Rebellion of the Northern Earls, 1569: Tudor & Elizabethan History

[@mathewpryor82]

Cracking documentary. When you’ve been a history addict for 30 years It’s hard to find little bits of history that’s not just a regurgitation of what we all learn at school.

[@thorewing8820]

Thank you, Mathew.

[@ashf6835]

Wow Thor what a great video! I thoroughly enjoyed the bagpipes, really adds to the royal atmosphere of this great documentary. Thankyou so much!

[@thorewing8820]

Thank you!

[@GeorgiaQuest]

revising for my early modern history a level, thank you! History is definitely my hardest a level - so much content !

[@thorewing8820]

This was made back in 2003, when I was actually living in Brancepeth Castle, the centre of much of the action!

[@clairebrowning4645]

Where did you get your primary evidence from?? Needed for an asignment

[@thorewing8820]

I've put the subtitles right on this, so hopefully they should make more sense now. I was amazed to see what nonsense the automatic subtitles had made of it!

[@EddieTheMan2]

Super interesting! Thank you!

[@mathewpryor82]

My uncle still lives on the old ‘Bows-Lions’ estate just north east of Bardard Castle. The house is gone now but I’m suspecting the ‘Bows’ in this documentary is the same Bows. Then subsequently the Bows-Lions of the Queen mothers family.

[@insertgamerhere2121]

amazing and super usful youve gained a subscriber

[@laurenwhite6200]

Brilliant. Thank you for this.

[@thorewing8820]

Thank you, Lauren.

[@carolerichardson6738]

Thank you so much for this, Thor. I am in the process of writing a novel based on the rebellion and found this very helpful. I went up to Brancepeth last November but the castle today has had many additions since 1569. Do you have any drawings or know of any portraits of the castle in or around the 16c?

[@thorewing8820]

I don't know of any from the sixteenth century, but there is an engraving of it when it was a ruin in the early nineteenth century. I expect the Dobson family who own the castle would be able to tell you more.

[@kerrietodd3137]

Explain what was the important about the rebellion of the earl of essex for elizabethan england. Please get back to me as soon as you can because i have a test tomorrow on this so i need some valid infomation

[@thorewing8820]

Hi Kerrie, This was the first Catholic rebellion of Elizabeth's reign. Her policy had been to reconcile her subjects with a version of Christianity that would be acceptable to most of them, and not to ask too many questions about their personal beliefs. When the northern earls rebelled in support of an alternative Catholic queen in 1569, Pope Pius V supported them with the bull Regnans in Excelsis (1570) which excommunicated Elizabeth and exhorted all Catholics to disobey her rule or they too were excommunicated. This set the Pope's authority directly in conflict with the queen's, and inevitably led to further Catholic rebellions, and the suppression (sometimes brutal) of Catholicism in England. The Catholic-Protestant struggle would continue to be an important factor in English politics, seen for instance in the Gunpowder Plot (1605) and in the Glorious Revolution (1688). The Jacobite wars which culminated in the Battle of Culloden in 1745 grow out of the same conflict. Restrictions on Catholic participation in public life continued into more recent history. So, the significance of this rebellion? It all starts here. I should add though that you can equally trace the roots of this rebellion in earlier conflicts.

[@rohanwaseem7626]

Same

[@thorewing8820]

If it's the same question, please see my answer above.

[@emuseu2235]

Where did the Ewing's stand in this?

[@thorewing8820]

The Ewings were still In Scotland at this time. We had stood for Mary under the leadership of Archibald Campbell, Earl of Argyll, at the Battle of Langside in 1568, but once Mary had fled to England she never returned to Scotland again. She was succeeded by her son James VI, who would also inherit the English throne (as James I) on the death of Elizabeth in 1603.

[@M4d1s0n]

Wait so your telling me your ancestors were part of this? That's so cool ✌️gonna tell my history teacher that lol

[@thorewing8820]

I guess a lot of us had ancestors who were part of it in some way. My own Ewing ancestors were in Scotland then, which of course was still a separate kingdom; they had turned out to fight for Mary Queen of Scots at the Battle of Langside in 1568 but, in the event, scarcely any fighting actually took place. I know of contemporary ancestors in England too, who would have fought tooth-and-nail against any religious rebellion (their father had apparently died of an "excess of joy" in 1558, when he heard of Queen Mary Tudor's death). I'm lucky to know some of my own family history, but if your ancestors were in England at the time then, in some way, you're a part of it too.

[@izharhussain4215]

Watched it