Day one of asking : What was the world's reaction to the discovery of dinosaur fossils? Nice topic by the way!

@matthewpobox

Жыл бұрын

I feel like we've known about dinosaur fossils for millenia, attributing them to mythical beings. Would still be interesting to see our interpretation of them over the years though.

@secretcount6942

Жыл бұрын

Would be so cool

@themurmeli88

Жыл бұрын

I imagine the reaction was pretty bare bones.

@tcbj2003

Жыл бұрын

Pun intended moment

@jlshel42

Жыл бұрын

Bone Wars intensify

Fun fact: the last Bulgarian tsar (Simeon II) who held this title for a very short time (from his father’s death in 1943 until the communist revolution in 1944) actually became prime minister of Bulgaria and served as such from 2001-2005. I was a young kid when it happened but I remember how much people used to talk about it. It’s not every day a monarch comes back to his country some 60 years later to be elected democratically lol

@joshuahunt3032

Жыл бұрын

Geez, how old was he as Tsar to live all the way to 2005??

@anidioticgenius6393

Жыл бұрын

@@joshuahunt3032 Simeon II was 5 years old when he took the throne and when Bulgaria became a communist state, I believe, though what is certain though is that he was below the age of 8 when the later years of WW2 were happening

@Quetzietse

Жыл бұрын

Happens more often than you think lol. People love stories like that and a complacent populace loves dynastic worship. Just look at how many of American presidents share a last name: the plebians love that kind of continuity compared to just voting in 'unknowns' everytime.

@8thobretenov354

Жыл бұрын

The other issue is Batenberg's rule wasn't ended because he was terrible, it was ended because his relations with Alexander III were far worse than those with Alexander II. He ruled autocratically with Russian troop backing for a while until with the backing of Bulgarian politicians exiled to Southern Rumelia he did a counter coup against the Russian generals... And then we get the Bulgarian Serb war, 4 Russian backed coup attempts, the Russian Black Sea fleet trying to intimidate Varna, the Stambolov led regency and only then Ferdinand.

@adamus1342

Жыл бұрын

@@joshuahunt3032 He is still living. He is 85 years old.

Queen Victoria was also German, it's been reported that her and Wilhelm the second and other families would speak German in private conversations

@dagmarvandoren9364

Жыл бұрын

Naturlich. Was sprechen die zu hause....but British propaganda was vicious. They were yeloous that the grandson wilhelm. Also wanted some colonies..etc...now British are always great with propaganda. The germans. Are babykillers. The huns.....their language is tooo GUTERAL...etc. all in to the war of USA....we all know the story.. the germans. Starter war1. Opera winfree.....ha ha ha...i love you all...and I have to stand also for DEUTSCHLA ND Th e British always whisper into the war of USA. Remember. Special

@jhibberd6290

Жыл бұрын

I believe her mother couldn't speak English so yes, Victoria would have been fluent in German

@jl63023

Жыл бұрын

*British born to a German princess If Victoria is German, then that means Charles is Greek...

@dylanmurphy9389

Жыл бұрын

@@jl63023victoria’s mum was German, Charles’ great grandfather was Greek. Slight difference

@jl63023

Жыл бұрын

@@dylanmurphy9389 Prince Philip was born in Greece to a Greek family, thus making Charles "Greek" by this logic

Don’t forget the very short period where a Habsburg was Emperor of Mexico

@efnoro1336

Жыл бұрын

What!? 😦😦

@Nicolas25165

Жыл бұрын

Iike the saxe-coburg gotha in Brazil empire

@Pantano63

Жыл бұрын

For three years only and then he was executed and the republic was restored.

@Icetea-2000

Жыл бұрын

@@Nicolas25165 What? Do you mean Pedro II.? His mother was from the House of Habsburg, the daughter of the Austrian Emperor. But his house is still that of Braganza because of his father. Idk where you got Saxe-coburg and gotha from

@Nicolas25165

Жыл бұрын

@@Icetea-2000 Dom Pedro Augusto and Augusto Leopoldo, grandchilds of Pedro II

My favorite bit of related history is that the Swedish Royal Family are not Swedish or even German but French as the throne was offered to one of Napoleons Marshals Jean Bernadotte who started off his career as a Private soldier.

@Yora21

Жыл бұрын

And then later switched sides to have Sweden fight against France.

@bliblablubb9590

Жыл бұрын

He wasn't even noble by birth.

@TorIverWilhelmsen

Жыл бұрын

@@bliblablubb9590 well that was Napoleonic of him.

@alltat

Жыл бұрын

The current queen of Sweden is German, though, so the next Swedish monarch will be half-German.

@gucci1131

Жыл бұрын

Wow good for Jean, joined the army and ended up being a king. Sigma grindset

In case any of you were wondering about the other European monarchs: Spain and Sweden were ruled by French dynasties, Portugal by a double-bastard line of a French dynasty (later German), Italy was ruled by a Franco-Italian dynasty, while Serbia, Montenegro, and the Ottoman Empire had their own native dynasties. Edit 1: the Netherlands was technically ruled by a German dynasty, but apparently they became Dutch enough that History Matters didn't include them here, Luxembourg was also ruled by a German, later French dynasty, Liechtenstein was German, and Monaco was Italian. Edit 2: Actually, the Monegasque dynasty was technically French in the male line, but like the imperial house of Russia, they kept their original family name, which was Grimaldi, Italian in origin. Edit 3: Albania was also ruled by a German dynasty briefly in 1914, but the prince only lived in the country for a couple of months before he fled due to a rebellion, and after a period of turmoil, they chose their own native king. Edit 4: Also of note is that after the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, Germany had plans to have Finland, Lithuania, and Livonia have their own German monarchies, while Ukraine would be ruled by its own native dynasty, but that plan didn't work out for obvious reasons. Edit 5: Actually, Portugal was also ruled by a German dynasty from 1837 to 1910, the House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, the difference being that they kept the Braganza name. Edit 6: The Habsburg dynasty of the 19th century wasn't just Habsburg, it was the house of Habsburg-Lorraine, descended agnatically from the House of Lorraine, a region between Germany and France. Like the House of Savoy, I think it can be best described as Franco-German.

@johnsteampunk6408

Жыл бұрын

Thats a lot of edits. And in 25 minutes. Congrats, especially for your talk about the plethora of dynasties.

@FG-bu3jp

Жыл бұрын

Euro's really love their blue-blood leaders eh

@Cigmacica

Жыл бұрын

Thank you for remembering that our insignificant region in the east of france exists

@hernanstrausser9143

Жыл бұрын

Why was italy's dynasty Franco-Italian? Wasn't it just Italian?

@lokensicarius9347

Жыл бұрын

French/Franks like anglo saxons are just Germans in denial.

When you do a deep dive, ALL European royal houses are related to each other and married again into each other. The Spanish royals married the Portuguese, English, Austrian, French, Italian and German states, Belgian, Danish, Dutch royal houses or nobility. And because the Spanish descended German speaking Austrian based Habsburgs married into various other German speaking states royal houses, along with Polish, French, and Italian houses, they completed circles when the Germans married into the English royal house again. Marie Antoinette for example had Austrian, Spanish, Italian, Bavarian ancestry (including the Medicis as ancestors) among others. So did her husband French King Louis XVI. Henry VIII of England was already the descendant of a Spanish princess who wed an English king earlier in the 1200s, when Henry himself was married to another Spanish princes Catherine of Aragon, the daughter of Queen Isabella of Castile in the 1500s. And his relatives, who took over (and Scottish rivals) carried the same lineage, and then married into the German, Portuguese, Scandinavian, and Spanish royal houses--again. And the Austrian Habsburgs as mentioned married many times into other German speaking states whether it was Bavaria, Saxony, Württemberg, etc. who in turn married into further German speaking nobility in other German states. Then these German royals and nobility married into French houses like Burgundy or Sweden, or Bohemians (Czechia). The French in turn married with the Spanish for centuries, the English and Scots, Luxembourg, north Italian states, as well as already established German states. One big European family going round and round.

Some corrections about 🇩🇰 Denmark: Christoffer III was also from a German family; he was actually born in Bavaria to the house of Wittelsbach. Furthermore, Christoffer was the third monarch of the Kalmar Union who died childless; before him was Queen Margrethe I (House of Estridsen) and King Erik VII (House of Griffin). It's correct that the Oldenburg Dynasty still rules Denmark (and Norway) today. However the main branch died out with the childless King Frederik VII in 1863. The current branch is called Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg and is only remotely related to the original branch (through Duke John (Hans) II of Schleswig, who was a younger brother of King Frederik II of Denmark). Finally, I want to point out that Denmark officially was an elective monarchy until 1665 during the reign of King Frederik III. However, in the latter years it was widely regarded as a formality as the King's oldest son was almost always elected as the new king.

@missa2855

Жыл бұрын

Nørd.

@magnus9145

9 ай бұрын

but didnt both Christoffer III and Christian I come from a danish heritage, i believe they can be traced back to the oldest king of Denmark

@wildfire9280

8 ай бұрын

@@missa2855 Kind of a self-own if “Nørd” translates to “Nerd”, isn’t it?

@adamallen7070

5 ай бұрын

So Peter wasn’t lying about being related to a danish king. Erik Griffen

The Germans sure do get around…be it their royals, their corporations, their amazing goods, ooooor their armies. They know how to go international!

@ultrasuperkiller

Жыл бұрын

Uhm yea this is gonna be the top comment

@silverhost9782

Жыл бұрын

True, although the first 3 have a much better track record than the last one lol

@secretcount6942

Жыл бұрын

Here before this blow up

@HyperVegitoDBZ

Жыл бұрын

German semen is the best in ze world!

@marioalexanderski9598

Жыл бұрын

Or their words, their food, their movies, etc.

Fun fact, the last emperor of Brazil was also from a German family, because his mother was emperatriz Leopoldina, from the house of Habsburg

@patrickjeffers7864

Жыл бұрын

But his father was braganza..actually an illegitimate branch of the French Capetian dynasty

@kekeke8988

Жыл бұрын

Don't forget the short lived emperor of Mexico. It's crazy.

@declannewton2556

Жыл бұрын

Kinda doesn't count. When talking about if a country's royal family is German, what you're really talking about if the ruling house has a German name. In the Brazilian case, the ruling house was a Portugese branch of the house of Burgundy. So despite Pedro II having a German mother, he was of a Portugese house. If you squint Franco-Portugese.

@Nightmare-fq1vv

Жыл бұрын

Actually, the last emperor of Brazil wasn't German, but Austrian - There's a big difference there! Austrians are Germanic (which has nothing to do with the country Germany or being German), but not German!

@declannewton2556

Жыл бұрын

@@Nightmare-fq1vv Absolutely wrong and just pure copium. Austrians are very much Germans. They're just like Fyromians; drip fed propaganga since the end ofWW2 to pretend they're their own people. In the Fyromians case, they pretend they're not Bulgarians. Austrians on the other hand pretend they're not German. Austrian "identity" literally just revolves around saying how not German they are(a sign they're not a real group). I already know you're counterargument: "aCkShUaLly, AuStRiA iS oLdEr ThAn GeRmAnY". No shit sherlock. That's because Germany was founded in 1871 on the principle of uniting the *many* German states under one country. Austria was just one them. In fact, Austria competed with Prussia as to be the one state in which the Germans rally under. So just because a country called Austria existed for a few centuries does not mean they're a nation. It's like trying to argue Hannoverians or Holsteiners are not German but their own group.

Great vid! Btw the first Bulgarian Prince was long-thought of being "terrible" as the video said, mainly because he was fighting for independence from Russia. The history available is usually written during the communist period and describes him as such, but recent evidence shows that he was actually very popular and not that terrbile at all.

Love how detailed this video is. And your maps are amazingly on point as always.

One of my favorite ones so far! All of the connections between the royal houses of Europe makes the Great War even more fascinating, as it was more or less a family feud gone wrong

@Toonrick12

Жыл бұрын

It goes back much farther than WWI.

@alemachupichu6940

Жыл бұрын

Terribly gone wrong i would add

@Cykler770

Жыл бұрын

Dont worry everything stays im family

@radiofreedom7840

Жыл бұрын

@@Cykler770 ...until it doesn't (sound of shots in the distance)

@Isaaac165

Жыл бұрын

Yes

Finland too wanted a German king when it got Independence in 1917. It was a sort of thank you to Germany for their assistance in The Finnish civil war. Candidates were numerous, including the Crown Prince of Germany, who the Kaiser refused as he kinda needs and heir too. So we landed with Friedrich Karl of Hessen, the Kaiser's brother in law. Corinations were set and Friedrich was packing his bags until Germany lost WW1. And the Finns boldly stated that they don't speak loser. So then they just said "F*ck it, guess we'll be a republic"

@G31M1

Жыл бұрын

Maybe Friedrich should have gotten rid of that yee yee ass haircut

@brandonlyon730

Жыл бұрын

That would’ve definitely made relationships with the newly made Soviet Union more complex then they were already before.

@galatheumbreon6862

Жыл бұрын

Damn, poor Friedrich

@Ch-ew9tm

Жыл бұрын

Based finns

@Swissswoosher

Жыл бұрын

I mean Germany wanted it, most Finns didn’t actually accept Friederich

The one thing I like about this channel more than any others, it can get everything into 5 minutes that take other channels 20 minutes to a half hour or more

You guys are truly wonderful and deserve a reward for making such amusing, informative, memorable yet succinct clips. Kudos! Wish you well and hope schools and other learning institutions workdwide discover you. And of course curious young minds whose horizons you will surely broaden😊

To be fair European monarchies were like student exchange programs.

@Hand-in-Shot_Productions

Жыл бұрын

A good way of thinking about inter-marriages among royal families! Thanks for the comment!

@johnlewis3891

Жыл бұрын

😂😆

@mickaels.1614

Жыл бұрын

and redneck family, because they marry each others only !

@americanloyalist4599

7 ай бұрын

Still are

Ah yes, the mistake of dying without an heir: the fatal mistake of historical monarchs

@Ushio01

Жыл бұрын

Easy to do when lots of illnesses that you can survive but end up causing medical issues later like low sperm count. Then you have the very high maternal and infant mortality rates. Both were 10% in the UK and US in 1900 god knows how bad both were in the 18th century or earlier.

@timokohler6631

Жыл бұрын

And people think this is a modern thing.

@dylanroemmele906

Жыл бұрын

If a King can't even field an heir with their bountiful loins how a mf like me supposed to smh my head

@Mnnvint

Жыл бұрын

Royalist: "Monarchy is great because there's no conflict over succession, so..." Monarch: dies without an heir. Royalist: "COME ON, YOU HAD ONE JOB!"

@dylanroemmele906

Жыл бұрын

@@Mnnvint That argument is always the dumbest shit, mf gets no hoes and the country goes into civil war lmfao

Well done! So much profound research in a highly entertaining format 🏆

Awesome video, so densely packed with information. The Animation was, as always, really entertaining.

Small correction regarding 🇬🇷 Otto of Bavaria (or Otto of Greece) was chosen by the Great Powers after the assassination of our first president Ioannis Kapodistrias. He turned out to be quite unpopular with his Greek subjects, and also seemed like he couldn't have children, so he was deposed in 1862 ( the latter of which probably played a bigger role). To replace him the Greeks at first wanted to nominate the future king of the UK, Prince Alfred but his nomination was refused by the Great Powers. So they went to their 2nd choice, Prince William of Denmark of the house of Glücksburg, who as mentioned in the video, were also German.

@pukingpanda1803

Жыл бұрын

Prince Alfred was the second son of Victoria and Albert. Their first son was crown prince Albert, known better as King Edward VII. He would play a role however because he was married to William/George's sister in the same year he became king of Greece which thus created a close connection to the United Kingdom anyway as the crown princess/queen of the UK would be the sister of the king of Greece

@Harry-ju4pp

Жыл бұрын

With Byzantine roots

@Osterochse

Жыл бұрын

I once read an article how Otto was arriving in Greece. He had a classical educated entourage that knew ancient Greek and seriously attempted to rule the country as if it was some ancient country. One observer commented that ruling Greece like this is like ruling a German kingdom with the language of Walter von der Vogelweide. Also they commented that the country was extremely destroyed after the war of independence. "this is how Germany must have looked like after the thirty years war." Since reading that I am in love with the idea of visiting Rome and attempting to do all my orders in Latin.

@ANSELAbitsxb

Жыл бұрын

Kapodistrias was killed by a greek merchant family because they hated him for reasons. Most greeks had no idea what was happening at the time.

@ThorsteinnMemeson

Жыл бұрын

Glucksburg is a cadet branch of house Oldenburg

Alright, here we go: UK - House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha Belgium - Same as above Bulgaria - Same as above Denmark - House of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg (Branch of the House of Oldenburg) Norway - Same as above Greece - Same as above Russia - House of Holstein-Gottorp-Romanov Albania - House of Wied-Neuwied Austria - House of Habsburg-Lorraine Romania - House of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen Germany - 21 states and dynasties, some of whose monarchs were agnatic relatives, just ruled by different branches of their families Kingdoms: Prussia - House of Hohenzollern Bavaria - House of Wittelsbach Württemberg - House of Württemberg Saxony - House of Wettin (most junior Wettin line) Grand Duchies: Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach - House of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (2nd of the Ernestine Houses) Oldenburg - House of Oldenburg (offshoot of the House of Holstein-Gottorp, most junior branch of the entire Oldenburg dynasty) Baden - House of Zähringen Hesse - House of Hesse-Darmstadt Mecklenburg-Schwerin - House of Mecklenburg Schwerin (senior line of the House of Mecklenburg) Mecklenburg-Strelitz - House of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (junior line of the House to Mecklenburg) Duchies: Brunswick - House of Hanover Anhalt - House of Ascania Saxe-Altenburg - House of Saxe-Altenburg (most senior branch of the entire Wettin dynasty, 1st of the Ernestine houses) Saxe-Meiningen - House of Saxe-Meiningen (3rd of the Ernestine houses) Saxe-Coburg and Gotha - House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (4th of the Ernestine houses) Principalities: Lippe(-Detmold) - House of Lippe (Lippe-Biesterfeld line) Schaumburg-Lippe - House of Schaumburg-Lippe Reuss-Gera - House of Reuss-Gera (junior line of the Reuss family) Reuss-Greiz - House of Reuss-Greiz (senior line of the Reuss family) Waldeck and Pyrmont - House of Waldeck and Pyrmont Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt and Schwarzburg-Sondershausen - House of Schwarzburg (Sondershausen line extinct with the death of Charles Gonthier, Prince of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen in 1909, states not merged due to political opposition from their constituent state assemblies)

@rsr789

Жыл бұрын

And then Prince Philip of Greece (House of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg) through his marriage to Elizabeth Windsor (Saxe-Coburg and Gotha) made the UK monarchy even MORE German.

@Edmonton-of2ec

Жыл бұрын

@@rsr789 You say “even more” as if it’s that much. Elizabeth II wasn’t even fully half German

@nazaninnadi7456

11 ай бұрын

@@Edmonton-of2ec elizabethh II was just half scottish by her mother side and just this, she was fully german by her father side.

@Edmonton-of2ec

11 ай бұрын

@@nazaninnadi7456 Still wrong. Elizabeth’s paternal grandmother’s paternal grandmother was Hungarian.

@B-A-L

5 ай бұрын

So no mention of Germany then?

Amazing video! The amount of information that you packed in such a small video is truly something amazing... After finishing the video I thought I was watching it for at least ten mins!

Great video. Loved how it was easy to follow but also snappy into the point.

Technically the Dutch royal family is also German, originally being from the town of Nassau.

@GrouRocks

Жыл бұрын

...and Bernhard and Claus made sure they stay German

@tedcrilly46

Жыл бұрын

technically Royal families are welfare recipients.

@angusyang5917

Жыл бұрын

Luxembourg and Liechtenstein too.

@angusyang5917

Жыл бұрын

@@GrouRocks To be more specific, Duke Henry of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld, and Prince Claus von Amsberg were all German princes/nobles who married Queens Wilhelmina, Juliana, and Beatrix respectively. In the case of the latter, his marriage was met with protests due to lingering anti-German sentiment from WWII and the fact that von Amsberg had been a member of the Hitler Youth.

@Itcouldbebunnies

Жыл бұрын

@@angusyang5917 Correction: Claus was a soldier in the Wehrmacht in 1944-1945. The details of his time as a 'Totenkopf' were carefully erased from the historic record by the powers that be.

Weird to exclude the Dutch royal family. The first line of their national anthem mentions that William of Orange is of German blood... They continually married with Prussians and other German houses, kept ruling Nassau (in Germany...) even when they got kicked out of the Netherlands. They were reinstated by the Vienna Congress and thus slightly before the Greek got their independence.

@nvmtt1403

Жыл бұрын

dutch are basically german tho..........

@angusyang5917

Жыл бұрын

He also excluded Albania as well, although that's more understandable since their German monarchy didn't last more than half a year. He also forgot Portugal, who ruled by the same royal house as Britain, Belgium, and Bulgaria.

@mbos14

Жыл бұрын

The mention of German(Duits) has little to do with germany itself. The word used is Duytschen wich comes from Diets meaning poeple or of the poeple. The Nassua part is true tough.

@gustheriaga1654

Жыл бұрын

Kinda the Albanian thing....if yer not from the village, yer a target, let alone foreigners, 🤣

@luukt4224

Жыл бұрын

When the dutch national athem was written there was no such as germany or being german, at the time “duits” was just an ambrulla term meaning germanic people groups. That is also the reason why people from the Netherlands are called dutch in english

To elaborate, topography played a large role. Germany, being basically a mountainous country, made it difficult for lords and other royals to overtake one another. German states, separated by mountains and rivers, were able to remain independent and defend themselves against each other. This made it possible for royals in small fiefdoms, to maintain their positions. Some castles were mere yards from each other. This is also why the German language has so many dialects and accents. Peoples were separated and their languages evolved differently.

@Kaiyanwang82

7 ай бұрын

Half of Germany is plains. You can literally tell the "border" between the mountain/hill part and the plains part not only from how the people speak, but kinda from the type of sausage (no 100% overlap).

The simplicity of your presentation is quite refreshing.

Fun fact: The last Bulgarian Tsar (he fled in 1946) Simeon of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha was later a freely elected prime minister.

@sireawfulthe1st291

Жыл бұрын

Hey atleast modern leaders are tech. In a very big nutshell, the same as monarchs. Just with different name and concept of ruling.

@rutessian

9 ай бұрын

There's nothing funny about that fact!

Love how basically all monarchys of europe are german but germany itself doesn’t have a monarchy

@Boretheory

Жыл бұрын

I mean France and Italy also had ton of monarchs in other countries

@daimhaus

Жыл бұрын

Well it had, but not anymore.

@davidcervantes9336

Жыл бұрын

I will never understand why Europeans (and some other nations) were so inclined to install a monarch or ruler of “royal breed”, even a foreign one, before a local. That’s like the dumbest thing I can think of.

@thefarmking9924

Жыл бұрын

@@davidcervantes9336 in order to get a guarantee or an alliance

@davidcervantes9336

Жыл бұрын

@@thefarmking9924 it’s obvious that nobles were only selling their subjects to the better bidder.

Thanks for the upload

Very concisely and well explained in a brief time 👏🏾👏🏾

After viewing this episode, it now makes perfect sense why French Emperor Napoleon III sent the Austrian Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian Joseph of the House of Habsburg to be Emperor of Mexico in 1863. Thanks History Matters!

@pomeranianproductions647

Жыл бұрын

Does @ actually do anything on KZread?

@potatogod975

Жыл бұрын

@@pomeranianproductions647 besides using the reply button idk

@Ludovicus1769

Жыл бұрын

@@pomeranianproductions647 I think you have to directly reply to someone, so no. People who use it just look silly.

@2dwatermelon302

Жыл бұрын

@@Ludovicus1769 it also works on lives to tag a person or sth

@Edmonton-of2ec

Жыл бұрын

It was actually under his recommendation that the Hohenzollerns got the Romanian throne. The Romanian elite of the time was hugely Francophile so they requested the Emperor pick a candidate

A striking omission of royal families of German extraction is the Orange-Nassau dynasty of the Netherlands. 6 out of 8 great-grandparents of Queen Wilhelmina, who reigned in 1914, were born in Germany to German noble families, a seventh (Paul I of Russia) was from a family that you do label as German, and of the eighth, William I of the Netherlands, all eight great-grandparents were born in Germany. If that family is not German, I cannot think what family is. (Side note: when a couple of years ago Willem-Alexander, the current king, spoke German at a televised event, Dutch commentators commended him for his impeccable German. I found that amazing, given that his father was German, as was his grandfather on his mother's side. In fact, Wilhelmina is the only one of his great-grandparents not born in Germany.)

@marchauchler1622

Жыл бұрын

Historically there was no distinction between Dutch and German on the previous centuries. The connection becomes even clearer when you compare Dutch to Liw German. Both Germans and Dutch are a fusion of various Germanic tribes i.a. Franks, Saxons, Frisians etc.

@cerebralflatulence2765

Жыл бұрын

@@marchauchler1622 You are not wrong, of course. The Dutch Royal family only became royal, however, in 1815, by which time a significant difference between what are now Germany and the Netherlands was present. Barring the dialect continuum along the border of the two countries there was little mutual intelligibility between the languages, and there was a history of centuries of political separation (at least since 1648 the Netherlands were not part of the Holy Roman Empire).

@sheilanixon913

Жыл бұрын

King Willhelm Alexander is also a qualified International Air lines Pilot !

@enrajbroin

Жыл бұрын

@@marchauchler1622 there definitely began to develop a distinction from the 17th century onwards, in Wilhelmina's time there was already a clear difference about as much (if not more) than today. (Speaking about how they are viewed, not linguistically inherently, then we can go back earlier.)

@Cvg020

Жыл бұрын

However, the most prominent name of the Dutch royal family, i.e. 'of orange', which was not adopted to suit the sensibilities of the population like the UK or Russia (it really was only translated) is French. So it can be argued that the family is French, even if the second, lesser known part of the family name is German.

I like these videos, they bring awareness to not often talked about and interesting subjects

another brilliant and interesting clip - my only request is that the channel keep going with the English history video's thru the George 11 and onwards period. I consider your apolitical and objective presentation gives people the opportunity to learn new material and make our own decisions on what it all means. Once again - great work.

from a German perspective marrying into these houses was very attractive for several reasons: the options of increasing your rank within the holy roman empire were limited. Since the holy roman empire already had a king there was no way to become a king of a state that was a part of the empire (apart form the king of bohemia, who was also a Habsburg). A kingdom within a kingdom makes no sense and a country that already has a king can't have a second one. So the only way to legally become a king is by marrying into a family from another country Increasing one's rank was important for reasons of prestige but also had real world implications. I.e. a lower ranking noble had harder access to even get an audience with a higher ranking one. In case they got one then the entire procedure left no doubt that they were less important: like they have to sit on a simpler, less comfortable chair, while the higher ranking one had the best seat. Also the sitting order was different, often you wouldn't even be invited to important meatings etc. etc. etc. The chances of even being heard by the more powerful people therefore diminished, which means that these monarchs simply had not an equal say when important decisions were made. It really changed the real power these monarchs had. it is no surprise therefore that people were really obsessed with prestigious titles, ranks, orders etc. Their whole world and their social status depended on these things. Btw. the fact that German families couldn't become kings/czars/emperors etc. also motivated them to become kings of something else. in 1697 the electorate prince of saxony became also king of Poland and established a personal union which lasted for 66 years between the two countries. In1701 the electorate prince of Brandenburg became king in Prussia ( later of Prussia). And as already mentioned in the video in 1714 the electorate prince of Hannover became king of Great Britain. This way these monarchs could increase their ranks and also become more powerful players in Germany and Europe despite the fact that their native countries weren't that important. P.S.: plenty of kings from other kings also ruled some territories within the holy Roman empire without their core regions being a part of it. That would be Sweden and Denmark, later Britain. On the side of the countries they married into: The German monarchs were actually quite good, because they tachnically were rulers of some independent place which was seen as a good thing, since marrying an actual ruler was seen as better than someone who only rules in name or doesn't even rule a place at all. Many of the German families were not particularly wealthy, maybe on par with English gentry, and were therefor no threat to anyone's power. Sometimes they were accepted because that means that they are easier to control and also more likely to actually rule in the interest of their new country since it is much more important than their home country. If you had married a french, spanish or russian member of the royal family than they might have acted only in the interest of their old coutnry and your country ends up being a colony of a greater power. Also an unimportant German family is probably more willing to assimilate to the rules of the new country since they are happy to finally actually rule some place. Furthermore German dynasties had different religions, like protestantism, catholicism and reformed. You could always find someone of your religion to marry or who was willing to convert, which was always the case if the country was orthodox. PS: btw. I have a huge man-crush on the first Hohenzollern king of Romania: Charles I . He radiated Gigachad-raw-manliness energy. If this man entered this room right now and tells me that he is the king now my answer would be: "as you wish, your majesty." Look him up and tell me that you would react differently

@newstages95ay87

Жыл бұрын

National hero of Romania and military reformer right?

@Tendedsheeep

Жыл бұрын

where did you learn all this, I would also like to understand like you the history of these noble "game of thrones"

@ocs10

Жыл бұрын

@@Tendedsheeep hope hell answer

@corinadarie6658

Жыл бұрын

As a Romanian that bit about Carol I was really funny😂😂 (that's how we called him, feels wrong to say otherwise)

@dagmarvandoren9364

Жыл бұрын

Hoch lebe.Deutschland

Always love these! I can't tell if it's just me or not but I've really been enjoying how it seems the output of new videos has been more frequent recently!

@tcbj2003

Жыл бұрын

Ikr

@thunderbird1921

Жыл бұрын

On the subject of Germany, one thing History Matters could explore in the near future is why there are so many descendants of ethnic Germans in the United States today (they are literally in the top two ethnic groups last I checked). A number were in Pennsylvania among other areas even before the American Revolution, and then an explosion of immigration from German lands happened in the 1800s. I myself am largely of German descent, though it's mixed with Scottish/British and French. It would be fascinating to hear more about.

@dmdrosselmeyer

Жыл бұрын

@@thunderbird1921 I also think this would be an interesting subject for a video! No specific reason lol

@erhswku

Жыл бұрын

James must be throwing more money around.

It is so funny that when the queen had her 70th anniversary this year we had a monarchy expert in German national television who constantly reminded us how proud we Germans could be as well because the queen is technically a German queen too making it "our queen" haha

@pedanticradiator1491

Жыл бұрын

70th not 75th

@niclas7955

Жыл бұрын

@@pedanticradiator1491 yes you're right my bad sorry

@pufkfzoi8525

Жыл бұрын

Stupid journalists for stupid people. Every educated german knows about the british royals being of german blood. On the other hand recent powers take an immense effort in teaching people to disrespect our own nobility. But times may change..

Thanks a lot for this easy to understand summery.

I was actually quite surprised that Queen Victoria didn't get brought up. I know she loved marrying off her family so was curious if this was going to be a factor or not.

@louisduarte8763

Жыл бұрын

She's how the Hanoverian dynasty became the Saxe-Coburg Gotha/Windsor one; granddaughter of George III, therefore descended from the German George I, she married Albert, a German Prince.

@silenthunteruk

Жыл бұрын

@@louisduarte8763 She had a German accent too, contrary to how she was portrayed by Emily Blunt and Jenna Coleman.

@shimanopetermann9068

Жыл бұрын

@@silenthunteruk This is the first I've ever heard of that. May I ask where you got that information from? Because even though Victoria was technically a member of the German house of Hannover, that house had ruled and lived in the UK for over a century by the time she was born and was pretty much britizised - so much that Victorias uncle Ernest Augustus who ruled in Germany as King of Hannover still regarded himself as Englishman years after he had left England and taken the throne of Hannover. The members of the royal house of Hannover in that time spoke English as a mothertongue so it seems odd that any of them would've had a German accent - especially as Victoria had no ties to Germany and as far as I know never even visited German lands during her childhood (I believe Hannover she never visited ar all).

@silenthunteruk

Жыл бұрын

@@shimanopetermann9068 It came up during the airing of 'Victoria', but seems to be debatable. Never really proven either way - no audio confirmed to be of her exists.

@rogerdines6244

Жыл бұрын

Mendelssohn said that the Queen spoke good German, which would indicate that she spoke it as a foreign language, presumably with an English accent, rather than that German was prevelant and meant she spoke English with a German accent-I am not aware that anyone has suggested George III, George IV or William IV spoke English with a German accent, so why should Victoria?

I wish you’d do a whole documentary about this topic. I find absolutely fascinating.

Here in Spain the monarch has also a great ammount of german ancestry, back to the Hapsbusrgs and from more recent times, being son of a greek princess from the german house of Glücksburg

@piffpaff9674

Жыл бұрын

That‘s true despite one correction: The House of Habsburg was never German but Austrian!

@OctavioMovies

Жыл бұрын

​@@piffpaff9674 Actually the dinsty is Swiss technically speaking, either way its still a german culture family.

@luiscastaneda4583

2 ай бұрын

The Habsburgs were German.

Great content!

I once read an article how Otto was arriving in Greece. He had a classical educated entourage that knew ancient Greek and seriously attempted to rule the country as if it was some ancient country. One observer commented that ruling Greece like this is like ruling a German kingdom with the language of Walter von der Vogelweide. Also they commented that the country was extremely destroyed after the war independence. "this is how Germany must have looked like after the thirty years war." Since reading that I am in love with the idea of visiting Rome and attempting to do all my orders in Latin.

@Apokalypse456

Жыл бұрын

vulgar latin? or classical? do consider recording and uploading on youtube :)

@dagmarvandoren9364

Жыл бұрын

Herrlich...

@piffpaff9674

Жыл бұрын

That is both very intelligent and witty! Besides: The Bavarian house of Wittelsbach unfortunately produced some very romantic princes who were just not made for a real kingdom with its heavy crowns…

@nightwish1000

8 ай бұрын

there's a video of a guy on youtube who does exactly this. And no wonder, no Italian has a fuckin clue what he is saying.

@its_dey_mate

7 ай бұрын

@@Apokalypse456 There is classical and ecclesiastical (Medieval/Church) Latin, Vulgar Latin is a very imprecise and historically contested term :)

Cuza, the "despotic" Romanian leader, was so "despotic" that the guys who made him leave are now known in Romanian history as "The monstrous coalition"

3:29 I always appreciate how much research he does. Very few know that "Stroopwafels are delicious" was one of the mottos of the Dutch speaking peoples

@Swaceierad

11 ай бұрын

The Dutch speaking peoples? I’ve lived in Belgium for whole my life, but never have I seen anyone eating a “stroopwafel”, while in the Netherlands that’s one of the main snacks I see. Belgium is more famous for its normal waffles (Brussels and Liégeois, the two types are even named after Belgian city’s)

Very interesting as usual

Video idea as a loyal Patreon supporter: Why was Finland 🇫🇮 given autonomy in the Russian Empire

@gwynnbleid4936

Жыл бұрын

Who is paterson, exactly?

@mav8535

Жыл бұрын

they fought for it. Multiple times.

@itzadam9359

Жыл бұрын

@@gwynnbleid4936 sorry typo

@themurmeli88

Жыл бұрын

@@gwynnbleid4936 "Paterson is a 2016 drama film written and directed by Jim Jarmusch. The film stars Adam Driver as a bus driver and poet named Paterson, and Golshifteh Farahani as his wife, who dreams of being a country music star and opening a cupcake business. "

@terriblejokefactory8831

Жыл бұрын

Because the Finnish really didn't like Russia and Finland would have been the absolute worst place to have rebellions in. Autonomy was the easiest way to keep the Finns satisfied

Can you talk about that time Britain wanted to colonize Siberia?

@vtv0109

Жыл бұрын

I live in Siberia, I would like to hear about it

@mojewjewjew4420

Жыл бұрын

What the hell? When did they want siberia?

@stanleymcmillan4389

Жыл бұрын

Serbia you mean?

@aleksapetrovic6519

Жыл бұрын

@@mojewjewjew4420 16th century and early 17th century. They Russia started looking to the east and found forest full of furry little creatures which were pritty much money printing machines. British quickly noticed and established their trade with Ivan the Terrible and Godunov loved those damn coins. But British tried few times to eatablish network of posts in unclaimed land, but failed. British were then like "I didn't want your stupid furrs and woods anyway" salty and started looking west toward Amerca. France had same as Britain without pesky Russians and those Spanish and Portugese colonies looked dope as hell. Rest is as they say is history. Fun fact: trade with Russia was training ground for future British East India Company.

@nts821

Жыл бұрын

It still wants.The most recent attempt was made in the 90s, but Putin stopped it. They viscerally hate him for this.

Love your videos 😄👍🏽👌🏽

Thanks for doing this

love your work

After all of the "and they died childless", I see now that the short version of why there are so many German monarchs is that they are really really good at having kids. Because, you know, German is the language of romance.

@Spartan322

Жыл бұрын

Friendship ended with French, now German is my best friend.

@legendofJupp

Жыл бұрын

Oh ja, die ganze Faust, ja!

@Osterochse

Жыл бұрын

according to Mark twain it actually is the language of love and affection and it is impossible to be angry in German since the language lacks impulsive agressive words. he had the opinion that German language should import English words so it is finally possible to be angry in that language.

@frankiefierro7129

Жыл бұрын

"I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men, and German to my horse." - Charles V. Something I'll always remember from the medieval II total war loading screens

@gordon1545

Жыл бұрын

Ah no. Most of those that died childless did so because any children they did have died, often at birth. It seems weird but during this period, pandemics apart, the rich often lost more children than the average people. This was because, in those days, doctors were more dangerous to your health than *not* having doctors.

Nice video.

Amazing video as always! Would be really cool if you create something about the Hanseatic League or about the Kalmar Union :)))

This was like the cliff notes presented through a fire hose and animated for simplicity....awkwardly satisfying, bravo to the production team and narrator, 🤛🏻👊🏻🤜🏻 For sure this same team should produce a slightly slower paced yet more in depth series....💪🏼🧠✊🏼✌️

2:52 As a german, I did not expect such a sign in an english video and it caught me off guard lmao

@DonutsIceCreamAndCottenCandy

Жыл бұрын

What dada it mean

@gubgub3275

Жыл бұрын

@@DonutsIceCreamAndCottenCandy We are also Russian

@piffpaff9674

Жыл бұрын

I am amazed, too. It shows we have all come a long way and are finally able to discuss the true historical facts for the records.

CORRECTION 2:00: The house of Oldenburg does actually no longer reign in Denmark today. Christian VII. (who was the last absolute monarch) died childless, so prince Christian Frederik from the house of Glücksburg was picked as the new king (Christian IX.) and it is the house of Glücksburg, who still reigns to this day in Denmark. (I'm not keen on Norwegian history, so I don't know about them).

@pedanticradiator1491

Жыл бұрын

the House of Glucksburg is part of the House of Oldenburg. The present Norwegian monarchy started around 1905 with the first king being a Danish Prince

@johnson941

Жыл бұрын

@@pedanticradiator1491 I wasn't aware of that. Thank you for the information.

Thank-you. Shared.

One small correction: prince Carol of House of Hohenzollern (later known as king Carol the First) became prince of Romania in 1866 after Alexandru Ioan Cuza (the Romanian ruler mentioned in the video) was overthrown by a coalition of radical liberals and conservatives. At that time, Romania was still under Ottoman domination. We gained independence in 1879 after allying ourselves with Russia in a war against the Ottoman Empire.

@Osterochse

Жыл бұрын

Charles I radiated Gigachad-raw-manliness energy. If this man entered this room right now and tells me that he is the king now, my answer would be: "as you wish, your majesty." Look him up and tell me that you would react differently

1:16 James the Second me: What??? the channel finally officially reviewed the history of James Bissonette?

Love these videos.

Great documentary!

Here's two fun facts HM ommitted here: 1: 3:26 Yes, as the attentive among you might have noticed, Leopold I was of the same royal family as that which would eventually come to the throne and still reigns in the UK. Similarly to how the house of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha switched their name to the house of Windsor, the belgian house switched its name to the much less original "House of Belgium" at the same time and for the same reasons. To this day, the royals of both the UK and Belgium technically belong to this same royal house. 2: 3:14 The first-choice monarch for Greece was actually Leopold I, who would soon go on to take the throne of Belgium instead. HM clearly was aware of this since he used the same character model in both animations, dunno why he didn't say it haha ^^ consider this an easter egg

@itzo1994

Жыл бұрын

The Bulgarian royal family is also from Saxe-Coburg Gotha. Our last Tsar, Simeon II (who was even PM from '01-'05) is a distant cousin of Elizabeth II.

@thomasrinschler6783

Жыл бұрын

Leopold was actually married to Charlotte, the only child of George IV, and was set to become Prince Consort. But she died in childbirth and, well, there went those plans. He did, however, recommend his sister to his deceased wife's uncle Edward, Duke of Kent, who became the parents of Queen Victoria. He then played a role later in getting his nephew Albert and Queen Victoria together....

@joekerr9197

Жыл бұрын

Saxe-Coburg-Gotha no longer reign in UK. That dynasty literally ended with Elizabeth II. Charles, while her son, is actually agnatically of his father's dynasty - the Glucksburg dynasty which is a cadet of Danish Oldenburg dynasty. This same dynasty ruled also (besides Denmark and Norway) in Russia and Greece. The fact Charles kept officially the name Windsor is besides the point.

@americanloyalist4599

7 ай бұрын

@@joekerr9197the house of Belgium will lose control of Belgium with in two years when the heir to throne dies or resign for her heir

"The Queen is german, but we don't always sing deutschland deutschland über alles everytime she comes on the television."

wow Danke schön for the video, very interressant

For those who do not know, Windor may still be the name of the Royal house of the UK, but Charles III is a direct male line descendent of the house of Oldenberg, just as the Rusian Tsars were from Peter III onward.

Some royal: _dies childless_ germans: "It's free real estate"

This was one of my most favourite videos, I always found it fascinating how so many of Europe’s monarchies had German roots or German blood

@davidcervantes9336

Жыл бұрын

I will never understand why Europeans (and some other nations) were so inclined to install a monarch or ruler of “royal breed”, even a foreign one, before a local. That’s like the dumbest thing I can think of.

@kjelluvanderpoten8415

Жыл бұрын

so, i need to complain about it somewhere. the belgians pocked their king in a great big congress after disagreeing a lot. so did the greeks btw as leopold 1 previously refused the greek throne and then we snatched him up and as explained by a shitton of people the netherlands also have a german monarchy

@galatheumbreon6862

Жыл бұрын

@@davidcervantes9336 like the King of Greece being Danish

@evangelostse2477

Жыл бұрын

@@davidcervantes9336 Because it's important to install one of 'your own' to safeguard the monarchies' interests, and also because of habit. Installing a local only serves to bring the country further away from europe's 'collective' interests.

@Marge719

9 ай бұрын

@@davidcervantes9336 you wrote this under other comments too. Is there a little provocation going on? Or a little jealousy? And NO, having a good King ruling over a nation is not dumb - it is the smartest thing you can have, actually.

Here in Ireland, several leaders of the 1916 Easter Rising (for which the Germans attempted to send a shipment of weapons which were intercepted by the British) considered the idea of crowning Kaiser Wilhelm II's youngest son Joachim the King of Ireland, despite of being members of the Irish REPUBLICAN Brotherhood.

@jaklm4221

Жыл бұрын

Dont be a femboy Keltoid, make your dad proud

@Makofueled

Жыл бұрын

@@jaklm4221 daddy is proud. Also they should've crowned Joachim it was the right move we could've avoided a stupid civil war.

@MonaLisa-lu8zi

Жыл бұрын

Bunkum 👆

@piffpaff9674

Жыл бұрын

Wow I never heard that before. What crazy times!

@tahamuhammad1814

8 ай бұрын

Finland also crowned a German Prince after declaring independence.

I love that you used the old pre-1918 Borders of Belgium in your tumbnail. It’s in de details…

Short answer: Because there were many German royal families (HRE and stuff).

@vomm

Жыл бұрын

Even shorter answer: Because.

@hlibushok

Жыл бұрын

@@vomm A bit too short.

I love the idea that some long lasting ruling dynasties in European countries came to be because "another nation chose our King back in the day and his descendants still rule"

@davidcervantes9336

Жыл бұрын

I will never understand why Europeans (and some other nations) were so inclined to install a monarch or ruler of “royal breed”, even a foreign one, before a local. That’s like the dumbest thing I can think of.

@laija4992

Жыл бұрын

@@davidcervantes9336 there are several reasons. Mainly because when you're choosing a local house over a foreign one,it creates a sort of resentment by the other houses coz it could've been them instead of them. A foreigner to rule over you would create less of that. And since it's a foreigner they won't know much about the land and it's customs. So you could take advantage of that to secure more power and privileges for yourself. Also a foreign dynasty helps because it's most prolly a junior son of the ruling family of a foreign country. So obviously they'll have some intrests in keeping up the house in the new country which in turn would make sure they won't be eaten up by another country.

@spaghettification8658

Жыл бұрын

@@davidcervantes9336 One of the biggest reasons for choosing a foreigner is compromise. Sure, during the American War of Independence George Washington quickly established himself as the talented, accomplished and universally admired leader of the revolution, but most newly-independent countries didn't have a George Washington, but rather many different leaders, each representing different factions of society and many of them rivals, all with different visions of what the country should be. In that kind of climate, a foreign noble will make for a much more universally popular monarch than any given local leader. This was especially the case in countries with major cultural divides, for example in Belgium, a country split between a Dutch-speaking North and French-Speaking south, putting a German bloke on the throne was a pretty good compromise. The other major reason, as mentioned in the video, was diplomatic. Going back to Belgium, Leopold I was married to the British King's niece, and following her death his second marriage was to the King of France's daughter. These connections ensured good relations between the young nation and the Great Powers whose support it desperately needed, and guaranteed protection from any attempt at reconquest by the Dutch, as Britain and France now had a piece of their 'dynastic honour' invested in Belgian independence - some random Belgian dude wouldn't've had those valuable connections. TL;DR: Both in terms of internal stability and external diplomacy, making a foreign royal your monarch was a very shrewd decision for many newly-independent countries in 19th century Europe.

@ceoofuzbekistan4025

Жыл бұрын

@@davidcervantes9336 depends, the thing that saved Romania was installing a Hohenzollern on the throne

@bluefish4999

Жыл бұрын

@@spaghettification8658 Interesting, as a Yank I've had a hard time figuring out the reasons of monarchies, you and the comment above you explained it pretty clear and I have a better understanding now, once again the comment section on this channel is as good as the video. I do find Cromwell an interesting figure in history, had he lived longer or if his son would of been stronger would there of been a house of Cromwell? I always found it strange they brought back King Charles son but I can see it was for the stability.

Nice job. If you could add dates and references it would even better

Because pre-1900 Germany was composed of 300+ politically powerless princedoms, dukedoms, bishoprics, and states whose royal marriage does not carry geo-political baggage. Germany was the place to go if you wanted royal children quickly. France, Spain, the Netherlands, Poland, Russia, etc.. at the time all had monarchies and marriages between their royal households produced wars (i.e. the war of the spanish succession on spain’s competing royal marriages with france and austria)

fun fact: Simeon Borisov von Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, the czar of Bulgaria, is the only man in history who was czar of a country and also a democratically elected prime minister of it 45 years later. He is still alive btw.

@riziq30

Жыл бұрын

Basically he used to be both the head of state and the head of government in a country where both positions are held by separate people? (IDK, my country has both positions held by the same person)

@Osterochse

Жыл бұрын

@@riziq30 he wasn't both at the same time. He was czar during the second world war, when he was a child. Therefor he didnt make any decisions More then 50 years after that he became the prime minister by a democratic election. Kind of crazy to think that a real monarch becomes prime minister so much later.

@riziq30

Жыл бұрын

@@Osterochse yea that's what I think

@nts821

Жыл бұрын

Napoleon III was a democratically elected president.

@jonathanwebster7091

Жыл бұрын

Norodom Sihanouk was also King (on two separate occasions, 1941-1955 & 1993-2012) of Cambodia, as well as Prime Minister of Cambodia from 1955-1960, after he abdicated in favour of his father (Cambodia is a semi-elective monarchy) in order to enter politics and get elected Prime Minister. He was also simply 'Head of State' of Cambodia without the title of King from 1960-1970), 'Chairman of the Presidium' (figurehead head of state) of the Communist Democratic Kampuchea regime in Cambodia from 1975-1976, President of a government in exile of Democratic Kampuchea from 1979-1989 (which had international recognition, including retaining Cambodia's seat at the UN), and head of a provisional government from 1989 to 1993.

Did I miss the part about Albania’s German Monarch?

@average_enjoyer

Жыл бұрын

Prince Wilhelm of Wied

@DedicatedCaffeineUser

Жыл бұрын

Albania was only very briefly ruled by a German. After gaining independence in late 1912, the Congress of Trieste appointed Wilhelm of Wied, but his rule was interrupted after Albania was occupied in WW1. Albania had many regencies before being declared a republic in 1924. Then in 1928, President Ahmed Bey Zogu declared himself King Zog I. Zog was the last recognized monarch of Albania with Victor Emmanuel of Italy claiming the throne of Albania after making them a protectorate in 1939.

@TheCimbrianBull

Жыл бұрын

@@DedicatedCaffeineUser King Zog sounds like some villain in a superhero comic book.

As I understand it, a lot of the 'marrying off' to other royal houses happened because many dynastic laws said people in line for the throne (of wherever) had to marry houses of equal status. There were so many German states with houses of equal status to other monarchies. If someone in line didn't marry properly, it was considered a morganatic marriage and basically dropped all descendants of the line from any succession rights

Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, being part of the Ernestine line of House Wettin, might be the most successful exporter of Royalty in the 19th century. For about 1000 years being some regional margraves and dukes, with their height in power during the Lutheran Reformation, the Ernestine line lost the Archdukedom to the other Wettin line, the Albertians, and later split in smaller, and smaller dukedoms. But with the surge of the National state in the 19th century after the Napoleonic Wars, many newly formed states noted a grave lack of homegrown royalty. Being oppressed for centuries does not bode well for your own lineages of princes and kings, and thus, they had to look elsewhere.

“James the second,” I guess we now know where bissonette got his wealth and title status from

To be fair to Anne it's not like she didn't try, she was pregnant 17 times, 14 were miscarriages/stillbirths, two didn't make it past a year and the last one died at age 11

@piffpaff9674

Жыл бұрын

She surely was the Most tragic English Queen who suffered the most both as woman as well as Queen who desperately needed an heir….imagine her unhappiness for so many years…!

Not many know this, but Bissonette is also a royal family, although from France. The name Bissonnette belongs to the early history of France, when a region and a dialect went by the name of Languedoc. It is a product of the family's residency in Languedoc - the area where the surname Bissonnette was first found. Notable amongst the family name is a Guilin-Laurent Bizanet, a general born in 1755 who participated in the Revolution; after enrolling he was elected lieutenant-colonel. He fought in the Alps and in Italy and in 1815 Napoleon himself named him general.

3:29 LOL at the banner on top😂

3:59 - Fun fact, Bulgaria's first replacement choice was prince Valdemar of Denmark, also from a German family, namely the house of Glücksburg

My favourite moment from Brexit was hearing people say "we won't be ruled by a German". The irony of someone saying that while living in a country that has been ruled by a german noble family for more than a century is fantastic.

@silverhost9782

Жыл бұрын

You realise the the monarchy doesn't exercise any power though right? Whilst EU legislators do? Not really comparable

@francesco8000

Жыл бұрын

@@silverhost9782 1) technically speaking the UK is a monarchy (a constitutional one) so technically they are ruled by a German monarch 2)they do have some limited power like the ability to see early drafts of new legislations which they used to lobby against any kind of tax or oversight of their significant wealth.

@antorseax9492

Жыл бұрын

'Ruled'

@damianwollai8831

Жыл бұрын

Imagine what will happen if you tell them that a large part of their ancestry comes from today german territory

@thehistorynerd8537

Жыл бұрын

In theory/in law (de jure). In reality they do not hold power and are only symbols of the nation (de facto)

As someone from Schleswig-Holstein I have to say that I like our people ruling basically everyone else.

@Ghreinos

Жыл бұрын

1. Es war das Haus Oldenburg, besonders mit ihrer Seitenlinie Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg 2. Lediglich die Dänen, das Hause Oldenburg selber und die Norweger vertreten diese Linie. Bei Griechenland ist es nur teilweise vertreten. Man könnte natürlich noch Holstein-Bottrop dazu zählen und hätte damit auch die Russland dazu Die restlichen Monarchen stammten aber aus den Häusern Hohenzollern(-Sigmaringen) (wie Rumänien und Bulgarien) ab, Sachsen-Coburg-Gotha (Großbritannien, Belgien, (teilweise Griechenland und Russland)) und die Häuser Braunschweig, Hannover und Bayern ab.

@dagmarvandoren9364

Жыл бұрын

Ich auch. Hasse die siehst arroganz. Genug

There were not so many "monarchies" ruled by a king in the Holy Roman Empire. In medieval times there was the Roman-German King, the King of Bohemia, the King of Arelat (or Burgundy), the King of Italy and for some time the King of Sardinia. Within the Roman-German Kingdom however there were a lot of Dukes, Landgraves, Margraves, Count Palatines and so on. After the 30 years' war there were virtually only two Kingdoms left: the Roman-German Kingdom and the Bohemian Kingdom, both reigned by the Habsburg Emperor, who was also the King of Hungary and of Croatia. August the Strong, Duke and Prince Elector of Saxony succeeded in 1697 to be elected as King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania - but he was not a King within Germany. The Prince Electors and Margraves of Brandenburg from the Hohenzollern dynasty inherited the Polish Duchy of Prussia around 1618. Due to a war between Sweden and Poland the Duchy of Prussia became independent in 1657, and in 1701 Friedrich III of Brandenburg crowned himself as King Friedrich I in Prussia (he took the title of King in Prussia after some diplomatic discussion with the Habsburg Emperor, to whom he was subject as Prince Elector of Brandenburg). In 1714 Prince Elector Georg Ludwig of Brunswick-Lüneburg (also known as Hannover) of the House of Welf inherited the English and Scottish thrones by matrilineal succession (his grandmother was Elisabeth Stuart, Princess of England and Scotland, married with Count Palatine and Prince Elector Frederick V of the Palatinate, 1619-1620 Queen of Bohemia). The Holy Roman Empire as well as the office of "German King" was abolished by Napoleon in 1806, who then upgraded the Duchies of Hannover, Saxony, Württemberg, Bavaria to Kingdoms.

@pedanticradiator1491

Жыл бұрын

actually when Georg Ludwig became King, the seperate thrones of England and Scotland no longer existed having United into the Kingdom of Great Britain (he was also King of Ireland) and Hannover did not become a kingdom until after the Napoleonic wars. Napoleon divided Hanover between various allies and even made most of it part of France for a few years

There is quite a big mistake in the bulgarian part of the video. Our first King wasn't actually a king but a Knyaz(title similar to king) and he was overthrown by a russian coup in the country. After the coup was defeated, he actually refused to come back, because it would anger the Russian empire and possibly endanger Bulgaria. He was actually a great ruler and cared deeply for Bulgaria is buried here. The following ruler Ferdinand of Austria wasn't our first choice and was actually the first one to agree to become Knyaz of Bulgaria, there were several other candidates that refused to become rulers.

@reljamirovic146

Жыл бұрын

Knjaz translates to prince so bulgaria at that time would be considered a principality

@patrickjeffers7864

Жыл бұрын

Ferdinand was horrible

@danielpekov3908

Жыл бұрын

@@reljamirovic146 it remained so until 1908

"Until, you know, a thing happened" bruh.

The habsburgs actually ruled over Spain as well at one point before the War of the Spanish Succession began

Beside diplomatic balance, another reason to have so many Germanic dynasty is that kings and queens had to marry within high nobility families. Due to extreme fragmentation, there was plenty of them in Germany, and they were not involved in national rivalry like local high nobility, who challenged the power of the king, could be. So to marry a German prince / princess was a safe choice, with plenty of opportunity to choose either one of the few wealthy one, or a beautiful one. The exception was 16th century, when marrying an Italian princess gave money, refinement and local alliances. But this ended with the control of Italy by Spain then Austria.

Italy was also ruled by the German Royal family. "House of Savoys" was also from German origin.

@atza6126

Жыл бұрын

do you have a source for me?

@hunterbrooklyn6822

Жыл бұрын

House stark was also ruled by a german family

@leonardodavid2842

Жыл бұрын

The origins of the family aren’t clear. There is no clear source for the origin of the founder Humbert of Savoy. The dinasty was quite small and insignificant for it’s first few hundreds years as counts, thus little sources exist for their early history. Thus we do not what family the Savoy’s originated from (or weathed Humbert was a noble at all, though there is a legend that he was related to Emperor Otto I, which almost certainly false). Generally the “nationality” of houses are determined in two ways: Either by it’s place of birth. In this case this can be seen as either Italy (since Savoy was Italy at the time), Switzerland (since Humbert was also count of Valais) or France (since that is were Savoy is today). Otherwise it can also be given based on whom granted the title: in this case it was granted by a Burgandy, does it may be seen as a house of Burgandy (thus French).

@angusyang5917

Жыл бұрын

I called them Franco-Italian, since Savoy is on the border between France and Italy, I don't think they were really German.

@patrickjeffers7864

Жыл бұрын

Isn't savoy in southern France, on the Italian border?

As a Belgian, I love how you translated “L’union fait la force” as “Stroopwafels zijn heerlijk” in the background 😂. Nice touch - should be our real national motto!

@Luc-uw8ur

Жыл бұрын

It means ‘treacle waffles are delicious’. As a Dutch person I had to smile too, but I don’t get the joke to be honest…. 😳

@uytteb

Жыл бұрын

But it doesn't really work because stroopwafels are very much a Dutch and not a Belgian thing, even though Dutch is one of the offical languages in Belgium.

@timpauwels3734

Жыл бұрын

@@uytteb indeed. Stroopwafels are the kind of thing I would bring back to relatives in Belgium if I’ve been to the Netherlands. That, and some old cheese.

@Cliohna

Жыл бұрын

😂 As a German I read “Stroopwafels zijn heerlijk” as "Waffeln sind herrlich". Well, now that I know actually "Sirupwaffeln", but who cares.

@alfje5492

Жыл бұрын

@Morer R The official Belgian motto means "unity makes us powerful" or "eendracht maakt macht" in Dutch. Stroopwafels are indeed very Dutch, should have chosen something more Belgian, like chocolate, beer or small firearms.

All though somewhat authoritarian Alexander Battenberg wasn't terrible, he was in fact quite popular in supporting the unification of BG with Eastern Rumelia (opposed by Russia) and fighting off a Serbian invasion (which Russia kind of encouraged by withdrawing the top officers and saying it will not oppose it). The outcome of both events really annoyed his uncle and he got deposed in a coup by Russian-trained officers. He actually was restored to the throne but at that point he felt too isolated and fed up so he abdicated. He is controversial, but I wouldn't say terrible. He aligned himself with Bulgarian interests most of the time, instead of him being a puppet which leaves him somewhat respected in BG to this day.

The House of Saxe Coburg and Gotha has now been succeeded by a junior branch of the House of Oldenburg, namely the House of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg / Mountbatton-Windsor

The Netherlands was/is also "ruled" by a German royal family. The Orange-Nassau family has German roots and (apart from William II) predominantly married German. It was the Nassau-Weilburg family (German princes and cousins of the Orange-Nassaus) that inherited the duchy of Luxembourg after Wilhelmina succeeded her father William III (Salic law) which showcases the remaining German ties. Also both Denmark en Norway are ruled by the house of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg- Glücksburg. As will the UK be! Prince Philip took the name Mountbatten similarly to what the Windsor's did, but is actually a Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg. When Charles succeeds he could still take his father's name. Finally, stroopwafels are Dutch, not Belgian ;)

@angusyang5917

Жыл бұрын

Actually, the British royal house has already decided that even if Charles ascends to the throne, he'll still keep the name Windsor. To quote Prince Philip: "I am nothing but a bloody amoeba. I am the only man in the country not allowed to give his name to his own children."

@pepijnvanaken4855

Жыл бұрын

@@angusyang5917 That's interesting! I thought that, as monarch, he reserved the right to change his name (regnal and last, for that matter) once he ascends to the throne, but it could well be that it has already been decided.

@matthewexline6589

Жыл бұрын

Dutch ~= Deutsch. The Dutch are descendants of Roman-era germanic tribes (Batavia) who never got the memo to join up and become part of the German Nation. So anyway, the idea that their monarchy comes from Germany seems natural. They're basically in denial about being the same people. The Dutch are basically just water-Germans. ⛵ Like Kevin Reynolds from Waterworld (1995).

@pepijnvanaken4855

Жыл бұрын

@@matthewexline6589 I'm not too sure I agree with that. The Dutch now are predominantly descendents of the Frisian and Salic Frank peoples, as the Batavians moved south during the migration period after the fall of the Western Roman Empire. According to that reasoning the French and English would also be "Germans" as they are descendents from the Franks and Anglo-Saxon tribes, which I don't think is true. I think the political division between Germany and the Netherlands happened during the Dutch Revolt and the Peace of Münster (1648) when the Emperor recognised Dutch sovereignty and allowed them to leave the HRE. Strong ties remained, though, as many German workers migrated to the Netherlands and the Princes of Orange and Kings of the Netherlands predominantly married German.

@matthewexline6589

Жыл бұрын

@@pepijnvanaken4855 I'm not too sure I agree with it either, was mostly commenting for the sake of commenting.

The house of Oldenburg is also where the Romanovs and the old Greek royal family came from. (Bavarian royal only stuck a few years and they plucked a Danish one after)

Oranje-nassau (netherlands) is a German familie with the last queens mostly marying Germans

What you make videos narrative so fast ? With such informative and interesting topic ? Can you make it with slow tone and more time in future?