Its nice to see you admiring my local castle (Caerphilly). It is one of the biggest in Europe. The leaning tower leans more than the tower of Pisa, it was damaged during the civil war by Oliver Cromwell`s army.

@nrjelley

9 ай бұрын

Second biggest after Windsor

@markjones127

3 ай бұрын

@@nrjelley Yeah but Caerphilly is 100% real actual castle, only a small fraction of Windsor is a real actual castle, most of it is just a relatively modern fortified house.

Cardiff Castle outer bailey is the original Roman fort circuit. That is why it's on level ground.

I live in a town in Caerphilly county and I got married at the Castle. It was amazing. People in Wales are somewhat conflicted about our castles I’d say. I mean, they were all (I think) built by invaders and conquerors to subjugate us. But at the same time, they’re an integral part of our national story and sort of a source of pride. The Normans and the English had to build a tonne of castles to keep us down and yet, our culture and language survived. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

@cymro6537

11 ай бұрын

Some of the castles (but not as many)are native Welsh built.

@s.r.howell1297

11 ай бұрын

Yes, its a little odd that they are ours now that they're no longer a threat.

@DeadlyDan

11 ай бұрын

It wasn't really the English. During the lead up to the great castle building period England was invaded by the Vikings, Romans, Jutes, Saxons, Angles AND Normans. Even when the Normans invaded, England wasn't really English. English as a language didn't even become the official language until the late 14th century. This is almost 100 years after the majority of Welsh castles were built. Basically you were fighting French Vikings (Normans aka North Men). Plz no more hate on the English, we've treated you well!

@cymro6537

11 ай бұрын

@@DeadlyDan England was invaded by the Vikings and Normans - but _not_ by the Romans - simply for the fact that there was no 'England' at the time. It was the Germanic tribes of the Jutes , Saxons and in particular the Angles that gave England its very name - _Angla land_ land of the Angles. On the eve of the Norman invasion, England _was_ English - but not in the linguistic sense that we'd understand today. The English language has absorbed many French language words after the Norman invasion ( and a considerable amount of Scandinavian loan words - in particular in the north of England from the earlier viking settlers) Regarding the Edwardian castles of Wales, it was _English_ settlers who were brought to dwell inside the safety of the castellated towns of Caenarfon, Conwy , Rhuddlan , Denbigh, and Flint to name but a few. These were English plantation towns - with the Welsh being forbidden to live inside the town walls.

@cymro6537

11 ай бұрын

@@s.r.howell1297 Shouldn't that be that _we're_ no longer a threat ?

Caerphilly is my home town. Great castle to walk around and explore.

When I've visited an Edward I castle , it does amuse me to think of how pissed off he would have been to see the Welsh flag flying on it . 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

This was great timing! I live in Devon but am heading to Wales on Monday. Planning a circular scenic route taking in as many castles as I can on the way. 😉

There is just outside Caerphilly in the village of Bedwas a church that I believe is older than the Castle.

Good video about the castles, but too brief. I live in South West Wales and there are about a dozen around here, it's a bit like living on the set of Game of Thrones. In fact I'm so used to them that I take them for granted, I don't realise their importance and how they are viewed by the rest of the world. Many of them have been used for films, tv, etc.

8:04 Yes , there were several more Welsh uprisings: 1294 1316 1400 ✊🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

The castle on the flat ground was Cardiff Castle, it's right in our city centre . Watch a video on Cardiff Castle 🏯.

The lower rough looking wall sections of Cardiff Castle are the original Roman walls.

Im from England and ive always wanted to go to caerphilly, ive been to conwy,caernarfon,pembroke and harlech. I live not far from Dudley castle in the west midlands thats a brilliant castle surrounded by a zoo and they turned the moat into enclosures and rare british wildlife projects 😊😊😊😊😊

Being Welsh myself, I'm not saying I wasn't impressed by the castles we had around but I was so used to them that I was never particularly _wow'ed._ Watching these American videos, though, has made me realise just how young your country is. A castle just seems like such a fantastical thing to Americans, because the only place they've ever seen castles are in fairytale books and fantasy media.

Great video! I’m Welsh!, Cardiff born and bread an Cardiff castle is stunning! You should do a video on it! 😃

@marythurlow9132

9 ай бұрын

Bred - not bread.😂

@JordanUK

9 ай бұрын

@@marythurlow9132 oops 😂! My bad 🙂

@neilwilliams4684

4 ай бұрын

@@marythurlow9132 He's Welsh. English ain't his first language ;-)

@marythurlow9132

4 ай бұрын

​@@neilwilliams4684Fair enough, but he still learns English in school like the rest of us. 😅

Rochester Castle in Kent is near me it has a fascinating history Connor 😊 wales is a lovely place was there last year on holiday yes it has a lot of castles in gorgeous surroundings .😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊

I live on the South Wales border - 16 castles within a 15 mile radius.

I was born in an Ambulance outside the entrance to Caerphilly Castle on my way to the maternity hospital (which is not far from the Castle)

@neilwilliams4684

4 ай бұрын

And I was born in that maternity hospital, if you were referring to the 'Miner's' :-) .

@markhoward2811

4 ай бұрын

@@neilwilliams4684 Yes. Had to travel from Nelson. I was the first born and my mother had complications, so was rushed by ambulance but we got there a bit too late.

Great video as usual and a (belated) happy birthday. I hope you had a good day

to get a level floor all you have to do is dig a ditch and fill it with water. then take your measurements from the top of the water.

Yes, I have Newport and Caerphilly castles near me plus a Norman hill fort. They are everywhere. Plus Caerleon Riman fort.

The grass is level because the moat which was originally there was used as a sewerage deposit. This deterred invaders. In recent times the sewerage dried out and was levelled, thus nice lawns ensued.

The term Bailey comes from the Welsh word Beili. Historians can be really dumb at times or deliberately deceitful and the Motte and Bailey is such an example. If you were to look up what a Motte and Bailey is, it will tell you the Motte is the mound upon which the castle is situated and the Bailey is the part inside the defensive wall that surrounds the Motte, this is complete betty swollocks. The Bailey is the mound upon which the castle is situated from the Welsh word Beili, pronounced the same way and means a mound and is also an appellative for a tumulus which is a burial mound. As Motte and Bailey castles advanced and you started getting Motte and Bailey castles with an walled area, a courtyard for the castle, Beili came to include that part as well as the mound itself and that’s why Beili is also used to mean the courtyard in front of a house in modern day Welsh. Motte was the modern English from the old English moat, so the motte is the moat around the castle not the mound. Like I say, dumb historians because they took the modern term Motte and conflated it with the French Motte instead of the old English Moat and the French Motte meant mound. They some how conflated moat being a deep wide ditch around a castle with the French word Motte meaning a mound and went full circle, I mean it’s pretty logical, common sense but academics are notoriously lacking in logic and common sense, it’s almost like they could work it out so they just made it up. If I had a penny for every word I have found where the official etymology of the word given is complete BS I would be a millionaire. Which brings me back to that they are either seriously stupid or deliberately deceitful and it would seem deliberately deceitful, I am going to call it anti-British, Germanic supremacy, lol

@cymro6537

11 ай бұрын

Sorry to burst your bubble , but but the word bailey is _not_ of a Welsh origin.

@kayew5492

11 ай бұрын

Also perpetuates the myth that the poor benighted Welsh couldn't build for themselves! Most of the castles attributed to the Romans and even the Normans for Pete's sake, were captured, not built by the invaders. It's infuriating that this nonsense is still being taught even in Welsh schools. The Treachery of the Blue Books is still going on!

@Penddraig7

11 ай бұрын

@@cymro6537 yes it is, like I said, it comes from the Welsh word Beili which I explained what it meant and the Welsh word Beili is not only pronounced the same as Beili, it has the same meaning and it’s a word that can be reverse engineered using Welsh and so proving it’s not a word that was adopted from another language and therefore a Welsh origin word. So you’re not bursting my bubble at all, I know my stuff because I have studied it in great detail for decades, I didn’t just do a 5 second google search like you probably did and in doing so, proved my point about stupid people. Those who just copy a narrative without questioning it, fact checking it to see if it is actually accurate, no doubt you think it’s French in origin, because you did a 5 second google search and suddenly you are Mr expert on the subject. So if it’s French in origin, where did the French get the word from? I am also guessing you didn’t read the bit where it said, “possibly from old French”, meaning they don’t know and they are guessing, which is exactly what I said they do in my original post. And just to prove my point, I will reverse engineer the word Beili. The root word of Beili is Bal Bal means A prominence, or what jets out. It is applied to mountains that terminate in a peak, in some parts of Wales, for which moel is used in other parts; the bud, or first shooting out of trees and plants, is alfo called bal. The root words of Bal are Py + Al Py - What; who Al - Excellent; very ; most, or utmost and are both base words, a monosyllabic vocal sound, the basic building block of an original language. So when the Welsh -i suffix is added to Bal, it causes what is known as a vowel inflection, the vowel equivalent of the consonant mutation. In this case, the -i suffix causes the A vowel in Bal to become Ei giving you Beili and is a suffix used to form an abstract noun and so is referring to the fact that a mound looks like the peak of a mountain, a prominence, what jets out from the ground into a peak ie a mound, a Beili.

@homoerectus6953

11 ай бұрын

The word “bailey” comes from the Norman-French baille, or basse-cour, referring to a low yard. In medieval sources, the Latin term castellum was used to describe the bailey complex within these castles. One contemporary account of these structures comes from Jean de Colmieu around 1130.

@Penddraig7

11 ай бұрын

@@homoerectus6953 and where did the French get the word Bailey from? I have explained in great detail how it comes from the Welsh word Beili and proved it by reverse engineering the word into its base words, the basic building blocks of any original language and so proving Beili is a Welsh word not a word adopted from another language and that the sum of the parts equals the whole. If they word is as you claim, French, they perform that same process, lol, I will be waiting, lol Prove it! Stop parroting Google BS and prove it like I have with welsh. You realise that many French words originate from welsh right? French adopted many words from a number of languages

I grew up a mile from Loughor Castle. Sadly that's in a very poor condition. Nowerdays I live a mile from Swansea Castle, which is slightly better in terms of survival. A few miles away we have Oystermouth Castle, which is more intact compared to other castles in the area. Cardiff Castle (and nearby Castle Coch to the city's north) had some very heavy reconstruction work done to them but look fantastic. However it's our brethren in North Wales who have the best castles. Conwy Castle looks powerful as you approach it from the east on the main road through North Wales. Caernarfon Castle is beautiful, with the future Edward II being born in the town

I pass by these castles quite a bit.. Caldicot castle is my local one, I often eat my lunch outside the castle, in the summer you can just stroll around inside it. Chepstow castle is about 6-7 miles away from that, spent quite a few evenings as a kid hanging out around its walls, can tell why they were so hard to get into! Cardiff castle is just... there... not too far away from Popeyes chicken actually!

My tween grandsons were laughing whilst watching this video. "Gramps, has this guy ever seen a real castle. He's a joke", said 12-yr old Giichi, who (with his brothers) visited Conwy, Caernarfon, Criccieth, Dolbadarn, and Beaumaris, during our visit to the UK last summer. Btw, Hearst Castle in San Simeon is a prime example of the 1 percenter faux castles of which the video spoke.

Also, that castle "flat" wall that you mentioned was actually built afterward and is not part of the original castle. Its cardiff castle basically. The images of the stone castle on the hill is the original, but around the edges are remains of an old roman fort which is why the castle was built there. Centuries later, i believe during the tudor period, though i could be a bit wrong there, the family built a manor next to it along with that wall that you see that completely surrounds the original castle

The video only skims over the history of a few of the castles of Wales ,there are so many more castle with so much history.

Hello from Germany. HAPPY BIRTHDAY, CONNOR ! ! ! 30 is the best time of the life. . .

You seem to know quite a bit of British history an ancient architecture. Quite impressive for Americans, because they're so far away. You could indeed go round Europe with a Eurail ticket just visiting castles. Nieuschamstein (as you mentioned) is in the Alpine area of the German/Austrian border, where there are several famous castles. In France, THEE castle centre is the Val du Loire (to S.W. of Paris) - there's enough famous castles there to keep you going for a fortnight. Try googling to get such information about each country.

800 castles in Wales, 1500-3000 in Scotland, 4000 in England Ireland has 30,000. I know of at least a dozen within 30 mins of where I live.

@ftumschk

11 ай бұрын

Many Scottish "castles" are little more than manor houses, and maybe that applies to many of the Irish and English ones, too. Besides, Wales is significantly smaller than the other countries. Area of England: 130,000 km² Area of Ireland: 84,400 km² Area of Scotland: 78,000 km² Area of Wales: 21,000 km²

@dib000

11 ай бұрын

Wales has more castles per mile than anywhere in Europe.

@dzzope

11 ай бұрын

@@ftumschk I'm sure it does. But to be considered a castle there has to be residential and military function in the design of a structure. Which as pointed out in the video are included in the Welsh figure. Ireland is 4* the size of wales.. 4*800=?? "The castles of Ireland weren’t built for royalty or for ostentatious reasons but rather as fortified homes of Ireland’s chieftains or Anglo-Norman settlers. Their thick walls and ramparts were built for defense. Many of these castles are medieval in origin, dating from the 11th to the 15th century. Some, perhaps the more flamboyant, are of the Georgian era or the neo-gothic revival in the Victorian Age"

@dzzope

11 ай бұрын

@@dib000 Ireland has approximately 0.92 castles or castle ruins per square mile while Wales has approximately 0.075 castles or castle ruins per square mile.

@ftumschk

11 ай бұрын

@@dzzope Thanks for that, specifically _"The castles of Ireland weren’t built for royalty or for ostentatious reasons but rather as fortified homes... perhaps the more flamboyant are of the Georgian era or the neo-gothic revival in the Victorian Age."_ So, like most of the Scottish ones, these Irish castles aren't "castles" as they're generally understood to be. Like, for example, Conwy, Caerphilly, Cardiff, Beaumaris, Caernarfon, Carmarthen, Pembroke... (etc)

Caerleon, and Caerwent are ROMAN forts near Newport and Cardiff castle is built on a Roman fort.

@grahamtravers4522

11 ай бұрын

Caerwent is not a fort, it's a town. Venta Silurum = the market town of the Silures (tribe).

@jamesclayton3388

11 ай бұрын

@@grahamtravers4522 yes but is had a defensive wall around the town. Very true though.

@grahamtravers4522

11 ай бұрын

I've walked it several times.@@jamesclayton3388

The Great Tower at Raglan Castle is a rare example of a keep (tower) which stands outside the main curtain wall (bailey). There is another, earlier (Edwardian) example at Flint in North Wales.

Fun fact, the leaning tower of caerphilly castle out leans the leaning tower of pisa

Here is a Fun Fact (that few Brits know, even those around Merseyside!): North Wales is further North than Liverpool City Centre. Coming from the Wirral peninsular, I'm STILL amazed about that fact!. 😃 TBH: Unless you come from the area, it probably doesn't mean much, but to think Wales is physically higher on a map than Liverpool is quite mad. 😎

Hugh Despenser the Elder (owner of Caerphilly) is an ancestor. A nasty buddy of King Edward II, who died a bad death.

The "some very rich German nobiity guy" who built Neuschwanstein Castle was Ludwig II also called the Swan King or der Märchenkönig ("the Fairy Tale King"), who was King of Bavaria from 1864 until his death in 1886!

Shout out to Caerphilly, my home town 🎉

Hi Connor, I think you were looking at the nice pictures and not listening. The wall that your said was so flat was built in the 1920s.

Just across the bridge from me,👍can see wales from my roof🤣🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿💪🏻mothers side 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿fathers side 🇬🇧🇮🇪

@philjones45

11 ай бұрын

im in awe

What about Chepstow Castle? It's one of the earliest Norman castles built in Wales.

Yo! Happy Birthday! (I think) or, as they say in Wales: Penblwydd Hapus!

This was the first English colony - castles were built to control Wales. Strangely the people of England don' t know this as it is not in their history curriculum. Their history starts with the Anglo Saxon people who were early invaders, but unknown to English people as they think that the early invaders were the Normans in 1066.

NOT mentioned in this video was, Hugh had a nickname 'Hand Towel'... AKA 'Hand Towel Despenser' - But that was just a throw-away gag..! 😅 😂 🤣(Also Hugh asked the King to support him with money, not by the castle square yard, but by 'pay-per-towel').😎

Great castles, Overly Sarcastic has ultimate cartoons on mythology.

As usual mostly about south wales . 🫤 I live close to Conwy castle but not much about them . 🙁 Conwy was an English castle with “English settlers within its walls “ . Now everyone can pay to go in 😊

I am shortly to visit a Welsh castle (Chepstow). Caerphilly is also known for its cheese. Hugh Despenser the Younger was a really nasty piece of work. He executed a Welsh prince in 1318 by the horrible method of hanging, drawing, and quartering. Guess how he was made to meet his end in Hereford Town Square in December 1326... Many of the de Clares - he was married to one - are buried in Tewkesbury Abbey in Gloucestershire, a church I know quite well. But his wife only seems to have got one shoulder, so that's all that seems to have been put in his tomb... But in the 1960s, they were excavating Hulton Abbey, much further north in Staffordshire. And they found three-quarters of a person...

FYI Celts is actually an old and inaccurate term from the peoples of Britain pre-Angles/Saxons/Jute invasion. Celts describes a much broader cultural group of which native Britons (the original population of the Island) were not really related at all. Before the Danish Jutes and West Germanic Saxons/Angles invaded England actually spoke a language very close to Welsh, part of the Brythonic culture group. The Britons had existed on the Islands for over 800,000 years before the Celts even arrived. Also, Roman influence basically stopped at the border to Wales, (where the ancient Kingdom of Camelot is rumoured to have been - if you think it's not a myth). Modern Welsh borrows a lot from English which is why it has some "latinised" words. But the truth is, the kind of Welsh spoken during this period lacks this influence. The Roman empire fell before they could culturally influence Wales. (The peak of Roman influence on England and Britain was probably around 300AD, with a very very slow death as the empire split into the West Roman and East Roman Empires, eventually fully collapsing around 176 years later). Basically, this video is highly inaccurate - which seems to be the case with so many of these mainstream "history" videos on youtube.

I can see Conwy castle from my bedroom window

Castles in Wales, built by the English nobles after they decided the Welsh people should be suppressed. A job the Romans could not achieve. Anyone would think I am Welsh, but I am not! The Normans and their descendants built a lot of small castles all across England too, but these have mostly been demolished now. This was to suppress the Saxon people who were still around for a long time after 1066. Those maps they use are not very accurate Connor.

Why didnt they mention Glyndwr uprising and the fact the Tudpr royal family were Welsh

The Welsh castles were not mostly built to defend against invaders. They were built to protect the invaders from the native population.

Yma o hyd 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

Again, this feels as if the video is aimed at children, or as if people need cartoons and a jokey voice to get information across. When you look at the videos of Mark Felton, you realise that history does not have to be infantilised to be understandable.

If you want accurate history listen to a British historian

@Shoomer1988

11 ай бұрын

What did the video get wrong?

@jackmason4374

11 ай бұрын

@@Shoomer1988 no idea as soon as I hear American accent I’m out

@Shoomer1988

11 ай бұрын

That's rather silly. Anybody can learn history.@@jackmason4374

@s.r.howell1297

11 ай бұрын

@@jackmason4374 Not a brilliant attitude

@jackmason4374

11 ай бұрын

@@s.r.howell1297 but true

It was One percenter, in other words, the 1 percent of the richest built essentially fake castles. They LOOK like castles, IF you know nothing about Castles. At their heart castles are fortifications, we are talking walls often metres thick and a plethora of defensive features. The 'Castle' like Stately homes are NOT fortifications, they are houses built to MIMIC fortifications. They lack all the defensive features you would expect to see in an actual castle, starting with metres thick walls, but moving on to staggered baileys, gatehouses, killing fields, machicolations, hoardings and the list goes on..... The Disney castle is based on a pretend castle, not a real one.... And the area at the start was more Newport, Cardiff is further West, but Newport and Bristol are so close together (just over the Severn River from each other) that commuting between the two for work is far from unusual. Lived in Newport for a while, but I am back home in the Valleys.....

Not loser, 1%er (1 percenter)

They had to build all those castles because the English are their neighbours.

Not loser its 1percenter

This video and everything connected to it is an insult to the Welsh Fedrai ddim diodda anameiddio fel hyn. Diolch byth fy mod yn Gymraeg.

@kayew5492

11 ай бұрын

I'm only a few minutes and already seething. Honestly though, what should we expect? Welsh history, narrated by an American, loosely based on ancient English propaganda. If you are truly interested in history, as with any other subject, go to the original source. This is painful to watch.

@philjones45

11 ай бұрын

@@kayew5492 here here.

1%er BS(1 PERCENTER BS)...not LOSER ! Typical American...has to mention a GUN !! Check out ROCKINGHAM CASTLE in Northamptonshire. It is still a family home to this day.

The only good thing of caerphilly is the castle 😂

@Ayns.L14A

11 ай бұрын

the cheese is nice........

@gmdhargreaves

11 ай бұрын

Cheese

@jca111

11 ай бұрын

Cheese

@philjones45

11 ай бұрын

Tommy Cooper

@ratowey

11 ай бұрын

That`s harsh.

Nemt 'looser' 1 % er

good grief......... cartoon suitable for ages 0-mcjibbin.............there are many fine documentaries on youtube for FREE and somehow americans manage to find the worst !