The Sack of Rome 1527 - The Darkest Hour of the Landsknechts

On the 6th of May 1527 an army of emperor Karl V, enraged and completely beyond the control of its commanders, sacked the city of Roma - this event is also known as Sacco di Roma. The soldiers plundered as they pleased. Rome was aflame. This video explains how contemporary historiography recounts the Sack of Rome.
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Bibliography:
Hook, J., The Sack of Rome 1527, Basingstoke 22004.
Shaw, Ch. / Mallet, M., The Italian Wars 1494-1559 (War, State and Society in
Early Modern Europe), Harlow 2019.
Sherer, I. A Bloody Carnival? Charles V’s Soldiers and the Sack of Rome in 1527, in: Journal of the society for Renaissance Studies online, last updated 1. Dec. 2019.
Primary Sources:
Buonaparte, Jacopo, II Sacco di Roma, ragguaglio storico attribuito a Jacopo Buonaparto, Florence 1527.
Guicciardini, Luigi, II Sacco di Roma, Paris 1564.

[@SandRhomanHistory]

Edit: The quote about Attila is actually correct, it's just a quote of a contemporary witness. However, as many of you have pointed out the 410 sack of Rome was by the Visigoths under Alaric. Sorry for the error, it always annoys us when we miss these details :S Edit 2: Both numbers of Swiss Guards present in Rome are correct. There were 189 Swiss Guards covering the pope's retreat but about 2000 were present in total (this is according to Hook, J., The Sack of Rome 1527, 2004.) This video is a collaboration with the pike and shot channel. This guy is making great content covering the early modern period and definitely deserves some love. Check him out: kzbin.info/www/bejne/fJPNiaqhq7KXe8k

[@pikeshotBattles]

Nice work my fellow historians. And thanks for the shout out!

[@Sofus.]

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[@Nly737]

Your editing and story telling quality is amazing as ever. May I though recommend getting a better mic? It might bring the entire quality to a new level. Your voice is great to listen to but the mic quality seems a little off. Thanks for the good content and have a great day!

[@richardross1754]

Your video was great but it ended so abruptly it seemed like. If you could wind them down and have more of a finished vibe at the end. That would be great

[@Alias_Anybody]

Not paying your mercs: Bad idea Not paying your mercs deep inside enemy territory: Surprisingly good idea

[@testaccount4191]

its like not feeding your pet tiger living in your house and it eating a bugler

[@NLTops]

It really depends on two things: a) How wealthy is your opponent? b) How difficult is the siege at hand?

[@celdur4635]

@@NLTops Yeah, your enemy could just pay your mercenaries and gg.

[@JonatasAdoM]

What would happen if you were to send them in a suicide mission? I'm always surprised my mercenaries don't desert me and just accept they're disposable units in Medieval II.

[@slinkerdeer]

@@JonatasAdoM actually mercenaries are excellent early game powerful units. You should use militia for cannon fodder or peasants

[@mariushunger8755]

Karl V. :"oh nooo, can't reach my mercenary army ravaging my enemies, oh noooo"

[@stephanmeeusen7655]

Can't have my mercenary army who I don't need to pay weaken my enemies xd

[@theminuskai7453]

Karl V: Super Stonks

[@alvaro6587]

Carlos*

[@javiermendez6850]

Francis: "Let's sell our butts to the Ottomans."

[@lindgrenland]

Stop wait come back

[@yt_krg]

Ahem In the heart of the holy see In the home of Christianity The seat of power is in danger

[@kendsplaining]

kono_ dio_ga knew it

[@kendsplaining]

Mihovil Raboteg Then the 189

[@blendix6413]

@@kendsplaining in the service of heaven

[@maximilianbeyer5642]

They're protecting the holy line It was 1527

[@casparvoncampenhausen5249]

Gave their lives on the steps to heaven

[@Thraim.]

>Not paying your mercenaries That's a bingo on the "getting your ass kicked" card.

[@celluskh6009]

Seemed to work out for him.

[@michimatsch5862]

It worked for him so well.

[@patriciusvunkempen102]

it weren't his mercenarys but his enemys mercenarys that also had some lutheran influences and saw the pope as a bit of a leech on germanys butt

[@njnmnm]

Unless you are Dom Pedro 1

[@shmabadu]

You just say, “Bingo”.

[@mark12strang58]

That preacher who predicted that Rome would be plundered in the flowing two weeks must have had a good knowledge about what was going on outside Rome.

[@jukahri]

Or most likely was a post-hoc addition.

[@jonathanwilliams1065]

Let’s also mit forget what happens 10 years earlier This pope really was evil

[@saguntum-iberian-greekkons7014]

Time Traveler

[@wizardsummoner9124]

Or probably one of thousands of doom preachers who ended up being somewhat correct by luck.

[@itarry4]

He or some other nut probably said the same thing every day of the week on some form or another.

[@marctroyanosky6539]

I feel like there is always a madman ranting and preaching doom in the streets. Only a matter of time till one of them gets it right. (:

[@Bird_Dog00]

True. That's one way how prophecies work. If you keep telling me "tomorow you die." every day, sooner or later, you will be right.

[@Harrier_DuBois]

If a madman rants hard enough he can even start a religion.

[@vanivanov9571]

Why do you call him mad, when he was correct? Doesn't this show that if you had heard him speak, you would have ignored him and mocked him, and would've died with the people of Rome as a result? So, rather than he who spoke the truth being mad, you who prefer to be like those who DIED seem mad. If the case is actual, there is no explanation, other than God sending him. He promised death like Sodom, in 14 days... and the idea of a siege ending in one day is completely absurd, as is suggesting Rome itself would be sacked, and the fact it was such brutal sacking worse than even the barbarians a millennium ago. And instead of a traditional sacking, it lasted a fitting 7 MONTHS long, and destroyed Papal authority. This was not an ordinary event, but one that stands out in history.

[@niu9432]

@@vanivanov9571 There are some alternative explanations, but first we need to have a look at the dates: The Duke left Arezzo on 20th of April 1527. Holy Thursday took place on 27th of April 1527. The army reached the walls of Rome on 5th of May 1527 and breached the walls on 6th of May 1527. So we can think of a couple of plausible explanations: 1) Brandano knew that the imperial army is coming (or at least heard the news) and knew how many days of marching is needed, more or less, to reach Rome. He thought that it will give him the applause of the people and give him vehicle to power (like was in the case of Savonarola), hoping that victorious Emperor will support him (thus making him end up different than Savonarola. 2) Brandano was a "sleeper", meant to sow discontent at the right moment. The prophecy was surely demoralising as the defenders probably had a vivid memory of it during the defence. It was also a convenient excuse to the Emperor "Sorry guys, I did not want the army to sack the city, but ... Deus Vult". 3) Brandano was just a simple guy that wanted a reform of the church. He knew about the army and thought that such message would be an impulse for change (his prophecy was similar to the one of Savonarola, talking about the "new Cyrus"). Conclusions: A) If You have a prophet of doom around, check his sponsors ;) B) If God exists, he/she/it definitely IS NOT an alien as he/she/it performs below average on maths (I'm assuming that the aliens are great at maths, due to space travels and shit :D). There is no way to fit 14 days between 27th of April and 6th of May :D

[@niu9432]

@buymebluepills It's not a taboo, we just laugh at it :D It does not allow to draw any meaningful conclusions as it is not replicable or reproducible. Thus it is always open for interpretation and on top of that it it always so general that if by any chance it doesn't materialise, the author can always say that he had something more symbolic in mind ;)

[@AudieHolland]

A regretful Charles: "This is such a tragedy... But you brought it upon yourself, pope!"

[@ragzaugustus]

I still love so many Pope's have been saved the Emperor Hadrian, that big cylindrical castle? That wasn't a castle originally, it was a Mausoleum, the relics inside were long lost when the Pope took over.

[@VideoMask93]

@@leonardodavid2842 I wonder if he was referring to Hadrian because he had it built originally?

[@londonspade5896]

@@VideoMask93 Yes, this guy was just being autistic

[@LionKing-ew9rm]

He means Castel Sant'Angelo...

[@LuizAlexPhoenix]

The actual fuck? I am reading this to mean that several popes were saved by Hadrian, since they used a mausoleum he built as their castle. Is that it? What about the relics? I can't read this at all, someone call a code breaker.

[@sedrfghbn]

is this english?

[@NLTops]

Rome does not fall in one day. Landsknechts: Hold my pike.

[@utubrGaming]

Alaric: Hold my foederati

[@vincentbaelde-millar670]

Rome had been dead for 1000 years, it's not surprising.

[@NLTops]

@@vincentbaelde-millar670 I have no idea what you're on about.

[@johnconnor8206]

@@vincentbaelde-millar670 less than a 100 years actualy

[@jamaicanewshub9582]

Burbon fighting in the League Cognac, how funny is that

[@JWinterhaven]

cheers

[@tolibnormatoff844]

I think de Valois family ruled France at the time

[@brokenbridge6316]

What a terrible affair the Sack of Rome must have been this time around. The people inside must have felt like the Apocalypse was coming to them and their city. Great job.

[@javilorenzana]

Great job to whom?

[@asdallah2159]

Hi, Jesus has died on the cross so that (and perhaps, there is more) we may be forgiven for our sins (perhaps for everyone). Jesus rose from the dead! 🙏 Please accept Jesus as your Lord and Savior. Jesus is the way, the truth and the life and no one comes to the Father except through him.🙂🙏

[@Jiub_SN]

@@asdallah2159Jesus died on the cross only for his believers, he doesn't care about anyone but his believers. Also, show me him please

[@palanikumar7877]

Attila the Huns (or Any Hun) for that matter didn't sack the Rome. In 410 Rome was in deed but by Visigoths led by their King, Alaric.

[@saguntum-iberian-greekkons7014]

He said it in the comments, the first ones that they recognized they did a mistake

[@ChevyChase301]

Huns of belisarius sacked Rome

[@palanikumar7877]

​@@ChevyChase301 Not quite, they took part as mercenaries (Cavalry Auxiliaries in Roman Term) in the Roman (Eastern or Byzantines as we call them later) army. They didn't sack, but rather liberated (or conquered Rome). Sacking is completely different from conquering or liberating.

[@ScapularSaves]

@@palanikumar7877 There was one last Roman-Byzantine in this Last Stand named Konstantine Paleologos - titular Despotate of Morea and later Commander of Papal Guard after this most dreadful sacking. What irony! His father Andreas willed the title of Roman Emperor to Spanish Crown in his last will and testament. And this !

[@WarPigstheHun]

@@saguntum-iberian-greekkons7014 you played total war Attila too!?

[@RafaelCosta-oi3be]

A gut wrenching story that was well narrated, thank you! This was one the darkest moments in history, and you portrayed it very vividly

[@asdallah2159]

Hi, Jesus has died on the cross so that (and perhaps, there is more) we may be forgiven for our sins (perhaps for everyone). Jesus rose from the dead! 🙏 Please accept Jesus as your Lord and Savior. Jesus is the way, the truth and the life and no one comes to the Father except through him.🙂🙏

[@luigin649]

With all the stuff happened in Italy, it's still one of the countries with the hightest number of arts and cultural elements. Just imagine if nobody would have made wars in its Territory...

[@J-IFWBR]

I think sometimes unsteady and unsave times, produce the greatests works of art & culture. So i would not only look at the destruction but also at the possibilities for new things to grow out the destruction. Also Rivalry & Competition often lead to extreme negative measures like war is. But also they lead to very prestene forms of cultur and art. So i think you can not realy sepparate the Italian Art and Architekture from its history. Nonetheless war is bad and should be when ever possible avoided. I mean whats the worth of all the masterfull painting, that get made to show the horrors, or to praise the victors, or to just be more splendid then the ones of someone else, compared that to a single live. The paintings are just dust in comparison.

[@rc59191]

Italians can be their own worst enemy sometimes.

[@philRminiatures]

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[@SandRhomanHistory]

Thank you 🙌

[@andy_NQ]

Nice ! it's a good weekend when i see SandRhoman's new video.

[@LarpFan17]

Germans need a long time to get pissed off, but be aware what happen when you reached the point 😅

[@htf5555]

risking your neck for a year and not even getting half a ducat. its understandable, but still..

[@saguntum-iberian-greekkons7014]

Only Julius Caesar can get away by not paying his troops

[@alessandrogini5283]

Or alexander the great

[@hannibalburgers477]

lmao that name must be the most random thing I have seen today

[@starwarsfamilyguy0]

Only Julius Caesar can get away by not paying his troops

[@TaRAAASHBAGS]

Didn't Caesar, eventually, make good on all his promises to his veterans? Similarly, there was probably a lot more loyalty amongst legionaries to their republic and general than that of pure mercenary rabble.

[@ferrjuan]

Germans/Spanish Mercenaries: It’s free real estate! Henry VIII: F@$k! There goes my divorce to Catherine of Aragon! Anne Boleyn: Why not make yourself head of the Church of England. Henry VIII: It’s free real estate!

[@kyomademon453]

Charles V: wait ur not supposed to attack rom... Nevermind go on

[@deadshepherd666]

The early modern period was horribly chaotic, wasn't it. Sack of Rome by Imperial (holy roman) mercenaries, the English executing their own King, the Thirty Years War, Great Plague of London, rise of absolutism, Europe in a constant state of war with itself... the medieval tendencies were worn out, broken and useless, feudalism, Church totally ineffective, meanwhile the modern elements were unpredictable and deadly. It could have easily ended in another dark age. Paradoxically it was the development of warfare, its incipient technical advances and new spirit of professionalism, discovery and exploitation of the New World, that saved Europe.

[@defyjayy8335]

Good thing it’s dying out and it keeps staying that way

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@@fbskxnwkdnworkir cope harder

[@asdallah2159]

Hi, Jesus has died on the cross so that (and perhaps, there is more) we may be forgiven for our sins (perhaps for everyone). Jesus rose from the dead! 🙏 Please accept Jesus as your Lord and Savior. Jesus is the way, the truth and the life and no one comes to the Father except through him.🙂🙏

[@stephanl1983]

Sacco di Roma, still an important date for the Swiss Guards of the Holy Father, it's the day New recruits make their oath to the Pope!

[@YoreHistory]

So very well done. Great job SandRhoman!

[@rc59191]

Hope you start making videos again man I and many others miss your work.

[@fritzfeuerdorn2833]

Your production quallity is superb! Keep up the good work!

[@Ghonosyphlaids]

Another excellent video. Thanks for all the hard work you do, man.

[@SandRhomanHistory]

I appreciate that!

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I love the art style and content of your videos. Bravo!

[@mancroft]

Outstanding as usual! Thank you.

[@Big_E_Soul_Fragment]

*[Insert Sabaton's The Last Stand reference here]*

[@Sofus.]

😈😈😈

[@elasolezito]

Then these 189 in the service of Pope They're protecting the line against thousands of cheerful tourists Giving their lives in Vatican's service Thy will be done.

[@ivantan42]

@ŇøHă Ģ. FOR THE GRACE AND THE MIGHT IF THE LORD IN THE HOME OF THE HOLY

[@leofisher407]

@@ivantan42 FOR THE FAITH FOR THE WAY OF THE SWORD GAVE THEIR LIVES SO BOLDLY

[@mandalortemaan7510]

Then, 189 in the service of heaven. They're protecting the Holy line. It was 1527, gave their lives on the steps to heaven. They will be done! For the grace, for the might of our lord! For the home of the Holy!

[@warmaster3544]

For the faith, for the way of the sword Gave their lives so boldly For the grace, for the might of our lord In the name of his glory For the faith, for the way of the sword Come and tell their story again Under guard of 42 Along a secret avenue Castel Saint'Angelo is waiting They’re the guard of the Holy See They’re the guards of Christianity Their path to history is paved with salvation

[@michaelday5605]

I just found this channel. Great job with the narration and animations!

[@Punaeased]

Love this channel! Great storytelling, info and art!

[@robinmarks4771]

I absolutely love your content and your art style. Thank you for producing such excellent videos! I'd like to offer a minor critique though. Having studied both the landsknecht and fashion trends of the time, it's my understanding that pluderhosen didn't really begin to become popular until the 1540s, reaching widespread popularity late in the 16th and early into the 17th centuries. Seeing that the events of this video occurred in 1527, it seems like pluderhosen would've appeared much less commonly than they do in the video's art. Not a big deal at all, but just thought I'd point it out. Cheers!

[@johnbockman6078]

The Vatican Library was spared the acting leader of the Landsknechte made it his headquarters, so it didn't go the way of the Library of Alexandria, which ironically was accidentally burned down by the Romans under Caesar.

[@kornaros96]

Thankfully.

[@javilorenzana]

Ironically how?

[@johnbockman6078]

@@javilorenzana Caesar didn't want it burned, but it was burned nonetheless. $hit happens. On the other hand, the Protestant Landsknechte would have gladly burned the Vatican Library, but not while their acting leader was residing there.

[@briantarigan7685]

that fire is overrated, the library is not completely destroyed as the fire only engulf a warehouse, many famous scholars and famous writers are still recorded as scholars of Alexandria in the late 1st century BC and early first Century AD people like Didymus Chalcentrus, the guy who produced up to 3000-4000 books that would be impossible without Library resources, Geographer Strabo in 20 BC also still visiting this Library the Library are rather slowly declined in scholarship reputation as other great libraries across mediteranian rises, and even other libraries in the city Alexandria sprung up, making many records being diverted there.

[@RabbitW1zard]

Dude thats truly awesome

[@asfm2]

Me just finishing the Unbiased History of Rome a week ago: *Minding my own business* KZbin Algorithm: Hey check out the sequel.

[@vanivanov9571]

7 Months of plunder... that was a harsh time. Do we know how verifiable the story of the prophet and the skull was?

[@Franfran2424]

7 months of occupation. Not much left to plunder after the initial week

[@vanivanov9571]

@@Franfran2424 Since it was Rome, it may've taken a long time to search out, and organize all the valuables. After the indulgences especially, Rome was loaded, so it probably did take a lot of time just to move all the loot.

[@dgrmn12345]

Then the 189. In the service of heaven Theyre protecting the Holy Line It was 1527 Gave their lives on the steps to heaven Thy Will be done!

[@casparvoncampenhausen5249]

For the Grace, for the Might, of our Lord

[@paulenan9636]

well, looks like the will was either not done, or was rather messed up, lol

[@randomnuclearakita4532]

@@casparvoncampenhausen5249 For the home of the holy, For the faith, for the way of the sword , Gace their lives so boldly !

[@clintmoor422]

finally, i was waiting for u to bring us some more videos about the landsknechts. thx.

[@Waffel1512]

For the Grace for the might of our Lord for the home of the holy!

[@Jesse_Dawg]

Great video. Please make more like this. I wish there was a little more follow up with what happened to the mercs and their massive treasure? Did they make it out of there unharmed or did another army chase them down? How did that war conclude? Anyways I love these videos. Please make more

[@rc59191]

Well as far as I know they all returned home after they sacked Rome but I agree I also like to hear about the aftermath and lasting consequences of these kinds of incidents.

[@asdallah2159]

Hi, Jesus has died on the cross so that (and perhaps, there is more) we may be forgiven for our sins (perhaps for everyone). Jesus rose from the dead! 🙏 Please accept Jesus as your Lord and Savior. Jesus is the way, the truth and the life and no one comes to the Father except through him.🙂🙏

[@andersschmich8600]

Great video! What Music do you use if I may ask?

[@villiamkarl-gustavlundberg5422]

Pike and shot channel released a video of the sacking of Rome at the same time as Sandrohman. Clicked om SR's video first.

[@landonsmith2154]

I hope to learn the names of the songs you play on here so much！ I really love these documentaries

[@rahimlabib915]

Rome falls in a single day Landsknechts and spanish hired mercenaries:- YEH LETS LOOT THE FUCK OUT OF ROME Henry viii:- ah fuck here goes my divorce to catherine of Aragon Anne Boleyn:- you can make a separate church Henry viii:- let's do that Pope clement vii:- WELL FUCK YOU MARTIN LUTHER 😡😡😠😠😠😮😮😒😒😒😢😢😢😢😭😭😭😭😭

[@rahimlabib915]

Rome falls in a single day Landsknechts and spanish hired mercenaries:- YEH LETS LOOT THE FUCK OUT OF ROME Henry viii:- ah fuck here goes my divorce to catherine of Aragon Anne Boleyn:- you can make a separate church Henry viii:- let's do that Pope clement vii:- WELL FUCK YOU MARTIN LUTHER 😡😡😠😠😠😮😮😒😒😒😢😢😢😢😭😭😭😭😭

[@tillbuschmann7222]

Jeden Sonntag wieder eine Freude

[@clintmoor422]

every sunday another friend?

[@dereinepeterpan5637]

@@clintmoor422 Freude = joy, Freunde = friends

[@DirtyMardi]

It was Alaric of the Goths who lead the sacking of Rome in 410, not Attila, who would become to menace Italy some 40 years later.

[@kyomademon453]

Seems like a tradition for the spanish to sack rome every once in a while

[@enoppp167]

@@kyomademon453 Alaric wasn't Spanish

[@frankyoungbloodsax6000]

When my Protestant friends say only Catholics have done bad stuff...

[@jonathanwilliams1065]

He’s wrong about the Landsknechten They were not Protestant but nominally Catholic, as was the rest of the imperial army However as would be demonstrated in the 30 years war most mercenaries have no god but mammon

[@jonathanwilliams1065]

@Albert Fels the final solution wasn’t even tonight of in 1933 and Hitler was pagan

[@LuizAlexPhoenix]

@Albert Fels I mean, that is some class a sectarian BS. People try to put the nazis on everyone else's side of the spectrum but those fuckers were chummies with everyone at one point or another. In the Church's case they pretty much held complete power over the Vatican at least, so you can argue that the Vatican was acting to save itself over others. But it's not like half the world wasn't doing that or outright cooperating with the nazis, even the nation that ultimately crushed the beast, bearing and inflicting the heaviest losses, had to make deals with them to buy time as the rest of the world declined alliances to attack Germany.

[@jonathanwilliams1065]

@Albert Fels then he was “lapsed” He was involved in the occult, regardless of how his mother resided him, and he replaced Christianity with a religion that worshiped him called “positive Christianity” as a way to maintain power over the Christian population of Germany but he was a pagan, or perhaps even a satanist, as was much of the Nazi leadership He wanted Christianity to “die a natural death”

[@jonathanwilliams1065]

@Albert Fels Positive Christianity had its focus on Hitler Shirer 1960, pp. 238-239. You stop lying

[@GeneralSocietyInc]

What is the song starting at 6:05?

[@Zaitekno]

YES es gaht wiiter mit dim geile content!

[@nebojsag.5871]

Sorry, I don't mean to offend, but which German Mundart/Dialect are you speaking? Swiss perhapse? It seems very far from Standard German, but it isn't Plattdeutsch, so I default to Swiss.

[@Zaitekno]

@@nebojsag.5871 It is Swiss-German, indeed. Actually it's pretty close to standard German, with a little training and experience every German could understand it. The people used to hearing 'Dialects' like Austrians or Bavarians etc. usually understand it right away. No sorcery involved. Swiss-German derives from high alemannic, whereas Platt-Deutsch aka Flat-German derives, as the name indicates, from low alemannic.

[@jont2576]

u would think such an important city of historic significance,where important art and treasures are kept,where the most important person lives and an economic center, they would at least beef up their defenses heavily and maintain a strong army.......with surrounding cities and castles acting as buffers.......

[@dryingpaint6375]

The Imperial Army had planned to attack Rome from the beginning. Charles V wanted Charles de Bourbon and his men to kidnap the Pope and bring him to Spain where he would be forced to sign a treaty like Francis I after the Battle of Pavia. Obviously Charles V didn't intend for the soldiers to do as much damage to the city as they did, but he still ordered, or at least approved, of the attack nonetheless. Judith Hook presents a lot of strong evidence for this in The Sack of Rome; a book which is cited in this video. It's odd that he didn't mention it at all. Geoffry Parker's "Emperor: A New Life of Charles V" also has some good information about this. Also, the Landsknechts were still mostly Roman Catholic if they can be said to have belonged to any religion at all. There were some sympathizers of Martin Luther among them, including Frundsberg himself, but the were not the majority. The Papacy was despised by almost everyone at that time. As Francesco Guicciardini, who served it for a number of years, put it, "I don't know anyone who dislikes the ambition, the avarice, and the sensuality of priests more than I do.... Nevertheless, the position I have enjoyed with several popes has forced me to love their greatness for my own self-interest. If it weren't for this consideration, I would have loved Martin Luther as much as I love myself-not to be released from the laws taught by the Christian religion as it is normally interpreted and understood, but to see this band of ruffians reduced within their correct bounds".

[@haarzuilensboy0308]

can't believe that german landsknechts attacked rome to make a sabbaton refrence

[@ValerietheLovelyDeadlyItalian]

FOR THE GRACE FOR THE MIGHT OF THE LORD, FOR THE HOPE OF THE HOLY

[@phineascampbell3103]

4:00 gosh, that's a lot of roads out of Rome going to other places! Someone should make some sort of expression or something about that. "Loads of roads leave Rome," maybe. I dunno, but I feel that's got a ring to it

[@phineascampbell3103]

"if you're travelling somewhere Rome's a good place to start from because of all the roads in every direction there." Hmm, maybe that one's a bit clunky, we can work on it...

[@ignacejespers8201]

Kinda weird question, but where did all the art booty end up? Did it vanish without a trace? Is it back in Rome or is it in some obscure private collection? In German musea perhaps?

[@casparvoncampenhausen5249]

Probably most of it's lost to history

[@GiulioImparato]

destroyed.

[@WarPigstheHun]

"The Air was Filled with Smoke and Blood." "They made Ready for War..."

[@shogun242424]

Good video. However, I feel the missing part of the narrative is what happened next ? No consequences ? When did all the wealth go ? No retaliations ?

[@JudicialBrat]

FOR THE GRACE AND THE MIGHT OF THE LORD!

[@casparvoncampenhausen5249]

FOR THE HOME OF THE HOLY!

[@javilorenzana]

Sorry, what?

[@kodoqbesar4301]

@@javilorenzana What? You don't know Sabaton?

[@herzkine]

Isnt St. Peter a little too finished here when they began building in 1506 for over a hundred years . Nitpickers galore, but such great work sets its own bar high.

[@derptrolling4740]

Rome became conqueror's ATM (3) three times. The landschanets became the 4th.

[@demilung]

Dying Swiss Guards - Man, I hope some sweeds make a kickass song about this

[@hidupsehat5205]

im the mood for some eu4

[@vanders4198]

I love the animations of the channel but I'll be honest, the cracking/crunching noise is really irritating.

[@H0kram]

Sounds like it was hell on Earth for quite a while..until another " victorious " siege happens elsewhere and hell moves therefore into another place.. War is unbelievably nasty.

[@skyhappy]

It's horrible to think how someone can walk into your city, break into your home, and kill or rape you

[@Alonkis251]

Mostly known by the name 'the end of Rome Renaissance'

[@DiscothecaImperialis]

Rome had been sacked by same peoples of different Era.

[@mabeSc]

Same barbaric peoples, from antiquity till WW2.

[@DiscothecaImperialis]

@@mabeSc Is this included British and Americans (through Anzio) in 1944?

[@LionKing-ew9rm]

I'd like to know more about this Charles V guy!

[@J-IFWBR]

his empire was so wast the sun never set in it i was told before. =)

[@funfacttrivias2121]

Those swiss guards thou proved thier the best mercenarry for thier loyalty and bravery no wonder they outlive the landsknechts to dis day

[@pacoramon9468]

Rome wasn't build in one day but surely it was conquered in one day.

[@johnmcgehee5484]

Funny how you can draw a straight line from the sack to the sinking of the Armada.

[@metralla]

You can make a triangle if you draw another line to the english Armada in 1589

[@tandemcharge5114]

I can hear them coming

[@fabianofonda6758]

Church told only about the protestants landschnets, but the Charles V army had Catholic Spaniards and Italians and they sacked the city too.

[@johnnydavis5896]

Correct - the idea the reason the Vatican was violated is that they were Protestant is rubbish - these guys had no respect for anything regardless of their 'religion.'

[@observationsfromthebunker9639]

That's true! The Italian and Spanish soldiers in the Imperial army also hadn't been paid, and when they heard the Landsknechts were marching on Rome, they fell in behind. According to a Roman citizen who was witness to the sack, "the Germans were bad, the Italians worse, and the Spaniards worst of all."

[@J-IFWBR]

well violence is universal, its not specific to a certain breanch or group of people, every attempt to tell a different story usually just leads to more violence down the road.

[@Burgermeister1836]

Latin bias against the Germans is the main reason the Reformation happened anyway. No lessons learned there it seems.

[@deutschesvaterlandfankanal]

​@@Burgermeister1836 i had now discovered the eastern church,the fagpope could die as if i care at all

[@dornier2643]

Bratwurst: 3 Spaghetti: 0

[@ModMax69]

that's a spicy meatball

[@vynonyoutube1418]

Make it 3, we're counting Genseric and Alaric too.

[@therac197]

What do the Arabs get? Because they successfully raided Rome too

[@riograndedosulball248]

@@therac197 they tried to and didn't succeeded. Like Attila

[@therac197]

@@riograndedosulball248 Well depends on how do you define success. They didn't get into the city proper but plundered everything outside of the walls, including the Paul's Basilika / Vatican

[@ghostjager8190]

What would expect after a whole year of no payment... It wasn't weeks or a few months but a whole year and to think he kept trying to be duplicitous...

[@rahimlabib915]

Rome falls in a single day Landsknechts and spanish mercenaries:- YEH LETS LOOT THE FUCK OUT OF ROME Henry viii:- ah fuck here goes my divorce to catherine of Aragon Anne Boleyn:- you can make a separate church Henry viii:- let's do that Pope clement vii:- WELL FUCK YOU MARTIN LUTHER 😡😡😠😠😠😮😮😒😒😒😢😢😢😢😭😭😭😭😭

[@heneraldodzz4978]

Sabaton Sabaton Sabaton Sabaton

[@mw9053]

The League of Cognac got me 🥃😉👌

[@YaminoSeigi]

Germs are at it again

[@rahimlabib915]

Rome falls in a single day Landsknechts and spanish hired mercenaries:- YEH LETS LOOT THE FUCK OUT OF ROME Henry viii:- ah fuck here goes my divorce to catherine of Aragon Anne Boleyn:- you can make a separate church Henry viii:- let's do that Pope clement vii:- WELL FUCK YOU MARTIN LUTHER 😡😡😠😠😠😮😮😒😒😒😢😢😢😢😭😭😭😭😭

[@mabeSc]

Germs being germs - from antiquity till WW2. Who knows what they are gonna pull next, though? 🧐

[@MikaelKKarlsson]

I wonder, do we know of any still standing city that has been sacked more often than Rome?

[@Herminipper]

Jerusalem

[@thepuppelpuppel4175]

Tiblisi

[@ReaperCH90]

Rome didn't get sacked that often if you take the age of the city into consideration.

[@ModMax69]

Detroit

[@ditisnietpablo]

@@ModMax69 lmfao

[@Emanon...]

Sacking of Rome? Between 410 and 1943, it was just called Tuesday...

[@thetayz72]

Always tragic to hear the true evil we're capable of. Imagine really believing in a final judgment after death and still doing this just for money and the love of cruelty. Despicable

[@jamesmacpherson1182]

And what about the evil the Catholic Church has committed over the centuries?

[@thetayz72]

@@jamesmacpherson1182 ? ? What about it

[@juanpablo-co6zw]

I guess some things never change

[@ofsabir]

Can you make a video about sacking of Constantinople too?

[@LieutenantDangleBerries]

There’s only 135 Swiss Guards guarding the Vatican nowadays. It would only take about 400 armed attackers to conquer it. There’s about $15 billion there. That’s $37.5 million each, if all the attackers survive. Who’s coming with me?

[@ChevyChase301]

I went to Vatican today and most of them have halberts and knives… so maybe less than 400

[@Demicleas]

@@ChevyChase301 oh they have guns. Who do you think those men in black suits are that follow the pope when he leaves the Vatican?

[@nicholas3354]

I found the original source which provided some of the claims. This is what it says about what they did to the nuns: "The nuns did scream frightfully while the rude soldiers were dragging them through the streets, and ill-treating them - it was enough to melt a heart of stone!" Is there reason to understand this report to be specifying that the nuns were raped? The way the whole letter is written, emphasizing that no one was respected, seems to limit us to seeing it as the nuns being the ultimate example of no one being respected, being they would have been reputed as harmless female clergy. If it is speaking of the nuns as the furthest example of no persons being respected, then it is not saying they were acted on in a specific way, but rather that they were a specific people who were being acted on just as everyone else was acted on. Is there a justification, which I am yet unaware of, for interpreting this as specifying rape? That specific sort of action sounded out of place to me, given the sensibilities of the era, which is why I was skeptical enough to check, and what I found does not read to me as justifying the specific claim made in this video. I'm not saying it would be out of place for there to be isolated instances of it; obviously in such an atrocious circumstance the worst of it is almost without limit, but as characteristic of the event it seems out of place to the era, and the letter is speaking of what was characteristically occurring rather than of isolated instances. If the claim in the video is somehow justified, then I would like to have the correct understanding of that, but otherwise my best assessment is that modern sensibilities were imposed on the text to an incorrect result.

[@fips711]

Wow.

[@germaxes199]

When one does things like that it only means they have so much envy and will never be a part of such a community.

[@rahimlabib915]

Rome falls in a single day Landsknechts and spanish hired mercenaries:- YEH LETS LOOT THE FUCK OUT OF ROME Henry viii:- ah fuck here goes my divorce to catherine of Aragon Anne Boleyn:- you can make a separate church Henry viii:- let's do that Pope clement vii:- WELL FUCK YOU MARTIN LUTHER 😡😡😠😠😠😮😮😒😒😒😢😢😢😢😭😭😭😭😭

[@wargriffin5]

Rome: (DOESN'T pay their Germanic mercenaries) Germans: "How many times must we teach you this lesson old man!?!"

[@MDP1702]

It was an imperial army not payed by Charles. Rome always was this army's enemy.

[@doigt6590]

86 people didn't watch the video.

[@patriciusvunkempen102]

@@MDP1702 well rome changed its allignment a few times in the italian conflicts and the fact that rome was getting money form germany angered the mercenary.

[@giulianoilfilosofo7927]

@@patriciusvunkempen102 Still spreading This Lutheran nonsense about Rome getting money from Germany?Germany, or better the Empire, was trying to get money from the Independent States of Northern and Central Italy since the times of Barbarossa. Besides the majority of the mercenaries were not protestant, but catholics, and the worst ones were the Spanish in terms of atrocities committed during the siege.

[@GiulioImparato]

the stupid mercenaries did a favour to the man they did not recieve pay from...

[@freerbx793]

*Breathing in* THEN THE 189

[@Xfire209]

got killed

[@TheRedFox1995]

Martin Luther commented: "Christ reigns in such a way that the Emperor who persecutes Luther for the Pope is forced to destroy the Pope for Luther" (LW 49:169)

[@youcanthandlethetruth5433]

Luther was a buffoon and this had nothing to do with him. And fun ily enough in the aftermath when the Pope and the emperor reconciled, the emperor laid the smackdown on all the protestant forces in the lands. Not till the 1630s did the protestants have some marginal success in the HRE

[@klausbrinck2137]

Watch "Il Mestiere delle armi" (2001), about "Giovanni dalle Bande Nere" (Giovanni de’ Medici), and his death , as a consequence of a battle injury against Georg von Frundsberg ( 25th November 1526 ), it´s a great film. Infantry/cavalry-aimed artilery was abolished from the battle-fields of Europe, as a reaction to his death, and is stll today international war-right. Events in the film happen just before the evens of this YT-video.

[@Xfire209]

In what sense was aiming the artillery at enemy cavalry/infantry abolished? Quite to the contrary the art of blasting these formations apart with field artillery got refined over the centuries in Europe and everywhere else due to its effectiveness.

[@klausbrinck2137]

@@Xfire209 I didn´t say that it was never used again since then in any war. But, since then, it counts as a war crime, and hasn´t been used since 100 years, in any war. In the 2nd WW, the artilery wasn´t aiming at the infantry anymore... Today it is clear, that aiming civil buildings is exactly the same (although aiming at buildings, and not concretely the people inside them, which would still be OK if those people were soldiers), hence the war crimes of the Germans, and subsequently the Americans against city populations (WW2, Laos, Kambodia, Vietnam, Afganistan, Iraq, etc. etc.).

[@Xfire209]

@@klausbrinck2137 Lol. Artillery was deliberately aimed at both infantry, cavalry, artillery and enemy commanders. It was never a war crime and still isn't one. And therefore nobody could have broken those nonexisting laws. Or how do you explain the use of artillery during the 30 years war, the Spanish wars of succession, the Italian wars, the Napoleonic wars etc. And we better don't start with WW1 and 2 were one of the main tasks of artillery was to obliterate infantry and their defensive positions like trenches and bunkers.

[@klausbrinck2137]

@@Xfire209 As said, this unwriten law wasn´t always respected, but it was in WW2. bombing any kind of defensive position, as trenches are, of course, doesn´t count, it counts as a building.

[@Xfire209]

@@klausbrinck2137 Isthis debate really the hill you want to die on? So far all of your claims were refuted and you had to backpaddle and change the wording of your argument several times because you were flat out wrong. Turning buildings into a rubble is still not a warcrime and was especially common during WW2. Or how do you explain the air attacks by Germany on allied cities, the allied air attacks against axis cities, many of which were flattened or the battles between the Wehrmacht and the Red army during which hundreds of cities and villages in eastern europe were reduced to burning rubble. And many of them were flattened irrespective if they were held by soldiers, used as cover by civilians or simply just empty. In fact terror bombing the civilian population into submission and their cities into dust were explicit goals by both the Germans and the British/Americans. Or look at Mosul, Allepo and Homs that were bombed to smitherens by the Americans and Russians during the Syrian civil war and fight against ISIS. Using overwhelming firepower to destroy your enemy has in fact only become only more relevant since the invention of gunpowder and not less.

[@elaineadams3992]

St Peter's Square did not look like that in 1527. The new basilica was still under construction, they didn't begin the colonnades until 1656!

[@sjsm8578]

Sounds like Karma for sacking Constantinople

[@mabeSc]

Both cities getting sacked by the same kind of barbaric tribes, kind of funny to be fair. What a shame that Constantinople was sacked, though. Am sure if that Alexios the Coward did use his Varangian Guard the peasant Latin army would have been crushed.

[@luis437]

7:20 Sorry, but Rome was never sacked by the Huns, but by the Goths under Alaric in 410. Just a side note, still nice video 👌🏻

[@johnbaker4246]

@LagiNaLangAko23 Correct, Pope Leo met with Attila and whatever he said convinced Attila to turn around.

[@danielolsson7134]

@@johnbaker4246 And this is why the Pope is so powerful now. As before this meeting they were not so powerful.

[@SandRhomanHistory]

Thanks for pointing it out. I added the following to the pinned comment: The quote about Attila is actually correct, it's just a quote of a contemporary witness. However, as many of you have pointed out the 410 sack of Rome was by the Visigoths under Alaric. Sorry for the error, it always annoys us when we miss these details :S

[@leafymarmot6348]

For the grace for the might of our lord for the home of the holy

[@franckvermont1926]

Were they punished afterwards ?!

[@TheManofthecross]

from what i guess nope they were not at least on the record. anyway

[@user-fi2fk2ei7o]

punish for what ? after all this is war between the pope and HRE Charles V of course happy , he took Rome without have to pay the merc in this era sack of city is very common after the city refuse to surrender

[@swordsmen8856]

For the Grace for the might of our Lord, For the home of the Holy for the faith for the way of the sword gave their lives so boldly

[@phineascampbell3103]

"filled with the milk of hatred"!? Gods, I hope I never get anyone wanting to fill ME with their hate-milk, i don't think that sounds like anything I'd want

[@alexanderren1097]

FOR THE GRACE FOR THE MIGHT OF OUR LORD FOR THE HOME OF THE HOLY

[@hyypio764]

Charles couldn't even care enough to put on his pants

[@chrismichael6048]

That's why Machiavelli discourage the employment of mercenaries because their loyalty and discipline are questionable and dubious