History of Friesland - The High Middle Ages and the 5th Crusade | Background History

Now that Frisians have soundly been converted to Christianity, what would be more Christian than gallivanting off to the Holy Land for a crusade? Oh and also they like, do some land reclamation and stuff...
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MUSIC AND SOUND CREDITS
Title card and chapter music by Matthijs Rooks, check him out!
matthijsrooks.nl/
"Local Forecast - Elevator" by Kevin MacLeod from incompetech.com/music/
"Second Coming" by Kevin MacLeod from incompetech.com/music/
"Take a Chance" by Kevin MacLeod from incompetech.com/music/
Other sound effects from www.zapsplat.com/
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SOURCES
⮞ Books:
• Doedens, A., Y. Kortlever, and L. Mulder, Geschiedenis van Nederland: Het verhaal van prehistorie tot heden (Zutphen, 2015)
• Kooistra, D., Frieslands verleden: De Friezen en hun geschiedenis in vijftig verhalen (Bornmeer, 2016).
• Terpstra, P., Tweeduizend jaar geschiedenis van Friesland (Leeuwarden, 1980)
⮞ Websites:
• Afûk, Fryslân as kleasterlân (Leeuwarden, 2008) www.11en30.nu/de-kanon-finster...
(The design of the 11en30 site is sadly broken at the moment)
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IMAGE AND MAP CREDITS
Background is based on the entrance of the Notre-Dame
Texture for the background from: 3djungle.net/textures/
Map border is based on an image of art in a 13th century bible
⮞ Images:
• Percy from Critical Role:
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• Church of Jellum:
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...
⮞Maps:
• The base map is based on OpenStreetMap:
www.openstreetmap.org/
• Other maps based on:
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:HR...
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• Older maps of the Netherlands based on:
nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bestand...
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Source:
RACM & TNO. Developed for the National Research Agenda Archeology www.noaa.nl
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0:00 Intro
0:24 Land Reclamation
4:47 Outside Influences
6:58 The Power of the Church
10:59 Frisians and the 5th Crusade

[@jensimaster]

Watching this series in Canada with my kids to teach them about their heritage. Thank you for making these and keep producing awesome videos!

[@draphotube4315]

Cool man! Kunnen jullie nog steeds Nederlands/Fries spreken?

[@jensimaster]

Sadly no, my father was a bit of a lazy guy. His opinion was, "meh, everyone in the Netherlands speaks English anyway...". My Oma and Opa were the only ones he would speak with in his native language, and they didn't live with us so it was usually over the phone. If we went to their house for dinner they would also switch to English (as my mother was Canadian born English/Ukrainian) so I missed out. In school we learn Quebecoise French, which I butcher, so I would probably need to go live in Europe for a while if I wanted to learn anything other than English.

[@draphotube4315]

@@jensimaster That's a bummer, as a baby you tend to pick up languages automatically, so if your dad would just have spoken Dutch around you back then? xD TBF the everyone speaks english anyway is what makes so many languages across the world go extinct. 😢 But not that you can do anything about that, nice meeting ya!

[@ewoudvanaalst4089]

This is your best one yet dude!

[@ironduke7423]

16:07 when you fucked up your crusade but at least you're not the guys who were on the receiving end of the papal banhammer before they even left the Adriatic

[@wilcolindeboom1646]

haha

[@ironduke7423]

Frisians > French, Germans, Venetians ;)

[@BackgroundHistory]

Though I put every culture on equal footing, at least we didn't burn down Constantinople!

[@ironduke7423]

@@BackgroundHistory Amen

[@dropkick69able]

Good stuff. Not everyone knows about the Frisians

[@redbad2652]

Great job, you produce the best Frisian history anywhere! You are very entertaining I appreciate your hard work!

[@BackgroundHistory]

Aww, thanks for the nice comment! It brightened up my evening!

[@Weda01]

Thanks again for the recommendation, i just subscribed to the channel :)

[@redbad2652]

@@Weda01 cool I love Frisian history. My family hails from East Frisia

[@Weda01]

@@redbad2652 Same here, from West Frisia (the Province Friesland/Fryslân, not the region of North Holland).

[@wilcolindeboom1646]

Nice looking video again

[@CptZhu]

Good job!

[@backinblack1982]

This is a great series. I have ancestors from Friesland that were part of a "Noble" family and we've traced them back to the 8th century. Also records of that family's participation in the 5th crusade. Learning about this history is really fascinating

[@420JackG]

It's too soon to tell about the success of the crusade, we need to see how things continue to play out.

[@annekejaarsma4642]

this was one of you're most interesting videos yet! Liked at most the first part, that was relatable to me because of my living area. Looking forward to youre next video!

[@bobriemersma]

These are great if you want to know about the motorcycle gangs, er, mafia families, er, nobles and clergy. But what about the lives of the masses who lived as serfs of these landowners all the way to the mid-1800 waves of diaspora that cleared them out as agriculture was mechanized?

[@BackgroundHistory]

Sadly there are less sources about the common peoples the further we go back, especially sources that are specifically about Frisians. But the closer this series comes to modern history, the more we can delve into the commoners, for example the emigrations during the 19th century.

[@420JackG]

They were probably minding their own business and trying to scrape by like the working class always does.

[@marjokooistra3066]

Very educational and funny. I loved watching it

[@LeDraaier]

Brilliant vids bro love to learn more about my home province

[@steffenplay]

Another very interesting video!! Keep em coming!

[@drvillegasa]

The Frisians did fight in Iberia during the Fifth Crusade. They destroyed Fara, Rota and Cadiz.

[@lucasvillegas-aristizabal6785]

The Frisians refused to help the Portuguese capture Alcacer du Sal but they did attack three Andalusí cities Faro, Rota, and Cadiz. They were more interested in easier prices than in a long siege in Alcacer. They were so convinced of the value of fighting in Iberia that they informed the pope of their deeds while visiting Rome on the way to the Holy Land.

[@draphotube4315]

Echt een mooi kanaal heb je hier! Wenste dat mijn geschiedenis lessen op school meer over Nederland zouden gaan. Zoals de Friezen en hun handel, als je begrijpt wat ik bedoel? We leren meer over die Grieken en Romeinen dan onze eigen erfgoed!

[@bksvukatsone2219]

Since you taught a little about Grutte Pier (sp?)... might as well learn a little about your country. *your videos are informative and educational. 👊✌️

[@saschasteenaart7589]

Well the last thing i expected in a frisian history clip was a Critical Role reference :)

[@BackgroundHistory]

Neither did I, but here we are!

[@EricvanDorp007]

This is Frisia.

[@suevialania]

Fryslan Nation!👍🏻

[@harmanius]

Nice video! Anti-Friesland