Hedingham Castle and the History of Essex

[@TheHistoryGuyChannel]

Many viewers have mentioned an error were I say that Henry II was "Beatrice's son." In fact, he was the son of Empress Matilda. He was, however, also the adopted son of King Stephen, who recognized Henry as his heir following the 1153 treaty of Wallingford. I apologize for the error and hope to do an episode sometime that more thoroughly covers the time of The Anarchy.

[@gazzaboo8461]

Phew, that was close. I could hear the rattling of pitchforks in the distance 😉

[@wayneblanchard97]

I believe you can add captioning text to the video to indicate the correction.

[@geoffbarry9540]

You might do this by looking at Edith Pargeter (Ellis Peters), who wrote the "Cadfael" series of novels which uses the period of conflict between Matilda and Stephen as the backdrop for her stories. A comparison between her romantic fiction and what passes for historical reality might be interesting...

[@ericpye7449]

Truly great to be from England - a country with all this fascinating history.

[@paulk3681]

The village of Castle Hedingham with its lovely cottages, pub and church are also very noteworthy.

[@jerryfox1386]

It's refreshing, once in awhile, to see a place of history, rather than hear about an event. Thank you!

[@lakrids-pibe]

Today were going to learn about the historical times when people could travel to other countries.

[@michaelkclark6981]

Lakrids Pibe Nice 👍🏾

[@12ealDealOfficial]

Might not be much longer before we do again. Last I checked, NS hasn't had a new case in about a month. US needs to crack down on hospitals reporting false numbers for increased funding.

[@spider0804]

@Seine O'More Because people have differing opinions from eachother. In these times people might not realize that, living their social lives in a facebook echo chamber.

[@Doobie3010]

Lakrids Pibe Don’t worry,we will all be able to travel,we just might not return.

[@Alsatiagent]

@@12ealDealOfficial I believe there is a beach in Florida upon which you are free to frolic.

[@tyrsjmy86]

I'm fairly local there, it's truly a gorgeous place and I'm so glad to hear more about it!

[@curiousworld7912]

I love Hedingham Castle - those old Norman buildings were amazing. The early post-Roman history of Britain is fascinating, too. Thanks!

[@gaza2322]

Your obvious enthusiasm for history is very infectious!

[@unknowntexan4570]

Thank you so much for giving me something to watch without agendas.

[@tackyman2011]

It's getting tougher all the time.

[@RhettyforHistory]

Nice to see some of your past travels overseas!

[@alicewhitelhpw7517]

The History Guy is AWESOME!!❤😀👍

[@QuestionEverythingButWHY]

"Better to trust the man who is frequently in error than the one who is never in doubt." --Eric Sevareid

[@randyrick8019]

I'll add this to my list of quotes worth remembering ! be well

[@FrancesShear]

Don't you mean the man who admits his errors and then tries to correct them before it is too late?

[@gus473]

@Timothy McCaskey Read his book, "Canoeing with the Cree," for a good adventure! 👍

[@joeyjamison5772]

Sounds like a Trump campaign slogan!

[@Adcw_2804]

@@joeyjamison5772 .... "and NEVER trust a man who is both". Sounds more like a Biden campaign slogan.

[@jimmyeatshoe]

I'm from Chelmsford in Essex, and have learned more here about my beautiful shire than anywhere else. Thank you history guy!

[@BuzzinVideography]

Hey, “History Guy” I just want to thank you again for always providing real and true pieces of world history. You help me literally every day when I see your video(s). I have a severe neurological disorder that causes memory loss beyond comprehension. I need to learn daily, and you provide! Thank you!

[@JohnPaul-ii]

This is what you get when you visit a country which has more history than most people can deal with. Thanks for sharing your trip and a history that should be remembered.

[@workingguy-OU812]

I enjoyed this more than I thought I would. I've watched, or attempted to watch, plenty of British history, but usually can't finish it. History Guy just knocks it out of the ballpark, kept the story rolling, and got to the end of at least a family-line connected to the Keep. Very well done, sir.

[@MrDmitriRavenoff]

Mr. & Mrs. History guy look like such a cute and happy couple. :)

[@gamiezion]

i still can't believe they got into the keep for the low, low price of 8,50.

[@ASTheOneAndOnly]

I am literally sitting in Essex with Hadleigh Castle outside my rear window and with the site of the Battle of Benfleet/Beamfleut down the road. Feel free to come visit us next time 😁

[@scottf5452]

You must live round the corner to me :)

[@ASTheOneAndOnly]

@@scottf5452 Mate, where you live? I was in Castle Road but am now in High Road, Benfleet.

[@upfactoryracing4148]

Beautiful Keep. It is nice to see a monument of history preserved and still functioning and helps connect the past to the present.

[@prodiver7]

Great stuff! We Brits never say 'Essex County' though; it's the County of Essex, or just Essex. (I live in Essex.)

[@rodchallis8031]

Ontario Canada, and in particular South Western Ontario has European based place names. I can visit London, Paris, Copenhagen, Sparta, Brussels, Dublin and Tobermory well within a day's driving. We have a county called Essex, but we all say "Essex County" here. Life's fast, haven't got time for "the" and "of". ;)

[@TSemasFl]

Have you found any Saxon gold?

[@scottf5452]

@@rodchallis8031 I live in Essex UK and we just say Essex. No need for the rest of it

[@fastbike175]

Thank you for another great video.

[@BrentBestwick]

Me: Boy, I sure wish I had something interesting to watch on KZbin this morning. THG Logo: OH YEAH!!!!!

[@stashi0176]

Love the genuine smiles on both of you

[@rickhobson3211]

History Guy: "Tanks." Me: "You're welcome!"

[@henrykissinger3151]

Hey, on the topic of obscure British history, another widely forgotten story is of the Danish Merchant Marine sailors sailing for the British Merchant Marine during the war and participating in the landings themselves. Their boats where favoured because of their shallow draft. They went into action on the first wave, the aprox 800 men secured the recognition for Denmark as an Allied nation. My great-uncle was the last known surviving member of the aprox 6300 Danish sailors sailing for the British during the war. 1072 would perish between the 9th of April 1940 through 16th of May 1945, fighting for king and country. He died of natural causes among his family on the night of the 7th of July. Do like if you, like me would like to se a video done on the subject!

[@reggierico]

A walk down memory lane. I married a girl from Essex, specifically the village of Bocking, in the township of Braintree. Hedingham Castle was the first castle I ever visited and this post brought back some great memories of the beauty of East Anglia and the great countryside and its history. Hope you made a visit to Cambridge and were able to tour the great aviation museum at Duxford as well. Cheers!

[@hankpoth9681]

At 1:17 you show a portion of a wonderful painting which I have hanging on the wall above my bed. "The Haywain" by John Constable.

[@Your.Uncle.AngMoh]

I heard the name "de Vere" and instantly thought of Bedrich Polouvicki, who changed his name to Richard de Vere, in the classic British TV series 'To The Manor Born'.

[@stevengrotte2987]

You beat me to it by 6 hours & your information was infinitely more complete that mine was. I see that I am not the only fan of old British comedies. An American

[@billmmckelvie5188]

Good comment - Best of British Comedy!

[@mhd5826]

Great to see some of our local history being remembered! We live quite nearby outside Colchester, Britain's Oldes Recorded Town (acccording to the sign on the way in!)

[@GregSherlock]

I lived and worked in South Essex for about 10 years and the history was amazing. I was fortunate enough to visit and see wonderful archaeology and buildings, from bronze age encampments to the wreckage of a Hawker Hurricane from the Battle of Britain, and everything in between!

[@drandallesq]

Fascinating! I was born in Colchester, the oldest recorded town in England, just a few miles from Hedingham. The Norman Castle there is built on the foundations of the Temple of Claudius, a Roman wall still runs round the town, and there's a thin claim that it was the site of Arthur's Camelot, as the Roman name for the town was Camulodumum. When the Britons were pushed out by the Saxons to Cornwall and Wales, they may have taken the stories with them, and reset them around Tintagel, but of course anything could have happened during the Dark Ages. Keep up the good work!

[@nearly-blindbrian8372]

I had the chance to visit there in 2006 and there was a re-enactment being put on for local school children, it was quite nice. The grounds are great to stroll around as well.

[@scotthoward762]

Dear Mr. History Guy, Please do a segment on the origins of the Scythians. Love your history segments!!

[@Ammo08]

I loved Essex..my favorite place nearby was Ely Cathedral in neighboring Cambridgeshire....We went to a dinner at Hedingham Castle hosted by our wing commander. Excellent episode....

[@ericnolastname3454]

We love the History Guy!!!

[@thejudgmentalcat]

I prefer the jigsaw puzzle intro. The blasted wall audio startled me and my cat LOL.

[@wrightflyer7855]

The History Guy, thanks for another excellent presentation and for featuring one of my favorite paintings, The Hay Wain by John Constable.

[@billwebb8561]

Thank you, very informative and enlightening for me, as I am currently researching my family in England and found some of the dates and events parallel those of some of my ancestors.

[@hoshichiroiseji5750]

History Guy: My husband and I enjoy you on KZbin. Thank you for making history so enjoyable. You have a good way of making your presentations meaningful. It is amazing how those not-so-famous moments in history have affected us. I hope you will consider an episode, or more, on my father’s World War II military unit, the 442ndregimental combat team. You probably already know that our American army was racially segregated during World War II. I am a Japanese-American, as was my father. I am the granddaughter of immigrants from Japan. All four of them came at the beginning of the twentieth century. You probably also know that Japanese-Americans were incarcerated during World War II. Many Japanese-Americans either volunteered, or were drafted, into our American army. My father remembers being bussed from his incarceration at Gila River, Arizona, to Camp Shelby, Mississippi. The three World War II Japanese-American military units were: 100thInfantry Battalion (100th) 442ndRegimental Combat Team (442nd) Military Intelligence Service (MIS) The army first formed the 100th, composed of Japanese Americans from Hawaii. This was an experiment, to see how reliable Japanese Americans could be. Our army liked the 100th, so went on to get more Japanese Americans. This time, the Japanese Americans were from the lower 48, forming the 442ndregimental combat team. The 100thand 442ndserved mostly in Europe. My father’s 442ndis the most highly decorated military unit for its size. Men who went into the MIS (I do not know how they were chosen), went through intensive language training. MIS was responsible for intercepting military communications of the Japanese Imperial Army/Navy in the Pacific theater. MIS intercepted enough information to pinpoint the airplane in which Admiral Yamamoto, head cheese of the Japanese Imperial Navy, would be flying. This brought him down. Today, MIS is credited with shortening World War II by about two years, because it helped to kill the brains of the Japanese Imperial Navy. All the above Japanese American units were awarded the Congressional Gold Medal in 2011. A few organizations that might kickstart any research you wish to do: Go for Broke National Education CenterGoForBroke.org Attn: Mitch Maki, CEO [e-mail] National Veterans Network www.NationalVeteransNetwork.com Attn: Christine Sato-Yamazaki, Executive Director [e-mail] Friends and Family of Nisei Veterans FFNV.org A White officer to the 442nd, Jerry Gustafson, attends the annual convention, every October, in Las Vegas. He could tell you really good stories. Like all World War II vets, Jerry was getting old when I last saw him in October, 2019. If you want to speak with him, you should do so ASAP. I would like to see you do episodes on Black American soldiers, as well as Native American soldiers. Most of us know about the Tuskegee Airmen. However, I learned just last year about the Buffalo Soldiers. These were Black American soldiers on the ground. They definitely were in Italy, but I am not sure of other locations. I am sure there were a lot of Native Americans worthy of attention. The Navajo Windtalkers, whose heroic accomplishments were made known from the Nicolas Cage 2002 movie, Windtalkers, represent one tribe of Native Americans. Ira Hayes, a Native American from the Pima tribe in Arizona, was one of the flag raisers on Iwo Jima. By the way, my husband is a subscriber to The History Guy. Thank you for your consideration. Ann Baba Newman Daughter of the late Robert Masao Baba, DDS 442ndRegimental Combat Team veteran

[@TheCelluloseKid]

Love the new openings, and as always appreciate learning from you.

[@taun856]

Another great episode and of course it's always a plus to be graced with Mrs The History Guy! An idea for an intro - a pirate ship flying a flag with your bow tie logo...

[@Kenniii3]

Another fascinating video. Love them all. Thank you History Guy!

[@meligoth]

So much for the stereotype of historians being dull. You broke that a long time ago, HG.

[@remielpollard787]

These old english names remind me of a joke my Belgian grandfather told me about northerners once. "Well, you can tell northerners are sexually frustrated and why they go after the sheep." "How, grandfather?" "It's in the place names." "How?" "Well, the people of the time were called Saxons. Essex is old English for East Saxons, Wessex for west Saxons, and Sussex for south Saxons" "Okay, and the north?" "Nosex" I'm not entirely sure on the accuracy of the etymology, but it was funny when I was 13.

[@evensgrey]

It's a nice bit, but there wasn't a kingdom by that name. The kingdoms that could plausible have had such a name are Mercia and Northumbria, which had those names instead. (There was also a Middlesex, but that's been gone as a distinct region thanks to the expansion of London following the removal of the old limitation to The Square Mile.) The other three names are real and the etymology is pretty much correct. (Naturally, the punchline is the part that's untrue. It's pretty standard in humor that the punchline needs to be funny, but the set up needs to be true.)

[@ldg2655]

I very much enjoyed this..

[@dougstitt1652]

Thank you both for all of your vids !

[@michaelkclark6981]

Nice Introduction 👍🏾

[@ELCADAROSA]

"... where you can get your Medieval on", he says, as Ms. History wears a Snoopy shirt! LOL! Another great production, THG!

[@RamonInNZ]

I love the Snoopy shirt.....

[@RogersRamblings]

Snoopy is a Beagle and beagles have been around since the 15th century in England. Thus Ms HG is wearing a mediaeval "T" shirt. :-)

[@James-id7ok]

Thanks for the great content! Awesome to see Ms. History Guy again too 🙂

[@craighoover1495]

I half expected to remember being there for as a child of 10 to 13 years old my family lived not far from this place. My father was in the Air Force. One of the priceless features of growing up in a military family is the opportunity for unique education you get by moving around a lot. I didn't remember being to this place but that does not mean I didn't go. I got pretty tired of going into every church or cathedral and antique store discoverable. Such as one that age would. The educational system was rife with field trips to these places too. The legacy of those years in items purchased from those stores is still with the family. Kind of grateful for that.

[@allaneriksen7171]

Thank you for another marvellous episode,. Hedingham's one of my favourite places (i live about an hour away) Sir John Hawkwood, a condottiero in 14th Century Italy, was born in Sible Hedingham and is buried in Florence Cathedral. A man who certainly deserves "to be remembered"!

[@mikeaddis9374]

I do like your new intro style, love them a lot to be honest. Do keep this up. You have a ability to make even the smallest slice of history very interesting. Thank you.

[@billmmckelvie5188]

Excellent article, the new title sequences are rather novel and add to the suspense of what will be the next dramatic opening! My compliments on the entire composition of the video and being able get through 900 years in 12 1/2 minutes. I had to watch it twice as it was cram-packed with info, great choice to use John Constable's painting of Dedham Vale that sits betwixt the counties of Essex and Suffolk.

[@morganb6717]

MACHICOOooh wait, wrong channel. i do enjoy your travelogues. thank you for sharing your experience and, as always, providing us with these snippets of history.

[@randyallen3052]

I don't know why, but when I saw you in a T shirt I expected it to have a bow tie printed on it. I've got a spare if you need one.

[@ruokzig8086]

Sold them one at a time after each show

[@rksnj6797]

Great video!!! Thoroughly enjoyed it!

[@keithschuebel1653]

Hello,my name is Theresa and I want to say thanks for telling me about my De Vere family. I am a De Vere on my dad's side by way of my granny. John De Vere's only child is a great granny of mine

[@VarangianGuard13]

An excellent video as always, and such a lovely couple.. Tanks and Waterloo mentioned in the same video. Now that's living.

[@nathangreer8219]

Were you also able to visit the Castle Aaaaaarrgh?

[@tonyk1584]

Thank goodness after all these years they were able to keep the keep in the family

[@TheHylianBatman]

I nearly heard "I have a degree in history and I love history..." at the beginning. Castles are such interesting structures. Built to last, in essence. Very neat to see. I'd love more architectural stuff from you, that's what presses my buttons. Thanks! Very informative.

[@marcuswardle3180]

My Godmother, my mother’s cousin, whose name was Pinchon came from Essex and one of her descendants; William Pynchon, founded Springfield, Mass. It’s named after the village from where he came, Springfield, Essex. He also wrote the first banned book in America!

[@danielhammond3012]

Democrats read books, Republicans burn them. Just saying.

[@almosh3271]

I have watched many of THG clips and I enjoyed them all. Please keep up the good work THG and bravos, bravo bravo !!!!!!

[@abrahamedelstein4806]

2:50 That's some interesting cognate etymology there, Sax is the Swedish word for Scissors, and by the looks of it, the Saxon knife could be one half of a pair of wool shears.

[@BrianClunie]

As always, awesome video...thank you for sharing!

[@assessor1276]

Very interesting - another good History Guy!

[@BrassLock]

Your summary of those 800 odd years of history in Britain 🇬🇧 prove to me that such narratives are so complicated, I wonder how you can keep it all together in your mind. I shall never retain British history I'm afraid, but the mention of Lancastrians reminds me once again of the importance of bringing that disaster to the public's attention. *The sinking of His Majesty's Troops Ship LANCASTRIA* was the single worst loss of life on the seas during WW2, of any Nation, and it's surely _History Worth Remembering._

[@FrancesShear]

Those photographs are amazing! That sure must have taken a lot of work to construct those buildings! I must admit that I would for sure have in secret preffered to be a pretender too while being tempted instead of having to be working on one of Those kind of construction teams. that shell keep for example has detailing around the roof that remind me a little bit of all the work I did cutting all the wood for the eaves on the roof on a house I used to live in. [There was excellent babysitting services at the time being offered at a family accross the road]

[@jifo5]

Love history. I find that once you know the past you get a better view of the present. One thing, I have not seen you touch is the why the different cultures in our country came here. That might open our countrymens eyes to the future by looking at how we got here.

[@steveclark4291]

Thank you for a great video ! I love the way you tell history as it makes very interesting ! Take care , stay safe and healthy there in St. Louis ! Doing well here in Kansas !

[@biddyboy1570]

History Guy does Essex. That was unexpected but most enjoyable.

[@deanstuart8012]

If you ever return to the UK then can I suggest that you spend some time in the county of Kent. Dover Castle has a history going back to the Middle Ages, but was also the place where the evacuation of Dunkirk was controlled from. There are also a series of tunnels under the castle that were in use up to the Cold War and are literally inside the White Cliffs of Dover. There is the Battle of Britain Memorial and Museum nearby at Capel le Ferne, which are well worth a visit. Further north there is the dock yard and Royal Engineers museum at Chatham, and Churchill's home at Chartwell. And don't forget Canterbury Cathedral. I've noticed a difference between the American and British use of the word "county". In America the word follows the place name, so Essex County. In Britain it precedes the place name, so it would be county of Essex and isn't capitalised. The exception being my home county, County Durham, which is the only English county to have the word County in its name Irish style. Confusing, isn't it?

[@TheHistoryGuyChannel]

Dean Stuart Dover castle is amazing. I am sure we’ll have an episode on it sometime.

[@canaan5337]

I would want to do so many Monty Python and the Holy Grail things at that keep.

[@MashMonster69]

Don't forget to bring some coconuts. I wouldn't want you to depend on swallows, african or european.

[@Benson_aka_devils_advocate_88]

"...And saw some things that I frankly can't explain..." @ 1:11 Quite frankly, something tells me that he couldn't explain, either.

[@highpath4776]

Looks like the Medics of the University of London out on a pub crawl around Holborn, the wearing of mock wedding dresses is part of the tradition.

[@djolley61]

I love English gardens.

[@kathyhester3066]

Thanks for the history overview. I got interested in the early history of England years ago when I started reading mysteries written by Ellis Peters that were set in the 1140's in and around the Abbey of Shrewsbury. The "detective" was a monk by the name of Brother Cadfael. Ms. Peters wrote approx. 26 books set in this time period and they are all very well researched. I knew exactly where and whom you were talking about.

[@dale3404]

There’s a British tv series based on this book.

[@noisno.6512]

This was interesting. Shared.

[@Rich77UK]

Was born and grew up in the village. Its nice to learn a little even now about its history. It may be rise tinted specs but the village has changed for the worse over the past 20 years. Long term residences and families slowly costed out by new money snobs. It used to be such a friendly place where pretty much everyone knew everyone.

[@drumingmatt]

Loving your work! next time your over in England travel up to suffolk and visit Framlingham castle and Orford castle, both amazing but Framlingham is almost complete and like stepping back in time. Keep it up History Guy 👊

[@winegarn]

THG would love to see an episode on the battle to take Aschaffenburg in WW2. I was stationed in Aburg in Germany in the early 90's and was told that Patton had cleared the area but was recently reading a book called the Liberator and found out that the 45th ID took the town however they had also been told that it was cleared by Patton before they went there only to find some quite fanatical resistance. I had seen pictures of some German officers that were hung when they didn't fight but was interesting to hear the account in the book. The units that came in post DD and worked through southern France and Germany didn't get many headlines as everyone was fixated on the northern advance and think this would make a good episode.

[@frizzlefry5904]

We are lucky in Essex, next door Suffolk has Framlingham Castle, also of note, also the keep of Orford Castle is pretty cool in Suffolk, we can thank the Norman Barons for these strong keeps, I hope you enjoyed my County.

[@Erin-Thor]

I thank you for including my family history in this episode, made it oddly more interesting! 🤣

[@AdStarProductions]

THG with all the fancy graphics now! Cheers to your continuing success.

[@MaskedVengeanceTV]

Your new intros are fun!

[@Nicsmithsa]

I live in hedingham now, good to see the history

[@AlphaGeekgirl]

I always thought that Wessex (which is to the West), and Essex (is to the East), and Sussex (is to the south), were so named because of their location relative to each other.

[@anonUK]

Middlesex was what is now most of Greater London (all areas north of the River Thames and west of the Lea).

[@Deipnosophist_the_Gastronomer]

Me too. West Saxons, Middle Saxons ... etc.

[@alexanderperry1844]

I was born near Hedingham. Apart from the castle there is a preserved railway near by. The area was full of WWII air bases, most of which have long-since disappeared.

[@pattonpending7390]

I never put this together before: Essex in the East, Sussex to the South, and Wessex to the West. I tried to locate their northern counterpart, but I can find Nossex thing on the map.

[@MashMonster69]

They were out bred by their neighbors

[@iroscoe]

The Invasion peoples were initially quite distinct from each other so with Jutes and Angles mainly settling the land in the Midlands and North with the Saxons in the south .

[@olliefoxx7165]

The History Guy looks different in his civilian clothes.

[@ELCADAROSA]

It's the lack of the bow ties! ;)

[@Doobie3010]

Ollie Foxx The real history guy,the human being,rather than the required KZbin ‘persona’.

[@12345678900987659101]

He is undercover looking for pirates. Because all great stories involve pirates.

[@sabertoothduck]

flyingkoopa45 Argh matey

[@stgilescripplegate3818]

All the very best people come from Essex...

[@austinknowlton1783]

Lol why did I just get a notification about a 2 day old video. Love your videos Sir, and I was wondering if you would please make one about the Aroostook War.

[@cyberherbalist]

This is fantastic! It's my current stomping grounds -- and isn't that Tank Museum fantastic! Nice to see you were around here!

[@gohawks3571]

Lol, was scrolling through and thought this was Time Team😁 That would be a great mashup 👍

[@phigameshistoryandreviews445]

You should do a video on the Andria Doria.

[@JosephOlson-ld2td]

Arundel Castle near Chichester has a great keep and fully restored and furnished castle

[@joelongjr.5114]

In 1993 & 1994 I took two trips to England for work. The castle ruin at Kenilworth had some very interesting history in the era of Elizabeth I, and the English Civil War in the 1600's. Warwick Castle was a bit touristy, though interesting. The last castle my group toured was Berkeley Castle in Gloucestershire. At this site, King Edward II was murdered in 1327. A few hundred years later in the English Civil War, the castle was surrendered to Parliamentary forces. The Berkeley family was allowed to keep the castle on the condition that battle damaged keep and the outer bailey would not be repaired as an act of Parliament, a condition continued to today.

[@chrisball3778]

Kenilworth Castle was actually the site of one of the most pivotal battles in English history, although it's not very well known. This is much older than Elizabeth I's rule, though. Magna Carta is famous in British and American history as the moment when limited, constitutional, government was first recognised, but it's less well known that it was immediately discarded by King John, with the unequivocal support of the the Pope. Magna Carta was only recognised as the law of England after the Second Baron's War, led by Simon De Montfort. De Montfort was killed in the battle of Evesham in 1265, but much of his army retreated to Kenilworth Castle afterwards, and held out for months on end (possibly the longest siege in English history) against a royalist force that besieged them and attacked them with crossbows, siege towers and trebuchets, among other weapons. The siege dragged on for so long, and cost so many lives that King Henry III eventually agreed to come to terms with the rebel barons, and recognised Magna Carta as the law of England through the Dictum of Kenilworth in October 1266.. I.e. There might not be any constitutional government if people hadn't fought and died for the idea at Kenilworth Castle!

[@hyfy-tr2jy]

"get your medieval on?" Oh THG you naughty naughty man...LOL

[@Swaggerlot]

Hedinghams were in my old 'stamping grounds' and (including adjacent areas of Suffolk) home to my family from the 15th century.

[@stephensmalldridge9504]

I did particularly enjoy this episode, being a direct relative of the current Queen with my ancestry going back far beyond the Windsors to The Tudors and Lancasters Thank you for sharing 👑

[@Simonsvids]

On my mothers side, John of Gaunt, first Duke of Lancaster, is my 18th Great Grandfather. Greetings cousin!

[@gazzaboo8461]

I traced my ancestry back to a pigsty in stinkybottom road, next to an outhouse.

[@stephensmalldridge9504]

@@Simonsvids great to know yu cuz

[@clausewitz41_plus_1]

when I lived in England we set up housekeeping in the village of Godmanchester which was established in 812 AD. it was the new village when compared to the neighbor of Huntingdon, home of Oliver Cromwell.