How did Medieval Diplomacy Work? (Short Animated Documentary) 

It's basically like highschool.

Yes.

It doesn't.

@@InternetMameluq it is. And people get offended over the most stupid things

You’re a commenter on RU-vid videos, of course you do, but not anyone else, unless of course they agree with you Just like when discussing history and politics

So, your girlfriend is blood related to you?

Farry Yours isn‘t ?

@@yvel8503 sweet home alabama

@@tommydoez Incest isn't always Alabama, mate. Sometimes it's Mediaeval Europe.

@@tommydoez Sweet home Habsburg

emptank reminds me of medieval total war 2 haha

Guess I'll apostatize then *shrugs*

France continues attacking, having started the war in the first place

Mission accomplished Pope: I hope the new find peace will last Me: ROFL!

And France continues laying siege, whereas I would get excommunicated for doing the same.

the pain dude...

ilia han lol

Love a random eu4 reference

K e b a b w i n s

Guess I'll have to stop fabricating claims to free one up, then.

Or when they go traipsing through the flower field with something horrible tagged above them

The blissful frolic through the flowers is always good too lol

The best animation ever was the Queen of England roping out of a helicopter with a gun and camo veil

The intimidation move of scowling and standing closer, closer and behind them.

@@Milk382011 Was that an animation, or was that actual footage?

Yeah, but back then some nations had much better mice than others, so declaring war was easy for them.

Ah, M2TW diplomacy...

@@hamarbiljungskile8953 Or any other total war game.

@@MrAnonymousRandom At least until they removed those options.

Tak ty si došel až sem?

You are absolutely demolishing the enemy. All his armies are destroyed, half of his remaining fief is besieged. Their peace offer: We demand: Ceasefire Give us 1 000 000 florins

Damn, you got me in the first half, not gonna lie

@@gabisuciu6785 Same

‘Is there anyone else up there we can talk to?”

Joe R M “I blow mah nose at you and fart in your general direction! Now go away before I taunt you a second time, you silly English speaking knnnnnnnnigits!”

@@vinnydaq13 Now I know Why the English hate the French so much.

Context? Who is sseth?

SsethTzeentach. He said that in his CK2 Video

And to the oubilette with them all.

or "my liege, we have military access, we can't go to war!" "wait what, that's stopping us?"

@@DaDARKPass and theyre transferring their trade power to us 🤣

Noob. Just get a CB on one of their allies. Taking their clay will be a touch more expensive though

@@talltroll7092 that's the problem, if you want to take a lot of provinces this will be a lot of aggressive expansion and not always dealing with coalition is easy, or you just don't want it coz it's annoying

@@mrszmatan2727 I remember when Alexander the Great got coalitioned because he had too much Aggressive Expansion

You're right, it's a method we cannot afford to lose.

Robert Mitchell what?

@@tomwinchester8209 it's a reference to OP's username from star wars

@@tomwinchester8209 *Good relations with the princess I have*

@@robertmitchell8683 Trump need to fuck Winnie the Pooh

@Joshua N. Ajang Scots Gaelic and Irish Gaelic are quite similar.

@Joshua N. Ajang you can destinguish scottish(gaidhlig) and irish (geailge) from each other via the accents. In irish there is only this "´" accent used. In scottish only this "`" .

Wait 'till the Scots get in gear with their demands prior to the next referendum to leave Britain...

@@paireon3419 welll i think it is only a matter of time until the last remnants of the british empire fall apart and get independence. In 20 years we will have a kingdom of england again and an independent scottland and wales. I see it comming. In this case england would be as weak as it was around 1000 last time in 2040.

@@dershogun6396 Let's hope so. I may love British humor but as a French-Canadian who knows his history I am not fond of the English yoke.

*OH, ITS YOU AGAIN MR.* *MOUSTACHE MEN* -ISP

vAqeii: And “you know who”.

Mr. Hitman

Which moustache?

Habsburgs: I also have a male cousin who needs a wife.

@Kas Mag Linz mehr

The definitive fratricide, infanticide, and general nastiness simulator

what about eu4 players?

DaDARKPass forced culturalization, genocide, and mass slavery simulator. Also Mingsplosions and the dangers of too much baguette in one place

Gideon Mele and don’t forget the pre-modern eugenics programs

Zachary Cornelison of course! In the names of SCIENCE!! and dynastic purity

"Give Milan." I had to walk that one off, it hurt so much

Its real name is the papal tiara.

… and it's a crown 👑

Alejandro Kaplan this

?

A snek Boi he said a long time ago he would make a video on how the Orthodox Church reacted to the Protestant reformation and that hasn’t come out yet

oh yeah. This would be interesting. Though i've watched an interview with an american orthodox "Archpriest" who worte an entie book about the views of antiochian orthodox church on the proestant reformation.

Der Shogun yeah he did a poll on his channel and that won the poll and the video never came, still waiting

aka peace

I've only played Rome 2. I've never been able to issue ultimatums like that.

What the shit is ck2 ?

@@paulbuzla8728 a game named crusader kings 2

Thanks mate ;)

Yeah, Bohemia used to control land all over because of dynastic bullshittery.

@@bradymcelroy1627 ok

the luxembourgs used to own a lot

The unique magic of the HRE

Not Bohemia. The German dynasty who ended up holding the title "king of bohemia" held other titles in parallel. The crucial thing to understand that each of these holdings was a separate state with separate institutions. It just happened that their head of government was the same person. So if Bohemia was to call a parliament or whatever, it would have no authority in the other realms.

I'd argue that social changes played a bigger part than technology. You have to remember for much of history the concept of nationalism as we know wasn't really a thing. The King of France was seen as the nation of France. But once we got nationalism as a concept and the idea that a nation is made up of its citizens and not its leader, we didn't really have one person to stick a political marriage on since (especially after republics and democratic voting became more widespread) the person you're marrying for political power might not even be in power in five years.

Modern communication technology really helps a lot. It’s much easier to conduct diplomacy with a simple phone call or a quick plane trip than to send a letter via a guy on a horse that’ll take weeks or months to get there and even longer for the response to arrive back to you.

"3 years later"

Sucks to be anyone honestly in that era

@@fulcrum2951 Or in any era before the telegraph...

Must be the Holy Spirit.

@Funnti Dassi Holy Shit

dumb comment

And things were restored to their rightful sense once more

dumb

I miss when our country actually had to declare a war to have a war....

During this time period all that land was under the Holy Roman Empire, and the emperor at the time was Louis The Bavarian, his election as the emperor was the result of a big portion of the empire nobles thinking the king of Bohemia was too strong ( keep in mind there is a myth that say the german electors dint want a czech emperor, but thats a lie since John of Bohemia was Luxembourgian, born of a franksh house, therefore had more blue blood than any guy from Germany/Austria proper ). The electors tried to elect a guy from Austria, a war was to happen if they did that since the king of Bohemia would not accept, and the electors would not accept another bohemian king as the emperor, so they chose Louis as a compromise, he was a weak emperor and effectively every part of the empire rule almost independently at that time, thats why the bohemian king managed to keep all of that under 1 crown on the holy roman empire. Later on the bohemian line would go back to rule the Empire for 3 more generations, but the lack of male heirs would make every corner of the crown land be divided by cousins and brothers in law.

Well John of Luxembourg came from Luxembourg, so that's the most western territory. Bohemia, Moravia and Silesia were inherited together through his wife, Elizabeth. So was Poland but he wasn't actually ruling it, he just used the title. The north of Italy was given to him by the holy roman emperor, his son didn't inherit it though.

@@stepanhrebicek8309 that was Mazovia not whole Poland. It was Bohemian vassal at early XIVth century.

Due to weird inheritances because of political alliance marriages, many nobles and rulers ended up ruling several different bits of unconnected land in different regions.

Lots and lots of incest! So much that no one can walk straight

When you're allied with two opposing A.I. and have shared vision....

Less when the brits wants to connect its colonies in Africa

@@angrymonkeynoises Well you see, it's more of a one sided alliance. You don't attack us, but we can attack you.

I think he has one

They likely couldn't. That's probably why they kept getting executed.

Traders acted as emissaries

French was a common language of European diplomacy, at least prior to the 20th century.

Churchmen spoke Latin, western nobility tended to speak a French dialect of some sort, and thus could communicate to a certain extent, Latin based languages had diverged less so you could pick up some of what was said simply though familiarity. If it was going to be a bigger problem the noble selected would already speak the language or they'd take a priest with them who could then translate though another priest. The byzantines had a lot of Italians around and no one much felt like communicating with pagans beyond the whole convert or die, but if you had too you'd just ask a convert to do it for you, same with Muslims.

Milan are such assholes XD

Yes. Jesus is litteraly adorable.

Whereas*