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@korraiswaifu6245
9 ай бұрын
Moderate reversal of fortune is now my favorite thing lol.
@teresamerkel7161
9 ай бұрын
...and so I did. I hope to be able to watch Brazilian t.v. and improve my Brazilian Portuguese. love those 72 wings.
@michelguevara151
9 ай бұрын
people forget that the monty python loons were university students before 'current thing' and made a lot of sketches based on their studies. the taunting french knight is also historically accurate! saying "smells of elderberries" means "is a common *cheap* drunkard" I wouldn't be surprised if the "t'is but a scratch" knight was the result of some medieval studying..
@danielbennett8647
9 ай бұрын
My friends and I once had the bright idea of getting some broom sticks and trash can lids to joust. We would ride our bikes from each end of the street and try to unseat each other. Needless to say a concerned parent put a stop to it only after 3 runs. In retrospect she did the right thing.
@pleasecutitout
9 ай бұрын
kuelimika has put up another video. Keep the debate going unless you bowed out. You a fraud
@WritingFighter
9 ай бұрын
06:00 - The fact a bystander fainted from an armpit wound automatically insinuates I think fountains of blood and beheadings weren't common, as it was notable.
@walkir2662
9 ай бұрын
Either that, or that bystander had no business being there and was unused to the joust.
@ProbablyNotAChicken
9 ай бұрын
@@walkir2662 Or both.
@ghostparty2062
9 ай бұрын
Or neither
@MrBottlecapBill
9 ай бұрын
I know a pretty tough manly man who will literally faint as the sight of blood. It's just a thing some people suffer from.
@Felled-angel
9 ай бұрын
@@MrBottlecapBillI'm sorry but if you faint at the sight of blood then you are not a manly man because as you know a manly man kills and cooks his own food when necessary, he doesn't show weakness, cool headed in extreme situations ect A lot of that involves blood.
@ModernKnight
9 ай бұрын
I'll see what I can to to add to your data on this. I've personally struck three knights from the saddle but they had no injuries of significance.
@metatronyt
9 ай бұрын
Love to hear it!
@markwalker4485
9 ай бұрын
I would use the modern word “ouch”
@GarfieldRex
9 ай бұрын
The story of that jousting tournament is that the Knight of that land, Count Suero de Quiñones, asked the king for permission to make a tournament in which every knight that crossed the bridge of his land, would have to participate. If that knight declined, would have to leave a glove there as sign of cowardness. Of course is not that random knights were just passing there, but several were invited. But still pretty cool. The bridge survives to this day. Paso honroso means honoring step or march. The winner of the tournament was the Count's son.
@janmlcoch8766
9 ай бұрын
Thanks for mentioning our Bohemian king Jan, one info to be mentioned as well... several years before Crecy his son, later king and emperor Karel IV was severly injured in jaw during the joust. He recoverd very well. And a perk, the quote of Jan´s last words in czech is(as a linquist you might appreciate it): "Toho Boh dá nebude, aby český král z boje utíkal"
@sebastiencz3931
9 ай бұрын
French King Henri II famously died from a jousting injury, and not even during medieval times but in 1559 during the celebrations of his daughter's and sister's wedding. A wodden shard penetrated one of his eyes, he died 10 days later in excruciating pain.
@Njuregen
9 ай бұрын
Seems most maims and deaths are related to visor failure, splinters entering the eye.
@beelzebub5286
9 ай бұрын
Minor reversal of fortune
@henryblaylock2946
9 ай бұрын
My friends and I were those stupid kids who thought it would be a good idea to try that on electric motorcycles took a broom handle to the chest while going 30 miles an hour and let me tell you THAT SHIT HURT.
@lanorothwolf2184
9 ай бұрын
I too suffer from moderate reversal of fortune
@teresamerkel7161
9 ай бұрын
I had read (somewhere) that Henry VIII had an injury to his leg while jousting which festered and, it is speculated (so take that for what it is) that this accounts for him being particularly nasty in the final years of his reign. I had not run into statements about an injury through his visor so that is a new one for me.
@kevinmcqueenie7420
9 ай бұрын
It seems like it was the head trauma that changed his personality and the festering leg wound merely exacerbated things, but as with any of this stuff, it’s highly speculative, just that head trauma has more likelihood of negative mental health outcomes.
@daveharrison61
9 ай бұрын
@@kevinmcqueenie7420 Dr. David Starkey has come up with a solid refutation of the head injury changing his personality. I can't quote it now (been a couple of.months since I watched the video) but it's to do with the timing of the injury and the vicious execution of an official a long time later and they don't line up. The injury to his leg however did result in her early death, his medical suffering (likely from obesity and diabetes), and that may have resulted in a more gradual change of character as he compensated for disability in the eyes.of his subjects.
@kevinmcqueenie7420
9 ай бұрын
@@daveharrison61 Cheers for the info, interesting stuff! I guess all the mental pressures of producing an heir, breaking with the church etc. wouldn’t have helped either!
@daveharrison61
9 ай бұрын
@@kevinmcqueenie7420 the break with the pope in particular. Henry VIII was probably the most ardent supporter of the pope in the whole of Christendom until he asked for divorce from Catherine of Aragon. He had fought at least one war under the pope's banner (I think it was against the excommunicated king of France, but I'm a bioscientist so my recall is unspecialised and not brilliantly informed!), and had written theological texts in support of the papacy against the accusations of Martin Luther. It would be like the most ardent disciple of Karl Marx founding his own business and becoming a Musk-like billionaire within a few years!
@kevinmcqueenie7420
9 ай бұрын
@@daveharrison61 nice analogy and an angle I’d never thought of before! Forgot what a huge thing that would have been at the time and for Hank himself!
@johnstuartkeller5244
13 күн бұрын
12:34 Cross-over installment with Medieval Ghosts? That's the spirit!
@lattucesoldier8794
9 ай бұрын
I'd love to see Metatron cooperating with Schwerpunkt. The guy made an immense work on Medieval knighthood and from quite a standpoint
@baronvonboomboom4349
9 ай бұрын
Can't wait to see Jason's thoughts on this one.
@stairwayunicorn4861
9 ай бұрын
And Zac
@veronicatash777
9 ай бұрын
It seems silly to ask what we think about how likely you are to die in a joust. These would be formal events where there would be surviving records - it seems we could literally tally up the total deaths in all European jousts vs how many total participants (by joust) to get a straight up chance of how likely you are to die every time you enter a joust. Even if some records were destroyed by bookworms or fires or whatnot, we certainly can get a far more than sufficient sampling to calculate a very close death rate. What we think is pointless - what does reality say? Hell, I'm sure we could measure by rank of nobility and if the records show what type of armor is worn we could measure death rate by type of armor.
@papalaz4444244
9 ай бұрын
What does any of this actually mean?
@veronicatash777
9 ай бұрын
@@papalaz4444244 simple math. If you sample from the records of jousts, add up all the participants and deaths you divide the latter by the former and get a death rate per joust. You can literally say you have a 2.87% ± .03% chance of death or whatnot, every tournament you enter. Objective metrics can be made.
@GilgameshEthics
9 ай бұрын
@@veronicatash777 You are assuming much more accurate records than exist as well as a much higher survival rate of records than exists. Think about all the offices with official records in our country, pre computer of course so paper records. Now think about how many of those will exist in 100 years from their time. Even with the invention of computer I imagine a VAST majority of documents will be lost. And pre-computer It has to be like less than .1% of documents written survive to modern day.
@veronicatash777
9 ай бұрын
@@GilgameshEthics These are documents of noble and royal families - peasants couldn't afford to joust - and so we would expect there to be detailed enough records to know how many participated and who may have died - not to mention the names of who participated. But the first two do fine. Even if there were low survivorship for these documents, what would bias the results? If there were 1000 jousts and only 50 records survive, we would assume that to be a more than representative sample to get meaningful results - and unless records where participants died or didn't die are strongly biased in their survivorship, there is no reason you can't get an accurate death rate.
@NicholasproclaimerofMessiah
9 ай бұрын
Considering modern sports, such as boxing and American football and MMA, I think the sensibilities were somewhat similar back then and now, though I would say Ancient Roman sensibilities were very different. It does seem that the willingness to risk death was greater, but the perception of severity seems to be about the same, though they were more often willing to face that severity. There are modern sorts of subcultures which are well known for risking their lives, such as specific crime-cultures and such, and police officers and soldiers do so in a more honorable fashion, so I think the perception of severity of injury is comparable between Medieval Europe and the Modern West.
@KidRisky
9 ай бұрын
What a blast from the past that video game was! I played that on my Apple IIGS.
@trasnulachemumulache8590
9 ай бұрын
Another known accident(lethal) was the case of king Henry II of France. The lance , his opponent's lance was broken but not in the shield but in the king's visor and yes, it penetrated in the eye and severely damaged the brain to. King Henry has an agonising very painfull death. He died in some hours or the following day
@bethholley9659
9 ай бұрын
In 2007 during a joust re-enactment, Paul Anthony Allen was killed by a piece in his eye when a lance splintered. The joust was at Rockingham Castle. The accident happened during filming for Channel 4 for an episode of Time Team.
@bligh1156
9 ай бұрын
You should interview Jason Kingsley. He is one of the few people that still jousts.
@bligh1156
9 ай бұрын
Sir Kingsley, I meant, no disrespect intended, full name for clarity.
@Dominator046
9 ай бұрын
Really glad to see this content. Haven't watched a video in a while, as debunking theme(s) aren't usually my cup of tea. But, this was a fun change of pace. It might not get as many views, but happy to see it.
@josestirtabudi6247
9 ай бұрын
Fantastic video! Thanks Metatron :)
@pastorofmuppets4552
9 ай бұрын
Poor King Henri II, at least he kept an eye out.
@augustinep6193
9 ай бұрын
Good. Thanks.
@wolfthegreat87
9 ай бұрын
The History Squad made a good video on this subject as well, you two should collaborate on something sometime!
@joeperez3520
9 ай бұрын
Holy smokes! Were those computer animations from the old game Ivanhoe, for the Commodore Amiga? 😂
@metatronyt
9 ай бұрын
Defender of the Crown :) One of the best
@joeperez3520
9 ай бұрын
@@metatronyt Yes, THAT'S what it was called! 🤣 I had all of those Cinemaware games for the Commodore Amiga.
@joeperez3520
9 ай бұрын
@@metatronyt Ivanhoe was the character I always chose. 🤣
@tomhalla426
9 ай бұрын
People still do American football, which was nearly banned in the late 1800’s due to players getting killed. Auto and motorcycle racing are not all that safe, either.
@zaco-km3su
9 ай бұрын
A video about the early jousts would be interesting.
@thomasjones1682
9 ай бұрын
"Stop Jousting, it's dangerous and sinful. I said it is sinful. QUIT HAVING FUN"
@jegsdinogod5091
9 ай бұрын
I wonder how common a joust death from falling off the horse was compared to being killed by weapons .
@Kenshin6321
9 ай бұрын
Metatron: It's a good thing I'm already married. Pero Rodriguez: A moderate reversal of fortune.
@tattoobillyband7725
8 ай бұрын
Had an ancestor along with many others found themselves in trouble for being involved in a Tourney
@bigolbearthejammydodger6527
9 ай бұрын
One thought to consider: How many of the deaths were essentially suicide. Old knights with old wounds that wanted to die to end their suffering. doing a joust or tourney with less armour than you might other wise use would not be considered officially suicide (a crime against god), 'bad' shield angling likewise. Certainly old warriors looking to die would join the vanguard, and find the thickest parts of battle in war time, many examples of this have been recorded in history. I wonder if joust and tourney were utilized in the same manner in peace time. - An old disabled warrior (not at all suicidal FYI, but we have modern medicine and good pain killers)
@georgepapatheofilou6118
9 ай бұрын
The Sassanid and East Roman Cataphracts were live and deadly in battle. What a furnace of battle gear to face off against opponents. The battle gear evolution in the West was overlooked in the East Rome area of conflict due to the main competitors being taken into account. Oh well, such is life . Too bad so sad .
@circeowaggles
9 ай бұрын
This video made me realize the guy who plays Roland in a knights tale was Robert Baratheon in game of thrones
@kristianthurber2544
9 ай бұрын
Everyone: This is dangerous you shouldn't do it, the priests say it's not Christian Knights: Squire, fetch my lance I can confess to priests or angles later
@salvadorhurtado9988
9 ай бұрын
Just think of hte physics involved: A six hundred Kg. horse, plus another 80/100 kg. of a fully armoured Knight coming at 40 to 60 km/pH speed, all this energy multipied times 2 (of the other knight, coming the other way). And the end result of this energy, concentrated on the area of the tip af a spear (let´s say with a 5 cm. Coronal). And after the impact there was also the eventual fall from the horse, and the splinters of the lances creeping between the joints of the plates. So yes, jousting was amazingly dangerous. That would explain the forbidding of tournaments that were proclaimed, not by the church, but by the kings and nobles, who didn´t want to loose valuable knights and squires in sports. However I agree with you, even though most knights would survive tournaments with light injuries; there were many deaths and cripplings. In a time with no pennicilin or antibiotics to fight infections, the outlook is ghastly. Yet there was no better way to prove valour and prowes infront of an audience that included your liege or lord and your lady and friends in a time where courage would really mold your future. How many battles were lost, I wonder, out of knights charging in the worst possible time because they trusted god and right, and courage, to prevail over safer, yet less honorable tactics? My own experience limits to riding bulls and horses at the rodeo, but i can be witness of the frightful forces involved when dealing with those animals. I have trouble just imagining the courage you need in order to ride, even once, on the list!
@platonios4666
9 ай бұрын
The scientific definition of those knights is "gigachad".
@jegsdinogod5091
9 ай бұрын
Knights were built different, holy shit
@LucyferSkyles
9 ай бұрын
Down, square and Circle. Reversal of Fortune. Tis nothing. Lol😂😂😂😂
@boraonline7036
3 ай бұрын
As you said movies even if they just serve for entertainment factor, could give you a wrong idea how things worked in medieval times. And watching those meideval moves from the 1980is I thought those tournements als ways ment one competing knight always had to die, which makes the other knight the winner. And in fact it was that big medieval event in Bavaria called "Landshuter Hochzeit" where I learned that jausting had nothing to do with the Knights trying tio kill each other and not even to push each other from the horse, but to hit the other knight with their lance. Breaking the lance ment the knight was successful in doing so. I also learned that accidents still happened, evne deadly ones. Like a Knight got a piece of a lance in his eye. There is a saying in german "Das kann in's Auge gehen!" while the translation is "It can backfire" the meaning is that something can hit or harm your eye. And It's said that comes from such accidents in josuting matches.
@hectorthedraconian1310
9 ай бұрын
I think in this sport equipment really matters. A well off knight would likely have better gear maintained in better condition, than his poorer counterparts. Would every injury to Sir Nameless Hedgeknight ever be recorded? Probably not. I personally also think that the whole "tis nothing" mentality might be more prominent among them eager to win some reknown and possibly employment, while themselves being unable to "repair" their gear into its best form.
@rialobran
9 ай бұрын
Before American English took over the world the good people of the UK would have used the wonderful word 'cinch' rather than 'no-brainer'. "It's a cinch" "Doing that is a cinch" Save the 'cinch' for Christmas...and all Anglophones.
@jessemills3845
9 ай бұрын
Same with the Greeks. Come home or come back on your shield! But, that isn't what the subject is. But it shows a history.
@Kar4ever3
9 ай бұрын
Upvoted. If for nothing else, a Defenders of the Crown screenshot.
@frankburklin1116
9 ай бұрын
Henri of Navarre I believe, was killed in joust 15??/
@Kargoneth
9 ай бұрын
All of them.
@Kargoneth
9 ай бұрын
Damn. Another commenter came to the same conclusion. They're all dead now, so all of them died.
@OldGuyVibes
9 ай бұрын
In 2020 the world fell victim to a moderate reversal of fortune
@mctwist13
4 ай бұрын
his capa was detated!
@johnguss6087
9 ай бұрын
There’s also the immorality of the tournament raised by ecclesiastical authorities. In particular, the impact of the “camp followers” and even the behavior of ladies upon the joust. How sobriety and the “social problem” of the time may have influenced the outcome of jousts is an interesting topic that may be worthy of a video of its own. 🤔 👸🏻
@llywyllngryffyn8053
9 ай бұрын
I think that one very telling piece of evidence of the dangers of jousting is that they wouldn't let you buy Life Insurance. I don't care what they told you in school, my grandma toldme that jousting was safe.
@janwojtyna3392
9 ай бұрын
Taking the account of the fact that kings took part in jousting it couldn't be that bad otherwise Henry VIII would not be allowed to risk that much.
@dangerclose5853
9 ай бұрын
You said basically Monday to Wednesday but you also said advent to the octave of epiphany (Sunday after saint Andrew’s day to January 13th) and quinquagesima to the octave of Easter (Lent to the second Sunday of Easter) so really you could only fight in early spring, summer, or fall on a “Thursday”… but only if the Pope says it’s ok…
@aule10
9 ай бұрын
What i think is martial sport, jausting was not as safe as modern day, this include many sport types, so it will bare the risk of injuries, traumas, and in some cases a severe case of death.
@Tennouseijin
9 ай бұрын
I'm starting to think that the scribe got tired of trying to write creative and original descriptions of injuries and started defaulting to 'moderate reversals of fortune' just to get his job done quickly and get paid.
@vendasch666
9 ай бұрын
Actually the son of Jan Luxembourg got pulled out of the battle where his father died (When the other nobles saw that King John had fallen and perished in the battle, so that they would not lose both sovereigns, they led his son, the lord elect Karl, who was fighting valiantly nearby and was already wounded by the enemy's arrows, despite his resistance and against his will, from this battle and led him to a place of safety). He had a wonderful life. He found Monte Carlo and he by rumors had a major misfortune while jousting in Italy. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_IV,_Holy_Roman_Emperor
@Artanis99
9 ай бұрын
Not just rumors, what is known for sure is that he cracked several of his vertebrae in his youth which became lingering injury later in his life. Theory is that this injury happened during a joust.
@cyberleaderandy1
9 ай бұрын
A friend of mine who jousts was hit through his helmet by a splinter and nearly lost his sight. Hes ok now but it just shows even modern jousting is dangerous, let alone in medieval times.
@faeembrugh
9 ай бұрын
I have also met modern jousters and facial injuries seem common along with injuries from falling from horses and/or horses falling on them!
@ferociousgustafson4040
9 ай бұрын
Okay friend of King Henry II.
@jeremypnet
9 ай бұрын
Would it be practical to wear goggles inside the helmet?
@kleinjahr
9 ай бұрын
@@jeremypnet Time to call OSHA.
@elingeniero9117
9 ай бұрын
@@jeremypnet very advisable
@Tr33B3ar
9 ай бұрын
Well since 100% of people who once jousted are now dead, I would say that you have a 100% chance of dying if you joust.
@Michael_MW
9 ай бұрын
lol quick math
@albeon81
9 ай бұрын
That’s fair.
@rebeccaorman1823
9 ай бұрын
No they're not. People joust at Renaissance festivals and the like. Therefore, there are people alive today who have jousted.
@raistlin_dourden
9 ай бұрын
100% lethal 👍
@GuitarsRockForever
9 ай бұрын
@@rebeccaorman1823 Everyone ever lived would die. So it is 100% true.
@mgntstr
9 ай бұрын
Head struck, arm dislocated, back broken, teeth struck... Suffered a minor reversal of fortune.😐😐
@gow1044
9 ай бұрын
I know right?
@richardhockey8442
9 ай бұрын
I winder what the author would class as a 'major catastrophe' - star falls from heavens and obliterates the next kingdom over - a major catastrophe, or perhaps the lord's wife spilling wine on her brand new dress
@sylviamaresca8852
9 ай бұрын
If only we had such men today...........😢
@jeremymott
9 ай бұрын
Tis but a scratch
@mgntstr
9 ай бұрын
find them on social media you will not, algorithm promotes degeneracy it does@@sylviamaresca8852
@saidtoshimaru1832
9 ай бұрын
One thing the account shows is that the judges did care about the wellbeing of the knights... sometimes even more than the injured themselves.
@DemonKingBadger
9 ай бұрын
Heh, sports today can be like that. I remember when 🏈 player Ronnie Lott busted his pinky, he had it amputated to get back into action for the playoffs. 🏀 player Kevin McHale play the 2nd half of a season on a broken foot, etc
@saidtoshimaru1832
9 ай бұрын
@@DemonKingBadger In the world cup Final of 1986, José Luis Brown, argentine defender, dislocated his shoulder. As there were no longer sustitutions, he cut a hole on his jersey to insert his thumb in as to inmovilize (as much as possible) his arm and continued playing. Argentina went up to win the game. RIP to the great Tata Brown.
@kireta21
9 ай бұрын
@@DemonKingBadger "I can still play, coach!" is pretty common in full contact sports. Pain is a normal part of game after all, so you often don't realise you actually damaged something, until someone yells "get him off field!"
@gregghelmberger
9 ай бұрын
It would be fun to see Metatron tackle the subject of Church bans and edicts when it comes to warfare and militaru topics: how often where they issued, how widely were they obeyed, why were they lifted?
@njhoepner
9 ай бұрын
The Peace of God and the Truce of God were both attempts by the church to either prohibit (the Peace) or limit (the Truce) warfare, beginning in the 10th century. There was broad popular support, since every other class in society were the primary sufferers in medieval warfare. It had some influence since the combination of popular and church support put a great deal of pressure on the knights and nobility. Still, violations were common. Violating the Truce was one of the things Pope Urban II brought up as one of the specific sins that the knights and nobility had to make up for by going on what we now call the First Crusade. As "feudalism" faded and monarchies gained strength and central control, the influence of the Peace and the Truce faded. Tax revenue in money allowed for the hiring of mercenary professional armies, and kings with that level of strength could increasingly ignore the scruples of the church.
@kamishin7135
9 ай бұрын
So there's where the meme "tis is just a scratch" and "just a flesh wound" came from
@James_Bee
9 ай бұрын
Oh, sweet, innocent child. Get some culture and go watch Monty Python's Holy Grail immediately.
@onceamusician5408
9 ай бұрын
at a guess, before watching this vid, i would suggest it really was DANGEROUS, after all Henry Prince of Wales, later Henry VIII was FORBIDDEN by his father Henry VII from jousting for the risk of him being killed and the Tudor line ending was too much
@rebeccaorman1823
9 ай бұрын
Possibly, but remember Henry the Seventh had just founded the Tudor dynasty. Therefore, there was a limited number of Tudor heirs. Henry and his brother Arthur. With so few heirs Henry the Seventh was undoubtedly included to be extremely protective. Where more established dynasties as protective of their heirs. Additionally, did this occur before or after Arthur's death. If after, Henry was the only hope of the dynasty and to be protected at all costs. Something along the lines of how Henry the Eighth treated his only son Edward.
@rebeccaorman1823
9 ай бұрын
Additional to my earlier comment. Since Henry was Prince of Wales at the time, Arthur had died and Henry was the sole hope of the dynasty. Henry the Seventh's refusal may have reflected his extreme protectiveness of the dynasty's sole hope rather than a realistic view of how dangerous jousts were.
@zsigzsag
9 ай бұрын
He still participated after becoming King. He had many injuries and suffered headaches from injuries there. I think the worst was when his horse fell on him. He was 6'1" so it was probably a draft horse well over 1500lbs +.
@rebeccaorman1823
9 ай бұрын
@@zsigzsag true but then he was choosing for himself and human beings tend to think that they're indestructible and the risk will fall on someone else.
@Madmax-rz5hz
9 ай бұрын
how frequently can you be decapitated? after the first time it seems pretty academic whether it's weekly, monthly or every joust
@enoughothis
9 ай бұрын
All contact sports have some element of risk, that heightens the experience. Of course precautions are taken but even modern athletes risk injury despite all such measures.
@CrispyCircuits
9 ай бұрын
Let's not forget that if you were smart you could write books, if you were macho you could joust. Otherwise, you could .......... Nope, that's about it for social status stuff.
@sokar_rostau
9 ай бұрын
When you break it down, jousting is a simple target game. All you technically need is a horse, a lance, and a shield. The armour is superfluous to the game BUT we're talking about an era where a broken arm could mean death, and a game where the players were all but expected to fall off a galloping horse at some point. The armour is superfluous to the game which makes it pure safety gear. It's there to protect the rider from falling off the horse just as much as it is there to protect the rider should the other player miss the target shield. Of course you can argue that they were wearing the same (kind of) armour they wore in battle during these combat games, and that the armour added spectacle but jousting isn't real combat it's just a game. If bravery meant everything, then true bravery meant entering the lists without any armour but they DID wear armour because it was just a game. Sure, there were times when jousts were used to settle scores but the vast majority of the time, contestants were in it for the prizes and the glory. Why wouldn't The Bravest Man In Christendom wear the best safety gear available anywhere during the period? Sidenote: Gridiron players are pussies with all that armour. Real men play rugby.
@grippercrapper
9 ай бұрын
I love REAL history. That one account where the knight says, “tis nothing” had me thinking about Monty Python too.
@a_lost_one
9 ай бұрын
Now we just need a historical account of a marriage for 'huge tracts of land!' 😂
@shawnamiller191
9 ай бұрын
Tis but a flesh wound
@tomkerruish2982
9 ай бұрын
I just took the family last week to a showing for the 38½ anniversary!
@shawnamiller191
9 ай бұрын
@@tomkerruish2982 fun fact, in game of thrones there's a scene where this guy screaming at Danarys in a foreign language and he's actually quoting the French guard
@gow1044
9 ай бұрын
It is hilarious to think about
@deanmaynard8256
9 ай бұрын
I got a splinter through the occularium -- it looked like it was in my eye but it was actually the brow. An epic black eye though - it went ALL the colours.
@papalaz4444244
9 ай бұрын
and then you woke up and turned the Playstation off
@thebigone6071
9 ай бұрын
If I ever invent a Time Machine, I’ll take the Metatron back in time with me so his god like knowledge and skill can protect me from evil scallywags and we can clap historical cheeks together!!!!!
@metatronyt
9 ай бұрын
Always good to see you in the comment section 🙂
@davidsantiago-bonilla3442
9 ай бұрын
And settle one and for all how cleopatra looked 😆
@ivanklobucar6570
9 ай бұрын
@@davidsantiago-bonilla3442she was actually chinese
@udahfickt
9 ай бұрын
@@ivanklobucar6570I knew it😮
@ivanklobucar6570
9 ай бұрын
@@udahfickt i was also suprised untill warlord bul lsh it didn't told me
@alansmithee8831
9 ай бұрын
Hello Metatron. So if like Monty Python, it could have been worse. They could have faced the knights that said "Ni"!
@soso4169
9 ай бұрын
Or the rabbit! 🐇
@alansmithee8831
9 ай бұрын
@@soso4169 Referring to Caerbannog would really make them lose hop.
@eldorados_lost_searcher
9 ай бұрын
Fun fact about the Black Knight in the Monty Python film: John Cleese based it on the story of an Olympic champion (boxing or pankration, I'm not sure which) who won after his opponent yielded, only for it to be discovered that the winner had died during the match.
@njhoepner
9 ай бұрын
I've read that story - it was pankration, ancient Olympics.
@ryanw2032
7 ай бұрын
He had to feel like a real sissy, tapping out to a dead guy.
@stax6092
9 ай бұрын
Love the Image of the HOMM3 Necropolis when you mentioned Undead Knights. DreadKnights are one of the coolest if not the coolest Undead creature in there.
@metatronyt
9 ай бұрын
Very true!
@st0rmrider
9 ай бұрын
Jesting can sometimes be more dangerous
@RealSeanithan
9 ай бұрын
I watched a person almost get injured in a re-enactment. The lances broke (like they very often do), and a very large shard went up and under the guy's pauldron. If the angle was any different, it would have stuck in his shoulder. Granted, if it had come at that angle, it probably wouldn't have made it into the pauldron anyway, but it scared a bunch of people who thought it was planned at first until some very modern medics ran out onto the field to make sure he was good.
@eternalpadawan1
9 ай бұрын
Really enjoyed this one, thank you. Would have been interesting if you could have ended with the death stats for modern jousting. I purchased one of your silver rings to help support this channel, I'll leave a review when it arrives 🎉
@metatronyt
9 ай бұрын
Thank you for your comment and support!
@w.adammandelbaum1805
9 ай бұрын
Jousters made some guys get off their high horse.
@peezebeuponyou3774
9 ай бұрын
A British man lost his life jousting a few years ago- lance splinters went through his eye piece, his eye and into his brain.
@Michael_MW
9 ай бұрын
RIP Sir Knight :(
@Lilrob06
9 ай бұрын
Guys name was Paul Allen Died in 2011 I believe
@jamessalvatore7054
9 ай бұрын
@@Lilrob06was the opponent knight named pat batman?
@moncro1871
9 ай бұрын
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@Nick-zp8wk
9 ай бұрын
@@Lilrob06Impressive. Very nice.
@davidschlageter5962
9 ай бұрын
I’ve fallen from horses twice. It’s not like falling off a bike, it feels like you’re a bomb being dropped from an airplane. Falling off horses with regularity means at some point you’re going to get really hurt not counting what the lance might do. We had a jouster at the local ren fair that got splinters through his eye into his brain he survived.
@strawpiglet
9 ай бұрын
Just curious, do you know to slap the ground, like in aikido? It has worked for me many times. Granted, I wasn’t in armor or being struck by a lance.
@PrinceAlhorian
9 ай бұрын
@@strawpigletIt's clear you have never fallen from a horse or been thrown. When a beast 3 to 5 times your mass dictate the turning moment of your center of mass coupled with an odd vector of lateral travel up to 10ft from the ground (depending if you're thrown or fell) at speeds up to 50km/h... Please tell me, how DO you fall CORRECTLY in those conditions? Plus, now do it in 35-40kgs of steel, wool and linen. This comes from experience with 3 different stallions and a spooked mare thanks to a punk with a motorcycle.
@cahallo5964
9 ай бұрын
@@PrinceAlhorian you can break fall tho I broke a fall from a second floor as a kid, I injured my wrist pretty bad but I'd imagine you rather break your wrist than your back.
@-.Germanicus.-
9 ай бұрын
This is a big factor why King Henry VIII had a huge personality change. It's never easy to tell why but when you have the shards embedded in your eye socket, it kinda makes it hard to disbute that 😂
@Lumos89
9 ай бұрын
In 1999, we had a theme park in the netherlands calles land van ooit. it was a semi/fictional medieval themepark and had jousting. One of the jousting knights died when the woodsplinters of his lance managed to get through the eyeslits and hit his eyes.. as i was browsing the comments to see if someone already mentioned it, i noticed more people mention other accounts where splinters hit them in the eyes.
@HighLordBaron
9 ай бұрын
Okay, but, imagine being the guy accidentally killing you King in a joust 💀
@kellysouter4381
9 ай бұрын
🤢
@arthanor9631
9 ай бұрын
Indeed! Reading a bit about it, the king absolved him, but he fell from grace nonetheless, retired to his estate, converted from state religion of catholicism to protestantism and was a leader in later religious civil wars. Could say it was the beginning of his evil arc.
@jordansmith1541
9 ай бұрын
I remember a freak accident from a few years ago when a lance was dropped, bounced, then fatally injured one of the jousters. Cannot find the article, though...
@theflame5919
9 ай бұрын
Eh... Even medieval version of gladiatorial combat, was mediocre. Much rather, be in Constantinople, watching the races, or Thessaloniki, elsewhere in Byzantium, then on any of those jousting matches. Better yet, a private gladiatorial match at one of the Roman estates, what still happened as late as Komnenoi dynasty in Byzantium. Usually, in makeshift arena at the bathouse. That was much more epic, though still short of amphitheaters of ancient Rome.
@thomaspunt2646
9 ай бұрын
My frogmouth plushie arrived recently and I love it! Keep up the good work.
@Michael_MW
9 ай бұрын
Same! Together we are one of like 400-something people that own one.
@JETWTF
9 ай бұрын
From a logical standpoint deaths and serious injuries would not be all that common. If you were a lord or a king would you want your best knights dying or injured so bad they couldn't fight anymore in a tournament? No, you would want them to be very capable soldiers to fight in battle and therefore you wouldn't host a tournament if death and serious injuries was very common.
@dirkbruere
9 ай бұрын
We also have to bear in mind that blood poisoning from even minor woulds may be fatal. My GUESS is that jousting probably had something like a 2% fatality rate, so those 89 deaths would imply some 4500 participants
@StoutandSteady
9 ай бұрын
No mention of horses being injured? Surely if a lance had struck the center tilt then a horse or two must have been skewered.
@framegrace1
9 ай бұрын
Strange they don't mention it. Were they provided by the organizers maybe? Considered no more than a cost, i mean.
@mattm8870
9 ай бұрын
In a joust you have a target normally the other knight shield with points being unseating hitting the boss hitting else where with bonus points for breaking or shattering your lance. Hitting anywhere other than the target zone resulted in you being disqualified and I fully expect anyone who missed bad enough to hurt a horse would die of shame.
@ferociousgustafson4040
9 ай бұрын
Yeah…I actually AM a medieval knight, so I speak from experience. The number one injury is chafing.
@TrungNguyen-du9cn
9 ай бұрын
Matt Easton recommend Vaseline skin lotion to prevent chaffing.
@EksaStelmere
9 ай бұрын
Q: How dangerous was the Medieval joust? A: Yes.
@andrewriddle7897
9 ай бұрын
I jousted from 2001 to 2011. I worked with the freelancers. Then with the knights of valour. In my experience, hand injury is the most common. Armour bites gilour. Concussions. I loved everything about it. In 2011 I dislocated my shoulder and that was it for me.
@AynneMorison
9 ай бұрын
Dangerous - certainly, but so are our moderned sports. Broken bones, cuts, even death happen on fields, courts, tracks, rings, etc as a matter of course based in probability. Of course some seemingly mild injuries could lead to death 'back in the day' since infections and blood loss were not something the doctors could handle as we do now. All of the players in any physically challenging activity understand and accept the danger - other wise the knights would not put on the armour and pray for the best. Football players wear a version of armour. Race drivers put safety features in their cars. It's still a hope, a prayer, and a roll of the dice every time they take up their position. Will people ever stop this kind of competition, I don't see it happening anytime soon. The only reason it's any safer now then back then is modern medicine and protective materials. The urge to test ourselves against someone or some thing (mountain, river...) is a deep seated part of our psyche.
@thesisypheanjournal1271
9 ай бұрын
The renfaire I used to go to in Waxahachie, TX, had real jousting -- guys trying to break their lances and knock each other off their horses. I asked one of the guys about injuries and he said that broken hands were fairly common and one guy lost an eye because of a splintered lance.
@wheediesmanchild5229
9 ай бұрын
When talking about risk of injury, entertainment, and expectations I always think about pro wrestling and WWE. How even though it’s a “staged and predetermined” sport injury is extremely common and the wrestlers have very similar expectations of bravery and showmanship.
@Svartalf14
9 ай бұрын
You know, I'd like to know how, and how well, the lance rest was affixed to the armor... if soldered on, it might have been pretty fragile.
@Michael_MW
9 ай бұрын
I was thinking the same thing. Probably isn’t too hard to break off. It’s not like they had access to mig welders :P
@alexv1387
9 ай бұрын
Don't know about the rest of Europe, but on some german Armours they were actually screwed on, as fot example seen in the armour of Sigismund of Tyrol
@Justinian-IV
9 ай бұрын
Ask Geoffrey II, Duke of Brittany
@brothersliutgeryitzchakjea7889
9 ай бұрын
Great video my friend! As a jouster I feel I should mention there are so many styles of joust that it can obscure injuries. I’ll pm you some of the more unusual and def unsafe versions
@ferociousgustafson4040
9 ай бұрын
Okay. Reading the comments, either everyone is telling a Nostradamus/King Henry II joke, or eyeball piercing is a HUGE problem. Can someone invent a screen? Or jousting goggles?
@davidjenkins2429
9 ай бұрын
I was thinking the same thing. 😅
@stefanodadamo6809
9 ай бұрын
Injury was probably just as common as a spectacular KO in martial arts. Deaths were probably equivalent to those in boxing.
@xyz8512
9 ай бұрын
Jousting lances were designed to break bc it looked spectacular. battlefield lances weren't as weak.
@ctam79
9 ай бұрын
How about how many horses lost their life during jousts?
@stairwayunicorn4861
9 ай бұрын
harming a horse was considered disgraceful
@ctam79
9 ай бұрын
@@stairwayunicorn4861shit happens
@DeusRegum
9 ай бұрын
I know of no other YT Historian who deserves 1+ Millions subs! Keep up the GREAT work Metatron!
@Svartalf14
9 ай бұрын
How dangerous? well, relatively dangerous... falling down a moving horse in full armor must have broken many a back among the unsaddled, and of course there were the occasional really tragic accident, like what happened ton Henry II of France...
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