Normans in Italy // Wars of the Lombards & Byzantines (1008-1053)

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@HistoryTime 5 лет назад

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@rayyankhan343 5 лет назад

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@joebowden4065 5 лет назад

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@reed3249 5 лет назад

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@ianodle5111 5 лет назад

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@Monsterpala 5 лет назад

No I have to thank you! Love the content you create.I sterted with the english vikings but your history in general ist great. Especially the early European history was quite unknown to me since it s not covered in school and a lot was proabably even unknown few years ago, at least to the broader public.

@ricciluigi2592 3 года назад

The most common name in Sicily and also throughout Southern Italy, Russo, originally meant a Norman, French for Norseman long before it meant Russian. It entered the lexicon as Byzantine Greek Rus, from Scandinavian He Rows, or the Men Who Row. The Northern and Central Italians didn't have a Norman Conquest, whereas the Greek speaking Southern Italians did and so they sought to find a Latin root to a word that was brought in from Byzantine Greeks. One can find the name in exactly the regions that were conquered by the Normans.

@dzanc 2 года назад

I always assumed it meant 'red-haired'

@ricciluigi2592 2 года назад

@@dzanc Yes. And why wouldn't you? Right? The Normans (Norsemen) reintroduced Latin and replaced Greek in that region. AND to make it even more confusing the first person to take the name was Richard D'Hauteville who went by Russo Rosso...Sheesh..HAHA

@arx3516 Год назад

No, it means red, red head, a characteristic rare enough to become a nickname and then a surname. In the rest of Italy is Rossi.

@ricciluigi2592 Год назад

@@arx3516 It is not a Latin word. It is from Byzantine Greek, the language spoken in Sicily at that time. The first person to take the name Russo Rosso, or in Latin Russo Rubeo was Richard D'Hautville, the nephew of King Roger of Sicily in 932. He changed the chancellery of Sicily back to Latin from Greek. Would you like the info on this? It is very interesting. To this day Russo means a Russian in Italian. Not Red. From Rus,

@Pettigrew88 6 месяцев назад

That's really cool. Love the D',Hautevilles!!!!

@jamesjones3147 5 лет назад

I'm happy to see some content on early Medieval Italy. Most of the channels I follow seems to jump straight from the fall of the Western Roman Empire to the rise of the Medici--as if to suggest that nothing of importance happened in the 900 years in between. Keep up the good work!

@HistoryTime 5 лет назад

Thanks James appreciate it. Much more on the way on this time period !

@kaloarepo288 5 лет назад

@@HistoryTime One of the most important and fascinating figures in Italy pre-Renaissance is the countess Matilda of Tuscany -she ruled in extensive areas in the north and actually led armies into battle -she took the side of the papacy in its wars with the Holy Roman Empire (the German kings and their supporters in Italy)

@budibausto 4 года назад

Exactly. the problem is luck of proper translations, and interest of the period, because it's quite tricky and, well, the Vatican.

@johnsnow145 2 года назад

that is a very accurate statement

@saguntum-iberian-greekkons7014 Год назад

True, like if nothing happened! Thx to H-T to remember humanity that there was a 1000 years of rich history

@tomaszprzyby784 5 лет назад

Normans, the epic tale of competence and ambition.

@davidedbrooke9324 5 лет назад

Tomasz Przybył Added an edge when blended with the English that went on to a great empire!

@HistoryTime 5 лет назад

And the story just gets more and more epic over time!

@retvrntotradition4454 5 лет назад

May Allahs curse be upon the Normans.

@davidedbrooke9324 5 лет назад

God love and protect the normans and their descendants

@13minutestomidnight 4 года назад

Eh, I'd say it's more an epic tale of "Bored now. Let's go find some morons who'll pay us to fight while we pillage their cities and raid their treasury."

@jeremyday9056 4 года назад

I've always been interested in Italian history from the fall of Rome into the Middle Ages. I've read plenty about the various duchies and kingdoms but was always confused over who controlled what and why they came about. This video did an awesome job of clarifying and answering these questions for me. Thanks for your work!

@derptrolling4740 4 года назад

Normans created a state in southern Italy that lasted until the 1871 Italian unification.

@micahistory 5 лет назад

You love everything Norman

@HistoryTime 5 лет назад

I do indeed!

@mudgetheexpendable 5 лет назад

I've always cherished a vision of a Hauteville/Plantagenet Empire.

@HistoryTime 5 лет назад

Interesting thought. Too many independent minded noblemen for that I think

@kieran1987 5 лет назад

I once googled the Normans in Italy after having seen that they were apparently there and I got nothing so I was thrilled when I saw this video. I think I subscribed to your channel before I'd even watched a video. Looking forward to watching many of your videos and exploring my fledgling interest in European history. Keep up the good work.

@Hikaeme-od3zq 2 года назад

There's 2 entire wikipedia pages about it and even a Britannica page on it, weird.

@therealtoni 5 лет назад

loved it!!! SO hard to find the history of SOuthern Italy after the fall of Rome!

@briansmith9439 5 лет назад

You are so right about the lack of books. I wrote one for my family 8 years ago as we have ancestors in Compania and my grt-grandfather was a "Longobardo". You can download the book (no charge) at archive.org/details/2010IlRegnoPublic/page/n6

@lenase7396 5 лет назад

@@briansmith9439 The region it s called Campania. How did you know your greatgrandfather was a longobard? they come to the south thousands years ago :).

@HistoryTime 5 лет назад

Much more on the way my friend. I've been reading a lot about it recently. Can recommend you a few books if you're interested.

@peterhunt135 4 года назад

An excellent and beautiful presentation -- a perfect mixture of well informed historical commentary, maps, illustrations, and paintings. History at its best. Thank you.

@jmp01a24 5 лет назад

Several Scandinavian vikings was hired as personal guards by the Byzantine rulers. They made good money working for hire.

@roderickclerk5904 5 лет назад

Also alot of Anglo Saxons after Hastings.

@apostolosmate3361 5 лет назад

@@roderickclerk5904 Well noted. There was also a large settlement, the medieval New England, probably near Constantinople, where Anglo-Saxon refuges settled after the battle of Hastings.

@HistoryTime 5 лет назад

Great money! Especially with the 'Palace Plunder' that usually occurred after the death of an emperor - usually as a way of the new emperor getting the loyalty of the guard (Which happened a LOT during the 11th century)

@roderickclerk5904 5 лет назад

@@HistoryTime damn is that true... damn😂😂💲💲

@jmp01a24 5 лет назад

@@apostolosmate3361 The Norwegian name for Bysants (constantinople) was Miklagard.

@jennjenny1984 5 лет назад

This site is amazing it is exactly what I needed to pass time waiting to heal up from a car wreck THANK YOU SO MUCH

@virvisquevir3320 4 года назад

jenn jenny - How are you doing, Jenn Jenny?

@badtexasbill5261 3 года назад

This topic seems to get skimmed over more than it deserves. Another quality lesson from one of the top ten history teachers on YT.

@erminization 5 лет назад

Would love to see a video on the illyrians, the medieval balkan kingdoms all the way up to the ottoman period. Also, would love to see a video on Arius and learn more about his exile in the Balkans.

@judsonwall8615 2 года назад

Love your focus on the lesser known. What a crazy complicated time in southern Italy. I’ve been trying to get my head around the 11th century situation there for a couple weeks now, and this video really helps. Crazy that a relatively minor Lombard uprising resulted in eastern Rome losing Italy to a bunch of Norman ruffians, losing their (probably winning) position in Sicily, and in the process inviting the Normans into their neighborhood in the Balkans.

@matteofumagalli3918 5 лет назад

nice video like always, btw the first person to use the mafia method in italy was rainulf drengot

@HistoryTime 5 лет назад

Pretty much. He's an interesting figure. Should be more well known in my opinion . Much of the Hautevilles success was built on his back.

@matteofumagalli3918 5 лет назад

@@HistoryTime His descendants fought against the Hauteville in the 1071 in the 1092 and in the 1135 it was pretty much obivious that Roger II and his successor make the possible to reduce the imprint of the Drengot on south italy history

@junglejack9954 3 года назад

So the contenders were Viking Scandinavians but fighting bizantines, and there were also Germans but everything is set on southern Italy... this is the most confusing war of all time

@judsonwall8615 2 года назад

Agreed! Constantinople vs a bunch of small Lombard principalities who owe fealty to Germans (Holy Roman Empire). But there’s also Muslims from Africa and Yemen, the Pope pulling strings, several Italian city states involved, and let’s throw in some random slightly latinized Vikings. Oh, and let’s make the rando Vikings win.

@vve2059 2 года назад

It is made complex so that people cannot understand the truth

@thecrew1871 5 лет назад

Thankyou! I enjoyed this very much. Please keep up the good work & I will keep watching. 🤓

@jpkalishek4586 5 лет назад

My World History and Government teacher was Mr. Lombard.

@francescocatalano5855 5 лет назад

The Normans united all the South of Italy with capital Palermo, Sicily

@robin_5099 5 лет назад

As always, a quality video with an interesting subject. I look forward to your next one.

@HistoryTime 5 лет назад

Thanks Robin appreciate the kind words.

@chtisponytail538 5 лет назад

Great stuff !! Thank you sir !! 👍 👍

@HistoryTime 5 лет назад

Thanks friend!

@kimmcroberts9765 5 лет назад

I would love to understand the light wells of knossos and who the sea peoples were. Many thanks

@HistoryTime 5 лет назад

I will be delving back into the Bronze Age for sure!

@jozz2248 5 лет назад

@@HistoryTime That would be great! Minoan Crete as well as the induring legend of the Oracle at Delphi's origin would be great too. Love these so much, job well done.

@johnsnow145 2 года назад

Thanks for this video! It’s hard to trace and understand the genetic make-up of my ancestors without knowing the full story. Most history books and videos only discuss the rise and fall…..then straight to the renaissance. That’s quite a gap in history missing there

@artiomerikosian8306 2 года назад

Great video

@blakeluccason9971 5 лет назад

history evolves the more we learn... well figured out my moms maiden name is in fact norman ... still descended from Vikings as I already knew but it came into the English northumbrian land shortly after the norman invasion... hits me in the feels when I realize hey your family spread out and conquered alot of the western world

@tonyhawk94 3 года назад

Most Normans lords had little to no Vikings origin, William the Conqueror himself was less than 20% Scandinavian. :)

@apostolosmate3361 5 лет назад

The legal system of Lombards (Leges Langobardorum) was a joke compared to the law provided by the East Romans (Corpus Juris Civilis or Justinian Codex). I sincerely doubt they would establish a long standing state. Although I'm sure the big trouble for the Romans at the time was in the East or the North of the empire, rather than the West.. Still the Normans were a war machine at the time!

@GardEngebretsen 5 лет назад

Legal systems can be reformed, and wouldn't have been a hindrance to a long-standing state. Many places had few laws, while the entire rest of the system was dominated by Roman and canonical law. The creation of independent systems of law in Western Europe didn't really happen until the 13th century with codexes in Norway, Spain, Sicily (the Normans didn't create a codex until then either) - and the development of common law in England.

@Fankas2000 5 лет назад

Since when do you need a legal system to maintain a country? Last time I checked the only requirement was having an army.

@Fankas2000 4 года назад

@Felipe CarvalhoPlease do enlighten me on the legal systems of tribal societies... Or are you going to state that those weren't countries?

@robinsinpost 4 года назад

@@Fankas2000 A country does not function without a legal system.

@abdiyusuf8561 5 лет назад

I love history

@HistoryTime 5 лет назад

It's the best

@ivanstrydom8417 9 месяцев назад

Your image of ''Milus of Bari'' is in fact General Tatikios, Turcoploi General of the Byzantines under Emp Komnenos I .

@DedicatedSpartan 5 лет назад

I've been studying the sons of Tancred.

@aquilarossa5191 5 лет назад

Have you heard of a battle at Taranto in 953? The books about my father's family say the emperor Otto awarded my ancestor Tebaldo (Theobald) 15 castles in Lombardy (Brescia) after he won a battle there in 953. He supposedly presented an eagle standard to Otto that was covered in blood, so a red eagle became the family emblem. They held the lands until mid 1800s and my great, great grandfather went into exile in England. I have never been able to verify if that battle happened, or is a myth. If true, I think he may have also been a Norman with a name like that.

@badtexasbill5261 4 года назад

Melus should have never opened that door.

@JoshuaKevinPerry 5 лет назад

You should contact the History of Byzantium Podcast. Get some more eyes on your content with an interview.

@HistoryTime 5 лет назад

Probably my favourite podcast. Up there with British History Podcast. I'd love to speak to Robin some time

@7071t6 4 года назад

Noticed that about the dead sea scrolls, nothing is mentioned about how alexander the great and his family members peter the great of macedonia tired a knot and said who ever untires this knott will have this lands ?

@jbos5107 2 года назад

I know that I am late to this party but I am trying to catch up! I love this channel and your brother's as well. I have come to the conclusion that I really need a history vocabulary book of some kind though because my knowledge is slim about so many of the places and people you cover. A book that I could quickly look up whatever I don't know or understand and a highlighter to mark it so that I can learn about it after each video. Y'all don't laugh at a 62 year old lady who really wants to know please. Anyone out there in youtube land know of a book that might help me?

@destinylombard731 5 лет назад

This is a great vid it’s my family history my last name is Lombard

@matthewmann8969 3 года назад

Norman's with bates

@tbirdparis 2 года назад

Great video. Your map is nice and clear, but you put Messina on the wrong side of the straits... It's on the island of Sicily, not the Italian mainland.:)

@hunter5502000 2 года назад

Very interesting to me because I have a lot of dna shared with Lombards. I have ancestors from italy but no Italian dna, all French.

@formzino 5 лет назад

Basically, the Vikings beat everyone

@cultofmalgus1310 4 года назад

My family hails from Piemonte, Italy. But unlike a lot of Italians the men in our family stand between 6'1-6'3 except in the case of my father's brother who was 6'7. I'm fairly certain I have germanic blood in me even though I sport the dark hair and olive skin.

@ignaerium487 5 лет назад

Are the maps made by you or you get them from some page?

@rayyankhan343 5 лет назад

Ignaerium usually made by others and on open domain

@ΘΕΟΦΑΝΩΚΟΜΝΗΝΟΣ 2 года назад

I think a much more appropriate term for Argyros' life would be "Hellenized" since this was the purpose for which the Byzantines brought him to Constantinople.

@karl7108 5 лет назад

There are inaccuracies presenting map of Balkans. During the period of 11th century, Byzantine influence at Adriatic coast diminished and it became largely part of Kingdom of Croatia. At the same time, Serbia was literally annihilated and depopulated by Bulgar Kingdom, with remaining Serbs seeking refuge in Kingdom of Croatia. Otherwise, very interesting presentation of Apennin history.

@tiami3886 5 лет назад

sure, sources?

@karl7108 5 лет назад

@@tiami3886 Torah and Talmud. Satisfied?

@tylerellis9097 5 лет назад

Karl all the Maps he showed are inaccurate he even used that extremely inaccurate 1000ad southern Italy Map. The Byzantines still Controlled Ragusa and the Republic Of Venice though the other cities given to Croatia in the 1050s as a gift.

@PipoZePoulp 5 лет назад

beautiful map, any link ?

@veronicalogotheti1162 5 месяцев назад

The. Cism was with charlemagne

@steveallen1635 4 года назад

The Normans seem to be the "Master-race"!

@micahistory 5 лет назад

Please check out Micahistory 2, it would mean a lot!

@elisabettamacghille4623 4 года назад

Take a ferocious Viking warrior, put him on a huge war horse and .. you'll get the most powerful war machine ever seen!

@derptrolling4740 5 лет назад

Southern Italy celebrates diversity in the 1000s.

@TheRick8866 4 года назад

Man. Indo Europeans sure do like war.

@baneofbanes 4 года назад

War is found in most people groups.

@claudemontalbano3381 Год назад

Les Lombards n'étaient pas des Germains mais des scandinaves, tout comme les Normands qu'ils ont rejoint en Italie du Sud pour la délivrer des Byzantins et des Arabes

@Killjoy97_ 5 лет назад

Now Normans in the Ionian Islands

@HistoryTime 5 лет назад

Will get there eventually!

@ulfschack 3 года назад

Even if I patron, my nice relax time is still interupted by ads. Every ten minutes. Can’t do it, sorry.

@morriganmhor5078 3 года назад

The map doesn´t reflect the situation of the Mediterranean at the time of the death of Basileos II Bulgaroktonos.

@luckylarry3090 3 года назад

Based off my last name I think my family is partly Lombardy

@ajb5852 5 лет назад

A family member did a raw dna test and found their ancestors are frank, Lombard, Saxon and Viking. - typical British 😂

@brunooliveira2526 3 года назад

unfortunely vikings were heavely defeated in iberia and we had to remain to arabs 4 more centuries

@JesusRocksTryPrayin 5 лет назад

Awesome vid! My adhd is so bad.. I had to rewind, fantasizing that Minnesota went to war with Wisconsin. Then I got stuck on "When I'm president, i'm going to invade the rest of the Americas" what the fucks the rest of the world gonna do? Brazil is the only threat, and compared to the US? C'mon The 'living conditions' may have been worse back then but fuck... life seemed so much more fun; 'hey guise, lets take all of our neighbor's shit!'

@MaxMortis 3 года назад

Messina is in the wrong spot on this map.

@Wolf-hh4rv 2 года назад

Irritating background music

@issith7340 4 года назад

I will have to comend again: argiròs( not argerous!!) has been rased as a roman or as a byzantine??? I know it’s the same, but most of the audience don’t. Particularly, if you have byzantine empire and holy roman empire, at the same time. Either you call it byzantine empire or Eastern roman empire, but not both together, cause it’s confusing. I think eastern Roman Empire is right. Byzantine is a wrong term , that we eventually have to stop using!

@guzelataroach4450 4 года назад

Nordmann

@veronicalogotheti1162 5 месяцев назад

I dont see the frigians Some went to england not all

@celticm6616 5 лет назад

Just go and have a d.n.a. test. Thanks

@HistoryTime 5 лет назад

I did a few years ago. Maybe ill make a video on it some time. Vast majority of it was Irish along with a little Scandinavian, Germanic and British

@a_ya5555 4 месяца назад

Lies. They didn't work with Atilla, they fought him and held him back. Further the lombards beat the vandals in battle numerous times

@jonathanstudentkit 5 лет назад

nice video but you mispronounced mezzogiorno e.g.

@slightlyconfused876 4 года назад

Very good history but please learn to pronounce the names of the places you are talking about properly

@yowut8075 5 лет назад

12 byzantine themes downvoted

@nikolamilosevski6424 5 лет назад

I downvoted because he used the term Byzantine. I only accept the Roman. They were Romans by others and Romans by themselves (totally legit).

@tylerellis9097 5 лет назад

Yo wut Byzantines could have solely focused on Sicily before Basil II death if not for the Normans interfering with the Lombard Invasion. Sicily would have also been liberated in 1040 if the Christians had just trusted each other it all a shame.

@HistoryTime 5 лет назад

12 associates of Dattus of Bari..

@user_____M 5 лет назад

Basil II Bulgarotongul iz mai waifu.

@historyrhymes1701 5 лет назад

Oh well, there is a good chance that he was a homosexual. Considering the fact that he never married and the way he took the death of one of his genearals at the battle of Trianna pass 986 AD. So yes he can be a waifu ...I am not trying to be rude or anything, Being homosexual is not a bad thing . Bassil was still a great millitary genous

@user_____M 5 лет назад

@@historyrhymes1701 I'd like to see you make that statement to my waifu's face. :))

@historyrhymes1701 5 лет назад

Oh hell no ,he would blind me. And then fuck me

@dukagjini6610 Год назад

Fake history

@Crick1952 5 лет назад

Medieval Europe: *"This is getting out of hand. Now there's two of them!"*

@Conorp77 3 года назад

King of France : We should not have made this bargain!

@ethanbrown9112 3 года назад

I thought I clicked on a rio da yung og music video and was incredibly puzzled at this being the top comment for a moment

@bobcharlie2337 5 лет назад

So interesting, the history of Italy. A very helpful video. Thank you.

@HistoryTime 5 лет назад

Cheers Bob. Much more on the way. It's such a complicated but fascinating time period.

@JoeSmith-sl9bq 5 лет назад

Lombards: Exist Saxons: Exist Greek Romans: exist Sicilian Arabs: exist Normans: I’m about to end this man’s whole career

@wictoriaolofsson2714 5 лет назад

Here is another Decent Norman// Greets from Sweden :D

@GardEngebretsen 5 лет назад

Normans: "It's free real estate"

@illerac84 4 года назад

All these men's

@lucianf6440 4 года назад

Im Italic Roman Sicilian and not sicilian arab or sicilian greek or what ever.

@kareemtheeb1478 4 года назад

@Griffith Taka 😂😂😂😂 Aghlabids were arabs. Asad bin furat is Arab. Fatimids were Arabs Just stop the lies about history. And there is nothing called amazighs there is only berbers.

@virvisquevir3320 4 года назад

There's an ancient Chinese saying that goes "Don't invite in the tiger to chase out the wolf". That's what Melus did. He invited in the Normans to chase out the Byzantines and ended up losing everything to the Normans. Go Normans! An ambitious and competent race.

@bryansmith1691 2 года назад

I'd probably say culture more than race.

@judsonwall8615 2 года назад

@@bryansmith1691 Or peoples. However you want to classify them, the normans are insane to learn about. The product of landed, well connected, sophisticated viking warriors. Vikings + germano romans = badasses, apparently.

@chris-qe4yc 5 лет назад

is funny that lombards that came from north Europe as invaders to south Italy saw eastern Romans (Greek speaking) as oppressors and foreigners in southern Italy that was full of Greek descent people since antiquity....Thank god that this doesn't happen today hahaha

@HistoryTime 5 лет назад

As soon as a people live somewhere for a hundred years or so they see it as their own homeland and the original inhabitants as foreign oppressors. Happened with the Anglo-Saxons and the original inhabitants of Britain. It happened with the Lombards and Eastern Romans and it happened numerous other times

@chris-qe4yc 5 лет назад

@@HistoryTime yes exactly is the same pattern we the history buffs see through out the ages and that pattern is often miss seen and miss interpreted by a variety of history usurpers :) :)

@hellenicfighter8796 5 лет назад

@Gott Mit Uns Not to mention these areas were originally Slavic and the Germans invaded from Scandinavia. Not to mention your people destroyed a whole Empire (Western half of the Roman Empire) and brought chaos to Western Europe until the Renaissance. Same thing with the Crusaders, the world's first colonialists.

@mmhthree 5 лет назад

@@hellenicfighter8796 I'd see Rome as the first colonial states.. invading England 2000 years ago, and tried to set up shop. Didn't work out and they left...

@mmhthree 5 лет назад

Probably there's even more, but the incidents may not be recorded in history. Most of what white people did is known... who knows what all went on in Africa or South America during this time.

@erikeriksson3615 5 лет назад

The Langobards shall had come originally from the Island of Langbardaholm today's Bornholm. A big Island between Sweden and Denmark. Today belonging to Denmark. So both Norman's and the Lombardo had commen history' with root's in Scandinavia. Thanks for a fantastic video.

@g-rexsaurus794 5 лет назад

No this is not true, or at least it's just another legend, Bornholm is often cited as the origin of the Burgundians too and nobody in the right mind would believe that such a small island could magically start so many tribal groupings. Only if you believe in magic and mythology as true.

@erikeriksson3615 5 лет назад

@@g-rexsaurus794 Yes, and is more realistic it is Scania which is very near Bornholm. This area is also giving name to Scandinavia as some historian's say. The Lombard's self mentioned Scandinavia or Scania as their original homelands in the book about the history of the Langobards. The island was never mentioned their but as a base to transport over people to northern Germany maybe. I was thinking about the legend....

@g-rexsaurus794 5 лет назад

@@erikeriksson3615 It's mythology man, do you believe the Franks come from Anatolia? That's what ealry medieval books say! Lombards were West Germanic, they ultimately formed within modern Germany and employed mostly West Germanic people, not Scandinavian.

@erikeriksson3615 5 лет назад

@@g-rexsaurus794 How do you now that? The Lombard historian Paul the Deacon wrote in the Historia Langobardorum that the Lombards descended from a small tribe called the Winnili, who dwelt in southern Scandinavian (Scadanan) before migrating to seek new lands. In the 1st century AD,

@g-rexsaurus794 5 лет назад

@@erikeriksson3615 Why do the words of a mid 8th century historian matter that much? Everything we know shows us that just about any medieval Germanic kingdom liked to imagine some sort of origin in Scandinavia desptie them being just the same as other West Germans linguistically and functionally.

@madsdahlc 5 лет назад

Hallo from Denmark again . Well Well Normans in Italy Robert Gisguard . I like it . Well the normans actully had another ally in the pope . The catholic and the Greek orthodox Church was already in proces of splitting in two different Churches (the split happended in 1054) . So the catholic church had huge interests in getting byzantines kicked out and getting southern Italy under catholic control . So the pope alllied himself with the normans...He granted huge land areas in southern Italy to the normans(tecnically these lands belonged to the byzantine Emperor . But the pope ignorered that fact ). And so with Papal backing the normans started the conquest and rebillions against byzantine rule . And the byzantines were kicked out. And the normans did care about Lombard Independence . They were there to carve a lands for themself (and later set their own kingdom) ... So the normans defeated and kicked out byzantines . And later William the conquerer invaded and conquered England in 1066. And with these two events the conquest of southern Italy and the conquest of England . The Golden age of the normans truly begins . The were now power force in middevil politics ....

@briansmith9439 5 лет назад

I thought the Pope allied with the Normans. That's why the town of Aversa, under Norman control, was called 'the eye of the Papacy' in Southern Italy. It was also the Pope who granted Roger Altavilla (d'Hauteville) the title Duke of Sicily, assuming he could take it from the Fatamids. Wrote about it in a book originally written for my family; it can be downloaded (no charge) at archive.org/details/2010IlRegnoPublic/page/n6 .

@madsdahlc 5 лет назад

Brian Smith quite true

@kaloarepo288 5 лет назад

@@briansmith9439 Originally the pope and the Normans were at war but when the Normans beat the papal armies in battle they actually captured the pope and then felt really guilty about itbecause he was their religious leader.later on they became his allies.Incidentally the pope was a German at this time(if I'm not mistaken)t ti

@dimitriosvlissides5781 5 лет назад

@@briansmith9439 π

@arx3516 3 года назад

In elementary school in Italy they taught us that the normans were called to protect the south from the saracens, and in return for their valiant efforts the normans were granted lands there.

@austinhornbeck5060 5 лет назад

Norman's vs. everyone XD

@HistoryTime 5 лет назад

Yep!

@theakkusor 4 года назад

It's kind of our thing

@lokkotez 4 года назад

And win

@thomashazlewood4658 5 лет назад

Norman! You have a family that loves you. Come home!

@micahistory 5 лет назад

the Normans were extremely opportunistic

@HistoryTime 5 лет назад

That they were!

@MaxwellAerialPhotography 5 лет назад

And the pope is catholic

@jozzieokes3422 3 года назад

@@MaxwellAerialPhotography u would be correct good sir

@NorceCodine 3 года назад

When after the conquest the Normans of England learned that Palermo alone pays more tax than the whole of England, many of them packed their family and headed for Sicily. One of them was the Bishop Odo, the brother of William famously depicted on the Bayeux Tapestry, regent of England while William was fighting in France. Odo made it to Palermo where he died, and is buried there in the Norman Chapel. William conquered England to use it as a cash cow to pay for his war in France, but it turned out to be a disappointment. Sicily was the goldmine, not England.

@livrowland171 2 года назад

I don't follow. Why was it an attraction to go to a place that paid a lot of tax? Do you mean because it suggests the area was prosperous?

@vve2059 2 года назад

@@livrowland171 these people were barbarians and lived off of loot r*pe and plunder.

@ekesandras1481 16 дней назад

@@livrowland171 if you are the one that cashes in the taxes, than the more the merrier.

@Fenniks- 5 лет назад

please do a full video on Basil II in the future you will be one of the first :)

@ProvidenceNL 5 лет назад

I second this so much.

@HistoryTime 5 лет назад

Absolutely in the works

@tiami3886 5 лет назад

basil II aka justinian the great

@ebreiss 5 лет назад

Each of these videos would make a great historical novel all by themselves.

@HistoryTime 5 лет назад

If only I had the time to write them! Hopefully someone else will..

@HondaAccordCoupe-vg4tw 5 лет назад

History Time there definitely needs to be a Netflix original on this at least

@indyrock8148 4 года назад

@@HondaAccordCoupe-vg4tw Jack Ludlow wrote a trilogy, quite good.

@robmitchel5166 5 лет назад

I love weekends!!! We get a Voices of the Past video, & we get History Time Channel video!!! These videos make my week worth while. I love getting notifications that Voices of the Past + History Time have posted new videos-on Fri & Sat! Thank u for all the great content (as usual, superb video).

@HistoryTime 5 лет назад

Rob- me and David (the voice of Votp) really appreciate this comment! What a lovely thing to read. We have so much more lined up for the coming years! Excited to have you on board for the journey.

@robmitchel5166 5 лет назад

@@HistoryTime I really do enjoy your all's videos, genuinely. I have told all my friends about the channels. I go back and watch old ones again also. I'm also Grateful for your reply to my comment, & I say thank you to you & David for all your hard work and enthusiasm you all put into your videos. I look forward to all the wonderful upcoming content!

@HistoryTime 5 лет назад

@@robmitchel5166 Thanks Rob that's great to know! We will endeavour to keep producing better and improved content ! Onwards and upwards

@LabyrinthOfEyes 5 лет назад

Really love how much you cover the Normans. I had never really been into them before I started watching your channel and now they are currently my biggest interest. Great videos man I've really learned a lot. Keep up the good work!

@HistoryTime 5 лет назад

Thanks! Similar for me with making these videos. My interest has spiralled out of control :D

@yarazooom 4 года назад

have you heard of 1066? the 'Norman conquest' they are the starting point of euro-history. traveling back to romans or preceding toward modern times, a fulcrum point.

@nuclearnadal9385 2 года назад

I couldn't agree more ! The combination of strong norse warriors clad in iron atop mighty steeds is a match made in heaven. Stories of 50 Norman knights fighting off upwards of a thousand muslims and winning almost give me a semi..

@randelldarky3920 5 лет назад

After watching European History, I don't see much wrong with what the Vikings committed.

@HistoryTime 5 лет назад

They were settlers, explorers and traders as much as they were raiders and soldiers. More so in fact.

@lucianf6440 4 года назад

there is no viking origin because there was never a viking people, viking simply means to go on the prey, so just pirates, and you would not say that I am descended from the pirates, ridiculous this viking fantasy propaganda by a bombarded series.

@13minutestomidnight 4 года назад

@Lucian F That's not really true, now is it? "Viking" may essentially translate to "pirate", but "Vikings" was how Scandinavian pirates with certain customs and traditions first represented themselves to other people (er, more like the survivors I suppose), and then subsequently it was how these pirates were characterised by the nations of Europe (or rather the scholars and politicians of those nations). When the "Viking Age" started, those pirates (as well as the traders and associated people who accompanied them to the regions they plundered) may not have had a common identity but by the end of centuries of raiding they did - despite their different countries of origin (pirates from different countries came together in common raiding parties). Much like the horseman of the Steppes, you had people from different tribes and ethnicities but with common customs and ways of living coming together to contribute in vast piratical activities across a region (driven by common factors). How these people were viewed by the nations they plundered ended up shaping their identity as they moved into different regions and even settled.

@judsonwall8615 2 года назад

The Vikings were pivotal (if not ruthless and barbaric murderers, thieves, and rapists) to European history. They essentially broke the papal penny bank and kickstarted the European economy, eventually leading to a European resurgence culminating in the Renaissance and the age of discovery. Before the Vikings came along, so much money was tied up aka completely wasted in monasteries and churches. The Vikings, in their own way, “liquidated” those wasted assets and reinjected it into the European economy. They moved people and money around like crazy. They fostered change in population, economy, infrastructure that would impact Europe to this day. The Vikings were on of humanity’s most important phenomenon.

@Dorya9 5 лет назад

Interesting stuff. I'm from Lombardy, I often wonder how much the population of Roman Italy changed with the Ostrogoths, the Lombards and the Normans.

@HistoryTime 5 лет назад

Have you ever done a DNA test? Could be a fascinating glimpse into the past. From what I gather much of the actual population of Italy has remained largely unchanged since ancient times, with the aristocracy and upper classes being the ones who changed over time, but much of the peasantry remaining largely the same. Would love to learn more about this.

@dimitriosvlissides5781 5 лет назад

@@HistoryTime the DNA of the southern italy has shown mostly greek DNA as they were there foe many centuries and large numbers due to migration They still speak in some areas Greek They refer to the greek cultural infuence in all aspects In my travels there that are very often i did not find anyone speaking norman ,not even in Hastings or anywhere in the uk History is not written by battles you have mentioned Which i agre you have searched,but by what is left as culture art civilization way of life values the society share etc And what i have found as the most pervasive is the concept of the MAGNIA GRECIA Even the Real in Palermo is made by the greek,"byzantines" Try in you searches to incorporate greek resources of that time there are many originals Not modern revision ists of history by copy and past I appreciate your efforts but try to be objective Read Thucidides peloponossian wars father of objective history as much as it was humanly possible

@Dorya9 5 лет назад

@@dimitriosvlissides5781 Lombardy is in northern Italy so I'm not really sure where this is coming from. I would imagine a lot of people moved around during the Roman empire and the successor state. I've never met anyone in Italy that speaks Greek though, I've traveled Italy quite thoroughly but that's cool I suppose. It wouldn't surprise me cause Greek was the lingua franca at some point. Not everyone that spoke Greek was Greek, just like not everyone that speaks English is from England.

@neutronalchemist3241 4 года назад

Very little ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-0arwcD0Itg4.html

@esthershelton6672 4 года назад

@@HistoryTimemy grandmother was a Tancredi born in potenza southern Italy my father was a red headed iam blonde blue eyed my husband family from southern Italy my son looks like a viking .everyone asks him if he is viking decent.

@slavdefendov1499 5 лет назад

Normans were a tough peoples. Respect to them from the mighty little Serbia! Love to Byzantine Empire our brothers!

@HistoryTime 5 лет назад

Respect to mighty little Serbia from the English Danelaw

@ocendo1 3 года назад

Serbian were vassals to Ottoman turks during siege of Constantinople or Carigrad in 1453.Serbianci miners were digging trenches under the walls of city . Unfortunately before that in 1204 ,Venetians forced Crusaders of fourth Crusade to rob and destroy first Croatian town of Zadar and then Constantinople in exchange for sea voyage to Holy land. That is the fact.Rest is history.

@Armorius2199 5 лет назад

You should do more videos on the Eastern Roman History!

@HistoryTime 5 лет назад

Many, many more in the works. Most of the guys I name drop in my videos will have their own videos eventually. Just takes a lot of time to research and make the videos.

@Armorius2199 5 лет назад

@@HistoryTime Thank God!

@illerac84 4 года назад

All this history of the Roman Empire that we just forget about, very impressive.

@ML69898 5 лет назад

These videos are beyond amazing!

@HistoryTime 5 лет назад

Thanks so much!

@alexrossouw7702 5 лет назад

Pandulf! This name makes me happy

@noahkidd3359 5 лет назад

Love these videos! An excellent way to learn about overlooked periods of history.

@HistoryTime 5 лет назад

Thanks Noah appreciate the comment! Much more on the way

@kamalindsey Год назад

The Norman brothers of the Normans in England.

@KowboyUSA 5 лет назад

The attention to detail in these videos is superb.

@HistoryTime 5 лет назад

Thanks man appreciate it!

@pepperspray7386 3 года назад

The "Byzantines" called themselves "Roman," why don't you?

@livrowland171 2 года назад

Why should he? He's not a Byzantine, and 'Byzantine' is used by most historians.

@Pyrrhus399 5 лет назад

I am very much an unashamed norman fanboy. Especially these dynamic Norman adventurers in southern Italy (though often freebooting mercenaries) the dehauteville brothers are among my favorite historical figures, I mean how can you beat william iron arm, Robert guiscard and Roger of Sicily. Hopefully you guys get to the sicilian conquest with amazing battles like cerami where 4 or 500 normans (with only 136 knights) faced off with as many as 15000 (though the number is probably closer to 5 or 6000). Awesome stuff.

@billpacitto 4 года назад

There is an outstanding series of historical fiction books on the Dehautville clan written by Jack Ludlow. And as enjoyable as they are in written form....the audiobooks of the story performed by Jonathan Keeble were even more entertaining. Such a great period of time in that area that does not get the exposure as others. The Guiscar and his son Boeman (sp) were great leaders of men and conquest.