Medieval Mercenary Companies Explained in 15 Minutes
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Published 2024-06-30
Delving into the History of the most famous Free Companies of the 13th & 14th centuries.
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=| TIMESTAMPS |=
00:00 What is a Free Company?
00:06 The White Company
03:30 The Catalan Company
05:52 The Great Company
08:29 Company of the Star
10:33 Company of St. George
13:06 Navarrese Company
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All Comments (17)
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You forgot the Band of Hawk lol
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The red wedding in Game of Thrones was inspired by the death of Roger de Flor who was killed by Byzantine king who had hired him at a celebratory dinner to avoid paying the company. Then the remnants of the company plundered all of northern Greece and established Athens known as Catalan Veangence "Vengaça Catalana"
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You posted this on the same day as SandRhoman posted about the White Company and John Hawkwood
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3 hours and how is there no one here, 2 comment including mine, insane how underrated you are bro.
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There is a mistake. Werner von Urslingen was from Swabia, but the map shows Kingdom of Württemberg. Duchy of Swabia ended in 1268 and included German part of Switzerland, Liechtenstein, middle and southern part of current german state Baden-Württemberg ( northern part belonged to Duchy of Franconia, different tribe) and Distrikt Swabia pf current german state of Bayern, perhaps also current austrian state Vorarlberg. In 1496 a new Imperial District ( Reichskreis) Swabia was formed, including the territories between Rhine, Lech river, Lake of Constance and a line from northern end of Black Forrest nearly straight eastwards. Had been HRE s most divided region, about 100 Independent states.
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I'm loving your summary of the military organizations (i.e. mercenary companys, knightly orders, elite units etc.) of past eras. I've long been a casual reader of history and many of these groups I've been completely ignorant of. These mercenary companies are of special interest since they're the inspiration of a core element of the The Deed of Paksenarrion - my favourite fantasy story.
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The third group is brigand. Bandit at the time of peace, mercenaries at the time of war.
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Loved this. Many thanks.
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Amazing stuff! If you have more keep it coming!
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This EU4 lore is great
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Back at it again 🔥
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Super interesting topic, good presentation, for a barbarian that is :)
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Where do you get the images of these people? I like drawing armor and I feel inspired when I look at Them. Please tell me.🙏 Also good video👍👍
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Whats the background music?
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Good to know Sylvio’s ancestors was still playing Consiglerie to other dudes even in the motherland lol
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Werner cold af 🥶
