How Did France Win the Hundred Years War?

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In 1415 Henry V, as seen in the recent Netflix film The King, decisively defeated a large French army at the Battle of Agincourt. In 1419 Henry and an English army invaded again and conquered much of Northern France which they would go on to hold for the next 30+ years. But ultimately the French were victorious in the Hundred Years War, they had Joan of Arc, and such victories as Patay, Formigny and Baugé. Their advanced use of artillery and military reforms helped them to defeat the English in Normandy and Gascony.
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[@historywithhilbert146]

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[@azopeopaz3059]

so many english video forget patay even if it way more important that orléan.

[@orpheonkatakrosmortarchoft4332]

Turns out the cannon is stronger than the longbow.

[@Henry-ok6cd]

Takes too long to load compared to the bow!! Bows are best!!

[@orpheonkatakrosmortarchoft4332]

@@Henry-ok6cd History seems to disagree.

[@Henry-ok6cd]

@Count Noctilus arrrghhh tis but a detail 😂 is all about strategy, if the bow could get into distance of the cannon then it would have the crews looking like pin cushions.

[@quisqueyanguy120]

@@Henry-ok6cd The advance of technology helped with that.

[@Henry-ok6cd]

QuisqueyanGuy this is true, I simply long for the bow

[@Gew219]

Hilbert: "France won the Hundred Years War." Lindybeige: "What is this revisionism?!"

[@greenmachine5600]

@Ferdinand Quartant lol true. Maybe hell talk about the English in India...

[@yoyo-lf3ld]

@@greenmachine5600 😴😴😴😴😴

[@duckmeat4674]

@Ferdinand Quartant as every self respecting brit would

[@nikolavideomaker]

@Ferdinand Quartant I remember, when he spoke of the revolution as bad, or Napoleon as Hitler and Britain as the allies 🤣.

[@gengis737]

@Sunbro Adresse Accidentally the greatedt period of growth (economic, scientific, cultural) in Europe occured after the Revolution. Surely, it had nothing to do with the freedom of citizens, equality towards law and taxes, respect of property, parliamentary rule, that the most advanced countries enjoyed in Europe. Serfdom, birth privilege, arbitrary power of the rulers of good old time were so much more effective.

[@wednesdaynightbusiness6296]

The multiplayer game was converted from crusader kings to europa universalis after 1444, and the French player was better at europa universalis

[@achillesrodriguezxx3958]

Welp as a player who conquered the world on ck2. I'm having difficulty playing Eu4 with all the alliances and coalitions And the trade system which is too herd to understand in Eu4.

[@haruharii]

Achilles RodriguezXX LOL it’s ez though

[@michazadkowski8516]

@@achillesrodriguezxx3958 i have opposite problem XD

[@achillesrodriguezxx3958]

@@michazadkowski8516 Lets share some tips with each other dude. How does the trade system and manpower system work in Eu4? I having trouble making enough money as Portugal and maintaining an army large enough to conquer foreign lands i'm going to be taken over by castile eventually as I have to choose between colonization or expanding my army as i don't have sufficient funds to do both at the same time.

[@michazadkowski8516]

@@achillesrodriguezxx3958 as portugal you need fleet to protect trade and always watch at numbers, if you want more manpower you need ideas with bonuses, if you spending to much on army just change military spending when you are at prace. Just look at numbers 🤗

[@serenisma3402]

"noooo you cant use cannons and beat us at formingny and Castillon "haha jean bureau go BRRR

[@francesco8000]

1444 is a the most important year in the hundred years war. Nothing major happened but it's the year when EU4 start so thousand of people know the fucking map better than their own city.

[@jonathanallard2128]

That's why France won in the end. French King was better at EU4 than CK3 just before.

[@lt3746]

@@jonathanallard2128 Charles VII is a map gamer

[@user-fb9sm7nn2x]

English people : "lmao you need a teenager girl to win" French people : "still you loose against a teenager girl and when you had her prisonner you have burned her alive"

[@SamV1908]

true

[@striker8795]

At least she became a Saint for France

[@atomicgaming1238]

More like a dub

[@user-fb9sm7nn2x]

@Just Getting By She did wear an armor, a flag and a sword, and while she was a huge morale boost for the randoms soldiers when they saw her or just know she was near, some historians say she participated in some fights, wich doesnt mean she killed anyone or dozens of foes as some people of this era told so. Anyway she was an heroine.

[@user-fb9sm7nn2x]

@Just Getting By French wikipedia says she was given a standard bearer fonction by french king Charles VII, was often on the frontline during the war and may have fought during Orléans siege ( in Augustin keep assault ) and Compiègne defensive battle. Also in 1459 she had her own knights and troops, allowed by Charles VII. fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeanne_d%27Arc#Campagnes_militaires_(avril_-_d%C3%A9cembre_1429)

[@valmeysien9680]

I like how the Hundred Years War illustrates very well key dynamics in West-European history : - The end of chivalry illustrated with Agincourt in 1415 ; - The end of middle-age type castles made obsolete by the artillery , illustrated with Castillon in 1453 ; - The birth of a key aspect of modern statehood with Charles the 7th permanent army, less depending on feodal lords' loyalty ; - The rise of the national sentiment, or proto-nationalism. Knights and castles made obsolete, modern statehood replacing feodal military organisation, and the rise of national sentiment : it appears that this war's first casualty was the Middle-Age itself.

[@pascalladalle9018]

Le sentiment national a même commencé assez tôt dans cette guerre, sous Charles V, sinon c'est vrai qu'à la base pour le paysan un seigneur était un seigneur et comme les anglais et les français venaient des mêmes familles ils ne voyaient aucune différence.

[@n333k333]

True. And dramatic.

[@pascalladalle9018]

@Thib Skywalker Oui la bascule s'est faite lors de la bataille de Bannockburn en 1314.

[@lollllfol]

Knights weren't made obsolete in the 100 years war. Look at patay, formigny, pontvallain, and castillon. Hell, look at marignano, ravenna, fornovo, seminara, and agnadello around 50 years later. If anything it was the English longbowman who went obsolete, they never won a major victory after agincourt (yes that includes vernuil it was the knights who won that) while french knights dominated battlefields for another 70 years after the war ended. If there is any battle that you can claim made knights obsolete it would be that battles of pavia and mohacs in the 1520s.

[@Cecilia-ky3uw]

Castles were not obsolete for your fact if the byzantines had been given more stuff to work with i guarantee you the ottomans couldve failed their siege

[@sanjivjhangiani3243]

One aspect of who wins a long war is that the side that loses early on tends to be willing to innovate. The French had sent knights against the longbow and lost three significant battles. So they were more willing to modernize their weapons and army. This happened in the U.S. Civil War; the Confederates started with a better army, but the Union Army learned from their mistakes.

[@stunseed8385]

There wasn't any innovation in the English part, the longbows are not mythical weapons that automatically kill knights or other fully armored men, if anything, it's slightly worse than a composite bow from the East, which the Turks used. The French were arrogant, that's why they suffer those defeats. Even know you still see a few Frenchmen in the comments acting like they are hot shit for winning the 100 years war, despite the fact, if they had a sense of strategy, all of this should've ended at Crecy; they had 30000 men against a 15000 strong English army, all the while in their home turf. Later on in the Italian wars, France got humiliated by Spain at Cerignola when the French heavy cavalry got shredded by Spanish artillery and arquebus fire, as if they didn't know how devastating these can be despite using them to defeat the English.

[@guil7290]

@@stunseed8385 why are you so salty bruh

[@mikestorms4752]

@@stunseed8385 Nice :) Any comments on the feats and screwups of Napoleon Bonaparte :)

[@mikestorms4752]

@@guil7290 I kind of feel his stance . But yeah he brought it very salty :)

[@ellidominusser1138]

A superior foe leads to thinking in new ways to overcome those.

[@EloiFL]

Bro, England didn't lose, they simply did an "indefinite strategic retreat", like their american brothers like to call it or whatever.

[@imperialwarhawk123abc5]

We are not retreating. We are advancing in the opposite direction.

[@OrDuneStudios]

@@imperialwarhawk123abc5 to victory

[@Talyrion]

Fun fact: the Kings of England kept 'king of France' among their titles until 1801. Never let inconvenient facts tell you how reality should be!

[@lockdownfitness7402]

The French did support an invasion of England and the French king there was replaced by the Stuarts. That was the end of the French line, ironically by the French.

[@smal750]

​@@lockdownfitness7402irronic

[@jojuca92]

The battle of Patay was so important for French moral that it became the sentence "mettre la patay" who latter became "mettre la patée" (yes the thing you put on a baguette), wich mean f*****g someone up..

[@fabnobody8316]

Je ne savais pas ça. Merci.

[@amicusplatosedmajoramicusv8219]

@Napoléon Bonaparte Je confirme que c'est bien l'origine de cette expression. Si ce n'est pas le cas, tu es libre de nous éclairer.

[@ericmartial1530]

@@amicusplatosedmajoramicusv8219 J'aimerai beaucoup voir une référence crédible, un lien, un article sérieux sur ce sujet. Je doute beaucoup de sa véracité en l'absence de preuve. Commençons déjà par prouver que l'expression existait au XVe siècle...

[@jonathanallard2128]

Quein mon ess'!

[@jpc7118]

@@ericmartial1530 D'autant plus que ce n'est pas la pâtée mais le pâté qu'on met sur la "baguette"... La pâtée c'est pour les chiens ou les chats ;) :D

[@alwantamalus3709]

100 hundred years war wasn't a war between France and England, but a war between 2 french royal houses, the first ruled France and the second ruled England, the french kings of England claimed the territories of their ancestors and even the french crown.

[@Eldiran1]

"the king" film was so wrong on many ways that , to me , it is like propaganda . they completely change the personnality of the king to make him a young humanist , which he wasn't at all . he was brutal and in fact , he order to kill prisonner against the troops conscent (the troops know they can become prisonner too ). Also the french was not foreigner like they show on the film , the english claim on the french throne was somewhat legit and england was , before the war , technicaly a vasal of france because of normandy . A lot of french are angry against this film and i don't like , as a french myself , this film too . ps: your french is really good but the s in Arras is not silent (it is an exeption )

[@johnfleming4886]

England wasn't a vassal of France, but their King was. Also, I believe the English executed prisoners at Agincourt because there were too many to keep captive.

[@agba5098]

It was largely based off of Shakespeare's Henry V. You think he'd risk his neck and purse for a bit of historical accuracy? Another thing about these biopics (especially if they're made in Hollyweird) is that they're less historical and lean more towards fiction.

[@Eldiran1]

​@@agba5098 i know but the film is presented as historical and as a french , i'm tired to see nearly all holywood film with french people in it as the bad guy , especialy when it is not accurate at all . Shakespeare is somewhat propaganda to me (but it is entertaining for sure) . i don't blame him , it was another century , another moral's standard . i blame netflix and holywood for not being fair to european , and in this case , french people . seeing french people for what they aren't too much time give american (and to an extend , all the world around )some false idea , this is called soft power .

[@Eldiran1]

@@johnfleming4886 you are right , only the king was , my mistake . Henry V was affraid that the prisoners could rearms , kill some english and escape ,because english troops was exausted . Some historian think he do that to terrorise them into submission (to prevent any escape ). Even the major part of the english knights was not okay with that , killing prisoners is not chivalrous at all . the peasant was affraid of doing it too , because they know they could be prisonner too and randsom give money. Also according to wikipedia "Henry threatened to hang whoever did not obey his orders" . He has to deal with internal problem all his young life (he nearly die of an arrow on his head), he surely wanted to be respected as a king .

[@godlovesyou1995]

@@johnfleming4886 it was that and also the french forces got close to them, they were worried theyd be freed

[@siretriste4045]

Fun fact: the battle of Patay has given it's name to a french idiom, in which you can say about someone that you gave him some Patay, meaning a great beating. That's where the expression "mettre la pâtée" comes from! The spelling has changed since no one knows about Patay, but I imagine we are more knowledgeable about "pâté"

[@ericmartial1530]

I would like to see some links or evidences about that

[@moritamikamikara3879]

pâté You mean that disgusting liver paste shit that some derranged people put on their sandwiches?

[@manuelcheung2917]

In our language, patay means "dead".

[@justsceptic3085]

@@moritamikamikara3879 culture is like mouth, without, you shut your mouth...

[@benoittassin1379]

@@justsceptic3085 Unrelated but there is a saying in France. "La culture c'est comme la confiture. Moins on en a, plus on l'étale". In english: Culture is like jam, the less you have the more you feel the need to spread it.

[@signum4852]

The town of Arras follow the exception of french pronunciation, you actually do say the "s" in Arras, same with Reims. Otherwise, great video!

[@annedebroeck2451]

Would you consider making a video about the French knight 'Bertrand Du Guesclin'? It's a part of the 100 years war that gets barely any attention. I would love that.

[@olliefoxx7165]

I've never heard of him. Actually I've never heard alot about French history except from the French Revolution to present day. Will have to look up the knight you mentioned.

[@gengis737]

@@olliefoxx7165 Du Guseclin was the chief of war who reconquered most English strongholds between Poitiers and Agincourt. He is well known in France not for his battles (he did not win many), for the tricks he used to take castles by surprise, avoiding tiresome siege. He also get France rid of unpaid mercenaries, by leading them to Spain to win a feud between English and French supported pretenders to the kingdom of Castille.

[@olliefoxx7165]

@@gengis737 Thank you for the interesting information. I'm going to read about him as well since you pointed him out. We werent taught about that era of history so it's very nice to find new gems to learn about.👍✌

[@romain2305]

du Guesclin was Breton not french (he fought for them but still). Brittany was independant until 1532.

[@gengis737]

@@romain2305 True. By then fighting for another country was not a big deal. Fidelity was to a lineage and an overlord, not to a nation. Hence Britons fighting each other in support of French or British candidates to dukedom. This was not civil war, only usual feudal contest between big names.

[@browniniobrowni2074]

IT'S ALMOST HARVESTING SEASON

[@thecheeselord5943]

Away with you vile beggar!

[@hoseadavit3422]

Your money or your live

[@Iniciadodelasflores]

what's this then EH??

[@CH-fc8dm]

THATS A NICE HEAD YOU HAVE ON YOUR SHOULDERS

[@luxhistoriae1172]

The Hundred years war was a French Civil War, change my mind

[@11Survivor]

The english will never accept it as such, but in the end, it doesn't matter, it was the 100 years war and influenced History greatly.

[@singharpan9859]

The normans were french, basically french vikings so the hundred years war was between two french speaking factions. So yes technically it can be classified as a french civil war. English became a Lingua franca later.

[@casinoheimdall9328]

It was a french 100 years civil war.

[@ey6713]

Because england was french

[@pr-tj5by]

@MUHAMMAD IKHMAL DANIAL BIN MOHD TARMIZI Moe Correct

[@medievistecool]

The King is a disaster for historic accuracy in cinema, you can't change my mind

[@cromabu5090]

Yeah, except the battle itself and the arms and armour for the most part

[@James-sk4db]

It’s based off a couple of Shakespeare plays and not the actual history itself

[@DiavoloGrenadine]

English propaganda be like

[@akas1255]

I really liked the memes and other sound effects in this! Really shook up the style for the better!

[@thatonecharlie]

This was exactly the video I was looking for earlier

[@camille2881]

"The Hundred years war" followed by "the War of the Roses" marks the end of the Ideology of England being a Land Army Power (like France, HRE etc). As they turned away from this idea of controlling the continent by brute force of Land Army, they became a Sea Nation instead.

[@astaldo2547]

Tu est Français ? Cool je cherchais des compatriotes en commentaire !

[@astaldo2547]

Tien et je vais regarder ta chaine en passent : )

[@NicolasCharly]

@@astaldo2547 Pour un Français, tu encules bien notre langue...

[@jimmu8689]

The Nova renaissance I’m sorry, my knowledge on this subject is shaky, but wouldn’t we consider Henry VIII to be the start of this idea of England being a naval power due to his establishment of the Royal Navy?

[@astaldo2547]

@@NicolasCharly Pardon j'ai écris tard je nais pas fais attentions je suis désoler

[@ryonhovey4450]

It is obviously because the English AI can’t successfully transport their army to France.

[@pascalladalle9018]

Attention quand même, maintenant que les bateaux sont automatique sur CK3 j'ai des craintes sur EU5 que des hordes d'Anglais arrivent par millions sur nos côtes :D

[@jamaphy8621]

@@pascalladalle9018 what is this disgusting language

[@Raisonnance.]

@@jamaphy8621 Language of god.

[@leroiarouf1142]

@@jamaphy8621 ur mother love this langage

[@DiavoloGrenadine]

@@jamaphy8621 The one that your nobles spoke, peasant.

[@mbathroom1]

Having an ad right before the Dutch anthem made it even more dramatic

[@HistoryUniversity]

ITS ALMOST HARVESTING SEASON

[@luke8264]

THAT’S A NICE HEAD YOU HAVE ON YOUR SHOULDERS.

[@kas7423]

LESS TALKING, MORE RAIDING

[@nicolas314]

Battle of Castillon is a masterpiece

[@appleslover]

You have a hypocrite as a pfp

[@chagui5253]

@@appleslover I would rather say a politician.

[@karasujap9241]

Really good videos mate, keep making them. Extremely good quality for a video on the 100 years war

[@Mike-tz4ku]

nice video Hilbert. keep it up 😊👍

[@AHersheyHere]

The transitions are little rough, it does 1/3 of the screen at first and then does the rest. Hope this is intentional, example at 5:48 (other occurrences as well).

[@Azivegu]

His videos have been doing that for a while. It may just be a hardware issue where the laptop he is using struggles to render the video properly.

[@AHersheyHere]

@@Azivegu Okay, appreciate the answer.

[@historywithhilbert146]

It's an issue I've been having with my old laptop so I'm switching to a new one to fix it and get some better graphics.

[@therealcat5794]

@@historywithhilbert146 What about getting a desktop? You could save some money and get more power.

[@klausbrinck2137]

I thought it was attitude/style... Sometimes the transitions happens before he has spoken out the whole last word of his sentence...

[@timpauwels3734]

Hi Hilbert. I just read a book “De twee kanten van het kanaal” by Harry de Paepe. It covers the shared history between the Low Countries and the British Isles, from the Roman invasion to the 20th century. The writing style is also somewhat entertaining at times. Maybe it’s something that would interest you.

[@dustman6654]

Got my sub man I love a quality history channel.

[@ThiccboiSalmon]

I really like the humour in your videos Hilbert, both education and entertaining. A also kinda wanna try out that haircut just so I can get a bit of france, or even just a 3-bedroom home there tbh

[@douglasdaniel4504]

I remember a line from the TV miniseries "Wolfhall" in which Thomas Cromwell is speaking to the Duke of Norfolk. Norfolk say something to the effect of "France is ours, we own it!" to which Cromwell replies, quite calmly, "Yes, but we can't hold it." I think that sums it all up.

[@antoinemozart243]

Shakespeare said the same thing in Henry VI second part : Winchester : concerning France it will always be ours. York : yes ....if we can..

[@Knight860]

Edward IV never gave up the title of King of France. It wasn't until King George III in 1800 when Ireland was officially incorporated into the UK, that the title was dropped.

[@skiteufr]

That he gave up or not was meaningless. The English kings claimed to be the Kings of France, but actually never were. Claiming something means you want something you do lot possess. And Ireland was not the reason why the British dropped their claim. It was because France was a republic for the first time in its history, and there were no crown to claim anyway

[@lecapetien3223]

King Georges III could not claim the crown of France because he was German not French. The Plantagenets claimed the crown of France because they were French. At that Time, england was a French-speaking French colony ruled by French. that's why the 100 years war is a French dynastic civil war between the French King of France and the French kings of england. all the so-called victories of england over France are actually French victories over French.

[@saint4life09]

@@lecapetien3223 It was not a French colony. The upper class was just culturally very French. They mostly would still know English and most of the soldiers, obviously, were English.

[@lecapetien3223]

@@saint4life09 The upper class was not just culturally very French, it was 100% French that's all.

[@Knight860]

@@skiteufr Partly true, France had been a republic for 7 years by then, KG III just chose then to drop the claim to France as well in part to help to end the war started by Robespierre.

[@ecurewitz]

Thank you for the awesome video

[@richardglady3009]

Thank you for this video. I bought “Conquest...” as a Kindle ebook and love it.

[@user-wh8mb7tm2g]

Laughs in Guillaume le Conquérant

[@Daneelro]

It's worth to emphasize even more the part of the French military reforms that sought to protect peasants from the violence & robbery they regularly suffered at the hands of the mercenary and feudal armies and thus win their support. Whoever thought of this must have been influenced by the example of Joan of Arc (a peasant girl with naive but powerful notions about "her" king-to-be) and the popular support she garnered, and had the wisdom to exploit it. Also, the Battle of Patay is a very interesting one. Why did it turn out so differently from the Battles of Agincourt & Crécy? Mainly because the French forces didn't take their time but rushed into battle, their vanguard surprising and overwhelming the English archers before they could set up to destroy cavalries like so many times before. This was Joan of Arc's doing, she urged his men to push on, against the concerns of her seasoned commanders. The sudden total victory must have been a shock to all of them. So even though it wasn't a conscious strategy and she wasn't much involved in the actual battle, she had a crucial role in the turn of the tide for the French.

[@johnwotek3816]

"It's worth to emphasize even more the part of the French military reforms that sought to protect peasants from the violence & robbery they regularly suffered at the hands of the mercenary and feudal armies and thus win their support." Fun fact, the organisation created at that time, to regulate the mercenaries, is the direct ancestor of the french military law enforcement organisation known as "la Gendarmerie Nationale"

[@Daneelro]

@Napoléon Bonaparte Have you even read what I wrote? Yes, having been embedded in the main army that couldn't catch up with the vanguard as it trashed the British, Joan of Arc did not take part in the actual fighting, but it was at her urging that the French forces rushed into battle.

[@MW_Asura]

@Napoléon Bonaparte One of the French commanders stated that even though she didn't participate in the battle the victory was basically her's, due to how she raised the morale of the french soldiers some time before

[@Siegbert85]

Appreciated the Warband soundfiles a lot!

[@mowvu5380]

what a channel. the pronunciations are top on. top lad.

[@Perrirodan1]

When you think about it, the Hundred Years War was a victory for the English culture because it's losing the conflict that lead the English aristocracy to stop speaking French. Had the English won and because the French population was so much larger, the aristocracy would not have stopped speaking French. England would have kept being bombarded even more by French influence. When would the English get independance from "England"? I find it irronic that England could have ended up being assimilated by the land it would have had conquered.

[@chrisleonard2066]

Conversely the Hundred Years War consolidated French national identity and the efficacy of the central government, making France one of the first (European, at least) true nation-states

[@za.monolit]

lol yeah ok sore loser

[@Dominic-fd2wz]

Chris Leonard Yeah and then French Revolution. Get rekt frogs!

[@chrisleonard2066]

Dominic French Revolution only cemented French national identity. The Kingdom was stagnant and people no longer had faith in the Crown. It’s super complicated but the fundamentals of the revolution were positive

[@aquilatempestate9527]

@@chrisleonard2066 Ah yes "the fundamentals were positive". Stay tuned for "real Jacobin reform has never been tried".

[@Gew219]

3:07 Actually Hilbert, the first undisputed depiction of European artillery comes from 1326 English treatise called "De nobilitatibus, sapientiis, et prudentiis regum" written by Walter de Malimete. It's a revolutionary work describing vast array of the newst inventions and science of the time. Apart from the first cannon (called pot-de-fer) it depict other inventions, like the first incendiary parachute bomb. It was created 102 years before the siege of Orléans.

[@fitzwaren]

Just commenting to say that the 9:20 reference is not cringy at all, well done. (A french citizen)

[@CatroiOz]

What people dont understand is that the hundred years war was a civil war among the french nobility, not a war between two nations like we understand it now

[@CatroiOz]

@Dod o it was

[@mikespearwood3914]

@Dod o Yes it was...just the fact some French nobles had a lot of British peasants to fight on their behalf gave it an international flavour.

[@CatroiOz]

@Dod o the "english" nobles spoke only french, followed french customs and habits and saw the british island and its people as a poor backwater with barely any relevance. The most important lands of the "english" kings were their lands in aquitaine which were far more prosperous. The war is a war among the nobility to determine who shall inherit the crown of Hugh Capet, nothing else

[@CatroiOz]

@Dod o ok mate, I'm done talking with you since you're just looking for an argument, try reading an actual history book

[@mikespearwood3914]

@Dod o The English peasants had no personal interests in France, except to loot. The Norman/Plantagenet aristocrat class were the ones wanting to fight wars in France, and claim territory/the French crown.

[@Hopesedge]

The hundred years war is a peculiar one, since it was actually multiple wars, one of which has a 20+ year gap in-between it the next war. Hell they even involved completely different people with often completely different interests over the 100 year span. France certainly won in the end, England basically annihilated them in the first war of the 3, and then it went downhill from there, another case of "Oh man we actually did it, I'm not really sure what to do now, I never thought I'd get this far".

[@Paris-xv9sj]

9:20 the funniest part

[@OkayGrimmy]

even Medieval Flanders isn't safe from this guy

[@metaxu3305]

And Arras was never a part of Flanders to begin with, but the capital of another county (Artois).

[@GarmBeliblis25]

For the record, Frank DID speak an idiom (vieux francique) related to Flemmish, especially during the Carolingian times. It did not give a lot of vocabulary in current french (but for instance "the Louvre" comes from a francique word) and it influences grammart as the Court used both language for some time before switching to a more latinized language especially under Charlemagne's influence. That's one of the reason French is the only Latin language where you cant use a verb without its pronouns for instance (while Italian, Spanish or Portuguese can) ... so Arras is a legitimate french claim ;-)

[@pierren___]

What the Louvre means ???

[@GarmBeliblis25]

@@pierren___ louwer: sorte de tour de guet en francique et il yen aurait eu une très tôt, avant le siège de Paris par les vikings. Origine incertaine et ça pourrait aussi venir de la présence de loup sur la forêt préexistante.

[@AlbertBasedman]

Ah, great timing, seems like i wont be sleeping after all!

[@grey3247]

Average Ingerland fan vs average Kingdom of France enjoyer

[@blueorbetter1948]

In my opinion you did a better job explaining this than extra credits

[@augustin5611]

9:16 Not true at all. Back then, there was multiple regional languages in France. Plus, the nobility of england was basically french and, as such, spoke mostly french.

[@DarthSagit]

@Just Getting By The word "fee" was of Germanic not French origin, "feoh" meaning cattle in Old English and by extension currency

[@thgentleman9210]

Henry iv and his Hrnry V and his children spoke English as a first language. Yes the English are related to Normans and other French folk. France to some degree did belong to English rule its all political and family tree based.

[@bruderschweigen6889]

@@thgentleman9210 arent the norman nobility norse or were they french ?

[@user-pc3nc3hg6w]

@@bruderschweigen6889 They were french

[@fiachramaccana280]

not in the 15th century they didnt. You are one century too late They spoke English by the 1420s

[@paultandnieser5514]

9:31 exactly me at work... (I'm French)

[@marcocapelle]

Very interesting! I knew about Joan of Arc, but not that so many other factors contributed to French victory.

[@jacobinfier9407]

We destroyed england lol

[@barraman.]

Nice vid

[@ceegesange9904]

Overall a good video (and good pronunciation of French names), although historians have pointed out that Joan of Arc didn't exactly "lead", according to eyewitnesses and Charles VII's military records which show that there was always a nobleman in command. Some of the nobles said they asked her for advice because they believed she was sent by God, but they also sometimes put her way in the back (such as at the battle of Patay) and in other cases didn't tell her what their plans were.

[@msdm83]

Barbra Tuckman who wrote A Distant Mirror (fantastic book), reckoned that the french won the 100 years war, and would have won eventually, because economically the french were always stronger. The English forces winning disproportionately in the early stages because the French chivalry had a prejudice against the use of low bow archers.

[@giovannilemaster1027]

Monty Python, maybe the French did have a "Holy Grail"? "He said they already got one"! Lol. " Oh yes its ah very nice sir".. I mean we all wondered until Indiana Jones found like evey one had one.. Okay im sorry , ill quit.. Excellent video, very fascinating! Thank You, Hilbert

[@deskundereich5276]

love the mont and blade soundbites

[@MarkTulsa2024]

Bawahahahah. One of your best yet. We love you Hilbert.

[@me-bq2yw]

"This has been Hilbert, and... wait, no, *I'm* Hilbert"

[@rebralhunter6069]

A sponsorship in a Hilbert vida? Good on ya me boy! Get those Denar laddie!

[@vegetableman3911]

France: *Has millions more people than England in 1300s* England in recent history: Hey guys we figured out how children are made!

[@toledochristianmatthew9919]

@Napoléon Bonaparte and also all the constant wars for the past few hundred years didn't help. France used have the largest population in Europe. From the French Revolution to the Napoleonic wars and up to WW 1 and 2, France lost a lot of people in these cobflicts and still struggle to this day to recover.

[@hailvictory9698]

try 18 million more

[@Miquelalalaa]

Hmmmmm and they figured out how to import the third world

[@pascalladalle9018]

@@toledochristianmatthew9919 des la guerre de 1870 nous sommes largement en infériorité numérique face aux allemands coalisés, c'est d'ailleurs ce qui va provoquer le rapprochement entre la France et le Royaume-Uni qui voyait d'un mauvais oeil la démographie allemande.

[@valdasgard913]

France was not united

[@MrKylljoy]

4:11 " Handover the spreadable meat jam " I SEE WHAT YOU DID THERE

[@KrKilllla]

10/10 M&B sound clips

[@hallamhal]

Good to learn about the English commanders at this time - would be nice to learn more about the French (only two I know outside Joan of Arc are memelord La Hire and serial killer Gilles de Rais)

[@theshadowling1]

Joan isn't really a good example of a commander, she's an excellent figurehead, but the only time she lead a military operation all her own it ended in disaster. The army was successful mainly because of the "Bastard of Orleans" the Duc d'Orlean, bastard son of the French King who was an exceptional military commander who was able to harness Joan's inspirational presence to rally men and knights.

[@Heisenberg882]

Jean de dunois, Jean Bureau (who was the kings artillery master), Jean de Clermont, Arthur De Richemont, Gaston count of foix.

[@oakpope]

Gilles de Rais : Not really a serial killer but a serial his wife's money spender. His in laws manage to kill him under horrific false pretense and got back their money.

[@saechabashira8380]

Long story short: Teenage girl booster: +200% boost to army's morale Cannons: +200% damages on longbowmen

[@mijanhoque1740]

Crazy to think there would be no 100 years war if the Saxons won at Hastings. Just that one battle changed the course of everything.

[@SRosenberg203]

@@mickmeadows Not even. William would have invaded England before Harald Hardrada even arrived in York, he was just stuck in Normandy for like 3 months because he couldn't get favorable winds to make the crossing until nearly October.

[@CHALETARCADE]

@@mickmeadows You mean the same way Henry V took advantage of the civil war in France in order to seize French land? I'm just asking, because in war, you always attack when you have an advantage, an opening, so why mention this specifically about the French?

[@andreascovano7742]

2:50 noble and ANCIENT art of catching a cannonball?

[@090giver090]

Yes it was trending even before the "canon" part :)

[@timpauwels3734]

None have achieved greater mastery of this art than the legendary Baron of Münchhausen!

[@andreascovano7742]

@@timpauwels3734 true. That's how he defeated the turks

[@joshadams8761]

The s in Arras is pronounced. The way you pronounced it sounds like French for “to rat” or “has rat”. Your French pronunciation is good, though. Rouen is the second-most-difficult place name to pronounce. (Chartres is the most.)

[@bluemountain4181]

Personally I find Rheims quite tricky

[@joshadams8761]

Blue Mountain Agreed. Not only does it have a guttural r, but the m is pronounced as an n.

[@arnaudpascal1691]

@@bluemountain4181 If you can pronounce "rince" (from verb rincer), just use the same sound ;)

[@11Survivor]

Niederschaeffolsheim. Nuff said.

[@arnavbhagwat4232]

@@11Survivor atleast you say it the way you write it. Try Rheims for instance

[@blindoutlaw]

I’m 2 years late But the amount of historical memes in this video is top tier. Almost lordly

[@JesusIsMyLordAndSavior]

Just found your channel from your first video responding to lindybiege the last kingdom

[@ricardoguanipa8275]

looks like Hilbert is turning into the dutch "Ranton"

[@bobharvey6957]

9:10 Also the violence of the english soldiers against the civilian population was a major cause for those revolts

[@TerpstraMark]

Toch blij dat het Wilhelmus weer terug is.

[@alkfouq8762]

1:28 the titular King is Louis-Alphonse de Bourbon-Anjou (often referred to as Louis de Bourbon or Louis XX), duke of Anjou and duke of Cadix.

[@Elainerulesutube]

This was the beginning of the end of the Plantangenet dynasty.

[@thesnoopmeistersnoops5167]

Just like to say I highly recommend the books by Maurice Druon, set in the French royal court several decades before the start of the conflict.

[@Coeurebene1]

yes this is like Games of Thrones in the real world, it sets up the stage for the 100 years war so well.

[@NAs-qq7bo]

I have that book by Juliet Barker! It’s great

[@johnkilmartin5101]

I would have thought you'd link catching a canon ball with either Salisbury steak or that Talbot is a breed of dog.

[@mirlitoncanon3615]

I think we should call all this the "French civil war" because it's a conflict between a French colony and mainland France.

[@archivesoffantasy5560]

It was quite like a civil war but a colony is ruled by the same person as the apparent coloniser. Many kings of England were French but they did not take orders from the king of France. A colony is for gain in manpower or resources etc, what did the kingdom of France gain out of the Norman conquest of England? Nothing beneficial. King Henry I even defeated the French king in battle and King Henry II owned more of France than the French king.

[@FEAR709]

Ahhh, Warband sounds, it's good to be amongst my kind of people.

[@georgia8789]

0:11 mount & blade: warband reference

[@richardglady3009]

Thank you for this video.

[@FLH3official]

Small detail in this very interesting video: The city "Arras", you have to pronounce the S, AraSS, not Ara. I give that detail because I've to point out that the other cities, like Rouen, Orleans, Formigny, are perfectly pronounced (and we know the sounds "an", "ouen" or "gny" in French are not natural at all for English speakers)

[@dashua1735]

Débarras is pronounced "Dé Barr- Ah" so why shouldn't "Arras" be pronounced "Arr-Ah"?

[@quaesitrix881]

@@dashua1735 Because it's French, so you have exceptions to exceptions to exceptions who also have their exceptions.

[@dashua1735]

@@quaesitrix881 As a french-speaking person myself, I never knew that was how we pronounced that name. I think it's pretty stupid, in my honest opinion. Must be originally a correct pronunciation in the old french language, but reading it today, every french-speaking person would have pronounced it "À rat" which is a more grammatically correct pronunciation. Wikipedia doesn't really explain why we have to pronounce it that way either.

[@quaesitrix881]

@@dashua1735 In old French, all the consonants were spoken. It is only later that many letters have become silent, like final "s" or "t" in modern French. But some proper nouns kept the old pronunciation, and I assume "Arras" is one of them.

[@pnjijy]

aha ils se transforme en cornichon, il se prénomme "Corni-Rick"

[@jonathanallard2128]

Feels good to hear a video in English with good French pronunciation.

[@Poirecorp]

9:19 As a simple French, I can't help but to confess cornichons (pickled cucumbers) *are* inherently hilarious up to their very name, and I'm impressed if not a little frightened by the depth of his understanding of our collective psychology.

[@cprow0997]

Baguette frog man

[@AlucardNoir]

... Hey, did you change the music when you show that badly hoisted french flag?

[@CesarGarcia-nd5xz]

"Surprender, cannon ball goes boom!!" - French artillery man probably

[@ericmarley7060]

It hurts, man...

[@adammmedkour7491]

There’s so many adverts that I didn’t get to the end of your video.

[@vassily-labroslabrakos2263]

Weren't the French ordnance also inspired directly or indirectly by the hussites?

[@Grityom]

That's actually a good question, would love to have an answer

[@TheSergentChaotix]

@Hervé Masseau I would translate les écorcheurs by the flayers rather than the scorchers. A rather not knightly name

[@luckyassassin1]

I was drinking water when you made that comment about the hapsburg chin, damn i need a warning before stuff like that lol

[@ecurewitz]

1:27, AHHH! no more monarchy

[@deadking8224]

England might not have lost Aquitaine in the 1370s had the Black Prince not been ill and might have pushed through even further if Edward III had the same enthusiasm like he did at the beginning of the War

[@martincristian4567]

8:00 "the first time since the romans"? The Roman Empire was still barely alive in 1435, but it had standing professional armies until the 11th century AD. You are endorsing the latin propaganda that The Roman Empire ceased to exist in 5th century AD. Its a great video and very educative too. The is so much english speaking content about Agincourt on youtube, but not to much about how France won the Hundred Years War.

[@valhall89]

The Roman Empire ceased to exist in 5th century AD

[@hazzmati]

@@valhall89 Not really. The Empire was divided into a Western and Eastern part in the 4th century. The Western Roman Empire fell in the 5th century while the Eastern Roman Empire continued to exist for another 1000 years.

[@valhall89]

@@hazzmati aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand the joke flew right over your head.

[@hazzmati]

@@valhall89 Where is the joke exactly? Just stating a false historical narrative, that's supposed to be the joke?

[@martincristian4567]

@@valhall89 With that attitude you will not get chosen for the Varangian Guard.

[@isabelladiprisco9997]

"Ding dong, your religion is wrong."

[@cameroonemperor755]

-probably a far right keyboard fighter, 2020

[@firstnamelastname4249]

That is not the case with the 100 years war...

[@olliefoxx7165]

@@cameroonemperor755 ??? What?

[@cameroonemperor755]

@@olliefoxx7165 haven't you heard about the keyboard fighters? A very dangerous species

[@olliefoxx7165]

@@cameroonemperor755 I've seen keyboard warriors from all sides. You apparently are a far leftist that doesnt like right wing people. Got it. If you carry around a hammer you'll always be making nails out of matchsticks.

[@Jon.Alexander]

I enjoy watching your vids... they're simpeul and eugli!

[@jondaime1689]

Great vid bro! Cheers fron the caribbean