A Guide to Striking it Rich in the Middle Ages 

Yes, one of saddest stories to come out of the Battle of Loos 1915, was the amount of advertisements in the London Times & Telegraph enquiring as to young fallen officers and the enquiry was 'have you seen his sword?' These poor men often went in to face machine gun fire armed only with a sword which was often a family heirloom.

@@osakarose5612 I realise the mentality of the Japanese imperial armed forces was totally different to that of the allies, and had been isolationist for as long as time was recorded. But the way they treat any opposition was just sickening, a general using his sabre to cut a pow officers/ generals ( I think )head in two for not getting the Filipino resistance to surrender , was one of thousands of war crimes they committed. They should have sent the sword back melted down into a puddle of steel

@@theintellectualsamurai7265 : The Japanese are a primogenitural society like the Germans in which a family is thought of as a lineage continued by the eldest surviving son. Because the family patrimony sheds all but the first-born son every generation, it does not grow in the way Chinese families do, & has been the size of a single nuclear family since time immemorial, even into mythology in the case of the Emperor. This makes the Japanese very attached to the idea of lineage, with sons seeing it as their duty to continue the family business. In war, primogenitural societies think of themselves as ensures the continued survival of these ancient lineages. They tend to think of themselves as special, which means that other societies do not like being under the empire of a primogenitural society: the Koreans don't trust the Japanese, and likewise the Poles don't trust the Germans. America is a testate society, meaning that each generation gets to judge how the generation after it will inherit. In these societies, your life while your parents are still alive is your opportunity to prove that you have what it takes to take the patrimony forward.

@@ccityplanner1217 wow, I’m impressed with your knowledge of the sociadynamics of the world ( especially Japan) with that in mind, it’s definitely given me food for thought. For example I’m in the U.K. and I’m the eldest son. But the youngest is the favourite, both my parents are still here thankfully. Could you imagine being a prisoner under those circumstances though?? Sheesh. 🤕😣😩 It’s certainly enlightened me, regarding why the Japanese army treated pows. Thank you mr City planner 👍🏻

@@theintellectualsamurai7265 I just watched @whatifalthist's video on family structure

Pre-Industrial Age textiles were hand made. The more luxurious, the more labor-intensive. Especially rare textiles like silk or cotton. A regular poor would never be able to afford a cotton tunic. Silk would be incomprehensible. And colors! They were so hard to make. So, yeah. Fabric, metals- the more rare and finer made, the more precious.

Fantastic, thanks, glad it was helpful!

That's a good point. I think it would be interesting to see discussion about those ransom brokers.

Haha, that's very kind of you Beth, thank you!

Thanks buddy, glad you liked it

Thanks again!

Glad you enjoyed it 👍🏻

Cheers Jerry, thanks for the visit

Glad you enjoyed it Liam, thanks, and thank you for your continued support on Patreon, it's much appreciated. Best wishes for the New Year 👍🏻

Haha, cheers Mick!

Cheers Adam!!

That's very kind Lisa, I wish you a speedy recovery 👍🏻

Happy new year to you too Richard! Thanks for all your brilliant support on Patreon buddy, it's appreciated 👍🏻

@@thehistorysquad No Problemo 👍🏻. Keep up the good work 😃

Cheers!

Haha, always! Cheers Pete.

And to you too Marco, thanks for watching & your continued support 👍🏻

Thanks so much & welcome to the channel. I appreciate your new sub 👍🏻

Thanks, will do!

Great point! 👍🏻

😜 cheers John, thanks for listening 👍🏻

Cheers Nick!!

To be cynical, half of them would likely die of diarrhoea or sepsis on campaign and the other half of them would likely be fleeced of most of their new-found wealth before they ever made it back home. Even if you imagine that a company is led by an honest captain, that most of the men in the company are trustworthy around so much loot, and that they decide as a company to pool their treasure for ease of guarding and transporting it, they would still face surviving the ebb and flow of fortune of war until the campaign ends and they can get back to their home town or county where the company was raised. All this time there's the risk that some of the men will be tempted to steal whatever they can and desert, especially if the war is going badly, and that many of them will at several points want access to their loot in order to fully fund the traditional soldierly diversions of drinking, dicing and dipping your wick. It seems unlikely that few would actually make it back home with enough cash to, for example, be able to break their family's tie with a lord or land, to be able to buy or rent a house and workshop in a town such that they can set up business as a bowyer or whatever, and move up the social scale from serfdom to yeomanry, or to respected guildsman or town alderman.

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Go to San Francisco and start robbing clothing stores, I hear they won't even try to stop you. The police have too much to deal with to even bother with shoplifting and the few they do catch get a slap on the wrist for punishment.

Yea sure if you don't get run over by a French knight especially at the 2nd half of the Hundred Years War...😅

What was one of your favorite lines from Robinhood prince of theves

I'll add him to my rather long list, he's certainly a character worth exploring one day 👍🏻

@@thehistorysquad There's never a shortage of interesting historical figures, is there? ;) Thank you for adding him to your list! By the way, your videos are very enjoyable, not only because of the interesting content but also because of your style of narration.

@@FushigichanFushigichan thanks very much!

Mr. Hicks is the best. No other history series on RU-vid comes close.

Wow, thank you & welcome!

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Thanks Peter, and thanks for your continued support over on Patreon, I appreciate it. Happy New Year!

Haha, goodness, my head nearly exploded with all that. An amazing breakdown, thanks 👍🏻

@@thehistorysquad Your welcome, I hope one day you can do a video of Medieval money starting with the Anglo-Saxon King Offa, to the standardized sterling coinage of King Henry II, I think that would be a great episode so much history in 300+ years.

Wow, that's great insight Harry, thanks!!

The French frigate Guerriere was captured by the Royal Navy in 1806, and bought by the Navy and put into service for Britain. But in the War of 1812, she ran afoul of the USS Constitution (AKA "Old Ironsides"). Destroyed, but her name apparently was also treated as a prize, for there would be two USS Guerrieres in the US Navy in the 19th century.

@@davefinster8697 Guerrière means 'Warrior' in English. HMS Warrior, had several innovations, that, while not revolutionary themselves, combined to make a revolutionary ship. And like HMS Dreadnought 42 years later, instantly made every other warship in world obsolete. With 10 boilers and a screw propeller she could do 16 knots INTO the wind. Her Armstrong, 110-pounder (7 inch), breech loading guns and 68-pounder muzzle loading guns fired a greater weight of broadside than HMS Victory. All this was enclosed in an armoured citadel providing unprecedented protection. Warrior never fired a shot in anger and was herself quickly made obsolete. Today she is a museum ship in Portsmouth, England near HMS Victory and the Tudor warship, Mary Rose.

@@HarryWHill-GA Outstanding! Thanks for the fascinating stuff. My wife's family actually has a connection to an early steam-powered, screw-driven armored ship. Her first cousin's great-great-grandfather was a crew member on the CSS Virginia (formerly the USS Merrimack). In civilian life he was a waterman on Chesapeake Bay. He had joined the local militia, as an infantryman, but when a crew was needed for the Virginia, his prior experience was noted. He was fortunate enough to survive the battle with the USS Monitor, and lived to a ripe old age.

@@davefinster8697 Glad you liked it. Military history is kind of a family fascination. I have had a family member in every American conflict From King Phillip's War (1675-76) to Operation Enduring Freedom. The list of battles where I have had family members on both sides is distressingly long. The earliest I know for sure was Agincourt (1415). Fortunately all the important people, to me at least, survived.

It's a Monmouth Cap, I got this one years ago from Kirstie Buckland, www.aqualitycap.co.uk

They're called points, but they're basically woven cord with a metal point stitched over the end to prevent fraying and for ease of threading into the holes, then tied in a single loop bow with the loose ends (usually) tucked in. 👍🏻

Hi Dave, thanks for the lovely offer. I don't know about fletching, but as I move along into the Elizabethan era, I could certainly use some exotic feathers within some costume, so yes 👍🏻

Thanks, you too!

From what we can tell, they tried to improve their lot. When they returned home it appears they looked after their families and tried to slot back into civilian life, though this wouldn't have been the case for everyone, and remember too that many of the single men stayed behind in France and became mercenaries..

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I'm not 100% but think it may have been John II of France, whose ransom I believe was set at 3 million crowns

@@thehistorysquad Ok Thanks. Richard 1 has always fascinated me what a great warrior he was .

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Cheers Kim, Happy New Year!

I'm a Brummie from Birmingham, England but my accent has been mixed up through lots of years in service in different places.

lol that's a good one.

You too!! Thanks for watching, sorry about the glitch yesterday 😉

@@thehistorysquad Things happen!

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