Medieval knights: How Did Knights Live?

Where did knights come from? What does the word mean? How did knights promote themselves, in the eyes of their vassals, their peers, their lords? How does that kind of promotion relate to our modern world?
• Executive Producer: Jason Kingsley OBE
• Executive Producer: Chris Kingsley
• Senior Producer: Brian Jenkins
• Producer: Edward Linley
• Director: Dominic Read
• Presenter: Jason Kingsley OBE
• Director of Photography: Ed Mash
• Camera: Andy Berryman
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• Audio: Frank Newman
• Sound Design: Nick D. Brewer
• Animation Artwork: Edouard Groult
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[@antonresurreccion5062]

This is some National Geographic level stuff. I just watched the medieval food vids but now will binge watch up from part 1 til latest video.

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Nat Geo is a sell out, not a supporters of knowledge and exploration.

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Ditto!

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I find this channel absolutely fascinating too 😊

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Yup! Scrolled back all the way to the first

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It's sad that something so well made by a large group of people can have so few views.

[@RonJohn63]

The videos are short and a bit fluffy (up-close scenes of *grass* and him riding around in slow-mo were added to fill up an already short video). That's why *I* won't be watching any more.

[@jaykay6222]

@RonJohn63, if you haven't already I'd at least suggest watching the 4 piece segment of how people ate in the midieval period before you leave. Those are the first ones I bumped into and are why I'm branching into the other videos on the channel. Although, so far I can agree that these first videos seem a bit short and the titles don't really lead your expectations in the right direction.

[@DrScorcho]

@@jaykay6222 Those are the first ones I saw as well. Popped up on the recommended for lord knows what reason, and I'm glad they did. So I started watching it all from the beginning. The first episodes are short and full of some fluff, but as they go on, they started getting more broad and have more information in them.

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The channel is pretty new so I think it will pick up fairly quickly. I checked Social Blade and their view count has increased 11,000% and their subscriber count 15,000% over the past 30 days so all the good, hard work is not wasted!

[@rossowinch69]

I just imagined the Knight having a microphone taunting their opponent while the camera zooms up in on them just like Macho Man. Haha great stuff! And each of the knights having their own entrance music and walking along the crown to hype them up. Omg I want a tv show like this.

[@Tyrhor]

They haven't had a microphones, but they have had a profesional entertainers that performed to the crowd and yeld the stories.

[@cindyknudson2715]

Have you seen the movie "A Knight's Tale" ?

[@KorKhan89]

The etymology of “knight” coming from an old word for “servant” has interesting parallels elsewhere. The Japanese word “samurai” originally meant “one who serves”.

[@tubularap]

In my native language Dutch, we have the word "knecht" which is almost pronounced the same as Jason does "knight" at 0:46 That word "knecht" means 'helper', 'assistant' or 'servant'. Particularly an assistant to a 'master'. In situations that the "knecht" learns from the master (like a master painter) it means as much as 'apprentice'. The verb "knechten" means 'to subjugate'.

[@darthbricksempire3606]

tubularAp We have “knægt” (knäkt) which is like “boy”, but a more rude term, like and old person yelling at a kid like “boy, come here right now!”

[@tubularap]

@@darthbricksempire3606 - That is interesting, that the word is used in another language too, in a different but still sort of similar meaning. What is your language ?

[@sircoprasnakekoala5438]

Yeeeah here in denmark we have "knægt" which also means young boy or a guy

[@samuelclaessens7699]

Hallo landgenoot! Hoe is t' ermee?!

[@tubularap]

@@samuelclaessens7699 - Het gaat goed, ik hoop met jou ook.

[@fitzmeister87]

Knight is cognate to german Knecht. The sense of "he who serves" also caracterizes the japanese "Samurai", from "samurau"/侍う, "to serve"

[@ricklieffering]

fitzmeister87 Here in Holland the word knecht is also used for a (boy) servant or also in the tradition of Sinterklaas the black servant of Sinterklaas is called Zwarte Piet or black piet/pete, usually reffered as de knecht/the knecht or more common as zwarte piet. The whole tradition and concept of zwarte piet is currently under heavy national debate wheter being racist or not. But it is very cool to hear an almost direct connection between Germanic and Anglo Saxon language.

[@Misere1459]

But in german, "knight" is "ritter" from ridder/ride. In french, it's belong to the latin and work also with the horse (chevalier/cavalier/caballarius)

[@littlerave86]

@@ricklieffering The German equivalent to the zwarte Piet would be Knecht Ruprecht, who is not considered to be black and thus not under such debate but his name already indicates his position. To your last statement, English actually IS one of the modern West Germanic languages, with the Saxons and Angles actually being Germanic tribes emigrating to the British Isles merging together there so it's actually no surprise to hear a direct connection between German and English. Old English sounds a lot closer to German, though but in rare cases I hear weird English sentences forming actual German grammar, which to me as a German sounds oddly weird and horribly incorrect. The descendants of the Angles are now the Danish and the Saxons even still exist. There are three states in Germany inhabiting their name: Lower Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt and Saxony. But only the people from Saxony are still referred to as Saxons and they have formed their own dialect (Sächsisch), very distinct from the more Dutch-sounding northern German dialect (Plattdeutsch) because they migrated east into slavic speaking lands.

[@squakrock]

Landsknecht VORAN!

[@bennyvermeulen7255]

Taigen Soshin in the dutch language the same. When we say Ridder, we referring to a Knight, a knecht is referring to a servent.

[@lukedogwalker]

The idea of a strong theatrical element to tournaments, beyond just parading one's coat of arms, makes the whole thing much more interesting. I like the comparison to modern wrestling. I bet they did that, too!

[@katherinewilson1853]

It reminds me of polo now, how it's become. It is now has become a place to show off as a wealthy person, to meet and greet, as one of that class. One isn't part of that scene if one isn't part of that scene. And the outcome is now--another divergence. What is the new joust, I wonder?

[@RoyalArmouries]

Really wonderful series!

[@BriarCrawford]

Thanks so much for this series! The video quality and everything is great. Now, I'm off to go binge-watch the other videos!

[@darkonikodinovski2742]

In my language knight is called vitez (витез). It was borowed from the old germanic word viking (vikignir)

[@SilverSunPublishing]

You are a master storyteller, and your horses are beautiful!

[@Farscryer0]

Subbed today. Why have I never seen this channel before? This is amazing!

[@terminator572]

Fuck me Kneesocks is pretty.

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[@Thongger]

I remember in secondary/high school history class we had to study 'roman' history. I Thought, boy oh boy i cant wait to learn of Roman history! We learned nothing. We spent an entire academic year learning about the peat bog man's corpse that they dug up in southern england.

[@LeatherCladVegan]

That's a great phrase: "I wouldn't be surprised - human nature being what it is - if that were the case".

[@zackbenatabou9677]

Great video Jason, and all of the people behind the scenes who put the video together and all the resources to even attempt this. I love this channel. Very interesting to think about tournaments as being similar to modern day wrestling but it makes sense. You don’t get that sense from a lot of movies and shows

[@stonemarten1400]

Really well done, interesting and finely filmed documentary.

[@diannesmithett8133]

Am currently binge watching this amazing channel

[@draco147]

I'm surprised by the quality of this production.

[@loxydoe5573]

Haha, while the animation of the knight arriving at the tournament was playing in my head I thought "That's some WWE level showmanship right there" then you immediately drew the comparison. Love it.

[@ccityplanner1217]

The word for an upper-class professional warrior originally meaning servant is not completely unique to English: 侍 in Japanese is of the same origin. Maybe it's an island thing, from not having to fight so far away & therefore being less likely to always be using a horse (English knights were known in the Hundred Years' War for their willingness to fight on foot) & also less likely to grow up in one area & serve in another. Japan is also particularly ill-suited to horse husbandry: land is in short supply relative to population, making growing crops for food a more profitable use of land. In this way it resembles the terrains of the ancient Greek city-states & of Switzerland, both known for non-cavalry-dependent styles of warfare. Japan is in-fact so mountainous that before the railway was built it was not possible to get a horse from one end of the mainland to the other, except by boat. On the other hand, the warrior classes were associated with the horse in medieval Japan; it seems to have been seen as a status symbol even more-so than in Europe. My hypothesis is that the Japanese were originally horse nomads from the Asian continent who settled when they found themselves in terrain completely ill-suited to such a way of life. Actually, this resembles the origin of the Indo-Europeans (horse nomads who settled once out of the steppes).

[@katyu16]

I love this channel! I'm learning so much about things that I "thought" I already knew but I was totally wrong!

[@BioSoldier53]

This is absolutely amazing. Thank you for making this for us.

[@kevinromero245]

This is incredible how have less than 10k ppl seen it??

[@leod-sigefast]

Knight, knape, knave were all Old English words that meant something similar to what you explained: boy, yet servant, yet brotherhood. Knight retained a higher status during the French-speaking Norman and plantagenet rule. Interesting how subtle language differences evolved. Knape and knave, although now obsolete, became more dismissive, despite being of the same word-stem as knight.

[@michaelevangelista8031]

Knight is not old,this are a present guard of god,who ever beaing old was of knight defence there lord's enemy.

[@JDTN1985]

You make a good point about people other then knights being allowed to compete in tournaments. I could absolutely see a nobleman sponsoring a skilled man-at-arms or a famous/rich mercenary entering during a time of peace. Likely would have brought a sense of novelty to the event similar to like a special guest star on a tv show nowadays.

[@woodrobin]

In re: whether nobility is required to compete in tourneys and A Knight's Tale: both versions exist (or are at least referenced) in the movie. There's a reference to the tourneys becoming more restrictive, and actually requiring "patents of nobility" proving that you were of noble birth (and even that having been at least a few generations back to the original grant at the least) in order to compete. It seemed like it was intended to exclude the nouveau riche in the context of the film. Previous to that, showing up with your gear and saying you were a knight seemed to have been the rule of thumb, with no one really caring to look into it much as long as you showed up with a horse, armor, lances, and attendants. That's the hook for Chaucer joining the band: he's literate and skilled enough at crafting documents to forge a convincing set of patents for the identity of Sir Ulrich von Lichtenstein of Geldaland (apparently based on a real knight and author of a book on chivalric love).

[@Dunkelzeitgeist]

These videos and your channel are so high quality, far better than what’s on TV, also as an avid video gamer, historian and environmentalist, Jason is an inspiration!

[@Palmieres]

Love the channel, recently subscribed, but I just have to say... that's a damn beautiful horse.

[@arackofhats5235]

why not just make episodes 20 min.... instead of breaking it into 4 parts at 5 min each.... it just doesnt make sense, especially when at 10 minutes works best for the algorithm and then you can have a AD break to break up parts, just seems like a far easier editing and better for visibility?

[@imperialfist1985]

Throughly enjoying this so far. I'd love to see more uploads a week(hint hint)!

[@ModernKnight]

Thanks Malcolm, hopefully you've seen we're now posting mid-week vlogs as we go!

[@Leto85]

Did you say the word knight comes from 'knecht?' The subtitles left that word out. It's also a Dutch word though. It means someone who works for you, and is indeed oldfashioned here.

[@anasapsana824]

Yeah he told so

[@mothmanprophet11]

Really love this channel. Jason, you are a great host. I love how you present these topics in such a humble way.

[@wilagaton9627]

More love to A Knight's Tale :D

[@ericdale4641]

I love the pro wrestling comparison. It's spot on! It makes you wonder if anyone back then specifically tried to be the heel, or villain in a tournament. Get that heat from the crowd so they pay to watch you get your comeuppance. Floyd Mayweather and Conor McGregor made millions in their sports being heels.

[@ModernKnight]

given human nature, I think fixes were occasionally organised, especially if royalty were involved.

[@Cmdr_Sam]

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[@knightshousegames]

"One doth think one possess what it would take to joust with The Knight? Well the Knight Sayeth this. For all the dozens...AND DOZENS... of The Knight's Retinue, The Knight will brandish thine lance, as thusly, have thine squire polish it vigorously, as thusly, then he will turn this son of a harlot widdershins, and stick it directly up your effeminate fauld! NOW DOTH THOU SMELL WHAT THE KNIGHT'S SERVANTS ARE PREPARING FOR HIM IN THE KITCHEN!?"

[@BeNGun86]

The way you say the word "Cniht" reminds me of the german word for a servant who is or was called a "Knecht". If you would replace the "i" with an "e" in the word "Cniht", so it becomes "Cneht", it would be said the same way. If there is any relation between those words?

[@kenziebaker4417]

Amazing content! Love this channel

[@mereanochheart7050]

So tournaments, like professional wrestling, were a work. I always kind of figured.

[@therealslamshaky]

Funny how there are still a lot of little things left over from the old Scandinavian languages, and how they've gone a different route than they have in Scandinavia. I'm from Denmark, we still use Knægt as boy but depending on context it might be considered rude or cheeky.

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Wow; in some shots you look like a painting I saw of the Archangel Saint Michael!

[@Stephen-uz8dm]

In modern muay thai, a violent spectator sport, it's common etiquette to not try and finish a fight in the first round. This is partly because of gambling and also for showmanship.

[@davidschaftenaar6530]

In Dutch we have the word "knecht" which means servant, I wouldn't be surprised if that came from the same root word as knight.

[@nw6198]

"They were watching their wealthy neighbors being beaten up." I feel like this is something we might be missing out on in modern society. X'D

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This channel deserves so many more subs and views! Excellent quality!

[@SilverSunPublishing]

Sadly, most people aren't interested in history. I blame the educational system. All most history teachers focus on are wars and memorizing dates. They forget was history is all about -- it's a STORY of the past meant to teach those of the present and the future.

[@fabricio-agrippa-zarate]

that knight could have used the John Cena's entrance song and the show would have been fabulous.

[@grammamamel]

So well produced. Very informative series.

[@broceratops1337]

The whole time I was thinking, "Sounds like a pro wrestler." Then the hosts mentions it haha

[@somethinggtwo]

ah. There he is, the knight in shining armor on a white horse. Had been wondering where the hell he was hiding.

[@DeadSomething]

"Knight" in german is "Ritter" which is an old word for "Reiter" meaning "Rider"

[@Anglisc1682]

Does Landsknecht translate, literally, to "land knight"?

[@DeadSomething]

@@Anglisc1682 no. it literally means "country's servant"

[@Anglisc1682]

@@DeadSomething Ahhh!

[@KamiRecca]

Tournaments were very much a spectator sport, ey? Well yes and no. It depends on what tournaments and when. Mostly when. For examples, early tournaments were mock battles where you took captives and ransomed them back to their kin. The point was to have the knights fighting, keeping their battle-skills honed. It was a way to mark yourself out as a great warrior, to show your honor (a term that has a very varied meaning throughout history) and so on. And it could be rather deadly. And yes, there were probably people watching these early tournaments, like wives and so on, but these torunaments were NOT for their entertainment. Rather very much for the knights themsleves. To watch your loved one enter a field of battle, without further meaning than glory, i bet that was rather terrible to witness. But yes, tournaments became spectator sports, indeed. I would just have liked you to add the word "Later" before "Toruntaments", for the sake of accuracy.

[@MairtinIRE]

Very good. Enjoyed watching. The Sword at the end - Beautiful!!!

[@kentallard8852]

the tent and horse sounds like something out of the WWE

[@MsBAustralia]

I must admit that I feel so bad for the horses of that time going into battle. Surely they didn't enjoy it at all. The knights and their horses were so brave.

[@nutyyyy]

Well its hard to know. War horses were mostly stallions and were much much more aggressive than modern horse breeds. There are plenty accounts of them fighting eachother and getting lose and attacking and killing people. There have also been multiple instances of man eating horses around the world even a few centuries ago. I can imagine it would be quite traumatising for a horse. But also a large horse bred for aggressiveness must have been pretty predisposed to violence.

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This is great

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I'm a new subscriber and loving this channel!

[@JonLawVids]

The Warwick Castle Joust is absolutely WWE on horse. Great stuff!

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I am committed to watching all of these.

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Happy I found your channel. Really enjoying it.

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I love the Knight's Tale movie.

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This is an amazingly underrated channel. Adding a comment to bring to top.

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This is wonderful!!

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Ashley is bueatyful.actful words to knight is offof words.

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A wonderful and well-made production. Probably too good for youtube so thank you for giving it us anyway.

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You know, these videos are quite restful. They're informative, yes, but just pleasant to look at and hear.

[@PanduPoluan]

As soon as Mr. Kingsley described the totally over-the-top arrival of a knight about to partake in a jousting championship, my mind immediately thought, "WWE" And then he continued speculating about the (very likely) backroom agreement between the contestants to "provide an entertaining spectacle"... LOL... it seems what's "new" in our contemporary time is just a recycling of medieval times 😂

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nicely done ! Can´t wait to see more

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I LOVE these! Thank you. He rides really well and uses a strong bit in his horse's mouth very tactfully.

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All these videos would be way better without the wholesome guitar music :/

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The armor what makes the knights look sexy and handsome .😂🤣😂😂

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Love it

[@TheSaintArmando]

In Dutch the word "knecht" indeed means servant, roughly speaking, we call knights "ridder" (in english the word "ride", derives from that i assume) which comes from "rijder", which means driver, in that context meaning driver (rider) of horses.

[@Ernie-Tech]

funny; the dutch word "knecht" is very similar to your suggested Ango-Saksen word 'knicht' or 'kniecht'. Our word means servant and seen from the point of view of a king he would indeed see his knights as servants. Love etymology

[@Oooo-bi7bi]

My only complaint or negative point about your channel. Is I wish this was available when I was a boy. I just had to scour the books I had. Can’t begin to imagine how informed the young people now are going to be when adults. Keep up the excellent work.

[@zhufortheimpaler4041]

on the point of commons in tournaments: in the german speaking area were jousting clubs for commons who are wealthy enough. they were looked down by the nobility, but they existed. also the cost of equipment, enlisting etc is showing up in their books.

[@ModernKnight]

How interesting, thanks.

[@zhufortheimpaler4041]

@@ModernKnight if you look at especially german coats of arms and depictions of men at arms, you will often see 3 different helmets. the frogmouth helmet used by the nobility for the so called stechen, jousting with blunt tournamentlances, and scharfstechen, jousting with proper battle lances aimed at the helmet ornamentals or shield. the commons use the so called bügelhelm. even tho, nobles used the bügelhelm too in their coat of arms, the used helmet showed what kind of person the bearer was. frogmouth helmet: clearly noble jouster bügelhelm: either noble or common, primarily buhurt tournaments greathelm: no interest in tournaments, primarily warfare also the tournament coin, worn around the neck of the helmet was showing your membership in either noble or common tournament society. the non noble jousting and tournament societies developed later partly into the federfechters and other groups

[@Mr56412]

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Great video👍🏻

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This is such a lovely, informative video - and so relaxing to watch Thanks for another few minutes away from the woes of our modern world! 🌹💛🌹

[@SilverKnight16]

I was thinking about the parallel between your description of jousting to modern day WWE right before you verbalized the connection, and the idea of it all is hilarious to me, because I can see it so easily. Hell, I'm sure certain knights had their own theme songs played by bards and musicians. Medieval John Cena. ...Okay, now I don't know if I like this idea so much, anymore.

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Thoroughly enjoying your videos and I'm learning a lot. As a Masonic Templar I've immersed myself in Templar history and the crusades. I travel around the state of Florida in the US giving talks on Medieval Templars and the crusades and I'm learning so much new and interesting facts from your research. I'm a neophyte compared to you but you are really helping me. Thank you.

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Thank you for sharing your knowledge and for all your efforts making these videos.. Great job mate

[@bramsrockhopper3377]

Brilliant series. Should be on TV and Netflix exactly as it is...

[@Azaghal1988]

The original "Knights" propably were comparable to the Norse "Huskarls" the personal guard of Noblemen/Chiefs. Only under Karl Martell later Charlemagne did it get associated with Heavy Cavalery i think.

[@bobcoleman226]

Just discovered this channel, awesome work, very detailed yet enjoyable. This is what History Channel should be. Now I can further understand my British knight ancestors.

[@georgemiller151]

Since the online etymological dictionary says “cniht "boy, youth; servant, attendant”, it’s not a big jump to knight: a servant or soldier for a Lord or King.

[@timothybruce9366]

Yes, the early Saxon knights were indeed primarily footmen. It was the Normans who introduced the stirrup to England when they conquered the Saxons, and that stirrup was key to their victory. You can test for yourself how effective you might be as melee cavalry w/o a stirrup.

[@TheCrimsonIdol987]

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[@breakthesteak7357]

For anyone wondering. Jason Kingsley is actually a gaming developer. He and his brother started a gaming development company in Oxford. And it's actually pretty cool to see a gaming developer be this interested in medieval history.

[@95DarkFire]

Something I'd like to add: Yes, most Knights fought on horses, but not all warriors on horseback were knights. Anyone with enough money and training could fight on horseback.

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[@maestrorobertus]

If they would ever make a movie about that time, that is a complete historical perfect representation, the audience would problem think of seeing an ancient exotic strange kind of culture that is so surprisingly strange and alien, but still brillant infant and taking. Still no one would think it’s real and most likely start complaining as it would show that all other movies are 97% wrong.

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Such an interesting part of our history. Thanks.

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so wrestling... a little bit composed, huh...

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As a German I appreciate the way you pronounced "Knecht" very much.

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