The Bishop, the Pope, and the Pirates

[@ChuckSwiger]

The mind boggles at how much history of the ancient world was lost in the burning of the Library of Alexandria.

[@GUNNER67akaKelt]

Yeah, one also wonder wonders what is kept hidden in the vatican's secret archives.

[@AdamConus]

You had me at pirates.

[@robertjensen1438]

A pirate goes to the doctor and says, "I have moles on me back aaarrrghh." The doctor: "It's ok, they're benign." Pirate: "Count again, I think there be ten!"

[@frenzalrhomb6919]

It's an oldy, but a goody!! 😂

[@mastahc0w]

Aye don't get it. Please explain like I'm a pieces of 8 year old.

[@mpetersen6]

I can't wait for Sept 19th. National Talk Like a Pirate Day

[@Zorglub1966]

@@mpetersen6 Yaaaaarrrrrr!

[@frenzalrhomb6919]

@@mpetersen6 Aaarrr!! Aye, sounds like a truly great celebration, and a truly wonderful chance to grab all the treasures on the seven seas, and be giving it all to childhood cancer research!! You'll have a whale 🐋 of a time, make new friends, and most important of all, help ye kiddies beat that awful cancer!!

[@john_in_phoenix]

The cufflinks are a nice touch!

[@General_Confusion]

They could make a movie out of this story, they might call it "Pope Fiction"

[@raunchyrarebit]

They could make a movie out of your comment, they'd call it "embarrassingly lame comment".

[@CAP198462]

“Latin barbarian, do you speak it?” -Iulius Vinfieldus.

[@revvyhevvy]

​@@raunchyrarebitjust because he thought of it first!

[@phredphlintstone6455]

​@@raunchyrarebitare you butthurt?

[@Peter-oh3hc]

I like it

[@TheRiverPirate13]

This pirate always enjoys an obscure pirate story that was almost lost to history!

[@revvyhevvy]

Where's that paddle, he's gaining on us!!

[@TheRiverPirate13]

@@revvyhevvy 😂

[@headsetlucky13]

Firefart and the holy treasure I'd watch it

[@revvyhevvy]

Sounds like a sequel to Blazing Saddles!

[@artmosley3337]

@@revvyhevvyya beat me to it 😂😂😂😂 however, he invited lightning his on fire 🔥 🤙🏻😂😂☠️🔥

[@keithdrower9120]

This is one of the best history's ever told. !

[@mellissadalby1402]

That really is a truly great story. Thank you for finding it and for presenting it here.

[@jamiecheslo]

I always love a good pirate story!! Thanks for sharing! Oh, and your cuff links are quite "en pointe." Cheers from Canada!!

[@MrDportjoe]

What we have here is 10 part series!

[@laserbeam002]

What a wonderful post. Thank you and keep it up. May your channel continue to grow.

[@spokanetomcat1]

This happened when Jacques De Molay was the Grand Master of the Knights Templars. But that is another story.

[@lindawoodard1330]

I love the pirate stories

[@stevedolesch9241]

I'll remember that: Firefart.

[@randelbrooks]

Wow Lance you did a fantastic job on this complicated and wordy story. I'm going to need to watch it a couple of times to absorb it all. Thank you for your hard work.

[@jacindapaf8076]

Great story! My son attended Binghamton. Excellent professors.

[@dougwalker4944]

love the background... I freeze frame to check out the shelves and wall decor.

[@PhantomLover007]

More twists and turns than the switchbacks on the Adirondack

[@joshuabessire9169]

The Anglelican archives have a similar story about the activities of a certain Bishop. I think it's filed in a secret history under the heading " Blackadder II"

[@Chadswonderfulwalkingtours]

Watching from Mackinac Island Michigan

[@QueenRenne]

Wonderful place 💯💙✨😄

[@Chadswonderfulwalkingtours]

​@@QueenRenne And I live here !

[@revvyhevvy]

Can you throw a small rock and watch as it enters Canada?

[@Chadswonderfulwalkingtours]

@@revvyhevvy Nah, man. It's about 70-80 miles up to the Soo. But we're close.

[@constipatedinsincity4424]

Back in the Saddle Again Naturally

[@Bill-cv1xu]

That statement is getting stale..😂 no offense..

[@frenzalrhomb6919]

​@@Bill-cv1xu Gee, ya' think?

[@Bill-cv1xu]

@@frenzalrhomb6919 Seems to me..

[@revvyhevvy]

Yeah, but can you name the artist??

[@fknchuck55]

What does that supposed to mean? I don't get the correlation.

[@RobertMeersman]

The yarn of yarns this wow

[@jaewok5G]

as a refinement or addendum to your proverb, "pirates will make a story greater"

[@BasicDrumming]

I appreciate you and thank you for making content.

[@jbtubman]

Nice cufflinks! 🏴‍☠

[@EGRJ]

??? When can you see them?

[@markpaul-ym5wg]

Filthy stinking rich was the album cover name and a song that was on the album.The band was called warrant.

[@revvyhevvy]

We have a warrant for your arrest!

[@markpaul-ym5wg]

@@revvyhevvy Insert cassett,push PLAY.

[@donbangert]

After hearing Cartagena so many times I think I'll watch Romancing the Stone again. 😂

[@revvyhevvy]

Again? I've never seen it!

[@spikespa5208]

Even if it is a different Cartagena. Fun film.

[@ElaineWood-f2t]

Very interesting story! ❤

[@michaelnovak4035]

I have toured Avignon. Beautiful place!!! My Roman Catholic family didn't believe me, until they read a bit!

[@kimfleury]

Didn't believe what?

[@michaelnovak4035]

@@kimfleury that a Pope lived and worked in Avignon before I went there

[@tonydagostino6158]

Sounds like it could be one of those "madcap" comedy movies of the '60's like "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World". All that's needed is a love interest or two and it's good to go

[@RandomTChance]

And we are grateful for your work. ✌️🤠

[@deanbuss1678]

This is another cool story! Thanks HG!

[@camilleszalma4556]

I like many KZbin videos every day. I've been subscribed to your channel for years and have a lot of other subscrptions too (although yours is one of my favorites). But I don't often share the videos I watch. Well this was an extremely shareworthy video and I accordingly shared it. Thanks for making such interesting content!

[@steveshoemaker6347]

Thank the hard working research work of THG🎀 Old F-4 Phantom ll fighter pilot Shoe🇺🇸

[@paulholmes672]

Ah, the original Rhino, remember it well from fixing wing fold leaks and Door 22 explorations!! TYFYS, Sir!

[@steveshoemaker6347]

@@paulholmes672 Thank you..... Shoe🇺🇸

[@bavondale]

so true. you tell pirate stories so well

[@ricksaint2000]

Thank you History Guy

[@Torby4096]

Pirates twice in one story😮

[@RetiredSailor60]

Good morning History Guy and everyone watching. Have a good weekend... Win the Gold USA 2024 Paris Olympics!

[@swhip897]

But it's not about winning, just politics

[@ghowell13]

Ahh yes, Fire Fart! You scoundrel! You scourge of the Mediterranean Sea! You have struck again! If my wife watches this episode, I may have a new nickname myself...

[@revvyhevvy]

I pity you! Maybe take over the laundry at least until the embers cool!

[@DazedandInsane]

​@@revvyhevvyDid she watch it yet? 😂

[@sallycormier1383]

Yes, every story is better with pirates! Arghhh!❤🏴‍☠️

[@coling3957]

"don't the best stories always have Popes..?"

[@Pocketfarmer1]

No

[@martinhughes2637]

As soon as I saw the title, the words “because, don’t all good stories…” popped into my head!

[@elcastorgrande]

All good stories involve pirates.

[@richardthornhill4630]

There is no end to the corruption of Medieval clergy and papacy.

[@revvyhevvy]

Corruption and humans go hand in hand....

[@michaelwalton7776]

I'm going to start a rock band and call it Firefart!😎🎸

[@fredericrike5974]

There was a larger commercial war going on in the post Templars era. This was part of it. Look into how the Templars raised money, what their involvement in the wool markets was, and the iconography of the Templars, particularly of the Templars who were responsible for the fleet of ships that disappeared sometime on the night before Philip of France and Robert d'Norgurey (sic), his Attorney General, had their warrant and notice of confiscation delivered. There is a lot we still do not know, and I suspect looking in the older records of the Cistercians and Bernard of Clairvaux could be profitable, as they were often partners with the Templars from their founding to the end. Having seen first hand how dirty the RCC was, it should not shock you to find they wanted none of this to come out- it has taken hundreds of years of pressure from outside the church to let academics begin the trove though 1600 years of the RCC's history. You might just see those cuff links in a far different light with this little bit of prodding.

[@kimfleury]

No it has not "taken hundreds of years of pressure from the outside to let academics begin the trove though 1600 years of the" Church's history. The first academics in the West were the professors who taught in Catholic universities, because every university in Europe was founded by bishops and religious orders. But what specifically are you looking for? Because you have to know that before you can look at it. It's not like the librarians of the archives do or should let any Tom, Dick and Harry waltz through the ancient stacks pulling out papers both bound and unbound. I doubt you would even allow some stranger into your own library, or even have access to your bookshelf to pull all the books off the shelves and clumsily turn the pages looking for secrets that you don't want the world to know. Never mind the idea that you might have carefully organized your books and don't want it messed up. Never mind the idea that you might have inherited the library and found it to be overwhelmingly unorganized, as the previous librarians put books wherever they found a spot. Both of these are the cases with the Vatican archives. There's actually video of it on KZbin explaining the procedures and requirements for accessing works that might be preserved in the archives, and the reasons for the procedures. In the past, items were stored wherever there was space, but a reorganization project is taking place, with investment in storage space and maintenance. Sometimes the thing you're looking for is just buried or not yet catalogued. It's not because they're hiding anything, but because you're dealing with 2,000 years of documents. But bigots don't accept reality when they can make a phony case for making their hated groups look bad.

[@robertmoye7565]

Good one.

[@kellybasham3113]

Love your videos

[@carolgonzales1410]

How many more unknown stories are hidden away.

[@justanamerican9024]

Arrr, Matie, good video. Thanks!

[@constipatedinsincity4424]

14:20 Sounds like the Wu Tang Clan! Hey History Guy 🤓didn't you say that the Wu Tang Clan was nothing to F with ?!?👐

[@artmosley3337]

Was he really Celibate??? That is the part of history that is really forbidden to discuss… and how about the Nuns??? Orphans????

[@jill-ti7oe]

A particularly Ripping Yarn Ol' Bean.

[@bigsarge2085]

☠ Fascinating!

[@CaptainJerry-]

It's a Pirate life for me!

[@bnthern]

well told!

[@revvyhevvy]

As THG always does!!

[@davemechanic1]

The best story teller in all the lands Ladies and gentlemen

[@morfeusdream]

All good stories involve pirates!

[@Palvader]

Because don't all good stories involve pirates?!

[@deanbuss1678]

Thanks!

[@TheHistoryGuyChannel]

Thsnk you!

[@geraldgriffin8220]

Great story !

[@captainsensiblejr.]

Fragmentary joke, found in the Humour section of an ancient wing of the Vatican Library "A soaking wet bishop, the sodden Pope and a pirate walk into a seaside bar. The bartender, quite familiar with castaways and ship wrecked sailors, guffawed loudly "Why the long faces? You look as though someone sank your galley !" The bishop and the Pope grimace sourly and simultaneously point at the the pirate, and in unison both said "He did ..... " Sadly, the punchline has not survived ... "

[@MarkEvans-wx3sg]

Thank you for truth

[@kraneiathedancingdryad6333]

Love your pirate shirt 🏴‍☠️

[@Guangrui]

But of course, all the good stories involve pirates, one way or another 😂😂

[@davidholder3207]

This ripping yarn must be one of many lurking in the Vatican archives.

[@GUNNER67akaKelt]

The dread pirate 'firefart'... lol.

[@TheHistoryGuyChannel]

You can see why he’d be dreadful

[@GUNNER67akaKelt]

@@TheHistoryGuyChannel Lol Indeed!

[@george2113]

It's past time to publish all the papal documents so they can't be lost to history!

[@kimfleury]

They _are_ published if they're in the archives at the Vatican.

[@george2113]

@@kimfleury printed isn't published

[@constipatedinsincity4424]

10:08 Anthony?

[@tomwarner2468]

Of course, don't all good stories involve pirates!

[@JTA1961]

There was alot of a~salt~ing going on back then

[@VespasianJudea]

Was there any ass-salting?

[@frenzalrhomb6919]

​@VespasianJudea What happens out at sea etc etc etc . . .

[@VespasianJudea]

@@frenzalrhomb6919 😆

[@charliemansonUK]

Ooooh Pirates ☠️ ♥️

[@robertfindley921]

Religion has always been about power and wealth. And control. And hoarding women. But then many get caught up in the hoopla and pomp, thinking it's their ticket to paradise and absolution of their misdeeds, past, present and even future.

[@revvyhevvy]

Are you attempting to reinstate my already burst bubble? Sorry, bud, many have tried, none have succeeded! But, there's a fool born every second!

[@paulholmes672]

Organized Religion, yes.

[@jonathanwetherell3609]

Just shows the power and wealth of a religion.

[@gardnep]

A train load of gold and precious materials was also confiscated by pirates in WW2.

[@phredphlintstone6455]

Could have ended the sentence at "Hollywood doesn't know anything"

[@Chris-ut6eq]

So pirates are the salt of the earth?

[@167curly]

There were as rascals back in history as much aa amongst politicians nowadays

[@ulyssees30y]

A few days ago I try a

[@johnstreet797]

The socks pirates prefer are AARRGGGGGHYLES! What do pirates pay to get their ears pierced? A buck an ear! ARGGGH

[@cinemaipswich4636]

The Vatican Collection is 2000 years of knowledge, wealth and power. The richest collection on Earth, from original writings of all authors, precious metals and gems, original artworks from around the world over that time. Original manuscripts from all the scientists, philosophers and artisans since recorded time.

[@Jason-fm4my]

Special thanks to Daniel and Karen.

[@obsidianjane4413]

The "War of the Peters". Giggle sophomorically. Many of the only fragments we have of ancient civilization's writings, thoughts, and structure are little more than mundane receipts and correspondence (ie: emails).

[@constipatedinsincity4424]

5:11 Tim Tebow is still everywhere

[@samiam619]

WOW! There’s a name I hoped to never hear again…

[@semigoth299]

I got a goal to reach it involves ancient food and the crops here and there how do I start and fish hatcheries

[@semigoth299]

❤ another great story because it has pirate’s 🏴‍☠️

[@uriituw]

It has pirate’s what?

[@nickgarrity764]

Brava

[@sarge420]

If you tax the Vatican alone, this could almost wipe out our deficit.

[@johnbroadway4196]

JEEEEEEZ, OH what history hides the Reasons which is how religion and politics are never boring.

[@tolentarpay5464]

After all, don't all good stories involve loiterers?

[@pierrettegagnon2627]

WE WILL NEVER KNOW THE TRUE HISTORY OF THE HUDSON BAY WOOL COMPANY......

[@Braz3nRav1n]

"nephews"

[@Zorglub1966]

Yaaaarrrrrr!

[@richardmiller9883]

Nephews or "nephews"?

[@comentedonakeyboard]

Pirates of the Vatican

[@nickc247]

No, not all good stories involve pirates.

[@Redeemedbylove1987]

The Vadican would have this movie shut down.

[@revvyhevvy]

What! The Catholic Church involved in shady dealings! Surely, you jest! Quick, call Ron Howard!

[@artmosley3337]

Venice had the monopoly on the salt .. that’s how they became so wealthy before the Catholic Church

[@1208bug]

😊👍

[@PenninkJacob]

👍👍👍