@@cameronsmith3047 I also think it's "Nepoleon Complex". You see this on a macro scale in certain office settings or even with female prison guards being especially dictatorial.
During the Chinese Empress Wu's reign in the 7th Century, China was a superpower - the most prosperous and powerful nation on earth. She ruled for 50+ years until she voluntarily abdicated the throne in her 80s. She was the first pioneer of women's rights 1,500 years ago. She had a female prime minister and empowered women to be entrepreneurs. She allowed women to own properties, get divorced, dress sexier, ride horses, go hunting, etc. The Chinese historians who recorded her story were all men who resented women in power. Before and after Empress Wu's time, only men could serve as emperors.
@@Dan-zt7uj yeahh they can live there are many people who lives for more than 100 years.......i also have our grandma who is 86 years old this year....😁☺
Henry executed two wives, Anne Boleyn and Catherine Howard (if my memory serves, which it may not). He divorced two wives (Catherine of Aragon and I forget the other one). One wife died and his last wife survived him. Divorced, executed, died, divorced, executed, survived is the quick and dirty way to remember the fates of his wives. The names are harder, at least for me. I think it was three Catherines, two Annes, and one Jane, but don't quote me on that. Empress Wu didn't do anything that male emperors hadn't done, but people, particularly back then, tend to think that women should be especially caring. Back then they also thought they should be submissive. She was a strong women who defended her throne. I can think of several male monarchs who killed family members without being judged as harshly.
Disney, why don't you make a movie about these women? (9/26/2021) Edit: For all of the ladies and gents in the comments, you know this is meant to be satire right?
Have you checked out Jason Porath's RejectedPrincesses.com? He has fun with this very idea and uses his animation film experience to tell the stories of interesting women whose lives would not make it into an Disney movie.
Catherine the Great isn’t exactly evil, she was so dedicated to Russia that when she fell ill (I think it was the pox) she specifically asked for an Orthodox priest instead of a Lutheran priest to bless her. Her husband wasn’t a dedicated leader to a powerhouse of a country so he had to go. Catherine brought Russia to a golden age due to her rule, she might’ve did some questionable things but she’s a staple in Russia’s history.
@@kyaria8888 historically that's very common sooooo..... ok? Also she didn't actually kill him he gave up the throne. It is debated whether or not she had him killed but we don't know for sure either way
@@kyaria8888 What goes around comes around for a bad leader like Peter Ulrich. He did it too. Specifically, he did it first. Oh and btw historians argue she didn't kill him nor get him killed. He was a really disliked ruler.
I watched a documentary about Wu Zetian. Contrary to what you've said, she was actually an effective leader during her time. She initiated trade initiatives among neighboring countries that greatly enriched and brought prosperity to her kingdom.
@@LucasSantos-ss6ou Based on what I've watched, her successor destroyed most of the remnants of her rule as de facto ruler of China and painted her as a terrible ruler. Apart from that, we know that China is a patriarchal society so the people are happy to blindly to believe that she was.
She is the only Female to take the throne and ruled as an Emperor. She founded her Zhou Dynasty, interrupted the Tang Dynasty. She eventually return power to her son and he restored the Tang Dynasty.
This channel is filled with major historical errors. Wu Zetian was actually a very effective leader, as you said, and e.g. Isabella and Ferdinand did not rule Spain between 1451 and 1504. Not at all. Isabella was born in 1451 and died in 1504, but she started her reign in 1474. I don't know how he could miss that...
Catherine de' Medici, Queen of France, wife of Henry II, took part in ordering the massacre of Protestants, known as the "St. Bartholomew Massacre". Thousands of protestants (Huguenots) are said to have been massacred. Her son King Charles IX initially ordered the killing of several Protestant leaders, which turned into a massacre. However, it is believed that his mother Catherine instigated the whole plot. One could excuse them as an overreaction after an assassination plot against Admiral de Coligny, a Protestant leader failed, fearing Protestant retribution. It is not clear who ordered the assassination. The Protestants gathered in Paris for the wedding of Catherine's daughter Margaret and the Protestant King Henry of Navarre. The massacre took place a few days after the wedding so it was a sort of a "The Red Wedding".
Damn. It really sucks about Catherine De Medici. Civilization 6 makes her out to be so cool. To be fair, without her, her children would have definitely fallen victim to a coup that could've really messed up the monarchy. But yeah St. Bartholomew's Massacre was real messed up.
Ummmmmmmmm just take a look at her sister 🤨🧐 she was not even anti Roman Catholic, geez. She did a lot in her reign. Not just killed Catholics. Look what death and killing other monarchs accomplished in shorter times with less other accomplishments!
The video only highlights the bad in these rulers. Idk about the others but empress wi zetian opened up china’s trade routes and the Silk Road and built the country’s economy from 0 to 100. Her sons were useless and more into power than the actual responsibility of power and plotted to seize power. She didn’t kill the previous emperor to gain power but it was granted to her by her husband whom she loved and loved her and are the only rulers to share a burial ground which is rlly uncommon in China because where ur buried basically establishes your life’s accomplishments (think the terra-cotta warriors). She chanllenged Confucian ideals of the time which were women were better off stupid and if you weren’t u were unnatural and wack shit. She reformed women’s rights with the right to divorce and work freely. Ppl write horribly of her because she was judged like crazy for being a women. The killing and stuff were actually super normal in chinese royalty. Emperors in power often killed their brothers and father to get to the throne. She was honestly badass
@@lucianatanase6932 , Henry always did what he wanted. His break with the Roman Church was not about Anne and less about ideology. Henry wanted a male heir and as he saw it, the way to do that was to divorce his menopausal first wife and marry a younger and more fertile woman who would give him a son. But since the Pope wasn't allowing that, he had to break with Rome.
Henry did not consider himself a Protestant though. He was committed to the 'old religion', just not to the Rome. The first real Protestant Ruler of England was definitely his teen son.
I beg to disagree about Empress Wu being an inefficient ruler. Along with emperors Taizong and Xuanzong, she made the Tang Dynasty the great dynasty that it was.
Male emperors: kill people who stand in there way People: he’s a person who stand his ground Wu zetain: kills people who gets in her way People: ruthless
I absolutely love these vids! I can watch this stuff all day. History would've been so much more exciting when I was a kid if it was presented like this! Keep them coming!
Got one bit wrong, Elizebeth1 didn’t break with Rome, it was her father Henry IIX who did that. She however was excommunicated by the Pope of the time who encouraged France and Spain to invade England and declared that it was quite legal to assassinate her. No wonder she got a bit upset with catholic’s. Regards.
Herodotus 94 Mary queen of Scots didn’t have what it took to be queen. She would have likely been over thrown like she was in Scotland and then what would have happened? Queen Elizabeth may not have had royal blood from both parents but she was King Henry VIII daughter. If your argument is that she was the daughter of a commoner and the marriage was not legal, then her brother Edward VI should have never been king either. But since the king decreed it, it doesn’t really matter. That’s how come Elizabeth was the rightful queen and Mary should have stayed in her own country and ruled it. But that’s just my opinion 😉
@ArmchairWarrior if you're going to use Roman numerals, then 8 is written as VIII not IIX. Look at a wristwatch or clock that uses them and tell me how 8 is written.
I would love a video on Katherine of Aragon! We only ever hear about her story during the divorce to Henry Viii but her life before marrying Henry was an incredible story of ambition determination, and her belief that it was her divine right to rule England as it's Queen.
Theres been recent uncovered evidence that wu zetian wasnt such an "ineffective" ruler as once thought. They found evidence to indicate that women had more freedom during her rule like being able to ride a horse etc, the common folk were pretty happy with her, and theres evidence that they were a very prosperous and pretty peaceful population under her rule. A priceless almost legendary headpiece was found on a distant relative of hers which supports the fact she had a very prosperous reign. Alot of the "bad" stories about her rule were written after she died, some by decades after, by people who thought they should be in power/ any woman was incompetent to rule. As it is the case with many rulers, the history is written by the victors. these discoveries were found since this video was made so, still well done video.
You forgot about Queen Ranavalona I of Madagascar who was a lot like Africa’s Joseph Stalin. Pursuing policies of isolationism and extreme government control and religious persecution. She is estimated to have killed around 2.5 million people during here reign. The most of any female ruler.
I was wondering if anyone would remember her. It's also worth noting that while 2.5 million (a conservative estimate, btw) might sound like a lot it grows when one considers the fact that at that time there were less than 10 million total living on the island.
@@mikebellis5713 yeah, their stories were told to the younger generations. Being mass murdered made their religions and cultures and stories fade away 😢
Cool thing about Elizabeth Bathory! She was known to be headstrong and aggressive, Which wasn't good for her enemies, and also was frowned upon for women at the time. The details about her being so sadistic and about her torturing her servants so brutally were mostly rumors started by her rivals as a smear campaign against her. She isn't off the hook for being an asshole to her servants, though, she beat them often, had no patience for them, and did beat at least one of them to death. So she was a murderer, but not exactly jigsaw.
Sensible Cryptid-thank you! i came here to say almost this exact thing. She was a woman ahead of her time and was vilified for it; especially as so many others wanted her considerable lands and she refused them. Most of the things said about her were lies.
That's precisely what I was about to say! She probably was a very wealthy and influent Lady surrounded by greedy guys who wanted to take her lands so they made up all these horrifying accusations about her, the same way they would later accuse independant women of witchcraft.
Mary Tudor does NOT deserve her bad reputation. She was such a kind and great girl and deserved the best childhood, but got the worst one and it ruined her. Poor girl. I blame Henry for all of it. He broke her! pushed and abused her until she couldn't take it anymore, and broke. And he kept her from her most wonderful mother since she was 15. I love Mary. I hope Henry is burning in hell for what he did to Catherine and Mary.
@@AmandaVieiraMamaesouCult Cleopatra doesn't have the reputation of being bad ass does she? She used her brain and female wiles to have others do for her, which made her powerful.
'Ukrainian princess' - what the hell are you guys talking about?! It's like calling Julius Ceasar the first governour of France. Olga was a ruler of the Kievan Rus!
@@kenzieuchiha1191 it's the other way actually - Kievan Rus was bigger and a great deal to the north of modern-day Ukraine 🙂 I get it why a person who's not too knowledgable about the history of Eastern Europe would say something like this, but it's still a sign of sloppy editing. Not cool
@@Sandra.Molchanova None taken, but I was actually just referring to the fact that just parts of Ukraine (Kiev to be specific) were apart of the Kievan Rus' federation, not that Ukraine was the entirety of it lol.
Out of all of those, Catherine the Great comes across as the only one that can be respected. The others were monsters, but my take away on Cat's story is that she did her subjects a huge favor by getting rid of an inept leader. It was just a military coup, not a rein of terror and bloodbath for the sake of just being evil.
@Patrick Bateman the world was very different back then. I imagine it would be very difficult for anyone, especially a women, to gain power through their own merit. And they did abuse their power but if it hadn't been for them and some of the decisions they made, the world wouldn't be what it is today. And this video didn't show that some of these women were actually effective leaders. Ruthless but effective.
I think you forgot Kosem Sultan, regent of the Ottoman Empire for about 30 years and she saw 7 sultans on the throne. She is considered the most powerful woman in Ottoman History
That may be true but remember this. Mary reigned for 5 years and has killed about as many as her father and sister. You need to remember the amount if time and that Elizabeth was in war with also a lot of people after her due to both being a woman and protestant
@@agatha6999 oh the comment was still wrong in Mary's 5 years as queen she had burned 289 less people than her father had put to death in one year (approx 1 540). Mary had less than Elizabeth had killed in a year in 1569 (ik it was for a different reason but that was still treason) approx 750
@@sophieroberge168 EXACTLY! queen mary only killed 60 people a year, while henry killed 1800! and elizabeth killed more than 60 people in several years too!
Mary I killed a ton of Protestants, galore! She was only monarch for 5 years! Gmab. Elizabeth had one of the longest reigns ad the time. Elizabeth was not so anti RCs as much as trying to survive. Mary was heavily anti Protestant, due to what her dad did!
Dear Weird History, normally, I adore your videos. Though, with this one, please do check your sources more thoroughly. Olha was the first female ruler of Kievan Rus', not Russia. What's more, she wasn't of Russian heritage. Also, I (as many linguists and Grammarly) recommend spelling Kiev as Kyiv (as it's transliterated from Ukrainian). Whoa, it made me write a comment on UA-cam for the very first time.
Ваши придирки не очень уместны. Во-первых, название 'Киевская Русь' знают только люди СНГ и профессиональные историки зарубежья, специализирующиеся на истории Древней Руси. Обывателю-иностранцу будет непонятно, что за такая Киевская Русь, а если скажут Россия, то уже понятнее, где находится. Во-вторых, в видео ни слово сказано не было про ее родословную, так что выпад насчет 'она вообще-то не русская' вообще не понятен. Хотя, по летописи, родилась она в Пскове. Ну и про написание Киева на английском, такой вариант имеет место быть, именно такой международный стандарт.
How on Earth could you have missed Ranavalona I, Queen of Madagascar??? I sat through this entire video expecting to see her as a slam-dunk numero uno!!!
In defense of Bathory. her plea was never offered to the court, those who confessed against her were tortured. She was a powerful and wealthy widow. Others wanted her wealth so maybe they made most of this shit up? Not saying she didn't do any of it but how much is really true? You don't get and keep power without being ruthless.
Weird History is the best because of the narrator. His voice and comments are priceless. Makes history very enjoyable. Is the voice on Nutty History the same- can't get. enough!!!!
4:20 correction at the time of Queen Mary’s reign England was about evenly split between Protestants and Catholics so England wasn’t yet a majority Protestant country.
My favorite part was when the Narrator said Princess Olga stepped in as ruler for her son and proceeded to lose her mind. I have never laughed so hard in so long.
Yeah, but Isabella wasn’t exactly cruel. She was against the cruel ways to the Jews and Muslims during the Spanish Inquisition, she was against enslaving the natives of America that Christopher Columbus brought back to Spain. And several times she allowed a choice which was usually not cruel. She gave the choice once to I believe what were Jews to either convert religions, or to move away from her Queendom and give her all the personal items, without being harmed themselves
@@messianic_scam that was her husband. And Christopher Columbus. She was highly against harsh punishments towards the Jews and muslims. But she was ignored.
Hey, small note on Princess Olga (I am Ukrainian who learned our history). She was a ruler of Kyivan (Kievan) Rus’, not Russia. It’s 2 different countries. Thank you ❣️
The biggest one you forgot was Ranavalona I of Madagascar. She basically conquered the neighbouring Kingdoms and united the Island, but in hey bloody means
@werid person First of all, keep your frustration to yourself. And second she didn't do such thing, but if you're talking about 300 protestants burnt alive, it was Mary I of England's doing aka "Bloody Mary" and the incident is called Marian persecutions. So make sure to double-check the information before questioning someone's POV. And she was the Queen so if securing the throne means to clear the path from wild rats so then be it...
I don’t agree that Elizabeth I should be in here. She was actually one of the most benevolent monarchs of that time and she was far from the catholic hater that Mary was of Protestants. In fact, Elizabeth is credited with calming much of the discord between the 2 faiths. She hated that there was so much bloodshed over religion. She was also very witty, very supportive of the arts, very intelligent, and when she had to put people to death like her cousin Mary Queen if Scots she would lose sleep and take dats to sign the warrant. However, she was very vain about her appearance and would forbid her ladies in waiting to marry unless she picked out the groom. She also had a hot temper and was known to throw shoes. But many British still consider her the best monarch England ever have, even hundreds of years after her death.
Mary killed Protestants for the sake of a type of ethnic cleansing. She was also not on the throne nearly as long as Elizabeth. Elizabeth killed those who were treasonous regardless of religion. In our day and age she’d be barbaric but in those days she was a very benevolent ruler. She was also sympathetic to children and the elderly, sparing their lives if she could help it. She hated signing death warrants and would lose sleep over it.
Yeah ,about Olga . In Ukraine student in schools usually would get a summer list of literature. When I was in school I used to have Slovo o polku Igoreve (it's historical poem about Igor ,his life, his death and about Olga and her revenge) for 5 years in this list . So actually if you happen in Ukraine, you can ask any ukranian and they would tell you this poem from their memory 🥸
Thank you for at least pointing out that Bloody Mary was succeeded by Bloody Bess...but I think you went a little light on Bloody Bess. She killed a lot more Catholics than her sister did protestants....if only because she reigned longer...
Isabella of Castile is one of the greatest leaders in history. And you forgot to mention that she had Columbus EXECUTED for his atrocities against the Indigenous People in the New World. Queen Isabella's dying wish was for the Indigenous People to be unharmed. But obviously, her wish wasn't granted. Castile and Leon was Queen Isabella's realm and she was a staunch Catholic, she required her subjects to follow suit. When you're in territory that doesn't belong to you, you do as you're told or get the hell out of Dodge. Go over to someone's house and do as you please then see what happens. It won't be pretty. Queen Isabella of Castile has never received the credit she deserves for being one of the greatest leaders in history.
Unfortunately so little is known about them, as a French myself the only thing we know about their relationship is that they cared about each other and that Mary was affected when he died, but other than that, Francis was only a small part in her life, their marriage lasted for only two years.. Their history together is so short compared to Mary’s lifetime, also Francis was known to be small and particularly fragile while Mary was tall and quite impressive to look at. I LOVE Reign and I wish that Francis and Mary would’ve had such a beautiful love story in real life especially because it’s so unrealistic to be actually in love as royals at that time :(
@@estherlepage4155 thank you for the information! I am always wanting to know more about the kings and queens of other countries past. I was definitely intrigued by Reign. They made that show perfectly! Probably not accurate, but entertaining.
I just finished AP Euro last year I just wish I came across this channel before. But I am taking AP US history this year so I am looking forward to the little fun facts.
Got Elizabeth 1 a bit wrong. She reinstated the Church of England which her father and brother had created and wanted religious tolerance but the Pope excommunicated her and declared it would not be a sin to kill her, which was bad enough, but he also encouraged France and Spain to declare war. All in all the Catholic Church caused their own persecution in a lot of ways. Still not one of the finer points of her rule though.
could you give me a source of the pope asking for France and spain to declare war? It would be a just war though, as why would you want your catholics to get tortured by rebels and to shut them down.
Xavier Ohara this is what I’m talking about, issues in 1570, temporarily suspended when it was proving more of a problem for catholics than Elizabeth and reiterated in 1588 to support the Spanish Armada. For further info try google as it’s well known facts. Pope Pius V "Regnans in Excelsis" ("Reigning on High") excommunicated Queen Elizabeth I of England, “the pretended Queen of England and the servant of crime", declared her a heretic, released her subjects from allegiance to her and excommunicated any who obeyed her orders: "We charge and command all and singular the nobles, subjects, peoples and others afore said that they do not dare obey her orders, mandates and laws. Those who shall act to the contrary we include in the like sentence of excommunication”
Herodotus 94 not exactly as she didn’t want children and she is related to the present queen. Also the Catholic Church is not a major force in the UK although I am happy to say it survives but catholics are still barred from some positions.
Didn't you already make a video about Countess Elizabeth Bathory, which suggested that all the stories about her were fabricated by grasping family members who wanted to take her property from her? I'd like to know more about the Roman emperors' wives and mothers. From what I have read about them, they could be quite ambitious, intelligent and sometimes ruthless!!! 💗🌵
Wow! Very hard to believe that Irene of Byzantine Empire was so ruthless since she was an orthodox. Well, I was very surprised of this fact. Weird history helps a lot of learning new things and facts!!!
Imagine a reality show with all these queens in one palace.
They would kill each other 😂
Real housewives of royalty.
That would be so effin dope. Get ready for the bloodshed 🔪🔪🔪
Hailey Harmon survivor royalty edition. And Catherine de Medici would win
Isn't that The Bad Girls Club? 🤔
In the end, both men and women have the power to be completely insane when given power. Yay progress!!
Womem in power tend to have been far more brutal throughout history, but if they weren't then they would likely have been taken out
Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely
@@cameronsmith3047 I also think it's "Nepoleon Complex". You see this on a macro scale in certain office settings or even with female prison guards being especially dictatorial.
Common sense more like it duhhhhh
Case in point- Trump.
During the Chinese Empress Wu's reign in the 7th Century, China was a superpower - the most prosperous and powerful nation on earth. She ruled for 50+ years until she voluntarily abdicated the throne in her 80s.
She was the first pioneer of women's rights 1,500 years ago. She had a female prime minister and empowered women to be entrepreneurs. She allowed women to own properties, get divorced, dress sexier, ride horses, go hunting, etc.
The Chinese historians who recorded her story were all men who resented women in power. Before and after Empress Wu's time, only men could serve as emperors.
@@Dan-zt7uj yeahh they can live there are many people who lives for more than 100 years.......i also have our grandma who is 86 years old this year....😁☺
More likely they’re going to focus on the murdering she did. Not hard to paint someone as crazy when they do that.
yea back then it's probably just wouldn't work for a female ruler because not everyone is gonna get behind that
@Sousa Teuzii he didn't murder his fam just some wives because he wanted to divorce and some of them cheated on him so
Henry executed two wives, Anne Boleyn and Catherine Howard (if my memory serves, which it may not). He divorced two wives (Catherine of Aragon and I forget the other one). One wife died and his last wife survived him. Divorced, executed, died, divorced, executed, survived is the quick and dirty way to remember the fates of his wives. The names are harder, at least for me. I think it was three Catherines, two Annes, and one Jane, but don't quote me on that.
Empress Wu didn't do anything that male emperors hadn't done, but people, particularly back then, tend to think that women should be especially caring. Back then they also thought they should be submissive. She was a strong women who defended her throne. I can think of several male monarchs who killed family members without being judged as harshly.
Disney, why don't you make a movie about these women?
(9/26/2021) Edit: For all of the ladies and gents in the comments, you know this is meant to be satire right?
you know exactly why
@@Botkram entertainment
Now there's a live-action Di$ney movie I'd gladly watch!!
Have you checked out Jason Porath's RejectedPrincesses.com? He has fun with this very idea and uses his animation film experience to tell the stories of interesting women whose lives would not make it into an Disney movie.
I would watch that over and over again!
"A torture chamber! Just what I always wanted.'
'Anything for you, darling!'
That is messed up!
This is funny but twisted hope you have a good day
*snort*🤨🤭
why is that so weird??????
Haha right on 😂
Catherine the Great isn’t exactly evil, she was so dedicated to Russia that when she fell ill (I think it was the pox) she specifically asked for an Orthodox priest instead of a Lutheran priest to bless her. Her husband wasn’t a dedicated leader to a powerhouse of a country so he had to go. Catherine brought Russia to a golden age due to her rule, she might’ve did some questionable things but she’s a staple in Russia’s history.
Finally someone!
She still killed her husband and cheated on him.
@@kyaria8888 historically that's very common sooooo..... ok? Also she didn't actually kill him he gave up the throne. It is debated whether or not she had him killed but we don't know for sure either way
@@kyaria8888 What goes around comes around for a bad leader like Peter Ulrich. He did it too. Specifically, he did it first.
Oh and btw historians argue she didn't kill him nor get him killed. He was a really disliked ruler.
@Natо kartuli ☠️ those were lies but ok
Freddie Mercury was the most ruthless Queen
I mean the first one chopped off pieces of live people’s body and ate it..so..
@Jordan Moir thank you!
I mean....he just killed a man
A cat who vacuums junk shiiii you right cool name guy
@@ivangorskiy9369 His momma knows though 😉
I watched a documentary about Wu Zetian. Contrary to what you've said, she was actually an effective leader during her time. She initiated trade initiatives among neighboring countries that greatly enriched and brought prosperity to her kingdom.
I'm new to watching Weird History and I wondered how accurate it was. I'm filing what you said away in my mind.
@@LucasSantos-ss6ou Based on what I've watched, her successor destroyed most of the remnants of her rule as de facto ruler of China and painted her as a terrible ruler. Apart from that, we know that China is a patriarchal society so the people are happy to blindly to believe that she was.
She is the only Female to take the throne and ruled as an Emperor. She founded her Zhou Dynasty, interrupted the Tang Dynasty. She eventually return power to her son and he restored the Tang Dynasty.
This channel is filled with major historical errors.
Wu Zetian was actually a very effective leader, as you said, and e.g. Isabella and Ferdinand did not rule Spain between 1451 and 1504. Not at all. Isabella was born in 1451 and died in 1504, but she started her reign in 1474. I don't know how he could miss that...
@@Lily1127channel Yeah. This channel is worthless. I unsubscribed a month ago.
Catherine de' Medici, Queen of France, wife of Henry II, took part in ordering the massacre of Protestants, known as the "St. Bartholomew Massacre". Thousands of protestants (Huguenots) are said to have been massacred.
Her son King Charles IX initially ordered the killing of several Protestant leaders, which turned into a massacre. However, it is believed that his mother Catherine instigated the whole plot. One could excuse them as an overreaction after an assassination plot against Admiral de Coligny, a Protestant leader failed, fearing Protestant retribution. It is not clear who ordered the assassination.
The Protestants gathered in Paris for the wedding of Catherine's daughter Margaret and the Protestant King Henry of Navarre. The massacre took place a few days after the wedding so it was a sort of a "The Red Wedding".
Damn. It really sucks about Catherine De Medici. Civilization 6 makes her out to be so cool. To be fair, without her, her children would have definitely fallen victim to a coup that could've really messed up the monarchy. But yeah St. Bartholomew's Massacre was real messed up.
The guy doing the voice needs to narrate my life story, “Get ready, this ones a douzy.” 😂😂
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Lmao🤣😎
I deeply resonated with this one
10 most ruthless queens:
My girlfriend: allow me to introduce myself...
My queer brother says hold my beer
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@@UM7942 Do you even know what that means?
PoizenesPeter no I don’t
Lol
I hate how everyone just let queen Elizabeth slid when she killed tons of Catholics
Ummmmmmmmm just take a look at her sister 🤨🧐 she was not even anti Roman Catholic, geez. She did a lot in her reign. Not just killed Catholics. Look what death and killing other monarchs accomplished in shorter times with less other accomplishments!
To be fair, LOTS of them were trying to kill her
“Ruthless” does NOT mean “badass”
Ikr and some of them cant even be considered ruthless, they are straight up psychopaths
Says you.
PREACH
Depends on ones point of view
The video only highlights the bad in these rulers. Idk about the others but empress wi zetian opened up china’s trade routes and the Silk Road and built the country’s economy from 0 to 100. Her sons were useless and more into power than the actual responsibility of power and plotted to seize power. She didn’t kill the previous emperor to gain power but it was granted to her by her husband whom she loved and loved her and are the only rulers to share a burial ground which is rlly uncommon in China because where ur buried basically establishes your life’s accomplishments (think the terra-cotta warriors). She chanllenged Confucian ideals of the time which were women were better off stupid and if you weren’t u were unnatural and wack shit. She reformed women’s rights with the right to divorce and work freely. Ppl write horribly of her because she was judged like crazy for being a women. The killing and stuff were actually super normal in chinese royalty. Emperors in power often killed their brothers and father to get to the throne. She was honestly badass
Henry VIII broke ties with the Catholic church, not his daughter.
Mostly because of her mother Anne Boleyn. She convinced him
@@lucianatanase6932 , Henry always did what he wanted. His break with the Roman Church was not about Anne and less about ideology. Henry wanted a male heir and as he saw it, the way to do that was to divorce his menopausal first wife and marry a younger and more fertile woman who would give him a son. But since the Pope wasn't allowing that, he had to break with Rome.
@@ladyv5655 correct
So it's more like a personal agenda same as persecution of Catholics.
Henry did not consider himself a Protestant though. He was committed to the 'old religion', just not to the Rome. The first real Protestant Ruler of England was definitely his teen son.
Another Mary. I thought it was Typhoid Mary again, lol
These queens were ruthless but some of them were very efficient rulers.
If they were men they would be fierce.
Punkwrestle i don't want to know how they acted during their reign on "that time of the month" lol
@@h.t.awesome3822 Period is not always terrible. Depend women to women.
TheConqueringRam 🤣😂and that’s why wickness rule still
H T Awesome I imagine they rolled with the flow.
Fun fact:Isabella l of Spain was Mary l of England’s grandmother.
yes 😍😍
Si
@s t a l k e r her mothers side
@s t a l k e r her mother's side, catherine of aragon is isabella's daughter
@@student05-bdes52 did i just saw you at another video
I’ve watched many ancient history documentaries, but this one stands out for its storytelling and details.
Olga of Kiev was actually a Rus (viking), and she didn't "rediscover" christianity because she wasn't Christian before she eventually converted...
She is a badass Queen though
I beg to disagree about Empress Wu being an inefficient ruler. Along with emperors Taizong and Xuanzong, she made the Tang Dynasty the great dynasty that it was.
Who said she was inefficient? She was a highly impressive ruler, but that doesn’t mean she wasn’t ruthless
@@ariarose4034 she needs to be ruthless just to survive.
Nah shes just a worthless piece of shit who ordered her grand sons to kill them self that's all.
@@MEECH247 ?!
@@MEECH247 you sound ignorant
Constantine and his mothers head knocking back and forth and around cracked me up.
Honorable mention: Queen of Hearts from Alice in Wonderland.
Well I mean she was pretty damn harsh
The Queen of hearts she baked some tarts all on a summers day,
The Jack of knave he did a fart and blew them all away 😁
Who was inspired by “bloody mary “ who was a queen in Scotland
Sorry she was a queen of england Scotland and wales
You forgot Carole Baskin
LOL
Weird History Lorena Bobbit?
Well played!
😭😭😭
Yes! Two words- sardine oil
Male emperors: kill people who stand in there way
People: he’s a person who stand his ground
Wu zetain: kills people who gets in her way
People: ruthless
What people are you talking about? No one condones politically-motivated murder.
Wu Zetain murdered her family. Any male emperor that murders his family is not thought of as someone that just stood his ground!!!!
yea because all male emeporers murder their family right?.
Somebody is reading to Much into this. Read the title for context.
She killed her own mother and grandchildren. What do you expect people to call her?
“Yass Queen”
Said no historical person ever
21st century is gay
@@Kolchak_Enjoyer to gay for my liking
Yeah the narrator has some very annoying habits. His voice is pleasant and he speaks very clearly though, so he's forgiven for me ;)
@@filthycasual8074 what?
Yass Queen
I absolutely love these vids! I can watch this stuff all day. History would've been so much more exciting when I was a kid if it was presented like this! Keep them coming!
same here
Same
Except that this particular video for example is full of false information 😄
Not sure about the rest of this channel, but sadly this video has a LOT of incorrect information in it!
'Olga stepped up to the plate, and proceeded to lose her mind.' Lmao I actually died laughing
“Go crazyyy!! Ahh!! Go stupid!!! Ahhh!!!!” - Olga of Kiev
🤣🤣🤣😂
There's a song in there!
Got one bit wrong, Elizebeth1 didn’t break with Rome, it was her father Henry IIX who did that. She however was excommunicated by the Pope of the time who encouraged France and Spain to invade England and declared that it was quite legal to assassinate her. No wonder she got a bit upset with catholic’s. Regards.
Her father was Henry the VIII not IIX
Elizabeth was not the rightful queen, Mary Stuart was.
Herodotus 94 Mary queen of Scots didn’t have what it took to be queen. She would have likely been over thrown like she was in Scotland and then what would have happened? Queen Elizabeth may not have had royal blood from both parents but she was King Henry VIII daughter. If your argument is that she was the daughter of a commoner and the marriage was not legal, then her brother Edward VI should have never been king either. But since the king decreed it, it doesn’t really matter. That’s how come Elizabeth was the rightful queen and Mary should have stayed in her own country and ruled it. But that’s just my opinion 😉
@@claudiacervantes5379 favourably no such thing as monarchies should have ever existed but it happened what happened.
@ArmchairWarrior if you're going to use Roman numerals, then 8 is written as VIII not IIX. Look at a wristwatch or clock that uses them and tell me how 8 is written.
I would love a video on Katherine of Aragon! We only ever hear about her story during the divorce to Henry Viii but her life before marrying Henry was an incredible story of ambition determination, and her belief that it was her divine right to rule England as it's Queen.
Theres been recent uncovered evidence that wu zetian wasnt such an "ineffective" ruler as once thought. They found evidence to indicate that women had more freedom during her rule like being able to ride a horse etc, the common folk were pretty happy with her, and theres evidence that they were a very prosperous and pretty peaceful population under her rule. A priceless almost legendary headpiece was found on a distant relative of hers which supports the fact she had a very prosperous reign. Alot of the "bad" stories about her rule were written after she died, some by decades after, by people who thought they should be in power/ any woman was incompetent to rule. As it is the case with many rulers, the history is written by the victors. these discoveries were found since this video was made so, still well done video.
You forgot about Queen Ranavalona I of Madagascar who was a lot like Africa’s Joseph Stalin. Pursuing policies of isolationism and extreme government control and religious persecution. She is estimated to have killed around 2.5 million people during here reign. The most of any female ruler.
adam guinee now I’m intrigued!!! I will do more research on her
Against Colonialism.
I was wondering if anyone would remember her. It's also worth noting that while 2.5 million (a conservative estimate, btw) might sound like a lot it grows when one considers the fact that at that time there were less than 10 million total living on the island.
See that's the history I'm most interested in! America never teaches about africa this way.
@@kr3642 That queen was totally crazy.
It would be awesome to have a video about African Kings and Queens. We don’t see too much about that unfortunately.
queen of sheeba deserves a video just for herself
They didn't possess the written word so could not record history. The Zulu, Shaka, although not a woman, was pretty ruthless killing over 2m people
The shaka zulu show is good on netflix
@@mikebellis5713 yeah, their stories were told to the younger generations. Being mass murdered made their religions and cultures and stories fade away 😢
@@TruPunx89that’s every society…
I am glad to see that Elizabeth I was included. Too many historians give her a pass.
How about Elizabeth II?
BS.
Cool thing about Elizabeth Bathory!
She was known to be headstrong and aggressive, Which wasn't good for her enemies, and also was frowned upon for women at the time. The details about her being so sadistic and about her torturing her servants so brutally were mostly rumors started by her rivals as a smear campaign against her.
She isn't off the hook for being an asshole to her servants, though, she beat them often, had no patience for them, and did beat at least one of them to death. So she was a murderer, but not exactly jigsaw.
Sensible Cryptid-thank you! i came here to say almost this exact thing. She was a woman ahead of her time and was vilified for it; especially as so many others wanted her considerable lands and she refused them. Most of the things said about her were lies.
So she didnt seek our female virgins to bathe in their blood and was a lesbian
That's precisely what I was about to say! She probably was a very wealthy and influent Lady surrounded by greedy guys who wanted to take her lands so they made up all these horrifying accusations about her, the same way they would later accuse independant women of witchcraft.
On her Wikipedia page it says she bathed in the blood of young girls
@@nameslesss That rumor didn't even start until after she died, my dude.
Olga's stories is low key hilarious. Killed people, made sure they suffer. Yeah let's make her a saint! 😂
shut up
Ikr 😅
EXACTLY WHAT I AM THINKING😂
not gonna lie, she is kind of a badass
sounds like the biggest bitch of em all
Mary Tudor does NOT deserve her bad reputation. She was such a kind and great girl and deserved the best childhood, but got the worst one and it ruined her. Poor girl. I blame Henry for all of it. He broke her! pushed and abused her until she couldn't take it anymore, and broke. And he kept her from her most wonderful mother since she was 15. I love Mary. I hope Henry is burning in hell for what he did to Catherine and Mary.
Imagine when Cleopatra, Nefertiti and some other Woman who rules the world in just one Room.
Hatshepsut too. She did whatever it took for Egypt to flourish.
unpopular opinion: Cleopatra was the least bad ass of the 3
@@AmandaVieiraMamaesouCult I can’t speak for Nefertiti, but Hapshetsut was a DEFINITELY the most badass to me.
@@AmandaVieiraMamaesouCult Cleopatra doesn't have the reputation of being bad ass does she? She used her brain and female wiles to have others do for her, which made her powerful.
In one room separately or together ! Real torure for the man !!!
'Ukrainian princess' - what the hell are you guys talking about?! It's like calling Julius Ceasar the first governour of France. Olga was a ruler of the Kievan Rus!
Kievan Rus was apart of modern day Ukraine, along with Russia and Belarus so that's probably why they referring to her as an Ukrainian princess.
@@kenzieuchiha1191 it's the other way actually - Kievan Rus was bigger and a great deal to the north of modern-day Ukraine 🙂 I get it why a person who's not too knowledgable about the history of Eastern Europe would say something like this, but it's still a sign of sloppy editing. Not cool
@@Sandra.Molchanova Maps I've seen says otherwise but ok lol, either way Olga was a woman not to be trifled with that’s for sure.
@@kenzieuchiha1191 Wikipedia says Kievan Rus was around 1,330,000 km2 (by 1000). Today's Ukraine is 603,628 km2 😉 Just clarifying, no offence 😁
@@Sandra.Molchanova None taken, but I was actually just referring to the fact that just parts of Ukraine (Kiev to be specific) were apart of the Kievan Rus' federation, not that Ukraine was the entirety of it lol.
Out of all of those, Catherine the Great comes across as the only one that can be respected. The others were monsters, but my take away on Cat's story is that she did her subjects a huge favor by getting rid of an inept leader. It was just a military coup, not a rein of terror and bloodbath for the sake of just being evil.
Nope.
Can you imagine, all these queens at a ballroom vogueing each other. lol
would love to see it
I’m way too high for these comments I swear
Yasssss!!!
Mr. Person Humanson yessss 💀💀
I love how Ferdinand II and Isabella I are the grandparents of Mary I.
I guess religious persecution is a family thing....?
zab17 I mean, her dad did kill two of his wives...
Neither were her father, brother, or sister.
Don't forget Henry, Edward and Elizabeth.
@@elizabethschuylerhamilton4972 _eLiZa-_
Love the mention of Olga and Ivor as I'm a huge Vikings fan, didn't even know Olga was a real person , pretty cool stuff
Love hearing about powerful women from the past.
Yeah but most of these weren't good people or examples to look up to
@@ellen314 yeah but they were powerful in a time when women didn't have that much power over anything. I like that.
@Patrick Bateman the world was very different back then. I imagine it would be very difficult for anyone, especially a women, to gain power through their own merit.
And they did abuse their power but if it hadn't been for them and some of the decisions they made, the world wouldn't be what it is today.
And this video didn't show that some of these women were actually effective leaders. Ruthless but effective.
This video isnt and shouldnt be viewed for female empowerment
@@safiiiyyyaaa of course
When that statue changed at 8:44 🤣😂
vaibanez17 😂👌🏻
😆Worth watching out for LOL
I think you forgot Kosem Sultan, regent of the Ottoman Empire for about 30 years and she saw 7 sultans on the throne. She is considered the most powerful woman in Ottoman History
I wish that there would be History's Greatest Queens and Friendliest Rulers video on this You Tube channel!!!
I love the sarcasm on this, lol.
Omg the narration is hilarious, I love it!
When I hear this narrators voice I feel like a gain a few IQ points
Read that again.
@@mariomendoza7853 lol
Actually Mary I mostly forgave people- and uh actually Elizabeth I let people be catholic or Protestant but mainly supported protestantism
exactly! people just say stuff about them, especially queen mary, without knowing the whole thing
Elizabeth I of England, "Bloody Mary"'s sister is actually the Tudor monarch with the most executions during her almost 45-year reign
That may be true but remember this. Mary reigned for 5 years and has killed about as many as her father and sister. You need to remember the amount if time and that Elizabeth was in war with also a lot of people after her due to both being a woman and protestant
@@agatha6999 oh the comment was still wrong in Mary's 5 years as queen she had burned 289 less people than her father had put to death in one year (approx 1 540). Mary had less than Elizabeth had killed in a year in 1569 (ik it was for a different reason but that was still treason) approx 750
@@sophieroberge168 EXACTLY! queen mary only killed 60 people a year, while henry killed 1800! and elizabeth killed more than 60 people in several years too!
Because history is such a biase
Mary I killed a ton of Protestants, galore! She was only monarch for 5 years! Gmab. Elizabeth had one of the longest reigns ad the time. Elizabeth was not so anti RCs as much as trying to survive. Mary was heavily anti Protestant, due to what her dad did!
Wheres my mom when i come home late?
This is hilarious
na man my mom when I don't clean my room the way she wants it to be cleaned is more terrifying than every queen on this list
Dear Weird History, normally, I adore your videos. Though, with this one, please do check your sources more thoroughly. Olha was the first female ruler of Kievan Rus', not Russia. What's more, she wasn't of Russian heritage. Also, I (as many linguists and Grammarly) recommend spelling Kiev as Kyiv (as it's transliterated from Ukrainian). Whoa, it made me write a comment on UA-cam for the very first time.
tnank you, that's just my thoughts.
Ваши придирки не очень уместны. Во-первых, название 'Киевская Русь' знают только люди СНГ и профессиональные историки зарубежья, специализирующиеся на истории Древней Руси. Обывателю-иностранцу будет непонятно, что за такая Киевская Русь, а если скажут Россия, то уже понятнее, где находится. Во-вторых, в видео ни слово сказано не было про ее родословную, так что выпад насчет 'она вообще-то не русская' вообще не понятен. Хотя, по летописи, родилась она в Пскове. Ну и про написание Киева на английском, такой вариант имеет место быть, именно такой международный стандарт.
@@arinalowery7167 ✋🏼✋🏼✋🏼✋🏼✋🏼
How on Earth could you have missed Ranavalona I, Queen of Madagascar??? I sat through this entire video expecting to see her as a slam-dunk numero uno!!!
people don't give enough credit to African history outside Egypt
God what she did
I was looking for this comment
In defense of Bathory. her plea was never offered to the court, those who confessed against her were tortured. She was a powerful and wealthy widow. Others wanted her wealth so maybe they made most of this shit up? Not saying she didn't do any of it but how much is really true? You don't get and keep power without being ruthless.
Yeah, I tend to doubt the story of her is all on the up and up.
why men should rule not female because it's way harder for them to keep power without this happening
@@filthycasual8074 Bullshit
I don't know the name of the narrator but he just makes me so happy!
Weird History is the best because of the narrator. His voice and comments are priceless. Makes history very enjoyable. Is the voice on Nutty History the same- can't get. enough!!!!
Queen Boudica? who fought against the roman empire in 60 A.D.?
Empress Theodora ?the wife of Emperor Justinian?
ikr, Boudica kicked Roman ass
@@arkos4366 No she got her ass kicked
Justinian ruled in the mid 500s AD so it wasn’t theodora
Queen boudica is one of my favorite queens of all time 💗💗
Everyone knows about her so not as interesting in a video
Please do more videos on queens in history!
They really deserve it
Although most queens were cruel, on the other hand, queens had prestige and competence in ruling.
Narration on this channel is exceptional. Really enjoy the vids
4:20 correction at the time of Queen Mary’s reign England was about evenly split between Protestants and Catholics so England wasn’t yet a majority Protestant country.
true!
"...and proceeded to lose her mind." Lmao
New sub here..... this is rapidly becoming one of my favorite channels 👍👍 thanks 😎🍻
You got brainwashed by a liberal UA-camr lol
This is more proof as to how undeserving people usually get the seat of the highest power
Please stop following me.
Dude...🤯
Oh for fucks sake not you again
Hello again, fren!
If you want power, you have to get rid of those in your way. It's always been that way regardless of gender.
My favorite part was when the Narrator said Princess Olga stepped in as ruler for her son and proceeded to lose her mind. I have never laughed so hard in so long.
I love this guys voice! It's actually really soothing 😌
The fact Mary is Isabella’s granddaughter shows me crazy just runs in that family. Lol.
Yeah, but Isabella wasn’t exactly cruel. She was against the cruel ways to the Jews and Muslims during the Spanish Inquisition, she was against enslaving the natives of America that Christopher Columbus brought back to Spain. And several times she allowed a choice which was usually not cruel. She gave the choice once to I believe what were Jews to either convert religions, or to move away from her Queendom and give her all the personal items, without being harmed themselves
She sounds like some families here in the 21St century
@@blubclub5422
wtf are you talking she was the one who expelled the Jews and tortured them with Muslim hush hush
@@messianic_scam that was her husband. And Christopher Columbus. She was highly against harsh punishments towards the Jews and muslims. But she was ignored.
@@blubclub5422
nooooo
Hey, small note on Princess Olga (I am Ukrainian who learned our history).
She was a ruler of Kyivan (Kievan) Rus’, not Russia.
It’s 2 different countries.
Thank you ❣️
Again politics! Stop spreading bullshit !
Ion Simon ?
True,Kievan ruled over russia but it is centered ukrainians.I admit this is a rusaians.
Was she a Viking?
Thank you!!!
Irene was like Mommie Dearest. I bet she hated wire hangers.
Ha! 🤣🤣🤣
I'm sitting here giggling while watching stories about brutal murder.
The biggest one you forgot was Ranavalona I of Madagascar.
She basically conquered the neighbouring Kingdoms and united the Island, but in hey bloody means
A+ video!
Awesome video, very unique!
Even Weirder History: Chinese empress Wu Zetian's descendants in the early 1990's would form a hip hop group called the Wu-Tang Clan. 😀🙂
How stupid it would be pitiful if anyone cared
That's sad lol
I love mary Queen of Scots. Very underrated and misunderstood!
P.S she lost the battle but Won the WAR!!💪🏼👸🏻🌷🌼
LOL. Scotland, in the end, essentially BUILT the United Kingdom of Great Britain!
I couldn't agree more!!! Badass Catholic Queen...
@@sillypotato53 I'm proud to be catholic
@@Kolchak_Enjoyer That you should...
@werid person First of all, keep your frustration to yourself. And second she didn't do such thing, but if you're talking about 300 protestants burnt alive, it was Mary I of England's doing aka "Bloody Mary" and the incident is called Marian persecutions. So make sure to double-check the information before questioning someone's POV. And she was the Queen so if securing the throne means to clear the path from wild rats so then be it...
I learn so much from your channels. Its like school but fun
I don’t agree that Elizabeth I should be in here. She was actually one of the most benevolent monarchs of that time and she was far from the catholic hater that Mary was of Protestants. In fact, Elizabeth is credited with calming much of the discord between the 2 faiths. She hated that there was so much bloodshed over religion. She was also very witty, very supportive of the arts, very intelligent, and when she had to put people to death like her cousin Mary Queen if Scots she would lose sleep and take dats to sign the warrant. However, she was very vain about her appearance and would forbid her ladies in waiting to marry unless she picked out the groom. She also had a hot temper and was known to throw shoes. But many British still consider her the best monarch England ever have, even hundreds of years after her death.
if by calming discord you mean
implementing crippling penal laws, then yes, she did
Catherine the Great was also misrepresented in this video.
Yeah but she tormented and killed many more catholics then Mary I had killed protestants.
Mary killed Protestants for the sake of a type of ethnic cleansing. She was also not on the throne nearly as long as Elizabeth. Elizabeth killed those who were treasonous regardless of religion. In our day and age she’d be barbaric but in those days she was a very benevolent ruler. She was also sympathetic to children and the elderly, sparing their lives if she could help it. She hated signing death warrants and would lose sleep over it.
@@ellynramich8017 Then why would she kill any catholic priest she came across? She definitley was not a good ruler.
Please make a video about Marie Curie!
Your channel is GREAT....,,
Yeah ,about Olga . In Ukraine student in schools usually would get a summer list of literature. When I was in school I used to have Slovo o polku Igoreve (it's historical poem about Igor ,his life, his death and about Olga and her revenge) for 5 years in this list . So actually if you happen in Ukraine, you can ask any ukranian and they would tell you this poem from their memory 🥸
@mashadz2566 They teach him in Russia too. That would be fifth grade, Carl!
Now I think about it and it seems crazy
Princess Olga wins this, just for her amazing revenge!!!! What a woman! 💜
Exactly hahaha
not really amazing just kinda born into not any more special than you and me
So you think someone who committed genocide is awesome?
@@ebonyplummer4621 revenge is sweet
I’m a new subscriber but can you do some about Katherine de Medici?
Thank you for at least pointing out that Bloody Mary was succeeded by Bloody Bess...but I think you went a little light on Bloody Bess. She killed a lot more Catholics than her sister did protestants....if only because she reigned longer...
Elizabeth + Gay
You are totally wrong
“Fairly normal reigns where nobody was murdered by their hands”
Puts up a picture of Isabella of France
You should do an entire video on Olga. You guys left out so much her story, it’s so good.
Isabella of Castile is one of the greatest leaders in history. And you forgot to mention that she had Columbus EXECUTED for his atrocities against the Indigenous People in the New World. Queen Isabella's dying wish was for the Indigenous People to be unharmed. But obviously, her wish wasn't granted. Castile and Leon was Queen Isabella's realm and she was a staunch Catholic, she required her subjects to follow suit. When you're in territory that doesn't belong to you, you do as you're told or get the hell out of Dodge. Go over to someone's house and do as you please then see what happens. It won't be pretty. Queen Isabella of Castile has never received the credit she deserves for being one of the greatest leaders in history.
What kind of weird woke history books are you reading? Columbus was not executed.
“Princess Olga stepped up her plate and proceeded to lose her mind.”😂
I’d really like to see a video on Boudicea!
Most Ruthless Queens in the World
1. *Countess* Elizabeth Bathory...
She falls into the second part of the videos name... Brutal rulers..
@@h06anbjo A Countess is not a ruler either
She is a person of authority doh
Could you do a weird history on Mary the Queen of Scott’s and Francis her husband
Somebody been watching too much Reign
Lilu Koyen you got me
Rachel Hildebrand Dont worry that was my show too😂😂😂👌
Unfortunately so little is known about them, as a French myself the only thing we know about their relationship is that they cared about each other and that Mary was affected when he died, but other than that, Francis was only a small part in her life, their marriage lasted for only two years.. Their history together is so short compared to Mary’s lifetime, also Francis was known to be small and particularly fragile while Mary was tall and quite impressive to look at.
I LOVE Reign and I wish that Francis and Mary would’ve had such a beautiful love story in real life especially because it’s so unrealistic to be actually in love as royals at that time :(
@@estherlepage4155 thank you for the information! I am always wanting to know more about the kings and queens of other countries past. I was definitely intrigued by Reign. They made that show perfectly! Probably not accurate, but entertaining.
I just finished AP Euro last year I just wish I came across this channel before. But I am taking AP US history this year so I am looking forward to the little fun facts.
Please make a video about the madness of king george iii of the UK
Got Elizabeth 1 a bit wrong. She reinstated the Church of England which her father and brother had created and wanted religious tolerance but the Pope excommunicated her and declared it would not be a sin to kill her, which was bad enough, but he also encouraged France and Spain to declare war. All in all the Catholic Church caused their own persecution in a lot of ways. Still not one of the finer points of her rule though.
she failed in the end, the Catholic church still exists in UK while her dynasty is dead.
could you give me a source of the pope asking for France and spain to declare war? It would be a just war though, as why would you want your catholics to get tortured by rebels and to shut them down.
Xavier Ohara this is what I’m talking about, issues in 1570, temporarily suspended when it was proving more of a problem for catholics than Elizabeth and reiterated in 1588 to support the Spanish Armada. For further info try google as it’s well known facts.
Pope Pius V
"Regnans in Excelsis" ("Reigning on High") excommunicated Queen Elizabeth I of England, “the pretended Queen of England and the servant of crime", declared her a heretic, released her subjects from allegiance to her and excommunicated any who obeyed her orders: "We charge and command all and singular the nobles, subjects, peoples and others afore said that they do not dare obey her orders, mandates and laws. Those who shall act to the contrary we include in the like sentence of excommunication”
Herodotus 94 not exactly as she didn’t want children and she is related to the present queen. Also the Catholic Church is not a major force in the UK although I am happy to say it survives but catholics are still barred from some positions.
@@charlottehardy822 Elizebeth did not want children? That is not wise. Talk about almost starting a war for the throne after her death.
I'd love to hear Weird history go over the cruel Madame LaLaurie.
Wasn't she in American Horror Story?
@@lesanimaux4416 She was!
@@Summontha Oooh I'd be really interested to see Weird History do an episode about her! And very much creeped out too.
Didn't you already make a video about Countess Elizabeth Bathory, which suggested that all the stories about her were fabricated by grasping family members who wanted to take her property from her? I'd like to know more about the Roman emperors' wives and mothers. From what I have read about them, they could be quite ambitious, intelligent and sometimes ruthless!!! 💗🌵
Please add Hatshepsut, the queen who made herself pharaoh at the expense of her nephew!
And Rhonovalna from Madagascar
Wow! Very hard to believe that Irene of Byzantine Empire was so ruthless since she was an orthodox. Well, I was very surprised of this fact. Weird history helps a lot of learning new things and facts!!!
Man, that's not craziness, that's evil
What about doing an expose on some little known african princesses/queens. Some interesting ones. Amina, Yennenga and Seh-Dong,
Since their son was too young to rule, Princess Olga stepped up to the plate and proceeded to lose her mind.” This is why I like this channel 😂
Suddenly everyone in here is a historian with a time machine.
no, just intelligent and well-read. You wouldn't understand.
@@scooterpp Why are you insulting me exactly?
@@seanporcelli3965 because your wasting everyone's time with this click bait and you are claiming to know something and you don't.
@@scooterpp What?! That never happened at all. Lol My comment is click bait? Hahaha wtf.
@@seanporcelli3965 the comment..the whole video.