Thank you for that high praise, it's much appreciated. I could happily talk for hours about this era and intend to start doing live streams this year which is simpler and less time intensive that a produced video like this. I will certainly make vids about Cassingham and Lincoln. And yeah Dover is a great case study for why state of the art castles were worth the money. Cheers!

Wow thanks.

Uh, no

@@Anglisc1682 Cry

@@smal750 the norman’s weren’t french

the french fighting each other to decide which germanic guy gets to tule over them lol

The French speaking nobility 'English' that is

Yeah I think you're right Jake.

Perhaps, depends on his latter conduct if he lived.

Thanks, I will start putting the info together. There's not much but he deserves to be celebrated, whoever he was.

@@DanDavisHistory Looking forward to it, thanks.

@@DanDavisHistory How pivotal a role do you think William of Cassingham played in the formation of the Robin Hood myth? Great video, by the way.

Thank you! I will have to do one, I think.

Interestingly there were English elements with Harald Hadrada in his 1066 invasion - notable Harold's brother Tostig. That whole "North Sea civilisation" period was pretty incestuous. The Normans, Danes, Norwegians, Engish, even the Scots and Irish were so intertwined.

I agree.

@@DanDavisHistory indeed, I do wonder if all of England would be “francified”, or if eventually a new hybrid culture would develop and perhaps even spread.

I agree, it's interesting to consider isn't it. England has had many kings from the lands around the North Sea and the essential character of the English people continued despite the cultural influences from a small foreign ruling elite. The Normans had the largest impact. The Danish "Emperor of the North Sea" King Cnut and his sons before the Normans of course. The first Stuart was foreign of course. William III, George I... Being part of the wider, ascendant Kingdom of France would have changed things more, I would imagine. France was already becoming the most powerful force in Christendom, with the resources of England too... But maybe they wouldn't have held it long. Belligerent lords could have overthrown their king while he was occupied elsewhere across the Channel perhaps and installed one of their own. Amazing to consider that this great branching of history might have been stopped by the efforts of an impoverished squire in the wilds of Kent.

Thank you! Very much appreciated.

You mean u think this is better than a BBC style presenter rattling on as if they're permanently addressing 5 year olds? 🤷

@@ChrisMeerkat anything's better than BBC.

Thank you very much! It's funny you mention that, I just this week watched the episode of the UK TV series Time Team where they go to Mont Orgueil on Jersey one of the other Channel Islands, a King John castle used by the Germans in their occupation. And I hope you enjoy the books. This is the series page on Amazon: www.amazon.com/gp/product/B074CJ5CYV

It was southerners that kicked them out! I'll have to make that Cassingham video.

Yeah, no

Thank you!

I will have to do that for sure.

I agree!

It's easy to decide that every decision the losing side took in a battle or war was wrong. But I think Godwinson was right in that case. Rushing north to Stamford Bridge had worked out wonderfully for him, and he didn't want the Normans to establish themselves in his kingdom. He had to show he was a king who protected his people and lands.

@@georgebailey8179 Consul Quintus Fabius Maximus begs to differ.

Lol nevermind! The link is right here! 🤭

He was amazing. He was probably about 71 at the Battle of Lincoln and yeah he was in the front line of the charge which is glorious beyond belief. Check it out, from the Life of William Marshal about the slaying of the Count of Perche, the enemy commander at Lincoln: "the Count had already taken a mortal wound from a sword, thrust in a fearful lunge through his visor by Sir Reginald Croc; and now, as he saw our forces driving his men back, he let go of his reins and gripped his sword in both hands; then William the Marshal dealt him three successive blows upon the helm, so fierce and strong that they left clear marks upon it, whereupon the count collapsed and went tumbling from his horse. Seeing him fall, the Earl Marshal thought he’d lost consciousness and feared he’d be held to blame. He said to William de Montigny: "Dismount and take off his helm - it’s giving him trouble: I fear he can’t stand up." When the helmet was removed and the Marshal, at his side, saw that he was stone-cold dead, there was much consternation; but from the moment the blade had been pulled from the wound dealt through his visor, his death had been inevitable. It was a grievous pity that he died so." It's funny because the author, presumably under direction, has tried to absolve the Marshal of the blame of killing rather than capturing the Count of Perche. "Someone else killed him first, all the Marshal did was crack him over the skull with his sword three times hard enough to dent his helm, just a few taps really." Lol

That's very kind, I'm glad you enjoyed it. The Marshal is a truly heroic figure. If his life was fiction people would say it was far fetched. Thank you for watching.

No you are Not! You last name would be Marshal than! You are a Brown, a random mishmash of people that all lost their names and identities and were ruled by Clan Brown and had to change your last name to Brown! Fact is almost all Browns were not related to the Clan Chief! I am sure that is who you are trying to Trace your Ancestry through! And most likely even he was lying about his Ancestry, like most Low Land Chiefs! A Chief also being a Royal was Rare! Like my direct Ancestor the once War Masters of Scotland the Chiefs of the Great Clan Ross, the Earls of Ross, 1st which being Fearchar the Son of the Priest! Ross is a Pedigree, all Ross' that could not prove their Pedigree by Paperwork became Mackenzies ruled by the Earl of Ross' Cousins the Makenzie Chiefs (our Evil Twins). The 1st Stuart King 2nd wife was a Queen Consort Ross who's children the Royal Bloodline Settled on. Ross' were the Original Highlanders, we were Clan Arias (Anrias) in the Past, and are a Scythina Clan as laid out in the Declaration of Arbroath who a Chief of Ross the Earl of Ross was 4th to Sign (this was right after the advents in the Braveheart Movie, with Ross-shire being decimated for hiding the Queen, and the Earldom of Ross went from 10,000 Fighting men down to 2,000, and the War Master (of Scotland) and Chief the Earl of Ross captured and brought to the Tower of London, and was released on the Condition his Son needed to marry the English Kings Sister Princes Maud! and I probably should research if that was the 4th Earl of Ross' Mother, the 1st to take on the Surname Ross, the Chief of Ross, the 4th Earl of Ross, Hugh Ross, and the last real Earl of Ross, till the Title went to the Stuarts! and maybe that or something else like it, was what related the English Crown to the Scottish and why the Scottish Crown became the English Crown, with maybe quite a few cross overs making that the best Choice for the English). See what happened here is after two highland Clearances and the Destruction of many of the Original Clans, the Scoti Clans that were Scythian Clans from Royal Scythia (with the Scoti Royalty coming from a Bloodline of Scythian Kings), after we were kicked out and mostly destroyed and basically outlowed, the Low Landers that did it with the English decided you fancies our Culture barely a generation later, and came up with your own Coat of Arms, and your Chiefs came up with these Fancy Stories of your pasts that weren't true, but to try to rival the real Clan Chiefs they Ran Out for the Better Part! And you came up with Crests you never had before, and your own Colors you mostly barely had before, and these Tales your Chiefs were Descendants of Kings which were Generally not True! And you could only do this, because you Destroyed not just Highland Culture, but wiped us out after two highland clearances! And than you stole our Culture! You are a Brown, not a Marshall! You have no clue what your Past was, unless you are daring to say you are directly related to your Clan Chief, as all Browns and the Sort Pretend, but that would no different than a Mackenzie demanding they are related to the Ross' cousins the Chief of the Mackenzies (an Earl now I think, or atleast one of them) just because their name is Mackenzie, but that is not how it worked, for Clans like the Mackenzies or Browns, everyone they Conquered lost their Indentities and became Browns or Mackenzies! Only the Orginal Clans, the Scoti Clans that came from Royal Scythia were Clans of Pedigrees! Clan Ross is the Gentry from the Great Clan Ross, and the Great Clan Ross was Clan Arias before the War Master and Chief the 1st of Ross Fearchar the Son of the Priest, who with his Great Armada and Great Army of Ross with his Cousin the Kings Troops kicked all the Viking Lairds out of Scotland, and Stole their Lands and Gold, Greatly Expanding the Earldom of Ross (from the ashes of the Mormaerdom of Ross) and making who would be known as the Ross' the Richest and Most Powerful Family in the Highlands for some Generations! I think its a Nasty thing to do, do two highland clearances and than steal the Culture of the Highlanders! You weren't Clans, you were Thugs, Ruled by Thugs!

@@randyross5630 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️ You have a severe case of superiority complex.

@@kingdomofcumberland1504 Why wouldn't Hetro-Superior from the Master Race of Ross! I am Your Replacement, the Omega Mon! Do you now Feel Better that I have Validated what was just a mere Hypnosis or maybe Theory, that is now a Cold Hard Fact! That I have Delusions of Randeur (and yes I spelt that right!)...

@@kingdomofcumberland1504 I was Forced to Fight this Brown once, 260lbs Steroids, had atleast 70lbs Muscles on mee! What do you suppose happened? When a Petty Homo Sapien Crosses Hetro Superior! Who Falls from Literal WAR MASTERS! And Trained with an Asian Master, an Aikido Master! (but mostly with his son doing MMA before UFC) just what do you think happens Twice over in less than 2 seconds when a Bull of a Mon is Dumb enough to come Charging me! He Bull Charged me Full Tilt, and I kicked my Blue and White Air Sandals off past each side of his head in a Cross and we meet grips on each others shoulders as I sprawled out the Bull of a Browns Charge. The brute 260lbs Muscle to mee 165lbs took a top down grip on mee shoulders, baring out at the elbows and back in with the Forearms, whilst your Champion! Mee! Gripped from the Inside, like a Maui Thai Grip but lower, and a grip hybridized with the Tiger Claw, and I burrowed my Nails as I struck my grip like a lion grasps into its preys hinds! And in that Moment I was stronger than the Beast, as I dug my claws in and disabled that muscle grouping! And the Beast was stunned at my pure might and as I defused his Bull Charge and began to just for a mere split second over power him! So the Beast shrugged his Shoulders and regripped and bore down on me with his Might! Now I mind you I Fall from War Masters and Trained with an Asian Master, and as he Bore Down with his Might the Beast known as Steve Brown from Tamworth New Hampshire (FYI), was Off Balance, and Horrible so, so in a Drunken Instance! Mixed with Slow Motion and Hyper Speed Thinking, I instantly flung one leg around his lower back, pulled up with my Tiger Claw Maui Thia Clinch! And with all Haste Kicked out one of his feet with my other Foot and swung that around to meet the other locked by the ankles in a wrap of their own, a tight wrap! And at the same time went from Full Thai to Half Thai and did a one finger knuckle punch to the temple stunning him for just long enough to whip that same arm without interference into the Famed! Flying Guard DDT! Than I beat him again just as quick! Knocked Out Twice! My whole life is like that! Sometimes people decry miracles, so let me correct your statement of "severe case of Superiority Complex" to a Severe Case of Superiority! Just to be more accurate!

One of the most devastating Scottish invasions was in the English Civil War when the Scots army linked up with the Parliamentarians to defeat the Royalists at Marston Moor. They later helped Charles II invade England but were defeated by the Parliamentarians at the Battle of Worcester and then about 10,000 of them were enslaved and transported to plantations on Barbados and the West Indies.

@@DanDavisHistory That's interesting. Could almost be another video there. But yeah I really appreciate the way you and History Bro format your videos. Very informative. Very engaging.

Thank you that's very nice to hear. Great suggestion about the video topic, I'll have to do that.

Thank you, glad you liked it. Yeah it's a very different style of warfare. I think it's to do with the social organisation. In the ancient world you had either sophisticated centralised states that had the logistics to organise vast armies or you had barbarian cultures with a flatter social structure (all free men are warriors) that occasionally massed into huge hordes. The medieval era tended to have much smaller states with semi-independent rulers so the units of social organisation were smaller geographically and demographically. And more resources were focused on individual knights and men at arms. His armour and training and the money to equip him with expensive well trained horses and the supporting men to keep this knight "unit" going. So the number on the page might say 1,000 knights and on the ground that is many thousands of men plus thousands of horses. Good idea for a video!

@@DanDavisHistory Broad Bush Strokes... Now the Once War Masters of Scotland, the Chiefs of the Great Clan Ross, the Earls of Ross, 1st which being Fearchar the Son of the Priest! Historically had Armies of 10,000 Men just from the Earldom of Ross, and as War Master wielded bigger forces when also wielding their Cousins the Scottish Kings Troops. When the War Master and Chief the 1st Earl of Ross Fearchar wiped out the Viking Lairds in and around the Highlands, one by one, cutting them off with his Personal Armada it wasn't a Few Thousand men being used! But Tens of Thousands!

@@DanDavisHistory I wonder if this was before or after the French King had a Queen Ross for a Wife, and if this was one of the times the Ross' sided with the French Crown, against the English, or more around the Period the English Crown married into us, (not by choice by the condition for the Chief of Ross the Earl of Ross to be released from the tower of London) and it worked well enough, and we stayed quite for a generation...

@@DanDavisHistory I'm trying to find more books/sources on this period specifically and it's hard because most just have Magna Carta and end right there. Any good sources?

​@@Sean12248 I have updated the video description to include a couple of the books I've read on the era just off the top of my head. There are many biographies of John but that one makes the argument that many of the most extreme criticisms of John comes from the clergy who he challenged during his reign. He doesn't set out to absolve John or anything, just to take a measured approach.

Thank you

Thank you! I hope you enjoy the story and the whole series.

@@DanDavisHistory Great Series, Am up to Impaler, Very amused that Duffield Castle is so prominently featured as that is my Mums Maiden name lol

@@bremnersghost948 Brilliant. That was really a de Ferrers castle. Presumably you have ancestors from Derbyshire. Hope you enjoy the rest of the series and don't miss the prequel series Gods of Bronze.

@@DanDavisHistory East Yorks as far as I know, Mostly around Market Weighton, But that only goes back to 1840s. Assuming the Prequels are on Kindle Unlimited will certainly read them. I suck up Books like a Pint of O- lol

@@bremnersghost948 yeah they're all on Kindle Unlimited. There are short stories between some of the Immortal Knight novels too so keep an eye out for them - eg Vampire Assassin and Vampire Bard

It's on my channel now. Hope you enjoy the video.

@@DanDavisHistory Thank you! :)

Thank you. I've reached the late 17th century in the Immortal Knight Chronicles but instead of staying in England we're going to the Caribbean for Vampire Buccaneer. So eventually I'll make videos about the golden age of piracy. I don't know how many of my subs will enjoy that but hopefully enough. Cheers.

@@DanDavisHistory OH, yes, please! Port Royal !

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Cool, yeah it's very rarely mentioned in British history but it's an amazing story.

Lol I'm glad someone noticed.

Thank you.

Bros trying to trigger the english

Thanks Ciaran! Yes it's a shame Richard has hardly been recorded in history but then he wouldn't have it any other way.

That was Richard Neville.

@@Meow_Zedong_1949 Thank you.

Before he invaded he was advised to obtain an "invitation" from some British faction. He assembled a huge army. 250 carrier ships and 60 fishing boats carried 35,000 men, including 11,000 foot soldiers and 4,000 cavalry. Upon landing the king's forces began to run away or changes sides and the king fled. It was an invasion, just a highly successful one.

Rest assured I shall not be dressing up in the ladies dresses of the period.

The only reason this war happened was because France conquered Normandy and poitou from England and decisively defeated the Anglo-holy roman coalition at the battle of Bouvines.

Even more embarrassing since they hold the most victories out of every other nations.