Hello! Today we dive into the first Stuart King. Apologies for the clipping audio towards the end of the video, I had to switch recording mediums and ran into some issues. As always, I hope I was able to do this story justice. Thank you for your interest in the video/channel. As always, if I catch any errors, or any errors are brought to my attention, I will add them to the "Errors & Corrections" section at the bottom of the video description. Cheers!

@limitedaxcess

Жыл бұрын

I can barely hear your voice even though I've got My ear piece on full.

@PaddyMac

Жыл бұрын

For the Earl of Moray …. Moray pronounced “Murray”

@jamellfoster6029

Жыл бұрын

I'm here for it. Can't wait... Btw, you did a superb job with Elizabeth I...

@English_Dawn

Жыл бұрын

@@PaddyMac Thank you for your kind nudging. Place names are an absolute minefield for Americans in particular, because of our Celtic/Roman/Saxon/Norse/Norman history. I gently urge corrections like you have done and BH takes them in the light heart as they are meant. He is remarkably efficient for most (99%) of them so I hope our little offerings help the 1%. The work he must do must be mind-blowing so it is our duty to help him to have a more stellar product. 🙂👍 Thank you so much. Regards, Titus. 😉

@English_Dawn

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BH. There are one or two hints at linguistic help on this post. Please don't be disheartened for an American you do a stellar job. It's because there are so FEW faux pas that we feel compelled to inform you and make your finished product even better. 😁 Americans are not the only ones who perhaps struggle. The Romans founded Eboracum, the Vikings took over but couldn't pronounced it, pronouncing it Yarvik instead. Now it's Anglicised to York. "Castra" Latin for castle is found in many English cities and towns Lancaster, Gloucester, Manchester, Worcester etc. Saxon (German) " Burh" meaning fortified place, in cities and towns like Edinburgh, Canterbury, Salisbury, Marlborough etc. Even Norse (Danish) ending in "by" meaning village, like Derby. Looking at an English map is like reading an historical document. If you have a Scottish patois it's no wonder the word "steward" soon got changed to "Stuart". Sadly the Stuarts suffered grievously. Very few died in their beds. Only James IV at English hands when he attacked them , the others at Scottish hands. James V being the only one that passed-away peacefully. In the Confedaracy it's hard to think of J.E.B. or John B. Gordon speaking with a Scottish "burr" like James Bond or "Scotty from Star Trek. Don't forget the Welsh like Jeff Davis . Hard to think of him being a "Taffy". Love to hear his accent. 😊 A major Confederate munitions company being the Tredegar Iron Works. Love the documentaries about it. Never have they got the name right. Tredegar "Tred-EE-Gar" is a centre of iron-working in Wales. Thank you for your endeavours. Hope you've learnt something too. 👌 Thankfully the U.S. has had only one Civil War so to speak. Here there's been many, the Anarchy, the Barons Wars, WotR, and the "Civil War" that's just within England not counting, Wales, Scotland and Ireland and umpteen rebellions like the Monmouth Rebellion. Looking forward to your next video. Charles' relative Prince Rupert of the Palatinate the "dashing Cavalier" loomed large. The two biggest battles in English History took place on the outskirts of York nearly two centuries apart. The second biggest Rupert was involved in, at Marston Moor. He went on to fight the Dutch at sea in the Anglo-Dutch War. You'd think that would be enough for anyone. Not for Rupert, became a member of the Hudson Bay Company I think and has some land in Canada named after him. He was like the Elon Musk of his day. When he lost Bristol to the Parliament forces he was "traded" as the Americans call it. But he came back as dashing as ever and got made an Admiral. Traditions very much still hold in Parliament to this day. The Beaufort badge the "Portcullis" is everywhere even in architecture. The "Black Rod" ceremony at the Royal Opening of Parliament with the Commons door shut in the face of Black Rod (the monarch's representative). I even think they search the cellars for gunpowder. Thank you for your mention of November 5th, "Bonfire Night". "Gunpowder, Treason and Plot". Do you think that incident in Staffordshire was the first "shoot-out" in history when the Worcestershire Shire Reeve (Sherrif) and his men opened up on the conspirators? Like at the arrest of John Wilkes Booth. Take care and much obliged, 👏👏 Titus, 🙂

We need to post these to other platforms. He deserves a lot more subscribers by millions.

@LittleMissScareAllKy

Жыл бұрын

Agreed

@elizarose8930

Жыл бұрын

💯💯💯❤️

The more I study the Gunpowder plot the more I am convinced that the mastermind behind it was Robert Cecil. He definitely knew about it from the very beginning, he had his spies everywhere and the radical Catholic community in England was relatively small. One of the reasons for hiring Guy Fawkes was his living in abroad. In one stroke Cecil he could prove to James that he is irreplaceable and crushed the English Catholics forever. Some theories are going even further blaming James for the plot.

@mikealvord55

Жыл бұрын

Some think we never landed on the moon too!

@wor53lg50

Жыл бұрын

You do realise nearly all of britain was catholic before henry the 8th you do realise that guy faukes family was staunch catholics, one of the wealthiest and was one of the most influential in northants born and bred, where do you idiots get your history, merican school text books?..nobody should force or impose a religion on other peoples.. It Can sometimes end badly... its most probably why they beheaded the queen of scots at fotheringay castle to show a warning and set a example in a staunch catholic area, many statley homes and manor houses throughout the shire had preist holes, that still can be viewed today, some only being discovered through renovations in recent years...

@lilia_casburn

Жыл бұрын

Cecil always being one step ahead

His mother was beheaded by the english, his son was also beheaded by the english... Not the most friendly nation towards Stuarts.

@English_Dawn

Жыл бұрын

It was reciprocated. The Scottish and French through the Auld Alliance conspired together against the English. The Scottish nobles and soldiers fought for the French against the English at Baugė where they killed Thomas, Duke of Clarence, the brother of Henry V, the senior English noble lost. They fought again at Verneuill against another brother John, Duke of Bedford. It was a disaster for the Scots. James I, who had been taken prisoner was later released by the English to Scotland was then murdered by his Scottish nobles. Henry VIII's brother-in-law James IV invaded England while Henry was in France on continental prompting. The Hapsburg Emperor even providing the artillery. Mary Queen of Scots had been in England 19 years and was Elizabeth's cousin. Only plotting with foreign powers was sadly her. undoing. Sadly Charles was an absolutist walking into the House of Commons without permission. He was the last monarch to enter the House of Commons.

@bbmtge

Жыл бұрын

That's because you're both ignorant of history and too foolish enough to post said ignorance.

@guyplessier7935

Жыл бұрын

A nation of murdering psychopaths complaining about their neighbours is so funny 😂😂😂😂

@shawnv123

Жыл бұрын

but he was ironically one of the most english nationalist kings

@ladydreadqs639

Жыл бұрын

Oh please!!! The English were Soooo NOT friendly that their family was on our throne for a few hundred years where the English worshiped the King's , not all English were Parliamentarians hence the "Civil war".

Both James and his mother Mary had a weakness for a fine figure of a man. But at least James did not sacrifice his throne to them.

Yes!!! Lemme get my popcorn ready for a reverting video

Thank you so much for your great research and informative story. Margaret Tudor's husband James IV attacked England (on foreign prompting) while Henry VIII, his brother-in-law, was in France. Queen Catherine of Aragon and Thomas Howard foiled the Scottish invasion at Flodden in 1513. Thomas Howard was an examplar of Tudor mercy. His father John Howard, Duke of Norfolk, fought for Richard III at Bosworth Field as did Thomas as the Earl of Surrey. He was wounded. During the reign of Henry VII & Henry VIII by loyalty his estates were restored to him and he became the Duke of Norfolk. He became Admiral of England and led the army at Flodden. I have seen the secret staircase at Holyrood Palace where Lord Darnley and the conspirators entered the Queen's bedchamber. Queen Mary Stuart visited her ailing husband at Kirk 'O Fields and saw a servant coming out of the cellar and asked him why "He was so grimy?" If she has been in on the plot she would have known he was placing gunpowder in there. Just a thought? She was in Edinburgh Castle later that night and heard a terrific explosion. She was shocked. It's only a small thing but there are some pronunciation errors. 1). "Gowrie" is pronounced Gow (as in "cow") ree. 2) "Jacobean" is pronounced Jack-o-bee-ann. 3). "Catesby" is pronounced Kates-bee. 4). "Recusant" is pronounced Reck-u-sant. Much obliged for your patience. 🙂👍 Tudors get a bad press, compared to the Stuart's? The early Stuart's in particular James I to IV. "Carolus Rex".

@bbmtge

Жыл бұрын

Why is it deemed necessary to try to appear smart, regurgitating things that you have read as if they are your own? Absolute desperation.

@israelizzyyarrashamiaak766

Жыл бұрын

@@bbmtge lol none of us were there to know for facts anything. Therefor everyone regurgitates facts they’ve read. Kind of like the person making the video you are commenting on. It’s history my dude. None of us were present to verify a damn thing. Acceptable sources is all we have… Nice try on discrediting someone more intelligent than yourself. You succeeding in making yourself an uniformed Karen. Have a nice day. The manager should see you shortly

@English_Dawn

Жыл бұрын

@@SALeppard Thank you. I think Mary Tudor had a tough gig seeing her mother divorced. There is a church St. Mary's, Oxford where a pillar has a section removed to accommodate the platform where Bishops Latimer and Ridley and Archbishop Thomas Cranmer were tried before they were burnt at the stake in the Catholic purges. In Broad Street there is a cross on the floor that marks the spot. Balliol College front door has 'scorch' marks. Saints Thomas More and John Fisher were executed by Henry VIII. Saint John Fisher had been his maternal grandmother, Margaret Beaufort's confessor! 😮 Also executed was Saint Margaret Pole Countess of Salisbury whose brother Edward, Earl of Warwick had also been executed by Henry VII. 😢 Her son was Reginald Pole, Cardinal. It was most pitiful she was 68 and the executioner was a greenhorn that chased her round the room with an axe. It was customary to offer those burnt at the stake a small barrel (costrel?) to cut the suffering. It was filled with gunpowder and placed round the neck. As you say it was a brutal time.

@bethwilliams4903

Жыл бұрын

Don’t let Henry VII off the hook! He murdered (called judicial murder) the young Edward of Warwick, 28 Nov 1499, cousin on his own wife, a boy he had kept on the Tower, in solitary confinement for 14 years, literally from the moment the dust settled at Bosworth he sent for the boy at Sheriff Hutton, where he was in the household of his cousin John de La Pole, alongside his Montagu cousins and likely Elizabeth of York. Richard III had him knighted, as if he were a real person, a real member of the Yorkist affinity, in Sept 1483. Once H7 usurped the throne it was only a matter of time before he was conveniently disposed of - the two Buckingham sons were handed over to Henry’s mother, their young mother Catherine Wydeville married immediately to elderly Jasper Tudor, in November 1485, well before Henry got around to marrying Elizabeth of York. As to Edward of Warwick’s older sister, Margaret, she will be married off (at 14 I believe) to a Tudor- Beaufort ally) and along with her sons suffer execution, trials, incarceration in the Tower under Henry VIII, not just head of the kingdom but head of the Church as well. It is usually held that Henry VII exterminated Warwick to satisfy the doubts about his reign to the Spanish, if he wanted Katherine of Aragon then Warwick had to go - so a ‘treason’ was arranged. For a child who had never been outside the Tower for 14 yrs, other than to be paraded around during the Simnel affair, no tutors, no visits to court with family, literally no contact with the outside world it is no wonder his sister remarked he didn’t know a goose from a gander - one didn’t see such things INSIDE a prison cell. Later Henry VII chances on another cousin of his wife, Edmund de La Pole, a scholarly type who beat it to the continent once he saw the way of it at home - when he fell into Henry’s hands as a prisoner exchange (if you will) it was on condition that Edmund would NOT be executed - so into the Tower, where his once scholarly writing deteriorated into unintelligible scrawl, torture will do that - it is true H7 did not have De La Pole executed, he left instructions for his odious son to do that - and he did, 1513 - if you have any notions that H7 was a soft hearted and gentle ruler think again, he often over saw tutu ye and interrogations himself (as did Edward IV on occasion) - one method of execution was to have men suspended from London Bridge, awaiting the coming tide to drown them. Fortunately for posterity H7 left copious records of payments to his spies and informants - his gambling and bets, he may have kept his wife in straitened circumstances but he paid his spies very well.

@bbmtge

Жыл бұрын

@@SALeppard Foolishness.

You have a wonderful reading voice! Thank You for these history lessons. I am very old, but I really enjoy listening.

@cherimolina2121

Жыл бұрын

Agree. I can't listen to those robotic monotone fast paced rambling videos. This one is just right.

OMG! YOUR VOICE AND THIS CHANNEL IS SUCH A EDUCATIONAL WONDER! THANK YOU, FROM,TENNESSEE! KEEP THESE VIDEOS COMING!

I love how these histories meld and merge together, one of the benefits of of doing them in order 👏👏

Oh yay another history channel, I love watching these grow 👏

Another wonderful video. James is truly an interesting king, with such interesting parents and odd upbringing. Looking forward to your next video!

We celebrate Guy Fawkes in South Africa 🇿🇦 as well with fire crackers. Mainly in the Western Cape region. Most probably because of our historical links to Great Britian. As a kid I always just heard stories about this Guy Fawkes guy trying to blow up Parliament in the 1500s and thought it was our Parliament building. Until I did my own research and realised it was actually a British holiday😅. Thank you for this interesting video👌👍😉

@BriefHistoryOfficial

Жыл бұрын

Very interesting! Thank you for the comment!

@ziyaadgatab7223

Жыл бұрын

@@BriefHistoryOfficial Your Welcome 🙂

This documentary was absolutely phenomenal!! U did a great job, so informative and well done 👏 I’ve watched this 3 times

Not sure how this channel evaded me for so long, but extremely pleased I found it! Wonderful channel, I feel a binge catch-up coming today lol 💚 top notch

This is brilliantly done.

That was amazing. One of the best on James Stuart I have ever watched. 👏👍

Ive watched all of your videos in the past 2 days. I CANNOT wait for the Elizabeth II video

@English_Dawn

Жыл бұрын

So sad about the passing of Queen Elizabeth II. She will lie at Holyrood House Palace the home of Mary Queen of Scots.

Man I love this channel such great info !!

Love your videos. Thank you for your work.

Excellently presented, thank you

As always your presentation is AMAZING!!!! WOO HOO!!!!

He also was responsible for the increase in witch trials in England.

@winnienguyen4420

Жыл бұрын

Yes James was all types of different things. He was homosexual and loved The Duke of Buckingham to the point of referring to him as his wife! But on the other hand he was a devout Protestant who had his own bible created and also a demonologist and very superstitious regarding witches and what not. But he was also the polar opposite of a warmonger. Preferring lasting peace with Spain who was the previous arch enemy of England. In fact he was so anti- war that he had Sir Walter Raleigh executed for starting a conflict with the Spanish in the Caribbean. Such an interesting character.

@JeantheSecond

Жыл бұрын

@@winnienguyen4420 I’m glad he was anti-war, but I’m still mad about the witch trials. 😉 You’re right, though. Interesting and complicated person.

@winnienguyen4420

Жыл бұрын

@@JeantheSecond definitely understand

@diesincringe4243

Жыл бұрын

@@winnienguyen4420 he had his predecessor's favorite to be executed?

@winnienguyen4420

Жыл бұрын

@@diesincringe4243 yes interestingly enough Queen Elizabeth had another of her own favorites executed herself. That being the Earl of Essex.

Thank you for the brilliant work.

Excellent video, well done indeed. 3 of my direct ancestors came to a sticky end on the Edinburgh 'Maiden' .. Regent Morton was the first.. ironic because history has it he ordered this early guillotine built!

EXCELLENT, EXCELLENT, EXCELLENT!! I love this to-the-point no-frills approach! New subscriber and ALL notifications on (something I rarely do). 👍🏻😃 GEEZ, the Scotch court was such a pit of vipers! Please do a video on James' first born son. I often wonder how history would have played out if he survived and Charles had never become king.🤔

I always found it so bizarre just how “quick” James’ accession was. It’s like everything had been perfectly set up behind Elizabeth’s back to allow for the smoothest possible I always thought Anne Stanley was the real successor to Elizabeth, so to see how James became king instead is fascinating

@joeblog2672

11 ай бұрын

Excellent point. I was casually surprised when the narrator said that James was declared king on the very same day of Elizabeth's death without going into detail as to how this determination was made. There were (as always) other candidates for succession. It should have been rather contested given Elizabeth had no children to inherit the throne and yet only one other woman (who I can't remember except that it was not Anne Stanley whom you mentioned) was mentioned as a potential successor along with James.

@pedanticradiator1491

3 ай бұрын

​@@joeblog2672 the other woman you are thinking of was probably Arrbella Stuart, James's English born 1st cousin who did look like at times she was being groomed as Elizabeth's successor

Great work as usual

I was really excited for this one because my favorite English dynasties are the Platagenets (particularly the Yorkists) and the Stuarts and you certainly didn’t disappoint (as usual)! I’ve always been really fascinated by James, with his long reign and complicated childhood and his interpersonal relationships. I’ve made my case in the past to others that my top three most influential English monarchs would be William the Conqueror, John, and Henry VIII and I still stand by that but I definitely think James would be in my top five because his ascension being a Union of the Crowns, production of the King James Bible, and the conflicts England navigated during this time period made a lot of waves with regard to world history. Excellent video of a really fascinating guy, it’s always a treat when you upload!

@English_Dawn

Жыл бұрын

Why the Yorkists? They were murderers, Edward of Westminster, Prince of Wales and Henry VI, his father. Then they executed/probably murdered their own. God be thanked the right House won, they were very pious and their foundations Eton College, and King's College, Christ Church College, St. John's College and Queens' College all in Cambridge, the latter also with Queen Elizabeth Woodville, thrive. 🌹

@English_Dawn

Жыл бұрын

William the Conqueror yes, Henry VIII not so sure? His father Henry VII was a Renaissance Man and made an alliance with the Haosburgs, the rising power of continental Europe and for the first time for decades put the Exchequer on a stable footing. Other monarchs up there have to be Henry II, Henry III, Edward I, Edward III, Henry V and Elizabeth I. John? What did he do? He was a major cause of a Baron's War which he lost and was forced to sign the Magna Carta. His son, Henry III who re-built Westminster Abbey and his grandson Edward I who was fundamental in the Model Parliament and accepting the Provisions of Oxford and of Clarendon. He saw the justice of Parliament in it's own right rather than summoning it to raise money. John's father Henry II blotted his copybook with involvement in the murder of Saint Thomas a' Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury but helped with administration of the realm.

@English_Dawn

Жыл бұрын

The Stuarts were a Scottish dynasty not an English one. The very name was from a steward of an earlier king. Sadly some of them died violently. James I was murdered by his nobles in a religious house in Perth. James II died when he was beseiging the English in Roxburgh Castle and a cannon nearby exploded. James III was killed at Sauchieburn and James IV killed at Flodden. James IV felt guilty about his part in the battle of Sauchieburn and had an iron belt constructed to wear as pennance to which he added and extra link every year.

@sc6658

Жыл бұрын

@@English_Dawn When I say “English dynasty” I mean “dynasty that ruled England”. The Hanovers were German and I still count them. Tudor was a Welsh dynasty as well, and technically the Plantagenet dynasty was French since it originated with Geoffrey of Anjou.

@sc6658

Жыл бұрын

@@English_Dawn When I included Henry VIII, I’m thinking of him splitting off from the Catholic Church. Had he not done that, no children he had would have been raised Protestant and the cultural shift toward Protestantism in England either wouldn’t have happened or would have happened much later. And English Protestantism went on to shape wars the crown got involved in, was a factor in the deposition of James II, and even has heavily affected the religious attitudes of the United States because many of our political leaders have at least some bias against Catholics despite Catholics being 20% of the country. That decision of his reshaped English culture and later that reshapement reached out to its colonial holdings to do the same there. We are still feeling the effects, in fact. And John I would put in my list due to the Magna Carta, yes. I argue this because of the Magna Carta’s influence despite John more or less ignoring it because it was a landmark treaty that established things like the king needing permission from the councils/Parliament to levy taxes (which was generally followed after it was signed). Magna Carta (or at least the idea of it) also influenced documents like the US Bill of Rights, and people have attempted to use Magna Carta to argue things in court as recently as 2012. Its influences vary heavily from being actually legal to being symbolic, but I would argue it carries a pretty heavy weight. Essentially, when I make my list of most influential I’m looking at how the effects of their actions and decisions can still be seen in the modern day. That is where my argument comes from.

You make my love 💓 of history more complete by the sympathetic way that you narrative these amazing stories. I thought l was well informed about this period in time but you have increased my knowledge tenfold, plus you have a very pleasant reading style which only adds to the pleasurable experience lots of us find in your historical knowledge. It's official, l am addicted 😊

King James I/VI is truly history of interest, king James bible/ and flag Union Jack as well the intro into the Stuarts, thank you very much, Cheers!

@silverstem2964

4 ай бұрын

How about witch burning?

@pedanticradiator1491

3 ай бұрын

​@@silverstem2964 very few witches were burned in England they were usually hung I think burning may have been more common in Scotland though

Wait... King James's parents were cousins??? What does the King James version of the Bible say about cousins marrying each other?

Excellent, in depth look at James I / VI, but I wonder why his book "Demonologie" and his paranoia of witchcraft wasn't touched upon in this. I thought I remembered reading how he felt it was witchcraft that caused the storm(s) that prevented Anne of Denmark sailing to England ?

Thank you for the best.😘😘

Esme Stuart, Seigneur D'Aubigney was French, BUT the Darnley Stuarts were the Lords of D'Aubigney and hereditary commanders of the Guard Ecossais , who were the French King's Bodyguard. This dates back to the 100 years war where a Scottish Army fought for the French as an Expeditionary Force. Sir John Stewart, Earl of Buchan who won a major victory against the English at the Battle of Bauge on 21st March 1421 against Henry V's brother Clarence. He was appointed Constable of France and Commander in Chief of the French Armies but killed in the disastrous defeat of the Franco Scottish army at Verneuil in 1424 which also saw the destruction of the Scottish Army in France. One of Buchan's relatives was Sir John Stewart of Darnley who commanded with him in France, he was present at Bayge but absent at Verneuil, he became Constable of France after Buchan's death and was made Seigneur D'Aubigney and then Comte D'Evreax . He was killed at an action during the Seige of Orleans made famous by Joan of Arc's intervention. The D'Aubigney Lords went on to be formidable warriors in the service of the French Kings and Robert Stuart D'Aubigney led Francis I armies in Italy. Esme wasn't one of the 'martial' Lords..😉

This was really interesting and told so clearly 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼well done😃

I love this channel

Outstanding! Bravo Zulu!

Actually, James' title was James I of Great Britain, not of England. All previous monarchs were either of Scotland or of England. James unified the crowns as James I of Britain.

@Walthur13

Жыл бұрын

Not true, I'm afraid. The kingdoms of Scotland and England were individual sovereign states with their own parliaments, judiciaries and laws. Though there was a union of crowns (hence the title "James I of England and VI of Scotland") there was no union of states - even though James advocated it. His was a personal union of crowns. The "United Kingdom of Great Britain" did not come into existence until May 1707 following Acts of Union passed by the English Parliament and the Scottish Parliament. This took place 82 years after the death of James.

@williammurray9945

Жыл бұрын

England and Scotland didn't become one union until the 1700s during the reign of Queen Anne when the United Kingdom of Great Britain was officially formed. You are incorrect

@FrankBlaise73

Жыл бұрын

@@Walthur13 That is precisely what I told another commenter regarding this incorrect misinformation regarding King James I of England. He made the argument that a royal decree made by King James in 1604, which declared him “King of Great Britain”, was the reason for him to be called the first British monarch. However that decree was only non-statutory and was not regarded in any official capacity as King James’s actual title which was king of England, Scotland, Ireland and France by historic pretense.

@symphonyofsolidarity

3 ай бұрын

No Anne United Britain. Although he did start calling himself king of great Britain, he didn't really officially unite the countries

What a welcome surprise. Wasn't expecting you to drop this video on a holiday weekend. WOOHOOOOOO! I'm only at the beginning, but wanted to say that I'm also surprised James VI & I's "brief" history is an entire hour. Me and my bff (a fellow amateur history buff) place $1.00 bets on how long each monarch will run on your channel. Closest time either over or under wins. We started this tradition right after Henry II due to a heated debate on which of Henry's sons would warrant the most discussion. LOL. My guess on James was 40 minutes, she had 50. I might be out a buck, but any video that's longer than anticipated is still a win on your channel because it means there is more detailed information to absorb. Thanks for the consistently awesome content. This is by far one of the best educational channels on this site!

@kiernan415

Жыл бұрын

@@davidmilton5887 lololololololol

Your videos are my favourite ❤️

I was somewhat surprised to not recall having heard any discussion about King James's obsessive delusional witch hunts that he by all accounts very actively organized. That certainly left his hands quite bloody and his reign no less than utterly ☠ ☠ poisonous.

@henryix9229

Жыл бұрын

Witchcraft was becoming more popular during his reign.

@earlofmar7987

Жыл бұрын

The young John Erskine, and James Stuart (1/V1) had successfully hunted down an entire family of cannibals. Their off spring were half wits. They lived in caves and were accosting the carriages that were on the road. It became apparent something was wrong, when entire groups went missing. The young Earl of Mar and King James (1/V!) assembled trackers, and they brought the Baits Family back to Edinburgh for execution. I think this freaked James out. And he became interested in all things twisted & weird. His religious upbringing by the Erskine's and his tutor's., made him wary of anything strange.

@mikepopham7191

Жыл бұрын

Such a jolly, ☺happy time it most likely was, to have been alive during those golden years of Merry Ole England🤥😶‍🌫

@earlofmar7987

Жыл бұрын

@@mikepopham7191 Oh yeah, sure. I've tried to read as much about my family (The Earl of Mars), in hopes, they never betrayed their seat of power. But the "Castle Drama", is all to real, when it comes to wielding the monarchy. My family, were his keepers, educator's and of course friend and guardians. Everyone likes to throw down on what went wrong. Sure as hell been different, if their was another English Tudor that was crowned instead of James VI/I. Once Prince Williams, becomes King, we will finally have another Stuart.

@mikepopham7191

Жыл бұрын

@@earlofmar7987, I am genuinely intrigued by what you have shared thus far, in regards to your family history. You seem to be quite a fascinating lady in deed😉 . Would definitely like to hear more! I am a descendant to ancestor Sir John Popham, who served queen Elizabeth the 1st loyally and faithfully as Lord chief justice of the peace and speaker of the house of commons 😃

💜 I love watching your videos of documentaries of the Kings and Queens of England. I’m always excited to watch them and learning something new. 💖

It's interesting that he was known as the wisest fool in Christendom and also amusing that when you consider his counterblast against tobacco He complains about passive smoking, warns of dangers to the lungs, and decries tobacco's odour as "hateful to the nose. Considered ridiculous 100 years ago he was several 100 years ahead of his time.

your voice is so soothing

keep going brother..👊👊

The man who laid the groundwork for a great union and the one who first proclaimed himself the first King of Great Britain. God keep his soul.

@Johnson-pw5zu

Жыл бұрын

Queer Elizabeth just joined his Soul in that Special place in Hell - Exactly where they BELONG 🐀🐷🤡 !!

The “first” British Monarch.

@yourmammu

Жыл бұрын

Is Queen Anne

@Sulla-ps3jv

Жыл бұрын

@@yourmammu Yeah. But James was the first to rule both England and Scotland. He wanted to use the title King of Great Britain but Parliament refused.

@yourmammu

Жыл бұрын

@@Sulla-ps3jv "but parliament refused" so you know exactly it was not lawfully bestowed upon him the title. Not untill the acts of union in 1707 under Queen Anne.

@Sulla-ps3jv

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@@yourmammu Yeah I know. That’s why I put “” around first in the OG sentence.

@Dimera09

Жыл бұрын

@@Sulla-ps3jv Lol. MJ is taking none of it 😂

I don’t think Mary Queen of Scots was “infamous“. She’s quite a sympathetic character. The infamous queen, I believe, is Queen Mary I of England, A.k.a. Bloody Mary. Older sister of Queen Elizabeth I, rather than cousin.

@katharper655

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Mary QOS spent the last years of her Scottish reign pulling one foot out of one nasty pile while her other foot was stepping in a fresh one. She married Henry Lord Darnley for 2 reasons: she had the raging hits for the nasty thing, and to spite Elizabeth I. Then Darnley's temporary home got blown up and Darnley was strangled. Mary fell under suspicion when she became involved with Bothwell, the man suspected of killing Darnley. He "kidnapped" her, "raped" her..and she married him of her own free will. Be SYMPATHETIC if you please...but Mary Stuart was an idiot.

@Susieq26754

Жыл бұрын

It didn't matter. Queen's could be controlled by all the men around her. Mary Queen of Scots may have been more sympathetic, but she was Catholic. She was also not very wise. She married weak and violent men, who were rebellious and greedy for power. Elizabeth, on the other hand was very aware of men and their spying and plots. She never wanted to assassinate her cousin. She wanted to imprison her for life. But her spy masters convinced her otherwise. They pressured her and even Elizabeth had no peace. Nobody wanted another Bloody Mary rule. Burning people on pires, because they rejected Catholocism isn't a way to run a peaceful government. Elizabeth had to let her spy masters do what had to be done. To save many people's lives.

@suzyqualcast6269

Жыл бұрын

Didn't BM Mary a spaniard, the fear being the threat to England/Union of the Pope/Catholicism ?

@JOEFABULOUS.

Жыл бұрын

She spent years plotting Elizabeth's death got what she deserved

Good content

If only Prince Henry had survived; he would have been a better monarch than his brother and the civil wars might have been prevented.

@nemorinoeso7581

Жыл бұрын

And HRH Elizabeth II would probably be an unknown german princess. Edit: only 4 days after this the Queen died. RIP Your Majesty!

@sirwelch9991

Жыл бұрын

@@nemorinoeso7581 She wouldn't have been born actually. Because it took the different changes in the line of succession to make the necessary marriages for her lineage to exist.

Awesome voice!

We are in mourning and sad times for our lost queen. 😢 The Accession Council broadcast and seen by the public for the first time from St. James's Palace. If you saw it because we have an unwritten constitution, you may have observed the pledging by King Charles III to preserve the Church of England and the Church of Scotland which are independant. The monarch officially changes religion when they go over the border. Under the Stuart's largely thanks to John Knox a reformer under Calvin, the "Kirk" is more Presbyterian. The Church under Elizabeth was a median way between the "old religion" Roman Catholiscism and the Protestant Churches, being Episopalian in nature. God save the King! "Carolus Rex" .

@Ch0senJuan

Жыл бұрын

Lol

Love your videos! Will you do a video about Mary, Queen of Scots or will you be sticking to English / British monarchs?

@jasminbensch

Жыл бұрын

@@SALeppard So, will this be a monthly thing, that you criticize my comment? You already wrote something similar last month. And for clarification: I wrote English / British monarchs because the earlier videos were about English monarchs and the upcoming videos will probably about British monarchs.

This was excellent! I'll admit I watch these frequently. I do hope Brief. History makes a video on Mary Quess of Scotts. And has BH ever considered going back to the Anglo Saxon period? Lots of cool history there too!

James was a keen politician,unlike his son Charles 1 unfortunately. Also James sniffed out the gunpowder plot! Well done as always! Will you cover epic clashes like the 100 years war and the Wars of the Rose's? Would be great to see!

The Hanoverians came to power in difficult circumstances that looked set to undermine the stability of British society. The first of their Kings, George I, was only 52nd in line to the throne, but the nearest Protestant according to the Act of Settlement.

I love these videos! Please, don't stop them 🙏🏻

Thanks!

@BriefHistoryOfficial

Жыл бұрын

Thank you Sheila!

History, it's just one bloody thing after another!

The summation of his reign at the end, is a stark contrast to Elizabeth’s, and throws into relief what an excellent and capable regent she truly was.

Commenting to help the channel.

Subscribed!

Anglia in east midlands was the last strong old of Catholicism, its where guy faukes state home is, and many old manor houses can be found with priest holes still in them, also a huge statly home that was never completed still to this day due to having conections, and one of the main factors why MQOS was beheaded at fotheringhay castle,to set a example ...

Loving the vids 👍 One of the best channels out there

What I'd like to know is can their descendants use their coat of arms? Because Mary Queen of Scots is like like 9th or 10th great grandmother... Just wondering, because the queen that just passed her and her family are my cousins.. I know that sounds like a strange question to ask but just wondering.

@suzyqualcast6269

Жыл бұрын

Oh, yeah, really ¿?

@earlofmar7987

Жыл бұрын

Yes, Parliament, passed an Act, that said, all Scots and their nobility, shall be allowed in wear their kilts and display their Coat of Arms, in 1968. Diana, runs thru my side of the family. Her line goes thru Earl of Morey, who's mother would be Margaret Erskine (her father would be Earl of Mar), and father King James V. King James V, was going to marry Margaret Erskine, but he had to honor the Auld Alliance with France and so he married the King of France's, sister but she died. So he married the second. He had two children with Margaret.

Just re-reading. 😏 Please note James has had a lasting memorial on a culinary level. On his his journey from Scotland to accept the title he stopped at Houghton Tower, Lancashire. He was served a superlative joint of beef, fit for a king. He was so taken with it he took out his sword and knighted the loin of beef "Sir Loin".

@thomasraywood679

Жыл бұрын

Explains why I so enjoy lancing one.

History ❤

Born: Edinburgh Castle Scotland Father: Henry Stuart Lord Darnley Mother: Mary Queen of Scots Great Grandmother: Margaret Tudor Wife: Anne of Denmark Daughter: Elizabeth Stuart Son: Charles I Of England

People preferring the son over the King kind of like how people preferred Prince Henry the man that would later become Henry the Eighth over his father Henry 7th. Most have been a big blow when Prince Henry died and even bigger blow when the king James died and Prince Charles became King. Prince Henry the man that could have been King but sadly never. What a twist.

@English_Dawn

Жыл бұрын

What if Henry VII's first son Arthur had lived? England remain Roman Catholic and the monasteries not be dissolved.

@COBO2

Жыл бұрын

@@English_Dawn yeah what if and then England would’ve had the first King Arthur and maybe certain people wouldn’t had their head chopped off 😂 imagine that.

@lisadwyer9699

Жыл бұрын

@@English_Dawn I wonder how Arthur would have reacted if He & Catherine couldn’t have a living/surviving Son… Interesting to contemplate

RIP Mary Queen of Scots 2 year James :(

To understand how popular he was, just recite “Remember, remember the 5th of November, with gunpowder, treason and plot. I know of no reason why the gunpowder treason should ever be forgot”. (Guido Fawkes, if you know who he was). Then remember what was attempted, and wonder why.

@Cromwelldunbar

Жыл бұрын

How can we ever forget. We are reminded of that dick-‘Ed all the time every minute of the day now we’ve adopted the Americans’ obsession with calling everyone ‘guys’’ as in “hi guys!” Surprised so few reply “Fawkes, the name jerrss’ a-call me ‘Fawkie’ 😇! Hic…

@Johnson-pw5zu

Жыл бұрын

@@Cromwelldunbar You folks are Delusional.. FULL 🛑 figure it out though because the NON EMIGRANT AMERIKAN is kicking the chaotic european Out of THEIR WORLD 🔥🔥🪶🪶🪶

Finally, answers to the question I've never previously found an answer for. Why, if the Scot king was made the king of England was the new combination not made "Scotland "just as if Scotland had conquered England. Thanks for answering that. 😂

@British-Patriot

Ай бұрын

What are you on about? Scotland didn't conquer England.

@SirWulfrick

Ай бұрын

@@British-Patriot *shakes head*

@British-Patriot

Ай бұрын

@@SirWulfrick Care to refute?

@SirWulfrick

Ай бұрын

@@British-Patriot I didn't say they did. I said "as if".

James the first took most my ancestors land as his own. Bit of a site point 8n our history.

Like Old Lang Syne, the tune?

he is my great great great great great great great grandfather

this guy was one of my great grandfathers

“Do you want to see a treasure?” I bet I can guess what treasure he thought he was going to get. 😏

He also started the witchhunt craze

Was that you in the mask at the beginning?

Turlough Luineach was described as “Chief of Kings, the King of Ulster…” by the Irish poet John Buidhe O’Daly in 1584. He was described during his lifetime (by his cousin Hugh O’Neill to Queen Elizabeth I) as an “enemy of the Crown” and by Queen Elizabeth’s Lord Deputy of Ireland as“treacherous” and “a traitor”. Turlough was brother-in-law to his powerful Scottish ally, the Earl of Argyll, and was a cousin and father-in-law to his arch-enemy, “Red Hugh” O’Donnell, The O’Donnell of Donegal. For over a quarter of a century, he reigned from his castle near Strabane (in the western portion of the Muintir Lúinigh), and frustrated both the efforts of the English to tame and colonize Ulster and the ambition of his cousin Hugh O’Neill to become the ruler of Ireland. During Turlough’s long reign, Ulster remained a relatively peaceful bastion of Gaelic power and customs.When Turlough Luineach married the widowed Lady Agnes Campbell MacDonnell, the sister of the powerful Earl of Argyll, in 1569, he gained not only a large dowry of redshank mercenaries provided by Argyll, but also became father-in-law to his cousin The O’Donnell of Tir Connell. When she married Turlough Luineach, Lady Agnes brought thousands of troops with her. Their marriage was celebrated with fourteen days of feasting, story-tellers, jugglers and jesters.During the twenty-six years of his reign as The O’Neill Mor, Turlough was reviled by the English as being a treacherous villain and the greatest threat to English authority in Ireland. Despite their repeated political and military efforts to remove him from power, the English were faced with a military stalemate, and finally settled for a treaty in 1578, negotiated by Lady Agnes, which confirmed Turlough’s vast land holdings in Ulster, granted him the British titles of Earl of Clanconnell and Baron of Clogher, for life, and allowed him to retain his personal army of Scottish mercenaries. In spite of this treaty, Turlough continued to intrigue against the English through covert alliances with Spain and Scotland. Turlough Luineach maintained virtual control of Ulster until 1593, when he was finally forced by failing health and military setbacks to cede power to his ambitious cousin, Hugh O’Neill, the Earl of Tyrone.Following the defeat of Hugh O’Neill and the united Irish forces at Kinsale, and the Flight of the Earls in 1607, the entire Kingdom of Tyrone (including the Muintir Lúinigh) was seized by King James I of England as his personal fiefdom. Over the next few years, the territory was parcelled out to English and Scots nobles and planters during the Plantation of Ulster. Some of the Ó Lúinigh managed to stay on in their beloved and idyllicMuintir Lúinigh after 1607, even though most of their lands had been seized, by becoming Protestants., Some went to Spain, and those loyal to the Irish cause that stayed in Ireland got sheltered by other predominant northern Irish clans .

After the death of Elizabeth 1st the English monarchy was no more. It completely ended with her. James the 1st of England was originally James the 6th of Scotland. He was the king of Scotland before taking the over the English throne. The Queen of England is a descendent of James 1st of England. So effectively its the Scottish monarchy that took over England. James the 6th of Scotland and James the 1st of England were the same person.

@Susieq26754

Жыл бұрын

The Windsor family is from Hapsburg and Saxe Coburg Gotha. That is German. They was a distant relation to Mary Boleyn's other children by her second husband. Not of the Tudor line. Henry's line died out after Elizabeth the 1st. Because she never had a child that took the throne. James the 1st, was never from the Tudor line. He was from the Stewart line, Scotland. How did a German family take over? 🤔 Good question.

@suzyqualcast6269

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@@Susieq26754 Wasn't the Germanic inversion down to Victoria marrying Albert ?

@Susieq26754

Жыл бұрын

@@suzyqualcast6269 Victoria was a Hapsburg. They were German. She was the niece of King William IV of England. He didn't produce any heirs. Her father died after her birth and so she was next in line. She was a teenager when she was crowned. They wanted to make sure her husband was a relative and German. Her and Albert were first cousins.

@davidbarr9343

Жыл бұрын

Sorry,Alexa, King James the sixth was King of Scots not Scotland. Similarly all Scottish monarchs were styled King or Queen of Scots. This is a fundamental difference between Scottish monarchs and others, emphasising that the monarch was King/Queen of the people and not the land.

@alecblunden8615

Жыл бұрын

@@Susieq26754 Wherever did you get the daffy idea that Victoria was a Hapsburg. The Hapsburg were Holy Roman Emperors and Austrian monarchs noted for their chins. Victoria was, in compliance with the Succession legislation an heir of the body of the Electress Sophia of Hanover, through her Hannoverean ancestors - descendents of Elizabeth Stuart, the Winter Queen according to the taunt by Ulbrecht von Wallenstein. And please be aware of one aspect of the Royal succession - the heir becomes monarch on the death of the previous monarch, not on the coronation. This Charles became monarch on 8 September 2022. Similarly, Edward VIII was king despite never being crowned

> Future monarch turns 4 > A classical humanist education has joined the chat

A question brief history who has been your favourite king of this series ?and keep up the great work can’t wait for Charles the 1st and the amount of times you will have to say dissolved parliament

Scottland.🌟👍💪 A Lost of a Dinasty😭

Poor little wee James had to wear those pantaloons as a small boy.

James VI of Scotland, as James I he lead.

Where is Tibbles? Never heard of this place?

@English_Dawn

Жыл бұрын

Theobalds old boy, near Waltham Cross. Brief History does a remarkable job for an American, please allow for the odd misprununciation. He gets 99% correct. Americans usually have a very hard time pronouncing "Borough/Burgh", Leicester and Norwich etc but notably he puts the work in to pronounce them right. Just as English would struggle with Yosemite and Poughkeepsie. 🙂👍

@Cromwelldunbar

Жыл бұрын

@@English_Dawn Thanks…I found it quite quickly afterwards…Pumping what I thought I’d heard plus James 1st plus the county name and all was revealed…Although and even despite my interest in lifelong interest in history - even more of this period [ and more to my relative shame ] I have to confess to my gross ignorance of the House and still have to digest its description and history] Guess the topside is to be grateful for the pleasure [ all being relative of course ] that a) one can’t know everything and b) there is always something more to learn…As to American pronunciations, I can never really digest the never ceasing “fidelity” they hold with sounding off every single “r” wherever they be to wit especially if stuck between a pair of consonants or at the very end of a word eg “wheRe” “waR”, “oRganisation”…it really does seem obsessional as tho’ they’re trying to prove something (or some distant or latent Hispanic connexion…?). As to my old favourite of theirs and now it would appear ours of the Latinism “quasi”…How utterly thankful I am to have been present along with others in our class study of Fundamental Principles of English Law when our teacher whammed it into us all so firmly that the correct pronunciation of the term IS [ figuratively ] kway-si [ si as in sky, sigh and nb with a real ‘s’ [ ie ‘ess’] sound ie not a ‘z’ sound. And on this, the French are no better with their « kwoorzee » rendering…Ghastly! I have had many excellent teachers and he ranks as definitely one of the very best! Indeed, to adapt the lines of a once deeply popular song « …where have all the good teachers gone, every one.. » for what did I have to hear the other night on Sky News s/o sounding off an aspirate ‘aitch sound’…Must be Oirish thought I but nope he bore a name from the sub-continent…If standards seem to prefer plunging into deeper depths rather than aspiring to greater levels of high achievements, maybe the pseudo Royal Navy unable to intervene to protect our shores from invasion and now unable to guarantee a decent aircraft carrier, the Argies should’ve bided their time…Heaven forbid! Cheers!

@suzyqualcast6269

Жыл бұрын

@@Cromwelldunbar 'Where have all the flowers gone...?' WW1 song of the loss.

@Cromwelldunbar

Жыл бұрын

@@suzyqualcast6269 Hi! No, it isn’t that one but I think I know it as the song composed for QEII a year or so ago for her Platinum Jubilee and sung by te Four Sopranos…Yet it’s true I do not know how it was / is called or who composed it….and it is the background music of one of these present documentaries being shown on HMTQ where the film show the investiture of Charles as Prince Of Wales at Canaervon Castle. Thanks!

I would like to have my crown back please

who is narrator sounds like Ryan Reeves

James became Shakespears Iago.

Gowrie - Gow like cow :)

25:14

James 1 succession wasn't liked by all prompting the nursery rhyme hark hark the dogs do bark the beggars are coming to town some in rags and some in jags and some in velvet dressing gowns refers to james and his entourage

Crazy which hunting, bible writing guy. That's what I knew before the video lol

You mean James VI of Scotland and James I of England. Six is a higher number than One and should therefore take precedence. Plus, he was King of Scots long before he was King of England, Wales and Ireland.

Where's his afro?

You make no mention of Shakespeare

Also, as far as we know, our last gay King! (Though, in those days, even gay Kings had wives and mistresses!)

@jackdubz4247

Жыл бұрын

There were many gay monarchs after him. Only they were a bit better at keeping it quiet.

These are really good videos but your narrations could do with a spot of editing.