Mad respect to the makers of this video for actually putting an effort into pronouncing Portuguese names and places correctly.

I've lived in the UK for 20 years and never treated badly. The British are special people, nothing but respect. Big hug from Portugal.

It is bizarre how allegiances like this feel like they are ingrained in our very DNA - as a Brit I have always loved Portugal

Best Regards from Portugal, your proper bruvs 😂🇵🇹❤️🇬🇧

God Bless Portugal! from your English friends

Forever thankful to Portugal for bringing us tea❤️🇬🇧

As a portuguese grandaughter of a british lady I can say i am happy that my ancesters were alies 👌❤️

I always knew about Portugal being our longest allie but never knew why. I always buy a Portuguese football shirt every few years and love the country. Wish more people knew about our history

Britain is forever thankful to Portugal for breaking the Spanish naval blockade while we were defending the seige of Gibraltar.🇬🇧♥️🇵🇹

I am a Brazilian, i have both british and portuguese ancestry🇬🇧❤️🇵🇹

Even in Brazil we learn about this historical alliance back in school.

Ive lived in Portugal and it is my most visited holiday location. I love Portugal

So weird I lived in Spain and always felt a hostility towards being English. Been on holiday to Portugal and felt a sense of home being there! Must be in the DNA

Have never met a bad Portuguese person yet. They are lovely people.

The friendship between Portugal and England predates the formal alliance, and is rooted in the very foundation of the Kingdom of Portugal. In May 1147, a contingent of crusaders left from Dartmouth, Devon in the Kingdom of England. They had intended to sail directly to the Holy Land, but weather forced the ships to stop on the Portuguese coast at the northern city of Porto on 16 June 1147. There they were convinced to meet with Afonso I of Portugal, who had in 1139 declared himself king of the new Kingdom of Portugal. The crusaders agreed to help the King attack Lisbon, which was at the time held by the Moors with an agreement that the crusaders could pillage the city's goods and get the ransom money for expected prisoners. After successfully retaking Lisbon, most of the English crusaders are believed to have settled there.

Our oldest allies. Love to Portugal 🇬🇧❤🇵🇹

Excellent presenter. 🇵🇹 ❤️ 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Both have St George as a patron saint too

The longevity of this alliance is nothing short of a miracle in the turbulent world of international relations, and a source of pride for all Lusophones around the globe. Here's to another 650 years! Congratulations to both countries from Brazil.

Did you know that the oldest brother of Nuno Alvares Pereira, the commander of the Portuguese forces at Ajubarrota, was on the Castellian side and the very mother of Nuno came to plead with him to switch sides fearing his capture or even death? Nuno stood his ground and said no, knowing he was facing a far superior force. Now that courage, or as the Brits say, had f* balls!!

More recently Portugal helped us to win the battle of the Atlantic by allowing British and American aircraft use the Azores as a base from which to launch anti u-boat operations over a part of the ocean which had been previously inaccessible to maritime air patrols.

Love Portugal, been many times when i was young and now with my family. Great people, food and country.

Love how this highlights the special relationship Britain and Portugal gave which by far outways the so called special relationship between Britain and America

I would like to take this opportunity to congratulate Mike Loades for his mastery of Portuguese pronunciation... and for his usual excellence in bringing before our very own eyes lively incarnations of historical events. Cheers.

There's something really cool about reading the comments and seeing the mutual respect from both countries. Respect lads 👊

Portugal and Britain the most old friends 🇵🇹❤️🇬🇧

as an englishman i do actually love portugal.

One thing I haven't found studied anywhere, but seems logical to me, is the origin of the british fleet. You can't just build a modern navy through orders and resources thrown at it, without the complex mathematics and production engineering of such ship building, yet that's what's accredited to Henry VIII and his predecessor. The role of Portugal, and its Lisbon arsenal engineers, is very likely under reported.

Portugal and England saved each other efectively. But the batle of Aljubarrota and The batle of Bussaco were 2 Key moments in portuguese history. Thanks England, we love you and your friendship. 🇵🇹🇬🇧

Absolutely love Portugal and always have. England and Portugal have a beautiful and long history of keeping their promises to each other.

I enjoyed this very much. Wish Portugal and England still had a common travel area like the UK and Ireland where you can live in each other’s countries without restrictions, since the UK has left the EU. I think that would be an awesome way to honor our long standing alliance.

As a young man my girlfriend and I went to Portugal... I was surprised how friendly they were to us. As an englishman it is nice to be like by foreigners. The only other friendly countries I have travelled through ... Italy and Germany:)

It is good to know the history of Portugal and England, and 650 years of the oldest treaty in the world.

The smaller countries too the win. Very few times Portugal went to battle without being outnumbered

The statue in the middle of the rotunda in Porto in tribute to England says a lot about the relationship.

Thank you Portugal

The battle is one for the ages! Still studied till this day. Proud of this alliance, specially for us in the North of Portugal.

I love Portugal, hope to visit someday.

Brothers. 🇵🇹❤🇬🇧

Really it was fascinating historical page of correlation between Portugal 🇵🇹 and Britain 🇬🇧 confronted French 🇫🇷 and Castilian dynasties allies...thank you for sharing

these 2 countries with their alliance marked the course of history, had immense influence on a global scale...it is indeed remarkable

The biggest battle in Portuguese territory was the Batle of Bussaco. 50 thousand anglo-portuguese (25 thousand British+ 25 thousand portuguese) against 50 thousand french!! General Wellington was on the comand of the anglo portuguese army, wich beated napolon army in 3 invasions!!

Great content, Mike Loades really makes a good effort to have a Portuguese pronunciation on portuguese words, great work indeed.

I find it really fascinating that an alliance between 2 countries has lasted 6 and a half centuries and is still intact today.

Fascinating history of Portugal and England. I knew about the friendship but I didn’t know more about it. Cheers

Portugal gave not only Mumbai to England but also Tanger in North Africa, that gave control over the Mediterranean to the Brits, that didn't had Gibraltar yet

The mastermind of the battle of Aljubarrota was the Constable D. Nuno Alvares Pereira, an awesome tactician who won several battles by forcing nobles to fight on foot (something unthinkable at that time) agains the spanish cavalry. I guess he studied the battles of crecy and poitier very well :)

It's always good to the soul to watch a well made foreign-made documentary on Portugal. Well done. The old museum of the battle of Aljubarrota had excelent descriptions of the actions of the english bowmen, as well as an overal description of the battle. It also had figures & lists of the dead castilian and french noble dead, showing the carnage caused, giving the visitor an excelent idea of the efect the battle had. The _modern_ museum, otoh, is an interactive sh$t that shows a movie and some artifacts and that's it.

Phillipa of Lancaster may have been born in England, but she was adopted by the portuguese! The best honorary citizen of our country. She was the woman who gave us the generation of brave rulers that began the descobrimentos

Portugal and England's alliance was always something everyone acknowledged even though some not understanding why, at least that's what I've noticed here in Portugal will all my friends and even family. It is so great to really go in-depth into the why(even though I already knew some of this, I didn't know all of course) our history was always connected in some way.

Muito obrigado, excelente como sempre Mike Loades. Love tuga

Possibly the best thing I’ve watched in a long time

Shout out to Nuno Alvares Pereira, who isnt mention i think, but is the reason why aljubarrota was won. Man literally came to Aljubarrota imediately after beating his brother's army, which was 3 times larger, only to beat castille's main army which was also atleast 3 times larger. Definitely a tactical genious.

This alliance even had dramatic ramifications for Brazil, the country I live in. Faced with the ordeal of having to choose between yielding to Napoleon led France or to the pressures of England, Portuguese prince regent D.João (the reigning Queen, Maria I was mad by then) decided to transfer the entirety of the Portuguese government to Brazil, one of Portugal's colonies at the time. It is the first instance in history of an Eurpean monarch setting foot into one of his colonies, and the sole example in history of a phenomenon called "metropolitan inversion", in which the seat of a colonial power (Lisbon) is abandoned in favour of a city within the colony itself (Rio de Janeiro). It was the British Royal Navy that escorted the Portuguese Royal Family to the shores of Brazil with safety. The gun salute that heralded the arrival of the first European monarch ever to set foot in the Americas was fired by British ships of the line. Brazil owes it's elevation to the status of "United Kingdom of Portugal, Brazil and Algarves" to the ancient alliance Portugal had with England, which prince João (later King John VI of Portugal) sought to maintain.

Keep the Mike Loades content coming please. I enjoy everything he ever delivers!

Now THIS is high quality history content. Most history channels post such simple information and with innacuracies. While this video doesn't have all the meaningful details, it still got most of them and the production itself was great

The amount of information in "just" 15 minutes is actually overwhelming. Excelent content.

Very nice to see an english perspective on this! Just one thing about the battle of Aljubarrota. The fighting didn't last the whole day as it's said here, the castillians arrived at the grounds in the morning by the road in the north and had to go around the site because the ground was unfavorable and steep. The Portuguese Constable, Nuno Álvares Pereira knew they would do this and had the ground previously prepared on the opposite side of the ridge facing south, where the actual fighting would take place. The castillians took a long time to bring up the huge number of men into that new position and seing the sun was going down, the king (Juan I) who was sick and travelling on cart gave in to the pressure of a few hot head nobles and ordered the attack, which lasted for only about an hour before sunset in a perfect trap. It's one of Portugal's most important victories as a nation and a great example of a battle in the hundred years war.

All this talk of England and Portugal makes me want to watch Shapres Rifles!

Two great sea faring nations that were explorers and were not too far from each other. Portugal saw a brother in us and we in them. Our alliance is the oldest and will forever stay that way

Best allies ever! And we're still friendly nations!

Catarina de Bragança didn’t introduce just tea in England, apparently ginger biscuits were also introduced by her… her brother, the King of Portugal, used to yearly dispatch a ship from India straight to England with tea ginger and other spices for his sister

This military alliance had even greater consequences, as the Portuguese royal family left Portugal for Brazil to escape Napoleon and did so with the help of the English fleet. Therefore, Brazil became the center of the Portuguese empire and because of this it remained united, unlike what happened to Spanish America.

This video's quality is amazing, from the facts to the presentation and the spot on pronunciation. Cheers from Portugal

Once you started showing the vineyards on the interior of my country, sitting next to river Douro, that sure spelled home for me. Those vineyards shown are near where I was born and where currently my parents and sister live. I'm already home sick ❤ I have to visit England, asap. England has beautiful things, great culture and great people. One of these summers

Philippa of Lancaster is a very beloved queen of the Portuguese. She was the mother of the illustrious generation, the generation of kings, princes and princesses who came to elevate Europe to a global continent, which would come to lead the planet. In addition to the more than famous Henry the Navigator, we must also highlight her sister: Isabel of Portugal who married Filipe III, Duke of Burgundy. The Order of the Golden Fleece, is an order of chivalry founded in 1429 by Filipe III, Duke of Burgundy to celebrate his marriage to Infanta Isabel of Portugal, daughter of the Portuguese King D. João I and his wife, Queen Philippa of Lancaster. The Order received privileges hitherto unknown to any other order of chivalry: the sovereign should consult it before conflicts; all disputes between its knights were defined by order; knights could be tried by the order in matters of rebellion, heresy, and treason; among other peculiar characteristics. Throughout the Middle Ages, the Duchy of Burgundy became an economically powerful region. Philip III planned to convert the region into a sovereign state between France and the Holy Roman Empire, regaining the territory of Lotharingia. Eventually, Philip III inherited the counties of Flanders and Artois, the duchies of Brabant, Luxembourg and Limburg, as well as the manors of Henao, Zeeland and Holland, making him one of the most powerful feudal lords of his time. D. Isabel Infanta of Portugal and Duchess of Burgundy She was born in Évora in 1397 and died in 1471. She was the daughter of D. João I and his wife, Queen D. Filipa de Lencastre. She is one of the illustrious princesses, whose brothers and sisters would come to be known as: the "Illustrious Generation", who, due to their exceptional ability and extraordinary competence, would change Europe and the world, as no one had ever done before. Princes from all over Europe wanted her as a wife, and D. Isabel came to marry the Duke of Burgundy and Count of Flanders, Philip II, the Good, who had already been widowed twice, one of the most powerful sovereigns in Europe, a courageous warrior , which conquered and united Holland and Zeeland to its states. The Infanta's dowry was 150:000cruzados (60:000:000 réis), a very important amount at that time. A squadron of thirty-nine warships came to Lisbon to fetch her, with the sires of Roubaix, Toulongen, Noyelle and other Burgundian nobles. With a happy journey she arrived at the fleet in Bruges, where the duke was waiting for her, and received her with the greatest demonstrations of love and joy. The wedding took place on January 10, 1429, according to Father Francisco de Santa Maria, in the first volume of the Historical Year, p. 70, and in January 1430; according to other writers. The parties were sumptuous, the likes of which had never been seen in that country. For greater pomp and in honor of his wife, the Duke of Burgundy instituted the most noble order of the Golden Fleece, which is only conferred on sovereigns and people of the highest nobility. In its institution, this order had thirty-nine knights, which was the number of ships that made up the squadron that had come to fetch the new duchess. The order militates under the patronage and tutelage of Our Lady and the Apostle Saint Andrew; his insignia is a golden lamb, hanging on his chest from a necklace, made up of rifles also made of gold, to which writers give various meanings. This order was professed, after the states of Philip were united with those of the house of Austria, all the emperors of Germany, and all the kings of Castile, preserving in the latter the dignity of Grand Master. Also professed in the same order, at different times, several kings of Portugal, France, England, Scotland, Hungary, Naples, Poland, Denmark, and almost all the potentates of Germany, and many other lords of Europe . Beautiful, energetic and prudent, D. Isabel proved worthy, due to her virtues and high intelligence, to share the fate of the Duke of Burgundy, and when in 1434 the Duke went to Flanders, the Duchess was left to govern her States. She excelled in this thorny office under difficult circumstances, and has since taken a most important part in diplomatic dealings with France, England, and other powers. She attended the congress of Arras in 1486, promoted in 1439 the conclusion of a treaty of commerce between England and Burgundy. She obtained the freedom of the Duke of Orléans, who had been a prisoner of the English at the battle of Agincourt in 1415, etc. The life of the Duchess D. Isabel was a sequence of noble, virtuous and chivalrous actions. In 1453, knowing that the city of Constantinople was taken by the Turks, she wrote with her own handwriting to all the Christian princes, encouraging them to recover it, and offering herself with all her vassals to be a companion in the works and the conquest. Charles VII, of France, claimed that the States of Burgundy were his feudatories, and should pay him tribute and the Burgundian dukes should come to attend the parliaments. The duke defended his sovereignity, not wanting to recognize himself as vassal of France. To prevent a breakup that would be fatal to both States, the Duchess went to Paris, and with eloquent words persuaded King Charles VI, that the election be decided by the duel of two knights. The king accepted, naming the most skillful and hardworking French knight he had in his court, and the Duchess of Burgundy chose Álvaro Gonçalves Coutinho, the Magriço, as her defender, who was returning triumphant with his eleven knights from the famous London duels. The day of the duel arrived, which was attended by the entire court of France, the Duchess, the respective judges and many nobility and people. In the first impetus, the contenders broke the spears, and pulling out their swords, Magriço cut off his opponent's head, thus winning the dispute, of which he was a diligent champion. (V. Magriço). In 1457 he left the court, and went to live in the castle of Nieppe, at the foot of Hazebrouck. D. Isabel was also distinguished by her charity and the care with which she treated the poor and the sick. She always retained a great affection for the States over which she was sovereign and the greatest interest in the fate of her native country. The Duchess had three children, of whom two died as boys, and the third was the celebrated Charles the Bold, who succeeded his father and was the last Duke of Burgundy. She outlived her husband by three years, and died at the age of seventy-four, being buried in the Carthusian convent of Dijon. There is an autograph letter from the Duchess D. Isabel, which was kept in the Bruges Archive, and whose translation or copy was published in the newspaper O Popular, in London, in 1825, vol. III, pg. 262. Few know that the highest order of chivalry, the Order of the Golden Fleece, was instituted in honor of a Portuguese princess, who together with Empress Isabella of Portugal were married to the two greatest sovereigns in Europe of the 15th and 16th centuries.

Fantastic work buddy. Really appreciated. Bless 👊

Magnificent video, thank you!

Excellent video! Loved it. ❤ Quito-Ecuador 🇪🇨 2023

Cheers mate, You lot rock 🍻 🇬🇧🇵🇹

Had no idea of these events. Thank you for your excellent work.

love Mike Loades documentaries - really great!!

What a fantastic high quality, highly informative vid. So good!

So, so interesting. The narration and visuals are well done. Thanks for this! Love history.

This is really well made! Some channels like History Marche are just ever so slightly dull but this and Indy Neidel hit the spot

Thank You for sharing this vid! So much of Portuguese might in medieval times are not known! Always forgot but a powerful player!

Nice video. Hugs from Porto, Portugal 🇵🇹

Thanks. Im Portuguese but i love England

🇬🇧♥️🇵🇹 and the Portuguese tea😊

absolutely fascinating

that is really fascinating! I love stories like this.

About Robert Devereux 1589 expedition it gave rise to an expression in Portugal, "the friends of Peniche" it is used as a reference to fake friends because they plundered some villages along the way ro Lisbon when they saw Lisbon's defenses they fled.

No one expects the Portuguese alliance!

Fantastic thanks for sharing this history with us

Very good explained.

For me, the Battle of Aljubarrota was an important part of the 100 Years' War. The Portuguese army fought in the manner of the English at Crécy. In 1385 there were 1000 English archers in Portuguese territory, 800 of them on the northern border with Galicia, so perhaps 100 or 200 of them could have participated in the battle. In any case, there was knowledge of English tactics, for example, one of the 26 knights of the Order of the Garter was Portuguese and the latest investigations into Constable Nuno Álvares Pereira in the years prior to the Battle indicate that he may have fought for some time with the English.

The products of The Douro Valley are a joy. Nice film, thanks team! 🌟👍🍷

Great video, awesome edition, excelent and accurate information. Congratulations.

Thank you for this video I love it history

I ve learned they were 200 English bowmen not 600!?Nice to see the commentator saying their names in Portuguese as João and not John!❤️🇵🇹

It's interesting that both countries have the same time zone too btw hello English brothers and sisters - A brother from Portugal

Thanks!

Good to know the history of Portugal, which influenced much other countries

This treaty indirectly led to Brazil's independence. 🇧🇷🇵🇹🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

All it boils down to is; 'an enemy of my enemy, is my friend'.

Extremely interesting!

Love your work, HH 👍

Their sons (half-portuguese, half-english) should have been mentioned, they were very influential in portugal's discoveries.

What I love is white Oporto. Not near as well known (unless you like syllabub) especially in North America, but it's a very refreshing flavourful wine without being quite so intense as red port.

Can’t believe our luck that these videos are free ❤️

Very interesting video 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍