Welcome to History's Forgotten People! My real name is Miranda Stork, and I'm a historian who leans towards womens' history, but I love all of it, really! I created this channel because I love learning about the forgotten people of history, and the forgotten stories of those who are famous. I like to peel back the layers of myth, legend and misinformation to find the real flesh and blood people beneath the caricatures. Thanks for being here for the ride, and I hope you enjoy my documentaries!
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She was smart to get away.
I am glad to hear her story, there aren’t many real biographies of noble women of period. Thank you for bringing Matilda to life. Fascinating story.
I fell in love several times while watching this video. If all these women were as beautiful as the models that portray them, I can see why men would risk wars to have them.
She was the lioness. And the reason why she agreed to marry him even after he allegedly attacked her. That's because she knew that that was a strong man and in the land surrounded by warriors and everything else. She needed a strong man for her husband and plus she knew that she could control him. So internal strength, internal width and make everybody think that her ideas are their ideas
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A O Neville is a lying two faced fraud and criminal mastermind destroying the lives of the Aboriginals using Kenneth Barangh to destroy their lives 😢❤
Thank you for this beautiful video on Matilda of Flanders. Love to know more about remarkable female historical figures and their challenges they faced in medieval times, can't wait for part 2. Excellent work as always ❤👑
In southeast asia we have the Bird's eye chilli or "cili padi" in the local language, known for being a miniature version of the chilli peppers but packing in high levels of spiciness! Over here Matilda would have the nickname "kecil-kecil cili padi" which basically translates to small but formidable like Bird's eye chilli. Watching this truly reminded me of that idiom 🤭
Philippa had the cultural merit to take a feminine touch to the Court, and therefore to the Country, spreading love for arts, for beauty and for good manners. In a certain sense, she was the first to make the Monarchy fashionable and glamorous. Which is far from being a futile detail, because it's something that enforced the fascination towards the Crown, and therefore its power...
Thomas Seymour was NOT a suitor he molested her and Parr was the Enabler. The behavior was predatory. This is confirmed in the accounts and historian David Stark confirms the fact when he did his special of Elizabeth I. the fact that Elizabeth was believed and not gaslit and victim blamed is rare. I think the fact that she was the daughter of Henry VIII allowed for justice eventually.
While Pedro and Inês really do have quite a love story and I sympathize with the tragic fate of Inês, it's difficult to reconcile that with the fact that their romance was adultery; Pedro was cheating on his wife with her lady-in-waiting, who happened to be her kinswoman and childhood friend. Constanza herself had a pretty rotten deal before she married Pedro; she was married off as a child to Castilian royalty, who then annulled the marriage to marry his own concubine and didn't even have the decency to let Constanza go home. Poor Constanza was cursed with two happy marriages-!!! That Pedro does not seem to have been there for Constanza when she died says a lot.
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Women were just chattel…..sad
Excellent work H’sFP ♥️
Ridiculous to think that a trigger warning has to be placed before a video of historical events. A generation of softies given a voice and not enough of the good side of this generation having a voice… just as loud/promoted, whichever word will do 🤨
'Charlemagne, King of the Franks' was not the first or any 'Holy Roman Emperor.' 'Otto the Great' is credited for being the first sovereign of what became 'the Holy Roman Empire.' It just so happens genealogically speaking that all major royal and imperial dynasties in western and central Europe can quintessentially trace back to Charlemagne with the respective kingdoms and empires having him for their closest mutual royal ancestor during 'the Middle Ages.'
I heard matilda of Flanders was a formidable woman.
The only people Philipp the Fair loved , if such a man is capable of love, were his wife and his daughter.
she only had 2 brothers, no sisters
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Lol He was attractive??
Fantastic video about a woman who like most medieval women, even the powerful and influential ones, is too often overlooked by history in favor of her powerful husband. Can't wait for part 2.
Thanks!
Thank you so much! I hope you enjoyed the video, this one has been a long time in coming! 😊
They must be a singular spectacle to see, he very tall, illiterate and bossy, She very short, cultivated and kind. And however One of the most formidable couple in history, the Conqueror would have been that without her...
As much s I'm fascinated by Queen Elizabeth I, I'm also horrified by her jealousy, wrath and temper. Lady Mary Grey's only sin was being young, beautiful and in love. Elizabeth I was so paranoid about people jockeying for her throne I bet you IF she'd had a child out of wedlock she'd never have been able to acknowledge him/her and probably burn all records of them. She was so traumatized by her monster of a father she nearly became like him when it came to her personal life. As is often the case.
The creator of love bombing.
damn, even a thousand years later were still hearing about her rejection 😔
The story about how William got her to marry him strikes me as completely invented! What woman in her right mind would be convinced to marry someone because he brutalized her like that? I don't think that ever happened. Her father's men just stood around and watched that? Not likely.
I completely agree! There's a lot of clearly invented tales from the past, but that struck me as one of the most obviously fake ones. 😂
Wonderful video.
Thank you so much, I'm glad you enjoyed it! 😊
Not everyone can claim relationship to famous figures, but others actually are related to famous figures in history. As such, there are good and bad points to this imo.
Oh but it makes history so much more meaningful when they’re your ancestors 😅
Women in her time had tricky lives. She seems to have been lucky in both her spouse and her health. I'm looking forward to part 2. Thank you for sharing.
Thank you so much, I'm glad you enjoyed it! 😊Part 2 is underway right now...
Love these videos
Man’s inhumanity to man cannot be underestimated. The conditions the third class endured were inexcusable, but the atrocities perpetrated in the fight to gain some semblance of equality were barbaric beyond imagination. We need to actually live by the maxims of equality, liberty, fraternity; slogans mean nothing when you don’t practice them.
Imagine if William just went to the church to meet her and screamed at the top of his lungs that he wanted her and no other, then he just pulled her close to him to declare his love again and maybe wanted hug or something, but pulled her with too much strength and she fell on the mud, then he tried to help her up but she got stuck and it turned into this huge gossip that he dragged her and harmed her 😅 Anyway, for how important she was in English history, she's definitely overlooked. She was a great ally to William and deserves more credit.
Oh my goodness, I love that, haha! This idea that William was actually just a big teddy-bear completely romantically in love with her, but in order to keep up his fearsome reputation elsewhere, his men were all, "No, he didn't do that! He...er...dragged her into the mud and...and..." "Beat her up!" "What the-? Geoffrey, that's a bit much, isn't it?" "No, look, they're loving it!" "Ah...yeah, that's exactly how it happened. Yanked down by her pigtails and beaten up. Won her right over."
Formidable and short!
Definitely formidable, but she was a normal height for her time!
Wow, she was spectacular!!
Wait until Part 2 - she was a seriously strong lady!
Personally, I love Wu Zetian, so i feel like I can't judge Elizabeth that much. (I recommend Xiran Jay Zhao's videos to get a great perspective on Wu Zetian)
I remember reading a book about Matilda of Flanders in the early 90s..i can't remember the title.
Isn't there any movies or mini series about her and William?
I love history. Especially medieval England. I can barely wait for the next video!!! I'm so excited. 🤓
Thank you so much, I'm glad you enjoyed it! 😊I hope you like Part 2 just as much.
@HistorysForgottenPeople I have no doubts that I will enjoy part 2 just as much as part 1. I'm so happy that I found you're channel. I love your content and the especially the illustrations and artwork. I've ALWAYS tried to picture what the people looked like. I know there are contemporary paintings. But they are mostly flat 1 dimensional and hard to imagine it. And quite a few of the kings look alike and hard to tell apart. At least for me. Paintings have come a long way. LOL. Thank you very much for all of your hard work and dedication and effort that goes into a KZread channel. Please keep them coming.
Can't find part 2!
I think it comes out next Sunday May 26¡
This one has only just come out - Part 2 is out next Sunday! 😊
Hi, awesome live history video I enjoyed it. How are you and Mallard your cat doing? How is the weather where you are? I'm doing well and so is my cat Benjamin. We both enjoy watching your live history videos. We have beautiful warm weather in Ontario Canada. In the next video in the future could you do King Stephen the first he was King of England in the 11 hundreds. Have a great day see you next video. HAPPY VICTORIA DAY WEEKEND TO YOU. 😊
Hi Michelle, we're good! Glad to hear you and Benjamin are doing well. 😊 Our weather's cooled a little again, so hopefully we get some of your warmer weather soon! I might do something on King Stephen - there's a little bit about him in my Empress Matilda videos as well, thought obviously not just on him.
The Conqueror's wife and consort was quite the character! Look forward to the rest of this series. 😊
Honestly, I think I would have been a little scared of her and very much in awe had I been alive then. Part 2 is well under way for you guys! 😊
@@HistorysForgottenPeople Yes, very formidable! Look forward to Pt 2. 😅
History is something invented by round earthers, it's all a scheme.
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I can't tell if this is pure sarcasm or serious, but either way, I'm laughing. 😂😂😂😂😂😂
@@HistorysForgottenPeople I am glad I made you laugh 😂😂😂 but I am very serious 😌
After her death , William was inconsolable, he restrained from his favourite sport hunting and all the women from his court . Very sad 😢😢
That's true! I think he was very devoted to her, and they were absolutely in love.
@@HistorysForgottenPeople yes absolutely even after a rocky start
Do we know what she looked like?
@@leeannproctor47 she was of short stature compared to her husband , who was 5 foot 10 inches .
@@leeannproctor47 It was said she was around 5 ft and was beautiful. She was also very healthy, at least in the years she bore all those children!
For the question, from the Historical people you’ve studied, who is the one you like the most? Those who are genuinely so good you find yourself awestruck by what they did. You can cheat here lol (I myself have like 5). (also I can’t be 100% sure if I’ve ever asked you this but I don’t recall it, so, hope I’m not repeating myself😭). For me it’s Katherine of Aragon, Emma of Normandy (as I once heard say, Emma was for Emma, which doesn’t score her that high in the kindness score, but her achievements were out of this world imo and hers is a story I’m always itching to tell), Alfred the Great and Belisarius. Honourable mention to Amélie of Orléans, I just didn’t include her bc I haven’t studied her enough to know for sure :)
LOL No worries, I wonder if I'm repeating myself all the time in my answers, so apologies if I do! 😂 My absolute favourite person of all history is Empress Matilda. I'm sure she did do bad stuff (we're all human) but her good stuff outweighs any not-so-good-things, and there's a lot of propaganda around her, and to be honest, my personality is very similar in being stubborn and very 'mama bear' as well. I would definitely kick off a 19-year-civil war for my crown, and I'm not sure if that's a good thing! 😂😂😂 I also agree with you on Katherine of Aragon, and since studying her more closely, Anna of Cleves! Anna just seems like an all-round kind, clever, funny woman AND she liked to cook. I really like George III as well - I think he was overall a good king, and the fact he was such a family person is amazing considering his father and grandfather. I think you can tell I'm basically a sucker for anyone who is nice to their loved ones, haha! I also like Arthur (or Artie) Moore - I don't want to say too much as I've got a video planned in a few weeks for him, but basically he was a real inventor-type person who started from nothing in a small town in Wales, and ended up working for Marconi. 😊
The medieval dress code for Flanders the Flanders sweater😂
oooh how much I missed earlier Medieval History🙏🙏 I’ve real mixed feelings about Matilda. On the one hand, she is admirable and was a great supporter to William, which brings me to what puts me on the fence about her- William👹 I haven’t finished the video yet (it’s been 5 minutes lol), but from the little I know (or think I know) about her she didn’t oppose the harrying of the North and even accompanied him (again, this may well not be true). Ik a Queen’s duty was to support her husband, but when his desire was so violent, some goodness could be expected🥲 They did love, or, at least liked each other quite a lot, so I think she could have tried to soften his ideas without much fear of being mistreated. Still, she is admirable, and her story is gonna be great to hear!!🙏 Have a nice week :))
Hi friend ! Who is your favorite king before William the Conqueror ?
@@DarthDread-oh2neHello :) It’s my fav English monarch, Alfred the Great! What about you?
🤔 you can’t go 😑 with Alfred the great.😊
@@DarthDread-oh2ne ooh why not🥲? He may not have ruled over the whole of modern England but he started it, and I believe that, had he lived longer, he would’ve seen it- maybe not finished but close-.
You're not wrong, there may be a VERY different view of her in the next video! You know how I feel about the harrying of the North LOL. But I think she was a very strong person, brought up in her time with those expectations, and there were maybe times when she didn't want to go against William. Certainly not perfect, that's for sure! But still admirable.
poor girl heartbreaking story . he was a cruel king Henry he couldn't just exile them
Hi dont know if you will get this but im a new sub Just started my third video. Its just facinating about the history and i enjoy your comments also Much respect from Virginia USA
Aww, thank you so much! I'm glad you're enjoying the videos. 😊
This was facinating Brought back the facts i had learned about that ogre Henry 8th it also reminded me of the good and bad in the women he lusted after I dint think he ever really loved Katherine of Aragon. He more or less was forced unto that one dye to his position. It was all a big mess and im sure My heavebly Father God.... got a splitting headache form it all😊