Historical documentary about the Battle of Neville’s Cross in 1346 – where King David II of Scotland took two arrows to the face. By the mid-14th century, England was thoroughly embroiled in the Hundred Years’ War with France. With Edward III knocking on the doors of Calais, King Philip VI of France was desperate. He invoked the Auld Alliance. This demanded that Scotland invade England to help relieve the pressure on the French army – which had been throughly trounced at The Battle of Crecy.
Just 52 days after that humiliation… Scotland faced a nearly identical situation.Join us as we walk the route around the battlefield and give you some key insights on how an English army, barely half the size of Scotland’s had a staggering victory… and yet another monarch from the British Isles came very close to doing a full “Harold Godwinson.”
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In this episode:
David II’s tricky predicament
Why Philip VI invoked the ‘Auld Alliance’
How the Archbishop of York led an army into war
How the Battle of Neville’s Cross played out
The importance of hedge strimmers
What exactly is a schiltron, anyway?
How a king hid under a bridge…
*Further Reading:*
The Scots at the Battle of Neville’s Cross – Michael A. Penman https://www.euppublishing.com/doi/10….
The Battle of Neville’s Cross 1346 – Michael Prestwich & David Rollason https://durham-repository.worktribe.c…
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↓ TIMESTAMPS ↓
00:00 Intro – David II and Neville’s Cross
00:51 TITLES
02:27 Edward Invades France
05:00 The Trap is Set!
06:21 The Battle Commences
09:49 A Fallen Crown
11:50 Meanwhile, Back in France
13:34 The Gilded Prison
17:17 The Deathbed Confession
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Secret Bonus Facts:
*The Relationship Nobody Discusses:*
600 years before Eisenhower, Edward III was the original trendsetter for Normandy beach landings. In July 1346, his massive fleet of 700+ ships landed just south of Saint-Vaast-la-Hougue on the Cotentin Peninsula. The beach he picked to land on is only a few miles from where the Americans hit Utah Beach in 1944. Interestingly, Edward’s ships successfully beached exactly where modern planners wanted the D-Day troops—before tide navigation errors pushed the 1944 wave 2,000 yards south of their target.Edward III did Normandy beach landings before they were cool.- The Missing Black Rood of Scotland: This was the ultimate “crown jewel” of Scotland—a reliquary said to contain a piece of the True Cross. King David II carried it into battle at Neville’s Cross for divine protection, but it didn’t work. The English seized it and displayed it at Durham Cathedral as a trophy for nearly 200 years. During the Reformation in 1540, it vanished without a trace. To this day, nobody knows if it was melted down or if it’s still sitting in someone’s dusty attic… spooky.
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“The candle flickers but the darkness cannot put it out.”
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A Piece of the Past
Presenter: Philip Hampsheir
Enquiries: apotp@outlook.com
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Title music courtesy of Alex Cornish
https://alexcornishmusic.com/
/ @bellevuerecords
Additional Music:
Piano Spirals – Boris Skalsky
Elegant Arguments – Boris Skalsky
Dramatic Strings – Boris Skalsky
Big Epic Drums – Psystein
Taiko Drum (Main) – Giuseppe Rizzo
String Arpeggios – Boris Skalsky
Lux Sapientiae – Medieval Choral Music In Latin – Kaazoom via Pixabay
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#History #Documentary #PhilipHampsheir #APotP #APieceofthePast—-You’ve scrolled too far. There is nothing down here. But… since you’re here…When David II was finally cornered while hiding under a bridge, he didn’t go quietly. Despite being severely wounded, he punched his captor, an English squire named John de Coupland, so hard that he knocked out two of the man’s teeth. Edward III was so impressed by the catch that he knighted Coupland and gave him a massive life-long pension of £500 a year—enough to buy plenty of medieval dental work.