The Diary of a Condemned Man's Final Day in the Middle Ages...

[@arejaycee5704]

Horrific at how ghastly we humans can treat each other. This story will live with me a long time..

[@billsmith281]

I hear Disney plans to turn it into a musical 😂

[@erikreber3695]

I know for real right? Such a horrific series of events painted into my mind.

[@ardenalexa94]

He clearly wasn’t a good person but his family didn’t deserve that. Wow. Felt so bad for his wife and kids. People can be monsters.

[@blenderbanana]

Family is the excuse that bad people use to justify their crimes.

[@SirLoin2418]

One thing I'm thankful for in these modern times, toilet paper.

[@poeticsilence047]

Modern toilets in general.

[@donelkingii3738]

Speak the truth. I cannot imagine living without a modern toilet. I live in America. We are spoiled. Lol

[@h0rriphic]

Lol we really are. Hence the toilet paper shortage of 2020 💀

[@brianclingenpeel5123]

You can't miss what you have never had

[@7ebr830]

Not sure how that ties into the video, but just the same, damn straight, fella. 👍

[@susiejones3634]

Well, that put my crappy day into a whole new perspective.

[@susanboyd5471]

I will never understand why people are so cruel. And those who claim to be "of God" usually are the most brutal.

[@richardbossman9875]

No, you’ll find the godless horse to be much less merciful towards their enemies or anyone who doesn’t agree with them. Power and freedom from consequences corrupts undeniable.

[@matthewjohns1758]

@@richardbossman9875I have to vehemently disagree with you. The “god” fearing have always been more violent. Look at the History of Catholicism, Islam or even the Aztec religion; they have killed a multitude of multitudes in the name of “god”. We have yet to see any group of Atheists getting together to kill someone because of their refusal to forgo their fantastical insanity that there is a mythical nonsensical “god” creature. So both of your points are easily dispensed with. Put on your Big Boy Panties and grow up.

[@Chrochella]

@@matthewjohns1758 Tell me you've never studied basic history, without telling me you never studied basic history. Some of the most ruthless butchers in history have been atheists. The following is a list of atheist dictators and the number of people that died under their reign of terror: Pol Pot: 1.5 - 3 million people. Karl Marx: approximately 60 million people Ho Chi Minh: approx 1.5 million people Mao Zedong: 40-80 million people Shall I continue?.... All of them were ATHEISTS imposing their atheistic views on the populous.

[@roseprevost5876]

They claim they're doing it for God, and that he approves.

[@zafferung4440]

@@richardbossman9875 Morality comes from within. If you think atheists lack any sense of morality, you are deeply, delusionally wrong. How judgemental of you.

[@friendofvinnie]

This is why you never surrender 💗

[@bretfisher7286]

I am once again reminded that when we believe that things are chaotic, violent, and abusive today, well... yes. They are. But we're capable of much worse than what we're witnessing today, aren't we?

[@mollykeane2571]

This sort of thing still goes on in many parts of the world and it’s only a matter of time before it reaches the west.

[@bewilderedpancakes4755]

Make no mistake, there are plenty of people today that would do this and more to the people they hate. We're not less violent now, it's just easier to believe so because it makes us feel good about ourselves.

[@anotherguy3554]

@@bewilderedpancakes4755 strip away all the thin veneer of civilization and we will begin to see the cruel barbarity of humanity itself

[@M167A1]

Look at the 20th century, places like Germany, the Soviet Union, Cambodia, Cuba etc.. somebody from the middle ages might very well say no thank you if asked if they wanted to change places.

[@bretfisher7286]

And I'm sure many of us thought we were, as a species, putting this kind of thing behind us once and for all. Everything moves in a circle. Today is the dawn of a new feudal era-- including the barbarity that came alongside class warfare, the utter dominance of the psychopathic rich, the generalized hatred of the poor and the refugee, mercenary hired armies, induced shortages, gross inequity, widespread famine and pestilence, hoarding of wealth and property and resources, and all the rest of it. God help us. What a miserable species we are!

[@tomhutchins7495]

The cruelty of how the entire family was butchered seems a bit extra, even for medieval times. I wonder what else this guy had done that hasn't made its way to us.

[@friedrichjunzt]

He was no saint and the rest was the hunger of the crowd for blood, gore and greatest suffering possible. last things are still sleeping in us, waiting for finally waking up.

[@roseprevost5876]

That's why I have almost no repect for organized religion. They're so holy, yet capable of total brutality.

[@JS-wp4gs]

and then there are the atheists, who do far worse than anything any organized religion has ever done. Ask hitler, stalin, mao, pol pot and a thousand others about that

[@UnderWaterExploring]

i love these videos, but they remind me that i dont really like being a member of the human race. we are such disgusting creatures

[@henriashurst-pitkanen8735]

Everything is socially educated. Nothing is written in stone regarding human behaviour, it's all about education. The robotic "dead sets" of human nature of pop-neuropsychology make people think we can ONLY be this selfish, horrible misanthropic mess. There is always hope.

[@AA-yb5np]

My friends send me some gore and weird fetish videos, some fked up shit

[@marybroome7865]

We are capable of terrible and wonderful things. If you ever feel down, look around and check if you are surrounded by idiots. If you are...walk away 😊

[@thiagorottjer87]

​@@marybroome7865what do you do when you cant?

[@marybroome7865]

@thiagorottjer87 oh that's a shame and a hard one. Even try to get out in nature more if you can. Watching birds helps me to feel good about life. I feed crows and they recognise me now.

[@brianclingenpeel5123]

Man, this one was intense. Another great video. I look forward to each new addition.

[@galloe8933]

You know what? No, the opening of all the videos have that knight, or guy with a sword and a smile about to end a naked child, who is also kind of happy, just as the lady offering him up to the guy with the sword is. Secretly, this is a happy channel. Never too gruesome. Never mind, I was wrong. You have a knack for writing, it seems, and that was hard to watch, but even harder to look away from! 11/10 Part of me is dead now.

[@cainmathewson1857]

Lol what? Idk what to make of this but makes me smile lol

[@lucy9698]

"Just a warning if you're eating breakfast...." Me: _takes a hearty bite of a delicious sugary doughnut_

[@Breca]

Chomping Quiche when i Heard that. LOL

[@annasteiger7817]

I look forward to these every Friday evening.

[@esomethingoranother3718]

This was a really good video as usual. The first-hand account was very well done.

[@generalfire4280]

Madness doesn’t describe the horrors well enough !

[@Amy-hs1qe]

Truly horrifying. Grateful to be living in modern times.

[@kimberlypatton205]

Agreed. And when I feel like griping about traffic or the electric bill I will think about how good I actually have it in 2023! We’ve come a long a way but change moves slowly for a reason.What horrible times to live in.

[@darkskinneddamsel8203]

Freaking Whoa, that was intense, my toes are still clutched!😖

[@astrid703]

Excellent reading!

[@carlyrennae3963]

Another awesome video 🙏 thanks matey 🎉

[@RJStockton]

Remember to never surrender, kids.

[@DG-iw3yw]

Getting killed in any fight is way better that what happened there

[@DFX2KX]

The writer that witnessed this with his own eyes probably needed to make a beeline for the nearest pub for a stiff ale afterward.

[@matthewjohns1758]

I would be surprised if he was all that affected. He would have seen other examples of supreme horror many times. The Middle Ages were a particularly death filled era filled with punishments that would kill you and at the same time exonerate you of any wrongdoing. Could you imagine being a woman who is being dunked for witchcraft? What do you pray for life or death?

[@deadhorse1391]

As my grandmother would say “they sure were some mean motor scooters “

[@shellyraymond4337]

James, you have such a good narrating voice!

[@madiantin]

Holy ..... Beating mother and father with the severed limbs of their murdered children? Burning children alive? Horrific.

[@augustbliss]

YESSSSS!! Accounts such as these are priceless jems. This channel is just so incredible. Love it. Thank you for the work and ever so interesting finds. I really liked the Death Dance video, but then again each of your videos are jewels. May I suggest embalming practices/mortuary culture of the Middle Ages?

[@SuperDurv]

I love these videos

[@krakowcossack3344]

"its a work of fiction" yeah, well F off for having a good story telling voice.

[@justinakers3196]

Great vid. Sad

[@rayl.clemonsjr.4210]

One of your best videos.The music for this video was perfect.The intense narration was chillingly spot on.The story was poignant and memorable and will stay with me for some time. I love your channel. Thank you.

[@theconqueringram5295]

This is a very interesting presentation.

[@NakedOwl501]

Never forget no matter how awful you *think* the times are... they always used to be far worse.

[@blenderbanana]

There are necklacing videos and cartel snuff videos: today

[@NakedOwl501]

@@blenderbanana True, and people are still stuffed in tired and burned alive in Africa.

[@tonyv1796]

we're all so fortunate to simply exist in present day.

[@anthonyhudson3136]

as the saying goes, what goes around comes around.

[@kerek07]

amazing

[@friedrichjunzt]

The ones who believe in "the holy will of God"are almost always the most cruel and savage human beings against their fellow humans.

[@fussyjupiter217]

So was every other culture and those affiliated with many other religions. Please tell me where in the world torture and execution were not carried out at some point.

[@JennieKermode]

Is there a record of the women having screamed for a prolonged period? That's rare. Usually people burned at the stake died from smoke inhalation, and would, at any rate, have struggled to make high pitched sounds once they started breathing it in.

[@emmalogan8641]

Only if the wood was damp, otherwise they would burn to death.

[@leightonolsson4846]

That was INTENSE 😧

[@MaynardsSpaceship]

They always have been sadistic.

[@worldtipper]

I don't think it's sadistic. It's something as cruel and twisted like Hitler and the Nazi party. 😮

[@matthewjohns1758]

They who? People in general?

[@Chrochella]

@@matthewjohns1758 …are you too much of a coward to reply when challenged? ….Pretty much😏

[@brabantplays8091]

Horrifically wonderful...

[@rominiyi-is3en]

Is there something wrong with your head

[@veiledrecalcitrance4314]

Goddamn. You know what’s seriously fucked up? We are one step out of that vicious, monstrous way of life. With all the bigotry and hate that’s going on today, we are literally a step away from that kind of inhuman behavior. Plus, those were papal troops that treated other humans that way (yes, I know they were the family of a bastard himself, and he deserved punishment, although I don’t know if anyone deserves to watch their innocent children brutalized then murdered in front of them) that right there is the loving and kind history of Christianity. And people wonder why I’m not a big fan of the human race overall.

[@fussyjupiter217]

I agree with you on the bigotry and and being a step away from that kind of inhuman behaviour. Look no further than your own comment… Torture and execution is a was carried out in all known societies and places. People affiliated with all kinds of religions and cultures did brutal things to each other. Yet you label it as the “history of Christianity”. It’s the history of human kind.

[@dangermouse9348]

That was very grim.

[@Xbalanque84]

_WHAT THE ACTUAL HELL?_ Why was the crowd so unspeakably eager to do _that_ to his children?

[@meravbinyamin3203]

Omg that is so incredibly disturbing 😢

[@klyanadkmorr]

Yeah I figured it was a fiction not REALLY a Diary when someone is able to WRITE UPTO to the point of their DEATH?

[@pinkpugginz]

its a historical account of someone that this happened to. not their exact words

[@Quasimodo1957]

Thank God we, as a civilized nation, don't commit such horrific and barbaric tortures in this day and age and resort to more 'humane' ways like stress positioning, waterboarding, sleep and sensory deprivation and other more humanistic ways of 'persuasion'.

[@markharc7615]

We are nothing more then evolved apes. That is the reality regardless of how we try to spin it differently.

[@postiepaul]

God was responsible for these horrors.

[@zafferung4440]

Thank God most of us don't live in the US.

[@snapdragon6601]

I guess the definition of a "civilized society" is relative. When compared to some of the punishments in the middle ages, many countries in the world today could be considered more humane. Unfortunately, there are still countries like North Korea.

[@sterlingcampbell2116]

​@@zafferung4440as somebody who has lived on four continents, the US objectively remains a superb place to live.

[@annchristina1188]

You have a Talent narration I think about doing audiobooks I listen to a lot of them considerate thank you bye😊

[@erikreber3695]

Humans are capable of love that can move mountains and cruelty that shouldn't be.

[@filthism1659]

And in this day spin age we thing things are going nuts. But after hearing this story I'm shocked at the brutal nature of pur fellow humans

[@Luca.Bruschetta]

Not me watching this while in eating a pb & j

[@JohnSmith-te1zd]

Wait... So, when exactly did this guy have time to write this?

[@raeunderpressure]

It's historical fiction, he said it at the beginning. These things did happen

[@OmegaWolf747]

Man's inhumanity to man... 😞

[@NPC-0013]

Wait a minute at the start you said fictional????

[@pinkpugginz]

its historical fiction, this did happen to people

[@seroquelnation4814]

Well, that sucks...

[@evanjones9602]

Warning: Game of Thrones-typical violence. A lot of Game of Thrones executed/sacrificed characters had horrible last days. Poor Shireen had a horrible morning (burned alive). Axell Florent had a bad night (burned alive). Ned had a crummy morning. Tyene had a terrible afternoon (poisoned). Mance had an awful afternoon (burned alive).

[@raynarks]

People haven’t changed. The mobs are just as vile as ever.

[@missanne2908]

This reminded me of the scene in _The Count of Monte Cristo_ where the Count offers Albert and Franz seats to witness an execution by Mazzatello (clubbing to death). This too occurred in the Papal States. What is it about that area that lends it to being bloodthirsty?

[@cw4608]

These horrific atrocities were actually inflicted on innocent children? By Papal troops, or did they just stand by and let it happen?

[@magocchio3959]

As a mother this was hard to hear. Poor innocent crying children. Everyone back then mustve had PTSD from violence committed by and done to them....

[@theswede5402]

@@magocchio3959 The same things happen today..

[@JS-wp4gs]

None of them were innocent. They knew full well what he was doing and were an active part in it. They all benefitted from what he did to all of those people and just as guilty as he was. They simply received what they had done many times to others

[@theswede5402]

@@JS-wp4gs How the fuck can you blame children for what their father did? And rape can never ever be justified.

[@daviddelacruz5333]

I just have one question. If this is his diary how did he write about and describe his own execution.

[@Jasonmakesvideo]

Damn ....what did he do to deserve all this

[@angelagendreau3586]

It sounds like nothing other than they hated this guys brother. Unless I missed something.

[@LSheWolf84]

"The worst day of his life" is a total understatement! My God that's so barbaric AF!!!!

[@JS-wp4gs]

Not really. It was no less than he did to others. He should have expected it

[@ardenalexa94]

@@JS-wp4gshis daughters didn’t deserve to be harmed nor his wife for his actions though. I’m not saying he didn’t deserve to be punished but the one who should be punished for the crime is the one who committed it.

[@derektaylor2941]

I've watched many, probably now most, of the videos on this channel and without a doubt this is the most disturbing. Why? Because we are ourselves throughout the World seeing a breakdown in society, the rules- both written and un-written that deal with how we govern others, are governed by others and how we seek 'justice' when wronged, are all quickly dissolving. Anyone who thinks we cannot reach this level of barbarity needs to remember that for all our technology, our individual psyche has evolved little in aeons. We are, as someone put it, chimpanzees with i-phones.

[@pikachu6031]

Very interesting and beautifully narrated. Just one thing. Vicenza is actually pronounced “VI - CHEN - ZA”! Hope that helps.

[@wilhelminamarquart240]

People sadly have always been monsters and still are they just have often used a mask of civility but no real morals or sympathy are in most of humanity

[@OLDMANWAFFLES]

I wonder if this is where the rap group name Griselda came from. I never even wondered all these years

[@df289]

Humans !

[@ankhpom9296]

How could he write the diary as he was being executed?

[@BTScriviner]

This one was tough to watch and listen to.

[@111205dng]

Medieval’s we’re lucky the didn’t have to deal with commercial’s 😂

[@quentincollins1825]

Did the Paduan soldiers have lightsabers? 🤔

[@mrkiplingreallywasanexceed8311]

Mega dark!

[@jadeinthewoods]

All I have to say is GODDAMN!😳!!!

[@andrewkellar6511]

My god...

[@coyotemojo]

wicked karma

[@kaazflaaz1209]

This sort of cruelty and love for pain and suffering, it exists in all of us indulging it that fiery and evil want to hurt because it's righteous

[@RenaissanceEarCandy]

I believe in an afterlife but I hope the perpetrators of this are in a very dark place now.

[@JS-wp4gs]

Why? They were dispensing justice. Don't forget they were doing to him what he had done to many others. Things both he and his family benefitted from. They had it coming

[@ardenalexa94]

@@JS-wp4gsby hurting his family? His family didn’t harm those people, he did. So yes the people who harmed his family should be in the same dark place he’s in. By harming people who were innocent just because they were either married to or related to him is pretty monstrous. No different than him. He was horrible, but so were they. He should’ve been given prison or the death penalty, but him alone, not his wife and kids.

[@jc-tu6pg]

So is this real or fiction?

[@CleoVonGem]

The events happened, it just wasn't written by The Guy. It was told later on, by a firsthand witness.

[@jc-tu6pg]

@@CleoVonGem thank you. such an explanation would've been quite useful in the beginning

[@hugius9016]

@@CleoVonGem Did the witness write it is first-person as well? Or did MedievalMadness narrate the writings as first-person?

[@ericandbeethoven]

do you actually think some dude was writing his diary while he was tied up and getting hot pokered all over this body?

[@mollykeane2571]

Sounds like Mexico today.

[@jellekastelein7316]

I like a good gory bit of horror as much as the next guy, but, jeez.

[@Stan-lq1ep]

Damn they were hardcore back then

[@wfbcwfbc7884]

Indian proverb... Life is cheap. But toilet paper is expensive

[@linkovyporiadok]

Here you are: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alberico_da_Romano

[@Breca]

Thank You

[@Reathety]

Yikes!

[@how_to_play_guitar_tabs]

Im from Vicenza

[@kristinetaulbut4975]

Christian love at its finest

[@JS-wp4gs]

Now do islam, and then all the african religions and then all the asian and indian ones. Hint: they have all done more violent stuff than this

[@Breca]

Be brutal Get brutalized C'est la vie !

[@tmr4342]

🦇

[@adrianf7732]

Enlightened Europeans…

[@RoomerJ]

Jeez this was MESSED UP

[@Raccoon12008]

Say what you want about midevial times but I would of loved to exist back then because of being able to impale an enemy soldier with a spear, couldn't imagine how epic that would've been

[@pinkpugginz]

ok kid

[@brentanderson1130]

Holy crap we were monsters

[@lancevance1612]

Day 3 of asking for the intro music

[@5T3-d3c]

I turned it off when you said Fictionalised

[@s.j.9665]

Well, that part was at the very end. So you turned the video off like 5 seconds before the official ending.

[@5T3-d3c]

@@s.j.9665 54 seconds in

[@annak9646]

The person is real and the events are real - the narration of said events in diary format is what’s fictional idiot

[@heathergentlyinthewind806]

This was hard to listen to... horrific

[@VaxWax-z5y]

Screw you. Be honest about your material.

[@somniumneon6233]

cruelty is uniquely human. Most of us deserved to have never lived at all, both as punishment and relief.

[@blenderbanana]

Nope. Dolphins, seals, sea lions, cats, and otters all torture for recreation.

[@JS-wp4gs]

@@blenderbanana No they don't

[@mirrorblue100]

Jesus - were these people Christians!??!

[@giuseppelogiurato5718]

Why does every sentence have a "descending cadence"? Every thing he says starts *high*, and gradually decays to *low*... His tone is so "sarcastic" and "defeated"; it's more depressing than the history he's talking about!

[@feldgeist2637]

read channel name for unbiased history content, search elsewhere

[@pinkpugginz]

ok

[@williamramage9461]

So what

[@prairierider7569]

Alright! Gore with a Saturday eve filled with @MidievalMadness