Was This King The Cruelest In England's History? | Britain's Bloodiest Dynasty | Absolute History

[@AbsoluteHistory]

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[@ketreenawilliams1320]

I love documentaries like this! This is what the History Channel use to be.

[@crhu319]

But now everyone can watch BBC so History can do aliens!

[@ryanmatthias728]

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@Ryan Matthias try flixzone. You can find it by googling :)

[@landonbeckham2808]

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[@curtisdrago]

I'm super surprised by the presentation of this documentary, the modern-day locations in the background alongside realistic portrayals of the events, and don't forget the awesome narration.

[@patriciamathison9310]

Ppooppppp

[@mamavee1513]

I love Dan Jones , he's one of few persons that can make you watch history again & again Make you want to understand , I have enjoyed his narrative

[@lincolnnoronha4128]

I love the atention to details in these. The use of french by the Plantagenets Kings is an example.

[@angelaw1019]

I had no idea they spoke French, I was also glad they included that

[@ksodz1397]

@@angelaw1019 they were bilingual since Edward I

[@squidpope9344]

@@ksodz1397 I was under the impression it was the official court language for their entire reign, which is why it was relevant when Richard II spoke to the peasants in English

[@ksodz1397]

@@squidpope9344 court language was indeed anglo norman. But since XIII century nobles spoke English as their second and later first language

[@julianholman7379]

Richard’s court included Geoffrey Chaucer, who wrote ‘The Canterbury Tales’ in the language now called ‘Middle English’, which has hybrid character, but is close to readable for modern English speakers

[@maralonent6257]

"If you were expecting a war, forget it" Expectations subverted.

[@awomansfriend5784]

I would love to go back in time for a short period of time just to see how it feels back then.

[@awomansfriend5784]

@@irenejohnston6802 I would but where I’m immune to everything can’t die and when it gets to hectic I’ll leave.

[@spaztron5000]

It would probably feel colder.

[@llourveme]

Don't forget it how smelly it would be. Not just the villages, but the people. Personal hygiene wasn't exactly a priority.

[@jungtothehuimang]

Thanks for fixing the audio I enjoy these videos so much!

[@crfnhad]

Voice Over: "The Plantagenets" Subtitle: "The plant attachments"

[@Atomy111]

The plant attachments story :D

[@ryansutter4291]

Ithought Henry IV was the one that succeeded Richard II...He refers to himself as Henry III when he gets crowned....

[@susannaskye8419]

Plant-a-gene...

[@ketreenawilliams1320]

😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣🤣

[@fucku3460]

@@susannaskye8419 woo that is scarily dead on

[@danielschaeffer1294]

I like the historical accuracy: the actors all speak French, which the Plantagenets actually did. In fact Alfred the Great was the last English king of England.

[@marisapanzarin2910]

Lol I love his comment about henry Bolingbrook. " best known for hiding in a cupboard" the guy was a kid at the time lol

[@maryduhon9769]

I love this style of documentary. I've probably seen all there is to see and the way this one is presented is the most modern, informative, and entertaining form of documentary. This host knows what he is doing and how to gain today's audience

[@jamesshaw6474]

Richard II was actually the inspiration for Joffrey in GOT. Both were boy kings, known for their immense cruelty.

[@balajinathan6713]

Nope not Richard ii, Edward of Lancaster the prince of Wales and son of henry vi was the inspiration for Joffrey , Richard ii was better than Joffrey, if Richard ii was anything like Joffrey he would have died young like Joffrey

[@d0lph1n63]

The sad thing was is that they were also partially a head of their times too. Both of them believed in centralized government instead of allowing individual house to have their own personal standing armies and Richard tried to modernize his country economically as well as culturally. He’d witnessed first hand as a child his regents used his authority to enrich themselves or to wage war on France which ultimately lead to the Peasants revolt and knew that the nobility (even his own uncles) could replace him at any time if it benefited them. Plus once he became king none of his nobles were willing to conceded any kind of power to him even the power that was rightfully his and even threatened to do to him what was done to his great-grandfather (who even Richard would have to acknowledge deserved it).

[@mistynight123]

Amazing vids like this is why I subscribed to this channel. Thankyou!

[@LouiseJ62]

The last Plantagenet heir lives in Australia. Watched 60 minutes about it.

[@TheCandiceWang]

Our worlds version of Daenerys Stormborn.

[@peternesbitt]

It seems odd that Henry Bolingbrooke can waltz into London and arrest Richard without a fight. Where was Richard's support, after all he was the king.

[@LittleImpaler]

No one liked Richard. So no support.

[@michaeldefeo1439]

Richard II's reign of terror turned most, NOT ALL, of England against him. He reigned by fear and turned most of the powerhouse barons and families against himself and that's why Henry Bolingbroke/Henry IV was able to pretty easily depose Richard II as King.

[@shahbanu-amestris]

Most of Richard II's (relatively few) supporters at the time with him in Ireland. Also, medieval governments had a lot less infrastructure than modern ones, so coups were a lot easier.

[@megsmith6246]

It’s true. A weak centralized government with long cal lords who could and did raise their own armies. Quite a lot of regicide during the Plantagenet era!

[@megsmith6246]

Local lords

[@shanedavey6993]

Amazing documentary!

[@fifacraft49]

game of thrones just happens to be sponsored on the side

[@rosered6876]

I get this a condensed version of the events but why the downvotes? I thought it was a well done series.

[@renaudtheis1197]

Maybe because their French is awefull.

[@rosered6876]

@@renaudtheis1197 no argument there lol

[@JWinslow11]

Love Dan Jones. His book The Plantagenets is epic. 🗡

[@balajinathan6713]

I wonder if the war of the Rose's could have been avoided if Richard ii had a son with his first wife anne of bohemia to directly continue the plantagenet dynast, instead of the Lancasters and yorks continuing the plantagenet dynasty indirectly.

[@michaeldefeo1439]

No one truly knows but that is exactly what happened with Edward II, they forced him to give up the crown to his young son Edward III who was the last ruler and grandfather of Richard II so I think there was a good chance that if he had a male heir that they would have made him give the crown to him

[@Liam-B]

7:00 Tyler the Repressed Citizen from Monty Python and the Holy Grail speaks with Richard the Dick.

[@megsmith6246]

Not gonna lie, I thought of that scene too lol

[@slmyatt]

Good doc

[@pshaw8406]

No one deserves to die that way.

[@BudsCartoon]

Richard II looks like Kid Rock.

[@Jackaljkljkl]

Top Tips for being a Medieval English King/Queen...:} (1) Don't go campaigning in Ireland. Ever. (2) Ladies, religious sanctuary isn't a thing anymore. (3) If you suck, make sure you have a dashing and energetic young son/prince to sort everything out. (4) If you get captured and your captiive is treating you fairly well, pray that nobody tries (and fails) to bust you out. (5) Don't get dysentery.

[@fatnsassy99]

(6) always have a backup plan just in case everything goes tits up

[@kegdoty]

Can’t believe this is free content

[@Jackaljkljkl]

14:30 Demented smile that Drexl Spivey would have been proud of.

[@heberfenderful]

Wow epic cinematography !

[@imaginationgirl21]

I don't know if this is a weird thing to say but I constantly fantasize about going back to these times with my phone and a speaker to play them some Queen to see if they'll like it

[@Angie2343]

PLEASE fix the closed captioning.

[@Marlaina]

Was Richard II sterile? He had two wives and plenty of time to produce an heir….

[@peytonb2247]

Anne had at least one miscarriage around 1384. Isabella was six when she married him

[@alexiscentleio5383]

History is quite different from SP play. Awesome!

[@jimleon7894]

It’s too bad you didn’t think of crediting the main cast of characters. Much more important than the producers..... do it in the future.

[@michaeldefeo1439]

"The crown of England had passed down legitimately through eight generations, since Henry II established the Plantagenet dynasty 2 and half centuries earlier, Henry IV's coronation changed all that" to be honest I'm not sure if that is true. After Richard Lionheart/Richard I, the 2nd Plantagent king died without any legitimate children the crown went to his youngest brother who became King John I, but they had a brother named Prince Geoffrey who was younger than King Richard I and older than King John I. Now Geoffrey died before Richard I but he had a legitimate son named Arthur and if we are gonna talk about the crown passing legitimately within the Plantagent dynasty, then after Richard I died the next King should have been his nephew Arthur and Not his younger brother John. But John seized the crown, I believe with support from his mother and then captured and had his nephew Arthur killed. So the crown going to John I still went to a Plantagent family member but u cant deny it was a usurpation. The only difference between that happening and Henry Bolingbroke/Henry IV usurping the crown from Richard II was that Richard II was declared and crowned King, but as for Prince Arthur he never had the chance to be crowned because his Uncle, John I secured the throne right from the beginning.

[@TheCandiceWang]

Wow! Crazy 😳 so England would've finally had a King Arthur! Sad. Brutal.

[@cottycheese]

Listening while at work and can't read while I listen. Would appreciate you reading them as well as putting them on screen.

[@theresalouise1716]

I don't know why the the second video (the tyranny of Edward II) is not available in my country (Ireland). The other three are fine so why not that one?

[@savantianprince]

I think Richard 2nd is and was misunderstood.

[@megsmith6246]

Is it any wonder he had no use for his counselors? When he was a kid they used him as a human shield when the peasants stormed the tower. When he grew up it was “Now I’ve got the mic” as my late husband would say

[@peytonb2247]

Literally. Like, if no one helps him and they treat him like this, it’s no wonder he wants them power and rewards those who are nice to him

[@2serveand2protect]

HERE'S THE THING THAT DOESN'T "SIT RIGHT" WITH ME IN THIS DOCUMENTARY! ... They always criticize Richard - alright! - but the main "accusation" thrown at him (especially from modern Historians) is that he was "TYRANT" - at the same time, though - the main ...how to say?..."source" of those accusations come from that line of "lancastrian" Kings of England that were responsible for his deposition and death - Henry the 4th - Henry the 5th and then Henry the 6th. For me HE was the true "last" of Plantagenet Kings - not because there were no "other candidates", but because once you break the rule of succession (from father to first-born son) - then - IN THE LONG WAY - you ALWAYS PAY FOR IT - in this case - with the rivers of blood spilled during the "Wars Of The Roses". Personally - once I started researching his life and reign - I realized that the more I "dig", the more I kinda LIKED the guy! No matter what this documentary says (and it sure as hell has some good points!) - but Richard the IInd - was a (truly great!) King that had a very high sense of his own self-importance, very strong views upon the role of the Monarch in Society and - something they do not mention here - he also had excellent artistical interests and tastes (you can see them in that astonishingly beautiful "Wilton Diptych"). LIKE IT OR NOT! - but in those times, those "traits" were actually a POSITIVE thing. I've always thought he was a sort of "Louis the XIVth ante-litteram" (with a similar sense of "Grandeur" included! :D) and that didn't fly well with his subjects (...never forget though! - his main critics came from his ARISTOCRACY first among others!...) - so today he's remembered as a "tyrant", but at the same time this appellation - this "DESIGNATION" - can be used to call Henry the VIIIth (who spilled RIVERS of English blood, by the way, but is never criticized for that!) and PLENTY of other Kings. If we are to judge other English Kings by the same standards, then Edward the Ist (the famous "malleus scotorum") or even Henry the IInd (the first in the line of the Plantagenets) were WAY more "tyrannical" than Richard - however - they never get any bad wrap for exactly the same things Richard was doing! - and that is something I could never understand.

[@MichaelDeFeo18]

I hear what your saying but unfortunately we can only go with what we know. However in my opinion Richard II was seen as a such a tyrant bc of his actions. As u said it seems like other English Kings did things just as terrible or even moreso than Richard II but that's the difference. Richard II's tyranny was mostly addressed to his people and his barons, where the other english kings tyranny was mostly pointed towards outsiders and enemies of England. Richard II's actions were mostly pointed towards his subjects and the ones who gave him power, the barons. Plus he made a big mistake, or an idea too radical for the time by stripping Henry Bolingbroke's inheritance, and then making all the other nobles sign blank parchments. Stripping someone of their inheritance was an unheard of or very rare thing for that time without a legitimate reason and it made all the other barons fear for their inheritance bc the same thing could happen to them. Plus dont forget when Henry Bolingbroke had enough and went for the throne most of the nation flocked to him and when Richard II came back to England from his campaign in Ireland almost everyone abandoned him. As said a battle didnt even happen he lost everything in a clean sweep and that right there, proves to me he must have been a huge Tyrant for him to lose the crown to his cousin so swiftly and without any huge battle occurring. That's just how I look at it

[@Fondrom]

He must of been somewhat of a tyrant since he was deposed

[@TheCandiceWang]

Narrator historian makes RII sound like Donald trump.

[@ellenkingsley]

I never knew what a tyrant Richard II was

[@winniedhaouadi1973]

Beautiful castles But How bad the kings Makes me sick Horrible kings

[@theovolz3073]

I love how this tries to be Game of Thrones on a budget. (not being sarcastic, but the dramatics are pretty good for a docudrama).

[@balajinathan6713]

I am pretty sure that henry iv later regretted taking the throne by force as he spent the next ten years fighting rebellions and surviving assassination attempts from his own people .

[@julianholman7379]

The more I read up on this history the more false this presentation of Richard ll seems

[@julianholman7379]

I have had an interesting time reading well referenced articles that controvert this view of Richard ll as notably tyrannical, aswell as much of the anecdotal and other evidence here produced. It might be rash to presume to be overly moralistic or psychological about the power struggles of late 14th c magnates, though the imagination is certainly stirred by a gripping narrative simplification nicely staged and shot

[@zimmergameszimmerc6077]

What about Hernan Cortes!!

[@anahita7459]

I wanna live in the alternate timeline where Wat Tyler and his men won. Should've never trusted the King or the nobles. The acting in this documentary was superb. I hope the man playing adult Richard ii gets bigger roles in his career.

[@lorie1482]

He was beautiful as well 👍

[@peytonb2247]

They leave it out of this documentary but Richard actually revoked clemency because the rebels continued pillaging. He also signed a different edict pardoning several of the rebels at the request of his wife, Anne

[@michaeldefeo1439]

After watching this again I wonder why they never mention what Richard II's other uncles, John of Gaunt (Founder of House Lancaster) and Edmund of Langley ( Founder of House York), were doing all during Richard II' reign? They said that their youngest brother Thomas Duke of Gloucester was responsible for giving Richard II the news about getting rid of his friends and was one of the 5 lords(also including Henry Bolinbroke who was John of Gaunts oldest son) that confronted Richard II but in the end decided to let him keep the crown, but where were they while all this was happening? Then when Henry Bolingbroke had enough of Richard II's tyranny after Richard II stripped his inheritance that he was supposed to receive after the death of his father, John of Gaunt, and invaded and took the crown, Richard II had actually left his uncle Edmund of Langley in charge of the realm, while he was campaigning in Ireland. So obviously Richard II must have trusted his uncle Edmund of Langley a great deal to leave him in charge so I'm surprised that this video said absolutely nothing about him?

[@tonedeaftalent]

Kinda like Ivan the Terrible. Once his first wife died, all bets were off. She kept him sane and level.

[@n0namesowhatblerp362]

Richard the first (Richard lionheart , Robin Hood ya know), the 6th grandfather of Richard the 2nd, had a brother named Geoffrey and an ancestor named Geoffrey Plantagenet. No shit. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John,_King_of_England

[@staytuned2L337]

Sometimes the narration both make me chuckle, and think. They just spent 45 minutes talking about how the King was kind of the worst, and they finish it off by saying "one of the greatest" ... I know history isn't an either, or, but I do think it's funny to outline his tyranny for almost an hour and then conclude saying the era was fantastic 😂

[@EXCIT3D]

We brought Anna of Cleves to life. In a 3D movie and as an animated augmented reality model.@

[@prototropo]

Great history, elegantly written, intelligently edited, compellingly narrated. But . . . Lousy music! C’mon-Purcell, Ades, Tallis, Vaughn-Williams, Handel, Elgar? What a wealth of potential scoring was ignored for blechy, canned television bombast.

[@sharonarmstrong1016]

In the 21st Century...the Plantagenets would be the serial killers of the day!!!

[@franklesser5655]

I think Richard was just misunderstood.

[@oppaloopa3698]

I didn’t know that they didn’t primary speak English in their everyday lives.

[@winniedhaouadi1973]

And look at What happend ro Diana

[@Free-flyBE]

Ugh; my ancestors were nuts:/

[@mookins45]

too many commercials, i'll come back to it in a few years

[@LordTalax]

use a computer, Bosco

[@Oni_92]

u can drag the play scroll to the end and click replay. no more ads : ) i'm not sure if it will work for everyone, but it works for me. I'd heard about it from a commentor on FB. Very useful for long documentaries : )

[@XLadyFlameX]

@@Oni_92 wow, thanks

[@3John-Bishop]

you can also get chromecast device to play on your TV, no ads.

[@TheCandiceWang]

Bias. Opinion and conjecture stated as fact.

[@hanslund308]

This was a bad presentation of the peaseant war, like the rebels where just a band of wild men. They where not.

[@Zenturio331]

These are absolute crack

[@julianholman7379]

How funny that there are still Lancastrian propagandists active

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[@maleriquelme92]

Why they speak french?

[@s1nb4d59]

Dont like docu dramas.

[@4dgirl2013]

Don’t watch then 🤣🤣🤣

[@winniedhaouadi1973]

Why the english so vioplence

[@chelsearusch4661]

"in modern times you'd call it communism" uhh, in modern times you'd call it sensible more like

[@chriscornish1341]

History is nothing at all to do with the “Game of Thrones”, don’t even think of making any sort of connection purely to publicise your video.

[@kosovoiskosovoproductions7001]

actually this period inspired the books, still a loose connection

[@mysteryegg340]

Except for the fact that JRR Martin publicly stated that the books were inspired by the wars of Europe. So, huge connection confirmed by the actual writer.