Brittany's Viking Age (800-950)

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[@Hostility1812]

The best thing I did all day was watch this.

[@endlapikksaar6749]

Thank you from the bottom of my heart! I was never told this in the school (Soviet-times). The story went that one person never matters, only the masses count! :-) :-) So we were taught about peasants uprisings...:-) :-) :-)

[@zoetropo1]

Endla Pikksaar: peasant uprisings were important in Brittany since Roman times. What makes Brittany unusual is that the peasants’ property rights were strongly protected by law and in practice, because the ruling families remembered that they were of plebeian origin. So, usually it was foreigners such as arrogant Franks and Normans that they rose against.

[@tobago3679]

As a Breton, thank you for this very informative and entertaining video. I really enjoyed learning about this part of my history and culture.

[@donica42]

I lived in Bretagne for four years. One of the most beautiful places in Europe and also the friendliest people too. Love the granite stone houses in the countryside.

[@isakmagnusson07]

Ill attac you mate

[@isakmagnusson07]

@Bear hn no

[@targard.quantumfrack6854]

yec' hed mat

[@gutememes7638]

I'm half irish 😏

[@munkittytunkitty]

Really good video. Just one small thing - the Bretons don't speak a Gaelic language - the Gaelic languages are Scottish Gaelic, Irish and Manx. They speak a Brythonic language like the Cornish and the Welsh. Collectively the Gaelic and Brythonic languages are known as the Celtic languages. By the way Happy St. Ivo's Day!

[@marcusaurelius7604]

I have always found the history surrounding the English and Northern French territories to be incredibly interesting. Starting from the end of the Roman occupation there were so many different migrations and invasions that shaped the area. God I love history.

[@ThisisBarris]

Watching these videos and making my own research make me realize why the Britons, here in France, feel so independent because of so much of their history has little to do with the French nation itself, but rather England/Duchy of Brittany etc. I don't know if you'll talk about it since it's not the focus of your channel, but if you keep talking of Britanny, it would be good to mention Anne of Brittany since she marks the departure of Brittany under English influence to French influence. I was planning on visiting her castle in Britain next summer.

[@chriscodrington5464]

Wife was Breton and spent several summers there exploring Thanks for filling in this neglected and fascinating period.

[@HistoryTime]

Its a beautiful place. Thanks for watching the video

[@Gayasshunk1923]

Great video. But one thing at 3:45 Breton is not Gaelic, it is from the other stratum of Insular Celtic languages, namely Brythonic.

[@Sonny-m1f]

I was gonna say the same. Its P celtic more similar to Welsh. Even a region there called gwened.

[@tancreddehauteville9983]

My Medieval History class was introduced to you through the Crusade video about The Great Seljuk Empire and we all love your videos keep up the amazing flawless work

[@HistoryTime]

That's awesome to hear! More videos on the Seljuks on the way soon..

[@tudor737]

Seljuk turks did not hold Mecca and Medin, Hejaz, am I right?

[@12345678900987659101]

No, they never pierced into the Arab homeland as far as I know, mostly conquered the Caucasus, Iran, and Anatolia, holding some of the Levant. Could be wrong though, Turkic nomads aren't my forte.

[@tudor737]

Of Course, that's means that the map of this video kzbin.info/www/bejne/g6PMlYCtasmir6s is wrong, although the video itself is very very interesting.

[@tobago3679]

I love how you bring up and look at parts of history that are poorly coverred for the most part, this really make your channel great!

[@lakedaimonios480bc]

keep up the good work my friend. You have one of the most educational channels on youtube. Each video you upload provides me with the stimulus to study further on my own and gives people the chance to learn about ignored or not widely known aspects of history.

[@Just_lift_anyone]

Leaders of old had such epic sounding names, Constantine, Charlemagne... Alan.

[@gevasveston]

Loving the recent twist into a lesser known period of history. Makes me sad none of this is taught in schools (UK Anyway)

[@HistoryTime]

It gets even more unknown from here... The Old North

[@richardputz3233]

Canada too!,

[@StoicProfile]

Nor US

[@argroazvrezhon7656]

Even in Breizh (Brittany) we aren't told about our own national History ! But there is a strong (while discreet) network of associations and cultural organizations through which the knowledge of the Breton Nation is transmited to the nexts generations.

[@discreetl6418]

Not in France either...

[@SelkeaRambles]

I have been dying to find some sources on Brittany in the Viking Age (I'm a Viking reenactor, born and raised in Brittany). Thank you so much for this!!!

[@zoetropo1]

I was amused by the use of the “Norman Last Supper” from the Bayeux Tapestry when you mentioned the first peace treaty after Ballon, because Odo of Bayeux had Breton connections and just to his left (our right) stands Alan Rufus, leader of the Breton contingent at Hastings. Alan was a male-line descendant of Ridoredh of Vannes, a salt merchant and courtier of Erispoe’s.

[@JaneDoe-ij4ls]

Noted❤️

[@spirituallevelofbeing7308]

Great video always great to listen to others discuss history. This was the best breton history video I've seen by far.

[@r0b0saurusrex80]

Dude I love these longer Videos... Narration is amazing and the background music puts you right there...

[@kevinhathaway7240]

Thank you for untangling this very complex History of Brittany. I have been struggling for quite some time with it!!

[@tukaruss8680]

Brilliant documentary of bretagne I have house there and full of past history of different times amazing

[@rogertemple7313]

"Ay like to watch documentaries about Vikings, no interviews from people, just a narrator telling an account of these adventures, Not a TV show with actors like they show on the History Channel that show is just a soap opera This is what I like here, THANKS.

[@StefanMilo]

Just in time for my commute. This brittany series has created a longing I didn't know I had. If only Cornwall had become an empire spanning the channel!

[@Tommy-dz3do]

I really love the style and type of videos you do you always focus on unfocused parts of history that’s makes it so interesting and unique. Just the layout and everything is amazing seriously though love the effort and work you put into these videos please don’t stop

[@HistoryTime]

Thanks for watching!

[@FlashPointHx]

Nicely done! Love the entry music

[@zoetropo1]

Rognvald died during the Viking occupation. The last Loire Viking leaders had Breton names, which speaks of high-level collaboration.

[@Uncle_Fred]

Excellent conclusion to the story of Viking Age Brittany. Maps have improved too. Let's do a similar series on Viking age Ireland. You've covered some of these events, but mostly in regards to specific individuals with a focus on Viking age England. I'd love to see a 2 or 3 part chronological series to tie everything together.

[@zoetropo1]

William Longsword’s mother was Poppa of Bayeux and his wife was Sprota of Brittany. When William was assassinated in Flanders, Louis IV quashed Normandy and imprisoned William’s son Richard, but Richard was freed by local Gallic lords and remade Normandy in a new mould. A son Richard II and a daughter Hawise married into the Breton Sovereign House, while another daughter Emma became twice Queen of England.

[@michaelgamba7674]

congratulations for this amazing and very interesting video

[@johnrogers8836]

Athelstan would have to be about the most under rated king of England.... he doesn’t even get recognition for being first, for goodness sake... yet in reality he was one of the greatest of his age, with his court seen as a replacement for the court of Charlemagne.

[@robsilver8942]

Love this channel! Keep covering more obscure eras and peoples

[@zoetropo1]

Alfred was a popular name in Brittany before King Alfred rose to power. King Alfred may have received Breton support because he decreed that Bretons were welcome in Wessex.

[@SG-D]

At 3:55, unique Gaelic language? Wrong they spoke a Brythonic language i.e. P-Celtic , not Q-Celtic.

[@xghxst1553]

Ahhh bloody amazing!! Thanks for doing this video. Love your work my favorite era!!! 👌👍👍

[@HistoryTime]

Glad you like it! More on the way from this era.

[@scottdanger706]

beautiful and information packed vid as usual!

[@zoetropo1]

Oh! Alan Rufus was a great fan of Edmund the Martyr: he was interred at the Abbey of Bury St Edmunds, one of only a few notable figures that were.

[@williamkartatar4759]

19:45 absolute mad lad.

[@inakarbaash4781]

Willie and the boys riling up the neighbourhood

[@jayjohn9893]

Love how far your video's have come. Love this channel.

[@romelnegut2005]

There's so much to learn from videos like yours but I'm not capable to memorise all the information you provide and I feel sad about it. Still, I thank for all the videos and keep surprising us.

[@worldof00t]

Did my thesis on the monastery of Redon! Truly a looked over period and geographical area in general!

[@Centenkiko]

Love your videos man!

[@HistoryTime]

Thanks. Glad you like them!

[@kingslegion1]

outstanding and so much appreciated!

[@scottdanger706]

Your videos are always well done with great visuals!

[@hedebeb]

The river Gouët next to Saint Brieuc in Brittany, comes from the middle Breton word gwed, which means blood, It take its name following the massacre of the Vikings of Saint-Brieuc of the Péran camp by the Bretons of Alan Barbe-torte in 936, and that would have made the river blood red.

[@bellelise.]

Great job!!

[@1HUSEINKAPETAN1]

Great stuff!

[@nicholasnino529]

Wow fantastic work. I would like you to give a list of sources if possible, although I see from your description you have a more detailed version. Thank you!

[@jackbloomer1334]

you did a great job explaining the situation throughout Europe

[@oriffel]

awesome work.

[@biblebear8962]

Are you going to cover Russian medieval history again ? Loved your video on Sviatoslav the brave, and there are lots of other facinating characters and events in the Rurikid period up until Ivan the terrible..

[@lynneshiamm]

BibleBear agreed

[@annamosier1950]

very good work

[@bredmond812]

great video as always will there be any more videos about the bronze again any time soon?

[@HistoryTime]

Thanks! Got a Bronze Age one coming pretty soon

[@creolekolbytv]

My ancestry is from the House of Rohan who originated from Brittany and rose to power as a duchy of Brittany and eventually owning French property etc pretty awesome video too

[@Master_Brick_Creator]

🗣🗣BREIZH EO MA BRO 🔥🔥

[@hunter5502000]

Proud to be the descendent of these men

[@chrismasse3818]

Thanks , can’t wait to learn more about my city (Nantes)

[@urso3000]

I love history, thanks

[@HistoryTime]

Its the best

[@Uap-i3o]

Very interesting thanks

[@crumbum2]

I love your accent, could you say, 'we better be getting back now, its getting dark. They mostly come out at night...mostly.' Thanks!

[@steveinthemountains8264]

Interesting and fascinating! What an age that was!

[@harryholmes9842]

After doing some research and finding out that Alan I King of Brittainy is my ancestor (no clue how many greats of grandfather lmao), and it's great learning about him in your Video.

[@JesusRocksTryPrayin]

I watched your Fall of Rome #1 and was super fucking psyched. I love the vikings series and I hope all of your viking videos get a ton of views. I'm Scandanavian even; but Rome was cool as tits on a shark

[@ArchYeomans]

Brittany/Bretagne has an interesting history.

[@johnnyblack2131]

Hi from WALES U.K. 👁✔👁

[@HistoryTime]

Hi from Mercia

[@keeganmoonshine7183]

hey brother. cheers from iraq

[@davidking6242]

Hi from the kingdom of west saexe

[@belis35]

Hi from Bretagne !

[@daveharrison84]

Are Welsh speakers able to understand Breton?

[@daya820]

I love history but didn’t know much about Britany. Thank you, your videos are the best.

[@TheLordUrban]

I would love to see similar videos done for Viking age Flanders Ann Frisia.

[@Volcanic73]

i love your videos but your voice audio really needs Normalization and Compression applied. Would really help.

[@nathanscarlett4772]

Best way to start off the day =D

[@troydavis1]

4:54, After Nominoe's death in 851! (not 841), 8:01, next THREE decades (not two)

[@alexsummers7549]

Thanks for a great video .My surname is Brett so its possible my ancestors were involved in this . I was told Brett is of French origin , given to someone from britton .

[@SwirlyGoRound]

18:13 Count of Sharts....

[@THINKincessantly]

I dont know which would be hardest to learn to speak, Chinese or Welsh...

[@andobreslin8735]

Did you accidentally show UFO footage with that clouds shot at 6:10? Two objects are moving together to the left... Completely out of context to the video.. Which is excellent by the way 👍🏻

[@joythug37]

Hey ! I just subscribed , please don.t forget the promise of making an episode about King Burebista .

[@HistoryTime]

I haven't forgotten. Research and writing takes a long time. In order to make the best video possible I need to read ten or twenty books on a subject before tacking it. Then write a 3000/4000 word script. Then record, then edit. These things take time.

[@MrSimeonk]

An incredible piece in the jigsaw of the birth of England. The original Gaelic Britons in the melting pot of dynastic struggles for the throne of Britain.

[@chrisroberts2040]

Would like to see Tudor dynasties

[@GavTatu]

alan..... doesn't really have a regal ring to it ?

[@Eškala_Iśa]

Man i love European history

[@zoetropo1]

Just as Alan II regained Brittany with the help of the English, Alan Rufus created an English army to invade Normandy in 1091: the Norman citizens lined the roads to cheer it on!

[@brymht]

Would t their language have been Brythonic, not Gailic?

[@joebowden4065]

chris brown Breton is not a Gaelic language

[@joebowden4065]

chris brown its Brythonic like Cornish welsh and cumbric. Probably has Gaelic influences like all Brythonic languages

[@whatabouttheearth]

@chris brown That political geography and looks autosomal if you are a male go with Family Tree DNA and do the Big Y, amd trace your most recent HAPLOTYPE back using the "pedigree" on the site called 'Genetic Homeland'. That should predominantly be L51 Ydna haplotype and below (newer) such as P312 ("Beaker Folk")...and going down to L21 ("highly coorelative to geography of ancient Celts") (aka "Pretani") A predominant YDNA line, Z253, is along the ancient trade route from Brittainy to Cornwall and Ireland.

[@chrisbreizh29]

@@whatabouttheearth hi my count has been cancelled, dont know the reason. Yaplogroup wasnt a best thing for genetic. I have rp311 , history famous people who could be in my ancesters is only a old irish king. Forget the name. And 23andme say now i m 98% irish wales 2% italian. U know irish people have send christianism in brittany. So they communicated. Language must did to be more similar. And a roman governor have written that some riots of breton was ordered of albion so uk. And commercial and population movement between them were permanently.

[@Hanomarkhan...]

@@chrisbreizh29 for the anecdote, to Roman sources, Armorica (Brittany today) was one of the only regions of Gaul that was not Christianized. It was mainly Irish and Picards who converted the Bretons after the fall of the Roman Empire.

[@hairyjohnson2597]

I wish there where more channels about Brittany, their history and cultural. Its always fascinated me, its always been so isolated until recently, i believe the romans left it alone, charlemange left it alone, i wonder if in ancient times they considered it sacred land becsuse of all the monoliths and stuff.

[@sirlordhenrymortimer6620]

This is a great serious as this period is the main swing link between France chriastian age , which led the foundation of Europe and the immediate aftermath of fall of Roman empire in modern day france

[@11Tank]

Medieval History loving it! History Time shut up and take my money!! :D

[@valeriavictrix340]

WHAT ? Anglo-saxons at the Battle of Trans la foret in 939 ?? we don't have the same history books for sure

[@HistoryTime]

I'm not saying a lot. But likely a few. Alan spent pretty much his entire life in England up until 936 so surely some of his household warriors would've been Anglo-Saxons. The majority of the people he knew up until 936 were probably Anglo-Saxons.

[@valeriavictrix340]

yes I know his connection with Æthelstan but over all the books history of Brittany I read , never it was metionned than Anglo saxons was present at this battle. if you have any historics evidence on what you say , I take.

[@valeriavictrix340]

It was Jean of Landevennec who prepared a Breton army at Montreuil/mer, Jean realized that the Bretons who remained on the native soil were impatient to shake off the Norman yoke. To concentrate the energies of all the Bretons remaining in Brittany it was necessary to have a young valiant and robust leader, it was in the person of Prince Alain who agreed to take the lead of the movement, in 936 (the battle of Plourivo allowed to open the door of Brittany to the Breton armies) firstly he defeated the Normans at Dol and Saint Brieuc, he was recognized Duke in 937, 2 years later he definitively defeated the Normans at Trans-la-foret with the Count Beranger of Rennes and the Count Herbert of Le Mans.. far from me the idea of offending you my friend, I really enjoy your good work , perhaps you will do a vid about the next period of Brittany or the Bretons during and after the conquest of england, the role of Alan Rufus, and the primordial role of Brittany during the one hundred years war, thank .

[@eriktoromusic]

Great info, but the pictures need better variety and storytelling. Repeating the same ones over and over again are tiring.

[@Joekewl22]

Anyone notice between 8:03 and 8:07, there appear to be 2 objects moving center left through the blue part of the sky? I have viewed a number of these video's where more of the same clip has been used and these 2 objects move in unison across the whole blue area of the sky? Anyone else?

[@dwhitcoral]

Just noticed them while watching this video and went down to comments section to see if anyone else had spotted these two objects.

[@Paul.Morgan]

Fascinating. I didn't know that the Anglo-Saxons were getting involved in French civil wars back then.

[@HistoryTime]

Athelstan was a remarkable king.

[@gwennblei]

It wasn't a French civil war, it was a Breton one. France was still Frankia, and Bretons and Franks were entirely distinct people :)

[@rachelsombo9045]

Gwenn Blei Tu es français idiot , crois-tu que les bretons ne se sont pas marier avec les Francs ?

[@Dipovinnana]

Do britons, saxons, angles, norwegians, celts, etc. have different haplogroups?

[@dbix11]

Was playing Crusader Kings 3 and decided to play as a count in Brittany, and thought to myself... "what the hell is Brittany?"

[@UpcycleElectronics]

Thanks

[@tudor737]

very interesting!!!!!!!

[@HistoryTime]

Thanks!

[@tudor737]

I think this period which is the sphere of your study is one of the most interesting in history. Do something about Clovis and his heirs!!!!!!! And something about Carolingian dynasty in East Francia until 911, and in West Francia until 987, what relation was between french and german (including dutch) emerge out of the most powerful empire of it's time.

[@gj8683]

"Cornouaille" - looks like they brought a place name from the old country with them, even though it wound up with a French spelling.

[@valeriavictrix340]

yes and until the 10th century the Domnonée (Dumnonii, celtic Britons) designated the entire north of the Brittany. The Devon/Dumnonii of GB have given a large contingent of emigrants but this part of the peninsula is called today land of Léon, since the Welsh, come from Caër-Léon ar Wyse, will settle there in large number. The abbots who founded the first monasteries of the Armorican Devon, Saint Pol-Aurelian, Saint Lunar, Saint Samson, Saint Magloire, Saint Méen, are Welsh origin, while Saint Tutwal or Saint Tugdual, first bishop of Tréguier come from the Devon.

[@IanBurkePerry]

Error just after 3:44--Breton isn't Gaelic. Welsh, Breton, and Cornish are Celtic languages, as is Gaelic, but they aren't themselves Gaelic.

[@THINKincessantly]

Austrasia and Amorica --fascinating ancient place names....Like AshkeNAZI and Neil.A backwards....

[@jorge6207]

It's interesting that the English language has distinct words, Brittany and Britain, for what is essentialy the same word. Is it something exclusive to English, or is it so in all Germanic languages? In latin based languages it used to be Little Britain and Great Britain, nowdays just droping the Little.

[@trukeesey8715]

You ave read "The Franks" by Franz Los?

[@levinb1]

You should think about a sub story from this video about the childhoods spent together at the English court whilst in exile from Brittany, maybe the “Court of the 4 Kings” or something like that.

[@justanothershitlord199]

Count of Sharts

[@alexanderthickens2925]

18:14 'Count of Sharts' lol

[@twatmang1]

A Perfectly Normal KZbin Account As someone who lived in France, some of the prenouncation did making me wince. Cotinent, Nantes..

[@quantjonna293]

Actually the Capetians ruled into the 19th century through their cadet branches.

[@natanelyehonatan4985]

U r best

[@travislebreton2908]

My family is a long line of warriors 💪

[@bencekovacs9126]

Why did u delete the last Brittany video

[@HistoryTime]

I didn’t delete it. KZbin did due to a copyright claim.

[@bencekovacs9126]

@@HistoryTime Bro that's bullshit. KZbin sucks