Weapons That Made Britain: The Lance (C4)

Channel 4 (2004)
Mike Loades PTC... The story of Henry de Bohun, an impetuous knight, challenging Robert the Bruce prior to the Battle of Bannockburn, 1314.

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[KingofClapham]

Ha! That didn't take long... only been up for half an hour. I worked on the show and am planning on uploading a little more - watch this space. Glad you liked it.

[Tareltonlives]

Only Robert the Bruce was that hardcore, and only Mike Loades is hardcore enough to reenact it

[HotForgeNClover]

Someone totally needs to upload the whole series. =)

[aidanMTR]

@mrcifko his head was cut down the middle. Robert the Bruce hit him so hard, it's claimed his axe shaft snapped

[MrCifko]

did he die :D

[deathsheep]

@Apollo1ify The shield was on the other side of his body.

[deathsheep]

@KingofClapham This is awesome. I wish they did more of it.

[Apollo1ify]

de bohun had a shield dint he?

[anzac2404]

I hope that he bought that poor bloke a beer afterwards, he clobbered him pretty good?!

[wimpow]

I know that in some battles soldiers had some bandages at the arms, at the sleeves. I guess mostly people did know what guys where around you, and when you saw some unfamiliar guy you tried to kill him. Surely there was more than an accident. It is reported that it happened even in the roman army, in a chaotic (lost) battle against Alarich.

The knights had the heraldic to know each other, and they tried to have a close formation with the foot soldiers. But yes, there surely was a 5% accident.

[susandundee]

ILUV74 the only battle i know that commoners help identify each other was bannockburn the scots wore the cross of st.andrew on the padded jackets & the english wore st.georges cross.

[ILUV74]

Here is a question if anybody can help me thanks.Right here i go .Iknow during battle in the middle ages ,any battle , anywhere ,I know that men wore crests or something like that to help i.d themselves.What about the lowly footsoldier with nothing , surly what nowadays we call friendly fire ,men would have maybe been killed by their ownside accidently ,with the large amount of numbers involved it must have happened frequently?

[Athrastrateringa]

If you read the original account, The Bruce was on a small un-armoured palfrey (Similar in speed and agility to a modern quarter horse ) he swerved inside the arc of the lance, stood up in the stirrups and delivered a full strength two handed axe blow to the top of the knight's helmet.