Thank You and is prince of blood similar to prince du sang that the above answer mentioned?

Thank You for your detailed answers. I would hope to learn about bastards as well soon.
Oh and as far as i can remember the Vermandois house began when prince of France married to the then Carolingian Countess of Vermandois which also resulted in end of the Karling line in 11th century.

Oh...thanks for this detailed answer.
by the way how were bastards treated in court as compared to their legitimate half brothers?

Everything that meant something to them.

Here I just thought they wanted to just make it misty/foggy

Something like this

The Celts were know to have worn a form of plaid, but that wouldn’t be considered the same thing as clan Tartans.

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He isn’t usually categorized as such.

Koreans didn't have spicy kimchi until quite recently.

The problem with Scotland is that it's full of... Belgians? Bugger.

Also Thin Lizzy was a favourite of his Majesty's.

The effective ethnic cleansing of the Highlands after the Jacobite rebellion included banning tartan and destroying the pattern sticks.

When tartan became cool again and lowlanders reimagined a romantic scottish national identity without the highland divide they basically had to remake the whole thing from scratch.

It's why kilts today are military designs rather than anyone swanning around in the great plaid and why all tartans are modern recreations

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How did you gain the general history you had before? Through years of sitting through courses, years of watching television, years of watching the news or hearing it discussed, there's no Matrix option of just uploading this stuff and large general histories are overall not very helpful and will leave you with more bad understandings than good.

So do you need to sit in a classroom for 10 years again? No. But you do need to start slowly, and build up the knowledge. Pick a topic you are somewhat familiar with as a base point. Read a book about it, figure out which parts of that were interesting to you, read a book about that. Look through the sources that were discussed, look through the historians that were argued against, read their works. Branch out or in depending on how interested or not you are.

Don't hyperfocus either. One common trap is for people to start reading a history book and feeling like they need to look up every single person, every single place, every single event mentioned that they don't automatically know. Instead, just take a note, and come back to it later if you feel like you want to. If you try and master every single page from day one you're going to get overwhelmed and more confused than anything.

I’ll check it out! Thank you!

Krakatoa explosion in 1883 was said to have produced colorful sunsets for years all over the world.

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this 2nd century bc lady found in a bog is dressed in plaid / tartan

The real William Wallace was a minor noble, so metal armor of some kind. Probably not plate beyond what his helm would've been made of, but maille for sure.

> If I were a(n) Historian, I would be aghast at the liberties (pun intended) taken by this film.

Medieval historians tend to view A Knight's Tale favorably. But that could be because AKT wasn't trying to be historical and was more just telling a story in a setting. Even with the anachronisms and other inaccuracies, the film still captures the atmosphere and mood that would've been present at a historical medieval tournament.

Like there's a difference anyway

At least haggis and scotch go back 400+ years too

>The man thought he was a reincarnation of Hercules

Fun fact, Alexander the Great believed he was a descendant of both Heracles (patrilineally) and Achilles (matrilineally). He slept with a copy of the Iliad.

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