Edward the Confessor - The Saint Saxon King Documentary

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  • @PeopleProfiles
    @PeopleProfiles Жыл бұрын

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  • @danielsantiagourtado3430

    @danielsantiagourtado3430

    Жыл бұрын

    Gonna keep it in mind!

  • @demiurgo4505

    @demiurgo4505

    Жыл бұрын

    could you make a video about Felix Dzerzhinsky?

  • @johnhaydu2627
    @johnhaydu2627 Жыл бұрын

    Henry lll named his son Edward (Edward l) because of his veneration of Edward the Confessor

  • @danielsantiagourtado3430
    @danielsantiagourtado3430 Жыл бұрын

    Next time you should to Athelstan, the First King of England!

  • @Alex-zs7gw

    @Alex-zs7gw

    Жыл бұрын

    The only decent Wessex king - and probably cuz he was brought up by Æthelflaed. Rest of them are full on facepalms or Alfred

  • @N2Dressage001

    @N2Dressage001

    Жыл бұрын

    Yes!

  • @sebe2255

    @sebe2255

    Жыл бұрын

    @@Alex-zs7gw Edward the Elder was a great and effective king too

  • @Alex-zs7gw

    @Alex-zs7gw

    Жыл бұрын

    @@sebe2255 nah I mean he was evidently more competent than the later generations...but dude practically cast Æthelstan aside and had severe Napoleon complex because Æethelflaed was clearly the truer successor of their father. She even raised Æ-stan so he's her success. Obviously today she would have been queen being older and more competent, had the spirit of Mercia... shame how history plays out I guess.

  • @sebe2255

    @sebe2255

    Жыл бұрын

    @@Alex-zs7gw The truer successor of her father? In what world? Anyway he effectively merged Mercia and Wessex, which was a huge step towards creating a more stable and united Anglo-Saxon nation. And he also subdued the Norsemen and integrated some of them into his kingdom

  • @ManinderSingh-nf9re
    @ManinderSingh-nf9re Жыл бұрын

    Absolutely perfect description of the great King who is shrouded in mysteries hats off to ur channel by portraying events of EDWARD THE CONFESSOR

  • @lornahuddleston1453
    @lornahuddleston1453 Жыл бұрын

    This is such a quick romp through that period. It isn't easy to keep everybody straight. What a large cast of characters!

  • @Mrtreee
    @Mrtreee Жыл бұрын

    Anglo Saxon Kings are very interesting but frequently overlooked. Edward the confessor was a great choice because there isn't really anything to read about them. Æthelred the Unready and or Cnut the Great have very interesting stories as well.

  • @justiceformattlabbe8021

    @justiceformattlabbe8021

    Жыл бұрын

    I disagree with the 1st sentence. I think they're underlooked. I'm an American so maybe that's part of it. We're told the Monarchy began in 1066 though when it really began hundreds of years earlier.

  • @benfisher1376

    @benfisher1376

    11 ай бұрын

    ​@justiceformattlabbe8021 Yes, because the Norman rulers and their descendants wanted it that way. They weren't interested in early english history. Its interesting that England was a country 100 years before the conquest, so much forgotten.

  • @FreddytheRed

    @FreddytheRed

    2 күн бұрын

    Read Marc Morris' books, 'The Anglo Saxons' and 'The Norman Conquest', they cover the early history of England fairly comprehensively.

  • @markhart7273
    @markhart7273 Жыл бұрын

    Matilda daughter of Henry 1st of England and mother of Henry 2nd would be a great one to do a video on.

  • @kathyjaneburke2798
    @kathyjaneburke2798 Жыл бұрын

    A King I personally had little knowledge of. Thank you for the insight.

  • @Andrea-Marie
    @Andrea-Marie Жыл бұрын

    Thank you very much indeed. As an Austrian my knowledge about English history is very poor, so I've enjoyed your video. Kind regards from the former Babenberger's and Habsburger's country.

  • @dillionday7414
    @dillionday7414 Жыл бұрын

    Finally! Been asking for this for years! Thank you.

  • @lfgifu296
    @lfgifu296 Жыл бұрын

    I LOVE the Anglo Saxons😭 Seriously they are so mesmerising! Thank you and please do more of these🙏🙏

  • @DarthDread-oh2ne

    @DarthDread-oh2ne

    6 ай бұрын

    Hi friend.

  • @lfgifu296

    @lfgifu296

    6 ай бұрын

    @@DarthDread-oh2ne hello there :) have you watched People's Profiles' documentaries on the Plantagenets? It's a fascinating watch

  • @DarthDread-oh2ne

    @DarthDread-oh2ne

    6 ай бұрын

    @@lfgifu296 I have. And I love it.

  • @sallyanngrant6149
    @sallyanngrant614911 ай бұрын

    i really love listening to your videos. Gareth;s voice is amazing and i am so grateful as I love history especially when a lot of the people you do are in my family tree. I rerlated by marriage to Willian the Conqueror and Charlemagen and a lot inbetween. Sir Andrew Parr (brother of Queen Catherine) was married to my 12th Great Grandmother - Lady Helena Snakenborg. Bless you for providing such great documentaries :)

  • @MysticChronicles712
    @MysticChronicles712Ай бұрын

    These history videos are like a time machine, transporting me to distant lands and eras.

  • @ikdw3259
    @ikdw325910 ай бұрын

    Harold Godwinson next please!

  • @madelaine90s
    @madelaine90s8 ай бұрын

    I live a stones throw from Islip and never knew any of this. So shocked to hear such important history, so close to home

  • @kyleb1636
    @kyleb1636 Жыл бұрын

    This is my new favourite channel by far getting me through work listening to these I’ve watched so many keep them coming

  • @jazminjacobs4910
    @jazminjacobs49108 ай бұрын

    I love the transcript. I’ve listened to your videos on my way to work and I just now noticed the transcript ( because I’m at home) and it highlights what part you are on. Fantastic !!

  • @lornahuddleston1453
    @lornahuddleston1453 Жыл бұрын

    Love this. More please.☺️🧐 My Huddleston line goes back to these days. Apparently they were Saxon from around Yorkshire. Aren't we all likely to be also Danish by and by?

  • @deturvilleashley3330

    @deturvilleashley3330

    Жыл бұрын

    Have you looked into their genealogy? Do you know who the Saxon people were?

  • @markhart7273
    @markhart7273 Жыл бұрын

    Will you be making a video on Henry 1st of England? The youngest son of William the Conqueror?

  • @PeopleProfiles

    @PeopleProfiles

    Жыл бұрын

    Yes.

  • @markhart7273

    @markhart7273

    Жыл бұрын

    ​@@PeopleProfiles Thank you for the content you present to us.

  • @aviral.utkarsh

    @aviral.utkarsh

    9 ай бұрын

    @@PeopleProfilespatiently waiting for it…And for Stephen too! Your documentary series is perhaps the best out there in terms of maintaining the neutral viewpoints! Absolutely love it. The other documentaries more or less have underlying tones of hagiography. Also would you be doing an episode dedicated to Harold godwinson/ earl godwin’s family? Most of the stuff out there seems to be hagiography and is unbearable to watch

  • @v.g.r.l.4072
    @v.g.r.l.4072 Жыл бұрын

    A very interesting documentary with the usual glorious images of this series. Thanks.

  • @Thetrooper865
    @Thetrooper865 Жыл бұрын

    You should totally do a doc on Baldwin IV "the leper king"!

  • @Consume_Crash
    @Consume_Crash9 ай бұрын

    One of the greatest kings of England.

  • @livc5703
    @livc570310 ай бұрын

    Very interesting plus your voice is pretty smooth perfect for a me time ;)

  • @CactusJack60
    @CactusJack60 Жыл бұрын

    Robert Curthose? He at the Center of alot of history in a period of such importance

  • @isac.est10
    @isac.est10 Жыл бұрын

    Can you guys do Scipio Africanus & pyrrhus of epirus really cool figures.

  • @mohammedsaysrashid3587
    @mohammedsaysrashid3587 Жыл бұрын

    A wonderful historical coverage of Edward confesser v

  • @1BRITOREN
    @1BRITOREN9 ай бұрын

    I've always wondered why Edward was not considered the first king of England, or whoever was before him, but those were different times

  • @wilsontheconqueror8101
    @wilsontheconqueror8101 Жыл бұрын

    Was not aware of Edwards relationship with Tostig! Sheds some light on his demise & Harolds seizure of the crown.

  • @deturvilleashley3330

    @deturvilleashley3330

    Жыл бұрын

    Read more about Kind Edward & the entire Godwinson line.

  • @MisterTutor2010
    @MisterTutor2010 Жыл бұрын

    Edward the Zeroeth :)

  • @ConstellationOrion1
    @ConstellationOrion117 күн бұрын

    This was more epic than Game of Thrones except there were no dragons 😂

  • @BaronMichaelDeBlone1066
    @BaronMichaelDeBlone10668 ай бұрын

    Very good succinct approach, particularly weaving through the complexity of family connections - I lost count of how many half brothers were covered here. My attention always seems to veer towards Earl Godwin, so if you haven't done a video on him specifically (I shall look through the back catalogue) that would be my suggestion.

  • @aarondemiri486
    @aarondemiri4864 ай бұрын

    Always wanted to learn more about this king

  • @Flamsterette
    @Flamsterette Жыл бұрын

    A new upload! Thank you for the upload during Victoria Day 2023 long weekend!

  • @astrid703
    @astrid7037 ай бұрын

    I don't see Emma the way you portrayed her. Rather than being someone "used to luxury," she seemed far more to be a pragmatic and resourceful woman who protected her sons by leaving them in Normandy and marrying Cnut to ensure their future and stabilize England (or what it was called then). She was politically astute and very brave. She was, after all, marrying the ruthless warrior responsible for the death of her first husband.

  • @sirwelch9991
    @sirwelch9991 Жыл бұрын

    Praise to the patron saint of England before St. George!

  • @JohnMacbeth

    @JohnMacbeth

    Жыл бұрын

    I thought that was St. Edmund?

  • @sirwelch9991

    @sirwelch9991

    Жыл бұрын

    @@JohnMacbeth It was first St. Edmund, then Edward the Confessor, and St. George. But it did swap between the first two a few times.

  • @Consume_Crash

    @Consume_Crash

    9 ай бұрын

    Where does St. Alban fit into this

  • @onlinealiasuk

    @onlinealiasuk

    9 ай бұрын

    ​@@Consume_Crashst Alban is proto-martyr the first to die for Christ in England rather than patron

  • @s.d.357
    @s.d.357 Жыл бұрын

    Thank you!

  • @spankflaps1365
    @spankflaps1365 Жыл бұрын

    Ethelred: Who’s dropped their guts? Edward: ME!

  • @faybyshe
    @faybyshe5 күн бұрын

    Forget about “King Edward the Confessor”, Try “King Edward the Hairdresser”! 😮

  • @christiansmith-of7dt
    @christiansmith-of7dt Жыл бұрын

    If youve never been a heroin addict for years than you have no idea how much it hurts to die

  • @gmicg
    @gmicg Жыл бұрын

    Among the English kings, there are three unnumbered Edwards. Why?

  • @lfgifu296

    @lfgifu296

    Жыл бұрын

    because many like to count the English kings from the Norman Conquest on, pretending like England didn’t exist back then *facepalm*

  • @gmicg

    @gmicg

    Жыл бұрын

    @@lfgifu296 Anyway, before 1066 and William I, none of these 3 Edwards received a number. If there is a king named Harold in the future, he will be Harold III.

  • @markhart7273
    @markhart7273 Жыл бұрын

    What other Norman Kings were you thinking of making? Just wondering.

  • @lfgifu296

    @lfgifu296

    Жыл бұрын

    I think they said they would eventually do them all!

  • @ulyssesshubeilat
    @ulyssesshubeilat Жыл бұрын

    Finally! Thank you.

  • @cleverfitz779
    @cleverfitz779 Жыл бұрын

    Good morning everyone

  • @ashgangtv2675
    @ashgangtv2675Ай бұрын

    Y’all should do videos on a few French kings and queens

  • @michaeladu6120
    @michaeladu6120 Жыл бұрын

    What's the music playing at 6:00?

  • @timottes334
    @timottes33410 ай бұрын

    How did you get the comedian Richard Lewis to pose for your thumbnail of Edward?

  • @cjwilliams699
    @cjwilliams6997 ай бұрын

    Edward's sister married Henry III? Thought it was Drogo and then Eustace? Other than that, outstanding... Much love to you and yours..

  • @yasirwaleed7453
    @yasirwaleed7453 Жыл бұрын

    Thank you

  • @user-ro8gn5th8j
    @user-ro8gn5th8j3 ай бұрын

    Imagine being known for all eternity as The Unready.😮

  • @kasvinimuniandy4178
    @kasvinimuniandy417811 ай бұрын

    WHOAAA Scotland, Macbeth, Duncan, Malcolm???!!! Whoaa...

  • @Angelcynn_2001
    @Angelcynn_20013 ай бұрын

    Please do Athelstan, the first king of England

  • @benziescha5438
    @benziescha543810 ай бұрын

    Strange how Edith was proclaimed as a scholar and figure of high morality early in the video, yet seems to have gone quiet on the actions of Sweyn....

  • @dianeaustin2414
    @dianeaustin2414 Жыл бұрын

    Is there one on Knute the Great?

  • @ligiamoreira1458
    @ligiamoreira14589 ай бұрын

    I LOVE THE KINGS ENGLISH HISTORY,BUT I CAN'T UNDERSTAND ALL. IS IT POSSIBLE YOU SHOW IN PORTUGUESE?

  • @dakotaleach1386
    @dakotaleach1386 Жыл бұрын

    Can we please get one on LtGen. Lewis "Chesty" Puller

  • @lornahuddleston1453
    @lornahuddleston1453 Жыл бұрын

    That was, 'easy come, easy go'

  • @carlkinvig6047
    @carlkinvig604710 ай бұрын

    You have sold Edmund Ironside short, he rallied English support impressively and scored victories over Cnut, himself an impressive military leader. In the end Cnut succeeded because Edmund was betrayed by Eadric Streona.

  • @DarthTelos
    @DarthTelos5 ай бұрын

    Very orthodox. Blessed!

  • @lindenmanmax
    @lindenmanmax8 ай бұрын

    My apologies, but I can't help but imagine this guy running around screaming, "I DID IT! ME! I HAD NO ACCOMPLICES! I CLAIM NO EXTENUATING CIRCUMSTANCES!"

  • @VeerSingh-pd8ge
    @VeerSingh-pd8ge Жыл бұрын

    Next video on maharana pratap indian king

  • @firdauschong6163
    @firdauschong616311 ай бұрын

    Can you please make one video about the biography of Indonesia's 2nd president - Soeharto . Please 🥺🥺🥺

  • @Liutgard
    @Liutgard Жыл бұрын

    A good account of an interesting king. I am very uncomfortable however with the very negative assessment of Emma as power-hungry, etc. I see her as pragmatic and doing what she could to protect as many members of her family as she could. These are not necessarily negative things, and I get the sense that if she'd been a prince and not a queen, her self-protective actions would have been seen in a much different light.

  • @spencerfrankclayton4348

    @spencerfrankclayton4348

    Жыл бұрын

    This isn't a gender thing, just what she did.

  • @lornahuddleston1453

    @lornahuddleston1453

    Жыл бұрын

    Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. If history makes you feel uncomfortable, please feel free to lend your energies elsewhere.

  • @Liutgard

    @Liutgard

    Жыл бұрын

    @@lornahuddleston1453 History doesn't make me uncomfortable. I'm a historian, and it would be a bad show for me if it were! What I'm concerned about is the language used here about Emma, as a grasping, power-hungry schemer. I don't believe that the record supports that narrative. In fact, the evidence puts her in a light very similar to that of Margaret Beaufort- a mother playing the long game to protect her progeny. Neither Henry Tudor nor Edward would have ended up as king if it weren't for the measures their mothers took on their behalf. It was not that they were looking to hold power for themselves, but for their sons. There's a lot of context left out of the narrative here, and a lot of moral judgements unfairly laid on Emma.

  • @Davem69
    @Davem69 Жыл бұрын

    The victors always write history

  • @hudsonfrank1121
    @hudsonfrank1121 Жыл бұрын

    Love the narration not so much the video clips.

  • @tirandaz7612
    @tirandaz76129 ай бұрын

    Emma read? What did she read?

  • @alexschonski3637
    @alexschonski363711 ай бұрын

    According to Geni Tree this great King of England is my first cousin , 25 times removed .

  • @370530e
    @370530e Жыл бұрын

    Edmund got his Assandun whupped.

  • @secretspy1939
    @secretspy1939 Жыл бұрын

    Make please princess Margaret 🌹🤍❤️🖤

  • @user-qu7vr8hj7p
    @user-qu7vr8hj7p10 ай бұрын

    Letters of mark and repraisle to go after everyone who striped Anna of her belongings even if it's death that strips them of everything for taking a thing from her..... From Clark to wolf to Johnston to Robert and the menace it's not a game

  • @clipped_magpie
    @clipped_magpie Жыл бұрын

    My grandmother said Edward the Confessor was black.

  • @spencerfrankclayton4348

    @spencerfrankclayton4348

    Жыл бұрын

    Your grandmother was on something.

  • @tirandaz7612
    @tirandaz76129 ай бұрын

    What a bloody people!

  • @lornahuddleston1453
    @lornahuddleston1453 Жыл бұрын

    Well, what a bloody guy Edward was to Wales. And Scotland. So much for my Welsh and Scottish ancestors. Easy cone, easy to🎭☠️

  • @lornahuddleston1453

    @lornahuddleston1453

    Жыл бұрын

    @Three Emperors God, I love this stuff. If I had my life to live over, I would spend it filling my head with this history. Prior to the internet, it was quite a handicap being a Californian with British Isles roots. 🥴

  • @deturvilleashley3330

    @deturvilleashley3330

    Жыл бұрын

    @Three Emperors Yes but Wales wasn’t ruled by just 1 person! Bloody hell it’s like saying France, France had many different regions ruled by Different Rulers! And for Wales it wasn’t until long after the so called Norman invasion or conquest was completed and under William the bastard’s son King Henry I that the Normans began pushing into Wales. The dagger was Edwards daughter Matilda, thru her son Henry II whom received homage from Wales & Scotland.

  • @spencerfrankclayton4348
    @spencerfrankclayton4348 Жыл бұрын

    Trying to canonize him at the end--when we're (Christians) all saints according to the Bible.

  • @Ye_Olde_Duke_of_Edinburgh
    @Ye_Olde_Duke_of_Edinburgh2 ай бұрын

    Promising the English throne to someone doesn't make any sense for the period, considering that in order to get the throne, one had to be elected by the witan.

  • @Alta-Californian
    @Alta-Californian Жыл бұрын

    HIII, I would really like to see a video made about Mohammed Najibullah from Afghanistan, as I dont see much information about him KZread. Pls and Tank you - A random viewer from California.

  • @masada2828

    @masada2828

    Жыл бұрын

    Why can’t an Afghan relate Afghan history? I, personally have no interest as I do, in England history as, it is relevant to me.

  • @hassanabdikarimmohamed2505

    @hassanabdikarimmohamed2505

    Жыл бұрын

    ​@@masada2828 stop being parochial we have no interest in useless English stuff either, this is KZread and a channel that makes history from diverse places so stfu

  • @maidominguez1123
    @maidominguez1123 Жыл бұрын

    Today I learned: There Is a place named sandwich

  • @CasperScott-qq6ip
    @CasperScott-qq6ip10 ай бұрын

    Whatever promises wete or were not made by Edward the confessor, he did not have the legal ability to dispose of the crown of England. The word Atheling means throne worthy, by right the witan elected the king fron within the royal family. The strongest claimant not necessarily being the direct heir. Example in the case of Alfred the Great who suceeded his brother. His brother did have 2 sons who wete children at the time of his death. A child monarch was not desirable in the aftermath of the great heathen army and wete thus sidelined. Aflfred started the fashion of absolute primongeniture but it was not firmly established until the reign of king John. William the conqueror was actually elected by the witan. His son henry 1 also and to an extent stephan of Blois. The last monarch who needed the approval of the body politic was king john, his nephew Arthur of Brittany had the stronger claim . He was however a teenager under sway from the french crown

  • @robertolopez9483
    @robertolopez9483 Жыл бұрын

    Just set this in your mind. VIRGINITY RULES ❕

  • @MrMomo182
    @MrMomo1828 ай бұрын

    Emma was another Livia.

  • @sophiee.h
    @sophiee.h Жыл бұрын

    18 May 2023

  • @user-jl8mp6lg4i
    @user-jl8mp6lg4i3 ай бұрын

    45min

  • @charlesburgoyne-probyn6044
    @charlesburgoyne-probyn6044 Жыл бұрын

    He really should be Edward I but because of the regime change in 1066 he isn't also Harold King during 1066 is actually Harold II such is the contempt and condemn and deny as a result of the conquest this is barely stated. If William was legitimate then why did he oust the existing nobility and gentry as their legitimacy was the basis for his apparently legitimate claim. It should be borne in mind that the English of 1066 were somewhat different in character from the Anglo Saxons of the 5th century as even in those days, 600 years changes did occur. Also forward looking or backward looking in 1066 the English were wanting to hold onto what they had and knew hence backward looking the Normans were on the takeover with a new vision hence forward looking. Now the Establishment is rather backward looking as it wants to hold onto what it knows

  • @masada2828

    @masada2828

    Жыл бұрын

    So, where’s the ‘forward’ looking? What, is there to look forward to?

  • @pedanticradiator1491

    @pedanticradiator1491

    Жыл бұрын

    Actually he would be Edward III

  • @lornahuddleston1453

    @lornahuddleston1453

    Жыл бұрын

    Thanks for the fascinating headache. Care to rephrase?😁

  • @Robert-A-R

    @Robert-A-R

    Жыл бұрын

    @@lornahuddleston1453 I’m glad it’s not just me :)

  • @Trecesolotienesdos
    @Trecesolotienesdos11 ай бұрын

    traitor who sold out his people. very "saintly" thing to do.

  • @michaelwoodsmccausland5633
    @michaelwoodsmccausland5633 Жыл бұрын

    Anglo Saxon is a very unsubstantiated historical term MWM

  • @mattblackburn31
    @mattblackburn315 ай бұрын

    We was kangs! And serfs, and slaves etc. oh well

  • @richardc5226
    @richardc52264 ай бұрын

    Born unready😅

  • @golgumbazguide...4113
    @golgumbazguide...411311 ай бұрын

    Explore ggumbaz

  • @homerwiggins3965
    @homerwiggins3965 Жыл бұрын

    Edward is considered a saint. By your documentary you sure tarnish his name and his good works.

  • @BlickBoogie
    @BlickBoogie11 ай бұрын

    Love your videos but not a fan of this voice

  • @joenroute9646
    @joenroute9646 Жыл бұрын

    Too western centric