Great Parties in History: The Field of the Cloth of Gold

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France and England were traditional rivals, but in 1520 the two kingdoms attempted to improve their relations with a dramatic display of wealth and politics. That is, they both attempted to impress each other by throwing one heck of a party.
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@fisharmor Год назад

The armors that Henry had custom built for the occasion still exist. The original armor is proudly on display in the Royal Armouries museum in Leeds. It is literally a head-to-toe articulated steel skin suit that won't allow the passage of a pin in between the joints, and was actually studied by NASA in early attempts at making space suits. Henry was a larger man and you can immediately tell this when you look at this armor. And the irony is it wasn't even used in the event because Francis changed the rules of the list at the last second and Henry had to have another armor hastily made. There actually are a few people in the world talented enough to reproduce this armor, but as a rough estimate you'd probably be looking at the cost of a small house - and remember that steel is comparatively very cheap today.

@MrLoobu Год назад

Maybe it's the cost of labor today because it would still cost enough for a house.

@orbyfan Год назад

The menu and cost sound like the World Economic Forum, but the 1520 party was a lot more fun.

@MrLoobu Год назад

They knew how to spend it back then, a skill we've long since embezzled.

@masterskrain2630 Год назад

But, does the flagon with the dragon hold the brew that is true, or does the chalice from the palace hold the pellet with the poison?? Or was it the vessel with the pestle??? I'm confused...🤔

@tygrkhat4087 Год назад

Hey MK, glad to see that you're an afficianado of the History Guy as well.

@nathanrcoe1132 Год назад

whichever it is, hopefully what starts like a scary tale does end like a fairy tale

@Gertyutz Год назад

@@tygrkhat4087 No, of Danny Kaye.

@tygrkhat4087 Год назад

@@Gertyutz I know the reference; I encounter MK on a different site.

@kimmcroberts5111 Год назад

Thank you for your work!

@Cypresssina Год назад

It's amazing to think of those pearls worn by the party. Mikimoto was a long way off. These were all natural pearls and cultured pearls weren't a thing. To have so many of such a costly and rare thing at the time is just mind boggling. I'd love to know about the thickness of their nacre and wonder at their luster.

@genebryant3333 Год назад

Not to be too gross, but what kind of sanitary measures were taken for all these feasting and drinking lords and ladies? I can only imagine the tent covered pits that would be quickly filled by their great number.

@coling3957 Год назад

they did have plumbing in those days. and with armies constantly on the march were well versed in such arrangement for large encampments. some people would have been paid fairly well for taking care of such things. right up until the 19th century people who emptied toilets ( before flush toilets etc ) were surprisingly well paid . an old northern English saying "where there's muck, there's brass" :D

@Del_S Год назад

Aw, you could have said "Greatest party in history, but if you remembered it, you weren't there."

@michaelgalea5148 Год назад

Another great video thank I hope.

@jbart1411 Год назад

So politicians haven’t changed in the last 500 years

@mikeklein5184 Год назад

Hah, that Hapsburg chin!

@fredherfst8148 Год назад

British wine for French visitors…cool

@nicholaslacerte8761 Год назад

How does this compare to the party held by the shah in 1971 tho. In terms of money

@michaelgalea5148 Год назад

I wish you could my teacher.

@jamescrossland2599 Год назад

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Maryland doubt it's gonna allow it but yes...wiki 🔗

@BlueBaron3339 Год назад

Given the bloated figure in later portraits and what we'd today call malignant narcissism of Henry VIII, the Henry that attended that event was tall, thin, and remarkably athletic. The pity of it all was that more than 1000 years had passed since the collapse of the western Roman empire. Yet it would take four and a half centuries, and an especially bloody and disastrous 20th century, for European nations to stop waging war against each other. A feat again in doubt today - 500 years after that extremely ostentatious party.

@TheHistoryGuyChannel Год назад

Henry was athletic in his youth. Some attribute the later weight gain to personality changes after a 1536 injury sustained during a jousting tournament.

@tygrkhat4087 Год назад

From the end of World War II and the Yugoslav Wars, continental Europe had peace for almost 50 years. You may have to go back to Roman times to have such a long period of non-aggression in Europe.

@BlueBaron3339 Год назад

@@tygrkhat4087 Indeed. Which is why current events are, apart from the unfolding tragedy itself, so shocking.

@dr.christopherjohnson5046 Год назад

Hello, I hope you're safe over there? I hope this year brings happiness, prosperity, and love all over the world, I would love us to be good friends in honesty and in trust if you don't mind. I'm Doctor Christopher Johnson from San Francisco, California, where are you from if I may ask

@jumpinjehoshaphat9075 Год назад

@@BlueBaron3339 What do you think of this proposal? A new regime takes control in the United States. One might say it is an old and existing regime regaining control. Step one they purposely increase energy costs particularly petroleum, worldwide. Russia needs this, as 70% of their economy is petroleum. Step 2 on cue, Russia invades Ukraine. Step 3 United States backs Ukraine financially, but does not provide too much too soon- want to keep the war going! Therefore, world powers have financed both sides of a war, all while voicing their 'disgust' at the atrocity of the Ukraine invasion. Given the scenario, the reasons, advantages, and future possibilities are open for discussion.

@constipatedinsincity4424 Год назад

Hey History Guy, 👋 🤓I personally want to thank you for all you do to enlighten and educate us!

@toddpearson2823 Год назад

Yes! Wonderful content 👌.

@uwusmolbean Год назад

I see London, I see France, I see someone's golden cloth underpants ! 🎉

@michaelverbakel7632 Год назад

And I can smell it too.

@WildWestGal Год назад

There couldn't have been a sober breath drawn by anyone for the entire length of the event!

@jamescrossland2599 Год назад

🤣🤣🤣🥳🍻🍹🧉🍺🍷🍾🍸🏺🍻

@bnewman43 Год назад

Another great episode, Lance. It was very informative and enlightening. Especially since I have a personal, though, distant connection to it. My mother was from England and in 1972 was given a professionally compiled family history that traced her lineage back to 1074. It traced the lineage up to 1965 and I feel honored to have actually met some of the people listed. I digress, the point is, I actually had a relative, Sir William Bulmer, who, it is stated, in 1519, while still in high favor for commanding troops with victories at the Battle of Flodden Field in 1513, was invited by Henry VIII to the Field of the Cloth of Gold. However, the story does not have a happy ending. By the end of the year Sir William had fallen out of favor with the monarch due to giving support to the Duke of Buckingham. Henry let him keep his head but, the history states," Sir William was much humiliated and was out of favor until his death in 1531." As a side note, this incident is mentioned in Shakespeare's Henry VIII.

@jonathanperry8331 Год назад

My God could you imagine the smell? Thousands of people no showers horses everywhere.

@nonoyorbusness Год назад

Three thousand butts!

@webstercat Год назад

People use toit

@samneis128 Год назад

This was a time when wars depended on feeding armies with perishable food, and paying troops on time with actual coins, and a time when some long sieges literally failed when leaders let their knights get bored and they started quarreling with each other. Bringing a whole bunch of people and food and money out into the countryside and keeping everyone fed and entertained wasn't just party planning or a diplomatic event. The logistics that went into the Field of the Cloth of Gold were not much different than the logistics that would have gone into supplying and leading an actual invasion force. This was very competitive and had lots of overtones of the projection of military power. It was a whole lot like the Space Race during the Cold War.

@sparky6086 Год назад

Guess, Henry VIII was pretty embarrassed, Francis I beat him at wrestling which was supposed to be one of Henry's strong talents. Supposidly, perhaps because they were drunk & went against one another in other friendly competitions during that festival, Henry didn't take it badly & both kings demonstrated sportsmanship. Henry VIII was an all around athlete. He was a first rate tennis player for instance. It seems quite the coincidence, that France had an athletic king as well, who also was experienced in a similar wrestling style, which Henry practiced. Who won was simply determined by who threw whom on the ground first. Kind of like a knock down in boxing. I suppose, that each king wasn't too many generations removed, from when the person who could kick everyone else's ass, was leader by default, so maybe it shouldn't be a surprise?

@coling3957 Год назад

Henry did defeat Francis in another competition, archery i think. both were young men of impressive stature, over 6ft and athletic. nobles spent a fair bit of their time jousting and performing martial duties . it was important for Kings to appear virile and manly. Henry would have hated losing to the slightly taller Francis, but would have put a good face on it. both were notorious womanisers too - another thing expected of Kings back then

@kernowboy137 Год назад

Henry VIII allegedly engaged a champion Cornish wrestler to help hone his wrestling skills but while Henry lost to his counterpart the same Cornish wrestler restored some national pride by beating the Breton champion.

@PetCactusA_HarmlessLittlePrick Год назад

This event is more astonishing when we realize all the materials were made by hand.

@ArtieKendall Год назад

Such a fantastic novelty, sort of reminiscent of the world's fairs occurring centuries later.

@cloutshack Год назад

I'd like to see an episode about General Pershing's expedition to capture Poncho Villa.

@wandabanks6756 Год назад

Me too 😊

@RottnRobbie Год назад

PONCHO Villa? Wha'zat? An estate where everybody wears open-sided rain protection? Or do you perhaps refer to the U.S. expedition into Mexico in an attempt to capture Mexican revolutionary P _A_ NCHO Villa?

@constipatedinsincity4424 Год назад

8:00 And a partridge in a pear 🍐 tree 🌳

@klausheinrich1791 Год назад

Hello! I have a request. I’ve recently but briefly heard about the all-Japanese 442nd regiment who captured a Nazi submarine. I didn’t that in your list, but it sounds like a great story that “deserves to be remembered.”

@keithtorgersen9664 Год назад

Were these alliances affected by Columbus’s recent voyages to America, and if so, in what ways?

@evelk5233 Год назад

The Field of the Cloth of Gold! So awesome

@charliekezza Год назад

It must have been marvelous. I wish I could have seen it

@167curly Год назад

Very interesting that the Hapsburgs' portriats all show the genetic "Hapsburg Lip" which persisted for many generations. Thomas Wolsey was a crafty politician, despite having been made a Cardinal, but all this didn't save him some years later from being summoned to King Henry with obviously fatal intentions when Wolsey failed to persuade the Pope to annul Henry and Katherine of Aragon's marrige, despite having ceded Hampton Court as a gift to the king. Wolsey's avoidance of a sticky end happened because he died of natural causes enroute to Henry.

@mariagordanier3404 Год назад

Natural causes being a heart attack most likely.

@laserbeam002 Год назад

I really enjoyed this post. The History Guy is one of the best youtube channels running. Thank you for posting.

@dawnjeffersramstad8401 Год назад

As a student of Tudor England with a focus on religion, I really appreciate what you shared here. Weldone!

@chinesevirus-ix3yr Год назад

So you're a glorified serf?

@nonoyorbusness Год назад

Well it certainly outdid the Diet of Worms!

@SHAd0Eheart Год назад

Wow, any excuse to get drunk, right? 🥴

@randelbrooks Год назад

these type of events did begin to set a precedent for trying to unite Europe and hold back on feudal warfare especially with the threat from the south. We still have meetings like this today and the meetings reflect the technology of the time. The whole thing was a pretty good idea. The big bad thing was World War I which led to World War II which puts us where we are today.

@seanjones4807 Год назад

This story reminds me of the Great Montreal Peace Conference in 1701 Apparently lots of pomp for the little backwaters of North America It also accomplished its goals from what I know Great channel thank you

@willardsteele4857 Год назад

Great stuff as always. I do refer you to Garrett Mattingly’s biography of Katherine of Aragon. She was involved in the event preparation. But the Hapsburgs were disturbed by the Field of Cloth and Gold. According to Mattingly, the Imperials tried to lobby Cardinal Wolsey to no effect. Then they went to Catherine asking her help. She suggested and help set up two meetings with Emperor Charles (her nephew): one in England just before the Field and one after the Field. A year or so later, there would be a marriage treaty between England and Spain: Charles was to marry Mary. Catherine actually cautioned against the marriage. Charles of course didn’t marry Mary.

@t.j.payeur5331 Год назад

This was great, thanks.

@jamescrossland2599 Год назад

They erased my link n post about my relationship with Crossland-Calvert...coat of arms being the Maryland flag! I'm doing family tree .....were in the Doomsday Book 📚 I bet ur family knew mine??? I'm so, excited either way it's fascinating.....😁🙃🥰

@drshoe8744 Год назад

Could that have been the very first celebration of Festivus? "The Airing of Grievances, the Feats of Strength" sounds an awful lot like Festivus to me! And; "It's good to be da King."

@wandabanks6756 Год назад

LOL 🤣😆

@billrosen4613 Год назад

Great episode! How about reporting on the 1971 Shah of Iran party at Persepolis?!

@suzbone Год назад

Yes! I couldn't remember the name/place/date but it would be an excellent companion episode.

@jakej2256 11 месяцев назад

Had it not been for Henry’s self desires, England could have had the most fruitful political alliance with France, France was considerably wealthy at the time and were also prepared to help the English in battle as part of the agreement set out at the field of the cloth of gold.

@ringo688 Год назад

Another example of our ruling classes spending our taxes wisely.

@jeffbangkok Год назад

THG never fails to start my morning right. Thank you

@MorphingReality Год назад

Woah, congrats on the growth, its been a long time since I stopped by!

@lauriesmith3443 Год назад

Even your openings are epic. Love your channel HG.

@dr.christopherjohnson5046 Год назад

@joejackson6205 Год назад

Thank you for all you do to keep history in our minds. For if we forget from whence we have come, we will lose sight of where we are going.

@ElValuador Год назад

The Tudor’s mini series captured the spirit of the event along with Henry’s competitive rage.

@tommypain Год назад

“Henry wore 2,000 ounces of gold and 1,100 pearls.” I figure that’s about 135 of gold and another half pound of pearls. Heavy, man!

@TheHistoryGuyChannel Год назад

That was multiple outfits over multiple days.

@tommypain Год назад

@@TheHistoryGuyChannel Whew! That should help his posture a bit. Another great episode, H.G.!

@coling3957 Год назад

well he was a BIG guy, 6ft 3 i think..?

@Guangrui Год назад

the ancient time in which Britain still had to look up at Austria

@shawnr771 Год назад

Thank you for the lesson.

@coreyjackson3574 Год назад

The origin of "glamping"?

@iamTheSnark Год назад

Interesting. The map you show at 03:30 is Dutch made. By the decendants of J. Ratelband. It is a map of England/Scotland/Wales and its surroundings: not even all of the information of Nederland (the Netherlands; at that time Holland, Flanders, Wallonia and provinces to the east of Holland) is shown.

@nicholaslacerte8761 Год назад

This guy was wearing 125 extra pounds of just gold.

@jamescrossland2599 Год назад

I wonder if he had any one ol' "prison wallet"? 🤔

@SusanWojcickiTheBolshevik Год назад

Wow, I’m pretty early. I hope it’s a good party 🎉😊

@MarshOakDojoTimPruitt Год назад

thanks

@bigsarge2085 Год назад

✌️

@jimmyyu2184 Год назад

Having a groupie and posse sure cost a lot of money, now and hundreds years ago.

@jamescrossland2599 Год назад

Why 'slaves' were so, important! ☹️

@mattgeorge90 Год назад

Another excellent episode!

@-jeff- Год назад

Thanks THG for showing us the ultimate in trying to one-up your neighbor!

@elcastorgrande Год назад

A future video might be Maria Bochkareva and thew Women's Battalion of Death in World War I.

@joesantos2455 Год назад

I'd put Anne Boleyn on my wall before I'd put Henry viii on my wall. The man knows how to decorate a man cave pretty well.

@RetiredSailor60 Год назад

I traced my maternal side back to 1510 England. My 7 times great grandfather settled in Jamestown VA in 1619. Became 3rd Colonial Governor of Maryland.

@keithtorgersen9664 Год назад

@William Sanders, I have no idea how the thread got so way off topic, but I too have maternal ancestors that trace back to medieval England. It’s hard to be sure of the accuracy of names and places in those days, but the lineage is run through the name of Frary, all the back to sometime in the 14th century.

@aimeepotts2137 Год назад

@@keithtorgersen9664It got off topic because those replies are spam.

@keithtorgersen9664 Год назад

@Aimee Potts, i wondered.

@RetiredSailor60 Год назад

@@keithtorgersen9664 I reported them once...

@fundamental1020 Год назад

Wow, You have an impressive ancestry. What are you doing? Might you be or become famous?

@ringo688 Год назад

I didn't enjoy this episode I'm afraid. It sickened me to see how our ancestors wree ruled by narcissistic psychopaths. Nothing has changed

@curtisthomas2670 Год назад

I don't think this beats the Shah of Iran's Party In The Desert, the costly celebration held in a purpose built tent city built in the desert in Iran in commemoration of the 2000th anniversary of the founding of the Persian Empire, which involved plants and trees, birds and butterflies being flown in for a man ade garden, a new airport and hotel built, an entire restaurant kitchen and staff being flown in from Paris, and attended by world leaders and monarchs from around the world

@OmniGuy Год назад

And the evenings entertainment was provided by the Rolling Stones.

@spacewater7 Год назад

See, not all good stories involve pirates. Some involve parties - and politics - um - and very little was accomplished - um - maybe we could learn a lesson from this anyway. Political parties, these days, are a little too dry, as in Prohibition style dry :-P

@robertgiles9124 Год назад

The Parade of Egos. I wonder how many it took to clean up the horse crap. And were the latrines soon full and stinking? How many curses were muttered by the peasants who helped to pay for a party they were not invited to except as servants.

@lisapop5219 Год назад

Can you imagine what the locals, especially the peasants, were thinking?

@toldyouso5588 9 месяцев назад

Medieval APEC or WEF meeting of the elites

@rickclark4112 Год назад

I am supposedly a descendant of Henry 1st... 🎉

@Daniel_McDonald Год назад

Field of the Cloth of Gold? More like Field of the Cloth of Gold Diggers!

@janlindtner305 Год назад

Just one question, who paid? The taxpayers? Good section. 👍

@TheHistoryGuyChannel Год назад

Yes, Kings were mostly funded by taxpayers

@constipatedinsincity4424 Год назад

Back in the Saddle Again Naturally

@wholeNwon Год назад

Oh, I didn't realize that St. Denis was no longer the patron saint of France.

@jamescrossland2599 Год назад

I never knew he ever was? 🙃😂

@vortex1603 Год назад

St. Martin and St. Michel are the principal patron saints of France. St.Denis is important, yes, but secondary.

@wholeNwon Год назад

@@vortex1603 Wiki seems to disagree: " In time, St Denis came to be regarded as the patron saint of the French people, with St Louis the patron of the monarchy and royal dynasties.[9] Saint Denis or Montjoie! Saint Denis! became the typical war-cry of the French armies. The oriflamme, which became the standard of France, was the banner consecrated upon his tomb. His veneration spread beyond France when, in 754, Pope Stephen II brought veneration of Saint Denis to Rome."

@tonyk1584 Год назад

Ain't no party like a Cloth of Gold party !!!!! Sound like an idea for a t-shirt?

@MrEvanfriend Год назад

The patron saint of France is St. Denis...

@MBMCincy63 Год назад

Shivering black 🔔👍

@chadparsons50 Год назад

Quality or Quantity? The History Guy: Both

@johngreskamp184 Год назад

The Shan of Iran threw a a bigger party

@rabbi120348 Год назад

An early incarnation of the EU?

@dankauffmanmusic Год назад

The stinkiest party ever thrown

@steveshoemaker6347 Год назад

l am old now but i was there and it was grand to the eye...Thanks THG🎀 👍 Shoe🇺🇸

@merlinwizard1000 Год назад

85th, 8 March 2023

@roderickcampbell2105 Год назад

No one can party like THG.

@genericyoutube Год назад

too loud

@theoldgrowler3489 Год назад

Party on!

@howardrsims Год назад

IDEA How about a history of paved roads. Like when did we switch from dirt roads in cities to paved? And between cities? I know the Roman's did things but then didn't it go back to dirt after their fall? Didn't NYC first have dirt?

@elihyland4781 Год назад

THG is the greatest party of all time. duh🙄🏄‍♀️

@onepcwhiz6847 Год назад

I was going to ask why Gilbraltar wasn't spoken of, but the British didn't get it until 1704. :-/

@AndrewKarpyszyn Год назад

One note, the lys in Fleur de Lys is pronounced the same as fleece. Ask me how I learned to pronouce it correctly....🤕

@coling3957 Год назад

whatever you might think of King Henry , that guy knew how to partaay! As a young man he had the equivilent of his own rock band and took it on his tours around England.. He didn't write "Greensleeves" as is still claimed by some, but he did compose some music and was widely regarded as an accomplished musician as a young man

@chinesevirus-ix3yr Год назад

Clap or die peasant Lmao Of course the serfs applauded someone that can end their life

@BasicDrumming Год назад

I appreciate you, thank you for making content.

@marie_h1104 Год назад

I guess kings really know how to throw a shindig.

@nelsonbergman7706 Год назад

If the option was another war then this was a great choice.

@stevedietrich8936 Год назад

Wore 2000 ounces of gold! Wow, that's 125 pounds. How would a guy even move?

@jamesmitchell8500 Год назад

10 troy ounces to a pound

@stevedietrich8936 Год назад

@@jamesmitchell8500Google tells me that it is closer to 15 troy ounces per pound. But whatever, it was a lot of gold and a considerable weight.

@TheHistoryGuyChannel Год назад

His armor would have weighed more. But, as with Francis, those numbers represent multiple outfits over multiple days.

@mr.alaska2232 Год назад

What horrible Kings these were you know how many homeless people they could have fed with the money they wasted with this, especially since Henry had no Royal blood anyway

@richard_d_bird Год назад

2000 ounces of gold would be like 125 pounds all by itself. i think in dungeons and dragons we called that "encumbered." didn't do a lot of fast moving around like that i guess