Henry VIII's Armour of c. 1540

[@johnstack5008]

Henry's horse deserves a posthumous knighthood

[@StephNuggs]

He used this on most of his fridge raids

[@richardgaynor234]

No fridges back then.

[@bigboi2281]

He was joikibg idiot​@@richardgaynor234

[@ost324]

That’s the best comment I’ve read all day! 😂

[@Bluefeatheroffgrid]

😂

[@Lindyloo61]

​@richardgaynor234 you don't say😂 think it was a very good comedy comment.

[@jeannerogers7085]

Henry was quite a chunk by this age.

[@steves1460]

What a treasure that outfit is from one of the most iconic people in British history!

[@jjs95100]

An absolute scumbag of a thing

[@Toyos-yk3ri]

Very nice job and informative thanks!

[@HBHArtLife]

"You wouldn't have armour with unfashionable shoes." The horror 😄

[@blondesmommy]

Haha!!

[@philipatoz]

The inner legs look surprisingly exposed. And what a colossal beast of a horse it must have taken to put and armored Henry in the saddle!

[@dnicx143]

If the purpose was for jousting, I reckon they didn't get too much in the leg area

[@athenathegreatandpowerful6365]

The open inner leg is because if it were closed the main arteries in the groin would be stressed also for the horse, closed would have been awful.

[@lawts1240]

I’m getting these feeds from following the BBC truly epic series ‘Wolf Hall’. It all links in nicely!

[@thatsoutrageous1961]

Excellent ,thank you. I have an affinity with Henry coming from the Royal Town of Sutton Coldfield where he used to stay and hunt not far from our old house.

[@jmlfa]

Have you divorced as often ... or wanted to?

[@PATCARSON-l6v]

Fascinating! Thank you. Well presented. cheers

[@fun2916]

I respect how England preserves its history and heritage. Sad what’s happening to the country today

[@I7275-p2d]

Yes it’s full of people being kept in ignorance via social media. They’ll be out shouting at clouds next.

[@boudroux1]

The real hero is the metal work.

[@jmlfa]

Lasted longer too...

[@billsmith3182]

So do you want to pawn it or sell it?

[@mlaforce321]

Best I can do is $500.

[@philipbrougham6360]

Yes ! We can't give much as there's not much call for it nowadays.but we can weigh it in for you ...

[@intoit1074]

Hilarious

[@DakotaTheRota]

@@mlaforce321 500? Damn you are being generous today!

[@mrbrightkills]

Listen. I'm not an expert; but I got a buddy who's a expert in this field. Why don't you come back tomorrow and I'll give him a call.

[@laurablack2262]

The poor horse that had to carry him plus that armor.

[@finnmcginn9931]

Hank was a husky fella.

[@sassytbc7923]

The idea cat you can stand something that Henry himself wore is incredible to me. How exciting.

[@pexxos1]

Although Henry VIII left the Roman Church to found the Church of England, his armour remained a steadfast Roman Catholic. True story.

[@JimboMack]

Got me when he said he would have been riding a horse fully armored. I bet that horse was fuming about that, he probably looked more like a camel after that tourney 😂

[@craigthescott5074]

I actually own a close helmet from this time period 1550’s and it’s got a lot of hits and dents in it. The helmet had so much use in jousting the visor was replaced back in the period. This armor here was never used in a tournament.

[@edfieber1484]

You may be mistaken. Every part was renewed and repaired after a battle. Whether it was armor or a sword. That's why some of them still look so good even though they were in use.

[@craigthescott5074]

@ contact marks can be fixed and some parts replaced that get damaged but the armorer will still show use. I suppose most marks could be pounded out and buffed but small areas of metal would be gouged out so marks would show up if it was heavily used. It probably depends on how fancy the armor was, my helmet was a working helmet no engraving or decoration.

[@edfieber1484]

@@craigthescott5074 Yes, you are right. In any case, congratulations if you have a real helmet, that's really something special. I collect things like that too ! With certificates we are on the sure side as there is much fake on the market ! I just wanted to say, a dented helmet does not necessarily mean an original and a good condition does not mean a fake.

[@craigthescott5074]

@edfieber1484 yep I use dealers here in the states that have been in business for decades so they are fairly reliable but at this day and age anything can be faked.

[@fb1767]

Repair: am I a joke to you?

[@TucsonDude]

I wish someone would take the liberty of actually getting inside it. Carefully, of course. The only armour scenes we have are from Monty Python movies.

[@grandmaoldschool7011]

Missing the armor codpiece.

[@athenathegreatandpowerful6365]

Wouldn't have worn one for the joust and this is jousting armor.

[@Thegeophysicsdude]

king henry got that KFC physique

[@chefdan87]

Great video, but who carved the wooden head for the armor? Lol, they did Henry VIII dirty....

[@ChilagaBlackHawks]

Sculpting, like almost everything has devolved.

[@coldlakealta4043]

Stunning craftsmanship. I am sure there is no one alive in this day and age who could turn out the equal of this.

[@eyefreely9682]

Let's Not go crazy.... I suggest looking at KZbin videos on Modern Armor Making Techniques. We can Do Better Today! 3-D Printed Armor is coming as well.... that's Game Over kind of stuff there.

[@WernerVonWeener]

I can't even find a woman who can cook

[@davidrenton]

someone like Terry English could

[@M4T1J4P0]

No need to wear sardine cans in the age of guns.

[@mundilmao]

@@M4T1J4P0that is not the point sardine brain

[@davidhopkins1199]

Very interesting video!

[@bobconnor1210]

Hardened What? Is this crucible steel or iron?

[@1967dragonaxe]

Is there documentary evidence that he actually wore it?

[@jmlfa]

Yeap ... on AI.

[@makenazided]

what makes you think he didnt? this person did not express that the armors weight centers on the hip and is not that heavy nor clumsy to wear. that is a nice set of armor for a fat royal

[@justbenice7448]

Any guesstimates as to how much he might've weighed?

[@stephanieyee9784]

🤔 A lot?

[@domsmithsen]

Over 200 pounds in his later years

[@Martin-jk2ng]

With a 54 inch waist and over 6 ft he had to have been over 300 lbs

[@emilioalcazar-su9vi]

He was the last medieval King of history.. awesome piece!

[@jeannerogers7085]

I’ve always thought of Henry VIII as a Renaissance king.

[@emilioalcazar-su9vi]

@jeannerogers7085 but in his mind he was the last of a medieval old dinasty..renaissance was an exaltation of the whole european classic traditions..

[@46FreddieMercury91]

Debatable, but many agree the medieval era ended with the death of Richard III

[@luisd2697]

Is it safe to say that it probably didn’t see battle?

[@scottarivett496]

I’d think so

[@michaelmontagu3979]

Actually he led the English army against the French in 1513.

[@briandenison2325]

I’d imagine it out get really hot baking in all that steel.

[@victornewman9904]

Where's the miliary codpiece gone?

[@astroboirap]

up his a$$

[@jaybobdoodles]

Ask yo momma

[@calebcoleman4788]

Iron man, oldschool!

[@nigellacey559]

Did he ever wear it?

[@troy4340]

I love history ❤

[@davidatkinson3887]

How do you explain keeping a 16th century suit of armour from rusting but we can't prevent a 10.year car turning into a rust bucket..

[@444-]

Hmmmm almost like this armor was kept in a collection for hundreds of years. Cars are used very frequently and get exposed to outside weather. Of course a car isn’t going to stand up like a solid metal suit.

[@chriscash3042]

It's oiled regularly

[@coldlakealta4043]

I wish the makers of my Toyota RAV4 had been privy to the secrets.

[@Raptorman80]

I highly doubt that suit of armor has seen many snowy or salty roads in the past few hundred years.

[@CptBEARDless]

What a useless comment. ..

[@LiftedJeepTJ98]

Very cool!!

[@berner]

My god that poor horse.

[@quartytypo]

He probably said, "Hey look at me! I'm a sardine!"

[@Renagade5150]

I would like to see a shorter pedestal and a more realistic wax face of Henry. I'm thinking more like Madame Tussauds!

[@peterrichards931]

Back then it took serious guts to fight in a war. No machine gun shooting bullets from a protected area. And if you were pinned-down or injured, they'd just dispatch you with a sword-thrust to the gut. Not many prisoners of war back then.

[@jkorshak]

Prisoners meant ransom if the prisoner was noble enough. Rank and file might have been dispatched when wounded but nobles were taken captive as a matter of course.

[@FLORIDIANMILLIONAIRE]

Is this the one manufactured by Maximilian I ?

[@BabyLebowski]

No, only the helmet remained from Maximilian

[@JohnyG29]

No.

[@SimoneDaldosso]

Damn! He was an uncredibly Thicc King!!😮

[@willtijerina5149]

Made at the Ye Ole Big & Tall Armourer.

[@TheMoni700]

He was a big guy.

[@mtb5778]

awesome

[@trissos3404]

“Go find the breastplate stretcher! Now!” -Bobby B.

[@anniedarkhorse6791]

First thing I thought of.

[@coffeepot3123]

Even today, young beautiful women faint at just the mention of his name..

[@gaiusvindex959]

Seriously, how did he pass urine while wearing that?

[@michaelmontagu3979]

There was a detachable piece of armour, called a codpiece in the 'appropriate' area.

[@MrAlpinab7]

Hear ye, Hear ye, men, i'm ready for marriage ! Sire, you needeth an armour then !

[@GandalfTheGravy1]

Breastplate stretcher was required for sure.

[@dalee.taylor2283]

Was this a prototype ?? as either the speaker is abnormally large relative to Henry's 6'++ stature or the camera lens has distorted depth of field!

[@Cybecow]

At the start the armour looks like it's 4 inches taller than the presenter. Half way through it's the presenter that dwarfs the armour. Some weird perspective thing going on there...

[@denisezaleski7504]

Awesome! I’ve learned some much of my own craftmenship from pieces like these

[@ednakelley814]

The face in the armour display is hillarous. One eye is way lower then the other.

[@mandersj]

"I can give you £100 for it and I'm taking all the risk here"

[@borobengal]

Staggering.

[@spooky3120]

I thought his armour would be the size if a WW2 Tiger tank.

[@jmlfa]

Did you see the canon?

[@Bushchannel]

To fit inside, he had to suck his gut inwards and only get plated up before breakfast.

[@davehoward22]

His body is under the floor of the chapel

[@aidangriffiths5075]

Imagine his poor horse

[@Bettinasisrg]

There's an amazing KZbinr who uses AI to bring historical characters to life. I am sorry I don't know his channel name but I bet if you typed "Historical figures AI" or something it'd come up. And I know it's probe been washed but it'd be interesting to swab for DNA in a few places inside.

[@JosephKap]

I only clicked on this video because the thumbnail looked like Steve Martin, and when I realized it wasn't I was rather disappointed

[@a.mie.533]

Looks like stainless steel - and he obviously wasn't as big as I'd thought...

[@RocLobo358]

The host is a large regular man. He would be swimming in this armor

[@shimonigmagames]

👍

[@munchinmomo]

why does this have 64 comments?

[@jmlfa]

Must have been after he dropped his Ozempic diet.

[@birchthebirch4593]

"Get me the breastplate stretcher!!"

[@william.menezes.d.s.5709]

✨️✨️✨️👤👣✨️✨️📲🇧🇷

[@Wetangle]

Have him smiling at least

[@teddy-uc6cv]

Poor horse...i bet it was in every 2 days for trackin and balancing...mot tester 😮

[@Jameywells777]

Ello me lorde

[@Altair885]

Apparently, he had to stop wearing it because they lost the breastplate stretcher! 😏

[@UKVeteran2024]

He was also a serial killer.

[@rochelleb973]

Poor horses

[@godzuks]

gut busting despot

[@bustownbc2787]

Who ever thought jousting was a good sport 4 kids and even adults had 2 be on drugs....

[@GoldyBar]

the poor horse carrying these people

[@Riverdale300]

You are so stupid. Horses are able to carry a lot of weight, especially if they are used to it every day like they was back in that time. Use your fucking brain.

[@niagara6015]

I tought the same. Not only was Henry big and tall but also fat; now add the weight of the armour to that bulk.

[@thomasmorrell2737]

that's their job

[@andy6551]

Got to love a King with a beer belly!

[@СергейБыков-к7ш]

In the portrait he has a high forehead, but in armor he is microcephalic.

[@jmlfa]

He couldn't be great everywhere !

[@bustownbc2787]

Look at his eyes on the copied wooden head.... one is a half inch higher than the other....surely you wouldnt show the king looking goofy right?? I would think they would make it even, even if his eyes were crooked lol....

[@shanoncooper4888]

He was the king. Why running around in this ?

[@karlpage9028]

Henry VIII was such a snob..Stole from the wonderful treasures at the shrine of St. Thomas Becket in Canterbury probably to fund such things as this suit of armor.

[@artqueen691]

Big baby Huey

[@brianvector]

The obese monster Henry the 8th fit into THAT?

[@Tomberculosis-q1i]

I PROMISE YOU that shit did not fit him even in his dreams. 🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣🤣😂🤣😂

[@1aikane]

Looks incredibly uncomfortable and restrictive

[@BaBaYaga1999-p7u]

Beats the alternative 💀

[@celticperspective5183]

It’s neither of those things, it’d be made to fit the wearer and the weight is distributed across the whole body. Henry VIII’s weight gain over his life is why we have so many surviving suits of armour, his body changed size so quickly that the old suits were obsolete just as quickly as

[@scottprather5645]

It's Better than a sword sticking through your body 😫

[@1aikane]

Seems mobility and dexterity would have been severely diminished

[@rantanen1]

@@1aikane Oh absolutely, but it's better to be less mobile & agile than be vulnerable to arrows and swords etc. But I would say armor isn't quite as restrictive as people often think, they are made to fit a certain body so they are more comfortable than they may look. And they weight a lot, but it's spread over your whole body. A modern machine gunner kit may weight the same as a set of plate armor would, so in comparison it isn't that crazy

[@janetstokes1806]

Not half as big as they make him out to be, splitting skin he was so huge. He was not that big

[@aevans-jl9ym]

I am 6ft tall I am now consider medium height as our younger generation is so much taller.

[@ethanp7183]

3 inches taller than average American man and almost 5 inches taller than the world male average. 6 feet is tall in nearly all parts of the world

[@MSS-g7f]

@@ethanp7183 Unless you're Dutch. It's freaky how tall they are.

[@ethanp7183]

@@MSS-g7f haha absolutely, they average damn near 6’1, insane

[@tombickers]

"He's FAT!!!!!"

[@rohitpal73]

*was

[@gabbyhinds40]

The armour makers are more impressive than henry.

[@JCB-p5w]

A new vigor for life at age 50? What a guy. How many wives and friends did he murder?

[@JohnyG29]

He had two out of his six wives executed. 10s of thousands of other people died because of his actions. He was an awful human being. I guess that's why he is unfortunately so well remembered.

[@mr_carpenter163]

I was fascinated till he said Henry's waist in cm's !!! Why. Where are the inches ? This is an English king in England, not foreign.

[@looloo4029]

Roughly 54”

[@cantthinkofausername8698]

Did you call the police and report this?

[@JohnyG29]

Yeah, I found that shocking. Most Englishmen still think in inches (heck, even our road signs are still in yards and miles), despite decades of them trying to brainwash us to accept the french system.

[@clickbait7949]

Oh the horror whatever will you do now 😩

[@I7275-p2d]

Oh dear. Was the Mail Online website down and you stumbled across this as an alternative?

[@laidoffjournalist]

He was a terrible king.

[@RobCardIV]

tune in next week when disney and or netflix race swap or gender swap this one.

[@coldsmokepwrstroke]

Ugly armour

[@simonnomis5302]

this thing belongs to the Germans or the vikings...actually the whole island belongs to them

[@JohnyG29]

Care to explain why?

[@Lindyloo61]

😂

[@jimgreen4504]

The very idea of a royal family and king is repugnant.

[@Lindyloo61]

OK jimgreen BOT. I happen to like it.

[@janejetson2978]

​@@Lindyloo61And that's all that matters Lindy BOT.