Richard II: From Boy King To Brutal Tyrant | Britain's Bloodiest Dynasty | Chronicle 

Little cost?

@@HelloThere-bj9rw little reward

@Raantas ah I see

These are all professional BBC or other production company documentaries uploaded to other channels. It's almost always Dan Jones, Suzannah Lipscomb, Tony Robinson, Mary Beard, Lucy Worsley, Dan Snow, etc. and the couple of groups that do live-in reenactments of the food, clothing, etc. They change the title and that's it. I've seen this documentary on maybe 3 or 4 different channels. What I mean to say is, the people who put in a lot of money to make this got their money's worth I'm sure and these channels are also reaping the benefits but without investing a penny lol

@@obcl8569 really

Same!!!!! I’m obsessed!

@@Leefonzell same :)

Don't worry we have a few in our pocket 😊

She would have been disappointed.

True. If a man doesn't earn a thing; he won't care for the thing.

True but it is not always the case, I mean Edward III was pretty young when he inherited the crown and ruled for over 50 years with no rebellions from any of his 5 adult sons and had the country always supporting him, but his success in ruling and being a father inevitably laid the foundation for what would become the War of Roses after he died.

there's problems with it, firstly, you usually have a guardian for the child monarch, which in turn can lead to the guardian using their position to rule with the child as the representative of authority. or you can have a child live like a king on theor own amd watch them grow up deciding what's right and wrong for themselves. but generally, the bloodline in a monarchy and the existence of a monarch is very important to the structure of feudal society.

Agree

Then they want you to bid on their artwork,or buy the book!

We will! stay tuned!

Bolingbrook would have disagreed. Sorry just couldn't help myself. Nice came in last in the ruling cultures of the world then, with few exceptions, and now. A wise ruler is a good ideal for aspiration and even scarcer a commodity. Good health and luck to you. Pat

I mean, France tried that and it sparked off a generation of endless all-encompassing total warfare so abysmally destructive that returning to the monarchy was considered a measured compromise.

Easy to say in retrospect

Some of the Kings in the past tried to do what you are referring to. Unfortunately and ultimately, it was the greedy nobleman that would create factions and lead to destructive warfare across the countryside. Without land there was no power.

Gee, seems real familiar. If the Oligarchs who control the 🇺🇸 would pay a living wage.......hahahaha.

No, it depends on who you consider legitimate or not :P usurpers/by conquest were not always considered legitimate

Richard III was the last Plantagent King of England but once Henry IV usurped the crown from Richard II, then they were know as Lancasterian rulers until Yorkist rulers but both the Lancasteriam and Yorkist Kings were still Kings apart of the Plantagent dynasty

*Plantagenet. So hard to spell :)

They may be great actors (I'm not denying it) but why on earth have them speak French when they sound like they're from Eastern Europe? It makes hearing their French quite laughable, not to say utterly ridiculous... (and I am a native French speaker so I know what I'm talking about).

You're in the right place!

Upon watching this whole series and also watching another series of the Wars of the Roses with Dan Jones, it seems they reuse a lot of the same actors…nothing wrong with that just something I noticed lol

I noticed the same actress had played the part of two queens.

I feel bad for the peasants. The nobles back then were sociopaths.

@@carmelmulroy6459 Indeed. They were hell-bent on preserving the order of things - serfdom, restricting wages, etc - in a post Black Death world.

Full series incoming! Next episode in out on Wednesday

The French Revolution was a successful peasant revolt and we can see the result. All the descendents of the lords are everywhere but in France

Great queston

Most of the line came from France…

The Hundred Years War was a war between two French Royal families fighting over lands in France.

Correct but they each had Royal blood and I think the narrator said it that way though bc further in history when Henry Tudor won the throne and ended the Plantagenet Dynasty, it was a huge change in the game, NO ONE expected him to win it bc it was a Huge Longshot and his only claim to the throne was through his mother, who was descended through a bastard line of succession from John of Gaunt, so I think he was more referring to Henry Tudor when he made the comment of a drop of Royal blood. However he was wrong when he said that the crown of England passed down legitimately through 8 generations in the Plantagent Dynasty and that Henry Bolingbroke's coronation changed all that. Bc although the crown stayed in the Plantagent Dynasty, IF it passed Legitimately then the 3rd Plantagent King of England would have been King Arthur, the legitimate son of Richard I's younger brother Prince Geoffrey, who was older then their youngest brother, Prince John who became, King John I after Richard I. However after Richard I died Prince John seized the crown and had himself declared King immediately and then captured his nephew, prince Arthur, and most likely had him killed, to get rid of any competition for the crown. And the main difference with this usurpation was King John I managed to steal the crown and get himself crowned King before Prince Arthur could be declared and crowned King, where as when it happened to Richard II, it happened after he was declared and anointed the King and ruled the country for a few years. So overall the same thing basically happened before but just under different circumstances.

Unfortunately, Richard II is an ancestor half uncle of mine. His mother Joan of Kent is my ancestor great-grandmother.

Hey they gotta get their 15 minutes in. What if the history or discovery channel start looking for new hosts/narrator's? Lol. I can see what they're doing.

@@jgobroho and probably for filler. But I remember the old docs doing that with the hosts

He looks very much like Brandon Flowers from the rock band The Killers.

Is that a UK thing? I'm from the states I only know a small hand full of British personalities Ricky Gervais being one of them.

It was controversial even back then.

@@Angie2343 Indeed! That is why it seems a real miss here. British author Hilda Lewis told the story beautifully in one of her YA books, The Gentle Falcon.

@@TGO888 Agreed

I think an older version of french, Old French probably

Important to keep in mind but there is a lot of archeological evidence for some things.

@@specialnewb9821 Archeological evidence can be a proof of the existing of something but not a whole history...

History is always written by the victorious.

Not sure how far it goes back but there are royal records from at least 1000yrs ago (a lot written on scrolls and in the earliest form of the english language) held in The National Archives. True many written historical records were written after the fact, but these were all written at the current time

@@SteveVA100 only partially true & that would depend on the subject matter. There is a great deal of written history that has nothing to do with any "victor" that was written at the current time. There are written accounts of the same events by more than one person of the time (eg:the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius)

And the current one is German, BTW.

Unfortunately it's naive bullshit. Across centuries many upon many powerful and rich men did awful things to many people but never suffered any consequences, and died peacefully of old age.

@@ktom5262 Agreed, thus my focus.

they spoke old french

I’m not sure of the details, but I thought he said it was the Wars of the Roses he bases GoT on.

@@raewren he took inspiration from many things. the seven Kingdoms of Westeros is based on the 7 kingdoms in the tale of King Arthur. The Iron Isles are based on the Vikings. Westeros looks like Britain. The North is based on Northern England. The ice wall is based on Hadrian's wall.

The Plantagenets came from France. Early English kings spoke French primarily, while the common folk spoke English.

Yeah most of the kings and queens of England and now the Uk aren’t actually English. The queen now is German decent

The Queen is of German *and* Scottish decent. She has more British blood than any monarch for 300 years. The last monarch with any British blood would have been Queen Anne.

Jesus, dumbest comment ever

I’m just here to remind everyone that the Democrats raised bail funds for the rioters that burned down cities, looted middle class businesses (as well as corporations like target), killed innocent people, physically attacked anyone who disagreed with them, caused BILLIONS in damage and forever altered the lives of millions of people. For. A. Whole. Fuckin. Year. Was what happened Jan 6 wrong? For sure. But I’m here to remind people that when the mob attacks the little guy, the state couldn’t give two shits and will find raise bail money for the mob. But god forbid you or anyone SCARE (let’s be real. Very little of value was lost during that riot) anyone in power and well connected because the state will dedicate unlimited funds/fbi resources to tracking down every single person who entered common areas (and s few offices) of those in power. While leaving the common folk who had their lively hood destroyed by the previous years rioters hanging out to dry to fight their insurance companies who deny their claims because they classify the riots as an act of god.

@@jon07crz thank you. At least I see one person on RU-vid with common sense and basic decency still and not fucking woke.

@@jon07crz From 2016 to 2020 the world watched as murca revealed for all to see what a shithole the country had become. Greatest country in the world ?.. lol, not even the greatest country in the USA.

@@jon07crz "the democrats" ? Source?

Trump surrendered Afghanistan without even telling our allies. What a POS!

I thought i might find one comment thread without the name Trump in it but I am wrong once again.

@@nickhancock4337 if the sob would go the fukk away no one would talk about him.

@@nickhancock4337 this person has said the same thing all the way through. Bizarre.