What It Was Like to be a Knight During Medieval Times

When we think of knights during the medieval times, we think of valiant men who chose to defend their honor in feats of jousting, chivalry, and dragon slaying. But that’s not exactly how it was for the actual knights.

Today, we’re exploring What It Was Actually Like to be a Knight During Medieval Times.

#Knights #Medieval #Weirdhistory

[KHANSTER]

I think you may be a bit wrong with the 30 year life expectancy. In the middle ages, it was very, very common for newborns to die, some families didn't even name the baby for a while as they expected it to die therefore this would heavily skew the 30 year average life expectancy as many children died. However generally, if you survived childhood, you would often end up living much longer than 30 years

[SMbigpapi]

So Knights were pretty much a bunch of medieval Frat Boys

[Turtleproof]

Oh come on, what they drank was, "small beer, " it had barely any alcohol and even children drank it. It was just enough alcohol to kill bacteria.

[nicolasgralewicz]

As much as I love this channel! I just want to point out a few inaccuracies.
1) Just right off the bat, Medieval Europe had insane amounts of variety, it's the cultures of an entire continent throughout a thousand year time period. But most of this refers to high Medieval England and France, so I'll use that as a reference.
2) With that out of the way, back to generalizing. They had more sophisticated ways of cleaning water than alcohol. Humanity understood the affects of alcohol long before then.
3) Armour was actually quite maneuverable, moving in it wasn't much of an issue. You can see authentic Medieval steel-plate armour being tested. However, they were slightly slower and tired faster.
4) Most people survived well into adulthood (usually into their 40s - 60s, even into their 80s on some occasions.). The average life expectancy is so low in most historical periods, not because adults died young, but because infant mortality was so high. Once you hit mid-childhood, you were pretty much set for another 40 or 50 years. Unless of course you were unlucky enough to die from illness or some other unnatural cause like battle or murder.

[lv.mastermind]

There's no way more than five minutes of research went into this

[spinnetti]

The reduction in armor was not due to mobility, but rather the introduction of firearms making armor (in battle) mostly superfluous. Also life expectancy isn't right - our concept of that is skewed by high infant mortality. Of those living to adulthood, they lived much longer.

[megacoomer]

As very often is the case with these "facts channels" that deal with a wide array of topics, this video is full of inaccuracies

[trollbertmctrollson]

This video is so full of inaccuracies and repeated false assumptions it's giving me a headache....

[nicholsjoshua]

Dragons were usually killed by Nords who yelled at them until they died and them absorb their souls.

[NewMessage]

"They drank constantly..."




I *DO* have what it takes to be a noble knight!


* hic *

[YourBlackLocal]

People need to understand a lot of the stuff said in these videos seems to just be random facts they heard.

Things like people being drunk all the time just isn’t true.

[kirbymarchbarcena]

@4:36
"Size mattered back then"...still matters even today.

[jamesgravil]

The 30-year life expectancy was mostly because of high infant mortality. It wasn't uncommon for people to live into their 60s and 70s. Queen Elizabeth died at 69, Shakespeare at 52.

[tarrker]

Chivalry comes from the French word chevalier and is also where we get the word cavalry. Chivalry was more about the rules of war than anything else.

[Ninjafossils]

Was there anything in their code of chivalry about knowing the differences between an African and European Swallow?

[baronsoup]

You lost me at the armour section. It was heavy, yes but everything sat where it needed to be. All the weight was distributed equally with itmainly on your shoulders and hips and were made SPECIFICALLY for the wearer. Contouring their whole body. Buying a suit of armour wasn't cheap, akin to buying to a luxury sports car so they could afford the services of an armourer

[wqmwxzj]

Armor was heavy yes (if you would consider a backpack spread out on your body heavy) but it did it's job and what you said about knights getting an advantage with less armor is just false. It was still possible to be almost just as agile and since knights were mostly mounted it wouldnt even be much of a problem. If they wouldn't have wore heavy armor than they would all get taken down by archers before they got close.

The reason that knights stopped using armor and then also seized being a thing was mostly from the introduction of gunpowder which ment that they could be shot easily from long range even while weraing armor.

[Elliot]

“They never had a meatless any day”

Ever heard of Lent?

[davidcanizares]

Full plate armor was actually very useful armor it could protect from some types of blows from swords and maces and you would also be agile. Like agile enough to do rolls and stuff.

[Howard-nxip]

Full plate armour in the middle ages would usually weigh not much more than 50 lbs. This is actually less than the full kit a modern soldier would carry into combat. This channel should really do its homework before doing anything else.