I can't help but notice that Walsingham's rebuttal to the accusations that he had manufactured the evidence basically ammounts to "nuh uh"

@mankytoes

3 жыл бұрын

He clearly entraped her, but he didn't manufactor the key evidence- she really did give the order to assassinate Queen Elizabeth.

@thunberbolttwo3953

3 жыл бұрын

@@mankytoes Agreed why lie. When you can tell the truth.

@someguitardude8462

3 жыл бұрын

Except... He didn't... All he did was allowing Babington's letters through and let her incriminate herself. He didn't manufacture a thing. EVEN if he had written letters himself posing as Babington, SHE gave her support to the conspiracy.

@freakymoejoe2

3 жыл бұрын

@@someguitardude8462 i mean yeah, thats official narrative? Mary said she never did anything of the sort, and that walsingham forged all of the letters, including any she supposedly wrote herself. Now obviously I have no idea which case is true, I'm just pointing out his defense wasn't very convincing

@benjaminvonstein

3 жыл бұрын

An Englishman engaging in ungentlemanly warfare? Unthinkable!

"There tends to be a close association in people's minds between England and Espionage." Sid Meier's Civilization 5 would agree.

@weldonwin

3 жыл бұрын

And between Ghandi and Nuclear Hellfire

@abthedragon4921

3 жыл бұрын

@@weldonwin lol

@berry1666

3 жыл бұрын

Yet in civ6, France are the ones geared more to spies🤔

@Beowulf_DW

3 жыл бұрын

@@berry1666 Ohe, partisans!

@quietone610

3 жыл бұрын

And Red Alert 2

The theory of everything "It was Walpole"

@kaltaron1284

3 жыл бұрын

As proven in this episode when he watched the meeting between Walsingham and the Spy and some strange Italian bloke.

@itwaswalpole

3 жыл бұрын

@qaze you called?

@toddhughes2859

3 жыл бұрын

3:39 He's right there!

@ajimit8669

3 жыл бұрын

@@toddhughes2859 Ezio too!

“Who are you?” “It’s Walsingham, Francis Walsingham”

@darter9000

3 жыл бұрын

*Francis walks across the screen holding a candle and spins and throws a dagger

@Packless1

3 жыл бұрын

@@darter9000 ...Moore and Connery gone... :-( ...who should play him in the movie...? ;-)

@andyjay729

3 жыл бұрын

"Dost thou expect that I talk?" "Nay, I expect that thou dyest!"

@johnbritt5188

3 жыл бұрын

Speaking of spies, you'll should do something on John Dee and the origin of 007. Wizards in history 😁

@theftparrot5750

3 жыл бұрын

Blazing lute theme plays

Francis Bacon, Francis Drake, Francis Walsingham: if you want to be a badass in England in XVI and XVII centuries you should not name yourself Edmund.

@chrisgurney2467

3 жыл бұрын

Or announce "I have a cunning plan"

@matthewwallack601

3 жыл бұрын

Or have a servant obsessed with turnips

@chrisgurney2467

3 жыл бұрын

@@matthewwallack601 turnips shaped like a thingy XD

@wanderingrandomer

3 жыл бұрын

Kinda ironic considering our rivalry with France

Walsingham sounds like a real life blend of Blackadder and Bond.

@Packless1

3 жыл бұрын

...propably because he was...? ;-)

@stonemorris5356

3 жыл бұрын

Walsingham... Francis Walsingham... and I have a cunning plan...

@spottedDeath983

3 жыл бұрын

And what could be better for the legend of both

@advanceringnewholder

3 жыл бұрын

Johnny English!!!

@jonathand.t.5051

3 жыл бұрын

Soooo... Johnny English?

Whenever I hear of stories like this, it makes me wonder just why so many people see appeal in holding power. It just seems like they set themselves up for a life of constantly looking over their shoulder and never being able to fully trust anybody else 😟

@sergiojuanmembiela6223

3 жыл бұрын

If you were born in certain families, you could not refuse to participate. Even if Mary had been unwilling to play politics, she could be used as a tool for someone else's power plays. And remember that power brings some perks, which were specially important in a time when many people were just a bad harvest short of being undernourished.

@Ethan-cz8xq

3 жыл бұрын

Beats being a peasant.

@BaconHer0

3 жыл бұрын

@@Ethan-cz8xq Not if you live in an anarcho-syndicalist commune

@KasumiRINA

3 жыл бұрын

@@BaconHer0 if you lived in an anarchic commune, you'd have communists accuse you of being a Trotskyst and a traitor, destroy your communes, and execute farmers as "bourgeois", happened in USSR, Cuba, Spain and everywhere else.)))

@BaconHer0

3 жыл бұрын

@@KasumiRINA Wow, I guess you're one of those people who have never seen Monty Python's Holy Grail

I now want to know more about the development of English espionage

@EnglishPersonAnon

3 жыл бұрын

Peter Hopkirk writes some good bookd about the lesser-known bits, like the Great Game / Большоя Игра era of espionage in unmapped central Asia, and the sadly badly documented Pundits, who were by all accounts incredible individuals.

But can you really blame Mary for latching onto a plot to get her out of her solitary confinement after 18 years?

@Jamie95326

3 жыл бұрын

She wouldn't have been there is she wasn't involved in plots already. She was originally under "royal" house arrest and got to keep her maids and servents

@artofthepossible7329

3 жыл бұрын

This was Plot no.3 Like they said, the hard part was convincing the Queen to sign the death warrant.

@dewittbourchier7169

3 жыл бұрын

She was constantly plotting against her own nobles and the English Queen of who she was a guest. She lost her head for a good reason.

@dromankass8655

2 жыл бұрын

Mary could just have had an easy life living under house arrest in as castle, and given up on politics when she fled Scotland for the safely of England. But no, instead she chose to press her claim to the English throne and replace Queen Elizabeth. But when you play the Game of Thrones, you Win or you Die.

@linhhoang1363

2 жыл бұрын

@@dromankass8655 couldn't disagree

Walsingham was played by Geoffrey Rush in the 1998 film Elizabeth. Great film, brutal character. Possibly has one of the most memorable introduction scenes I've ever seen.

I love that someone had the balls to name their kid Throckmortan

@benjaminvonstein

3 жыл бұрын

I see what you did there ;-)

@eazy8579

3 жыл бұрын

@@benjaminvonstein I don’t; would you please clarify the joke I accidentally made?

@LegendWeaver25

3 жыл бұрын

Throckmorton’s sign is a slang term in radiology where the outline of the penis in an x-ray points towards an injury related to hairline fractures or the like

@eazy8579

3 жыл бұрын

@@LegendWeaver25 Thank you for this beautiful fact!

3:38 Gentlemen, there is a red spy in the base!

@faceoctopus4571

3 жыл бұрын

A red spy is in the base!? _Protect the briefcase!_ We need to protect the briefcase!

@Mya_star551

3 жыл бұрын

We'lp Right behind you!? DUN DUN DUN DUN DUDUDUDUDUN

@spinfrog3875

3 жыл бұрын

@@faceoctopus4571 Yo can i get some help over here? Stand back son 1 1 1 uhh... 1! INCOMING!

@artition735

3 жыл бұрын

AHHHH- ay it’s still here!

@airmanon7213

3 жыл бұрын

@@artition735 *Ahem* Gentlemen.

*Gain a skill 3 spy master: ,This advisor is 50% cheaper for you to employ*

@MrJacobElias

3 жыл бұрын

Might be... but leinster inherited all of burgundy...

@Jaybird_102

3 жыл бұрын

Pootis

@AbandonedChan8l

3 жыл бұрын

Pootis

@gabrielmontenegro9476

3 жыл бұрын

Pootis.

@sethsuosisbacc6559

3 жыл бұрын

Pootis 2

Whoever narrates these videos you are really good at narrating. The art style of these videos is pretty cool.

Man, Donizetti chose the wrong person to write an opera about.

@linobigatti

3 жыл бұрын

What the hell

@jimluebke3869

3 жыл бұрын

I dunno. People might get tired of hearing all the words you can rhyme with "Walsingham."

3:38 that very picture will be forever in my head, alongside everygood moment of my life. thank you :D

I want to see Walsingham in a movie played by Rowan Atkinson.

@mayorgeneralramirez1997

3 жыл бұрын

Best possible choice

@tenaciousdean6179

3 жыл бұрын

He's been played by Geoffrey Rush (Barbossa) in Elizabeth The Golden Age which is fantastic I must say

Henry VIII died in 1547, it was Edward VI who died in 1553.

@raptorjesues1445

3 жыл бұрын

correct

@infinitememegod

3 жыл бұрын

*happy face while party music plays*

@ernestvanophuizen461

3 жыл бұрын

Poor Edward, so easily overlooked in the looming shadow of his father and half-sisters.

@artofthepossible7329

3 жыл бұрын

@@ernestvanophuizen461 Being ill and having a regency does that to a monarch.

@stephenwright8824

2 жыл бұрын

Don't expect very much from someone who put an _F_ on *Bletchley Park.*

His queen had 14 asassination attempts on her life - so as she survived all, he desurves all the credit.

@Packless1

8 ай бұрын

Fidel Castro: "...hold my cigar...!" 😉😁☠

TF2 Spy is now cannon in Extra History

Bruford and Tarkus, Most Loyal Knights of Mary, Queen of Scots: *Sad Fictitious Noises*

"I spare no expense"

@mitochondria6247

3 жыл бұрын

Here, buy yourself some talent.

@njvikesfan0162

3 жыл бұрын

You’re deadly skill is jogging? Mine is murdering

@red-2895

3 жыл бұрын

Well off to visit your mother!

@mitochondria6247

3 жыл бұрын

@@red-2895 This es Scout! Rainbows Make Me Cry! Over!

@PortablePybro

3 жыл бұрын

I have exquisite tastes

I see the TF2 Spy, Eizo, and Walpole.....Oh yeah, this is going to be good.

Century-old spy networks feel like something out of Assassins Creed

@chancelloryusuf

3 жыл бұрын

the real life Order of Assassins only lasted from 1090 to 1275

Finally got Extra Credits to say "perfidious Albion"

5:38 *multiple snorts* *"EXCELLENT!"*

When you say Walsingham you don’t say HAM at the end it’s more of a Walsing-hm

@Itcouldbebunnies

3 жыл бұрын

He mispronounced Staffordshire too.

@benfrancis7745

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah

@stephenwright8824

2 жыл бұрын

Don't expect very much from someone who put an F on Bletchley Park.

"and now BBC radio presents 'The Death of Mary, Queen of Scots'. 'are you Mary, Queen of Scots?' -I am. AAHCH! " This has been 'The death of Mary, Queen of Scots'"

At my states Renaissance fair I played Miss Frances Walsingham, his daughter. The actor who played the spy master gave me a rock.

I think a video series on Elizabeth I's life would be a great idea. It's really interesting.

The H in Walsingham is silent. It's "Stafford-sher" not "Stafford-shayer".

@ryeryeryerye

3 жыл бұрын

It’s pronounced walsingem right?

@rosiehawtrey

3 жыл бұрын

It's pronounced with the 'h' given the same weight as everything else in South East UK but every English dialect will vary so there is no "correct" way.

@stephenwright8824

2 жыл бұрын

Don't expect very much from someone who put an *F* on *Bletchley Park.*

3:36 Walpole is here

@ArkadiBolschek

3 жыл бұрын

He always was.

@ottovonbismarckboi9112

3 жыл бұрын

THERE IS A RED SPY IN THE BASE!!!!

@itwaswalpole

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for noticing me

"What's this? A traitor to the crown who's working to free Mary Queen of Scots and coordinate a Franco-Hispanian invasion of the Kingdom of England?" * notices his skateboard * "FRANCIS THROCKMORTON the traitor to the crown who's working to free Mary Queen of Scots and coordinate a Franco-Hispanian invasion of the Kingdom of England!?!"

3:40 so you're telling me tf2 and assassins creed are historically accurate

@chancelloryusuf

3 жыл бұрын

Assassin's Creed is somewhat historically accurate as the Order of Assassins was a real thing

@WitcherGerd

3 жыл бұрын

@@chancelloryusuf yes but they were destroyed by the mongol empire

Anyone else feel like the tone was off for telling the story of a man who was basically an Inquisitor? Dude was capable, no doubt, but seemed like he set up a lot of pretty sketchy precedents.

@aarongallant4280

2 жыл бұрын

Extra history has basically the same “boys’ own” style tone of “look at this badass” for a lot of their biographical stuff and that disconnect you mention is frequent and unsettling

I love that they put the TF2 spy into the thumbnail.

I guess it's fitting that I've never heard of this man, despite him being such a fascinating story.

@availablehage

3 жыл бұрын

Not a very good secret agent if he is renowned and famous😅😅

@sarasamaletdin4574

3 жыл бұрын

He wasn’t a secret agent. He was one of the most important members of Elizabeth’s court. He was overseeing operations.

i can't stop imagining walsinghams 'm', providing him with 'not even steam yet, let alone punk' level gadgets... pulleys, levers, counterweights, hand crafted wooden worm gears'n such...

I just finished A Column of Fire so this fits perfectly for me

This video would've helped me in my history exams sooooooooo much 1 and a half years ago :( because part of my course was on Elizabeth and his era.

The way Americans say Staffordshire always makes me wince.

@stephenwright8824

2 жыл бұрын

Me too and I'm an American.

Fantastic video! One of the last papers I wrote in grad school was about the Babington plot.

That Walpole is a spy!

@itwaswalpole

3 жыл бұрын

I am most certainly not

I NEED more of this!

As a spy main, I am very delighted of your thumbnail, happy holidays

I am a simple man. I see Ezio, I click.

@tahutheprotector6988

3 жыл бұрын

same here.

@idioticproductions4000

3 жыл бұрын

RED SPY IS IN THE BASE

@ianhamilton9600

3 жыл бұрын

I just saw the red spy

@lol-dm8wx

3 жыл бұрын

da vinky?

@Mya_star551

3 жыл бұрын

We'll i see spy I click too

Finally, a video that I haven't been late to!

Well done with the video,this is very interesting

I remember this from history. It was very interesting

Cool video about someone I’d never heard of - thanks EC!

I remember learning about this whole operation at school, including how Walsingham was able to crack he code, which was a substitution code known to catholics at the time.

"if she can't plot against the queen, I will put her in condition to do so so I can kill her" the absolute state

Thank you for video

I love how you included spy in the thumbnail!

been here right after the movie Elizabeth. He deserves the credits!

This is what I have to study for my GCSEs thank you so much

@tams805

3 жыл бұрын

Just don't really on Extra History for dates.

I had heard of john Dee, who was the inspiration to 007, the 00 meaning the eyes of the queen, and the seven was a personal symbol. (Someone please fact check me, I dont know how reliable my source was.)

WE NEED TO PROTECT THE BRIEFCASE

Cool video! Very interesting

The artists must have had a blast working on this vid. :)

Thank You !

Is Ezio Auditore da Firenze an assassin in the tubnail?

3:40 I honestly love the TF2 spy reference

3:38 nice touch

2:01 Isn't this cod piece a bit small for Henry VIII?

I am a simple fish. I see spy TF2, I click.

That thumbnail is amazing with the Spy from Team Fortress 2

I love what you do

This is a great video

Me when I see the cover image: "We got a red spy!"

Very good TF2 reference. Also very good video in general.

"Francis Walsingham has already breached our defenses....... you see what he has done to our colleagues...... and worse of all, he could be any one of us........"

The greatest compliment for a spymaster is that his enemies should have never heard of him

I suddenly have a much greater interest in spy plots than I did before watching this video.

Walsingham, Assassin's Creed, TF2,and Walpole is a sitcom I''d watch

Love the spy in the thumbnail.

So the spy from tf2 is canon in the lore of earth, awesome.

Great video! (Though Mary Queen of Scots wasn’t a former queen, per se. She was a queen regnant.)

3:41 DEN DEN DENAAAAA(low pitch) DEN DEN DENAAAAA(high pitch) DENENENA (tf2 pitch)

*3:38** STOP WATCHING A HISTORY LESSON SON, THERES A RED SPY IN THE BASE!**

The names Walsingham, Francis Walsingham Tavern master, gin shaken, mix with olives (i know, cocktail doesn't exist)

6:40 Well that looks adorable and cool.

yay i am early, great informitive video!

1:19 nice Spy vs Spy reference

I studied Elizabeth I at A-Level and always thought Walsingham was a badass, thankfully the Cate Blanchett movie gave him justice by casting Geoffrey Rush as him

Bletchley Park is spelt incorrectly in the description. :)

This gave me an idea, The Culper Spy Ring

Please make more videos about the Tudor era and the royals.

When I saw the thumbnail I actually screamed "SPY!"

I see that what you did there in the thumbnail

Please do an EH video on the secret royal inspector.

Huh. Here I was thinking that France was well known for its spies, thanks to Civ 6 and Tf2 for their French interpretations!

FYI you misspelt Bletchley Park in the description

3:38. That is definitely Ezio Auditore in the middle right.

The way you say Staffordshire and Walsingham is so jarring

Why did I read the title as: “Francis Walshingham - Elizabethan Simpmaster”?

It’s the spy from the team defense fort 2!

I mean, Walsingham did forge the letters (in a way). Mary was kept in a tortured state throughout.

I love the thumbnail with spy from TF2

I love how the spy🔪 was on the thumbnail