Battle of Lechfeld, 955 ⚔️ Otto's Greatest Triumph and the Birth of the Holy Roman Empire

🚩 Otto the Great is remembered for uniting Germany and Italy into the Holy Roman Empire. He finally defeated the Magyars, putting an end into their incursions into Western Europe. This video details Otto's rise to power, his struggles to centralize power, and his victory in the Battle of Lechfeld, which made him the most powerful ruler in Europe.

📢 Narrated by David McCallion

📝 Research by Damien Peters
📝 Writing by Damien Peters & HistoryMarche

📚 Sources:
Clifford R. Backman – The Worlds of Medieval Europe.
Charles R. Bowlus – The Battle of Lechfield and its Aftermath, August 955 AD.
Gerhard of Augsburg - Vita Sancti Uodalrici (Life of Saint Ulrich).
Tom Holland – The Forge of Christendom: The End of Days and the Epic Rise of the West.
Peter Heather – The Restoration of Rome.
William Weir – 50 Battles that Changed the World.
Widukind of Corvey - Res Gestae Saxonicae Sive Annalium Libri Tres (Deeds of the Saxons, the Three Books of Annals).

#history #medieval #documentary

[HistoryMarche]

🚩 Otto the Great is remembered for uniting Germany and Italy into the Holy Roman Empire. He finally defeated the Magyars, putting an end into their incursions into Western Europe. This video details Otto's rise to power, his struggles to centralize power, and his victory in the Battle of Lechfeld, which made him the most powerful ruler in Europe.

[renkenner]

Learned of this history when I was stationed in Augsburg. A beautiful city. My son was born there, whom we named Otto.

[sasinator]

As always Historymarche provides us with extremely well sourced and high quality historical content. Few deserve the nickname "The Great" as much as Otto did. Glad to see more coverage of the early medieval period of central Europe. More Magyar content in the future would be sweet.

[nikolasdemoulin]

One of the first to counter feigned retreats.

Might seem minor, but it is an impressive feat. Keeping an army in formation and knowing when and how to engage enemies on horseback is far more difficult than one would think.

[Drayran]

What a brave manouver! Considering the conventions of the time, the faint retreat could have lead to a mass rout of the infantry. 👏

[midshipman]

I really like how you start “in medias res”, getting to the start of the main topic to center things, then you zoom out to detail the larger background information that underpins the particular event, before zooming back in to finish the particular event itself, now with a fuller understanding of the geopolitical situation. its really effective at framing the whole event and making it understandable how it got to that point.

[danielsantiagourtado]

Otto is definitely deserving of his epithat and was one of the Greatest HRE to ever live! One of my favorites alongside Maximilian the Last Knight!🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

[ebreiss]

I am an American and I love the whole Ottonian period. In the English speaking world it is just about unknown so when I talk about it many are like "wow!" because it is so interesting. Thank you for this video. Maybe Lenzen next? :D

[adamherczberger]

One of the most important battles of Eastern and Central Europe.

[Splice]

As a schwob from Ilertissen im just happy to see my small village in the vid

[jensfiehler]

Best narrator of any history channel. Thoroughly enjoyed it. More early German history please.

[SirArgont]

My Wife is from Magdeburg, when we visit the in-laws I always take time to visit the cathedral where Otto is buried. Even if you don`t consider the Lechfeld the man was a Legend.

[gregorylittle]

Great work! An interesting follow up to this battle that is told here in Augsburg, is that Ulrich immediately joined Otto to race to Schwabmuenchen, today a town of about 20, 000 south of Augsburg, to raise a Magyar siege of that walled town, which they did. Enjoyed your presentation a lot!😊

[Feindflieger]

I enjoyed this episode. Otto is way underrated, even here in Germany. Sure, everyone knows about Charles the Great but then there's something like a lack of knowledge and it continues with the Staufer Friedrich I Barbarossa, his son Heinrich IV, his grandson Friedrich II and their crusades in the holy land. Greetings from Germany, keep up the good work, well done!
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[antoniobautista]

It's "Great" to see content of Otto the Great on YouTube, especially from you guys! I hope to see more content of Otto the Great, a legendary yet underrated figure in history, as well as a classic CK2 character; maybe about his ascension to power and how he brought a new age of dominance and imperial power for the Holy Roman Empire. Amazing work as usual HistoryMarche ❤🔥

[Beencheeling]

Your voice makes all the diference, and the animating is absolute GORGEOUS. I hope you never break the formula, as it doesen't matter how much it takes, but rather how good it is, and the history channels never managed to disapoint, but yours stands out the most, each and every episode is so enjoyable

[matthewdonovan]

YES! I’ve been waiting for a video about the battle of the Lechfeld for so long. It belongs up there with the Battle of the Catalaunian Plains (451) and the Battle of Tours (732) as watershed battles that saved the West.

[Baumrinde]

Great Video! Hopefully, there is more content on the medieval HRE yet to come

[ZiggyWolf..]

Nicely done. I accidentally clicked on this video since I read 'Otto the Bear' in the thumbnail by mistake. This was still very informative and explained further the conversion of Hungarians ' Magyar' into Christianity. 2👍's up.

[DustinBarlowP]

I was scheduled to have a meeting in 20 minutes, but I saw a new HistoryMarche video that was 30 minutes. Rescheduled the meeting for tomorrow. PRIOTRTIES!