future in general!

They had the drip of their time

Ive always loved the points of articulation of the Burgundian armor.

Love that pic at 11.42: the master gunner looking through his spectacles at his powder charge 'cheat sheet'.

Your pronounciation of Trier is perfect!

im dutch and i see flanders as our brothers and sisters even we got a lot of jokes for them they do to for us but in the long run flanders is a brother&sister

More of this please! I would absolutely love to hear about different regional armors, with as much detail as you're willing to go in to! This is definitely my favorite recent video of yours.

Your enthusiasm about the book is awesome.

It's really amazing to see how many fascinating variations of armor emerge from so many distinct cultures!

Hope you do a whole series on this topic.

One of your coolest videos yet. I'd love to see videos for other styles.

This was a really inspiring video, I hope you can talk about all the forgotten armour styles!

Could you look at Polish,Lithuanian, or Russian armors of Eastern Europe. Maybe Eastern Rome form Medival times to just before its fall of the Renaissance.

Thank you Metatron! :)

I'm glad I watched this video. Learned something new, & found out about a new book to look into.

I met that style of armor within the Warhammer universe and at first I HATED it but now I really love this style.

Hello and greetings from invicta sir Raphael your channel is awesome romainvicta

Fantastic Video. I love the over the top style of these burgundian armor styles. I was just wondering a few days ago why we don't really see much else other than milanese and gothic armor. Great Work.

Do more videos like this one, i loved it! Very interesting and entretaining

Not only this, but also would be nice videos about medieval orders: Calatrava, Hospitalier, Santiago, etc. 👌👌

Duke Charles „Le Temeraire“ was a big fan of classic military treatises like „The Bellum Gallicum“. He started to reorganize the medieval army into a pre modern army organization. Aside of that he had a vast array of artillery and used them effectively in sieges. Unfortunately the whole army was beaten three times by another new form of warfare: massed Swiss pikers and halberdiers, that didn’t wait for an orderly field battle but instead used tactical advancement upon the arrival at the sieges of Grandson, Morat and Nancy. This led to panicked ranged mercenaries who couldn’t pepper the advancing infantry properly. Also the Swiss were paid by the French king and the Duke of Lorraine. By the way, Your images are from Terry Eagleton and are sold at the National Museum in Bern and from the Funckens’ book about armour and weapons. There’s some loot left from the hapless Burgundians that are still to be seen in Swiss museums. There’s also illustrations from Perry Miniatures.

I'm from a warm humid climate and wonder how Medieval militaries dealt with hot humid weather without getting heat exhaustion.

These are among the most beautiful armor you have, I will use them to inspire me when drawing, for sure.

Fantastic! I'm looking foward to this series! Make It a series! O already knee about the Burgundian Knights, because I studied tem a little to make a mod for Civilization V, but I loved your video and I want to see more. Keep the good work.

i have a nice german bock about armour from eraly to late medieval piriod and it has all the european styles even the eastern ones it was great reading it with ilustratians and all that are createtvery detailed

@Metatron: As far as I know the use of brigandines for foot soldiers came out of fashion especially in the southern and central parts of the Holy Roman Empire since the mid 15th century. It isn´t really known why. The different theories say either a lack of funding, change of tactics (copying the Swiss Reisäufer and the transition into the Landsknecht style of warfare) or cultural change of some type. It was the time the they adopted the puffed and slitted clothing. Some scholars think they tried to mock the nobility in some ways with their flashy clothing while their real life circumstances were often very poor in peace times. Most likely it was combination of all three reasons. However, it shouldn´t be forgotten that the soldiers in the front of a formation often wore plate armour (the so called "Doppelsöldner"). And, I dare to express a wish if you continue this series about various types of medieval armour: take some looks at the eastern European stuff. This is often neglected but IMHO the armour (and tactics) of the area of modern Poland, Hungary, Ukraine and Russia are worth a further examination.

Super Interesting! Please please do more of these videos about armors from different cultures.

Super interesting video, I wish there were more about it!

Had me hooked when you said "Knights of the Round Cheese, that are made of cheese"

"Charles the Bald was a very powerful man, very wealthy..." And very bald? ...

Burgundian to this day in my country means over the top lavish to a point of gaudy. For some reason it Is also the name for marinated citrus in jelly with A LOT of sugar.

This is probably one of your best videos

Burgandy's independent should have been kept. BTW, I thought this was sponsored by AoE2 with their most recent DLC.

Its hard to get my head around the fact that a medieval battlefield looked like a 2nd grade art class project in which they just went bananas with every crayon they could get their hands on.

Really interesting topic. And that armor is quite crazy, looks amazing.

It is cool idea for series of videos.

Maybe the Charles himself couldn't become king, but his grandson Felipe I of Castilla archieved that and with him and his son Charles I of Spain they introduced the Burgundy Cross and put it on the map arround the globe.

The idea of flags on the helmets is something I'd never even considered

Lovely video as always

Thanks for sharing!

I was always wondering what all those pictures on Pinterest were. Now I get it. I can now sleep.

On a different scale, medieval Scottish armies (royal ones anyway) wore saffron robes to show the king's international connection and English Greenwich armour is very showy too.

Metatron, long time subscriber. Could not put my finger on what made your videos extra special. Dawned on me: the respect for your audience you show and the passion you pass through to them.

Like the High Elves on the back shelf, wonderful :)

I think English longbowmen were the first to have “military uniforms.” Each region in late medieval England had their own color that the longbowmen from that particular region would have on his clothes. For example, I believe there’s evidence that longbowmen from Chester wore green.

Burgundy, a very very rich state that is also very militaristic, definitely home of one of the elitest knights, a powerhouse, yet somehow got destroyed by swiss halberd, pike weilding peasants, they also did the same thing to the imperial knights of HRE, history can be weird at times.

the video is well done man, i really enjoyed it. you gained another sub :D

Burgundy, the home of Medieval Bling! also i appreciate that you took the time to read and comment on your sponsor's book. i don't personally care for thrillers or serial killers but good for you for giving it more than just an ad spot.

"There was one thing he didn't have, and never will have, and that was what he really wanted" - at this point I thought "hair?"

What you have in the thumbnail looks more like heroic- romanstyle harnesses from the renaissance. Like Filippo Negroli’s work

That looks so slick!

A brigandine bard. Thats glorious. I think i like these burgundians.