Does Queen Elizabeth have any Black, Jewish, or Muslim Ancestors?

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  • @UsefulCharts
    @UsefulCharts Жыл бұрын

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  • @stevedunwoody880

    @stevedunwoody880

    Жыл бұрын

    This is good @usefulcharts but you are overlooking that the word Muslim often obfuscates that the people were Moors or Black Africans. Sancha of Leon was almost certainly someone would be considered Black. And if you look at old portraits of her children like Urraca or Alphonso V many of them are of dark complexion. Also there was a heavy presence of Moors in Portugal and many of the Kings of this era have African features in older portraits. These Moors also founded aristocratic families in Iberia, France and Germany btw. So of course Elizabeth has Black ancestry, so do I and you too. As you said if you go back far enough we are all connected.

  • @realtalk6195

    @realtalk6195

    Жыл бұрын

    In the last video about this topic on Queen Elizabeth, you described princess _Zaida_ as a "wife or mistress" and now in this video you describe her again as "wife or lover". In both instances you're substituting _concubine_ with something else. Seems deliberately misleading. At the very least you should be describing her as "wife, lover or concubine" to cover all three bases.

  • @ianbell2288

    @ianbell2288

    Жыл бұрын

    You're either a bear faced (paid) liar, or completely incompetent. Prince Charles, admitted, he was a descendant of Vladd The Impaler (known today as Dracula), and he admitted this on camera. (you can find it easily) Also, Elizabeth's line, was historically recorded as being invited (from Germany) by Zionism leaders, to be the new rulers of Britain. It was started by George the 1st. And they are known, to have changed their name from Hanoverian to Windsor, overnight. They are clearly jews, and your other assertion, that the Europeans are NOT the Lost Tribes of Israel, is as easily ripped apart. The Lost Tribes ARE, unequivocally, the white Europeans. Shame on you.

  • @ash_11117

    @ash_11117

    Жыл бұрын

    Um where can I view the chart

  • @vajra1171

    @vajra1171

    Жыл бұрын

    very stupid video.

  • @UsefulCharts
    @UsefulCharts Жыл бұрын

    Check out Crusader Kings III Fate of Iberia (launches May 31st): play.crusaderkings.com/UsefulCharts

  • @krakendragonslayer1909

    @krakendragonslayer1909

    Жыл бұрын

    0:52 it is a mistake, Iberia we still know as Iberia. "Spain" and "Portugal" are names of states that function on the land called Iberia.

  • @dreamias1008

    @dreamias1008

    Жыл бұрын

    Please do about queen Esther did really existed? Please 🙏🙏🙏

  • @adamdubin1276

    @adamdubin1276

    Жыл бұрын

    *Nobody* expects the Spanish Inquisition! Our chief weapon is surprise, surprise and fear, fear and surprise. Our *two* weapons are fear and surprise, and ruthless efficiency. Our *three* weapons are fear and surprise and ruthless efficiency and an almost fanatical dedication to the pope.

  • @BruceLee-vn6iw
    @BruceLee-vn6iw Жыл бұрын

    I loved the “nobody expected the Spanish Inquisition” comment. Thank you for another excellent, interesting video.

  • @patricktilton5377

    @patricktilton5377

    Жыл бұрын

    Their chief weapon was fear, and surprise. And ruthless efficiency . . . and an almost fanatical devotion to the Pope. And the soft cushions.

  • @bramtahasoni

    @bramtahasoni

    Жыл бұрын

    @@patricktilton5377 and THE COMFY CHAIR

  • @floyd1677

    @floyd1677

    Жыл бұрын

    The great thing is, everybody expected the Spanish Inquisition, they always had to give a month’s notice … in writing!

  • @twiztedsynz

    @twiztedsynz

    Жыл бұрын

    I didn't expect it.

  • @mitchelmodine9197

    @mitchelmodine9197

    Жыл бұрын

    I came here to say this

  • @ossiencadwallourien-modred447
    @ossiencadwallourien-modred447 Жыл бұрын

    Love this format. Even without CKIII specifically... the idea of comparing real life to a video game is such a great educational tool.

  • @DrWhoFanJ

    @DrWhoFanJ

    Жыл бұрын

    Although it *does* require assuming knowledge of the relevant game(s), so won’t be quite so useful for people like me who don’t play them. 🤷‍♂️

  • @miguelservetus9534

    @miguelservetus9534

    Жыл бұрын

    Hard to really consider a video game as educational. Using historical figures does not convey educational value. By that standard, so is Mel Brooks’ History of the World etc.

  • @ossiencadwallourien-modred447

    @ossiencadwallourien-modred447

    Жыл бұрын

    @@miguelservetus9534 Wrong by so many counts... I've already typed and edited and deleted so many tries, but realize there's no sense in beginning an internet debate. Let's be poetic: all learning is games. Buuuuut, even if it weren't true (which it is), at least interesting games accurately portraying history (in some sense; any historian will say that its an imperfect art) will SPARK interest in that period of history.

  • @UsefulCharts

    @UsefulCharts

    Жыл бұрын

    @@miguelservetus9534 Video games can be extremely educational. Sure, they are no substitute for a university education but they can get young people interested in history and are often a springboard for more learning.

  • @meeklynobody3230

    @meeklynobody3230

    Жыл бұрын

    If only their paradox business practices weren't so shit.

  • @markellis6101
    @markellis6101 Жыл бұрын

    My grandfather used to joke "Don't shake your family tree too much, you may not know what will fall out..." This is great. Two things I took to heart. We all have these wonderful stories, just that records have not been kept. I am not much of a religious man, but I do hope there is a heaven because I would like to know my whole story. I also enjoyed the comment during midivil times race seemed to be based more on culture that skin color. That is a lesson we could use here in the United States right now.

  • @lightyagami3492

    @lightyagami3492

    Жыл бұрын

    I would argue race relations were better in some parts of Medieval Europe than they are today anywhere in the world.

  • @matthewstuckenbruck5834

    @matthewstuckenbruck5834

    Жыл бұрын

    I mean, that doesn't mean people were _nicer_ back then. It just means they hated each other based on ethnicity, not race.

  • @gonefishing167

    @gonefishing167

    Жыл бұрын

    The biggest split in race relations came with the crusades. That’s what’s caused the modern day trouble in the Middle East. Funny thing is, the crusades were nit started because of religion, they were started because a certain pope had huge money troubles. To deflect from his problem being made he came up with a ‘great idea’. Let’s all go on a crusade. Save Jerusalem etc etc. all forget his money troubles. He made and caused one heck of a mess. 👵👵👵👵🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺

  • @zombieat

    @zombieat

    Жыл бұрын

    this was not reality. it is only an opinion that race seemed to be based more on culture that skin color. i think its just a projection of historians' modern sensibilities on the past. since there is nothing to support reaching that conclusion as people back then were much less exposed to different races than they are now. you have to had lived in both times to make this comparison.

  • @afridge8608

    @afridge8608

    Жыл бұрын

    Yeah they really didnt mind race that much but they really minded culture. For example there was a muslim writer who traveled to early russia and studied the rus. He made the usual remarks of white skin and blonde hair etc. But he focused his writing on the cusstums of the rus and he was mainly disqusted by how dirty they were because he was muslim. The point is that humans always find ways to separate themselves and the fact that we constantly change how we separate each other means we really arent that different after all

  • @washinthewind
    @washinthewind Жыл бұрын

    I found your channel as a suggestion next to a CK3 video by One Proud Bavarian. It was a wonderful find, and I'm thrilled that you were able to do a sponsored video with Paradox. Your charts and videos have greatly improved my understanding of the history and my enjoyment of the game, and seeing CK3 assets throughout the video was highly amusing and extremely entertaining.

  • @alexexum6084
    @alexexum6084 Жыл бұрын

    The throne of Spain wasn’t united during the marriage of Ferdinand and Isabella. They ruled their territories separate. Spain didn’t unite until the reign of their grandson Charles I in 1516.

  • @b.m.48933
    @b.m.48933 Жыл бұрын

    Regarding Moors, from North Africa, some may be dark skinned while others have light skin. Think of the people from Morocco, as an example, when "Moor" comes to mind. Anyway, the point is that there is a big difference between a Moor and a "Black" African (e.g., Nubians).

  • @ramoneregal8317

    @ramoneregal8317

    Жыл бұрын

    Completely incorrect the moors referred to different groups between North Africa and West Africa.They were not a uniformed ethnic group only differentiated by skin tone only.There were many Black African moors who went into spain I could fo way deeper into this matter but time constraints wont allow me.

  • @nemobbhh294

    @nemobbhh294

    Жыл бұрын

    *Moops

  • @invisibleface6479

    @invisibleface6479

    Жыл бұрын

    BM : The Moors came from North Africa. White North African people are descendants of Vikings ... Kabyle region, North of Algeria was invaded by Vikings during the Middle Age. Many Kabyles possess blue or green eyes. I knew some of them. Check google also Also during the end of Antiquity, North Africa was invaded by Romans, an other White ethnicity. Also, North African Israelite women were raped by Roman soldiers as well. In the Antiquity, North Africa was part of the Roman empire, just like all Europe.

  • @TaxTaxes

    @TaxTaxes

    Жыл бұрын

    There were plenty black africans in Morocco. Timbuktu was conquered at some point

  • @jasonhaven7170

    @jasonhaven7170

    Жыл бұрын

    Sudanese people can be quite light, to start off with, I even know Black Sudanese people who were lighter than Middle Eastern people. Secondly, Morocco is in North Africa and there are many Black North Africans so most Moroccans have recent (at least great-grandparent) Black ancestors from North-West Africa like Mauritania

  • @jonas1015119
    @jonas1015119 Жыл бұрын

    the Queen Charlotte theory is crazy, genetically it doesnt make sense, but also there are over a dozen portraits of her throughout her life and she doesnt look the slightest bit mixed in any of them. For comparison the Dumas and Puschkin families are great reference to see how mixed people were depicted in european art.

  • @TheOriginalDanEdwards

    @TheOriginalDanEdwards

    Жыл бұрын

    "the Queen Charlotte theory is crazy, genetically it doesnt make sense" - what theory? Matt emphasized that given the number of generations between Charlotte and her (likely) Moor ancestors that Charlotte would have inherited little DNA from her Moor ancestress.

  • @kate_cooper

    @kate_cooper

    Жыл бұрын

    I’d honestly never once heard anything about Queen Charlotte being black or visibly mixed race until Bridgerton came out.

  • @matthewkreps3352

    @matthewkreps3352

    Жыл бұрын

    @@kate_cooper really? I first heard about it when Prince Harry married Megan Markel.

  • @kristenthomas3985

    @kristenthomas3985

    Жыл бұрын

    Idk about theories but you can absolutely see African features in portraits. Low key she kind of (not in a disrespectful way at all) gives me Albino vibes. Fair skinned for sure but prominent traditionally African features. Quite frankly you look at Archie and though he looks white at first glance due to the 75% European inheritance his small features and hair texture tip you off a little. It’s not obviously noticeable at first glance for Queen C or Archie but as a person of color I can always tell when someone is “passing” or deceptively looks white.

  • @zombieat

    @zombieat

    Жыл бұрын

    @@TheOriginalDanEdwards i've read 5 reliable sources that say Madragana was mozarab (Iberian Christian) and only one reliable source that says she was moor (Muslim inhabitant of the Maghreb).

  • @mikeross641
    @mikeross641 Жыл бұрын

    As you know, the whole thing with Queen Charlotte is not because of her ancestor Madragana, but simply because of her pug nose "frizzy" hair in paintings and what modern people perceive as her "African looks" That's it. That's how this whole thing started.

  • @invisibleface6479

    @invisibleface6479

    Жыл бұрын

    Mike Ross : Dona Isabel "Zaida" was a White Spanish noble Christian who was abducted from Christian Spain by Amazigh Muslims into the small Muslim emirate of Grenada, She was captured as prostitute for the Emir Boabdil the Poet / anti-war guy ! Later on, she was seduced and decided to convert to Islam by HER choice, to become an Emira (Queen) and took the Muslim name Zaida. They had together one son and one daughter. In 1492, when Emir Boabdil (he is direct descendant of Saeed ibn Ubada inn Dulaym, chief leader of the saeeda tribe and a companon of Prophet Muhammad of Islam) lost the war against Dona Isabel of Castilla and Don Fernando of Aragon, the Catholic Queen and King of Spain, Dona Isabel "Zaida" and her two Muslim mixed kids, begged Dom Fernando to accept them in Spain and not expelling her . Request accepted. Dona Isabel came back to Christianity and her two Muslims mixed kids were baptised Christians. Dona Isabel of Castilla, Queen of Spain is a great-granddaughter of Portuguese Israelite woman daughter of a shoemaker, from North Portugal. (Don Fernando of Aragon, King of Spain is a great-grandson of Chief-Rabbi Gedalia BenZaken, Portuguese Chief-Rabbi of Portugal) Later on, Don Fernando of Aragon, King of Spain Unified, Took Dona Isabel's daughter, mixed girl as his mistress and had a baby with her. A son who became a Don, Knight in the Kingdom and his noble leanage pass on generation to generation...

  • @mikeross641

    @mikeross641

    Жыл бұрын

    @@invisibleface6479 Only Talking about Queen Charlotte who was born as a princess of Mecklinburg-Strelitz in Germany hundreds of years after Zaida and Madragana, and how modern people like to claim she' must have been "African" because of how her nose and hair. look in painted portraits. It's ridiculous and I can't believe she was even mentioned seriously in this video.

  • @invisibleface6479

    @invisibleface6479

    Жыл бұрын

    @@mikeross641 : Sorry i got it wrong about hair😅 English is not my Native language... I got something else ! And you're not nice at all🙄

  • @baneofbanes

    @baneofbanes

    Жыл бұрын

    @@invisibleface6479 Plenty of Europeans with frizzy hair.

  • @invisibleface6479

    @invisibleface6479

    Жыл бұрын

    @@baneofbanes : Not in North Europe

  • @Jgab602
    @Jgab602 Жыл бұрын

    Btw, the term "moor" was also given to Iberian Muslims, who were the majority of the Muslims in medieval Iberia, so if the only thing known about Madragana is that she was a moor, that doesn't say almost anything.

  • @jasonhaven7170

    @jasonhaven7170

    Жыл бұрын

    The moors also descended from White Spanish people and North Africans, and North Africans aren't Black in general but still intermingle with Black Africans across the Sahel so the Moors likely had recent Black ancestors, so they're probably 10-20% Black which is higher than White Spanish people

  • @NadDew

    @NadDew

    Жыл бұрын

    yeah moor doesn't mean black, the misconception came from Shakespeare descriptions and we don't know if the one Shakespeare describe was really black or just brown north African coz at that time I think seeing black person wasn't common in England.

  • @Jgab602

    @Jgab602

    Жыл бұрын

    @@jasonhaven7170 The moors could be descendants of both but they could be just Iberians that converted as well.

  • @Jgab602

    @Jgab602

    Жыл бұрын

    @@jasonhaven7170 It's not as likely as you think because the modern North Africans have more subsaharan DNA because of the transsaharan slave trade

  • @jasonhaven7170

    @jasonhaven7170

    Жыл бұрын

    @@Jgab602 All North Africans throughout history have had high levels of sub-Saharan heritage because of their location, and the Sahara is a trade zone

  • @avantelvsitania3359
    @avantelvsitania3359 Жыл бұрын

    This is a very interesting video, but I’m a bit skeptical about Mór Afonso. In Portugal, we use “Mouro” as a synonym for Muslim like the expression “Saracen”. Yes, it tends to refer to North Africa (Mauritania) but that’s because it was important to distinguish Arab Muslims from non-Arab Muslims in Al-Andalus. And since most non-Arab Muslims were Amazigh/Berbers their name of Mouros became widely used. But using Berbers to claim subsaharan ascendency seems like a stretch. Also, Mór Afonso could simply be a Mozarab, which were “native” Iberians who lived under Muslim occupation, so were sometimes called “Mouros” like their overlords.

  • @renanromanov6466

    @renanromanov6466

    Жыл бұрын

    O pai de Madragana era um muladi, segundo os registros que temos hoje, e muladi refere-se a um cristão que apostatou ao islamismo ou um árabe nascido de pai muçulmano e mãe cristã. No entanto, vários cronistas e pessoas da época diziam que essa linhagem dela era de cor mais escura (por isso, a Rainha Charlotte era dita que era mais escura, mas talvez fosse o fato de que os povos germânicos são mais alvos do que os ibéricos? Quem sabe). Foi a partir do reinado de Dom João V que começaram a publicar textos negando que ela sequer era uma Moura. Meu palpite é que nunca saberemos, mas o mais provável é que ela fosse de raça mista (pois o pai dela era um muladi).

  • @TheStimie

    @TheStimie

    Жыл бұрын

    Correct I'm a black Muslim and the blacka moors were enslaved Africans who helped the Arabs.

  • @zombieat

    @zombieat

    Жыл бұрын

    i've read 5 reliable sources that say she was mozarab (Iberian Christian) and only one reliable source that says she was moor ( Muslim inhabitant of the Maghreb).

  • @arenasnefi

    @arenasnefi

    Жыл бұрын

    Exactly!

  • @invisibleface6479

    @invisibleface6479

    Жыл бұрын

    Avante Lusitania : Mor Afonso was an Israelite !!!! Mor is a Hebrew female name !!! Was the grand-daughter of Chief-Rabbi Yahia Ben YAHI III , First Chief-Rabbi of Portugal and Tax-Collector, Entrusted by Dom Afonso Henriques, First King of Portugal. Also called the Templar King.

  • @samuelbarringer715
    @samuelbarringer715 Жыл бұрын

    One of Queen Elizabeth II’s ancestors Patrick de Chadworth was a descendant of Layla ibm Malik who was born in Mecca Saudi Arabia.

  • @Oneiroi0

    @Oneiroi0

    17 күн бұрын

    Patrick the Chad Worth, What a name.

  • @Fundanius

    @Fundanius

    14 күн бұрын

    @@Oneiroi0 i believe it was actually de chaworth not chadworth

  • @ikad5229
    @ikad5229 Жыл бұрын

    Moor has always meant the same in the Iberian Peninsula, people that came from Mauretania aka Northwestern Africa, mostly Morocco. Them or their ancestors. They were, obviously, majority Muslim. But I've met enough Moroccans to testify that they are not black. Not everyone on the continent of Africa is black. Does this means Madragana was black? Probably no, she was probably Berber. Does this also mean she doesn't have black ancestors? No, she probably does, but probably not Madragana.

  • @zombieat

    @zombieat

    Жыл бұрын

    regardless. i've read 5 reliable sources that say she was mozarab (Iberian Christian) and only one reliable source that says she was moor ( Muslim inhabitant of the Maghreb).

  • @dtmt502

    @dtmt502

    Жыл бұрын

    t depends what your definition for black is, just because you say you aren't black doesn't mean you aren't, it depends on the definition being used

  • @cv4809

    @cv4809

    Жыл бұрын

    @@dtmt502 "iT dEpEnDs On ThE dEfInItIoN" No it doesn't, "black" has always referred to sub-saharan Africans. There is no ambiguity to it

  • @dtmt502

    @dtmt502

    Жыл бұрын

    @@cv4809 not it hasn't America's social structure has little relevance to the rest of the world

  • @Iamnaashwilliams256

    @Iamnaashwilliams256

    Жыл бұрын

    @@cv4809 typical american definition,blck doest mean sub saharan africanz..black comes in many shades ,some with moors ,who told you all sub saharan africans are dark sikinned ,

  • @augustobarbosab.773
    @augustobarbosab.773 Жыл бұрын

    Martim Afonso de Sousa, a colonial governor of Brazil and whose descendents make up a wide branch of the Sousa family in Brazil, traces back it's family tree to Martim Chichorro too.

  • @thallesgimenezmello2733

    @thallesgimenezmello2733

    Жыл бұрын

    True. My maternal great-grandmother and grandfather have pride to claim their descent traced back to medieval Spanish royalty, I did have blue blood through both parental and long lines from my grandpa's maternal grandma.

  • @adifferentkindofhuman3786

    @adifferentkindofhuman3786

    Жыл бұрын

    How do you know that

  • @adifferentkindofhuman3786

    @adifferentkindofhuman3786

    Жыл бұрын

    @@thallesgimenezmello2733 why are you people so obsessed with DNA? *Literally* almost all of the world population has "royal" descendants. And how are you guys even so certain of who your ancient ancestors were? We common people don't even have enough records to know that. It's fun to imagine, I love to imagine who my ancestors were but being obsessed with having a certain type of ancestry is lowkey creepy. No one is superior because of their blood! :)

  • @thallesgimenezmello2733

    @thallesgimenezmello2733

    Жыл бұрын

    @@adifferentkindofhuman3786 You can do your family tree on FamilySearch. FamilySearch is easiest way to discover how your ancestry. Good afternoon. 🙂

  • @robertolang9684

    @robertolang9684

    Жыл бұрын

    @@thallesgimenezmello2733 don't be silly man

  • @utubeisCensorred
    @utubeisCensorred Жыл бұрын

    Really cool to think about how, Royals are just so privileged they could track this stuff back 100s of years. Its cool that we all share common links, and also cool that we developed such wildly different cultures to shape those links.

  • @beareeves4923

    @beareeves4923

    Жыл бұрын

    Today with DNA and hereditary companies even the average person can more easily trace ancestry. I have one branch that goes back to thr 9th century.

  • @eneaganh6319

    @eneaganh6319

    Жыл бұрын

    @@beareeves4923 i used the most remarkable wikioedia and tracmed back from 1300 ancestror to a 60 ac god I love Wikipedia

  • @Scholar_1

    @Scholar_1

    Жыл бұрын

    How do they become Royals?🤔

  • @shambhaviarun2261
    @shambhaviarun2261 Жыл бұрын

    If one goes back 10 generations, there is less than 0.1% of that person's ancestor's dna.. So they don't have that dna after 8-10 generations of that ancestor, unless they keep on marrying within their small ancestral community..

  • @TheOriginalDanEdwards

    @TheOriginalDanEdwards

    Жыл бұрын

    What happens is that we lose some ancestors from our DNA, and keep others. We inherit blocks of chromosomes (for the autosomes - the Y chromosome is inherited mostly intact from one line) from certain ancestors, and nothing from others. That can happen as near to you as a 5th or 6th great grandparent. Of the 1024 possible pedigree ancestors (at your 10th generation), assuming no pedigree collapse, you like inherited DNA from around 700 or 800 of them. Go back another 10 generations, to the 20th level of ancestor, and of the million pedigree entries at that level you inherited DNA from less than 2000 of them, perhaps only 1500 of them.

  • @KARMAGEDDEM

    @KARMAGEDDEM

    Жыл бұрын

    Aka incest.... 🤢🤮

  • @markmetalen37
    @markmetalen37 Жыл бұрын

    First of all: nice clip! It once again shows us that most of these noble bloodlines are intertwined to a significant degree. Secondly I would like to add a few other similar ancestral claims, one also has its origins on the Iberian peninsula. In his standard work on Iberian ancestry named "Nobiliário de Famílias de Portugal" the famous Portuguese genealogist Manuel José da Costa Felgueiras Gaio states that the origin of the House of Maia partially lays within the dynasty of the Umayyads. The founding father of the Da Maia-dynasty is Lovesendo Ramirez, according to Felgueiras Gaio he was married to Zaira bint Zaydan, the daughter of Zaydan (or Zedao) ibn Zayd and a woman named Areguna Fromaríquez. This Zaydan is then mentioned as the grandson of Abdullah ibn Muhammad al-Umawi, the Emir of Córdoba. Lovesendo Ramirez himself was a supposed bastard son of King Ramiro II of Léon from the old Asturias-Léon dynasty by a woman named Ortega; the latter being either a daughter of a Moorish person named Sa'd abu Sa'dun ibn Ishaq or by an Iberian named Rodrigo Romães (though I don't think Felgueiras Gaio has mentioned those). An even more exotic claim is made about the first House of Bragança (not the later royal house but the one ruling the lordship), the founder of that house is decribed to have been a Britonic knight that married an Armenian pilgrim princess from the house of Arçruni (with roots into the old Turkic world and the Roman Empire); about the forementioned Asturias-Léon dynasty a similar claim is made (through the Armenian Mamikonian family). Mind you: there is an exilarchic ancestral trail that leads through the Caucasus as well, by means of the House of Mihrani and the Mihranid royal dynasty of Khartli in present day Georgia. A third similar claim is made about a branch of the Byzantine Skleros-clan; one of their scions was a magister named Romanos Skleros (latinized to Romanus Sclerus), a son of the Byzantine throne pretender Bardas Skleros; Romanos is thought to have married the daughter of the Hamdanid ruler Fadl Allah Abu Taghlib ibn al-Hassan (an Emir of Mosul), with supposed Abassid rooting.

  • @RubBH

    @RubBH

    Жыл бұрын

    Wow. Interesting. And bravo for the knowledge and the share of it :)

  • @ebonytv3414

    @ebonytv3414

    10 ай бұрын

    Thank you for charting my family line 😉

  • @bow35yearsago65
    @bow35yearsago65 Жыл бұрын

    Hey i think you made a mistake,Sancho the son of emperor Alphonso didn't have any kids so that's wrong,rather it is a daughter sancha who is the one who has children.

  • @UsefulCharts

    @UsefulCharts

    Жыл бұрын

    Good catch. The important thing is that Sancha was also a child of Zaida.

  • @bow35yearsago65

    @bow35yearsago65

    Жыл бұрын

    Yeah,if sancho had any descendants,the throne would probably go to them rather than urraca 😂

  • @realtalk6195

    @realtalk6195

    Жыл бұрын

    @@UsefulCharts In the last video about this topic on Queen Elizabeth, you described princess _Zaida_ as a "wife or mistress" and now in this video you describe her again as "wife or lover". In both instances you're substituting _concubine_ with something else. At the very least you should be describing her as "wife, lover or concubine" to cover all three bases. Anything else would be deliberately misleading or selective.

  • @emanuelkingsley7509

    @emanuelkingsley7509

    Жыл бұрын

    It is uncertain if Sancha’s mother Isabel and Zaida (later named Isabel) were the same person.

  • @tomhchappell
    @tomhchappell Жыл бұрын

    I just recently read that the name “Andalus” comes from the tribe “Vandal”.

  • @muhammaddaffaarvianda5050

    @muhammaddaffaarvianda5050

    Жыл бұрын

    If I remember correctly, was it the Arabic pronunciation of the word Vandal?

  • @angusyang5917

    @angusyang5917

    Жыл бұрын

    Which is interesting, since the Vandals hadn't been around 150 years by the time of the conquest of Iberia.

  • @mrbilter83

    @mrbilter83

    Жыл бұрын

    @@muhammaddaffaarvianda5050 nope Vandals in Arabic are called Wendell (وندال)

  • @daOriGinooGrapeBeer

    @daOriGinooGrapeBeer

    Жыл бұрын

    Could be "Atlantis"

  • @tomhchappell

    @tomhchappell

    Жыл бұрын

    @@angusyang5917 Unless I am wrong, which is quite possible, the Muslims who conquered Andalusia were Moors not Arabs, and they conquered it from Visigoths not Vandals. So the sound-change from Vandal to Andalus was probably well underway by the time of the Muslim conquest; and the languages involved could have included Gothic and Berber, in addition to Latin and Wendish and Arabic. TL;DR summary: we probably don’t know how it happened.

  • @Wkumar07
    @Wkumar07 Жыл бұрын

    Matt, thank you for another excellent video! When it comes down to it we all belong to the same family regardless of our creeds, race, religion, or ethnicity. And, yes, as others have commented, using CKIII in your videos is genius.

  • @zombieat

    @zombieat

    Жыл бұрын

    no. some of us have admixtures from 1 or more of at least 4 different archaic humans that no longer exist.

  • @axolotl-guy9801

    @axolotl-guy9801

    Жыл бұрын

    @@zombieat ? Lol

  • @axolotl-guy9801

    @axolotl-guy9801

    Жыл бұрын

    @@ivanooze5214 oh oke i see. Didn't really knew that.

  • @jlenhumphrey4933

    @jlenhumphrey4933

    Жыл бұрын

    @@ivanooze5214 but we're all majority the same. Admixture is just that, admixture, it's not our genetic base. We are all the same race lol. Any other claim is identity politics bullshit. We're Homo Sapiens, each of us, at the core.

  • @godfrey_of_america

    @godfrey_of_america

    Жыл бұрын

    Yeah....ok, lol.

  • @nunyabiznez6381
    @nunyabiznez6381 Жыл бұрын

    Iain Moncreiffe wrote a book called HRH just about 40 years ago which was published just before Princess Dianna gave birth to Prince William that discussed William's genealogy extensively. Included in the book was a connection between the Windsor's and Vlad Dracula but more to the point of this video, it described a connection to Mohamed. I no longer have a copy and it is hard to find but he seems to have been a genealogist of some note and wrote a number of books on the topic. I do not recall the exact line that he traced or the sources he cited but I think if one were to obtain a copy it would be an interesting book to read on the topic. As a distant cousin of the Windsor's I enjoy seeing videos describing their ancestry.

  • @odetteroyalehigh1432

    @odetteroyalehigh1432

    Жыл бұрын

    I am a 6th generation relative from queen Elizabeth, I find it extremely interesting too!

  • @therealdarklizzy

    @therealdarklizzy

    Жыл бұрын

    Bruh, that means you have a small, but significant claim to the throne...

  • @odetteroyalehigh1432

    @odetteroyalehigh1432

    Жыл бұрын

    @@therealdarklizzy yes! I am also a descendant from aboriginal royalty too;

  • @franmellor9843

    @franmellor9843

    8 ай бұрын

    @@odetteroyalehigh1432 'aboriginal royalty '...i had no idea of this

  • @erictaylor5462
    @erictaylor5462 Жыл бұрын

    "Muslim" is a religion, not an ethnicity. It would be like asking if you have any Baptist ancestors.

  • @maganhassan2627

    @maganhassan2627

    Жыл бұрын

    Zaida came from a Muslim family though

  • @erictaylor5462

    @erictaylor5462

    Жыл бұрын

    @@maganhassan2627 True, but it seems like this guy is implying that because her ancestor was Muslim, that makes her partly Muslim. Hell a person can be a member of a religion then not a member. I grew up Mormon, but I'm no longer Mormon. I am not even partly Mormon. Though I think the Church might still have my record, you could argue I still belong to the Church, but I would counterargue that no church owns it's members like that.

  • @bepopxxx

    @bepopxxx

    Жыл бұрын

    @@erictaylor5462 true, muslim is religion, im muslim but im not arabs.

  • @ulasctak5278

    @ulasctak5278

    Жыл бұрын

    @@erictaylor5462 Muslim mostly ancestor

  • @erictaylor5462

    @erictaylor5462

    Жыл бұрын

    @@ulasctak5278 And how does Muslim ancestry effect you? It doesn't, because "Muslim" is a religion, not an ethnicity.

  • @DreaOnzagle
    @DreaOnzagle Жыл бұрын

    Only just started this video and I’m super excited to see Matt finally check out Crusader Kings!

  • @michaelrae9599
    @michaelrae9599 Жыл бұрын

    I love that you answer questions that I didn't know I wanted to ask.

  • @taotaostrong
    @taotaostrong Жыл бұрын

    Thanks for another thoughtful presentation. I really enjoy this channel. Keep up the fantastic work. 💞

  • @armandoricarte608
    @armandoricarte608 Жыл бұрын

    You failed to take into account the timeline of the birth of Zaida's children. When she met Alfonso VI in Toledo around 1080, she was pregnant with his daughter to her Hashemite Muslim husband who died defending Córdoba from the Almoravids. She gave birth to Isabel. Later, she also gave birth to Sancho, whom Alfonso made the heir to the throne. Sancho died young in the Battle of Uclés. Notice the date of that battle and the date of births of Elvira and Sancha. The Sancha mentioned here is the ancestress of María de Padilla. She and Elvira were daughters of Isabel who was born in 1080. 1103 if I'm not mistaken, was Elvira's date of birth. The battle of Uclés occured sometime in 1107 or 1108, Sancho dying at age 18.

  • @EM-tx3ly

    @EM-tx3ly

    Жыл бұрын

    Except Zaida was never married to Hashimite to begin with but to Abbadid prince of Banu Lakhm tribe ...... Abbadids were Arabs and never claimed descent to Hashimites

  • @arad4852
    @arad4852 Жыл бұрын

    Interesting idea and great video. Maybe a future video on the recorded Genghisid descent in European royals could also be interesting.

  • @TheTokkie

    @TheTokkie

    Жыл бұрын

    or the Indo Iranian ancestry of Genghis Khan

  • @Macion-sm2ui

    @Macion-sm2ui

    Жыл бұрын

    As far as I know there are (or was) some russian nobile families that have proven descendence from Genghis Khan, so probably there we should start search.

  • @candidequixote6026
    @candidequixote6026 Жыл бұрын

    Yes. The Hashemite King of Jordan. Many of the Royal families of Europe are related to him. Yiri Louda and Michael Maclagan. "Lines of Succession, History of the Royal Familes of Europe". It is a great illustrated book with the genealogical trees from the birth of Heraldry.

  • @aliciabunagan7918

    @aliciabunagan7918

    Жыл бұрын

    Europians are Japhetites.

  • @celiabrickell2500
    @celiabrickell2500 Жыл бұрын

    I believe that your using the word "black" to describe a distant ancestor of Queen Elizabeth II is misleading. Moors at that time were NOT the same as "black sub-saharan" peoples, which are what are currently called Africans.

  • @ankavoskuilen1725

    @ankavoskuilen1725

    Жыл бұрын

    That is what he said.

  • @jasonhaven7170

    @jasonhaven7170

    Жыл бұрын

    You do realise Moors did include Black Africans from West Africa?

  • @curtisthomas2670

    @curtisthomas2670

    Жыл бұрын

    There is the strange idea that the only "black" Africans lived in so called "Sub Saharan Africa" and that the Sahara was some kinda impenetrable barrier that stopped these "Sub Saharan Africans" from ever venturing north of the Sahel, when it is clearly known that people traversed and lived in the Sahara for millennia and that many peoples who we would consider as "black" today lived in "North Africa" also for millennia.

  • @stevedunwoody880

    @stevedunwoody880

    Жыл бұрын

    You're all kinds of wrong, first of all every human being on Earth is descended from Black Africans ok? And the people of North Africa were too. Only after Arab and European invasions of lighter hues humans did this confusion about who is Black start.

  • @Saruman38

    @Saruman38

    Жыл бұрын

    @@curtisthomas2670 Not impenetrable, obviously. That being said, the further north you go (i.e. North Africa), the more light-skinned people get, and the further south you go (i.e. Sub-Saharan Africa), the more dark-skinned people get, with a transition area around the Sahel. There are obviously minority groups on both sides due to migrations, but we're talking about majority groups, here. The Moors living in Iberia mostly originated from North Africa, and thus the majority of them would have more closely resembled today's Maghrebi populations than Sub-Saharan ones. This is evident when you look at contemporary depictions of the Moors: they were generally depicted as fairly light-skinned, at least in comparison to more dark-skinned people originating from further south in Africa, which is what most western people nowadays (and not just Americans) associate with the word "black".

  • @MicaRayan
    @MicaRayan Жыл бұрын

    Interesting insights and discussions👍 Forsure there are. People are connecting to each other via extensive family

  • @memofromessex
    @memofromessex Жыл бұрын

    I know it's quite popular to say that the Andalusia Muslim states were tolerant. Recent historiography has begun to challenge this. For example, there were repeated pogroms against the Jewish population. Beyond this, they were only tolerant in comparison to the massively intolerant Kingdom of Spain.

  • @adambaker8689

    @adambaker8689

    Жыл бұрын

    Jews were allowed to rise to positions of great prominence under the Muslims in comparison to when they were under the Christians, and in general were allowed more privileges and the ability to rise through society on merit. Still, Jews were nowhere near seen as equals to Muslims, would have to pay a tax/fine to live in Muslim lands, a 'dhimmi', and weren't allowed to ride horses, so they couldn't be 'head and shoulders' above their Muslim countrymen etc. Also, there were always these types of riots/pogroms, depending upon the ruler, whether there were socio-economic issues, like widespread disease, starvation or poverty. As you say though, compare it to Jews under Christianity, there generally is no comparison.

  • @dtmt502

    @dtmt502

    Жыл бұрын

    still more tolerant than the Christian kingdoms in the region

  • @adambaker8689

    @adambaker8689

    Жыл бұрын

    @@dtmt502 who said they weren't?

  • @baneofbanes

    @baneofbanes

    Жыл бұрын

    They where still treated better in Iberia than pretty much anywhere else in Europe at the time.

  • @baneofbanes

    @baneofbanes

    Жыл бұрын

    @@dtmt502 eh not really there. The Iberian Christians didn’t really go around expelling the religious minorities until the 1500’s.

  • @rickmitton6971
    @rickmitton6971 Жыл бұрын

    I think Jewish history since 1st Century AD is relatively unknown, a video on that would be interesting, I think! Great work!

  • @who167

    @who167

    Жыл бұрын

    Look up Sam Aronow on KZread, his channel focuses on Jewish history and he did a video with this channel too.

  • @Shanablueray

    @Shanablueray

    Жыл бұрын

    There are literally thousands of Jewish history books from the last 2000 years 🙄

  • @m.s.6586

    @m.s.6586

    Жыл бұрын

    @@Shanablueray yea, he can start with the Talmud and Mishnah. We jews have been very diligent about passing down our stories and history.

  • @gothicyid

    @gothicyid

    Жыл бұрын

    There are many jewish genealogists and historians. I own a few books about it. Look up Berel Wein

  • @afonsomorais288
    @afonsomorais288 Жыл бұрын

    Moors could never black, at least in thsi case. We have to think why this term was given to her and in the people of gave it: in Portugal, a Moor is, as well said in the video, a muslim from northwest africa, which isn't naturally a place with people that we today call "black". If she was black like the concept we use nowadays, she would have to be form sub-saharan africa, in a case where old portuguese would probably use the greek term "ethiopian", rather than "moor"

  • @glennashia1421

    @glennashia1421

    Жыл бұрын

    I think a moor could refer to both arab berbers and black north africans.

  • @rai2423

    @rai2423

    Жыл бұрын

    Umm no. It is recorded that “black” Muslims were also referred to as moors. Ethiopians meant something different during that time…

  • @camille4971
    @camille4971 Жыл бұрын

    I absolutely adore CK3 (and my main file is actually currently kings of Aragon/Valencia), so I am very excited for the Fate of Iberia!

  • @otisdylan9532
    @otisdylan9532 Жыл бұрын

    I believe that there's another way that Elizabeth descends from Peter of Castile and Maria de Padilla: through their daughter Constance, who was the grandmother of John II of Castle. John was the great-grandfather of Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand I, and I believe that George III of England was the 6th great-grandson of Ferdinand.

  • @cdarthnox3402
    @cdarthnox3402 Жыл бұрын

    En el contexto Hispano "moro" siempre ha hecho más referencia a los musulmanes (marroquíes, principalmente), que a personas negras. Ejemplo de ello es la expulsión de los moros por parte de los reyes católicos al final de la reconquista, así que me parece muy dudosa la segunda opción, aunque no para descartarla.

  • @joaquinescotoaleman4320

    @joaquinescotoaleman4320

    Жыл бұрын

    Es que están usando la definición Americana de "Negro" o "People of Color", técnicamente los moros son un subgrupo de la raza caucásica.

  • @Airland-xx3pr

    @Airland-xx3pr

    2 ай бұрын

    ​@@joaquinescotoaleman4320Moros caucásicos? Eres muy divertido, faltaría que digas que son predominantemente indo europeos.

  • @sidneilefredopadaratz6048
    @sidneilefredopadaratz6048 Жыл бұрын

    So, it means that I'm related somehow to Queen Elisabeth as well. Lots of these caracters are present in my Family Tree, according to The Family Search site. Whatever, how knows?

  • @moonex7886
    @moonex7886 Жыл бұрын

    I literally love to watch your videos as I play CK3 and now this! Perfect!

  • @evrensuer549
    @evrensuer549 Жыл бұрын

    I think the best future videos will be the dynastic histories of ducal houses (wittelsbach, savoy etc)

  • @markmetalen37
    @markmetalen37 Жыл бұрын

    In my previous comment I forgot to add something. The ancestral claims that I pointed out in that comment are about connections from the medieval era, but there is one that is relatively recent and quite suprising in my humble opinion. It doesn't directly relate to Queen Elizabeth II of Great-Britain or the 'medieval ancestral nobility complex' but it does in fact has to do with the British royal family, to be precise: the family of late Prince Philip Mounbatten, Duke of Edinburgh & Deity of Tanna Island. A cousin, in the second degree or so, of Prince Philip was Marquess David Mountbatten of Milford Haven (he lived from 1919 to 1970). Marquess David's mother was Countess Nadejda Mihailovna of Torby, descending from the Romanov dynasty; that is quite interesting in itself but that's not what this comment is about: Countess Nadejda was the grandchild of a Russian woman with the name Natalia Alexandrovna Pushkina, indeed the daughter of the famous Russian poet and novelist Alexander Pushkin. In his turn Pushkin was the descendant of a Russian major-general who was named Abram Petrovich Hannibal. 'Russian' as a qualification basically refers to the fact that Hannibal was an officer in the Russian Imperial army but it is a well known fact that he was African, described to have originated from Eritrea but later research has shown that Abram Hannibal was probably from the area around Lake Chad in Central Africa. My guess is that Abram was shipped from Eritrea by the Ottomans prior to his arrival in Russia, it is known that he was more-or-less enslaved by the army of Sultan Ahmed III. The point in the aforementioned is that there is indeed a fully proven and fairly recent ancestral link between the British royal family, be it in a wider sense, and Africa.

  • @astroflyinsights

    @astroflyinsights

    Жыл бұрын

    Interesting, and his wife Edwina was Jewish.

  • @markmetalen37

    @markmetalen37

    Жыл бұрын

    @@astroflyinsights To whom are you referring?

  • @astroflyinsights

    @astroflyinsights

    Жыл бұрын

    @@markmetalen37 Mountbatten

  • @markmetalen37

    @markmetalen37

    Жыл бұрын

    @@astroflyinsightsThat must have been the uncle of Marquess David, namely Earl Louis Mountbatten of Burma. I didn't mention him in my initial comment but he was indeed married to Edwina Ashley, she seems to have had a Jewish great-grandmother because 'The Peerage' mentions a certain Amalia Rosenheim as her ancestor ('Rosenheim' probably is an Ashkenazi family name). I don't know to what extent this would have made Edwina Jewish, a matter of definition I suppose; it's not in a direct female line so the strict Jewish definition does not apply but not everyone adheres that viewpoint ofcourse.

  • @astroflyinsights

    @astroflyinsights

    Жыл бұрын

    @@markmetalen37 oh thank you for clarifying.

  • @lordofdent2399
    @lordofdent2399 Жыл бұрын

    You should do a family tree on the Fairbanks house succession. And the long recorded history of the Medecalf/Metcalf/Metcalfe family

  • @francishollingshead2134

    @francishollingshead2134

    Жыл бұрын

    I'd assume that Laurie Metcalf, the actress, is a descendant of Medecalf/Metcalf/Metcalfe family.

  • @steveholton4130

    @steveholton4130

    Жыл бұрын

    @@francishollingshead2134 Who?

  • @thebandit0256

    @thebandit0256

    Жыл бұрын

    She's the actress who plays Aunt Jackie on Roseanne and now the Conners

  • @steveholton4130

    @steveholton4130

    Жыл бұрын

    @@thebandit0256 Never heard of any of this crap

  • @-RONNIE
    @-RONNIE Жыл бұрын

    A lot of information thanks for the breakdown 👍🏻

  • @tkgsingsct
    @tkgsingsct Жыл бұрын

    I love your channel! Brilliant approach. ❤

  • @jonasdavies1806
    @jonasdavies1806 Жыл бұрын

    So basically, if you go some time back in time, everyone is ancestor of everybody.

  • @joaoribeiro5938

    @joaoribeiro5938

    Жыл бұрын

    Every homicide is a fatricide

  • @barrymoore4470

    @barrymoore4470

    Жыл бұрын

    Not quite. The farther you go back in time, the more likely it becomes that someone who reproduced and whose line survives to the present is your direct ancestor. Not everyone reproduced, however, and not all lines have survived to the present. But all human beings are indeed kin to one another, and all living human beings have multiple ancestors in common.

  • @ErklaerMirDieWelt
    @ErklaerMirDieWelt Жыл бұрын

    I love CK3! This is one of the best targeted and best exectued sponsored videos I have ever seen on KZread. I definitely wouldn't mind if you worked with them again in the future. The maps and the portraits add a lot to the story! Well done!

  • @justjossgk1016
    @justjossgk1016 Жыл бұрын

    could you do a tree from areas like the ukraine, beacause ive been interested in my family but have no idea how to trace it so far back 😅 i've tried going back on our tree (ancestry) but it gets really hard becasue there is no birth/death date and a fairly common name for time and place, any tips on fining the family that is hard to track?

  • @SirBenjiful

    @SirBenjiful

    Жыл бұрын

    Since the region which forms modern Ukraine was split up and passed around between various rulers (Polish, Lithuanian, Russian, etc) for 500+ years, you’re not going to find many good resources that focus on it specifically. That information is scattered all over the place.

  • @justjossgk1016

    @justjossgk1016

    Жыл бұрын

    @@SirBenjiful oof- is there a way to find where because I actually know whatparts my family(sides) are from

  • @fritz404

    @fritz404

    Жыл бұрын

    the only Ukrainian records that may exist are from churches but those are likely few and far between due to the countless wars

  • @justjossgk1016

    @justjossgk1016

    Жыл бұрын

    @@fritz404 I also need to ask family how the found a lot of ancestry (the person who immigrated's father)

  • @williammatthews7252

    @williammatthews7252

    Жыл бұрын

    Lots of Black history in Russia/ Uk

  • @arjaygee
    @arjaygee Жыл бұрын

    You're pronouncing "Al-Andalus" as if it were spelled "Al-Andulas," which is somewhat distracting. It's pronounced quite phonetically, roughly "ahl ahn-dah-LOOS." "Chichorro" does not have a 'k' sound in it. chee-CHOH-ro, even if you don't roll the 'r.'

  • @numberoath
    @numberoath Жыл бұрын

    I’m loving this video Matt. Was just wondering with the new Lord of the Rings series releasing in September, could you do a video of the Kings of Gondor and the houses of elves located in middle earth similar to the video you made a few years back ago about the Houses in Game of Thrones?

  • @RWaper
    @RWaper Жыл бұрын

    A sentence that is kinda misleading here is about Ferdinand’s expulsion of the Jews. While he may be 1/16th Jewish, the idea of Jews being a race/ethnicity wasn’t really present, it’s the faith. So him being 1/16th Jewish doesn’t matter because he was Catholic.

  • @adambaker8689

    @adambaker8689

    Жыл бұрын

    @Alfred Wedmore The Khazars were Turkic, Jewish genes are not. There is no provable link between Khazars and Ashkenazi Jews. Khazaria was a Jewish kingdom in Crimea 950-1,000 years ago, and a Turkic warrior chieftan, Bulan, converted to Judaism. However, there was a Khazar council containing, 2 Jews, 2 Christians, 2 Muslims and a pagan. There was religious tolerance throughout the kingdom but Jews were not in any way a majority. In fact, the recent idea, or concoction that's propagated, is that Ashkenazi Jews, the Jews who were in the main the founding fathers of Israel, were not in fact Jews at all, and were Khazars... This is in order to discredit Israel as a Jewish state and (Ashkenazi) Judaism - in fact genetically, Ashkenazi, Sephardi, Mizrachi (Middle Eastern) and Ethiopian Jewry, all share racial markers - that's why if you do a DNA test, you may have a percentage as one of these Jewish groups. European Jewry were (mis)treated by various Europeans as the direct descendants of the Jews of antiquity. As if to 'back up' how things change, you'd see, 100 years ago, graffiti in Poland and elsewhere - "Jews go back to Palestine!"; now you see, "Jews get out of Palestine!" in the same areas. Jews are labelled and mislabelled depending on what will be the most derogatory accusation of the day, the one that will get the most traction. In fact, Jews are a race, originally came from Judea, the modern day 'West Bank', where the Tribe of Judah settled, which was called, 'Judea and Samaria'. This was before the Jordanians renamed it in 1949 after the Israeli War of Independence, where the Jordanians took the West Bank, and held it to 1967. In antiquity, Jews spread all over the Levant but the conquering Assyrians, Babylonians, Greeks, (and others) and then most telling Romans, expelled almost all the Jews to different parts of their empire - they became Ashkenazim. Thanks to the work of others, I can trace my lineage back to a great rabbi of 1,000 years ago, Rashi, he lived in Troyes, France. If I trace his lineage forward, and the records of prominent Jews, especially rabbis, were very well kept, I can see how the Jews of Europe were expelled and pushed east, from France, to Southern Germany, Bohemia, and then into Eastern Europe, as ironically, Eastern European monarchs were more tolerant than those in Western Europe. Jews didn't just appear by magic in Eastern Europe, because of rabbis who were sent out to convert people to Judaism. It wasn't a facet of Jews/Judaism to seek out potential converts, and non-Jews could be mercilessly punished if they did. Jews maintain their racial, as well as religious, cohesiveness as Jews do not proselytize, do not accept converts willingly (Jews are more likely to leave the religion than marry into it), and Christians/Muslims were forbade, in a number of countries, over swathes of time, from converting or marrying Jews, sometimes under the threat of capital punishment. The main way Jews would have their religious blood diluted is as victims of the mob, where rape would occur, and of course, from time-to-time produce offspring; this is one of the reasons why the only qualification of being recognised as a Jew is whether your mother was, essentially your maternal line.

  • @adambaker8689

    @adambaker8689

    Жыл бұрын

    @Alfred Wedmore no it isn't, and the fact that you cite Nazi ideology as a reason why Jews aren't a race is misguided. Hitler wanted Jews out of Germany, does that make him a Zionist? No, it doesn't. (Search that with Ken Livingston, there you have an anti-Semite) The same conclusion can be reached without getting there the same way. Jews are a race, genetically distinct, that's not 'anti-science', that's science fact. The fact that anti-Semites now say Jews aren't a race, because now it fits in with their ideology to 'de-judify' Israel as a state, is as racist a slur as the Jews have received since WWII.

  • @adambaker8689

    @adambaker8689

    Жыл бұрын

    @Alfred Wedmore Wow, you got me you arrogant genius...my real name is...Shlomi Yiddlebaum and I am originally from Bet Shemesh and now live in an ultra Zionist settler community in Judea; not Samaria, I don't touch Samaritans, and I believe in the purity of the Jewish race and vote Shas, Shas, Shas! Bennett is a left-wing anti-Semite! Alfie baby, how did you work it out? You're only second to the Moshiach in my eyes.

  • @baneofbanes

    @baneofbanes

    Жыл бұрын

    @Alfred Wedmore Not even fucking close dude. In fact that’s an anti-Semitic myth.

  • @tagbarzeev3571

    @tagbarzeev3571

    Жыл бұрын

    @@adambaker8689 As a Ashkenazi Jew I agree with many things you said. Please tell me why you classify Jews as a race? The conversion of Bulan to Judaism is highly suspect and just fuels the idea that Ashkenazi Jews are converts and don't belong in Israel.

  • @IvoTichelaar
    @IvoTichelaar Жыл бұрын

    I have traced one branch of my ancestry back to about 1650. They all lived within a few blocks of the same city, had a different/temporary trade in every record and moved a lot from dwelling to dwelling. On one of the records, the adress states "the front of 12VI, which, after visiting the house, I realise meant half of the top section of the attic. And records stop, presumably because prior to that time, the local church was not too concerned with poor souls. Not enough to write their names down in precious log books. It is both a treasure to have these records of historical people, but also a blunt reminder that I am happy to live in the present time.

  • @jamiethomson7780
    @jamiethomson77807 ай бұрын

    Madragana was not a Moor but rather a descendant of Mozarabs, the Christians of Al-Andalus. Her father was the Qadi in Faro at the time it was the last part of the Kingdom of the Algarve to be taken from Muslim hands. Afonso III of Portugal ended the Reconquista in Portugal by taking Faro in 1249. It is not sensible to maintain that the man who completed the Reconquista in Portugal for Iberian Christians then immediately took a Moorish Muslim as his lover! Note that she was christened as a Roman Catholic only once some time had passed after she became the mistress of Afonso III: "She was christened in time, receiving her new name as Maior Afonso, or Mor Afonso, Mor being short for Maior, a common female name in medieval Portuguese." So, when Afonso III took her as his mistress, she was still following the religion she and her father had practiced her whole life before Afonso III took their home city of Faro. This is why scholars understand that her christening when she was the mistress of Afonso III was "most probably because she had been previously christened according to the Mozarabic Rite, the re-christening being done in the Roman Rite." "Aloandro Ben Bekar or Ben Bakr (also known as Aldroando Gil), was the Mozarab (Iberian Christian living under Muslim domination) Governor of Faro, in Portugal. He was the son of Bakr Ben Yahia and grandson of Yahia Ben Bakr, who is believed to be a descendant (possibly a grandson) of high royal official of Jewish aristocratic descent Yahia Ben Yahi III."

  • @lovingthewings69
    @lovingthewings69 Жыл бұрын

    The use of CK3 is such a good idea and would love more videos with this concept

  • @jasonhaven7170
    @jasonhaven7170 Жыл бұрын

    Everyone is related to each other in some way, the average relation is 50th cousin. Of course, people in the same geographic region are more related to each other than others, but everyone in the UK has a Middle Eastern, South Asian and East Asian ancestor, in some way. And of course, everyone on the planet is Black African or has a Black African ancestor, even if it was thousands of years ago.

  • @slurpeecloud999

    @slurpeecloud999

    Жыл бұрын

    How would someone in the UK have a south or east Asian ancestor?????

  • @jasonhaven7170

    @jasonhaven7170

    Жыл бұрын

    @@slurpeecloud999 Firstly, there's a lot of Asian people in the UK. Secondly, the UK has had South Asian people in it, very few to start off with, since the 1700s. Thirdly, ethnically English people are descendants of Indo-Europeans so it's likely some people who lived in India thousands of years ago had descendants who moved to Europe

  • @slurpeecloud999

    @slurpeecloud999

    Жыл бұрын

    @@jasonhaven7170 Indo Europeans did not originate in India.

  • @nickolas240

    @nickolas240

    Жыл бұрын

    @@slurpeecloud999 they didn't, they lived in Asian steppes(Kazakhstan) near turkic tribes there's a great chance that some of them intermixed with others

  • @jasonhaven7170

    @jasonhaven7170

    Жыл бұрын

    @@slurpeecloud999 Doesn't matter, fact is, plenty of White Brits have recent non-White ancestors

  • @adambaker8689
    @adambaker8689 Жыл бұрын

    Great video - very interesting, and solid pronunciations ;)

  • @stevene6181
    @stevene618110 ай бұрын

    I love how North African means sub Saharan African now. It’s truly revisionist history

  • @mickimicki
    @mickimicki Жыл бұрын

    Well, at least this section of the Queen's pedigree looks a bit more interesting (as in "exotic") to me than all those branches from now obscure German states/territories (in many of which my own ancestors were lowly nobodies). Just a question: Around minute 4/5, one of Ferdinand the Great's sons/Alfonso VI's brothers, García II, is titled "Kind of Galacia" 1065-1072. Is "Galacia" maybe a typo for Galicia (with an "I")?

  • @frodo322

    @frodo322

    Жыл бұрын

    Yes it’s a typo. There’s Galatia in ancient Turkey, and then Galicia in western Spain and another Galicia in Eastern Europe which was a kingdom in the Middle Ages.

  • @bnb6868
    @bnb6868 Жыл бұрын

    Moor in Spanish (Moro) usually almost always meant north African and middle eastern Arabs. In England and Germany on the other hand in medieval times African = black so Moor= black

  • @juliar1225

    @juliar1225

    Жыл бұрын

    The english Moor hast two meanings in german: Mauren (Arabs living in al andalus) and Mohren(Black african)

  • @bnb6868

    @bnb6868

    Жыл бұрын

    @@juliar1225 they were synonymous in German till I'd say 20th century maybe already 19th But the entire medieval and early modern period they were seen as the same thing

  • @rai2423

    @rai2423

    Жыл бұрын

    They also referred to other African Muslim kingdoms as moors so that is where it becomes confusing. You have to remember that the dominant religion in Africa, at the time was Islam.

  • @bnb6868

    @bnb6868

    Жыл бұрын

    @@rai2423 are you talking about Spanish or Germans. Because subsaharians even if Muslim were simply called negros aka black. Even the Moroccans didn't treat blacks even if Muslim as brothers in faith. The only non North Africans or Middle Eastern people to have been called moros are the Muslims of the Philippines

  • @rai2423

    @rai2423

    Жыл бұрын

    @@bnb6868 That is simply not true. The Spaniards and North African Muslims referred to the Muslim in the Horn of Africa as Moors as well, specifically Red Sea Moors. The North Africans referred to modern day Somalia as Beled Al Barbar and considered them to be similar to themselves in culture. You are woefully ignorant in your statements.

  • @Maxcallaghanphysics
    @Maxcallaghanphysics Жыл бұрын

    I think I’ve worked out Charles iii to Ferdinand ii, correct me if I’m wrong (this is just from my own research on my tree). Is it through the Beaufort line to John of gaunt and his line to Eleanor of Castile, her father being Ferdinand iii?

  • @chatonmignon8724
    @chatonmignon8724 Жыл бұрын

    Moors (in Berber: ⵉⵎⵓⵔⵉⵢⵏ - Imuriyen)[ref. necessary] refers to the medieval Muslim and Arab-Berber inhabitants of Iberia, Sicily, Malta and the Maghreb and originally during antiquity the Berber populations of North Africa, especially the Maghreb. The Moors were not clearly distinguished from the Numidians until the Romans became aware of the existence of Berber kingdoms in the far west. Maures (en berbère : ⵉⵎⵓⵔⵉⵢⵏ - Imuriyen)[réf. nécessaire] désigne les habitants musulmans et arabo-berbères médiévaux d'Ibérie, de Sicile, de Malte et du Maghreb et à l'origine durant l'Antiquité les populations berbères d'Afrique du Nord, tout particulièrement du Maghreb. Les Maures ne furent clairement distingués des Numides que lorsque les Romains eurent connaissance de l'existence de royaumes berbères à l'extrême-ouest.

  • @gecko5892
    @gecko5892 Жыл бұрын

    Can you please make a video about the kings of Georgia Armenia and Balkan Countries?

  • @mecha1gold
    @mecha1gold Жыл бұрын

    To me as a Hispanic it came as a surprise that in the anglosphere people think moore = black, it simply not the case. Moore or "Morisco" as we know it, where basically what one would see as an hindu, a roma or an saudi. They where arabs from multiple cultures that had darker completion. They could have black in their ancestry but it is an already mixed "ethnicity" just as the three examples I gave. So I would not say they are black, as a sub saharan african more like hindu or saudi people.

  • @razatiger22

    @razatiger22

    Жыл бұрын

    Moor was a blanket term for anyone with darker skin than a European and also happened to be Muslim/African. So while is doesn't mean Moor's were only Sub-Saharan African, there definitely were Sub-Saharan Moors. You have to remember that there are lot of Dark Skin Africans in Northern Africa, even to this day, Northern Africa was populated by black people far before people from the middle east ventured across the Sahara.

  • @rai2423

    @rai2423

    Жыл бұрын

    No moors where simply Muslims. there were plenty of black moors from east and west Africa in Europe during that time as wells.

  • @razatiger22

    @razatiger22

    Жыл бұрын

    @@rai2423 Exactly, there wasn't this entire race denomination prior to colonization. If you were Muslim and from Africa, you were a Moor. The Mali Empire which was a large and wealthy Muslim empire that spanned most of West Africa and parts of North Africa had major influence in Europe and would have been classified as a Moor's to Europeans. For example, the alleged richest human to ever exist, Mansa Musa, the King of the Mali Empire was considered a Moor to Europeans.

  • @rai2423

    @rai2423

    Жыл бұрын

    @@razatiger22 Well skin colour was definitely a factor back then BUT religion played a more important role in during Mediaeval Islamic times. People are using modern racial ideology to make sense of an ancient term.

  • @harryhart5177
    @harryhart5177 Жыл бұрын

    Waiting for more Videos narrated by Matt on Ancient History ☺️

  • @IslenoGutierrez
    @IslenoGutierrez10 ай бұрын

    Let me say how silly it is to assume Madragana was black. It shouldn’t have been done here. Because for one, the name Mor in Mor Afonso was short for Maior and was a common female Portuguese name meaning “bigger” and did not denote being moorish. But putting that aside, all Muslims in Iberia were called moors, no matter if they were Arab, Berber, black or Iberian convert or descended from them. That includes the non-black Muslims in the chart in the video such as Zaida, Abu Nasir and Al-Mu’tamid, not just Madragana. Also, a great many historians believe she was mozárabe (christian of European Iberian descent living in muslim areas of Iberia). But going back to the moorish thing, if we look at illustrations of moors in Iberia from the time of the moorish rule in Iberia such as in Afonso X’s “Book of Games” from the 1200’s, which was created during the time period of Madragana, we can see large crowds of moors in the illustrations and the vast majority of moors are not black with only a tiny minority being black. Just to clear up the moorish thing. I have a video on my channel about the Moors featuring those historic collections. So based on likelyhood, it’s likely that Madragana was not black. Some historians also claim she was part Jewish too so then there is that too. It’s then unlikely that Queen Charlotte and thus Queen Elizabeth and the modern British royal family descend from a black ancestor. There is just no evidence of it to make such a claim. And such claims on her appearance because of a single painting that was misjudged is just completely ridiculous (all other paintings of her look completely European and there was never any mention of a strange appearance as such during her lifetime). And for certain film or television appearances for her to be of a full, half or partial Sub-Saharan African type is just utter madness because Madragana (who was mostly likely not at all black) was 15 generations before Queen Charlotte and at that rate she wouldn’t have any significant ancestry from Madragana (likely she had none at all or less than a tenth of a percent) to create such as an alleged phenotype. People who make these claims often have agendas. So there you go.

  • @IslenoGutierrez

    @IslenoGutierrez

    10 ай бұрын

    @@user-mu1ig3wn5s Yes, I agree. It’s due to American Afrocentrism started by black Americans of West African descent that make claims on so many peoples cultures that don’t belong to them (as a ploy to have a history beyond slavery) and it migrated from the USA to Britain because of the cultural exchange in the two nations. The white Americans and the white British have become too politically correct to whereas half of them have become brainwashed to believe it and the other half have become so frightened to be branded as racists if they disagree (branded by anti-white real racists living in their nations) which can cause the loss of employment and financial ruin and the like, so these false claims are allowed to flourish in the USA and Britain and even other nations related to them like Canada, Australia and New Zealand. That’s only one part of it. There is a historic part of it that included much of Europe as when the moorish invaded Iberia and ruled in Iberia, although most moorish were non-black the small minority of blacks among them caught the imagination of Europeans outside of Iberia and many historic Europeans created a stereotype of black moors (but not exclusively black). This contributed to the historic belief in Europe that when coupled with the political correctness I spoke of earlier, makes for this unpleasant Afrocentric western claim on moorish history.

  • @Uzair_Of_Babylon465
    @Uzair_Of_Babylon465 Жыл бұрын

    Fantastic video keep it up your doing amazing job

  • @ludotau9077
    @ludotau9077 Жыл бұрын

    can someone tell me how George III is a descendant of Ferdinand II, I'm just curious about that

  • @avibar.5179

    @avibar.5179

    Жыл бұрын

    George III’s mother, Princess Augusta of Saxe Gotha, was a great grandaughter of Princess Elisabeth Sophie of Saxe-Altenburg, who was the great great granddaughter of Maria of Austria, Duchess of Jülich-Cleves-Berg, who was a great granddaughter of Ferdinand II. The exact link is: Ferdinand II Joanna the Mad Ferdinand I Maria of Austria, Duchess of Jülich-Cleves-Berg Anna of Cleves Countess Palatine Anna Maria of Neuburg Johann Philipp, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg Princess Elisabeth Sophie of Saxe-Altenburg Frederick I, Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg Frederick II, Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg Princess Augusta of Saxe-Gotha George III

  • @ludotau9077

    @ludotau9077

    Жыл бұрын

    @@avibar.5179 thank you very much

  • @RogowskiBubba0864
    @RogowskiBubba0864 Жыл бұрын

    Hi there, thx again for your video. Question on the subject Jews in Babylon, according to the stories I have been reading the jews delivered the high priests for the Mesopothatiam temples, they were called Magi (these day's magiciens) and a part of their job was connecting with the death souls. Fastforward to the just born Jesus in the stable in Nazareth and 3 wise men (no gangsters 😉) came from the East. The story goes on and on but were those Babylon Magi really the 3 wise men in Nazareth and which influence did they have on creation and birth of Jesus? Interesting question or not?🤔

  • @AK4Uwolfen
    @AK4Uwolfen Жыл бұрын

    Iberia during it's conquest and reconquista period, as a peninsula was diverse, but that's like saying the United States was diverse during it's slavery period, today it implies cultural contribution in the everyday life between everyone including the most common folk. In reality Iberia was a brutal war zone and a constant struggle between Christians and Muslims with isolated populations in a mountainous and rocky terrain, with laws segregating people, and populations being ruled over by someone from a different background (often the muslims ruled over and imposed islamic laws on completely christian populations for example)

  • @apokyrfter413
    @apokyrfter413 Жыл бұрын

    Love watching these kind of videos. My family isn't that interesting, the furthest I could go was the 1700s, and the people there were illiterate peasants.

  • @spiritmatter1553

    @spiritmatter1553

    Жыл бұрын

    Your family was interesting. You just aren’t able to learn enough about them. They had their stories like all people.

  • @jonnawyatt

    @jonnawyatt

    Жыл бұрын

    Well there were no education systems. Royalty wanted it that way. Now it's conservative politics that want education destroyed. Don't feel bad as your ancestors were probably hard working and oppressed.

  • @yrobtsvt

    @yrobtsvt

    Жыл бұрын

    As Matt says if you knew more about your ancestors you would almost certainly find royalty. I could only trace one of my ancestors back to England (via the Mayflower), but that one had royal ancestry.

  • @thebasileus4793

    @thebasileus4793

    Жыл бұрын

    ​@@yrobtsvt My grandmother was relative of Teddy Roosevelt (fairly closely as well, she actually looked like him) and Roosevelt can trace his lineage all the way back to KIng John of England and John can trace his lineage back to the William the Conqueror via Cecilia, William's daughter. William, as everyone and the cat knows, can trace his lineage back to Rollo the viking. The reason I know this is because my great uncle is a large phanatic when it comes to finding ones roots. We also found that on my dads side I am related to a dutchman who was actually quite important in the founding of New Amsterdam.

  • @markhorton3994

    @markhorton3994

    Жыл бұрын

    In the 1700s illiterate meant not knowing Latin. Almost everyone could read and write the language they spoke daily. But no one could spell.

  • @johnjdumas
    @johnjdumas Жыл бұрын

    You went over one main point quickly. If you find a record before 1400 it is very likely that that person is connected to royalty. Most people without records had nothing to record. Those people who did own something most probably had a connection. My ancestor lines that do not dead-end mostly go back to royalty as probably most other people's charts.

  • @ashleyofaustralia
    @ashleyofaustralia Жыл бұрын

    Your voice is both soothing, yet professional. Excellent combination for FM easy listening.

  • @Gadflyy
    @Gadflyy Жыл бұрын

    Many British aristocrats descend from Abram Petrovich Gannibal, Russian general-in-chief and military engineer who was kidnapped from Africa and traded to Peter the Great. One of Gannibal’s direct descendants is George Mountbatten, 4th Marquess of Milford Haven and cousin of Queen Elizabeth II.

  • @liamsohal-griffiths1094
    @liamsohal-griffiths1094 Жыл бұрын

    I know this is only a bit of fun, but it's worth pointing out that a geneological line is very unlikely to be accurate going back 28 generations (the gap between Abu Nasir in the 11 century and Elizabeth II would be around 28 generations, I can't be bothered to work it out precisely). Let's say for the sake of argument that 14 of those generations are via the male line (although if you think about the way royal families work with male primogeniture, it's likely to be much closer to 28). It would be a very big assumption to consider that all 14 of those connections record accurately the DNA FATHER of the child, rather than some random man the mother happened to be having an affair with. Most of the time the real biological father will be recorded accurately, but every few generations there will have been a case of adultery which won't be recorded in official documents (and usually won't even be known by the father himself) and will be lost to history.

  • @barrymoore4470

    @barrymoore4470

    Жыл бұрын

    The statistical probability that some children would have been born out of wedlock (including adulterous liaisons) haunts every genealogy. Genealogies are just official histories, and do not necessarily or always reflect what actually happened.

  • @lordofdent2399
    @lordofdent2399 Жыл бұрын

    Your videos are amazing and very well made

  • @adriennegormley9358
    @adriennegormley9358 Жыл бұрын

    Regarding Madragana, wiki says the term moor can Also refer to Morazab, which is a modern term for Christianized Iberian Jews. So she could cover 2 of the 3. OTOH, although not a direct ancestor of Elizabeth, I've read sources that hint that an ancestor of Charles II through Marie de Medici had black blood. It's something you might be able to check out. BC Charles II through one of his mistresses is an ancestor of the late Princess Diana and therefore Princes William and Harry.

  • @GraTaylor
    @GraTaylor Жыл бұрын

    Excellent use of Crusader Kings III there. Bravo.

  • @gregoryjones9546
    @gregoryjones9546 Жыл бұрын

    It Was Rumored That King Ferdinand II Of Aragon Husband Of Isabella I Of Castile Had Jewish Ancestry,His Grandfather Or Grandmother Was A Jew Who Converted To Christianity. So Ferdinand Did Have Jewish Ancestors,But Further Down His Family Line. Interesting,I Will Look Up Paloma Ben Yahia.

  • @TheMarkster245
    @TheMarkster245 Жыл бұрын

    Can you do a video on “Black Hebrew Israelites” it’s basically a cult like British-Israelism but for black Americans. I’ve done a little digging on them ( mostly just wiki and a few articles) but their version of history is quite interesting

  • @supermavro6072

    @supermavro6072

    Жыл бұрын

    WE

  • @cv4809

    @cv4809

    Жыл бұрын

    WUZ

  • @kareemmobarek3897

    @kareemmobarek3897

    Жыл бұрын

    KANGZZZ

  • @fritz404

    @fritz404

    Жыл бұрын

    N SHEIT

  • @slowknife2873

    @slowknife2873

    Жыл бұрын

    Don't forget Ethiopian-israeli cult

  • @aaronmoreno8918
    @aaronmoreno8918 Жыл бұрын

    This was nice. But technically the King and Queen of Spain did not fund Columbus’s voyage because they were broke due to the costly Re-Conquista. It was the Wealthy Sephardic Jewish Bankers of Spain that actually funded Christopher Columbus voyage. And not all the Sephardic Jews left Spain, quite a few converted to the Catholic religion and became known as Conversos or Marranos.

  • @yesid17
    @yesid17 Жыл бұрын

    this was a 17 minute long ad and i watched almost every second of it, great work lol

  • @vathisss
    @vathisss9 ай бұрын

    here we go again next 100 years if netflix still exist “I don't care what they tell you in school, Queen Elizabeth was Black.”

  • @lizb7271
    @lizb7271 Жыл бұрын

    It can also be said that Queen Elizabeth II is descended from the god Woden, or at least is provably descended from people who claimed to be descended from Woden.

  • @ankavoskuilen1725

    @ankavoskuilen1725

    Жыл бұрын

    Or Charlemagne. Everybody is related to Charlemagne.

  • @baneofbanes

    @baneofbanes

    Жыл бұрын

    Woden isn’t real tho. Out least outside of Wednesday.

  • @nameredacted1325

    @nameredacted1325

    Жыл бұрын

    Correct. Their claim to their thrones is a claim of divinity, although they don't say it out loud as much anymore..

  • @mappingshaman5280

    @mappingshaman5280

    Жыл бұрын

    @@nameredacted1325 no its not a claim of divinity, it stopped being a claim of divinity when the wessex kings converted to christianity over 1500 years ago

  • @musicgarryj
    @musicgarryj5 ай бұрын

    The Queen Mother's family was Bowes-Lyon, connected to the famous Jewish Lyons family of whom the mother of TV chef Nigella Lawson was a member. More recent Royal Jewish connections: Princess Diana's mother was Jewish: her maiden name was Frances Roche. Also Kate Middleton's mother's maiden name was Carole Goldsmith. Kate's grandmother (on her father's side) was also quite possibly Jewish, her maiden name was Valerie Glassborow. Camilla, wife of King Charles III has Jewish family connections, Her maiden name was Camilla Shand.

  • @pedanticradiator1491

    @pedanticradiator1491

    4 ай бұрын

    The Bowes-Lyon family have no connection to the Jewish Lyons family. The Lyon part of the name comes from the Scottish clan Lyon whose roots are in medieval France . Several Scottish families, including the Stewarts and Bruces have French ancestry as they settled in Scotland during the reign of David II who was brought up at the English (Norman) Royal Court. Catherine, the Princess of Wales's mother's maiden name was Goldsmith but this not an exclusively Jewish name and is an old English name as well. There are rumours that the late Jewish financier Sir James Goldsmith was Diana's true father. The Shand and Roche families are not Jewish. You do need to do some research before posting

  • @xdc202
    @xdc20211 ай бұрын

    How can I do more research on Paloma? She is my 18th great grandmother since my family line is Infante Fadrique Enríquez de Castilla's. Juana Enríquez is 16th great aunt. My family because irrelevant after four generations because they married off the daugther of a marques to some non royal guy.

  • @nHans
    @nHans Жыл бұрын

    Matt, how many of QE2's ancestors from the last 1000 years do we know about? The number of ancestors you have double for every generation you go back in history. Assuming 3 generations per century, in 1000 years, you have something like 30 generations and over 2 billion ancestors (2^31 - 2). I'm pretty sure we _don't_ know every one of them. What's the size of the subset we're working with?

  • @UsefulCharts

    @UsefulCharts

    Жыл бұрын

    Good question. There's probably a way to get an estimate using geni.com but I'm not sure how to do it.

  • @Just-A-Little-Magic

    @Just-A-Little-Magic

    Жыл бұрын

    No, such a common mistake. Actually, most family trees share a same parent multiple times. See "pedigree collapse". This happens not only at the Habsburgs, but also in every small village.

  • @nHans

    @nHans

    Жыл бұрын

    ​@@Just-A-Little-Magic Mathematically, you create different models under different assumptions. The 2B number is one extreme, where the assumption is that couples don't have common ancestors. At the other extreme, you have a family ladder, like the ancient Egyptian royalty. Per generation, you just _add_ 2 ancestors instead of doubling. Obviously, in real life-as you've correctly pointed out-people do marry their siblings and cousins. And every time this happens, the tree shrinks in size-the two branches at the common ancestor merge into one. Again, by making assumptions about how frequently this happens in a given population sample, you can estimate the size of the family tree. Nevertheless, calculating the extremes is useful for several reasons: places bounds on the actual values; can be used for sanity checks; plan for the worst-case scenario if you're building a genealogy or ancestry database etc. Now I didn't explain all this in my original comment, so you thought I made a mistake, for which I apologize. It wasn't my main point; I was just providing some context for my question, which is still the same: In the period of interest, how many ancestors did QE2 have, and of those, how many do we have details of? Obviously we know of many more than Matt has shown in his chart. But we don't know all of them. I didn't say it's 2B-but yeah, I should've explained that number better. In this video, for all 3 questions, Matt found ancestors matching the required criteria. However, if he hadn't-if the answer was "no" to any question-then the numbers I asked for would become important in order to estimate the uncertainty / confidence of the "no" answer. For example, suppose you were to ask _"Are there any Indigenous American or Polynesian ancestors in the family tree?"_ Now in Matt's limited database, there aren't any. But how sure can we be that there aren't any at all?

  • @Just-A-Little-Magic

    @Just-A-Little-Magic

    Жыл бұрын

    @@nHans Since we know for a fact that queen Elisabeth had no Indigenous American or Polynesian ancestors since the discovery of America in 1492, you would have to go back thousands of years to find the most recend common ancestor. This is more in the realm of DNA testing than geneology.

  • @IsidorioDNeto
    @IsidorioDNeto Жыл бұрын

    Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!

  • @ankavoskuilen1725

    @ankavoskuilen1725

    Жыл бұрын

    I certainly didn't expect the Spanje inquisition in this video, nor the funny remark he made. 😂

  • @nHans

    @nHans

    Жыл бұрын

    Yup, and that was something completely different! 🐍

  • @inesmurr1238
    @inesmurr1238 Жыл бұрын

    Hi! could you shaere the sources you used for this? Specially for Paloma ben Yahia

  • @irishdawn8387
    @irishdawn8387 Жыл бұрын

    I loved the demo and loved the thumbnail pics you put on the tree

  • @00franksmom00
    @00franksmom00 Жыл бұрын

    Not sure how Paloma would have been named Paloma Ben Yahia. Ben is son. She would more likely be Paloma Bat (daughter) Yahia.

  • @EAlyahya

    @EAlyahya

    Жыл бұрын

    Ben Yahia is the surname I think.

  • @augustobarbosab.773
    @augustobarbosab.773 Жыл бұрын

    CK3 + Useful Charts? Nice combination and a very "adequate" sponsor.

  • @amityboy14mo
    @amityboy14mo Жыл бұрын

    Queen Urraca OMG I LOVE THAT YOU MENTIONED HER!!!

  • @arawiri
    @arawiri Жыл бұрын

    Great quality questions 👏 I always wondered how they those were made

  • @adriannabishop2827
    @adriannabishop2827 Жыл бұрын

    Zaida never converted to christianity and never married alfonso Vl.

  • @Just-A-Little-Magic
    @Just-A-Little-Magic Жыл бұрын

    Isn't 'Ben' equivalant to 'son of'? In that case, it should be Paloma bat Gedaliah. Actually, Paloma is a Christianized name, her Jewish name was Yonati. Also: Gedaliah was not the son of Yosef but of Shlomo Ha-Zaken. Otherwise, the ages don't add up (Hiyya was supposedy born in 1085).

  • @pokerface7840
    @pokerface78409 ай бұрын

    Very interesting video. Uhm, the Moors (more anciently known as Mauri, Mauretani etc.) were NOT Black. They are and were Amazighs, i.e. Berbers, a people who have existed in North Africa since antiquity and continue to do so to this very day, although they might have been "Arabized." In the context of Al Andalus however, Moor simply meant Muslim. If you read the lyrics of the song/poem Las Morillas de Jaen (The Three Moorish Girls of Jaen) in the last verse the girls say when replying to a Christian knight who asked who they were, "We are three christian girls who were once Moors.)

  • @carolinegodden4364
    @carolinegodden4364 Жыл бұрын

    'Everyone is a desendant of Royalty. So, I wonder where the current set up was err set up? Another fascinating clip. Thank you. CJ

  • @sststr
    @sststr Жыл бұрын

    But can you really say there is a Muslim ancestor when Zaida had converted to Christianity before having her son, who was himself raised Catholic? Since Islam isn't a race, but a religion, if your parents weren't of a specific religion and they didn't require you to practice that religion, then how can you claim having anything to do with that religion?

  • @UsefulCharts

    @UsefulCharts

    Жыл бұрын

    Zaida's parents (who are also the Queen's ancestors) would definitely have been practicing Muslims.

  • @katherinegilks3880

    @katherinegilks3880

    Жыл бұрын

    Zaida was also Muslim during her lifetime, regardless of what her religion was at the time she gave birth to her children or at her death, so it is perfectly accurate to call her a Muslim. Besides, we don’t know what her personal beliefs were. Just because she officially converted to Christianity doesn’t mean she embraced it. She was born and raised as a Muslim and would have been culturally a Muslim. Put it this way, lots of Jewish and Muslim Iberians converted to Christianity, but they were still considered Jews or Muslims culturally, and this was enough to have them and their descendants expelled from Spain in the sixteenth century. For an American analogy, it is like how many Americans of Mexican descent still practice traditions associated with Catholicism or indigenous spiritual beliefs because they have become part of Mexican and Mexican-American culture, even if the people themselves are secular, atheist, or Protestant, and this marks them as different from the perceived American ideal. Calling Zaida Muslim is as accurate as calling an American born in Mexico a Mexican, which is to say, it is.

  • @nHans

    @nHans

    Жыл бұрын

    ​@@katherinegilks3880 Even before you posted your point-of-view, UsefulCharts had already clarified that QE2 has undisputable Muslim ancestry due to Zaida's *_parents._* The OP's objection is settled. Zaida's own religion or culture is moot.

  • @mohammedjafer9265

    @mohammedjafer9265

    Жыл бұрын

    Is it not enough that we all came from Noah (a.s) who himself worshipped one God which means muslim to submit your will to one God, just gonna have to read

  • @warcriminal3414

    @warcriminal3414

    Жыл бұрын

    no one knew really what is her beliefs it well knowing fact the Iberian Muslims was forced to convert to Christianity which most of them kept their real faith in their hearts until the expulsion

  • @mrbaab5932
    @mrbaab5932 Жыл бұрын

    Spain did have true black skinned Sub-Saharan Black Moors late in the Muslim occupation. They were from the Mali area when the great Mali Empire fell to Islam. Muslims in Iberia were losing land to the northern Christian kingdoms. The Mali converts were very enthusiastic and a threat to the new Arab rulers, so the were sold off to the Muslim rulers of Iberia to push back the Christians that they did. Those were the true Black Moors of Iberia.

  • @cv4809

    @cv4809

    Жыл бұрын

    What happened to them

  • @catlinhollow
    @catlinhollow Жыл бұрын

    I also descend from all three of those people. Thank you for the knowledge 🙏

  • @mariusth4734
    @mariusth4734 Жыл бұрын

    how do you get from Ferdinand II. to Charles III.? Catholic Spain to reformed Britain?

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