The Battle of Hastings 1066 - The Normans - BBC Two 

Who’s watching this for quarantine homework?

"This bastard descendant of Viking pirates".

i copied this from my homework if anyone need help with theirs :) : Harold’s army set up by forming a shield wall on the top of Senlac Hill. Harold told them not to move off the hill or they would give away their advantage. Harold placed his housecarls (professional soldiers) in the middle of the wall and his fyrdsmen (farmers who were part time soldiers) at the ends of the wall. He had about 7000 men. William set his army up differently. He split them into 3 groups. Then, in each group, he put the archers at the front, the infantry (foot soldiers) in the middle and his cavalry (soldiers on horseback) at the rear. He had about 7000 men and 3000 horses. At 9am, the Battle started. William’s archers fired their arrows and his infantry tried to advance. They were met with spears, axes, javelins and stones from Harold’s men. The Normans couldn’t go forward and had to retreat. They kept repeating their attack, but it didn’t work. At about 11am, some of William’s army became cut off from the rest of the Normans. They began to panic and run away. The word went round the Norman army that William was dead and more soldiers began to panic and stop fighting. Some of the fyrdsmen were so excited by this that they ran off the hill to chase the Normans. William could see that he was about to lose control. He ripped off his helmet and charged up and down the Norman lines shouting to his army that he was alive and they should get back in their positions. He managed to save the Norman army from chaos. He got the army to retreat a little way whilst they reorganised themselves and calmed down. However, William had noticed how some of the fyrdsmen had come off the hill. So in the afternoon, he began his retreating trick. He got his soldiers to attack and then pretend to run away. Sure enough, a few more fyrdsmen were tricked off the hill. Harold’s army was beginning to shrink. At about 7pm, William tried another tactic. He got his archers to fire arrows above the Saxons rather than at them. In confusion, the Saxons began to fall back, allowing the Normans to gradually move up the hill. Soon, both armies were on top of the hill and Harold’s height advantage had disappeared. At this point, Harold was wounded. Some accounts claim he had an arrow in his eye. Harold’s housecarls created a protective circle around him; unfortunately, this made it clear to the Normans where Harold was! Several Norman knights charged up to Harold and hacked him down with their swords. When the Saxons saw their leader die, they turned and fled. William had won the Battle of Hastings and had himself crowned King of England in Westminster Abbey on Christmas Day 1066. your welcome :)

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Harold was a great king; he had defeated the Viking at Standford Bridge. He was unlucky at Hastings with that blasted arrow. Before he was hit (And later probably struck down by the sword of a mounted knight) the battle could have gone any way. indeed it was one of the longest and most hard fought battles of its day. If Hardold had won (A very real possibility) he would be a national hero now and there would be statues to him all over the land. I think however that he was a hero (Continued)

Brilliant informative programme. This bloke is like a very scary teacher that you'd sit up and listen to.

Watching this to prepare for my assessment tomorrow, wish me luck

To many people being serious about this video like sis... we’re all here because of our homework

when u realise this is 10 years old: *old person noises*

I'm stoked for Age of Empires 4 and one of their campaigns is the Norman Campaign so here I am.

I visited Battle while in the UK a few years ago. The park does a nice job presenting the history of the site.

Thanks, it helped for my homework. :)

Thank you !This really helped my homework .

1066 - a time when men were of great heart and courage - and the only way to engage an enemy was close up with brawn and every nasty sharp weapon known to man - and that was IF you first survived the hellstorm of arrows rained down by longbows wielded by incredibly strong men. You'd look across a giant field at seething mass of men and horses, and knew you would soon run headlong into them. It's unimaginable how brutal that must have been!

Truly brilliant documentary. Thumbs up.

I found this researching my family tree. A descendant of Eustace DeBoulogne II, who fought alongside William as portrayed in the Tapestry of Bayeux. A middle aged man living in Kansas, finding this thread to his existence is very interesting, however I learn a lot of life's undesirable knowledge along the way. Many ancestors from even more recent centuries owned slaves here in America. And replaying these battles through the narrator to understand that many soldiers, as well as men of nobility and note, even kings...arrived to their deaths, not only this day but on the regular, gives me an understanding that the fear of death is a weight on a chain for men of character. I have much more research to do and am pleased to have the cause to do it, as well as having the means in this age to find it.

This chart explains the line from William the Conqueror to the current royal family: British Royal Family Tree

Very well done!

Long live the anglo-saxon spirit .... long live the truly king harold..... you tried ,you failed but like the explorer scott it is you we really remember ,it is you we keep in our hearts.....

Bro that music is boppin

Video starts at 0:00. Thank me later.

and at the end the host start walking away with so much confidence, as if he has something to do in the field,, so much theater those folks LOL

Tremendous history lesson. Thanks.

Too fascinating. Love it.

i watched this in flippin history class

I love those housecarls, strong man, all picked for their size and stamina. most went died fighting at Hastings refusing to flee when Harold was killed. Harold I believe has been treated unfairly by history, he was a great man and a good king. He defeated the Vikings at Stamford Bridge, no easy feat. Then he hold his own at Hasting until he was struck down. He was unlikely in the battle, had that arrow not struck rendering him defencless for the blow from the sword of a Norman knight he may well have won the battle.Had he done so he would share a place in English hearts along Drake, Relaigh, Nelson and Afred. He run his counrtry fairly and was loved by his people, in short Harold had the makings of becoming a great man. The knight who struck the mortal blow it is believed was thrown out of the army and sent home in digrace by William for killing such a prominant figure instead of taking him prisoner.

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Thank you 😊 very informative

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I love those housecarls, strong man, all picked for their size and stamina. most went died fighting at Hastings refusing to flee when Harold was killed. Harold I believe has been treated unfairly by history, he was a great man and a good king. He defeated the Vikings at Stamford Bridge, no easy feat. Then he hold his own at Hasting until he was struck down. He was unlikely in the battle, had that arrow not struck rendering him defencless for the blow from the sword of a Norman knight he may well have won the battle.Had he done so he would share a place in English hearts along Drake, Relaigh, Nelson and Afred. He run his counrtry fairly and was loved by his people, in short Harold had the makings of becoming a great man. The knight who struck the mortal blow it is believed was thrown out of the army and sent home in digrace by William for killing such a prominant figure instead of taking him prisoner.

Very good. Short and sweet

Thanks for helping my history homework 👌📚

"The Battle of Hastings 1066 - The Normans - BBC Two" is a great way to watch and learn more about William the Conqueror, it really explains the big battle of Hastings in which he was in. The video was made by BBC and features Professor Robert Bartlet who is educated on history. BBC is known worldwide and has a lot of followers which makes it a reliable source. I recommend this video to anyone who wants to learn more about William the Conqueror.

Idk if it's just me but that arrow looks more like it's gotten stuck in his helmet and the man is fine...... *plot twist*

thanks for the help on my history revision

This is really interesting, good video!

BATTLE OF HASTINGS: AFTERMATH After his victory at the Battle of Hastings, William marched on London and received the city’s submission. On Christmas Day of 1066, he was crowned the first Norman king of England, in Westminster Abbey, and the Anglo-Saxon phase of English history came to an end. French became the language of the king’s court and gradually blended with the Anglo-Saxon tongue to give birth to modern English. (Illiterate like most nobles of his time, William spoke no English when he ascended the throne and failed to master it despite his efforts. Thanks to the Norman invasion, French was spoken in England’s courts for centuries and completely transformed the English language, infusing it with new words.) William I proved an effective king of England, and the “Domesday Book,” a great census of the lands and people of England, was among his notable achievements.

thanks for helping my homework

Very power full

HAHA his face on the opicture on the video... Hes like Duuhh!

At 2:21 the spear is really blunt

Great job Robert Bartlett; straight-talking, clear and engrossing. None of that pointless poetic riffage of Simon Schama that he does seemingly his own pretentious amusement.

Continued). He was a warrior king and a man who was not afraid to stand with his men and swing sword and battle-axe alongside them on the battlefield.

Great video. I wish it was HD

anyone here because they're doing history homework and have a test?

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They should make a movie about this

Norman called in an air strike from his kill streak

OOO smart thanks for dat :)

It was an incredible battle, in which the Normans found a way to defeat the shield wall thanks to the news that William was dead. Norman attack and retreat strategy defined the battle.

The battle of Hastings was fought on October 14, 1066. He faced the Franco-Norman army of Duke William II of Normandy with the Anglo-Saxon army of King Harold II. It was the beginning of the Norman conquest of England. It took place about seven miles northwest of Hastings, near the present town of Battle in the county of East Sussex, and its result was a decisive victory for the Normans. The origin of the confrontation was that, to the death without children of the king of England Eduard the Confessor in January of 1066, a struggle between several claimants to the throne began. Haroldo was crowned the day after Eduardo's death, but in the following months he had to face the invasions of the island by Guillermo, his own brother Tostig and the Norwegian king Harald Hardrada. These last two allied and landed in the north of England at the head of a Viking host, with which they defeated an English army, recruited hastily, at the Battle of Fulford on September 20, 1066, although both were defeated five days later by King Harold at the Battle of Stamford Bridge. The combat deaths of Hardrada and Tostig left the English king and Duke William as the only contenders for the crown. While the soldiers of Haroldo recovered of the battle, the Duke of Normandy disembarked the 28 of September of 1066 in Pevensey, to the south of England, and established a beach head from which to launch its conquest of the kingdom. Harold was forced to march fast south and had to recruit troops along the way.

Harold, our last English king.

Do you have the full episode. My dad is in it, Alan The Axe.

thanks

This really helped with homework thank you very much!

No one can deny that William was extremely lucky in 1066. However, the end of Anglo-Saxon England can be blamed on two factors: 1. The Viking invasion to the north a few weeks earlier seriously depleted Harolds army and many of his Housecarls were lost in the Saxon victory in the battle of Stamford Bridge. Also, his troops were exhausted from two long marches the nearly the length of England.

That's probably why they were called vassals. You know Burgundy fought the French crown as well. The 100 years war was a civil war against a bunch of French speaking lords on both sides of the channel.

Luv history thank u

I LOVED THIS VIDEO FOR MY ASSIGNMENT

who here coz of Corona

thx for the help with history revision homework!!:)

thanks it helped me with my homework

I’m literally just here because our teacher have it to us to watch on SMH for our History Homework 😂

lets all be fair we are all here just bc of homework

Came here because someone in my family traced our family history to Robert Vernon. He was on of the descendants of Richard de Vernon who was one of William the Conqueror's soldiers. Wanted to learn more about the battle.

Don’t act like you’re not watching this because of online school XD

homework -

Vive la France !!

@JamieA44 I also read somewhere that their were french people living in Britain even before the conquest...

I have studied this battle since I was a child. I saw a National geographic article, and was fascinated. It led me out of the trailer park of east Texas to a new world.

thats home work done

Nice video

so am i just done it and been working on it on the last 2 weeks

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this is how my family got it's crest!

not me watching this bc its my history homework-

The exact location of the battle is in fact not known, and the arrow was added to the tapestry much later - an original print shows no arrow but a longer segmented line that isn't even going into his eye but looks more like Harold himself is wielding a spear or something similar. The Time Team special on this is pretty good, but their one on the Battle of Bosworth is excellent - they find indisputably the actual site of the battle field which is not where we thought.

C'est super.

thx helps with history homework

this just makes me feel sorry for Anglo-saxons

This version is ultra-simplified

Same lol m doing it for my home work

both sides of my family were noted in this war, Lovett and Newburn. (both did awesome) and the lovetts were also templars, I always knew I had german history in my family, but to have norman ancestry on both sides that clashed in a war like this. Thats just awesome to know that both sides came out and im here where i am today! Thanks norse and vikings :D

I'm interested in your statement "They adopted the language of the land they settled (like every migration does)." Example? Can you show me where in the Roman empire they adopted the language of the land they conquered?or which parts of india the british spoke hindi or urdu or west africa where the french spoke the native tongue....... Also, in terms of your geneology theory, presumably the American war of independence was won by the british because the americans geneology was anglo saxon?

Dá para jogar bola neste campo de batalha, a grama é ótima.

This is a part out of the BBC series "The normans" - very nicely made.

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My stupid brother stabbed me in the back!

i had to watch this for HASS but its actually really intresting

helped a lot for test

Harold died from an arrow in da eye

Had the Witenagemot been cunning, they could have averted Duke William's invasion by the simple stratagem of electing Edward the Confessor's surviving maternal first cousin, Count Eudon of Brittany. Eudon was William's main ally, and had made no claim on England's throne, but he would have leapt at the offer. William would have been 5000 troops short and lacking two of his best generals, Eudon's sons Alan Rufus and Brian. England would have been 5000 stronger, with knights and archers to spare, and an excellent knowledge of feints. Moreover, there were already Bretons in England such as Ralph the Staller, who wouldn't have supported William had Harold not ousted them. Eudon's fraternal nephew, Duke Conan II, was a descendant of Alfred the Great, but since he and Eudon were perpetual rivals, electing Conan would have entrenched Eudon's and William's alliance. It would however have been very interesting to see William, with or without Eudon, try to depose a Breton King of England, especially Conan, whose army was so powerful that it overran Anjou in a matter of weeks, something the Vikings and Normans had been vainly attempting for centuries.

thanks for not halping my himework.. i still dont know how has england change after that battle

A good programme

If it wasn't for the battle of Stamford Bridge I think the Saxons would of won this battle and history changed for the better

can someone help me with my history hw 😭😭

very nice

I watched this with my class nd it really helped with my homework...thanks

Would we have won if the the battle of Stamford Bridge didn't take place?A sad day for our nation