Divorcing a King - Eleanor of Aquitaine - European History - Part 1 - Extra History

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April, 1137 Paris. Elenor of Aquitaine's father has died and King Louis has the PERFECT husband for her. His own heir to the throne, Louis the VII! Who quickly becomes smitten with the young girl but after angering the pope, fighting in a crusade, and having a few daughters the young couple's relationship is on rocks. Good thing Eleanor has the perfect solution for them, Divorce!
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@extrahistory Год назад

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@winestatue Год назад

Sup extra credits

@phantom765 Год назад

OMG I LOVE THIS CHANNEL, No other historty shannel makes me feel so much glee to learn.

@NuclearTzar Год назад

I have a question are yall able to do a episode on the Taiping rebellion?

@robertjarman3703 Год назад

Hum, Eleanor and her uncle being controversial? Really? In the time when the Holy Roman Empire was a thing? The only thing that was off limits for them was clones having sex.

@SafavidAfsharid3197 Год назад

Hey can you make a series on akber or Man Singh or Peshwa bajirao?

@UrpleSquirrel Год назад

Thanks for acknowledging that the supposed affair between Eleanor and her uncle was basically just her being excited to spend time with someone who acted "normally".

@NinjaGrrrl7734 Год назад

Normanly, you say?

@haven_lady675 Год назад

Who wouldn't greet their family?

@cutekoala5492 Год назад

There was no affair

@NinjaGrrrl7734 Год назад

@@cutekoala5492 I am dying to know how you plan to prove this assertion. I eagerly await your receipts.

@ryanizcool3370 Год назад

To be fair, knowing how often people in relationships accuse each other of things they are doing themselves. It seems odd that she would suggest annulment for being too closely related. Unless of course she was having relations with a family member, then it would make sense.

@abcdef27669 Год назад

Ok, in one episode we got a prince killed by a pig, a church burning with 1200 innocent lives, a crusade disastrous even for the average results of those expeditions, pirates, a Pope serving as a matchmaker, and a divorce happening before Henry VIII. Ah, the Medieval times...

@Oxtocoatl13 Год назад

Divorces were always possible in the Catholic church, if there were reasonable grounds. Nobles often, like Eleanor here, claimed they were too closely related, while not being able to procreate was also a legitimate reason. IIRC there was a court case in England where a wife sought divorce on the grounds that her husband was impotent, and the court assigned three women to attempt to arouse him. The women verified the wife's claims and divorce was granted. The reason Henry VIII was so pissed was that he didn't get one, even though he thought he had a good case.

@jaimepujol5507 Год назад

@@Oxtocoatl13 Tecnically not a divorce because the Catholic Church does not allow divorces. The loophole is annulment, by which they say that proper-official-forrealsies marriage never happened and so is invalid, which is why they have to ask the Pope permission

@Snowthree Год назад

We still are lacking a horse becoming Emperor of Rome for a proper CKII experience.

@Galaick Год назад

In Medieval France, just another Tuesday

@roidrannoc1691 Год назад

Technically a king killed by a pig... Philip was a Junior King, so even if he never ruled since he died before his father, he was still a king!

@prestonjones1653 Год назад

Fun fact, Eleanor's annulment was done on grounds of consanguinity as Louis VII was her second cousin. Henry, her second husband, was her first cousin.

@gilemal1469 Год назад

So Eleanor divorced her first husband because he wasn't closely related enough to keep the bloodline pure?

@commanderstorm8874 Год назад

Standard medieval stuff

@stupotgorilla Год назад

Lmao i love that so much! When your new husband has a bigger army, bigger coffers, and is far more intelligent and ruthless nobody sweats the small stuff.

@DracarmenWinterspring Год назад

lol, but you got a source for that? Wikipedia claims her first husband was her 3rd cousin once removed, and her second husband was just her 3rd cousin (so your point still stands, but both of these would be borderline incestuous even by modern non-royal standards)

@yxseen.szn_ Год назад

Henry was her 3rd cousin tho?

@iamseamonkey6688 Год назад

It's always endlessly fascinating watching the creative ways in which women like Eleanor were able to maneuver their way around a society hostile to them.

@ClemDiamond Год назад

Hostile is too strong of a word for medieval society, rather women were expected to be submissive, but they had rights and some could be very powerful. Eleanor of Aquitaine is a prime example of a woman breaking the mold but also showing that it was, in fact, possible without much consequences. The Renaissance and the modern times were in some ways worse than medieval ages. Think what would happen to a woman who gave only two daughters in 15 years to, say, Henry VIII of England. There was a very effective smearing campaign on her in France when the 100 years war began and she was the reason that Aquitaine was in english hands. She is very unpopular in most of France even today, but she wasn't so when she was alive.

@Marthe535 Год назад

@@ClemDiamond nice

@jaybee9269 Год назад

@@ClemDiamond >> Thanks for the information, good points.

@richardpaschal2218 5 месяцев назад

@@ClemDiamondParis was pretty much a sewer until Alienor arrived with her Aquaitaine Culture and civilized it, to the chargin of the clerics of St. Denis. Coco Chanel was a wannabe. Alienor is the one who brought high fashion to Paris, and much more. .

@AtlasNovack Год назад

Matt turning to his left near the end sends a chill down my spine and I don't know why

@extrahistory Год назад

He always tries to get his good side on camera but sometimes things just doing work out.

@mccoyfleming6664 Год назад

@@extrahistory WALPOLE STICKER HOW?!?!

@MinibitX Год назад

SAME

@notme8232 Год назад

@@mccoyfleming6664 It was Walpole. He made the sticker

@cleveland_brown_skylander Год назад

How did you post this 1 day ago if this video has been up for around 2 hours

@cactuscornette Год назад

To quote Lord Norwich: ''Eleanor of Aquitaine, married to one of Englands greatest kings and mother to two of it's worst.''

@giladpellaeon1691 Год назад

"The Pope's sexy time bed" is a phrase that cannot be unheard and will now live rent free in my mind. 😆

@reindrawzz 2 месяца назад

Same😭

@rachel_sj Год назад

I’ve read a bit about Eleanor and it was fascinating to read about how a young Eleanor was so used to a warm climate, Mediterranean feasts, bards singing songs during them, speaking her mind due to a great education and an overall colorful life. It was written that she felt very stifled in the drab, damp and boring Northern France and I would be too if I imagined myself forced to marry and endure the whiplash of the change (for awhile at least as seen as her leaving Louis)

@ecurewitz Год назад

And once she realized northern France was bad, wait till she got to England.

@NinjaGrrrl7734 Год назад

@@ecurewitz yeah, but Henry knew how to put it down. Louis should have been a priest as far as she was concerned. At least, that's what she said. She and Louis never had kids, then she met Henry and started popping out kids left and right. Wish she'd have stopped before John, but, you know, magna carta and whatnot.

@ClemDiamond Год назад

@@NinjaGrrrl7734 "Never had kids" They had 2 daughters.

@ecurewitz Год назад

@@ClemDiamond beat me to it

@PewPewPlasmagun Год назад

@@ClemDiamond But she got a son from Henry immediately and thus a prince. Loius must have felt pretty dumb and insulted when he learned.

@silenceisgolden6097 Год назад

Eleanor: I want a divorce. The pope: I have a better idea :) * dims the candles while playing the medieval version of Let's get it on *

@ThatFanBoyGuy Год назад

The fact that a painting of a pig tripping a horse exists proves that the people during that time found it as hilarious as it was tragic

@ndemers Год назад

Well, the crown prince being killed by a pig was certainly a big deal. Nowadays we'd do Netflix specials, but they did the best they could!

@Robert6P6M Год назад

Well, Occitan isn't a dialect of French. It's a completely different language, more closely related to Catalan than to French.

@kennethstople3969 Год назад

They messed up the first crusading king as well, so they havent done their proper research for this one.

@elirodriguez4411 Год назад

Well, the difference between language and dialect basically is State and institution's reconnaissance, and the French State that emerged from Île-de-France was the one to centralize and require documents in french (even though this happened in 1539, way after Elenor), so I think the use of dialect here is correct. The only official communication device at the moment was Latin, which was already falling in disuse. The langue of oil (that eventually would turn into french) was also technically a dialect at the time, and they never say "dialect of french" on the video.

@alex_zetsu Год назад

To be honest, I'm not sure your average speaker of a Germanic language (like English) could tell where dialects in the Romance family falls. If you speak Romanian to us, then Catalan, and then "Standard" French, a lot of us might pick up they sound different, but we wouldn't be able to tell if they were 3 separate romance languages or 3 dialects of a Romance language. Some Germans might be able to if only due to enough Italian and French tourists that even if they don't understand either they can tell them apart.

@NapoleonAquila Год назад

on va te franciser comme les romains l'ont fait aux gaulois

@julienf2301 Год назад

@@elirodriguez4411 There are several definitions of "language" and "dialect". And, depending on the definition you choose, being a "dialect" doesn't necessarily mean not being a "language" (in that sense what the video says is not necessarily wrong). But most commonly a language is defined by a strong level of inter-comprehension between its speakers. And this is definitely the case for medieval Occitan, which had a large body of literature in a semi-standardised form, exchanged all around its speaking area and around Europe (for instance Catalan authors were often writing in standardised Occitan -aka "Llemosi"- rather than their own dialect). Also it wasn't as strongly dialectised as modern Occitan.

@kathyastrom1315 Год назад

Oh, yay-Eleanor!!! I first learned about her in my early/medieval British history class in college, my professor just loved talking about her. He mentioned the rumor that the morning after her wedding night with Henry, she favorably compared his lovemaking to her first husband’s. I was really thrilled when doing my family genealogy a few years ago to discover a 10th great grandfather who was a gateway ancestor, someone whose family tree was well established back to William the Conqueror and then back to Charlemagne. Eleanor is my 26th great grandmother! I also have on that line a 17th great grandfather who was the stepfather of Margaret Beaufort, another medieval woman who deserves the EC treatment.

@walli6388 Год назад

Pretty much everyone in Europe is related to Charlemagne.

@lephinor2458 Год назад

How did you find out.

@kathyastrom1315 Год назад

@@lephinor2458 In filling out my family tree on Ancestry. They have hints for people in their database that include things like photographs, census entries, birth and death records, as well as any personal stories or excerpts from books. My 10th great grandfather’s family tree was published in several books about a century ago. There are lots of people like him who are equally well-documented, especially amongst those who arrived in the New World in the earlier centuries of European colonization. I had no idea that my grandmother’s family was so firmly rooted in colonial America (over 85% of her side arrived in North America before 1700) until I started researching. I had just assumed they were 19th century immigrants like on my mother’s side.

@kathyastrom1315 Год назад

@@lephinor2458 I will add that genealogy is a fascinating hobby! For me, though, the best discovery hasn’t been the royalty connection, it’s been the ordinary people who lived amazing lives that I can’t imagine. It’s the son of that gateway ancestor who lost nearly his entire family to a neighbor boy with an axe-his only surviving child grew up to be a religious dissenter in Connecticut. It’s the nieces and nephew of my 6th great grandfather (who fought in the Revolutionary War) who joined the Shakers. And best of all, it’s my great great grandmother who lived a life of so many twists and turns that I am doing the research to write a book about her. And it’s also the living people I’ve connected with! The people in online groups who exchange tips and provide support, and more importantly, it’s the distant cousins I’ve struck up email correspondence with who I never would have even heard of before this.

@tams805 Год назад

Americans are always so obsessed with ancestry.

@Patrick-dx3oq Год назад

I CANNOT BELIEVE YOU GUYS DID AN EPISODE ON ELEANOR !!! SO EXCITED!!!!!!!!

@terriblefate4232 Год назад

Not just an episode either, a full on series. HYPE!

@Balon-Breakspear Год назад

Yeah she’s always been a super interesting historical figure and I know extra credits does good work but they often come up short when doing videos about famous historical women. I’m sure this is them trying to fix that and I’m super happy they’ve listened to fans and picked such a interesting and important women to do a series about.

@extrahistory Год назад

You're excited!!! WE'RE EXCITED! Rob has been on the edge of his seat waiting for this video to hit RU-vid!

@plucas1 Год назад

Truly a woman with HUGE tracts of land! No, really, her duchy was enormous.

@2keyblades Год назад

We have gotten Saladin, Pedro the second, Menelik the second and now Elenor. Can we continue the Civilization 6 tour by having either Tamar of Georgia or Jadwiga of Poland next?

@nathanseper8738 Год назад

“Horse tripped over a pig” sounds like something you’d see in America’s Funniest Home Videos LOL!

@alexandergangaware429 Год назад

I like how the illustration has all of the retainers looking up at the sky like, "Really, God? This is how he goes?"

@alf513 Год назад

Did the pig swallow a fly?

@nathanseper8738 Год назад

@@alexandergangaware429 Something out of some wacky comedy movie.

@nathanseper8738 Год назад

@@alf513 Good question.

@edisonlima4647 Год назад

"The Lion in Winter", in which Katherine Hepburn plays Alienor of Aquitaine is one of the most quotable movies of all times and absolutely amazing and I will die on this hill!!!!!

@eldorados_lost_searcher Год назад

I'll keep you company. With some quotes for good measure: Eleanor of Aquitaine: And when you die, which is regrettable but necessary, what will happen to frail Alais and her pruny prince? You can't think Richard's going to wait for your grotesque to grow. Henry II: You wouldn't let him do a thing like that. Eleanor of Aquitaine: Let him? I'd push him through the nursery door. Henry II: You're not that cruel. Eleanor of Aquitaine: Don't fret. We'll wait until you're dead to do it. Henry II: Eleanor, what do you want? Eleanor of Aquitaine: Just what you want, a king for a son. You can make more, I can't. You think I want to disappear? One son is all I've got, and you can blot him out and call me cruel? For these ten years you've lived with everything I've lost, and loved another woman through it all, and I am cruel? I could peel you like a pear and God himself would call it justice!

@graceskerp Год назад

"He married out of love a woman out of legend. Never in Rome, Alexandria or Camelot has there been such a queen."

@Xerxes2005 Год назад

"I even made poor Louis take me on Crusade. How's that for blasphemy. I dressed my maids as Amazons and rode bare-breasted halfway to Damascus. Louis had a seizure and I damn near died of windburn... but the troops were dazzled."

@graceskerp Год назад

"Well, what family doesn't have its ups and downs?"

@fanofgenericwtlalt Год назад

I say to my sister that it's basically Arrested Development: Plantagenet Edition. Especially when Eleanor has the confession about not liking her children.

@TheBlankNoName Год назад

King Louis the 6th: Yo two minors, get married real quick At least they were near each other in age

@FlaviusBelisarius-ck6uv Год назад

Oh here we go! Mother of Richard the Lionheart and Queen of Two Courts of Love.

@ekrenz5268 Год назад

Eleanor is one of my favorite historic female figures, I often consider her as the Cleopatra of France.

@philtkaswahl2124 Год назад

Ah Eleanor of Aquitaine. One of those historical figures whose lives read like a Medieval historical drama, with Eleanor being the main character the entire series and its convoluted plot twists revolves around.

@arthurboidron33one Год назад

You cannot even begin to understand how happy I am to see a serie about Aliénord of Aquitaine, a huge thank you to the team from an Aquitanian men

@thegrimmarcher202 Год назад

"This made him the first king to go on crusade" Sigurd the first of Norway: Am I a joke to you?

@punelopepunstop5515 Год назад

Who needs soap operas, when we got medieval history?

@rukbat3 Год назад

I've always loved Eleanor of Aquitaine, based largely on reading A Proud Taste for Scarlet and Miniver by E.L. Koenigsburg as a child and on the fact that she is a minor character in my favorite Robin Hood movie (Disney's The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men) and is a total badass. Very excited for this series!

@edisonlima4647 Год назад

Have you watched "The Lion in Winter"? Is an older and embittered Eleanor, but she is still amazing, the lines are endlessly quotable and the cast is entirely awesome!!

@rukbat3 Год назад

@@edisonlima4647 I have seen it, but it was a long time ago, and I barely remember it! I guess it's time for a rewatch!

@qdHazen Год назад

Having played her son Geoffrey in “The Lion in Winter,” this will be a very interesting series for me.

@Xerxes2005 Год назад

Then you must be very knowledgeable...

@edisonlima4647 Год назад

"Oh, but who ever thinks of poor Geoffrey?"

@qdHazen Год назад

No one *ever* thinks of crowns and mentions Geoffrey. Why is that?

@Xerxes2005 Год назад

@@qdHazen To be honest, out of the three brothers in this movie, I believe he would have been the best king. A bit drab, but probably the most competent. I don't know about the historical Geoffrey though.

@epicguy3449 Год назад

Luis seems like a good husband.Definitely treated his wife better than most kings at his time

@tananario Год назад

Louis.

@hoonshiming99 Год назад

Too bad his wife didn’t care much about him. Rumours of her sleeping with her uncle, being the one to suggest annulment, and ditching her first husband to marry the future king of England which further sparked the Hundred Years’ War, yeah not really a great woman if you think about it.

@Darkgun231 Год назад

@@hoonshiming99 In her defense, she didn't suggest annulment until the cracks in her marriage started to show during the disaster that was the 2nd Crusade. And odds are the rumors were just that, rumors. Mere slander spread by nobles who didn't like her. A fairly common tactic then and now. Honestly, without knowing more, I'd say Eleanor was probably bitter and dis-satisfied with her husband long before the Crusade, but tried to make it work since that was her duty as a wife and queen. But things just kept piling up without being resolved. And in my opinion, Louis VII seems like he was a bit too much of a god-botherer to be any good at being a king or husband.

@Numba003 Год назад

@@Darkgun231 god-botherer?

@pussydestroyer69285 4 месяца назад

@@hoonshiming99 lmao because of rumours? She’s not a bad woman for wanting to leave a marriage she didn’t want to be in

@Suite_annamite 4 месяца назад

Although I'm of mainly Vietnamese extraction, I have two French-Canadian aunts: one of whom has broad Aquitanian heritage through Bordeaux specifically, but Gascony in general; and another whose origins are broadly from Champagne. Nice to see both places brought up seemingly so randomly.

@annnichols3091 Год назад

Aw, the cat looks so cute in a crown.

@malachiphoniex8501 Год назад

I'm interested in starting a discussion: what topics do you think are not taught enough or even explored? Coming from an American angle, I think the Japanse occupation and Pacific resistance to the occupation, Byzantine history, Australian colonization, Bengal famine, and early North American exploration are good examples.

@Lightspeeds Год назад

You hit a fair chunk of the big ones. I'd like to learn a bit more about European colonialism in Africa.

@trev6004 Год назад

Most of the history in the middle east can be considered extremely important but under taught, with some of the greatest empires in history being based in this region. (Ex: The Persian Empire, Alexander, Parthians, Palmyrene's, Sassanid's and a lot of Caliphates further on) Honestly, a lot of Muslim goes untaught, even through a lot of important and interesting stuff happened in Muslim regions , most notably the Islamic golden age which gave us massive strides in maths, literature, medicine and more. (Including Coffee) As a brit, I don't remember touching on any of these thing's, bar a bit on Alexander as a person, not anything about his achievements and even then I was very young.

@TheTrueAdept Год назад

I always wanted to see Ferdinand graf Zeppelin, Junker (Prussian military nobility), Calvary Officer, War hero, and inventor of: Zeppelins (took the idea after a short trip to observe the American Civil War after riding in a hot air balloon), aerospace corporations (because he needed the infrastructure to build Zeppelins), and airlines (to sell the idea to the military _and_ the people). ;)

@Scientin Год назад

@@trev6004 Hard agree on middle eastern history. I took a course on premodern middle east in college and it was absolutely fascinating. While Europe's going through their "dark ages" there's this whole Islamic Golden Age going on. Additionally, I wish southeast asian history was taught more. Back in high school when talking about world history we only ever really discussed China, India, and Japan. No mention of the various southeastern trading kingdoms or anything else for that matter until the Vietnam War.

@tananario Год назад

The amazing African kingdoms.

@NGBigfield Год назад

That's amazing! I've just reached the part in the podcast "The History of the English Language Podcasts" where he mentiones her and her critical role on influencing the English language!

@dapperduck4250 Год назад

Hopefully one day you guys go over the life of Margaret Beaufort! The Mother of Henry Tudor and how she navigated her and her son's way through the wars of the roses and eventually to the throne

@edisonlima4647 Год назад

That BBC monumentally well toned documentary on her ending their cycle of docus on The Wars of the Roses is impossible to match, though...

@dapperduck4250 Год назад

@@edisonlima4647 I wasn't aware the BBC did one! I'll have to check it after work!

@dapperduck4250 Год назад

@@edisonlima4647 you were right! It's really well done! I'd still love to see how the extra credits team would present it though! Thanks for the recommendation!

@napoleonibonaparte7198 Год назад

And she’s going to cause a rivalry that will last nearly a thousand years…

@OhSkyeLanta Год назад

I’m attempting a different sort of Tudor Novel and Eleanor of Aquitaine is one of the inspirations and role models I’ll be drawing most heavily on, so I’m really excited to see you cover her!

@foxpro3002 Год назад

Good luck in writing it 😊👍

@extrahistory Год назад

Good luck on your book!

@xaviersaavedra7442 Год назад

I love the continuity on the crusade/Saladin episodes.

@GaldirEonai Год назад

Accidentally massacring 1200 people, that's a bit of a "bruh" moment even by medieval standards.

@MrT3a Год назад

I love Eleonor's story ! Thanks for covering this great figure of both French and English history.

@barbaros99 Год назад

Welp, time to play all of "The Lion in Winter" in my head now.

@paulmcdaris77 Год назад

I love this! My first exposure to Eleanor was in the movie The Lion in Winter with Kathrine Hepburn and Peter O’Toole, which saw the imagined Christmas court of Henry II. It was an amazing performance and show and since then it’s always wonderful to see any media represent one of the most interesting though little known female figures of history, either from CIV to this!

@benjaminobienu5297 Год назад

This gave some thoughts about Eleanor as the fabulous queen of England and France. I can't wait for more, and I love how you guys have done with history with animation, for it is worth watching videos on them. Can I ask you guys a question? By the way, I'm a massive fan of this channel, but I do not subscribe to the channel yet.

@JaimeNyx15 Год назад

Eleanor is the coolest. Can't wait to see her life animated (and for Lies after all this is done)

@papallegatepoope3010 Год назад

First time a king went on crusade? What about king Sigurd of Norway?

@Siegbert85 Год назад

Fair point!

@thenablade858 4 месяца назад

That was the Crusade equivalent of an OK spin off tv series that nobody really cared about. This is the actual Second Crusade.

@benjaminorr5655 Год назад

I absolutely love this thumbnail format! It looks so nice!

@Googledeservestodie Год назад

Imagine being that crusaders state waiting for knights and soldiers and you end up getting a bickering married couple instead.

@edwarren8541 Год назад

Eleanor is a fascinating person. I requested that you do a series on her -- I'm sure I'm not the only one who did so -- thank you for this!

@florabamalife1859 Год назад

The pope has some interesting ways to counsel 🤣

@BugsydorPrime Год назад

I remember bits and pieces of this from reading _A Proud Taste for Scarlet and Miniver_ in middle school. Looking forward to more!

@BlakLite15 Год назад

I love the way that Medieval art struggles to capture human faces, often leaving characters with completely deadpan expressions. It makes every painting they're in drip with the energy of, "Oh no! Anyway..."

@robinrehlinghaus1944 Год назад

In the cases of saints or royalty, they're often made like that to demonstrate stoic endurance. Medieval art is highly symbolic, being accurate to real expression wasn't always the case. Though it's visible that medieval masonry is much more lively than illuminations in many instances.

@BlakLite15 Год назад

@@robinrehlinghaus1944 Even so, it's still funny.

@hetalianotaku7103 Год назад

@@robinrehlinghaus1944 Not to mention paper and art tools were often expensive. And few people had any time to refine any artistic skills.

@robinrehlinghaus1944 Год назад

@@hetalianotaku7103 Well, that's not untrue, but I wouldn't quite put it like that. Anyone can have the time and creativity to do a scribble on birch bark, and ink isn't exactly difficult to make... we do see an explosive growth of writing and drawing after the spread of paper in the late medieval period, but I'd say that what deserves to be made and preserved was perceived differently, more notably. The basic materials wouldn't have been unachievable for common folk, it's just that writing and drawing/painting were highly valued and I believe a common man might well have felt like doing something very inappropriate if he was to make a drawing of something mondänen since due to the aforementioned symbolic nature of medieval art, he would probably have been unable to be as nuanced as the monks and scribes, even though his art's degree of naturalism might not have been too different.

@hetalianotaku7103 Год назад

@@robinrehlinghaus1944 There were some exceptions, like the jack-of-all-trades Matthew Paris. But that other person was right. Monarchy was meant to be depicted symbolically at this time rather than realistically.

@theemoon580 Год назад

Love the new style for the thumbnail

@1000eau Год назад

I really liked this video, I'm Aquitainian and I'm glad you're making videos about our most famous duchess ^^

@rennor3498 Год назад

If only they had proper marrige councillors back then, this could have spared France the inconvenience of the Hundred Years War.

@andrewklang809 Год назад

The rich today behave no better. Imagine if the fallout from Prince Harry's split with his family over how they treated his wife led to a war between the US and Britain.

@lysimaquetokmok6755 Год назад

No because England would have inherited Anjou and Maine anyway

@Game_Hero Год назад

But look at this fancy pope bed! Isn't it nice?

@bishoukun Год назад

It's so sad that she had to leave her daughters. Eleanor is absolutely an amazing heckin' lady.

@doyouevenpraise189 Год назад

Nice love all these animated medieval stories.

@maxrlx5467 Год назад

I love this new art, I've been watching for so long and I love this channel.

@samanthabennett-medievh5328 Год назад

I've been waiting for y'all to do a series on her! Yay!

@Dorgaffe 15 дней назад

I am so happy to have gotten this specific video for history homework! I constantly see the worst parent shorts, and overall love this channel’s work!

@Ace-ace-baby 4 месяца назад

“King Louis the fat” that’s my favorite😂

@mogscugg2639 Год назад

In Sid Meier's Civ 6, Eleanor is the ancestor to ten other leaders: Matthias Corvinus of Hungary Jadwiga of Poland Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands Queen Victoria of England Theodore Roosevelt of the US Joao III of Portugal Philip II of Spain Pedro II of Brazil Catherine di Medici of France and Queen Kristina of Sweden

@brianmiller1077 Год назад

And of course can be the leader of France or England

@ryotanada Год назад

An in-law for Matthias's case, though

@brianmiller1077 Год назад

@علي ياسر ususally civ leaders are one race one set of abilities, CIV 6 changed it so there's a national ability and a leader ability. this way you can have a peaceful Greek and a warrior Greek. they share a national ability but have a different leader ability

@Lionstar16 Год назад

I'm looking forward to this Extra Credits series on Eleanor of Aquitaine - one of the greatest women in history :)

@jas1007 Год назад

Excellent topic for a new series!

@steveamato4857 4 месяца назад

These videos are so great. I really enjoy them.

@jakobtarrasericsson4295 Год назад

Eleanor of Aquitaine? HELL YES!!!

@BooBooBlueBerry Год назад

7:56 The abrupt animation scared me

@brandonbohr.7301 Год назад

Informative and amazing video as always.

@deniseeulert2503 Год назад

Now I'm going to have to wait for part two.

@karsenknight Год назад

Great vid so far!

@vikkidc3859 Год назад

Yes! I've been waiting for this

@margotchekan7467 Год назад

This is fantastic! I have been hyperfixated on Eleanor of Aquitaine for a few weeks. Books research, now this!

@terryyaki3936 Год назад

Just when i thought this channel couldn't get any better, Blackadder references

@Nick-mp1zh 2 месяца назад

I’m a huge fan of history, and my wife and I decided to name any sons we have after famous historical kings and any daughters after famous queens. Our firstborn is named Eleanor after this very queen, and it’s awesome that you guys have a great video series we can use to learn about her namesake.

@ceebee9195 Год назад

Looking forward to this, Eleanor is a truly fascinating character. I’m hoping we’ll see a cameo from William Marshall, another pivotal figure from this period who I’d love to see you take a crack at someday.

@WitcherGerd Год назад

5:06 Im sorry but it was not the first time a king had gone on crusade.

@friedchicken3789 Год назад

Correct i believe the first was Sigurd the Crusader

@WitcherGerd Год назад

@@friedchicken3789 yep, the king of Norway, his crusade was more or less a Viking raiding expedition as he sacked a Christian city in Spain (controlled by Christian’s as Spain was divided between Spanish kingdoms and Muslim caphlits), he then raided two of the three Balearic Islands which served as a base for Muslim pirates, he then came to Sicily and met duke roger the second. When he arrived at Jerusalem he was given several gifts and assisted in the siege of Sidon, afterwards he and his men went to Constantinople where he sold his ships for horses (a portion of his men also left his army to join the Varangian guard) and made his way home on foot.

@thenablade858 4 месяца назад

@@WitcherGerdNo, he sacked Sidon in Syria (modern day Lebanon).

@thenablade858 4 месяца назад

That was the Crusade equivalent to a forgotten spin off series. This was the actual Second Crusade.

@malachiphoniex8501 Год назад

I'm liking this series so far but I can't wait for it to end. I'm pumped to watch the Easter Rising series! From what I've heard, this topic is controversial to some people and I love controversial topics. I would watch a whole series on the Cathar Crusade or the Muslim Conquest of India.

@margaretcarter6483 Год назад

Same here! I can hardly wait for that series. In 2016 we went on an unforgettable group tour of Ireland for the centennial of the Rising.

@malachiphoniex8501 Год назад

@@margaretcarter6483 Any favorite sites while you were there?

@KoalaKate Год назад

FINALLY, Eleanor, yay! Thanks so much!

@stefvandreunen1041 Год назад

Omg this is one of the funniest video’s y all ever made. The pope as marriage councillor suprised me. I was like wow damn what he do then? Oh makes sense, that’s on me, i set the bar too high

@wyvernofred 4 месяца назад

my name is April, and I will say, I did not to expect to be so sternly directly adressed right at the start of the video

@Ryu_D Год назад

Thank you for the video.

@DomyTheMad420 Год назад

"who?! I've never even HEARD of that name?!" how i know it's gonna become one of my favorite series by you guys ;)

@Numba003 Год назад

I am familiar with the name, but I can't say I remember much more about Eleanor aside from that. I'll have to watch the rest of the series and learn. Thank you for another interesting video! Stay well out there everybody, and God bless you, friends. ✝️ :)

@frankharr9466 Год назад

My mom was a fan of El. I'm looking forward to learning more about her.

@peytonreed937 Год назад

So, new style of thumbnail? Oh this is gonna be awesome!

@annnichols3091 Год назад

Interesting that Louis didn't get a son until his third marriage, whereas Eleanor bore sons after she married again.

@elirodriguez4411 Год назад

The fact that the son he had with Adele was (arguably) the most successful medieval french king is fascinating. The greatest struck of luck, even if it took a really long time.

@durrangodsgrief6503 Год назад

@@elirodriguez4411 god giveth and taketh away

@Annathesilent Год назад

A video thats 10 minutes exactly i love it

@Galistarwater Год назад

Yay! Eleanor of Aquitaine! I knew about all of these things in the video, but I didn't know about Louis's brother's hilarious death by tripping over a pig!

@TheCreepypro Год назад

this is going to be a good series I can feel it

@Kadenshandle Год назад

Wow! I enjoy the new art style. It looks nice.

@robertcoutu8961 Год назад

Love today's subject and very interested to hear how that laser mirror puzzle for your dnd game goes lol!

@Wastelandmatrix Год назад

Imagine a Series on the Medici or Borgia ^^

@imawaffle148 Год назад

Oh hey, it's that person from civ 6 WHO KEEPS STEALING MY DANG CITIES WITH HER GREAT WRITERS

@rurallemas Год назад

This is an exciting series for me as a civ player from England who was pretty surprised to have a leader that I'd never heard of representing England

@kevinnorwood8782 Год назад

Hooooo boy, I can ALREADY tell this story is gonna get CRAZY. You think the Kardashians have a lot of family drama? Their family drama is TAME compared to the rivalry between King Henry and Queen Eleanor!

@Courtneybenson907 Год назад

Duchess of Aquitaine in her own right. Wife to two Kings, mother to three Kings and two Queens, grandmother to four Kings and seven Queens, and ancestor to pretty much all of Europe.

@approximateCognition Год назад

Ah, the only civ 6 leader that can be the ruler of 2 different civilisations!

@aglassofwetwater5215 Год назад

What about Kublia Khan?

@darreljones8645 Год назад

@@aglassofwetwater5215 Correction: ruler of 2 different civilizations in the same game.

@neyaralbator1834 Год назад

Why isn't it in orange with the extra history name like all the others extra history videos. This one says extra credit and is in green. Am I missing something?