Great video. I grew up in Ludlow so know the castle well. The castle has such an illustrious history- home to Prince Arthur, the two Yorkist princes and a border castle involved in actions in the war of Stephen and Matilda (The Anarchy), the War of the Roses and English Civil War.
The main architect was actually David of St George, he was a Frenchman that Edward I befriended while he was on crusade in the middle east, David gained a great reputation from his time being employed in Germany and Switzerland and no doubt the French wouldn't have been happy with him following Edward back to England.
Wow so Longshanks was involved with castles too. I'm familiar with Longshanks due to his connection to the Scottish wars of independence but I never knew he was involved with castles as well.
Absolutely fascinating. Love how you bring the heritage to life! Ludlow is a gorgeous castle, we loved our visit there. Full of such important forgotten history, thank you for sharing with us!
The question is how did they build these crazy structures while defending from enemies. I'd like to see some study on the wooden defensive structures built to defend the building process myself.
A wonderful historical coverage video about that attention-getting matter stoned castle 🏰 constructed in medevil periods....thank you (history Hit) channel for sharing 10:59
Really enjoyed this one. As someone who has never seen a real castle in person, I've always been fascinated by them. Would love to see a recreation of this castle complete with working yard, floors, etc. Could easily spend a week just immersing myself in that and fleshing out the huge gaps in my knowledge ❤
I went here for school day trip over 20s years ago, it was great hearing the history of the place! I love castles, like to learn more and visit load more
My ears perked up when you DeLacy. Hugh DeLacy is my 24th great grand father. It is wonderful to put a actual place with a name, and wow, what a place. Thank you, I am a bit of a English history and ancestry nut, especially medieval history.
Absolutely Stunning production. Love the narration it just adds so much. If it has Castles I just have to subscribe. Its my passion flying over Castles and Historic abandoned buildings. Loved every minute of this. Gets a massive like from me well done
The Norman castles in Britain should be recognized as a military means to dominate and subdue a conquered people, not as a defense against an outside enemy.
Granted it should also be noted that this happen in a different time period where the survival of your rule and your way of life required subjugation, war back then was as necessary to survival as a predator killing its prey. It was either conquer or be conquered, and given a different set of circumstances those the normans conquered would've done the same to the normans. In modern times we have more wealth and structures to prevent countries from simply conquering each other constantly, so small nations like Lichtenstein can simply exist without worrying about being conquered or being too poor to not survive on its own.
@derrickbridges2611The Normans never called themselves French and didn't see themselves as French. Even the French at the time didn't see the Normans as French. This whole reinventing Normans as "French" is born out of the humiliating defeates France has suffered agaisnt England for the past 300 years.
I am in awe of the size and craftsmanship of the castles But I wish they could tell me more about the families that lived there . Without the human aspect they are just bricks and mortar But still amazing
There are books written about these families, you know! Documentaries are nothing but “fast food” for your brain….they’re full of bite sized factoids which are easily digestible and necessarily very brief (this one is only 14+ minutes long). You get *A* picture of the subject, but not *THE* picture, whereas reading books activates and invigorates many areas of the brain, making it much healthier by causing many new neurological connections, in addition to giving you a much fuller perspective of whatever you’re learning. *AND* you can get books for free at your local library, and if they don’t have what you want, they’ll request it from another library. But most people would rather put their brains on a starvation diet of fast food.
As a kid I had a the same fascination with a similar 'grilled hole in the floor' at Pevensey Castle. That one was in fact an oubliette - where prisoners were thrown and literally forgotten. Oubliette translates fro old french as ' place of forgetting ' Enemy or malefactors, were literally dumped in and forgotten - left to starve to death with the rats and foul water
Nice video, thank you, but I wish we could have had a look at the fireplaces and kitchen to ascertain whether this was a sumptuous residence or a garrison. Thank you, Veronique.
Louis pin? Three legged louis pin? Interesting stuff. Wow! How did they drill the holes? Lime mortar mix, a lime putty. I loved the demonstration of the mortar.
Hmm! No mention of egg whites, one of the prime ingredients of medieval mortar for bonding. The pipe rolls that detailed the accounts of castle building always mentioned large sums paid for poultry which was used to lay the required eggs. There would always have been a large poultry farm attached to the construction site.
I too played in Ludlow Castle in the mid 1960s. Undoubtedly the finest in England. St Lawrence Church too is worth a visit, the largest church that's not a cathedral and home of Prince Arthur's heart, interred after succumbed to fever. This made his younger brother Henry (VIII) next in line. PS 'tradesman', NOT 'tradespeople'. No wokism please, it's history.
Amazing castle from my home town if any one from history hit reads this I have footage of the civil war reenactment from the 70s that took place at ludlow castle
Sorry to be pedantic but a gatehouse is not a keep. The keep is an area for the family to live in and last defense; a gatehouse does not have the room for that and is the first line of defense.
The irony is. This so-called historical video conveniently overlooks that Ludlow use to be part of Wales before it was annexed by England. You know, think of Ukraine. In fact. The real Welsh name of Ludlow is Dinam, and it used part of the Kingdom of Powis where Welsh King Caradog (Caractus) made his last stand against the Romans. But hey, let's whitewash this fact and allow historical & cultural appropriation. )
This would have been a nice video on Lodlow castle if you hadn't shown the unnecessary mistaken building scene. Indeed, Ludlow castle's walls like most castle walls are not made of ashlar but by smaller stones that you can handle by hand and the uncut rubble stones were built as frames incasing concrete with rubble inside - a most common technique of wall building since the Roman period... Unnecesseray mistaken explanation is unnecessary. Ashlar stone building was used in the medieval era, primarily on high status churches, and in later castles, not like this one. I recommend you read a basic book on medieval castle construction before presenting falsehoods on the Middle Ages.
How does a town shelter the castle? Thats a stupid claim, the opposite is true, the castle protects the town, it also protects the river, not the other way round, it was placed there to protect the river, not to be protected by the river. this level of incompetence is insane.
The river is small, but quite fast flowing and has cut a natural culvert into the land around it, a feature the Welsh call a nant. It, together with the steep slope up towards the castle, does form a natural barrier. And the river also helped to create that slope. Like a lit of rivers along The Marches, it's fed by waters coming down from the hills and so can be fast flowing and, in inclement weather, very difficult to cross without a bridge, which forms a defensible bottleneck. I do agree with you about the town, though. Unless it's fully fortified a la Conwy or Tenby then it's not exactly going to stop an advancing army.
@@dorianleakey I saw it last year, although there was some management of the water, there's no way it is a navigable waterway. It's simply too narrow, too rocky and too fast. One similar river in Gwent (also fed from nearby hills although on the other side of the Black Mountains) was once called the Torfaen - Rock Breaker in English.
as soon as the stone block sees the hi viz vests it will hit the brakes like there is no tomorrow. Master glovewearer does not wear protective boots though. master mason does not wear gloves although he probably gets into contact with the mortar workplace safety looks impressive but is actually useless in this scene
It just boggles the mind when one thinks that this castle was built 937 yrs. ago. No modern technology, nothing available to the builders and engineers that we take for granted today.
