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This is the SECOND part in a series on the Burgundians, covering the events of 534-1361. Remaining parts will focus on the Valois Dukes, continuing to the 16th century.
Sources:
Bouchard, Constance Brittain. Sword, Miter, and Cloister: Nobility and the Church in Burgundy, 980-1198. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1987.
Gibbon, Edward. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Vol. 5. London: Strahan & Cadell, 1788.
Tuchman, Barbara W. A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1978.
Van Loo, Bart. Burgundians: A Vanished Empire. London: Head of Zeus, 2021.
Wallace-Hadrill, J. M., trans. The Fourth Book of the Chronicle of Fredegar with its Continuations. London: Thomas Nelson, 1960.
Wallace-Hadrill, J. M., trans. The Chronicle of Fredegar. London: Thomas Nelson, 1960.
The Mozarabic Chronicle of 754. Translated by Kenneth Baxter Wolf. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2011.
Special thanks to my Burgundian collaborators (go check out their awesome content):
Maps by @KnowHistory
Total War cinematics by @legendarian4690
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I was really excited about this channel, put that voice is so droning and monotone I couldn't keep it on. . .
9:11 -1 stability
Virgin Ordenstaat Burgund vs Gigachad Duchy Of Burgundy.
Dammit Chuck, if only everything went right
Europe should have rejected any semitic influence long ago….we are different peoples
To whomever wrote this script, bravo👌
10:01 this sounds like cracking bones with flesh, creepy me out all video
Love the video btw love your content ❤️
The burgundians the missing gays of medieval Europe also I’m gay
12:46 never forget
You're becoming one of the top history channels on YouTube with your writing and narration on the videos. Thanks for all your work, this is some good stuff
What a timely video! I've been super curious about the Burgundians lately. And your editing style is great.
Charles Martel is one of my ancestors. I’ve got a lot of Gothic ancestry that is tied in with the Merovingians because of the marriage alliances.
Man, who knew a shade of red was so powerful
That is a sweet thumbnail good work
Holy shit is this an EU4 reference 😱
Holy shit is this a TNO reference 😱
Holy shit is this a DOD reference 😱
The book by Bart van Loo is a great source indeed
Next to the script, I love that thing you do. It is like old radios and documentary hosts, where you take a little pause before the last part of a sentence, then change the pitch on the final word:
"and finally devolving into… Holy Roman Empirree."
I absolutely love it. It keeps the attention
I’ve started extensively studying the migration period for a private tutoring course I’m doing on the lead up to the great schism, and I’ve discovered at multiple points that the Burgundians fill a small gap in multiple stories I thought I knew better about the “important tribes” like the Goths and Franks and Saxons. They’re there at Clovis’ baptism, at Theodoric’s court, and at the ascension of Conrad II.
This is all to say, your videos are always relevant to my momentary obsessions.
Eu4 so good they made burgundy real
TNO players:
starts sweating
Are u using total war for this video?!
remember that even when the first burgundian house(the directly capetian one) died out, they still had the portuguese crown, and the later Aviz, Braganza and so on are descendents of that very same burgundian house
28:27 the first estate was the clergy. Nobility was the 2nd estate.
As a Belgian, hearing you reference Bart Van Loo brings a wide smile to my face 😊
3:25 tabernacle!
burgundy, the legend….
Please can you do a video on Kurds great video btw
The Burgundians are my favourite type of colonial Englishmen in France.
I somehow became King of Burgundy in my CK3 game the other day. (One minute I was just the Duke of York, then the Duke of Burgundy, then suddenly I'm king. I'm not entirely sure how that happened….)
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