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@mogyesz93 ай бұрын
Small correction, but he was Lackfi, not Lacki.
@TeddyBelcher4kultrawide3 ай бұрын
Small Warning Louis comments are way bigger
@Liberater45893 ай бұрын
>be called free company >cost money to hire
@jonathanwells2233 ай бұрын
smh
@Znz3433 ай бұрын
Free for anybody to hire
@KapteinPuma3 ай бұрын
Their marketing department was second to none
@tomalexander43273 ай бұрын
Edgy teen medieval mercenaries are at it again.
@gratefulguy41303 ай бұрын
Right? Lol
@SwampGreen143 ай бұрын
„The Captain said its my turn on the Xbox“
@jf34573 ай бұрын
The Papal States hiring the enemy of God 😂
@thatoneguy58563 ай бұрын
And the enemy of god’s last known employer for that matter
@austinshride41423 ай бұрын
Keep your enemies close lol
@smokeyhoodoo3 ай бұрын
Not ironic, literally what the bible says to do
@brianhowe19823 ай бұрын
Not surprising given Papal tendencies
@Mrkabrat3 ай бұрын
Given the history of the papacy, it checks out
@DrKarmo3 ай бұрын
The germans have always been cool to me, you guys should cover the italian wars in the future!
@Oldkingcole11253 ай бұрын
Especially the War of the League of Cambrai!
@justonethrowaway3 ай бұрын
excellent video, incredibly high quality/well produced, unbelievably informative, and absolutely entertaining. great job again guys
@Bannermann3 ай бұрын
15:31 Konrad von Landau was a relative of the Counts and Later Dukes of Württemberg, a very famous and successful Swabian Dynasty (just as the „von Urslingen“ who were also Swabians.) he also married a Bastard daughter of Bernabo Visconti of Milan, while his relative, Count Eberhard III „the Mild“ of Württemberg married a legitimate daughter of Bernabo (Antonia Visconti). The „von Landau“ had been the more successful branch of the Württemberg Family, they even were Imperial Banner bearers in the 13th century, but after the late 13th century they went down hill, lost their seat and became mercenaries. It payed off though, as after their first few years as mercenaries, they came back as rich men, and bought their Castles back.
@qboxer3 ай бұрын
I highly recommend the Chivalry series by Christian Cameron. The protagonist, William Gold, comes into contact with the German company in Italy when he is a man at arms with Sir John Hawkwood’s White Company. Fantastic book series.
@demilung2 ай бұрын
Mercs running out of alcohol: oh boy, here I go pillaging again
@russellgardener1263 ай бұрын
12:59 - A clash near Capua? Where was the House of Batiatus?
@brandonwalker50113 ай бұрын
Names that end in S like Louis do not get an S character or sound added to them when made possessive. So it's Louis' power.
@caioalmeida41393 ай бұрын
Did the Lombards left some cultural or genetic heritage in north italy by that time?
@thefattymcgee58013 ай бұрын
Love your channel. You make me want a world with 21st century technology and 17th century politics and culture (minus the nukes)
@andreweden94053 ай бұрын
Can you please do a video about Medieval ships? Thank you!
@Kededian3 ай бұрын
The band of the Hawk. 😊
@NejTak-lq7uk3 ай бұрын
Can you do The Battle of Copenhagen of 1801 some time?
@theun4giv3n2 ай бұрын
Just goes to show... There have always been jerks.
@geoffsokoll-oh1gq3 ай бұрын
Werner von Urslingen: Enemy of God, the Church, of pity and of mercy, as he put it.
@viraxo54742 ай бұрын
Bro rode on the front of the papal armies with that armor lmao
@lukemountainwalker76512 ай бұрын
anyone else "the free company is mostly known for being hired 11.11.1444!" ?
@clintmoor4223 ай бұрын
more mercenary companies! let's go! I hope to see more people not getting what this is in the comments just as in the other two videos where some lower IQ people pointed to Xenophon... not even close to what a free company is... but yeah excited for the comments, that's all.
@reinier1233 ай бұрын
Aren't you a smart little fella 😘
@arthur-yq4ic3 ай бұрын
must be a great time to be alive....
@sinisterswordsman253 ай бұрын
Enemy of God 🤘💀 that's f#@king metal as f#@king f#@k.
@samadams22033 ай бұрын
If I had a brother I'd want him to be like Louis the Great of Hungary.
@TheRealKiRBEY3 ай бұрын
wow
@al-rediph3 ай бұрын
nit: Stephen Lackfi not Lacki.
@ColonialTaskForce3 ай бұрын
" 'The Enemy of God' Mercenary Company" - quite a 'forward-thinking' name for the time
@pp-bb6jj2 ай бұрын
Germans running racket in Italy? Tell me more.
@dmcf2363 ай бұрын
thirty years when will realse
@blakebailey223 ай бұрын
1:32 sorry SandRhoman, this is the third video I've requested that this channel stop using A.I. generated images, I'm going to have to unsubscribe
@FutureBoyWonder3 ай бұрын
I just made a similar comment. He had a great visual style and these AI images are lazy, ruin his image and takeaway genuine value. Its a crying shame
@Smokedouttasian3 ай бұрын
Lol go ahead and unsubscribe no one has to adhere to your expectations
@vinz40663 ай бұрын
Whats so Bad about that Picture ?
@cesaravegah37873 ай бұрын
No wonder a lot of people like Machiavelli hated mercernaries guts.
@samsonsoturian60133 ай бұрын
Machiavelli is also a source for this video and he was partisan so I wonder how much of the thuggery was real.....
@MarkMark-kj9xp3 ай бұрын
@@samsonsoturian6013it absolutely was real, it was just a accepted reality of the time but nobody really liked or trusted them, look into Francisco Sforza, a well known Condottieri. Machiavelli also hired a ton of mercenaries to defend a city and it ended up failing miserably, it was the reality of italy at the time. The power of arms was private, not in the hands of the states, so they would sell their swords to the highest bidder, you had to pay them naturally, because if you didnt they would mess you up, or go have someone pay them to mess you up.
@Peaches-i2i3 ай бұрын
@@samsonsoturian6013 How much of modern day PMC crimes to people admit is real or even care?
@theinigosilvastation62323 ай бұрын
@@MarkMark-kj9xp Right! This was brought to my attention when learning about Federico da Montefeltro and the city of Urbino during his younger years of raiding and taxation to save his town.
@tomz57043 ай бұрын
@@MarkMark-kj9xpif they sold their swords, what did they fight with?
@Lyndione3 ай бұрын
Germans in the 1300s: terrorized Italy Germans in the 1940s: hey, we're sorry can we become allies now
@SB-1293 ай бұрын
6:07 Got to love the scene transition from Werner's understanding of the nature of war whilst sporting a 1000-yard stare to a cheeky animated frog hiding in the water as if knowing what's to come.
@baltulielkungsgunarsmiezis97143 ай бұрын
No wonder Id never heard of any Lui rulers of Germany, their name was Ludwig.
@AGS3633 ай бұрын
Fun Fact: King Ludwig I of Bavaria was named after his godfather, King Louis XVI of France.
@AllisterCaine3 ай бұрын
Lots of names can be literally translated... Charlemagne in german would be literally "charles the great"- karl der große. Cant think of other examples right now. Oh, balduin is baldwin in english...
@baltulielkungsgunarsmiezis97143 ай бұрын
@@AllisterCaine I know the Frankish Emporor as Kārlis Lielais. The english and french are weird for thinking his name doesnt start with a /k/. But if were going by translating to english than the name is Luis not Lui, the english pronounce the final s, just like in english its Paris not Pari.
@quantjonna2933 ай бұрын
Louis-Ludwig-Lodewijk-Lajos-Ludovico-Luigi-Luis
@baltulielkungsgunarsmiezis97143 ай бұрын
@@quantjonna293 I see these as completely seperate wrods. My people would say Luijs-Ludvigs-Lodevijks-Lajoss-Ludoviks-Luīdžijs-Luiss
@mariushunger87553 ай бұрын
Calling oneself Enemy of God at a time when the pope was probably the most powerful man in Europe is truly badass
@Teutonic_Ice3 ай бұрын
At the time he had little real power
@stefankatsarov58063 ай бұрын
@@Teutonic_Ice This was before the Hussite wars and the reformation so the Pope still had a vig voice
@marcovalentini8633 ай бұрын
KZbin comments idolising brutal murderers and rapists as usual
@lars99253 ай бұрын
@@stefankatsarov5806 The papacy of that time, residing in Avignon, had degenerated into a French puppet. There was another power spike after that time and before the reformation ... which partly caused the reformation.
@bertellijustin63763 ай бұрын
Not really. This would have been a rough time for the Papacy. Between the west-east schism and the growing resentment of the multiple emperors of Europe the popes had to be careful.
@nobleman93933 ай бұрын
"Got a job for you 621"
@that1ginger223 ай бұрын
What’s your pfp from? I swear it was a 70s/80s comedy about the British army
@nobleman93933 ай бұрын
@@that1ginger22 Blackadder
@iogdcutc3 ай бұрын
@@nobleman9393 is that played by stephen fry the pedophile?
@guysome32632 ай бұрын
"..my hound always delivers."
@TheAdeybob3 ай бұрын
It's hella interesting to wonder if the bronze age collapse was in part due to such organic growth of mercenary bands (due to displacement, incentives, etc) when their power is unchecked.
@al-rediph3 ай бұрын
Probably was the mechanism. With climatic changes for added motivation.
@donaldpetersen23823 ай бұрын
The "sea people" could have been mercenaries but they didn't leave any of their own equipment behind that indicated a heavily armed invasion force. Maybe it was a couple hundred people paid to f-off one lawn to another until their ruined trade routes left them with nothing to stick around for.
@gideonmele15563 ай бұрын
@@donaldpetersen2382when you’ve either been paid to fug off everywhere or the remaining places are too strong to challenge “Dunno, that place with a big river looks promising”
@josepmasdeufigueras44343 ай бұрын
Actually, it's kind of understandable when you set yourself in a day-to-day ancient mindset. Information, accuracy and punishment for atrocities are a relatively modern creation and concept. For most human history, you could mount a horse and sack and run your way through every country and territory you found, simply because there were no such means to catch up to you phisically or to outrun you even to just warn about incoming harm. Greater social cooperation and social improvement and maintenance of higher technology resulted in a real control of society of unchecked crimes and/or abuses. But when you think about, these social-techonological paradigms are kind of humbling and amazing to an equal degree.
@al-rediph3 ай бұрын
@@donaldpetersen2382 The Late Bronze Collapse was pretty catastrophic, not just a couple of hundred soldiers. They left enough behind. I always thought on it more in terms of Viking raids and conquest, but mercenary armies playing the cities in East Mediterranean area against each other sounds plausible.
@kaiserattano24543 ай бұрын
This is actually quite highly produced
@FutureBoyWonder3 ай бұрын
hes using AI images... his older videos are highly produced this is visually very lazy. Im saying this as a longtime viewer and only want the best for his channel and dont want him using lazy tactics that take no effort
@KY_1003 ай бұрын
@@FutureBoyWonderthe research and the presentation of it given are not AI generated. if they're able to use their time for more of this, then i don't care much about the use of AI generated images
@Smokedouttasian3 ай бұрын
@@FutureBoyWonderSomething tells me you just hate anything Ai
@wu1ming9shi3 ай бұрын
@@FutureBoyWonder I'd rather having him use AI to make these images but having a well researched subject because making these images takes less time now than otherwise. If Ai has to be used, I prefer it to be used this way.
@carythacker80493 ай бұрын
@@Smokedouttasianlike normal people? not druggies like you
@viraxo54742 ай бұрын
POV: You march against the papal state and see a German guy with "ENEMY OF GOD" on his armor leading the papal army XD
@subodeibaghatur43003 ай бұрын
Sandrhoman back!
@dannylo58753 ай бұрын
Highly rated. Pope would be pleased.
@nicolafiliber30623 ай бұрын
Urslingen - Bear's Lay. Werner from Bear's Lay . Nice. Werner from Bumfuckville...
@FrankoMakurian3 ай бұрын
Being called "The enemy of God" is unfair regarding the Pope, who certainly was God most vicious enemy.
@cc07673 ай бұрын
Fascinating to think that in a time when militaries were so expensive even kings struggled to keep a standing army, mercenaries managed to band together in such numbers.
@MichaelBrueckner3 ай бұрын
Thank you for your tireless work,
@herbertgearing17023 ай бұрын
Nice boot shaped peninsula you have there. Be a shame if somethin' was to ahh, you know "happen" to it?!
@thatoneguy58563 ай бұрын
If I was an Italian city official. And I had to choose between hiring someone ballsy enough to call themselves the enemy of god and someone who wasn’t. I’d probably pick the enemy of god. It’s a great sales pitch
@rafaelrmaier3 ай бұрын
Great video! I'm loving the merc series, keep it up
@TomajKhan2 ай бұрын
Great video! Btw the leader of the Hungarian army, the Voivode of Transylvania was Stephen (István) Lackfi, correctly pronounced as "Laats-k-fee".
@odd-ysseusdoesstuff63473 ай бұрын
Babe! Wake up, Sandrhoman dropped a new video!
@jackhames38743 ай бұрын
Currently replaying Kingdom Come: Deliverance right now to prep for the upcoming sequel, I love your videos because they help me broaden the scope of the effects of the events of the game and context for the rest of Europe in the high middle ages
@caioalmeida41393 ай бұрын
Where in medieval Europe is set up this game?
@SanctusPaulus19623 ай бұрын
@@caioalmeida4139 Czechia (bohemia)
@jackhames38743 ай бұрын
@@caioalmeida4139 it’s set in Bohemia (Czechia) in the early 15th century
@caioalmeida41393 ай бұрын
@@jackhames3874 very cool!! Looks like a very unique scenario
@henjin.3 ай бұрын
"I'm feeling quite hungry"
@maoama3 ай бұрын
How did you protect your vast physical wealth back then?! Ya you're in battle.. where's your stuff? Why don't the people watching your stuff just take your stuff..
@thijstempel193 ай бұрын
“Nation-wide protection racket” pretty sure that’s called ‘a governement’
@ssam13372 ай бұрын
Self-proclaimed tittle of "Enemy of God" for a dude who runs a nationwide "King of the Hill" racket succesfully... thats some legendary Boogaloo action right there (good or bad, well up to you to decide, Ive only watched 16 sec of the video thus far).
@mikeromney47123 ай бұрын
This mercenary life must have been very unprofitable, if you could only equip yourself with 200 year old armor in the middle of the 14th century....;)
@Osvath973 ай бұрын
It is good to see some non-Anglocentric medieval history. I swear, if you were to listen to most English speaking historians/history enthusiasts, you would think that free companies were entirely an English invention. What I notice about Anglocentric medieval history is that it particularly ignores just how important Central Europe was, and in effect, the enormous importance of Germany, because of how relatively little England interacted with it when compared to France, for example. But Germany was IMMENSELY important during the Middle Ages, just like France was (and before anyone says that the concept of Germany didn't exist during the Middle Ages, don't, all you show is how you never opened a primary source in your life by saying that). Even the famous White Company so associated with the English, was formed by a German, Albert Sterz.
@LaughingMan443 ай бұрын
wow, Anglos talking mostly about Anglo history? CRAZY! That's so wild bro, wtf
@Osvath973 ай бұрын
@@LaughingMan44 Don't strawman. I am talking about them describing the Middle Ages AT LARGE in a highly biased view. I am not talking about when they deliberately describe English medieval history, but Europeam medieval history. Like my free company example, they literally speak as if that phenomena IS English in itself. That has nothing to do with people talking about their own national history, that is about people distoring things in to becoming centric. And it is not just English speakers, a lot of people interested in medieval history who are not a part of the Anglosphere except using their language as the lingua france are starting to see medieval history from extremely English point of view, which is quite silly considering how England was a middling power.
@Fankas20003 ай бұрын
@@Osvath97 US/UK productions will say something like "in the middle ages" and then focus solely on England all the time. The middle ages were a time, not a place.
@Oscar-vd4cv3 ай бұрын
Just human nature. I'd imagine medieval Spanish history is more popular in Spain and medieval Italian history is most popular in Italy.
@Osvath973 ай бұрын
@@Oscar-vd4cv That isn't the same as being centric, it isn't what I am referring to. I actually gave examples in my original comment about what I was talking about, like modern English history sometimes going as far as saying as they invented the free company, or at least spread it to Italy, when the Spanish invented it, the Germans spread it to Italy and in general there were quite a bit more Germans there than Englishmen (and indeed far more Italians than Englishmen). When stuff about the Middle Ages is produced in my country, we don't try to say that our specifics are universal accross Latin Europe, quite the opposite. We talk about how different and relatively insignificant we were geopolitically and geoculturally, in comparison to countries like the Holy Roman Empire.
@nickblack79102 ай бұрын
I think barbuta helmets didn't exist until the 15th century. It's a type of salet that comes from Italy.
@rfak76963 ай бұрын
The video is nice and well researched as always. But it is sad to see the use of AI generated images on the backgrounds. It makes the video look lazy and cheap.
@samsonsoturian60133 ай бұрын
Excuse me, but to what extent are the sources war propaganda? Because while mercenary companies did attract literal thugs in their work, it sounds like some of this info is coming from Italians that fought said mercs
@Amadeus84843 ай бұрын
I can see why Machiavelli didn't like Mercenaries...
@squiglemcsquigle84143 ай бұрын
Hmm a video with the word god. Im sure there will be no butthurt Christians shoving their worldview into everyones throats in the comment section
@owenwilliams97463 ай бұрын
its always a good morning when I get enjoy sandrhoman with my coffee
@SchwarzerWolf10003 ай бұрын
If Tanya Von Degurechaff was in renaissance era: (Joke)
@iskog.8312 ай бұрын
DUDE THEY'RE LIKE NORMANS, WITH GUNS!
@Dayvit783 ай бұрын
9:45 Fear as their primary weapon? Or wait, fear and surprise. No, wait, three pirmary weapons...
@mauritsmeulenbelt47033 ай бұрын
And a fanatical dedication to the pope! (j/k)
@TheMarkzon2 ай бұрын
I feel like stephen had a very unfortunate last name
@НиколайЛамберт2 ай бұрын
Any feudal lord run protection racket.
@sarahsidney19883 ай бұрын
Nice video, interesting topic
@dasaggropop12443 ай бұрын
could be a good video if not for the use of ai generated crap
@DNS-FRANK093 ай бұрын
They sound like well armed homeless gangs
@sfctw13 ай бұрын
Pim. The Renaissance Men are coming.
@bigsarge20853 ай бұрын
Awesome, thanks for the info!
@medievalist84413 ай бұрын
I hope you do a video about peasants revolt
@FitnessTips4Ux2 ай бұрын
Enemy of God goes insanely hard
@JohnWayneCheeseburger3 ай бұрын
I love the animation style so much, keep up the good work.
@mcpartridgeboy3 ай бұрын
I was once told that England dont need a good army because its posible to buy one , and at the time i accepted that argument as it seemed to add up, only after learning from history and wagner did i realizxe you cant buy an army for very obvious reasons !
@donaldpetersen23823 ай бұрын
@8:20 I remember wearing this in Mordhau before it died.
@chesterzimmerman77523 ай бұрын
"im the enemy of God" *The pope and Christians would like a word with you*
@cesaravegah37873 ай бұрын
More often than not to hire you.
@andreoliveira6853 ай бұрын
Could have told about the relationship between Gautier VI de Brienne, the ruler of Florence (for 10 months) and the Catalan Company that worked for his father and took the duchy of Athens from him (referencing your other video). It's a small world. By the way you stressed all the wrong Italian syllables.. ps. I'm a huge fan
@BadSkeelz2 ай бұрын
Werner von Urslingen has always fascinated me, ever since I played the first Medieval:Total War and had this random German with Beethoven hair and Max Dread get "randomly" recruited from Milan.
@alexandernordenskjold57393 ай бұрын
As a swede how like European history I like this channal you made quit good videos on my contry where are you self from. I think from your accent that english is not your native Language
@anon20343 ай бұрын
14:42 the name is mistaken. It is Lackfi - a "f" is missing. Stephen I Lackfi is the Voivode's name. Other then that, great video!
@duncan50893 ай бұрын
Neat video! I always thought the stories of Konrad Von Landau and Fra Moriale were extremely interesting, even with their ultimate demise. I've looked at Abenteuerliche Geschichte Herzog Werners von Urslingen previously and translated a little of it with what German I know and I wish something would be written on the company today. A lot of the modern books I looked through a few years ago only briefly mentioned The Great Company and its leaders. While I didn't get far in translating the book by Bronner, and I probably mistranslated a lot of it(not the best German and fraktur is a joy) I thought the early scene Bronner plays out about the raid on the village/town was extremely neat. A small excerpt: "A son who hoped to save his battered father thought if he asked the general himself for help he might get a better response, he received a hint to the answer. Writing with silver letters in front of his chest hung: Werner, Duke of the Great Company, Enemy of God, of Pity, and Mercy. Desolated, He ran with horror from them."
@yaragi3 ай бұрын
Excellent 👌 work! Well done, informative and on top of it there was a kind of a mini narrative (I call it mini only since it would be impossible to have a book length story in a short video) following the adventures of somebody.. I really hope all the best for you, you've been doing such a good job for a long time.
@LeSadistique3 ай бұрын
Lackfi*
@zetectic79683 ай бұрын
Why fight when extortion is more lucrative & less risky. Shrewd move 😉
@ejayaziz4703 ай бұрын
German and Saxons well known best warriors fighting ottoman in early 14th
@danielcordeirotara79343 ай бұрын
Gg
@chadocracy3 ай бұрын
This guy was like the Mike Lindell of MyPillow of his time.
@user-bchfldmgd3 ай бұрын
👍👍
@c4feg4r443 ай бұрын
these vids always make me boot up mount and blade: warband.
@WildBillCox133 ай бұрын
A perfect setting for a well researched work of historical fiction.
@longo51723 ай бұрын
the fact that this time isnt portrayed in 100 movies and tv shows is criminal
@Jack-Noch3 ай бұрын
Renaissance Italy didn't start until 1420, so it's still the late middle ages unless I'm mistaken, very good video otherwise!
@stanleysmith75513 ай бұрын
The Hungarian commander was called Lackfi not Lacki. 😏
@johnking62523 ай бұрын
So that's where the Mafia comes from ? hahahaha ✌️
@quantjonna2933 ай бұрын
Why use Louis instead of Ludwig?
@Vyleea3 ай бұрын
The more things change the more they stay the same.