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!
The video is biased against Juana's relatives and is heavily pushing 'Juana Not Mad' narrative. The way the primary sources are treated (if mentioned) is embarrassing - if it doesn't support the narrative then the source is labelled unreliable . This is not history. Very disappointed.
Katherine must have been a very warm and loveable person to have inspired such loyalty and love from so many people who could have had reasons to dislike her
Such a beautiful love story. William has chosen her as his wife himself initially because of her good lineage (he was a bastard in the sense that vikings used to have more than a wife during those times and he was a concubine's son) to gain legitimacy, but ended up by madly falling in love with her. Mathilde was a force to reckon with in her own right, and ruled over Normandy in his name while William was consolidating his power in England. The historians of the time describe William as fierce and cruel and yet there are records saying that he was seen crying for the first and last time in public, at his wife's funeral. After her death he gave up worlds affairs and lived in isolation. He died in a few years after her. A political marriage which turned into a love story. I'd like to see a movie made about them.
She is my 16th Great-grandfather, and her son Thomas Grey 1st Marquess of Dorset is my 15th Great Grandfather his father was Sir John Grey my 17th Great Grandfather. I have been doing my family history for a while now and have been surprised at my family's amazing history. What I have learned is how connected all the nobility was to each other and how many royals and nobility I have in my own family. And Elizabeth was an amazing woman for her time.
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
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.
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.'
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.
