The Battle of the Golden Spurs, 1302: Where Peasants Fought Knights

The Battle of the Golden Spurs occurred in 1302, pitting a peasant army against a French army of noble knights. The Flemish rebels employed innovative tactics and fought with improvised weapons, challenging the superiority of the French forces. The battle served as a significant moment in the struggle for Flemish autonomy and represented the resilience of common people against oppressive rule.

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🧾 Chapters:
0:00 Introduction
1:06 The French King and Flanders
7:54 The Battle of the Golden Spurs
16:56 Aftermath

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[xBradums]

Count Artois: "What can such common people do against us?"
Common People: "Boy, you 'bout to find out..."

[skiteufr]

The battle of Mons en Pevele in 1304, a French victory, quite cancelled the gains of the golden spurs for the Flemish. At the peace treaty, Flanders kept its large autonomy in the Kingdom of France but after losing some cities to the King and paying huge fines. Fines that were collected in the following years led to massive peasant revolts in Flanders that were crushed by the French at Kassel in 1328

[DeRegelaar]

Fantastic, as a Belgian historian, you have my thanks. Keep up the awesome videos.

[Roggay]

7:40 lol the ai art created a knight in armor with a golf club instead of a sword ahah.

[lahire]

Not peasants. Urban militia. Well trained and equipped.

[archanarajan]

Wow, your medival videos are pretty good. I would like to suggest a few topics such as Burgundian Wars and French wars of Religion. Your Hanoverian front of Seven years War is going pretty well. Keep up the work.

[generaltso]

The sound and narration is great A+! Thanks great video

[ethanpf]

I know you're very busy with the German Unification and Hungarian Independence series but would you ever consider doing one on the Boer Wars?

[eardwulf]

Superbly written and the narrator compliments the content beautifully.

[JoanieAdamms]

Sumptuous to the ears, truly and you reminded me of this battle, as I have had it rumored around much. The one where the Artisans pull the spurs away from the nobleman!

[michaelagainstme]

best channel to listen to imo ( history wise ) glad you are around kind sir :D

[danielsantiagourtado]

Love your channel man! Never miss a notification or premier!😊😊😊

[dmitrikulkevicius]

Always love the battles where poorly equipped soldiers defeat the knights with tactics and terrain.

[emamag]

I would like to see a video (or a series) about the clash between the Italian "comuni" and Frederick Barbarossa. It's a topic that I never seen treated on historic YT channel.

[craigcanaan]

Saw the notification, clicked without thinking twice

[stefanvella]

I subbed. Have you made a vid about the great siege of Malta 1565 aka the last battle of the crusades? if not please do so. Its an incredible siege with no quarter given and some of the most brutal savage fighting that ever took place, where 500 knights of st.John, about 2000 Spanish, Italian and a few other volunteers and mercenaries, with roughly 3-5, 000 the Maltese militia and sailors, fought and won against all odds vs 50-60000 Ottomans (including reinforcements), barbary corsairs and other muslim volunteers who fired no less than 160000 cannonballs. But God and Our Lady to whom the defenders daily prayed to, were with us and the great experienced GM La Valette proved to the world that he's a military genius.

[arozes]

As a Flemish man i thank you for making this video!

[brokenbridge]

This battle is a fine example of the people standing strong against an unrelenting enemy and oppressor.

[RDENT-]

I love the detail that the count of artois pleaded for the live of his horse, is because it was customary for army generals and Nobelman to be spared. So he didn't believe he was in mortal danger.

[evrensuer]

Great work ❤ will you continue the hussite wars