The Life of a Medieval Knight

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The life of a medieval knight. It wasn't all shining armor.
Chapters:
00:00 - Intro
00:29 - History
01:43 - Training
03:18 - Knighthood
04:34 - Tournaments
05:37 - Death
Some sources:
"How Knights Work" by Craig Freudenrich, Ph.D. history.howstuffworks.com/his...
"Medieval Knight," "Medieval Tournament," and "How to Become a Medieval Knight" all by Mark Cartwright. www.ancient.eu/Medieval_Knight/
The Knight in Medieval England, 1000 to 1400 by Peter Coss.
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Music: Celebration, Marked, and Medieval Loop 1 by Alexander Nakarada (www.serpentsoundstudios.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons BY Attribution 4.0 License
Teller of Tales by Kevin Macleod
Good King Wenceslas
#medieval #history #knights

Пікірлер: 59

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    @leeksoy3 жыл бұрын

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    @szemjuelhont35743 жыл бұрын

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  • @rev.paull.vasquez4001
    @rev.paull.vasquez40012 жыл бұрын

    Two things. There was a separate group of individuals, the men-at-arms, who were not knights but were equipped similarly and served the same battlefield functions (mounted cavalry), but did not have the same social rank (and responsibilities). Secondly, even in Ancient Rome there was a distinction in class (and thus status) between the Patricians & the Equestrian class. As time marched onward, these distinctions were blurred, but it makes perfect sense that the historical descendants of such a system would develop a similar set of social classes, as the expense of horse fighters was the basis of the original Roman groups also.

  • @TheGahta

    @TheGahta

    2 жыл бұрын

    Though continuity in these things is a hard sell seeing that aside from similiar tools and usage there isnt much to make that link

  • @sv1338
    @sv13383 жыл бұрын

    Could you make a separate video on Chivalric Orders / Knightly Orders? I've been trying to learn about them and how they work exactly for quite some time now, but I haven't found any good video's/articles on the topic

  • @TheGeneralistPapers

    @TheGeneralistPapers

    3 жыл бұрын

    Absolutely

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    @neinzukorruption9321

    3 жыл бұрын

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    @robertholt64443 жыл бұрын

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    @jedispartancoolman3 жыл бұрын

    Man this video is perfect! Thank you!

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    @justincassablanca54793 жыл бұрын

    Amazing video! Keep up the great work that you are doing!

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    @devinsamuel36123 жыл бұрын

    I love your channel, you're very good at explaining this stuff succinctly and interestingly. Keep it up, and here's hoping you soon get the attention your work deserves

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    @WyrmrestAccord3 жыл бұрын

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  • @Menzobarrenza
    @Menzobarrenza3 жыл бұрын

    Awesome video. This was highly informative.

  • @delaneys4170
    @delaneys4170 Жыл бұрын

    Thanks for the video! This was a good one to show my 8yo who is just learning about the days of knights and the feudal system. Your speech speed and simple, clear to understand wording is perfect. We will be watching more!

  • @Neppy1414
    @Neppy1414 Жыл бұрын

    great content!! narrative style 100%!! love your channel!!

  • @dancummane3668
    @dancummane36682 жыл бұрын

    Cool, but outside of the military campaigns, you’ve not told anything else about a knights way of life.

  • @legioxequestris811

    @legioxequestris811

    5 ай бұрын

    Maybe its not too much to tell

  • @dancummane3668

    @dancummane3668

    5 ай бұрын

    @@legioxequestris811 just fukkin, fighting and drinking?!

  • @legioxequestris811

    @legioxequestris811

    5 ай бұрын

    @@dancummane3668 exept for templars that was probably 99% of their time

  • @Beeontree

    @Beeontree

    5 ай бұрын

    Literally

  • @sageofearth5250
    @sageofearth52502 жыл бұрын

    Narrator: If a knight was apart of chivalric order a sort of Knight Club. Me: (Imagines a bunch Medieval knights dancing at a night club).

  • @unkouwnfigure2746
    @unkouwnfigure27462 жыл бұрын

    Your channel is amazing, keep up the good work

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    @MrUrgnot3 жыл бұрын

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  • @sarahdillon7499
    @sarahdillon74992 ай бұрын

    Great video. Perfect for my students. Thank you!

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    @martinschulz9381 Жыл бұрын

    Simple and well done video.

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    @random_guy683 жыл бұрын

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  • @LucrativePerson
    @LucrativePerson2 жыл бұрын

    Nice video was interesting to watch

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    @divinesovereign58892 жыл бұрын

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    @ggCA072 жыл бұрын

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  • @Band_Aid_Man_
    @Band_Aid_Man_ Жыл бұрын

    very interesting. when I was a kid, I was fascinated with knights.

  • @xziuto
    @xziuto8 ай бұрын

    I find stuff likes this very fascinating.

  • @m1galla
    @m1galla Жыл бұрын

    Brilliant

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    @random_life_things3 жыл бұрын

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    @solitudeguard19322 жыл бұрын

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  • @horzinesecurityagent1732
    @horzinesecurityagent17322 жыл бұрын

    knights are criminally underrated warriors.

  • @Linkskyfyre
    @Linkskyfyre2 жыл бұрын

    I am slight confusion though. In the Baronet video you say Knights are not nobility, yet in the beginning of this one it is mentioned that they are. Can you clarify? Can a knight be a commoner or no? And if so, how does that work? Thanks! great job!

  • @irishgovna2995

    @irishgovna2995

    2 жыл бұрын

    I think he means that they are low nobility. Meaning they hold little to no power or influence compared to a Count or a Duke that holds vast swaths of land. Kind of like how we use the title commander today. There are platoon and company commanders but they don’t hold enough power or influence to notice, but then you also have generals that are the commanders of large amounts of soldiers and can even influence the political theatre in their country or foreign countries.

  • @micahbragg5422
    @micahbragg5422 Жыл бұрын

    Have you read c.s. Lewis’s short essay on chivalry? It really is fantastic. Lewis was the chair of medieval literature at Oxford.

  • @chrismac2234
    @chrismac22342 жыл бұрын

    The wooden swords were known as wasters. nice little video. I'm interested in the duchy divisions in the UK

  • @Mmmmm-vp4dc
    @Mmmmm-vp4dc Жыл бұрын

    whats the font you used for TRAINING

  • @josephchristoffel
    @josephchristoffel2 жыл бұрын

    man, really love your content. But i think the audio volume is too low

  • @kitchiesmom
    @kitchiesmom Жыл бұрын

    I've been researching my family history and found several distant grandfathers that were knights. I found 2 that were knights of the Templar.

  • @ChicagoMel23
    @ChicagoMel23 Жыл бұрын

    I read that sometimes the knight ceremony also included a punch, to show that being a knight could be painful, but idk if it’s true. Also some men were basically knights in all but name because of the expense. They’d technically stay squires but act as knights. Is the part about knights having heralds at tournaments telling the crowd about them real? There could be several horses involved. But the only name I remember is s destrier, or war mount.

  • @RandoomDude
    @RandoomDude2 жыл бұрын

    What version of Old King Wenceslas is that?

  • @cgaccount3669
    @cgaccount36692 жыл бұрын

    I find the burial effigies interesting. They look very realistic. Yet the paintings of the time look like bad playing cards. It's odd that at the time sculptures were so talented yet most painters were not

  • @andregpsantos
    @andregpsantos2 жыл бұрын

    In fantasy literature there's always one or a few Knights that were knighted at 16 or so, how common was this?

  • @labla8940
    @labla89402 жыл бұрын

    History Nerd, Love the videos short and packed with to the point subject matter. The narrators tempo and voice are perfect. Its as though 99% of info is digestible and easily understood without loosing interest, even briefly, aka hanging on every word. Well done. PS I am an Ashiest, but I dislike intensely the BCE and CE its pretentious attitude. I usually turn off any video that goes there, I can only imagine how many Christians do also. History lesson changing history which is a dangerous path and lesser teachers practice. Thanks I'm hooked keep it up please. Do you teach?

  • @notabot2732
    @notabot27322 жыл бұрын

    This gave me a low key existential crisis

  • @velkewemaster
    @velkewemaster Жыл бұрын

    Great video. There is an inaccuracy tho. Not only noblemen had access to heavy armor. In fact most heavy cavalry in the late middle ages wern't knights but men-at-arms, rich enough commoners how fouth in the same style as knights. Thus, a knight is defined by its social class at the very bottom of nobility, not by its equipment.

  • @JamesThames1987
    @JamesThames19872 жыл бұрын

    That music just makes me think of Epic NPC man. 🤣

  • @Pedro-ds3cq
    @Pedro-ds3cq Жыл бұрын

    Im impressed that they had night clubs back then! It must have been really cool.

  • @jackofswords7
    @jackofswords7 Жыл бұрын

    Knights were the best warriors on the field until they met English and Welsh archers.

  • @jackofswords7

    @jackofswords7

    6 ай бұрын

    @@yourdavey6531 What ever you want.

  • @MickThalisapaidshill
    @MickThalisapaidshillАй бұрын

    Correction: at 00:50 you show a black knight. Knights weren’t black.

  • @snip11er
    @snip11er29 күн бұрын

    🤫🧏‍♀

  • @rohnkd4hct260
    @rohnkd4hct2602 жыл бұрын

    It was really hard way to make a living.

  • @Chrisisballin
    @Chrisisballin2 жыл бұрын

    It's spelled Charlemagne. If you want to be taken seriously please stop misspelling names. That's twice I've seen that already.

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    @ilovechrist97802 жыл бұрын

    For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. - John 3:16 from the Bible ❤❤💕