Who Made the Scottish People... The Normans

The Normans in Scotland were a defining influence. The Battle of Hastings and 1066 was past when David I brought Normans to Scotland. Scottish history tour guide, Bruce Fummey, crosses the Channel to bring you the tale from Rouen Abbey to Dunfermline Abbey
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[@angr3819]

Thank you. My father's sister traced their paternal line back to a main Pictish area in the far north. Because of the build and colouring of their father, it was thought he was probably at least partly descended from them. Six foot tall, blue eyes and when younger red hair, longer limbs, long angular face. Some years ago I read that the Picts first came through Iceland. If so they were probably resident there first. I have never searched images of Icelandic people to see if they look a similar phenotype. After them came the Romans (not in Scotland), The y saac sons, their angels and ju tes, then later their Nor(th)man cousins, and they all intermarried. The Saxons were said to be the most savage of all, which when you look at medieval British tortures gives some idea they were at least as bad as the cruel, also far too powerful druids that the Romans had helped us get rid of. Then if course the druids and y saac sons also came from the Fertile Crescent and brought their particular sinister pagan behaviour to do with worship of Ramphen (see star of Ramphen!), Ba'al etc. Remember Elisabeth II boasted she could trace her lineage back to David (so obviously to Abraham and therefore their protos the Hyksos).

[@angr3819]

@@historynottaughtatschools9913 I left full time education aged 15. I never went to university. A few years ago I took a walk map of the world and traced back some of the tribes of ancient Britons via migrations. I finished at huge ancient Sumaria after the last ice age. This includes some written text languages which are no longer spoken and some etymology. All very interesting. Some academics and others who have studied the subject believe that the blue eyed blond, tall Sumarians emanated from Europe into the Fertile Crescent then - well, pretty much all over the world. I undertook my own research as much as possible because I was aware that even many academics cannot agree where the non black races originated, and I was very suspicious of the out of Africa for all theory. Now I know that considering the differences even between Denisovans, Neanderthals and Cro Magnon some species and races aren't even related, so did originate from different parts of the world and were adapted according to environmental and climate. This is not to mention all the now extinct species and races. This does not imply one species or race is better than another. Of course, better is relative according to where people live and what they need to do to not only survive but to thrive well and as comfortably as suits them.

[@angr3819]

@@historynottaughtatschools9913 I am reticent to say any of the Bible contains any of the oldest books in history. The original Bible was put together by the council of nicea, was written in Greek and has been changed umpteent times. As for the torah, well there is at least the Samaratan version and the later more known version of Babylonia. Let's not forget more ancient writings from the Fertile Crescent including Egypt and Sumaria, the only difference being no one has turned them into a compendium of books for a re-legion with which to control the peoples of conquered territories. Further, the Zoastrian and Hindu faiths are said to be much older and they had their own texts. Again though, not taken and adapted to form a re-legion for conquest and control. Jesus, that is, if he existed as more than a gnostic figure upon whom to hang gnostic stories upon. Maybe he did, but he wasn't a 'Jew'. He was a Nazarene Essene, closer in beliefs to the Samaritans and living a very long way from Judah and Judea, where the Babylonian 'Jews' went to.

[@3qqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqq10]

First of all yo are correct about the Normans invading England under William the conqueror. Yes, Nordman/Norhtman but these Scandinavians were mixed with the Francs, and they did in fact move in to Scotland. So did the Danes and the Bretons. The Stuarts were a Breton (from France) family that migrated to Scotland. Some Welsh migrated there as well and William Wallace is rumored to be Welsh. Also the Danes invaded Ireland as well. Next I have deceased ancestors that were Masons and I promise you that they were all Christians. They don't require you to be a christian, but in the past the vast majority of them were in fact christians. And lastly I have seen the theory that all of these European people are the lost tribes of the Jews. As far as I know none of this has any concrete evidence. I'm not saying that the lost tribes can't still be alive and unknown either. Just saying there's no evidence that I know of.

[@gordonmurray3153]

@@historynottaughtatschools9913 as an ancient free and accepted freemason 30°, I can tell you that the masonic figures refered to in 'blue' freemasons ritual are Solomon king of Judah son of David, Hyram king of Tyre, and the Queen of Sheeba. Centered around the building of Solomon's Temple on Mount Moriah. In 'red' freemasonry, or the Holy Royal Arch, Ancient Ark Mariners and Royal & Select Masters are based around other Old Testament potentates and the destruction of the Temple of Solomon by the Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar II. The Royal Order of Scotland, the Heredom of Kilwinning, is the most senior masonic order under the Scottish Constitution, leaves a seat at every meeting for the righful heir as hereditary king of Scots. It's founding legend being that of being an honour to recognise those knights who served King Robert the Bruce at Bannockburn. You may be interested to know that the 'Moderns' Grand Lodge of English freemasons was petitioned to be founded in 1716 the year after the failed 1715 'Jacobite Rebellion', when English masons saught to distance themselves from their former patrons, the Royal House of Stuart.

[@euansmith3699]

Bruce Fummey; international man of eduction. This channel really has gone from strength to strenght.

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

Thanks Euan

[@merrybutcher2978]

Nothing like eduction 😂😂

[@OldNavajoTricks]

Missed shot Sir! Bruce Fummey, International man of history, Double Oh aye, licence to educate. (Cue Fum, sorry, Bond music.) :-D

[@euansmith3699]

@@OldNavajoTricks Bruce Fummey in "Och Aye Pussy" 😊

[@djonfonsteen6331]

Brilliant. The more you learn, the more you realise you know nothing. History is truly amazing.

[@eamonnclabby7067]

True...

[@ericclark1958]

You know nothing Jon Snow

[@candidequixote6026]

I've been saying that too for as long as I remember. The more I read, the more I realize how little i know. it's an awesome endless quest to discover as much as I can in my time here.

[@christopherstewart6468]

Ok, "BRILLIANT" is a very good word. But you Brits need to let that term sit on the bench for awhile. That word has got to be so fricken tired from all the use and abuse you heap upon this particular word. I do you do NOT find this comment BBBRRIAANNNTT. ... now i feel better....

[@CAP198462]

If you assume everything you know is a grain of sand, count yourself lucky if when you die you’ve got a handful. - an anthropology professor I once had.

[@euanmelville9770]

As a distant descendant of one of the Norman Knights brought up here by David I, its great to see a light shone on Norman influence in Scotland Fantastic & informative content as always, Thank you.

[@davidmbrown4251]

Likewise. Well said

[@jonhawkins7510]

Northman

[@Jawz8u2]

Those sinclairs have been wreaking havoc since the Middle Ages 🤣

[@forbesmeek6304]

Sinclairs or Tinklers? 😅

[@janice506]

Distant descendants I’ve heard it all now don’t make me laugh 😂😂

[@giovanni5063]

Wow. My family name originated in 12th century Scotland when, supposedly, the Baron of Angus shire gifted a bit of property to one of his son's. The property had a name that was adopted by that lucky son and there after his male ancestors took that name as well. Now I'm stuck with it.

[@PMcGuffin]

I lost it laughing when you turned around at the museum door. Perfect.

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

😜

[@dambrooks7578]

I also live in Tottenham, close to Bruce Castle, apparently as it was where Robert the Bruce would winter, in fact the area close to Bruce Grove called Seven Sisters is named after the sisters of Robert, and the trees planted in honour of each marriage which became a tradition in the local area. Although I have said this based more on local rumours instead of historical evidence, mostly because people were terrible at making notes back then...

[@ReeseJamPiece.]

Les Normands ont fortement influencé la région frontalière entre l'Écosse et l'Angleterre d'où ma famille est originaire. Deux des meilleurs pays du monde. Vive la France!

[@barmybarmecide5390]

Vive la Vieux Alliance !

[@janice506]

I wish the French had been our neighbours instead we got the English & the rest is history.

[@learkingofalbion8520]

Thank you for going to Normandy and making this video. Very useful. I did not know that Robert the Bruce had Norman roots.

[@vallovesnature8449]

Loved this video. Good to learn more about Rollo & where the legacy of Robert the Bruce began. I’m always learning something new from your videos. Thank you so much Bruce!!

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

My pleasure!

[@delramsay916]

With a norman name myself, this was of great interest. Brilliant story. Would be interested in more stories about the Norman's influence in Scotland

[@kenbrown2808]

with an anglicized french name in my history, I appreciated learning that DeBrix was anglicized to The Bruce.

[@3qqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqq10]

I didn't know clan Ramsay was Norman. I'm glad you brought that up. Thanks cousin! :)

[@delramsay916]

@@3qqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqq10 I think the norman name was de ramsie, strangely there are many spellings of Ramsay all round the area the Norman's influenced. I remember a hotel receptionist in Tunisia having a laugh as she was a ramzy. Small world it seems

[@3qqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqq10]

@@delramsay916 Holladay/Holliday was once de Holladay. Lots of spelling variations with Holladay as well. One spelling is Hallyday spelled just like the Scots pronounced it.

[@delramsay916]

@@historynottaughtatschools9913 not sure of your point to be honest. The Norman's invaded england and as Bruce's video states moved up to Scotland. On the declaration of arbroath there are many norman names down as signatures.

[@brownwarrior6867]

My family were among the Gallowglass who after losing their land in Scotland after the First Wars of Independence (Backed the wrong horse) were cordially invited to Ireland to defend the Irish and give the Normans a square go.

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

Aye those Normans were hard bastards

[@faithhowe6170]

Another interesting video! Rollo was my 33xGreat Grandfather, and Robert the Bruce was my 21x Great Uncle, both on my father's side. As a side note, the man that Robert killed in Grey Friars church, John Comyn, was my 21x Great Grandfather from my mother's side. I joke that family disfunction goes way back.

[@BeautifuLakesStreamsBiologists]

As Scots we can always rely on family when their is no one else to fight ;)

[@janice506]

Yet talking oot yer arse there

[@lilykatmoon4508]

I’m a direct descendant of Robert the Bruce on my father’s side. He’s my grandfather however many generations removed. I just watched the Viking video you did because I have Scandinavian heritage that can be traced back to the 700s from Denmark, Norway, and Sweden on my father side too. I had no idea the Bruce’s were descendants of the Normans. Great series. I’m catching it late, but will definitely go back and watch the ones on the Pocts, Britons and Angles too.

[@karenmanderville154]

Oh wow you just connected a huge dot for me! As a descendent of a Norman commander in the conqueror's army I had read we were related to the St Clair/Sinclair back to Normandy however did not realize Rollo was Robert Sinclair! Amazing, thank you! However our surname is so obsecure, magnaville/manneville/mannevilla/de mandeville....which means man of the village...

[@haukuringason7967]

In Icelandic, it is perfectly proper to have viking as a noun (víkingur), and also in Old Norse (víkingr).

[@faeembrugh]

The legacy of the Vikings (and yes, I know that's an inaccurate term) is quite something. I'm of Norse descent myself but I also met an Egyptian guy whose family had Norse DNA which he surmised was from one of his ancestors marrying a Viking and later on I met a (very blonde) Ukrainian girl who was directly related to a Viking nobleman. They got around!

[@abdulazizclare9545]

As a Jamaican this is interesting lots of Scottish people came to the West Indies. Been to France but not Normandy. My family was de Brionne then became de Clare in UK. The Clare family here in Jamaica are of Norman roots

[@Suprahampton]

I'm English with Welsh heritage & no Scottish at all but i'm loving Bruce's passion & enthusiasm to educate us in his rich history

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

Yay

[@crapphone7744]

Couldn't care less about the background noise, your content is so compelling I didn't even really notice it.

[@gordonmurray3153]

The people who made Scotland. The hell of the chemical workers of Glasgow, Shawfield might be worth your time and interest. A belated thankyou for opening my eyes to the lot of the Scottish coal miners of old. I moved to Livingston just as the last mines closed and the last chemical factory at Pumpherston was earmarked to become a golf course. My own grandfather before WW1 was sold as farm labour to a farmer in West Lothian. He ran away to Rosyth, to join the light cruiser squadron of the RN as a gunner, just in time for the 1st battle of Heligoland Bite. Invallided out of the war with damage to his heart and 'shell shock' after being sunk a few times. Was in Glasgow for the battle of George Square. I could go on, but just like to say I appreciate your work. I caught a glimpse of a film star on the tv a few nights ago, who looked like he could be your twin. If you don't mind, I'd like to suggest a topic for one of your future vlogs: the hellish chemical factories of the South Side of Glasgow and their ongoing toxic legacy. I've read a few articles, stunned by the horrific environment these workers endured. The chemicals they worked with 7 days a week, burned holes in the flesh all over their body, until their inevitable early demise. Google: Shawfield, Lord Overtoun (a right Holy Wullie, wrong yin) production of bichromate of potash, highly carcinogenic hexavalent chromium (Chromium VI), highlighted in the Hollywood movie Erin Brockovich. Kier Hardie no less, produced a series of pamphlets entitled White Slaves: Chrome, Charity, Crystals and Cant, describing in scathing terms the terrible working conditions and the demands on the workforce at Shawfield works. Today there's an industrial estate on that site, where eg Greggs of Rutherglen had their main Scottish food production center, until tests showed how highly toxic the ground contamination there and across sites of former works at Rutherglen and Cambuslang, still is.

[@coinneachreid8971]

So glad you pointed out that MacBeatha MacFinlach employed Norman mercenaries just as much as Canmore did something I've always found mind-blowing, as mind blowing as trying to decide which one of the two was the last Celtic king of Scotland? What I personally have always found fascinating about Norman influence in Scotland is how the Normans kind of ripped up the template of Norman expansion for Scotland. Their influence in Scotland was gained more by intrigue, political favour, dynastic marriage rather than the brute force they usually relied on for the rest of their burgeoning empire

[@davidmbrown4251]

I’m sure there was plenty of brute force. But I suspect it was effective and loyal to their patron, which made them so much more valuable as enforcers over the King’s Gaelic kin. What is clear is that within a short space of time Norman families became the very image of medieval Scotland, the modern state and its institutions.

[@coinneachreid8971]

@@davidmbrown4251 Sorry no the point I was making was the Normans as a polity never made any aggressive incursions into Scotland and this was textbook for everywhere else that they extended their influence over. You're not wrong though about the speed and size of the influence they gained within the polity of Scotland, but they did it differently. Actually, now I think about it they were the only people whose influence forged medieval Scotland who didn't gain their influence through violent acquisition🤣

[@tibulcain4904]

A real interesting thing about Rollo was a contemporary historian at the time who got an account of his life from family that knew him. Still have to take it with a grain of salt. To quote Gandalf, "Every good story deserves a bit of embellishment." 🤣🤣🤣 I do often wonder what would have happened if william didn't bid for the English crown and Harold Godwinson stayed king, and the dynamic that would have played on what would be the established Scotland we know and love today. 🤔🤔🤔

[@judithkelly2556]

My ancestry is Viking and Norman including Robert de Bruce . I'm English with Scottish, Irish and Welsh family

[@mouthforwar17]

Many Flemish knights came to Scotland during David's reign also, and they established quite a few clans in the northeast. I'm curious if they'd be considered Normans at this time or differentiated as Flemings. Would love to see a video about these Flemish progenitors of Scottish clans too

[@James_BAlert]

From Flanders in the low lands(ie modern Belgium), their language wouldn't of being much different from medieval English(& Scots) at the time!? Were they invited in as mercenaries or traders? Gets you thinking about Scotland's involvement with the Hanseatic League of trading ports!? Brucie any thoughts!?👈😶

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

I already have in mind to cover them

[@chrisinnes2128]

one of them would have bee

[@tibsky1396]

Basically most of the Francophone world of that time was there: Normans, Angevins, Picards etc...

[@elainewoodard2970]

I really enjoy your videos and am learning so much about my Scottish heritage. To answer your question, I watch in my favorite chair where I can hear and see well. Thanks for all your great historical info!

[@buidseach]

The Normans also brougjht in Flemish Mercenaries and later Weavers when they formed the Burghs.

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

There's a video on them to come

[@airtexaco]

I really enjoyed this episode-thank you!

[@sunshineinn-office179]

Personal comment of Laura Botten: I'm learning more and more about names in different languages as I research my family tree. My great (x a lot) grandmother was listed as Mary Smith, but her given name was Maria Dorotha Schmidt. The Jost grandfather who came to "Canada" in the 1600s was from Strasbourg that the French took from Germany. The records list his name as Jean Georges, but he signed his name as Johann Georg, indicating the family kept their German identity. My research on the Jost name goes back to Gaelic. You really never know where things will take you and I'm super convince, as Bruce has indicated at times, that we're really a mash up of different cultures and DNA throughout time. When we get down through the Stewarts it's that French influence that gave us the Stueart and Stuart variations.... Mary Stewart (descended through Robert II's son Alexander) married into the Burns clan and eventually lead to ME :D And my brother's middle name of Stuart ;)

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[@scyphe]

It's amazing how much the norse vikings influenced and shaped the history of Europe. A group of people from the sparsely populated Scandinavia managed to directly influence all of Britain and it's islands, northern France, Iceland, Greenland, Ukraine, Russia etc. all the way to Byzantium.

[@systemSkynet]

If I was a script writer for the Vikings telly show I'd well have taken major "artistic" liberties and had King Rollo teaching wee Robert the Bruce how to wield a sword. Brilliant episode as always gang.

[@Ruairidhi]

Thanks

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

Ah thanks so much

[@therabbithole-sn5yb]

I loved the "1911" slip when you meant to say "911" you didn't even skip a beat... I had to do a double take & rewind to make sure I heard you right. LoL Bruce please keep making videos for a long time because I love your little history lessons... Keep at it...

[@vorthora]

They also raided (and some stayed as cheesemakers) in my hometown on Seville, in southwestern Spain (the only inland port in my country) in 845, several times, until the occupying Moors constructed a heavy (yet today, barely existent) city wall.

[@sarahcarnithan6771]

This channel has helped me to understand my dna results. I keep getting french dna but don't have any french braces in my tree. But I do have English Scottish and German in my tree. Add all these groups having way back norman roots and I guess that comes out in my dna as french. Very cool!

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

Brilliant

[@harveygalloway3965]

My mother's family are Montgomery. That is an interesting story itself. Thanks for sharing about the Normans in Scotland!!

[@eamonnclabby7067]

Quite a few settled in Ireland too....via Scotland...

[@harveygalloway3965]

@@eamonnclabby7067, yes they did!!

[@noahtylerpritchett2682]

Normans are the best

[@tobyplumlee7602]

My mother as well. Traced them back to a place called Ayrshire on the west coast of Scotland before they went to county Antrim Ireland. They finally ended up in the American colonies. Excellent video!!! Thank you Mr. Fummey!!!

[@kirkmorrison6131]

I knew where you were going, but I found the journey delightful, Sir

[@Adrian13rams]

Descendent of the MacKenzie Clan, I appreciate your videos 😊

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

😊 thank you

[@robertcurrie1160]

It still blows my mind that how much of history we don't know... ✌️ 👍

[@noahtylerpritchett2682]

Normans were fairly mix by the time a group of them immigrate to Scotland. A mix of Frankish, Gaulish, Breton, Anglo-Saxon and Norse hybridization in blood, and yes in culture. They resemble the original Danes very little. I wouldn't call the Normans a multiethnic multicultural people, they were all closely related northwest Europeans, but I would say the Normans had a semi diverse origins, Especially the British Normans who amalgamated Picardic, Flemish, Breton, Norman proper, Anjou and other French province regions in the British isles into one common Norman terming group. Who all amalgamated themselves and amalgamated among the native British isles peoples. This culture has always fascinated me. And I love the Norman identity and culture.

[@georgemckendrickbryce9863]

Another great video as always man! I've been trying to discover my own Bryce lineage, and so far I've found that there's a possible link with St. Bryce, and the St. Brice's Day Massacre! St' Brice is apparently the first of the Brice family to step foot on Britain from Normandy, I'm just gutted it didn't end well for the Vikings lol.

[@georgemckendrickbryce9863]

@@historynottaughtatschools9913 some interesting stuff man! It's amusing to me that the McKendrick side of my family are likely norse and the Bryce side are likely norse that settled in France only to fight then mingle 😂 I have a copy of the declaration of Arbroath in the house as well 🤘 reading it instantly makes you a warrior 💪👊💥😂

[@alexschonski3637]

Fantastic video Bruce much respect always.

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

Much appreciated

[@wingchunbuffalo9381]

I really enjoy your videos. Thanks for all the work you do to make them. I’m an American with Scottish ancestry. On my mom’s side I am of the Clan Hay. They originally came to Britain with William of Normandy as de la Hay. Later they moved to Scotland. The clan headquarters is Delgatgie Castle in Aberdeenshire. Robert the Bruce made Gilbert Hay Lord High Constable of Scotland and the clan still holds this title.

[@angr3819]

@@historynottaughtatschools9913 Caucasian is a race which encompasses all Asians except Mongoloids.

[@KLWilsonUS]

Another great "Story". I love this channel and I enjoy history and while most who discuss history make you feel like you are drowning in boredom and they are tossing you anchors, you manage to make it fun and interesting.

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

Ah thanks

[@buckieloon]

Another great film Bruce, I too have Norman heritage through both of my parents, I'll add Brix to my places to visit the next time we're in France. Many thanks !

[@travisscott1858]

AWESOME STUFF!!! Watching from Cocoa beach Florida🤙

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

Get you

[@eryximaque6310]

Your French accent is great! Greetings from France.

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

Ah merci😘

[@plainsimple442]

Hi Bruce, that is very interesting. I have direct family lines to Henry I, David I, and Robert II. Also a Welch, Irish, and Iceland king.

[@callummiller5886]

Is that all? I a direct descendant of Jesus Christ himself, Elon Musk, Andrew Carnegie, Joseph Stalin and many more

[@rebecca-borg]

In 1091 Count Roger came to Malta (Europe, archipelago in the Mediterranean sea). He left his son, King Roger II, here to govern. And the Normans stayed on until the early 13thc.

[@davehenderson7644]

I learned a lot form this, excellent!

[@robertscardino2527]

Thanks for an educational and entertaining start of my Saturday.

[@carbonman5041]

Thanks for the knowledge.. All the way from Australia Dean Bruce Ronald Sinclair.

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

I'm in Australia now as well!

[@elendil7]

Your videos just keep getting better and better. Thank you! ❤️ from a Sinclair

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

Ah thanks

[@3qqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqq10]

I love that you keep bringing up subjects relevant to my ancestry. Bio moms side is the Holladays. Normans who lived in Scotland for generations before my branch migrated to England about 940 years ago, and then my particular branch of that branch to America in the 1600s. Bio dads side supposedly originated in Sweden and migrated to Denmark and lived for generations and then to Scotland. Many claim the Mattesons come from Clan Matheson in Lochalsh and Orkney and Shetland. My second dna test shows dna from all of those places so I'm assuming the tale is true. The Stuarts married into both sides of my family multiple times. I'm Jim Morrisons second cousin once removed, related to him through the Clarkes and his family claims that Jim is a descendant of Robert de Brus. It's delightful getting so much content that relates to my ancestors.

[@gerardmccartney3186]

I was talking to a taxi driver in Belfast a few years ago. He was born in Iceland of Danish and Icelandic parents. He said "I don't know what yous are fighting about here. We (the Vikings) came to here and took all the best away as slaves, yous are the ones we left behind!!!!" I told him no, we are the ones you couldn't catch!! 🤣🤣🤣

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

😂

[@Dwaynerade]

Awesome history! And you did a bit of traveling for this one. Thanks! My daughter and I love your videos.

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

My videos love you and your daughter😘

[@wheresmyeyebrow1608]

Love your videos!!!!!

[@RoberttheFox0001]

Another great video Bruce. thank You!

[@brandtproductions]

My paternal Grandmother was a direct descendant of the Royal Stewart’s. She always wore purple. Proudly.

[@fredstoryteller]

Amazing, love this episode Bruce, thank you. Impressed by your pronunciation in French, I could probably help with a better Bayeux one if we meet in Edinburgh sometime. It would be with an immense pleasure 😊🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿💜🇫🇷

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

😂

[@Nana-vi4rd]

Now I understand how I have the Scottish King David and Robert the Bruce in my Ancestry. I hadn't found yet the connection on Ancestry but now I know where to look. Thank you so very much for uploading this video.

[@angieallen4884]

Wow, love knowing all these details. Thanks for your consistently excellent content!

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

My pleasure!

[@kimblecheat]

Excellent as usual Bruce.

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

Thanks again!

[@danpictish5457]

Fantastic info. Thanks Bruce.

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

Any time!

[@MrSinclairn]

Excellent vid,Bruce,and thanks for giving a 'oblique' shout-out for my clan.😁👌

[@deestewart6782]

Thanks!

[@annasaylor3566]

Very interesting and informative and I love the beautiful places you take us, I truly wish i could come and see them, but you make them come alive. Thank you ☮️🌹🦋❤️🌟🇺🇸

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

Maybe one day!

[@tonyelberg7814]

great video mate, thanks

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@fearthekilt]

Very good lesson this fine Saturday. This is such an interesting time in history. Thanks for the story Bruce and good morning from America.

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

Good morning!

[@marnold2791]

Google Maps doesn’t know where the village of Brix is. Very surprising!

[@dougieranger]

Very enjoyable Bruce, thanks.

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@MT-yd4of]

Hello Bruce, here, in the south, it didn't rain :) Very good video again.

[@RogerRoving]

Dammit I’ve subscribed! Your videos are so well put together.

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

Thank you sir

[@janetmackinnon3411]

So clearly outlined! Thank you again.

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

You are so welcome!

[@thelivetoad]

Great vid. Great seies

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

Glad you like them!

[@slydermartin6008]

Brilliant as always Bruce. Love your "take" the history of Scotland.

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

Many thanks

[@kmdn1]

Wow what an awesome channel! While I was doing some genealogy research and digging really far back through the generations, I came across some info about European nobles and kings/queens in my ancestry. I blew it off as a sketchy source but the same names and same stories kept appearing multiple times from multiple sources as I continued my research. I found out that some of my great great (how many greats I don't know I never counted) grandfathers are: William the Conqueror, Malcom II, Duncan, Plantagenets... I want to say the main ond was called "The Fair"? A King Henry I, a story about a sinking ship called the White Ship or something like that that killed many nobles in the English Channel including a young heir to the throne. I remember a Duke of Anjou. Two Queen Matilda's. Further down I recall a Fitz-arnold I believe was the name and then the noble titled started phasing out and eventually brought about a woman named Hannah Lake who would have been my 10th (or something -also didn't count) grandmother and the first generation of my ancestors to settle in America in the 1600's. I apologize for my shitty description of all this- I'm not a historian and I am only now learning about the people and events you're talking about in this video. Off to watch more! Thank you for sharing your knowledge with that glorious Scottish accent you have!

[@vorthora]

How I wish I could visit Scotland....Ay that little problem called money.....

[@anarchords1905]

Can I just say, you're MORE than welcome here. Save up your wee pennies, head over, and we'll all buy you a drink eh.

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

Many a meikle maks a muckle

[@JeanLoupRSmith]

Hope you had a nice time in Caen Bruce, that's my home town though Scotland's been my home for a few decades now. Is it proof that Normans are still making Scotland? I'd say it is ;)

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

I love it!

[@skywatergarage]

My family are the hay’s. My side of the family left glasgow is the 1930s to settle in America. Clan hay is said to have originated in Normandy from the Norman name de La haya and came over to Scotland in 1066 with William the conqueror though now it is a Scottish surname. So I can relate sorta to this. That’s just one story. The other legend of our clan says it all started at the battle of luncarty around Perth when a father and his two sons helped defeat the Danes with their ox yokes and was granted titles and lands by the king. Love your stories Bruce. I feel as if someone that isn’t even into history could watch your videos and enjoy every second. Your videos are… glè mhath!

[@schmiddy1473]

As a native Cumbrian I love to see you doing vids in Carlisle, hopefully will one day see you there

[@coniwatson9512]

This is history most people have know Idea. I have been researching my ancestors and by doing so study history. I can go back to 800 hundreds. Oringinal name De Hume . Descendants of the first kings of Scotland. You are a bard of our time.

[@fayelawless2625]

It's so cool to here about Dumferline!! All that fog at the beginning of the video just made me want to sit like a toad in it lol. We get foggy here in Portland Oregon but it's not on the UK level.

[@grendel_nz]

Good to see Dunfermline Abbey.

[@jayturner3397]

Great stuff, England 🇬🇧

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

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[@jayturner3397]

@@ScotlandHistoryTours part Scots 😆 🤣

[@BarryHWhite]

Hya Brucie boy, hopefully Ur good?. I live about 6miles from, what I guess is the Scotisized word for Brix... Briech. It's a small village or crossroads really, south of Bathgate. Luv Ur video Bruce, keep em coming plz. I learn allot about things in history, that I thought I was already clued up on...so, ta.

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

Brilliant

[@nightwinghunter]

Another brilliant video. Thanks Bruce, I'm a Hunter, another one of those Norman lot... or so I'm told. :-)

[@noahtylerpritchett2682]

The Normans were very awesome

[@timhancock6626]

They committed genocide here in Yorkshire and the North of England. This gets glossed over.

[@noahtylerpritchett2682]

@@timhancock6626 actually I'm very well aware of this moment. No one justifies that one event. But the overall culture they have I think is awesome.

[@andymullins84]

As a Southerner from the United States with majority Scots-Irish ancestry, we say Scotch-Irish here, this research is so relevant. During the American Civil War, the landed gentry of the Southern propaganda writers painted a picture of the South fighting to maintain the Norman Cavalier way of life. The feudal society, the importance of land ownership, the chivalrous knight on a horse was the Central theme and the Yankees were seen as inferior stock, not as smart. Many of many Scotch-Irish ancestors were not true Southerners. They had peasant ties and they spoke quicker and plainer. They were considered "Crackers" by the gentrification. But they did most of the hard fighting for the people on horseback. After the war, my war veteran male ancestors were able to break through the glass ceiling of cultural separation and marry daughters of these land rich families. This video may be one of the most important one you have done yet. It addresses my ancestry at its core as a Southerner. My dad is from Alabama and his dna results came back Scottish, English and NW Europe. My mother from Texas came back Scottish with a bit of Norway and very little English at all. But I know our Presbyterian lowland Scots was influenced heavily by the Normans and the willingness to participate in the plantation "project" in Northern Ireland comes from this influence. But some of my independent ancestors on my mother's side participated in the Irish rebellion of 1798 and all of my mother's Presbyterian men fought for the Continental Army in the American revolution. Thank-you Bruce for this history lesson delivered only the way you can.

[@Naber_Dan]

Rollo Ragnvaldsson is on my family tree.

[@Wee_Langside]

Thanks for the information on "Bobby Sinklur". I've seen many references to St Clair Sur Epte but not how the connection was made. May not be entirely relevant though. My dad said as Argyll's hire Sinclairs we had no connection with the Johnny Come Lately Norman Sinclairs of Edinburgh and the North.

[@stewartfenwick3658]

Bravo M. Fume tres interessant

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

Je vous en prie

[@raskfel555]

In 1911 lol almost had me there :P

[@robertthepooh1130]

4:14 Rollo aka Robert “Bobbie” Sinclair… wee Scottish Bear is Happy! 🐻😁 - from Robert dePooh

[@djscottdog1]

I live really close to Dunfermline abby

[@jockcusick261]

I live in brittany now and would love to see a video on the connection with scotland

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

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[@jockcusick261]

Just watched your link very interesting my son learned the bagpipes here and lots of the history of Brittany culture similar to the celtic (not the football team 🤣) cultural history all really interesting something maybe you can look at in the future 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇫🇷

[@alansmithee8831]

Bonjour Bruce. Magnifique. I speak French, but my accent is like the one from "Ripping Yarns" episode "Eric Owthwaite". My interest in Normans comes from visiting as a kid my dad's cousin who moved down to Hastings. I soon after visited Edinburgh and learned about the Norman Bruce. Near me, not too far from Scottish Doncaster are Normanton and Bretton. The Normans were not too popular round here after the "Harrying of the North". I reckon the later blowing up of Pontefract Castle to stop the king coming back and tales of Robin Hood fighting the Normans are the legacy locally. I enjoy these Scotland History Tours videos, but the history does keep bringing you back to link with the rest of Britain, even in France.

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

...or the world?

[@alansmithee8831]

Aye Bruce. The British got out there and did stuff they might not have done here, stuck with a class system from the feudal one you described.

[@daviddavidk2352]

Thank you Bruce. I love this era of history and how fluid it was, compared with later periods. My ancestors were the Earls of Dunbar and very entwined in this era.

[@tobyplumlee7602]

@@historynottaughtatschools9913 I find his work very historically accurate. You have bought into some false narrative of Scottish history. You have a right to believe what you like even if it’s mostly inaccurate.

[@rossburnett9546]

My family came to Scotland during this period

[@mikhailabunidal9146]

inntinneach/ interesting

[@gavinduncan8479]

Brilliant again Bruce. I have been telling this exact same truth to many peope, but, for some reason, people listen to you more than they do me. Must be those luscious flowing dreadlocks of yours 😉🍻

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

😂😂😂