Christian Mercenaries in Muslim Service - Animated Medieval History

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Kings and Generals animated historical documentary series on the history of middle ages continues with a video in which we talk about Christian mercenaries who were in the Muslim service in Iberia and North Africa during the medieval period and Reconquista, focusing on the exploits of the Catalonian noble Reverter de la Guardia, who defended the the Almoravid caliphate against the Almohads.
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@KingsandGenerals 2 месяца назад

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@News1_Rizwan 2 месяца назад

Please Urdu subtitles should be provide .I like your videos but I am unable to understand them. Therefore, Urdu subtitles should be provided so that we can easily understand History . Thanks

@saledin-wd2gj 2 месяца назад

Next, Muslims Mercenaries in Norman Sicilian Services

@aboutertugrulghazi4585 2 месяца назад

I am from Pakistan. I like your videos butt i can't understand please provide urdu subtitle on video.

@randynesbit4497 2 месяца назад

Why dont you cover the french occupation of mexico? Battle of puebla and battle of camerone the famed french foreign legion battle

@googleaccount065 2 месяца назад

Early jihad... Oriented Orthodox fought with muslim against Byzantine, source: Antioch patriarchal journal..

@Blisterdude123 2 месяца назад

All mercenaries, the world over, throughout history, have always spoken the same language. And it is accompanied by the jingling of coins.

@JohnDoe-ug3su 2 месяца назад

just professionals being professionals

@natheriver8910 2 месяца назад

True

@Alexq79- 2 месяца назад

Hebrew?

@Alexq79- 2 месяца назад

Yiddish?

@jordisaura6748 2 месяца назад

la pela es la pela

@jesseberg3271 2 месяца назад

So like the Swiss Mercenary bodyguard regiement in France: they couldn't betray their employer, because no one would ever trust them again if they did, and they had no other support or power base in the region.

@Staytrue-gk6ex 2 месяца назад

The video misses the fact that there were many Christians part of the eastern church for ideological reasons refused to support Catholics and joined Muslims because Islam permitted freedom of religion and allowed Christians to judge in family and religious matters among themselves.

@caniconcananas7687 2 месяца назад

@@Staytrue-gk6ex But the Moslem kings did not allow those native Christians to use weapons. Unless the authority needed them to do so, for example, to defend the city during a siege. It was the same for Jews and Moslems under Christian kings. This was the rule on Spain, Portugal and Sicily during the Middle Ages. Anyway, the video focus is on Christians FIGHTING for Moslem kings. Not living under them.

@robertbodell55 2 месяца назад

The theme of using ostensible foreigners as an elite guard due to cultural divide / lack of local power base or connections seems to a relatively common idea. from the Varangian guard of Byzantine Rome to the Mamelukes and Janissaries. Over time the thing to what out for was them over time gradually becoming entrenched as a power block in there own right after too much intermingling culturally as happened with the latter 2 the Mamelukes taking over Egypt directly and the janissaries going full praetorian guard and deposing and murdering sultans for the own enrichment and benefit.

@dohoangquan35 2 месяца назад

not just the Swiss, during the period of 15th to 17th centuries the European mercenaries were contracted by employers through the banking system and their leaders usually had to advance their own money to maintain their units while relying on their personal contacts to get the credit from the banks. So if they betrayed their own employers, the banks would stop dealing with them. It was the employers who were more likely to betray the mercenaries.

@mkepioneet 2 месяца назад

@@robertbodell55and the Numerus Batavorum - the bodyguards for the Julio-Claudian dynasty. Allegedly, Caeser also used Germans for his personal bodyguard

@mathewfinch 2 месяца назад

The Christian population in Egypt was largely Miaphysite Christian, so when the Muslims conquered Egypt, they went from being considered heretics by their government to being considered Christians by their government overnight.

@Thel1ghtner 2 месяца назад

Life truly is stranger than fiction at times

@AssyriacUnitarian 2 месяца назад

I'm imagining Mr. Incredible's meme of Math is Math format To: Muslim: Christians are Christian

@bablo82 2 месяца назад

@@AssyriacUnitarian heretical Christians are still technically christian though aren't they?

@habibi_sport312 2 месяца назад

Heretical Christians predfh their form of Christianity as the one true one and identify as Christians. Like the church of the east or most protestants, they're still Christians. @@motex3572

@bablo82 2 месяца назад

@@motex3572 idk, that's why I'm asking.

@mueezadam8438 2 месяца назад

Janissaries: wait I can explain Medieval Christian mercenary: you get paid way more than me! Mamluks: you guys are getting paid?

@darthbauer5153 2 месяца назад

Mamluks were technically just a ruling class of janissaries after they overthrew the sultanate.

@cool06alt 2 месяца назад

Mamluks do get paid in the form of tax farming over administrated lands they were granted by Sultans. Slave soldiers were less of unpaid forced workers but more like the need to have separate society without any connection to the major populations. They were extremely rewarded if they are loyal, they were not free though in the earlier phase of their life.

@wewenang5167 2 месяца назад

Well Mamluk not only got paid but they got the crown LMAO

@helsinki 2 месяца назад

Just because they are considered 'slave soldiers', the Mamluks are definitely not in any way badly treated, unpaid 'slaves'. These guys were well trained and well compensated.

@Jsjfjvinwnwl 2 месяца назад

Mamlukes are legit forced to get administrative roles and alot of rewards like money, reputation, fame and glory. At the exchange of slaving your early life training, but even then being a Mamluke can get your family out of poverty and create generational wealth

@jlvfr 2 месяца назад

"What God do you serve? "Money."

@uncommon_name9337 2 месяца назад

Ah yes, the one true God $$$ 😂

@zulfikaraliAkbar 2 месяца назад

Ah... Yess... The true ol' G old O il D iamond

@FlaviusBelisarius-ck6uv 2 месяца назад

The Almighty Dollar.

@مجتمعالمفكرين 2 месяца назад

@@uncommon_name9337 Money will not help you at another life

@andravideostation6101 2 месяца назад

Same with the Muslims, many Turkics from the Seljuk Sultanate served as mercenaries in the Christian Eastern Roman Empire

@sugahtron 2 месяца назад

Haha when I play medieval total war 2 and go against the moors and see Christian guard it always made me wonder. Thank you for video!

@Rome.s_Greatest_Enemy 2 месяца назад

Muslims : we thought you don't deal with Islamic gold Mercenaries: gold is gold

@aetius7139 2 месяца назад

Like emperor vespasian used to say: "Pecunia non olet" (Money doesnt stink).

@gabriellouisemanalansan2507 2 месяца назад

HAHA KINGDOM OF HEAVRN REFERENCE

@Rome.s_Greatest_Enemy 2 месяца назад

@@gabriellouisemanalansan2507 bingo

@decius6939 2 месяца назад

Muslim General: Well? I'm waiting.. Christian Mercenary: A**** HU A**** Muslim General: Another 2000 Gold in your bank.

@fidaee19 2 месяца назад

This explains the Christian knight units in my Almoravid and Almohad armies in Medieval 2 Total War.

@VicmundLim 2 месяца назад

Next up muslim mercenaries in christian armies

@StaunchVicinity50 2 месяца назад

They did exist! Byzantines hired mercenaries from the seljuk sultanate during Byzantine-Norman wars

@ukaszgrzesik7231 2 месяца назад

I second that motion. There were Tatar units in Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. I would like to know of other examples.

@VicmundLim 2 месяца назад

@@StaunchVicinity50 this is interesting. I like to read it, any info or source?

@VicmundLim 2 месяца назад

@@ukaszgrzesik7231 I heard of this too. Heck if you look at the sabre used by the winged hussar. It resemble those used by the tatars

@Rynewulf 2 месяца назад

@@VicmundLimI believe the terms 'turcomans' and 'turkopoles' referred to the many different peoples of Muslim cavalry working for the Byzantines and Crusaders. For the Byzantines it seems for most of their history they recruited Muslim cavalry as either an auxiliary from border territories or as outright mercenaries, and as was the case for the skythikon, variatadai, latinikon, varangians etc they were usually capable and loyal compared to native troops The Crusaders also quickly adopted this practice too once they entered the Near East. Sometimes the terms were used for light cavalry or horse archers in general, as in a 'turkic style' even if they were local christians and sometimes any Muslim force were referred to this way no matter how they were armed.

@TG_MOGATEAM 2 месяца назад

Wanted this since a decade Christian Arabs had a huge credit in the Muslim conquest of Mesopotamia

@AoalinMac1038 2 месяца назад

True, Especially in Levant and North Africa, due to The Islamic Conquest of Byzantine Lands. But sometimes they can be a torn in the butt, especially During the Abbasid Siege of Constantinople.

@Seosaidh1 2 месяца назад

Unfortunately, and today there are only shadows of a Christian population left in the Middle East...

@MedjayofFaiyum 2 месяца назад

@@AoalinMac1038why was this the case?

@AoalinMac1038 2 месяца назад

@@MedjayofFaiyum Most Of the Abbasid Fleet Were Christians, That has Likely supplied the Islamic Conquest of Iberian Peninsula.

@henriquebitencourt4280 2 месяца назад

Most christian arabs were nestorian , a christian sect deemed as heretical by the latins and greeks so helping the muslims sounded better to them.

@Gen.berseker25 2 месяца назад

Suggestion: mercenaries in the Carthaginian army!

@jakekilley9037 2 месяца назад

Agreed especially with the 2nd punic wars series going atm would be good to see whats actually in Hannibal's army or at least close to it lol

@alexandruchira184 2 месяца назад

Yes please

@seidihabibi 2 месяца назад

Hahaha i am Saqlabi but when i did a genetic test i got a lot of iberian but also 5 percent nordic. Im from tunisa it could be the people back then confused them with saqaliba but they where actually christian mercenaries.

@theguy8729 2 месяца назад

Yes this is perfect. Could you also go over the recruitment process of these mercenaries in Carthages army

@mbarnabeus 2 месяца назад

Too similar to putin and his mercenaries or france and it's mercenaries money torture war crimes betrayal..

@AdamAzzr 2 месяца назад

It’s unbelievable how much effort you put in your videos, I learned a lot about almost every civilization in the world because of these ultra professional yet simple and well explained videos

@penguasakucing8136 2 месяца назад

This topic should be continued further. There are many other stories of the so-called Farfanes or 'Uluj between Reverter and the Nasara ar-Rabat of the 15th Century. For instance, how Las Cantigas de Santa Maria depicts both sides of the Almohad civil war employed Christian Mercenaries against each other. Or how Al Umari stated that the Marinid Sultanate army employed 4000 Franks. Or the Maluyyun/Malughun guard of Granada (they are closed to Mamluks though than mercenaries). The Courts of Maghreb, did not stop at European Mercenaries. Oghuz Turks and Kurdish Mercenaries were also employed as horse archers; as Horse Archery is not the tradition of the Berbers of North Africa (Berbers were known as mounted javelineers, light lancers, and mounted infantry instead, for instance like their Numidian and Mauri ancestors in Carthaginian and Roman Armies) And of course, for the same reason for having troops that only beholden to the Sultan and not having anything to do with local politics, there was Black Guards trained from African slaves. The Abid al-Makhzan of the Almohads famous for being the unit which guarded the Caliph's tent at the battle of Las Navas de Tolosa at 1212. Subsequent Tunisian Hafsid dynasty and Moroccan Alawi dynasty possessed Black Guards too, who also served as as tax collectors.

@MKfanmomo 2 месяца назад

Thank you for the historical trivia, greetings from Tunisia.

@JosmanLeonelVielmaPuente 2 месяца назад

Según unas fuentes los Alauitas llegaron a tener a diez mil renegados Daneses bajo su mando

@alireza2248 2 месяца назад

Reverter was playing Mount & blade IRL

@huslethal 2 месяца назад

When you make a European-looking character but joined the Sarranid Sultanate

@crazydiamond3403 2 месяца назад

@@huslethal relatable

@NaufalTech123 2 месяца назад

@@huslethalThat's me

@lerneanlion 2 месяца назад

Someone like Viscount Reverter de La Guardia sounded like someone who deserved his own movie. And I believed his movie can be a window into what was life like for the peoples in Morocco during the time of the Almoravid Emirate.

@danielefabbro822 2 месяца назад

Strange figure. French name and Italian surname. La Guardia was alzo a mayor of New York from which comes the name of the International Airport of La Guardia, New York.

@Angel24Marin 2 месяца назад

@@danielefabbro822 It's Catalan, that it's part to the Occitano-Romance family. La Guardia is Castillian/Spanish

@danielefabbro822 2 месяца назад

@@Angel24Marin en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiorello_La_Guardia

@danielefabbro822 2 месяца назад

@@Angel24Marin Occitano-Romance is spoken also in Italy.

@potatioo 2 месяца назад

@@Angel24Marin la guardia is also catalan...

@ahrufanghalba9669 2 месяца назад

Yeah. Muslims too, sometimes works for Christians. Othello, for example.

@iamleoooo 2 месяца назад

Kings and Generals incessantly giving us incredible content 🤳

@yasserotmani2346 2 месяца назад

Christian mercenaries was a thing in Morocco throughout its Muslim history even up until as recently as 100 years ago. One of the very last European christians employed to lead the Moroccan army was Harry Aubrey de Vere Maclean, who was employed by the Sultan of Morocco in the late 19th century to instruct and then to elad the Moroccan army

@mikymike-m1j 2 месяца назад

@yasserotmani2346 As a european ask yourself why is your Moroccan star older then the modern isreali star?

@Wasteland88 2 месяца назад

@@mikymike-m1jWhy does it matter?

@AdamAzzr 2 месяца назад

@@mikymike-m1jwhat?

@jackal25301 16 дней назад

@@mikymike-m1j huh ??

@ArmchairFilmCritic 2 месяца назад

Very interesting. There are similarities to El Cid who fought for both Christian and Muslim rulers and was quite the mercenary himself.

@ShadowMoon878 2 месяца назад

Funny how the Christian kings branded El Cid as a heretic and exiled him while the Muslim rulers treated him with respect.

@ikad5229 2 месяца назад

El Cid was not branded as a heretic... He was respected by Christians all around the Iberian Peninsula. The only Christian that hated him was his king, and yet, he was not hated because he had fought for Muslims, but because he was a famous person, a rags to riches kind of guy and he detested competition. Stop inventing shit

@roihanfadhil2879 2 месяца назад

Next suggestion: the Turks military officers in Abbasid court.

@TG_MOGATEAM 2 месяца назад

@@roihanfadhil2879 Need this!

@Techtalk2030 2 месяца назад

Slaves*

@MalikF15 2 месяца назад

Oh that’s a spicy take.

@astrix1238 2 месяца назад

Gotta say as a courier driver doing 8 hours plus routes playing your doc’s in the background, this channel has been a god send haha.

@ronjohnson6916 2 месяца назад

Interesting. I knew this was common in "Spain" itself but didn't realize it extended beyond that. Makes sense though. Professional fighting men will always find a place.

@hendrikgreiner8449 2 месяца назад

Especially if they can fulfil a role that is lacking in the land they are finding employment. In this case, i would assume, probably Heavy Infantry and/or Cavalry.

@caniconcananas7687 2 месяца назад

Do never think of Middle Age nobles as "professional fighting men". It was not a profession. Any reference to work would have been received as an insult. They were not peasants, craftsman or even scribes or lawyers. They were the persons possessing the land and the people. Just because they were "noble". That came from the fact that in most places the nobles were mostly descendants of the Germanic invaders who destroyed the Roman Empire. The sons of the bandits who sacked, robbed, raped and murdered, happened to be owners of the land and the people living on it. After some time, they argued that some god wished so. And the only way to keep that "order" was monopolising the violence to avoid what nobles called "peasant revolts". Unless the revolt succeeded and the "peasants" founded their own country. If it didn't survive, the nobles called it "peasant republic". If it survived... Well, there is a Helvetic Confederation, a French Republic and, during several centuries, a Dutch Republic, a Venetian Republic, even a pirate Republic in the Atlantic coast of current Morocco. Say once more that nobles are "professionals", that they need to work in order to get the money they need to live. Insult them in such a way and your noble lord will order you to be quartered and thrown to his dogs.

@prsimoibn2710 2 месяца назад

@@caniconcananas7687you explained the whole current history of Europe 👏🏻

@augustuslunasol10thapostle 2 месяца назад

@@caniconcananas7687 dude shut up a sell sword is still a profession no european noble alive even cares about this

@caniconcananas7687 2 месяца назад

@@augustuslunasol10thapostle Are you sure about that? Count the European monarchies. Some of those kings still have around the same families with the same nobility titles that a century ago. I've personally met the son of a count that was minister under our last dictatorship, the younger son (so no county for him) in a family with the same title during the last 1,000 years, being one of the two main land owners a century ago.

@voroshilov3916 2 месяца назад

Mercenaries are always gonna fight for those who pay the highest

@Sal3600 2 месяца назад

No. They fight for those that they agreed with. If they don't proceed as agreed upon, no one will hire them.

@petrorlov2599 2 месяца назад

@@Sal3600 Honestly adherence to the code depends on the specific mercenary company and its own power and wealth. In the Italian city states mercenary companies switched sides like there was no tomorrow because they were too powerful for individual city states to handle. A strong mercenary company would find an employer there even if it had several betrayals in its history.

@tatarcavalry2342 2 месяца назад

not always sometimes mediocre pay with being alive surpasses the higher pay with higher risk

@wouterdevlieger1002 Месяц назад

Very refreshing video. Recently, I only saw online conversations with people still convinced the reconquista was a centuries long fight of Christians against muslems, rather than complex politics with many fights between Christians among themselves and Muslems among themselves, or even working with the other faith against their own, that happened to eventually result in the Muslem rulers being weak enough for Christians to take over entirely.

@ariyoiansky291 2 месяца назад

The artwork you guys use is beautiful! Great video!

@adammccrory 2 месяца назад

Amazing timing since I not only love your content, I'm currently in the middle of a Barcelona playthrough in Crusader Kings 3 (currently 1139AD and the business of Empire is booming)

@aguerrero 2 месяца назад

I am from Barcelona. I studied history. I never heard of Reverter until this video. Thank you for rescuing such a tall figure from the shadows of the past. I only knew about the Almogaver mercenaries in the late Eastern Roman Empire.

@theswordson676 2 месяца назад

Please do a video on the life and times of Sheikh Bedreddin he is really fits in with the theme of Abrahamic Congregation in this video ( Turkish Theologian and revolutionary who believed Muslims and Christians could live together in harmony)

@andersschmich8600 2 месяца назад

Very interesting! I’ve been reading the Mercenary Mediterranean by Hussein Fancy, which explores this topic. It’s also interesting that Ibn Khaldun mentioned Christian mercenaries were better at fighting in formation, which is why they were employed in North Africa.

@falcondesert1836 2 месяца назад

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@andersschmich8600 2 месяца назад

@@falcondesert1836 This is not my opinion, its what a Medieval Arab philosopher claimed.

@VanjaJimmyIvosevic 2 месяца назад

Serbians were a valuable force in Ottoman ranks too

@a.m928 2 месяца назад

Yup the Ottomans had great respect for Serbien.knights

@Yashu1105 2 месяца назад

Just wanted to mention how much I enjoy your visuals. Great artworks and style

@Aninkovsky 2 месяца назад

The quality of drawing art in this video is awesome

@Walid-gm2ns 2 месяца назад

This subject is very interesting. I've heard that during the Moroccan (Saadian) conquest of The Songhai Empire (West Africa) in the 16th century, the leaders of the army were essentially Spanish mercenaries.

@pablolimbo3195 2 месяца назад

Interesting! Where can i get info bro

@RFray5736 2 месяца назад

@@pablolimbo3195 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judar_Pasha

@hatimaheddar2411 2 месяца назад

He wasn't a mercenary, he was a slave-turned commander of the army. His name is Judar Pasha.

@londonbudgetgardner5205 2 месяца назад

Excellent video ❤ Why unusual, Central Europe Christians served the Ottoman Empire for 600 years like the Serbian heavy cavalry not just the janissaries.

@skywarrior539 2 месяца назад

Amazing video I love medieval Spanish and North African history

@moderatelyapathetic3280 2 месяца назад

Like all wars, the crusades and other conflicts that involved Christians and Muslims, had much more to do with power, wealth and politics than anything to do with religion

@prsimoibn2710 2 месяца назад

The Turks also employed heebs of east Europeans in north Africa, including a huge population of Bulgars and Jews, that disappeared in history. ❤ Would be nice to make a video about them

@amilitarymind 2 месяца назад

There needs to be a movie about Reverter and his mercs. It would also give us a visual glimpse into the fascinating period of Andalusia.

@azexnewmai3607 2 месяца назад

Please make one about the European mercenaries and advanturers in the Indian subcontinent during the British era... There were dozens of Europe's generals especially from Nepoleonic war veterans who went to India after Napoleon's defeat and train armies of various Indian kingdoms and even rose to Generals and governors

@Numba003 2 месяца назад

This video highlighted for me how little I actually know about medieval Spain, lol. On another note, I would be interested in more videos on interesting examples of cross- culturalism in history! Thank you for the video. God be with you out there, everybody. ✝️ :)

@GethightGetlight 2 месяца назад

Great video as always. Many Thanks! History is still our best remedy against the disease poisoning Europe (though I guess it’s the same in many nation state throughout the world). It’s shocking to see how those fairy tale from late 19th about folk/culture and ethnicity are still used by politics to promote an illusory historical unity. It’s important channels like yours keep detailing the complexity of history. Opportunism and pragmatism are often more usefull to undersrand history than religion, culture and color.

@markhanney9253 2 месяца назад

This is a fascinating video, thank you so much for making it! Reverter deserves so much more wider recognition 👏

@ulfricstormcloak8241 2 месяца назад

Suggestion: Conquests of Samudragupta in the Indian subcontinent

@CHex. 2 месяца назад

Great video!! One point, in catalan (and spanish), in general "gue" and "que" are pronounced "ge" and "ke", like geisha or kept. So in names lik BerenGUER the U isn't pronounced. There are exceptions where the u is pronounced but are signaled with ü

@flaviogaleano6594 2 месяца назад

Great video! Thank you. I'd be intrested in a video about Assyrians, Arameans and Christian Arabs during the middle ages, specially during the Crusades era. I'm pretty sure they were employed as mercenaries. Would love to know their tactics, weapons and garments.

@garrettenglish3756 2 месяца назад

I second this! That would be a really cool video.

@tariqchaudhry8021 2 месяца назад

Don Enrique, the brother of Eleanor of Castile, Queen of England and brother-in-law to Edward I also served as a mercenary under Al-Mustansir, the Hafsid ruler of Tunis in the 1260s. There are other examples also, even in Spain itself where Christian troops served Muslim overlords and vice versa.

@oneshotme 2 месяца назад

I very much enjoyed your video and I gave it a Thumbs Up

@Rodzyniastyyyy 2 месяца назад

I hoped there would be something about christians dukes from balkans serving unter Ottoman Sultuans. Serbian involvement in Battle of Ankara first comes to mind.

@hocineamri8252 2 месяца назад

Great video! But was there muslim mercenaries in middle-age christian armies? That would be a good video subject, no?

@long_something 2 месяца назад

One specific case was Frederick II Hohenstaufen who employed Muslim soldiers in his army. This was particularly useful because he had poor relations with the pope.

@hocineamri8252 2 месяца назад

@@long_something Yeah, and also with the bedouins by the Kingdom of Jerusalem, or some Iberian realms or in east europe

@EM-tx3ly 2 месяца назад

@@hocineamri8252 Bedouin guides spies infiltrators yes mostly Never heard of Bedouin soldiers fighting under Crusader armies unless the Alawite Nusayris or Druze mountaineers were involved

@TheRealMrWolf 2 месяца назад

Really nice video, thank you!

@dpireader32 2 месяца назад

I highly doubt the story about tax collectors going to the Atlas mountains and the Berber Amazigh population allowing these men to do these rapes. Anyone who knows Amazigh history and culture (even modern Amazigh culture) would know they would never accept such things, they would cause massive uprisings and the muslim overlord of the christian tax collecters would seriously object this being done to their muslim citizens by christians. And also the extent of the Almohad territory map is wrong, is was much deeper then only confided to the coastal areas.

@oussamamarroqino2579 2 месяца назад

I don't know where he got that information from because people in the atlas mountains were known to have light eyes and hair due to the environment they live in

@texenna 2 месяца назад

@@oussamamarroqino2579that’s false, I come from the Atlas corniche kabyle and from a mountainous tribe Beni foughal. Some have light eyes such as my mother’s side with green and blue but it’s rarer, light skin is not found a lot too and rare.

@stefthorman8548 2 месяца назад

you seem to doubt the power of the kings mercenaries, one side had weapons, armor, training, and authority from their state, and the other side is mountain peasants that own money.

@jackal25301 2 месяца назад

Yep it was an almohad propaganda to demonize the almoravids further

@fillfinish7302 2 месяца назад

@@stefthorman8548thing is local berbers in the atlas mountains had these feature as were their cousins the guanches long before any interaction with europeans with whom they distant origins .however the armed mercenaries would surely have powers in the breeding field . Women love powerful men .😅

@mrmr446 2 месяца назад

The name 'Reverter' strongly implies that at least nominally he became a Muslim as converts are said to 'revert' to the faith.

@AssyriacUnitarian 2 месяца назад

No, that's English

@mrmr446 2 месяца назад

@@AssyriacUnitarian and French

@ikad5229 2 месяца назад

@@mrmr446It's a Catalan name...

@mrmr446 2 месяца назад

@@ikad5229 and has the same meaning

@nicksmuts9135 2 месяца назад

This I found fascinating. I love Mediterranean history.

@deumevet 2 месяца назад

i am catalan, from barcelona and i never knew about this guy, i'm really surprised

@omerk8403 2 месяца назад

Next would be Turkopols who fought along Christians or Levantines who fought along Muslim Turks.

@cenktuneygok8986 2 месяца назад

The Turkish Empire also made use of Christian soldiers very often. Voynuks and Martolos were the Christian units of the empire exempt from Jizya tax. I have also read Sipahis, who were traditionally Turkish horse archers, were sometimes recruited from Christians too. And of course most famously Janissaries, the royal guards of the Ottoman dynasty.

@ibrahimmustafa2481 2 месяца назад

Beneath the gold, the bitter steel 😂

@mikemodugno5879 2 месяца назад

Cool video! Any way you'll cover the Muslim mercenaries that Frederick II settled in Apulia?

@rolandhaekachandradewa_3144 2 месяца назад

Love the artworks, amazing video 😊

@dariustiapula 2 месяца назад

Its like Legalos and Gimli friendship.

@Nekontroverzni 2 месяца назад

I was waiting for someone looking at this topic for years, great video. Love it!

@Matrix-tz5yc 2 месяца назад

Europe were the only continent that was 100% Christians. Eliminated all religions that were not Christians. At that time, it may be difficult to see Christians and Muslims get along. However compared to Muslim countries it was nothing new to see Christians due to there were many arab Christians. Egypt still now has 10% Christians, Lebanon 40% Christians etc

@SaaA-h7t 2 месяца назад

The abrahamic religions ahave the same terrorism

@smegwilson5907 2 месяца назад

Thinking about a real man fighting in a real battle with his son by his side, there’s something about that scenario that resonates deep within me.

@Uzair_Of_Babylon465 2 месяца назад

Great video keep it up you're doing amazing things

@bypyros1933 2 месяца назад

Hi. Could you make a video about Diego García de Paredes? Dude was a gigachad. Maybe you could start a series of notable warriors.

@JaeIshim-ou6wg 2 месяца назад

Thanks for the great vids!

@shafinhanif8802 2 месяца назад

Why does this have so little views? Amazing video as always

@philtkaswahl2124 2 месяца назад

I'd watch a well-done TV series about Reverter and his bunch.

@pattonramming1988 2 месяца назад

All of this could've been avoided if the Church wasn't so authoritarian Can we get some videos about mercenaries of the Ancient Chinese

@Mrkabrat 2 месяца назад

The quasi mythical Cid was also (or had been at times) a mercenary for muslim rulers, a fact that's oft overlooked by those trying to portray him as a "champion of christianity against muslims" Edit: Also, a king of Navarre (wh's name eludes me) did do some mercenary work in north africa for a local ruler. Something the kingdom of castille took advantage of to launch an invasion of navarre, forcing him to rush back to its defence

@Valenskytoporsky 2 месяца назад

This os what weird on war, u can have christian on muslim side and muslim on christian side, take example of how eastern roman help saladdin, while seljuk help eastern roman to reclaim Constantinople

@dmdrosselmeyer 2 месяца назад

Super interesting topic! Thank you again for the super high quality content🙏

@Kaiyanwang82 2 месяца назад

The other way around is more often talked about. Thank you for this video.

@Ersen_abiniz 2 месяца назад

İn Ankara Conflict between Ottoman's ruled by Beyazıt First The Thunderstorm and Timurid Dynasty ruled by Temur ( İron) , serbs fight shoulder to shoulder with Ottoman Empire Army. Because Yıldırım Beyazıt ( The thunderstrome) was law in brother with serbian king

@nhrahat188 2 месяца назад

You have to include Christian troops in Ottoman army in this series.

@ukaszgrzesik7231 2 месяца назад

Less known and fascinating topic.

@sdtamarinera 2 месяца назад

I have the feeling that the old world was less radical in many ways than the world today

@saltymonke3682 2 месяца назад

Fun fact, one of Saladin military advisors was a Jew named Maimoides.

@EM-tx3ly 2 месяца назад

Not military Just Personal doctor

@saltymonke3682 2 месяца назад

@@EM-tx3ly not only a doctor, he advised Saladin to conquer Yemen from a Shia ruler with actual military planning in 1174.

@AdamAzzr 2 месяца назад

@@saltymonke3682 he was a doctor, what is your source that his he was also a military advisor?

@-RONNIE 2 месяца назад

Thanks for the video ⚔️

@MalikF15 2 месяца назад

Hey another idea for a topic to video on foreign auxiliary in Napoleon’s grand Army

@barryirlandi4217 2 месяца назад

The truth is Muslim society has always been multi religious

@sleepyjo9340 2 месяца назад

There still was romance languages within the berber lands until the late 16th century. I wonder if these soldiers may have had a part in keeping it alive.

@SaaA-h7t 2 месяца назад

in tamazgha latin continued in tunisia due latin minority

@mehdi9687 2 месяца назад

To this day, you will find many Berber families in the Atlas Mountains with blue eyes and blonde hair

@jackal25301 2 месяца назад

Native traits no relatin to Latin mercenaries this was just a lie to demonize the almoravids rulers

@EM-tx3ly 2 месяца назад

Yes But it’s not due to Frankish or Latin soldiers Even Tariq Ibn Ziyad was blonde blue eyed Berbers can be from fair skinned blondes to dark skinned brown almost black North to South it seems

@MrScientifictutor 2 месяца назад

Great video. More like this.

@MinhNguyen-uv4gd 2 месяца назад

The members of this family were Bannerlord players who were already nobles of a faction but didnt carve out a faction of their own, they instead traveled to distant kingdoms to serve as mercenaries to milk some denars while they left behind their fiefs of their main factions in disrepair...yup...sound just like my playstyle...

@alenreyvon3428 2 месяца назад

Suggestions: Bengal and its eventual takeover by the East India company leading to the Colonization of India in general

@muazzamshaikh2049 2 месяца назад

Battle of plassey is covered. I would suggest Battle of Buxar.

@darrylm.finch-ellis97 2 месяца назад

Pagan mercenaries in an Abrahamic-dominated world would be interesting.

@magomedbazakov7063 2 месяца назад

Anyone know the audio/song from 10:20 ?

@jasonz7788 2 месяца назад

Great job thanks 👍

@wizard680 2 месяца назад

Christians serving muslims has the same energy as greeks serving the persians

@mega99999 2 месяца назад

Not at all.. muslims and christians are abrahamic.. while persians were pagan..

@drollyrancher7020 2 месяца назад

Christian Guard for the Moors. Dismounted and Mounted, easily beat Feudal knights 1v1. Great unit.

@fenecrusader 2 месяца назад

great video

@carlosfilho3402 2 месяца назад

A Splendid Video.

@cheddar1554 2 месяца назад

How do you have a battle if both sides are feigning retreat all the time?

@SlayerRiley 2 месяца назад

Awesome, thanks!

@Abuccci 2 месяца назад

I’m surprised no video has been done on the famed El Cid, he fought for both Christian and Muslim kingdoms as a paid swordsmen and ultimately founded his own

@KingsandGenerals 2 месяца назад

We have a video on El Cid

@Walid-gm2ns 2 месяца назад

I've always been fascinated by the history of North Africa and especially Moroccan/Andalusian history and I find this subject very interesting. Thanks!

@Elias-tl2jz 2 месяца назад

This guy told bull$hit as a north african don't take what he said as a true because he told you what european and arabs thinks about us.

@MrEvilAli 2 месяца назад

I guess they don't even know the meaning of the name Morocco

@SaaA-h7t 2 месяца назад

Land of god

@r.m.2870 2 месяца назад

As far as I know, muslim women are not allowed to marry Christian men. So how did these European men have descendents in North Africa? Did they bring wives with them or was there still a Christian native population large enough to find women from?