Killer Medieval Queens: Warlords Of The West

This was fascinating and for once I actually managed to keep up with who was doing what to who and why! And it was GRUESOME! Thank you both so much. 👍

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Killer Queens are guaranteed to blow your mind

The frequency of the bizarrely badly aimed advertising is making this all but unwatchable after only fifteen minutes. Are you on any other services that aren’t as advertising obsessed as YT?

Can someone please tell me where nuastria was? Thank you

Another tour de force, loved this. But what's with all the dysentery 😮

Appropriate attire when discussing queens. LOL!

Love Tom's fur

That was crazy! I wish you guys, as a kind of soufflé, would do the fabulous brick house, the real Papessa, Olympe Mandelchini (sp). There’s no blood and guts but what a tale. She was known as La Papessa. She managed to make her brother in law Pope which he really didn’t like being at all, which was fine. She would seat herself on the Papal throne while receiving people. She had an office n the heart of the Vatican from where she ran the papacy. It’s quite a story. This is about 1700.

Sure how many kings were murdered? Exactly. Don’t care or feel sympathy for this woman in history.

more than the operas by Wagner, this story seems to have inspired the Song of the Nibelungs. In it, Gunther is king of Burgundy, he marries Brunhild, his sister marries king Siegfried, the queens struggle, one calls the other a whore, etc.

Pease stop renaming episodes. Hard to tell if I've already watched it

A wonderful morning listening to this.

😇💙🙏🙌

Can we get the intro music from the spotify pods added and number the episodes?

Wow ! 😳

Thank you so much for doing this series. It's exactly what I am wanting to learn more about.

It's not so much Wagner that comes to mind but rather the Nibelungenlied (on which Wagner's operas are partly based).
The Brunhilde of the Nibelnungenlied seems to be modeled really closely on the true story of Brundhilda as presented by TRIH.

In the Nibelungenlied, Brunhilde comes from a foreign land and is married to one of three brothers (all kings of Burgundy).
She has a rival: Kriemhild.
Brundhilde has Kriemhilds husband killed.
And Kriemhild takes revenge by ultimately killing all three Burgundian kings.

The Nibelungenlied is set in the time of the Huns. (Attila the Hun ist Kriemhilds instrument of revenge).
So somewhat earlier than the life of real world Brunhilda. But sufficiently close to see how real events may have inspired the Ninbelungenlied.

She would have been dynamite with a laser beam, if lasers had been invented.
And also dynamite.

Well that was suitably horrifying

As much as I like watching the two of you, maps and family trees would be useful.

One thing I didn’t quite get was- once Sigeburt died his young son was crowned in Austrasia but Chilperic was able to have the Kings mother Brunhilda put into a convent - how did Chilperic have jurisdiction in Austrasia?

Dysentry 11 Monarchs 0

now i see why King Solomon said the earth quakes and cannot bear up when a slave becomes king and evil for slaves to ride on horseback,

now i see why King Solomon said the earth quakes and cannot bear up when a slave becomes king and evil for slaves to ride on horseback,

You two are awesome! Just found this channel. Love the fur btw

Great names these people had! Chill Prick! 😅

Thank you so much for some exciting history

Sheesh. Medieval uppity woman, indeed.😳

This would make one heck of a tv series, but they would probably fudge it up.

Maybe the fir is because he forgot to pay the heating bill

What can I add ?
The Roman tradition of sharing out inherited lands is called gavelkind , as opposed to primogeniture , the sole inheritance of the eldest.
In Romano-British tradition , the princes of Wales - y tywosogion , carried on this tradition . Hence Hywel ap Cadell's inheritance was split between his three surviving children including his daughter , my ancestor.
The kingdom of Ystrad Tywi ( West Carmerthenshire) , the lordships of Rhos , Penfro , Emlyn and the High Kinship of Ceredigion went to the eldest - Peibeidiog was an independent see of St David's. It is further complicated by tyrannis of Aereon and Ystwyth , note the Roman term used ...
So the other two children were given the independent principalities of Cantref Mawr ( Lampeter - North Carmarthen and Cantref Bychan which runs Llandeilo to Llandovery..
Part of the inheritance of these two principalities included a Roman gold mine at Pumpsaint and a Roman lead mine near Talley, to further the Rmano theme.

Definitions of a what constitutes a cantref rarely satisfy me , so let me share it with you.
There are 64 livings , or comotes.
60 are grouped in sixes , ie ten groups of six. Six of these are attributed to bondsmen of the princes and four to the highborn.
The four remaining comotes are shared one each to the Seneschal, and chancellor ( both offices sharing almost royal status - political power with tax breaks . The other two were shared between the two princes . Each principality had two princes in the consular fashion , ie Roman and Field Consul -
I hope that is helpful.

Dom , Tom ..... Nadolig Llawen a Blywydd Newydd Dda o Cymru . 👍

These stories are better than almost any script that comes out of Hollywood. Why doesn’t somebody turn them into a series or a movie or something? They’re absolutely amazing.

I love listening to this one!! It would be awesome to see a movie about Fredegund and Brunhilda.😂

The French eh? Their politics has always been animated by the, er, 'curves'.

This is my new favourite channel - its just what I needed in my life ❤❤

Why was dysentery such an issue in this time? Were they very unhygienic?

It's sad when grown men are more familiar with this "Game of Thrones" thing than with real history...

For a masterful overview of the period, also try J. M. Wallace-Hadrill, The Barbarian West, AD 400-1000

So what is the issue with HBO? Why is this not in production?

That was amazing. Thanks for posting.

Austrasia? -did later the name Austria - Österreich?? derived from that?

It's not really surprising that a woman ( in very much a man's world) who was a slave ended up believing that power was the only thing that mattered in the world. In other words either you're a queen or a slave, either you're a woman under the control of men or you're a woman making the men think they're the ones in control. Sure, none of this is very moral but under the social system of those times it's a wonder that there weren't more of these kinds of women.

If you dont mind subtitled historic productions i highly and i mean highly recommend watching "The magnificent century" (English subtitles) It's Turkish production and portrayal of the Ottoman empire inside the palace of Suleiman. It's got everything. beheadings, poisonings, chokings, conspiracy, intrigue. The production, scenery, acting, filmography, storyline are exemplary it puts Hollywood to shame.

Wonderful 😊

Tom as Jon Snow. Lol.

Chill-prick? What a great name for a Divine Comedy, eh?

Beware Slavic princes bearing small gifts

Peter Maravich found a gentler game to play in this round of the game, eh?