Knight in battle: How did knights fight on the battlefield? 

He's a Highlander called Connor MacLeod of the clan MacLeod. God what have they done with such a promising series! And when is that reboot coming! I’m not getting any younger you know!

@@Francis-ce1qb Man, good to know people still have a clan these days. I really like this show, so informative and engaging!. Cheers from clan Chaniago from Minangkabau folks of Sumatra!!

@@tuahsakato17 you havent watched highlander movies have you? lol

@@Ask4This you mean....FREEDOOOOOMMMM!!!!!!

There can be only one...

Listen here. Pawn stars is obviously the history channel we get. Lmao.

Nazi alien occultists are history.

So true

@@datnamedoh4877 indeed. Lol. Truly insane. It had to be green men.

@@bethbearmacethatguy was that a joke?

HiddenTigerObviousNinja RIGHT!? Like wtf.. this series is so perfect dude, a man who LOVES history and has all the items, wit, and knowledge to show it off well.

subbed.

That’s because the majority of users subscribe to absolute narcissistic trash that is a cancer of this site.

Not anymore, I told my SCA group and Renaissance Festival buddies about this channel.

and how

Does History show anything besides alligator hunters and a badly staged pawn shop these days?

@@cm275 They also know super secret alien history.

Not enough aliens to be a real history channel.

Oh you mean The Conspiracy channel.

@@cm275 history channel has a great history program: aliens. wait wait hear me out. i used to laugh at that show, until i watched one episode. then i wathed many and liked. they are atually good history shows. the trick is, as soon as they say the word "alien", you change the channel because the good history part is over and they will start talking about mumbojumbo... aka aliens.

He is a medieval knight that has survived all these long years to share his experiences and knowledge of his good auld times.

He also time traveled to Middle Earth for a time, to reign as Denethor steward of Gondor. He brought back to us grape tomatoes!

Un inglés que no llora por lo políticamente incorrecto es impresionante

And he happens to be the CEO of a game development company called Rebellion LOL

See that OBE suffix after his name? HE IS KNIGHTED, and should be addressed as "Sir Kingsley," and one of the few in our modern era to actually practice as the title states!

This guy's rich like a knight

Ace Carlo Salvoro touche

@@cingkrimson4719 Lot's of rich people spend gobs of money living out their fantasies...very few put together quality video content while doing it.

@@blaisevillaume2225 And free videos at that. This seems to be Mr. Kingsley's passion project and that's pretty commendable.

Better to spend your money like this than in hookers and cocaine… right, guys?

Very kind of you, thanks.

oh wow u replied to me on a 2 year old video... thats awesome! big fan love the videos. i liked ur instant robin hood video a lot too.

And thank you to all the people who help you.

You should do a collab with Edd China! I don't know how you would mingle the specialties but I would certainly watch!

thanks for your feedback, most appreciated.

No! Thank you sir!

These RU-vid guys make bank bro. Especially if they have many subscriber's like this man.

I'm always proud! Es lebe das Vaterland !

I like this fellow, and the Townsend's as well. Real history, real people. Anyone who enjoys learning about the past should check them both out. Especially the Townsend's if your into cooking.

Whatever fuck you

@@benjaminjordan2330 Uncalled for kid.

@@prussianeagle1941 don't worry just a troll

I was going to say the same thing ! What a beautiful creature.

Isaiah White I see Catherine riding that horse. She’s great you know

He hem*, Grey horse

@@silassilas1578 that horse is not grey. Have you been tested for colorblind?

@@kienan1724 you always call a white horse a grey horse, just horse lingo 😉

Goodluck. Watch out for tanks tho.

Get well soon

Don’t write and speak in cliché. It cheapens everything that precedes and follows it. “Not gonna lie”... Well, why would you?

@@KentBuchla he'll get more likes than you 😏

@@Anglisc1682 still he right. Also he's only giving advice.

@@KentBuchla Would 'one does not simply lie' sounds better? ;)

get counselling

@MichaelKingsfordGray cow

@MichaelKingsfordGray Aren't you the one who started this childish spat by judging a random stranger on the internet for his "un-natural bloody fake fucking name?" Look in the mirror, you hypocrite.

@@jamestai5742 I think some people just exist to start toruble.

I've figured it out. It's the hair.

And...if you look at his name, the suffix reads "OBE" (Order of the British Empire), which means he IS a knight.

Juni L. Yeung lol fake knights are still fake. Silly brits and they’re archaic honorifics

@@rikosaikawa9024 why is it silly? To recieve recognition for services to society is a great motivator to do good and for sucess. Most british people see our traditions and heritage as a good thing.

@@rikosaikawa9024 I think it's a cool thing to keep Turks removed the ranks like reis(jarl),aga(landlord or commander) etc. but we still use them in daily conversations as tributes.Brits made them legalized for good people.

Well, you don't have to clean the sweat, shit and piss from his armor.

Check out medieval 2 total war

@MichaelKingsfordGray What's the matter with you?

@MichaelKingsfordGray You don't sound like much of an adult to me honestly.

MichaelKingsfordGray You call yourself an adult yet you’re here bitching at and harassing people for not using their real name. You act like more of a child then anyone else in this comment section.

@MichaelKingsfordGray Pretty sure the guy was just joking, lighten up.

Glad you like it.

Well you have to have the acceleration to get the speed necessary for the power. A horse is faster than a human. So you want the horse to be going fast when you impact a footsoldier

Tramatic head injury to the one wearing the helmet

I know, loved that shot. That impact would have ripped of the enemy's jaw. Maybe even partially decapitated him as it went deep into his throat and neck. So cool seeing it in slomo like that. Would love to try jousting.

I prefer 'your Grace' it's a little more dignified, lol.

HA!

@@ModernKnight How about Your Majesty?

Lol, good stuff.

@@theevildrummingsithlord1492 can't there's still an english throne.

Thanks, that's really interesting.

Thank you!

You win the internet

Thanks!

Yet he does not know how to use bow :-D

He is the CEO of a computer game company.

The guy name Jason Kingsley and he has OBE and is the co-founder and CEO of video game developer Rebellion

And also he has a degree from Oxford University

@@kvarnerinfoTV no msn is an island.

In a way, it can then be a threat to the knights since they lose their mobility and even get badly injured.

Until the injured or killed horse fell and or rolled on it's rider.

Yeah it's great!

People just don't realise how dangerous untrained horses can be.

@@ModernKnight Indeed. And to clarify I have training in historical fencing, fighting in armour and some basic riding skills. But if the horse isn't trained, none of that really matters... Anyway, since you're going to probably read this comment I want to take the opportunity to thank you for your videos. They're exceptionally well done, very informative and entertaining. They also do a fair bit of mythbusting, which is always nice. So, yeah, thanks for the videos :)

Our pleasure, it's nice to get interesting comments like yours. I've worked with some well known actors who have not realised how hard riding actually is, especially trying to hit set positions for a shot.

The black one is too :)

Great comment..!!

Horses are genuinely the better friend than a dog!

Slavik Chukhlebov you cannot comparing two of three awesome creatures in humanity history.

My Grandad drove a Model T Ford here in the UK...

MrChyort fighter pilots are the knights of modern times. Highly educated, extremely expensive to equip, joust using advanced weapons technology, and are dominant over most single targets on the battlefield

That sounds more like jousting and less like war

Markus I think it sounds like war because that IS how air battles are fought, haha. Beyond Visual Range air combat takes an insane amount of situational awareness, skill, and practice to pull off.

I think you mean HerStory

And it ain't even over yet.

Yeah but sloppy charge they did, but all were extras brought in because they had horses so....

Thanks, look forward to it!

So just WHO is underrating these videos?! I see NO evidence of it!!

Thanks!

Göktuğ Manas looked up mount and blade too 😂

Nice

@@kylereece1735 Yeah it's not a bad life ...

whynottalklikeapirat yeah

Well said

@@isaiahkoufos3573 Someone had to say it.

lol, thanks for watching!

Thanks, will do.

I'm thinking about that.

thanks for your support.

Yes or maybe good reenactment, full battle or just a part of it, even if u showing us a good one that u know or had seen

Interesting concept, maybe sca people would be interested if given mention in the credits.

In truth, the least deadly thing a knight could face was ranged weapons.

@The Hoplite Yes, they could charge.

The Hoplite archers mate, archers.

The Hoplite yeah

Crossbows? I heard those meant the end of the knight era?

not sure about later periods, but being left handed in the medieval period was frowned upon, especially by the tutors of nobility. every image I've seen seems to show them using lances right handed, but who knows? Stallions, I think, make much better heavy warhorses with their strength and power, and were clearly used by the western knights in preference to geldings or mares, so it must have worked. However in the middle east and further east I believe mares were preferred.

Jason Kingsley Stupid question as I am a novice in this field. If a Knight was left handed would they have any advantage? Just as I know that the construction of castles benefited left handed invaders compared to right handed, same as fencing, etc.

@@xaoc6084 Perhaps not in a charge, but in a melee fight it may come in handy, as your foes would typically be trained to face right-handed people. I would say if you had two fighters of equal skill using the same weapons, the left-handed one would have a slight advantage, simply because it forces his opponent to adjust his familiar fighting techniques.

Cáca Milis sa Seomra Spraoi The only reason I mention such an idea is because right handed swordsman were usually unfamiliar with a left handed swordsman. I know that left handed people in general were highly frowned upon because of religion, we even see it today with etiquette at the queens table, in which holding cutlery left handed is not considered the normality nor considered at all. I just personally believe that if a knight or a foot soldier was to be left handed in a siege, eg a castle stairwell it would benefit a left handed swordsman than it would a right handed one (hence why stairwells were designed the way they were because of nearly everybody being right handed).

Sacha Daenens Exactly the principle used in fencing. In which the left handed combatant would be more used to facing right handed opponents than the right handed combatant facing a left handed opponent, which is no doubt unfamiliar territory.

Slavik Chukhlebov so horses wouldnt break formations from arrow strikes? seems to me horse would be spooked from the pain and break formation. how many arrows would be volleyed? 1,000 plus?

How many arrows would obviously depend on how many archers per knight charging. I shoot an 80 lb longbow, and in timed rounds I can shoot 7 arrows in 30 seconds. I have competed against a much faster longbow shooter (with a lighter bow, 60 lbs) who shot 13 arrows in the same 30 seconds. While I suspect the average English longbowman was even faster than that (especially after watching Lars Anderson, though his bow is not a longbow and he's so far from average you can't really compare!), let's take ten shots in 30 seconds as a conservative estimate - one every 3 seconds. We saw the 300 yards covered in 17 seconds, but he said a coordinated charge would be more like 30-45 seconds. So each average archer could probably put 10-15 rounds downrange in that time, getting more accurate and hitting harder as they approached. If the archers outnumbered the knights by as little as 3 to 1 - and it was probably usually much more - then each knight can expect a storm of 30-45 arrows at himself and his horse. Tod of Tod's Workshop convinced me that a well-made breastplate is nearly impenetrable - but armor is full of joints and, as mentioned here, eyeslots. Not to mention that horses weren't armored nearly as well as the knights. The horse's throat seems a good target... Anyway, you asked how many arrows a knight might have to withstand. Figure at least ten for every archer per knight.

thanks!

Or maybe they survived to breed because they DIDN’T fight...

In East Asia there were anti-cavalry weapons specifically designed to cut down the horse from beneath a mounted fighter, e.g. the zanbato (horse-cutting sword). I would bet that, even if they didn't have specialized weapons for the job, European foot soldiers figured out pretty quick that aiming for the horse was a good idea.

There are accounts of Dane Axes and Bardiche Axes being used to take out horses. Then, of course, there are spears lances and arrows. Lot's of weapons were effective for taking out horses and I'm certain soldiers figured out real quick that they were soft targets.

@@lonewolf209 In one of the Sharpe episodes, Sharpe advises his men, when attacked by cavalry, to hit the horse in the mouth with the musket butt. Of course, you don't see things like that happening in films because the SPCA monitors would have a conniption!

Henry's come to see us!

HOLY SHIT it's Henry!@@lineardielectric

kind of you to say so!