Matilda of Flanders is my 27th great grandmother... Thank you for this interesting video!
@WarrioroftheAges5 күн бұрын
Well, hello from Texas, USA cousin
@daya8207 ай бұрын
I am glad to hear her story, there aren’t many real biographies of noble women of period. Thank you for bringing Matilda to life. Fascinating story.
@lilacgirl-z8w6 ай бұрын
That's a terrible shame that there aren't any biographies of matilda of flanders.
@Butterflypegasus402 ай бұрын
Bet she was better at ruling than her husband.
@RavenIdril2966Ай бұрын
@@daya820 matilda could have given later queens schooling in being a boss woman.
@kathleenmccrory98837 ай бұрын
Women in her time had tricky lives. She seems to have been lucky in both her spouse and her health. I'm looking forward to part 2. Thank you for sharing.
@HistorysForgottenPeople7 ай бұрын
Thank you so much, I'm glad you enjoyed it! 😊Part 2 is underway right now...
@jackiehiracheta1807 ай бұрын
Love these videos
@lilacgirl-z8w7 ай бұрын
@@HistorysForgottenPeople as anyone done a movie or mini series about them?
@dead28022 ай бұрын
@@lilacgirl-z8w Never heard of one!
@RavenIdril2966Ай бұрын
@@kathleenmccrory9883 wouldn't you like a tv series on this woman?
@JangianTV7 ай бұрын
The Conqueror's wife and consort was quite the character! Look forward to the rest of this series. 😊
@HistorysForgottenPeople7 ай бұрын
Honestly, I think I would have been a little scared of her and very much in awe had I been alive then. Part 2 is well under way for you guys! 😊
@JangianTV7 ай бұрын
@@HistorysForgottenPeople Yes, very formidable! Look forward to Pt 2. 😅
@lilacgirl-z8w7 ай бұрын
Is Flanders today a part of France or Netherlands ?
@aidanhschofield7 ай бұрын
@@lilacgirl-z8w Belgium
@RavenIdril29664 ай бұрын
@@HistorysForgottenPeople could you do her ancestor Judith of Flanders?
@madelinevanderbunny6077 ай бұрын
Fantastic video about a woman who like most medieval women, even the powerful and influential ones, is too often overlooked by history in favor of her powerful husband. Can't wait for part 2.
@HistorysForgottenPeople7 ай бұрын
Thank you! I'm hard at work on Part 2 right now. ☺It's really surprising how easily overlooked Matilda is, especially as William ensured his own lifetime that she was very publicly seen with him on most things, albeit mostly because of her ancestry.
@lilacgirl-z8w2 ай бұрын
Having a husband like William she had to have an iron backbone.
@tatianacalin86977 ай бұрын
Such a beautiful love story. William has chosen her as his wife himself initially because of her good lineage (he was a bastard in the sense that vikings used to have more than a wife during those times and he was a concubine's son) to gain legitimacy, but ended up by madly falling in love with her. Mathilde was a force to reckon with in her own right, and ruled over Normandy in his name while William was consolidating his power in England. The historians of the time describe William as fierce and cruel and yet there are records saying that he was seen crying for the first and last time in public, at his wife's funeral. After her death he gave up worlds affairs and lived in isolation. He died in a few years after her. A political marriage which turned into a love story. I'd like to see a movie made about them.
@velvetindigonight7 ай бұрын
Sometimes the ‘gems’ in the comment section are well worth searching for! Thank you
@lilacgirl-z8w7 ай бұрын
It would be an interesting historic love story to watch on screen.
@zoetropo16 ай бұрын
William’s last five years were not like that at all! He remained so belligerent that it killed him.
@susanr30553 ай бұрын
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@Butterflypegasus402 ай бұрын
Marrying her was William's greatest idea.
@Sciencegrinds7 ай бұрын
Georgette Heyer write a great historical novel, well researched, called "The Conquerer". I recommend it.
@LindaGrey-wm9uc6 ай бұрын
Thanks.
@lilacgirl-z8wАй бұрын
How well was the research?
@anweshabiswas14837 ай бұрын
After her death , William was inconsolable, he restrained from his favourite sport hunting and all the women from his court . Very sad 😢😢
@HistorysForgottenPeople7 ай бұрын
That's true! I think he was very devoted to her, and they were absolutely in love.
@anweshabiswas14837 ай бұрын
@@HistorysForgottenPeople yes absolutely even after a rocky start
@Butterflypegasus407 ай бұрын
Do we know what she looked like?
@anweshabiswas14837 ай бұрын
@@Butterflypegasus40 she was of short stature compared to her husband , who was 5 foot 10 inches .
@Gaeliclass7 ай бұрын
@@Butterflypegasus40 It was said she was around 5 ft and was beautiful. She was also very healthy, at least in the years she bore all those children!
@zackhalter95717 ай бұрын
I have always found this woman interesting!Great video🎉
@HistorysForgottenPeople7 ай бұрын
Thank you, I'm glad you enjoyed it! 😊 Matilda was such an interesting person, and she's been on my list a LOOONG time - so I thought I'd better get on with her video!
@RavenIdril29667 ай бұрын
I wonder if she preferred matilda or maud?
@lilacgirl-z8wАй бұрын
@@zackhalter9571 which did she like better england or flanders?
@zackhalter9571Ай бұрын
@@lilacgirl-z8wI would say Flanders because I believed she spent more time on the continent instead of England but I'm just making a educated guess
@Andy_Babb7 ай бұрын
I know that “Mother of the Conqueror” video is somewhere on the horizon! Love your videos! Thank you
@Butterflypegasus407 ай бұрын
Do you think matilda was a supporter of the conquering of England.
@Andy_Babb7 ай бұрын
@@Butterflypegasus40 which Matilda lol
@zoetropo16 ай бұрын
@@Butterflypegasus40Absolutely: she paid for the building of the fleet’s flagship, the Mora.
@zoetropo16 ай бұрын
Herleva?
@Andy_Babb6 ай бұрын
@@zoetropo1 ah! just making sure… there were SO many Matilda’s! lol I would think she would have been a supporter of that, yes. I think glory and honor were so important to people of that period that she would have not only supported it, but probably believed it was necessary. To be fair, I’m just spitballing - I’m still working on learning that part of Norman British history
@laurap65347 ай бұрын
William did not beat Matilda to within an inch of her life, and that made her want to marry him . That is a fantasy written by a male person .
@Sfu17516 ай бұрын
Aww did you get triggered and get your panties twisted over the story?😂😂😂 He certainly could have beat her ass as this isn’t some female made movie with her fantasy of a girl boss that can kick ass
@laurap65346 ай бұрын
I'm curious why it was even included it is obviously not true
@errorsinconduct6 ай бұрын
@@laurap6534 probably so that when someone googles her, they know not to trust that story
@dianahaugh75216 ай бұрын
Four contemporary chronicles include it. I think it was more likely that some tumultuous sex was taking place and it was reported as a beating
@nancymoore12405 ай бұрын
@@laurap6534 Could have been an attempt to slur William.
@happinessforeverandalways7 ай бұрын
damn, even a thousand years later were still hearing about her rejection 😔
@cathyhendrix75527 ай бұрын
I love history. Especially medieval England. I can barely wait for the next video!!! I'm so excited. 🤓
@HistorysForgottenPeople7 ай бұрын
Thank you so much, I'm glad you enjoyed it! 😊I hope you like Part 2 just as much.
@cathyhendrix75527 ай бұрын
@HistorysForgottenPeople I have no doubts that I will enjoy part 2 just as much as part 1. I'm so happy that I found you're channel. I love your content and the especially the illustrations and artwork. I've ALWAYS tried to picture what the people looked like. I know there are contemporary paintings. But they are mostly flat 1 dimensional and hard to imagine it. And quite a few of the kings look alike and hard to tell apart. At least for me. Paintings have come a long way. LOL. Thank you very much for all of your hard work and dedication and effort that goes into a KZbin channel. Please keep them coming.
@Butterflypegasus402 ай бұрын
Flanders has such a rich history.
@carolshannon64497 ай бұрын
There is a very well-done novelized version of the story of William the Conqueror (that was the title) by Georgette Heyer, which includes the courtship of William and Mathilda, anyone who enjoys this video would probably enjoy it, as well. Based on extensive historical research and written in the 1950s. Just a really well-written story that reads very naturally. This is a great video, too!
@Thepourdeuxchanson3 ай бұрын
I agree - a very good novel. But in it, Matilda is a widow, so I don't know. Heyer was famously accurate when it came to what was historically known. Here, however, Matilda had not been previously married. I'm inclined to think Heyer had it right in "The Conqueror."
@Butterflypegasus402 ай бұрын
William certainly outlived Matilda.
@RavenIdril2966Ай бұрын
@@carolshannon6449 what would history be like if matilda had outlived william?
@hannahvallar79397 ай бұрын
Really enjoyed hearing about a piece of history of which I knew very little.
@belgone20017 ай бұрын
My XXXXX great grandmother, this exploration is appreciated.
@joepratte7277 ай бұрын
i have recently been learning about the women in my ancestoral line. thank you for this one.
@Weeeewriter7 ай бұрын
Wow, she was spectacular!!
@HistorysForgottenPeople7 ай бұрын
Wait until Part 2 - she was a seriously strong lady!
@ViVaCiousLuff7 ай бұрын
In southeast asia we have the Bird's eye chilli or "cili padi" in the local language, known for being a miniature version of the chilli peppers but packing in high levels of spiciness! Over here Matilda would have the nickname "kecil-kecil cili padi" which basically translates to small but formidable like Bird's eye chilli. Watching this truly reminded me of that idiom 🤭
@HistorysForgottenPeople7 ай бұрын
I love that! That's totally my new nickname for her. 😂
@Butterflypegasus402 ай бұрын
I like that nickname.
@helpinyerdasellavon7 ай бұрын
Thank you for this beautiful video on Matilda of Flanders. Love to know more about remarkable female historical figures and their challenges they faced in medieval times, can't wait for part 2. Excellent work as always ❤👑
@RavenIdril29667 ай бұрын
Matilda seemed unusually powerful for a married woman in my opinion.
@sherrylelee82747 ай бұрын
Matilda of Flanders was one of my 24th Great Grandmothers - Thank you for your post on her 🌹
@henryruggles75236 ай бұрын
It seems you may be a distant cousin to our family. Do you have any Dudley's or Suttons, Grey or Neville or Beaufort in your ancestry?
@staceylseal6 ай бұрын
Any Granvilles in your tree?
@henryruggles75236 ай бұрын
@@staceylseal do you have a first name for the Granville you are referring to and a time period please?
@staceylseal6 ай бұрын
@@henryruggles7523 John Henry Granville born in 1911. Supposedly. His date of birth is in question because he changed it to join the service. He was born at Hampton Court. I don't know if that's true because I don't have a birth certificate for him.
@AncestorArchaeologist-ce4mf6 ай бұрын
Matilda is my 27th great-grandmother. Her son, Henry I of England, married a Matilda, who was the daughter of Malcolm III, King of Scotland. Henry & Matilda had a daughter named Matilda, who married Henry V, King of Germany & later named Holy Roman Emperor. They had no children, and when he died, she was remarried to Geoffrey Plantagenet, known as 'The Handsome', who was 12 years her junior and said to have strawberry-blond hair. Through their son, Henry II of England, began the Plantagenet dynasty which ruled England for the next 300 years.
@jhorton64va6 ай бұрын
Matilda is my 24th great-grandmother.
@gogreen77946 ай бұрын
Probably 90% of people with European DNA are descended from William and Matilda, or at least William....
@trishac42676 ай бұрын
She’s in my family tree as well.
@AncestorArchaeologist-ce4mf6 ай бұрын
@@jhorton64va Nice! We are distant cousins! 😉
@AncestorArchaeologist-ce4mf6 ай бұрын
@@trishac4267 That makes us all distant cousins! 😉
@bistrastoimenovaphotography7 ай бұрын
Can't wait! Didn't know a thing about this amazing lady❤
@RavenIdril29662 ай бұрын
How do you like her now?
@bistrastoimenovaphotography2 ай бұрын
@@RavenIdril2966 I think she was extraordinary, so yep, I do like her.
@Prince-of-Whales6667 ай бұрын
Loving this !!! Can’t wait for part 2
@Laramaria27 ай бұрын
Imagine if William just went to the church to meet her and screamed at the top of his lungs that he wanted her and no other, then he just pulled her close to him to declare his love again and maybe wanted hug or something, but pulled her with too much strength and she fell on the mud, then he tried to help her up but she got stuck and it turned into this huge gossip that he dragged her and harmed her 😅 Anyway, for how important she was in English history, she's definitely overlooked. She was a great ally to William and deserves more credit.
@HistorysForgottenPeople7 ай бұрын
Oh my goodness, I love that, haha! This idea that William was actually just a big teddy-bear completely romantically in love with her, but in order to keep up his fearsome reputation elsewhere, his men were all, "No, he didn't do that! He...er...dragged her into the mud and...and..." "Beat her up!" "What the-? Geoffrey, that's a bit much, isn't it?" "No, look, they're loving it!" "Ah...yeah, that's exactly how it happened. Yanked down by her pigtails and beaten up. Won her right over."
@CDredhead10287 ай бұрын
@@HistorysForgottenPeopleTotally read that in a Monty Python voice…
@RavenIdril29667 ай бұрын
I wonder if matilda actually wanted to be with william?
@lilacgirl-z8w3 ай бұрын
@@HistorysForgottenPeoplewill you ever do edward the confessor?
@annacalifornia64987 ай бұрын
She was the lioness. And the reason why she agreed to marry him even after he allegedly attacked her. That's because she knew that that was a strong man and in the land surrounded by warriors and everything else. She needed a strong man for her husband and plus she knew that she could control him. So internal strength, internal width and make everybody think that her ideas are their ideas
@outlawJosieFox3 ай бұрын
I agree that she needed a 'strong man', but this does seem to have been a love match, I think later historians maybe didn't much like the conquerer and this was a slur.
@lilacgirl-z8wАй бұрын
I bet she knew swordship and archery.
@patriciayohn61367 ай бұрын
May I suggest a video on Beatrice of Burgundy, second Wife of Friedrich Der Barbarossa, Holy Roman Emperor.
@shinjineesen4007 ай бұрын
A formidable woman, contemporaneous to Eleanor of Aquitaine. She had descendants through two sons.
@elizabethhannah47046 ай бұрын
Thank You. I really appreciate and enjoyed your video. History is fascinating and we can learn a great deal from it.
@madelinevanderbunny6077 ай бұрын
Thanks!
@HistorysForgottenPeople7 ай бұрын
Thank you so much! I hope you enjoyed the video, this one has been a long time in coming! 😊
@margheritatimeus34007 ай бұрын
They must be a singular spectacle to see, he very tall, illiterate and bossy, She very short, cultivated and kind. And however One of the most formidable couple in history, the Conqueror would have been that without her...
@kaloarepo2886 ай бұрын
There was another very famous Mathilda who lived exactly at this time and that was Mathilda of Canossa who ruled huge sections of northern Italy - this Mathilda is reputed to have personally led armies into battle!
@lilacgirl-z8wАй бұрын
I hope to hear about her.
@MichelleBruce-lo4oc7 ай бұрын
Hi, awesome live history video I enjoyed it. How are you and Mallard your cat doing? How is the weather where you are? I'm doing well and so is my cat Benjamin. We both enjoy watching your live history videos. We have beautiful warm weather in Ontario Canada. In the next video in the future could you do King Stephen the first he was King of England in the 11 hundreds. Have a great day see you next video. HAPPY VICTORIA DAY WEEKEND TO YOU. 😊
@HistorysForgottenPeople7 ай бұрын
Hi Michelle, we're good! Glad to hear you and Benjamin are doing well. 😊 Our weather's cooled a little again, so hopefully we get some of your warmer weather soon! I might do something on King Stephen - there's a little bit about him in my Empress Matilda videos as well, thought obviously not just on him.
@zoetropo16 ай бұрын
The Register of the Honour of Richmond thanks Matilda for persuading King William to grant Earl Edwin’s Yorkshire lands to Alan Rufus, the Breton who was the commander of the royal cavalry.
@rafaelmodest17 ай бұрын
Mathilde was great great great great great grand daughter of Alfred .
@chrisbanion7 ай бұрын
Mothers as a moral compass, what a concept.
@lilliantanasijevic78527 ай бұрын
Loved this! ❤
@gorettyrogers71097 ай бұрын
I remember reading a book about Matilda of Flanders in the early 90s..i can't remember the title.
@Butterflypegasus407 ай бұрын
Isn't there any movies or mini series about her and William?
@RBS.237 ай бұрын
Was it 'Wife of the Conqueror ' or something like that?
@corvettedm17 ай бұрын
I think Mathilda is a beautiful name indeed.
@lilacgirl-z8wАй бұрын
How it was pronounced back then probably sounded more prettier.
@ElizabethMcCormick-s2n7 ай бұрын
Formidable and short!
@HistorysForgottenPeople7 ай бұрын
Definitely formidable, but she was a normal height for her time!
@jackbuckley78167 ай бұрын
We can't even begin to know what life in those times were like, though I, as a big history buff, have been trying for decades! Except for William I & the Norman Conquest of England, I'm rather weak on this period, especially the noblewomen. Yes, I know most people wouldn't trade their lives in modern times to live in a long-ago age like that of Matilda but I'm one of the few who would! There are many other epochs I'd love to have lived in as well, or at least travel back in time for as long as I choose, as I find the modern world extremely boring. I've long been fascinated by the Middle Ages but I think if I could choose, it would have to be the earliest of the medieval period, the so-called Dark Ages, which I believe were, in fact, very dark & dangerous indeed. The thought of experiencing a Viking raid thrills me no end! To spend time in one of the earliest Benedictine monasteries would be fascinating, too. What I'd love most, however, is to return to Dark Age England, that period when the Romans prepared to leave & then did so! Wow, simply fantastic to learn exactly what it was like. The Roman Empire fascinates me as much as the Middle Ages, especially the former's long decline as it morphed ever-so-gradually into the earliest centuries of the Dark Ages. If I could have only one wish as my heavenly reward, I think, for me, it would have to be the granting of my desire to see what some of those emperors really were like!
@lesaeckert45387 ай бұрын
Unfortunately, most of us would have born as serfs.
@jackbuckley78167 ай бұрын
@@lesaeckert4538 For me, it might be worth it!
@grapeshot7 ай бұрын
The medieval dress code for Flanders the Flanders sweater😂
@susanmercurio10604 ай бұрын
I read "The Conqueror" by Georgette Heyer, which goes through all of this.
@RoyPounsford7 ай бұрын
Wonderful video.
@HistorysForgottenPeople7 ай бұрын
Thank you so much, I'm glad you enjoyed it! 😊
@RavenIdril29667 ай бұрын
I couldn't have agreed more.
@Butterflypegasus407 ай бұрын
I heard matilda of Flanders was a formidable woman.
@lfgifu2967 ай бұрын
oooh how much I missed earlier Medieval History🙏🙏 I’ve real mixed feelings about Matilda. On the one hand, she is admirable and was a great supporter to William, which brings me to what puts me on the fence about her- William👹 I haven’t finished the video yet (it’s been 5 minutes lol), but from the little I know (or think I know) about her she didn’t oppose the harrying of the North and even accompanied him (again, this may well not be true). Ik a Queen’s duty was to support her husband, but when his desire was so violent, some goodness could be expected🥲 They did love, or, at least liked each other quite a lot, so I think she could have tried to soften his ideas without much fear of being mistreated. Still, she is admirable, and her story is gonna be great to hear!!🙏 Have a nice week :))
@DarthDread-oh2ne7 ай бұрын
Hi friend ! Who is your favorite king before William the Conqueror ?
@lfgifu2967 ай бұрын
@@DarthDread-oh2neHello :) It’s my fav English monarch, Alfred the Great! What about you?
@DarthDread-oh2ne7 ай бұрын
🤔 you can’t go 😑 with Alfred the great.😊
@lfgifu2967 ай бұрын
@@DarthDread-oh2ne ooh why not🥲? He may not have ruled over the whole of modern England but he started it, and I believe that, had he lived longer, he would’ve seen it- maybe not finished but close-.
@HistorysForgottenPeople7 ай бұрын
You're not wrong, there may be a VERY different view of her in the next video! You know how I feel about the harrying of the North LOL. But I think she was a very strong person, brought up in her time with those expectations, and there were maybe times when she didn't want to go against William. Certainly not perfect, that's for sure! But still admirable.
@My2up2downCastle7 ай бұрын
Can't find part 2!
@BSWVI7 ай бұрын
I think it comes out next Sunday May 26¡
@HistorysForgottenPeople7 ай бұрын
This one has only just come out - Part 2 is out next Sunday! 😊
@user39h2j8ilКүн бұрын
Anyone else noticed how so many of the ancient royals had red hair? In the descriptions of them the hair colour is often referred to.
@silverlow6 ай бұрын
She was just a royal lady married for society power by her father. That is how royals are married to creat treatise between families. Most of the time women back than married whoever had more power and pull than her father and brothers.
@rodmarker20716 ай бұрын
Just goes to show the old adage "Behind every great dictator there is an even bigger Karen" 😂😂😂😂
@angietyndall73377 ай бұрын
Not everyone can claim relationship to famous figures, but others actually are related to famous figures in history. As such, there are good and bad points to this imo.
@loislewis52297 ай бұрын
Oh but it makes history so much more meaningful when they’re your ancestors 😅
@robynw63077 ай бұрын
How can someone who can read not be able to write? I don't understand. If anyone knows please educate me.
@kirstenberg69606 ай бұрын
They are different skills. If you don’t practice the skill of writing, or the materials are too expensive to provide to everyone in the family, it’s not a surprise she and many others only learned to read. In the same vein, listening and speaking a language are also two different skills. That’s why some children of immigrants born in a new land can grow up able to understand their parents’ language, but not being comfortable speaking more than a few words. This is also why, when formally leaning a new language, there are four different skill areas that need to be both taught and assessed: written comprehension (reading), written production (writing), oral production (speaking) and oral comprehension (listening).
@jonnarobinson75416 ай бұрын
I studied French diligently for about five years from 2014 till 2019. French has many silent letters. I found that I could read, write, speak it in that order. I wasn’t adult and so I did not have the benefit of children hearing and speaking the language first. I am actually surprised that I can look at a word and determine if it is French in origin.
@MatildeFerrer-d9d7 ай бұрын
❤❤❤❤❤amen
@beverlybalius93037 ай бұрын
They were really short in ancient times. The young today are a foot or 2 foot taller thanmy age group…
@lfgifu2967 ай бұрын
For the question, from the Historical people you’ve studied, who is the one you like the most? Those who are genuinely so good you find yourself awestruck by what they did. You can cheat here lol (I myself have like 5). (also I can’t be 100% sure if I’ve ever asked you this but I don’t recall it, so, hope I’m not repeating myself😭). For me it’s Katherine of Aragon, Emma of Normandy (as I once heard say, Emma was for Emma, which doesn’t score her that high in the kindness score, but her achievements were out of this world imo and hers is a story I’m always itching to tell), Alfred the Great and Belisarius. Honourable mention to Amélie of Orléans, I just didn’t include her bc I haven’t studied her enough to know for sure :)
@HistorysForgottenPeople7 ай бұрын
LOL No worries, I wonder if I'm repeating myself all the time in my answers, so apologies if I do! 😂 My absolute favourite person of all history is Empress Matilda. I'm sure she did do bad stuff (we're all human) but her good stuff outweighs any not-so-good-things, and there's a lot of propaganda around her, and to be honest, my personality is very similar in being stubborn and very 'mama bear' as well. I would definitely kick off a 19-year-civil war for my crown, and I'm not sure if that's a good thing! 😂😂😂 I also agree with you on Katherine of Aragon, and since studying her more closely, Anna of Cleves! Anna just seems like an all-round kind, clever, funny woman AND she liked to cook. I really like George III as well - I think he was overall a good king, and the fact he was such a family person is amazing considering his father and grandfather. I think you can tell I'm basically a sucker for anyone who is nice to their loved ones, haha! I also like Arthur (or Artie) Moore - I don't want to say too much as I've got a video planned in a few weeks for him, but basically he was a real inventor-type person who started from nothing in a small town in Wales, and ended up working for Marconi. 😊
@CallemJayNZ7 ай бұрын
Can't all of us with European ancestry claim descent from the Emperor Charlemagne?
@HistorysForgottenPeople7 ай бұрын
Possibly! I think I read somewhere that if you look hard enough everyone with European ancestry is somehow related to William the Conqueror as well, but my family tree only ever has poor farmers on it, haha!
@The-One-True-Emperor7 ай бұрын
Yes. Most Europeans, especially western and central, can claim 'Charlemagne, King of the Franks' as our closest royal ancestor. Those of Englishman descent can claim either 'Edward [Plantagenêt] I' or 'Edward [Plantagenêt] III.'
@charlesvigneron5657 ай бұрын
@@HistorysForgottenPeople William descends from Charlemagne once by Pepin & Bernard. Matilda has four descents via Louis 'The Pious' and once from Alfred 'The Great'. All living Europeans are Charlemagne descendants several dozens to hundreds of times. Source: Royal Ancestry, Douglas Richardson, Vol. V, pp. 481-504. 100,000,000,000 (one hundred billion) humans are estimated to have lived in the last 60,000 years. We accrue ancestors in a geometric progression by a factor of two : 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64... and Charlemagne is about 42 generations distant which, by simple addition, would give us 2,199,023,255,552 (two trillion+) ancestors. Humans Are All More Closely Related Than We Commonly Think Scientific American, Scott Hershberger, October 2, 2020
@rtalbeau79657 ай бұрын
😂😂Yes, I was pretty proud when I found out I was descended from him; but then I learned that you can basically pick up a random rock and throw it, and there’d be a high probability of you hitting a descendant of Charlemagne.😢 😂😂
@79klkw7 ай бұрын
This is what I have heard. It would be fantastic to have his dna uploaded to a genetic genealogy database that deals with historical people. These sites exist, they are not very popular, and often times, students make databases related to archaic dna, on sites like gedmatch. Obviously genealogy isa hobby of mine. So you have me thinking, i am gonna go and look to see if we have Charlemagne's DNA anywhereto compare with!
@diannegooding87337 ай бұрын
Not surprising re Mathilda. Women like bad boys. William the Bastard was odds on! (Beauty and the Beast!)
@outlawJosieFox3 ай бұрын
Wasn't Emma of Normandy the first Norman queen of England??
@cj-fi7kz3 ай бұрын
She was a queen consort to an Anglo saxon king. Matilda was the first queen consort to a Norman king.
@Heothbremel7 ай бұрын
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@theoriginaltoba3 ай бұрын
6:28 there was a set age for marriage: the legal age of 12, that was the minimum. The idea that there wasn’t is really just a myth.
@brianhodgson95477 ай бұрын
I've heard she got revenge on an English Noble that refused to marry her before she married William
@11abrook7 ай бұрын
Glad to know you are going to cover "harrying of the North" in the next video. Genocide. Nobles are not so noble after all. Is Matilda nothing more than a gansters moll? It would not be a nice time to be alive if you diagreed with William or Matilda.
@kanaanthepersianprinceandf9066 ай бұрын
Matilda was not the first Norman Queen of England. Emma of Normandy was. Getting simple facts like this wrong means the show loses all credibility and I just stop watching.
@annekeener41192 ай бұрын
This. It’s also part of why Edward the Confessor offered the crown to William the Conqueror. Edward was the son of Emma of Normandy and William was the grandson of Emma’s brother. Add in Richard II and Robert I sheltering the various family members during the craziness that was English politics between Aethelred the Unready and Edward the Confessor taking the throne. Emma of Normandy was wife to two of the kings (Aethelred and Cnut), mother to two of the kings (Harthacnut and Edward the Confessor), step-mother to two of the kings (Edmund Ironsides and Harold Harefoot), and daughter-in-law to one of the kings (Sveyn Forkbeard). It was absolutely nuts. It’s a miracle Emma survived the repeated exiles and drama that kept happening at court.
@user39h2j8ilКүн бұрын
Looking at the abbeys built by William, as one example, its safe to say humanity has regressed and become very dumbed down.
@melissafoster9701Ай бұрын
This is where my ancestry starts
@RobertTycenHauser7 ай бұрын
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@elijahhodges44057 ай бұрын
Matilda of Flanders was descended from Alfred the Great, and from Charlemagne. So why did England rebel against William? They should have thanked God they would have a Wessex king when he was dead.
@JupiterMuffles3 ай бұрын
Doesn't matter considering he was a Norman. Knew no English, wasn't born in England, probably never set foot in England till his invasion. He was a foreigner with foreign ideals.
@elijahhodges44053 ай бұрын
@@JupiterMuffles That makes me smile since England wrapped their arms around a Viking king.
@elijahhodges44053 ай бұрын
@@JupiterMuffles Ya, I thought you were talking about Bede at first...
@JupiterMuffles3 ай бұрын
@@elijahhodges4405 Cnut? I don't think they did. Hell, they kept going back and forth between Anglo Saxon and Viking Kings.
@elijahhodges44053 ай бұрын
@@JupiterMuffles They did love Cnut. He did learn the English.
@isabellajones-hyde91945 ай бұрын
Matilda and William were cousins, not even 2 minutes in and mistakes Flanders was not a Principality it was a County, You said Count of Flanders that should have given you the clue
@SSRT_JubyDuby87427 ай бұрын
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@WarrioroftheAges5 күн бұрын
after finding her at the top of my ancestry, the rest of my tree was a piece of cake
@clareryan38437 ай бұрын
Yep. I bet she was definitely the scary one - PROBABLY DID NOT LOOK LIKE THE INGENUE on your KZbin clickbait intro🤦
@DavidAndy-k2mАй бұрын
We’re the Plantagenet’s involved in any of this
@jamistardust51813 ай бұрын
27th GGM.
@WarrioroftheAges5 күн бұрын
after finding her at the top of my ancestry, the rest of my tree was a piece of ca
@outlawJosieFox3 ай бұрын
I bet the Norman conquerer had many English born enemies wishing to black his name. That explains the William beat Mathilda in order to make her submit to marriage story for me.