After the Anglo-Saxons were defeated many of them sailed into the Mediterranean sea in search of a new home. The Anglo-Saxon fleet consisted of 250 to 350 ships, and up to 5,000 people, including “three earls and eight barons", their top fighting men
(and presumably their families as well as some clergy). They were led by one "Siward earl of Gloucester", who may (or may not) be the person known to history as Siward Barn. First they did some raiding in north Africa, Minorca and Mallorca.
Jul 31, 2021 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
Absoutely insane facts...
The current day monarch of England is the descendant of not just William the conquer, but also all of the Anglo Saxon kings prior to Edward the confessor **and** Harold Godwinson despite Harold never being himself related to any other Anglo-Saxon kings.
First of all. Edward the Confessor had a nephew known as Edward the Exile, the son of his older half-brother Edmund Ironside.
Edward had two children, Edgar and Margaret. Margaret ended up in Scotland with her mother (a Hungarian princess)
Jul 30, 2021 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
Easily the most underrated and bloodiest battle of the 100 years war
Maybe the only time in the war when French and English knights stood toe to toe in an open field and just slashed it out for hours without any interference from other units or bad weather en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of…
The duke of Bedford himself fought on the frontline and used a two-arm poleaxe in battle, apparently slashing men to pieces like a badass. After the killing of all of the French in the field they found the 6000 man Scottish contingent of the army and mercilessly butchered all
Jun 20, 2021 • 26 tweets • 10 min read
The 100 years war between England and France is unbelievably underrated from the perspective of how the war changed the course of national and world history.
Allow me to explain all of the following factors individually and then tie them together at the end...
- The strength of the aristocracy/parliament
- The direct and indirect economic changes caused by the war
- How each nation perceived the justification of the crown and viewed national identity through religion and war
I've always wondered why it was that during the 1600s
