Jesus, you can just see what a dangerous balancing act the court painters had to engage in. "How honest should I be about the inbreeding without getting murdered?"
I mean, presumably quite honest. Pretty much anyone contemporaneously viewing the painting would also know of the monarch’s true appearance so if the painting was too flattering, your patron would be ridiculed for their self-aggrandizement
Joseph II is such a frustrating story to learn about because he could’ve been a great leader if he slowed down with the changes and had a much gentler approach with his radical changes. Some of his changes are very modern and they sound like good ideas but he needed to be more careful with all the changes. Such a shame
His brother, Leopold II, was basically what Joseph could have been. But Leopold was also denied an illustrious reign not due to any lack of talent but because he died after only 2 years on the imperial throne
Well, she ruled a vast empire (Hapsburg empire) but not the Holy Roman Empire, which her husband "ruled"...there was not much to rule as this empire was very federalistic..
Some of the descendants of Maria Theresa (the last Habsburg) were good looking, but even Maria Theresa and her husband were related genetically. The Habsburg-Lorrain dynasty looked like their ancestors because they kept marrying genetically related people, it's amazing to know that some monarchs have blood of the old dynasty's, the most famous one is the king of Spain. Queen Elizabeth has blue blood too but the dynasty's of England changed name often, and king Felipe is directly related to the old monarchy
I think all the current monarchs of Europe can trace their ancestry back to two rulers in the late medieval period of Europe, I’m not sure where I got that from tho so my brain could just be saying things
Hmmm. So inbreeding and the problems thereof still plague Spain. Not surprised. But the Spanish Bourbons are considered of French stock, just as the English house of Windsor is still considered German. (Well now more blue blood English thanks to the late and beloved Princess Diana).
Maria Theresa: Maria! Go get your books! Maria Carolina: Ok! Maria Theresa: Not you! Your other sister! Maria Amalia: Me mother? Maria Theresa: No! The other Maria! Maria Anne: Well is it me? Maria Theresa: No the Maria who is a nun! Maria Elisabeth: Ah I see, its me! Marie Antoinette: Which Maria finished my cake? All Marias: Not me!
They were known by their second names and Maria Theresa would never call any of them Maria except Maria Christina because she was known as Marie or Mimi.
Maria Theresa: So Maria Amalia will marry the Duke of Parma and Maria Carolina 3 will marry the King of Naples and Maria Antonia will marry the Dauphin and Maria Christina will marry the Duke of Teschen. Maria Elizabeth 1, Maria Carolina 1 and Maria Carolina 2 all died in infancy and Maria Johanna and Maria Josephs both died of smallpox. Maria Anna and Maria Elizabeth 2 are too unattractive for husbands so they shall become the Abbesses of some convents. Joseph will marry the Princess of Parma. Charles died of smallpox . Leopoldo will marry a Spanish Princess. Ferdinand will marry the Duchess of Massa. Done. Adviser: What about Maximilian? Maria Theresa: Meh, he can he an archbishop. I don’t care.
You are underestimating the importance of the church those days. It is called the Holy Rome Empire for a reason. Rome has it's own power above all the kings and princes and having a high position in the church gives power to the whole family. There were also some abts that were ruled as little kingdoms. Some by wealthy women of nobility and that were no nuns!
I was literally going to ask if he was living at the time, but decided the question would make me sound ignorant. So I googled it and came back to confide my ignorance and thank you for the fun fact 😊 I love Lindsay's videos and appreciate your post.
It amazes me how Europe went from thousands of years of war over religion and land, to communism, then to some of the most progressive countries in the world and some not so progressive. History is amazing.
Perhaps you should have phrased it to "Leopold married _Charles's_ sister," instead of "Leopold married his sister", because that line made me pause the video in confusion for a moment.
I would love to learn more about Italy's many families and their respective seats! The Medicis, the Sforzas, the d'Estes... there's so much going on before Italian unification
Idea for future video maybe: I’m from Poland (live in Sweden) and would love to see a video on all the times Poland was occupied. Being the center of Europe meant a lot of invasions.
It's like this joke about time travellers. One time traveller asks someone in the street about what's going on in the world now with purpose of identifying the year they are in and gets an answer that Poland is occupied. And then tells to his friend: ''Oh no, we could be at any time point.'' (I've heard the version with Russia and Turkey being at war).
An interesting touch at the end might have been a short note that the son of the last Hapsburg epmeror, Otto von Hapsburg, was a big proponent of European unity and served in many international diplomatic posts. From Crown Prince and Archduke of Austria, to Mr. European Union (sort of )
Also he would have had the longest reign ever if he had been emperor. I believe it would have been 80+ years long, as he only died a few years ago and lived almost to 100 years old, and he was young when his father died.
Charles the great french?? Jajaja not really, he was more dutch/germán than anything And napoleón comes from an italian/corsican family but yes he was french culturally
Thank you for this series! I've been trying to understand the history of the HRE for days now. But you explained everything so well and simple. Thank you for this very interesting trip back in time 🙂
Omg Lindsay I just love you and your videos. Like forreal, my history fix is ALWAYS satiated whenever I click on your channel. Yaass keep 'em coming queen! 👸👸
It was the very slowness of communication that allowed the European empires to last as long as they did...the advent of faster communication coincides with the fall and disintegration of not just those empires but all attempts at succeeding ones.
Great job putting this together, Lindsay. I've enjoyed learning so much in a day than an entire semester at college, thanks to your videos. Binge-worthy.
Thanks for these videos on the Holy Roman Empire. Maybe you want to expand a bit more on Emperor Leopold II as duke of Tuscany. There is very little info on him in English or French. You mentioned quickly his policies there, but it would be interesting to learn more. Congratulations on your channel. It is good quality history!
2:07 Leopold I 7:41 War of Spanish Succession 8:26 Joseph I 9:33 Charles VI 12:37 *Maria Theresa* & her husband Francis I 16:54 Joseph II 21:22 Leopold II 23:58 Francis II
On the one hand, grief makes people do/say/believe stupid things, and it’s hard to blame a grieving child bride who’s lost 4 children in 4 years for going a little insane, but on the other hand, Jesus lady. Maybe your children’s deaths have more to do with the fact that you married your uncle at 15 and you were working with a gene pool that’s about three centimetres deep.
"Fall of the Empire from 1658 to 1806", what a long fall... Misleading titel And some mistakes: Marie Theresa was not co-emperor, she was the Empress as wife of the Holy Roman Emperor but being the Habsburg, she was ruler of all Habsburg territories, her husband being "only" the German Emperor, not ruling any realms.
First off, I want to say I love your videos! I'd love to see ones on Empresses (Both regnants and consorts) of Russia as well as other queens/empresses, like Marie of Romania, Zita of Bourbon-Parma, Elena of Montenegro, etc . Your queens of the world series was honestly one of my favorites. Two things though on this video...your family tree image shows Maria Theresa's father (Charles) as an image that's actually her husband, which I think was corrected later. Second...Isabella's mother died of smallpox. Not childbirth. Just a heads up for double checking editing and future videos!
Francis II's portrait as Austrian Emperor greatly resembles HM Elizabeth II's father and uncle David/Edward VIII. It even vaguely resembles HRH Charles, so, one might assume there was a Hapsburg in the Windsor woodpile somewhere.
The Habsburg-Lorraines also ruled the archduchy of Tuscany in Italy after the extinction of the Medici and up until the unification of Italy in the 1860's -the emperor Leopold II had been the grand duke of Tuscany before becoming emperor.
Thank you Lindsay for your interesting videos and thanks for acknowledging the awful treatment of the Romanichal people. It is an ethnicity not often spoke about other than in stereotypical and racist cannotations. You present the information contained in any video with grace and sensitivity... Many thanks 🥰💖
Please do a video on the Court Treasurers , the Court Bankers , of the Holy Roman Emperors and Holy Roman Empire . Also please consider doing a video on the armaments and weaponry manufacturers for the Holy Roman Emperors .
Plot twist: it never fell....it's still in power under a different name. Yes, the Polish Hussars finally pushed the Turks back, because the Hapsburgs were clueless and busy marrying their relatives.
I've never related much to any of the people in your videos more then Elizabeth Christine of Brunswick and being put on an unhealthy diet. When I was a child doctors thought I was anorexic so they put me on a butter and ice cream diet, which has ruined my health and gut function to this day. Weird that we've both dealt with the same issue nearly 400 years apart
Maria-Theresa was not Co-Emperor, she was Empress Consort.. She did not mind, because the title of emperor was a prestigious one which her son will inherit. It was a title without power, just grandeur. Her true power reside in her many titles which hold actual power. Most notables of them are Sovreing of Austria, Queen of Bohemia, King of Hungary, and many more. She never sing her letter as Empress, but prefer her others title. Great video, Keep up the good work,
Maria Theresa's husband Francis I is a Habsburg descendant via the matrilineal line while Maria Theresa is a Habsburg through his father - patrilineal line.
You know, I've heard many debate on the "Empires" disolvment namely because does a ruler have the right to abdicate both throne & Empire or just the throne
The Austrian Habsburgs were not interested in annexing territory outside Europe and during the period that they were Holy Roman Emperors Japan was politically isolated from the rest of the world
@@savagedarksider5934 Japan is advanced, all the way in South East Asia and although they were small they were very powerful. If you were ruler of an Emperor of an empire like HRE you'd want to remain inside of the European orbit, doing otherwise would've crumbled their empire sooner.
I see many people here are joking about names of Maria Theresa's daughters. Here is fun fact: "Maria" as first name for Austrian granduchesses was used since time of Leopold I., so Maria Theresia had to continue family tradition. Also, almost all of her firstborn grandaughters carried her name, including Marie Therese Charlotte, as was mentioned in the video. Only Maria Carolina named her eldest daughter in honour of her dearest sister, Maria Antonia.
"Insisted that his new bride call him 'Uncle'..." - somehow Leo found a way to make things even weirder.
Normal people
Call me daddy or mommy baby
Leo the first call me uncle darling
"Let me introduce you to my niece"
"Oh, I thought she was your sister"
"Well actually, she's my wife"
🤮
Fr
Oh dear. 🤢🤦🏼♀️
Jesus, you can just see what a dangerous balancing act the court painters had to engage in. "How honest should I be about the inbreeding without getting murdered?"
Like a beheading honest or a flogging honest lol
@@okitsfine8015 No.
@@okitsfine8015 what an odd way to phrase this
🤣🤣🤣
I mean, presumably quite honest. Pretty much anyone contemporaneously viewing the painting would also know of the monarch’s true appearance so if the painting was too flattering, your patron would be ridiculed for their self-aggrandizement
Joseph II is such a frustrating story to learn about because he could’ve been a great leader if he slowed down with the changes and had a much gentler approach with his radical changes. Some of his changes are very modern and they sound like good ideas but he needed to be more careful with all the changes. Such a shame
His brother, Leopold II, was basically what Joseph could have been. But Leopold was also denied an illustrious reign not due to any lack of talent but because he died after only 2 years on the imperial throne
Can you Imagine ruling and reforming a whole empire AND giving birth to 16 children?! Man I have respect for that woman.
Ya but apparently she wasn’t a good mother
@withintheshyness will that her of course.
She would have had wet nurses and a hoard of "Nannies" to care for her children from the day they were born though.
@Kylie Pechler yep.
Well, she ruled a vast empire (Hapsburg empire) but not the Holy Roman Empire, which her husband "ruled"...there was not much to rule as this empire was very federalistic..
Some of the descendants of Maria Theresa (the last Habsburg) were good looking, but even Maria Theresa and her husband were related genetically. The Habsburg-Lorrain dynasty looked like their ancestors because they kept marrying genetically related people, it's amazing to know that some monarchs have blood of the old dynasty's, the most famous one is the king of Spain. Queen Elizabeth has blue blood too but the dynasty's of England changed name often, and king Felipe is directly related to the old monarchy
I think all the current monarchs of Europe can trace their ancestry back to two rulers in the late medieval period of Europe, I’m not sure where I got that from tho so my brain could just be saying things
@@jeffreycater5447
Yeah they can, Lindsay made a video on this.
@@cinna_sultan oh so I must have heard it from her, I’ve watched so many of her videos I just can’t keep track 😂
Hmmm. So inbreeding and the problems thereof still plague Spain. Not surprised. But the Spanish Bourbons are considered of French stock, just as the English house of Windsor is still considered German. (Well now more blue blood English thanks to the late and beloved Princess Diana).
@@Alusnovalotus Queen Elizabeth is half Scottish, the Queen Mother was from minor nobility. Her father was the Earl of Strathclyde.
Maria Theresa: Maria! Go get your books!
Maria Carolina: Ok!
Maria Theresa: Not you! Your other sister!
Maria Amalia: Me mother?
Maria Theresa: No! The other Maria!
Maria Anne: Well is it me?
Maria Theresa: No the Maria who is a nun!
Maria Elisabeth: Ah I see, its me!
Marie Antoinette: Which Maria finished my cake?
All Marias: Not me!
But Marie Antoinette would have been called Maria Antonia before she went to France
They were known by their second names and Maria Theresa would never call any of them Maria except Maria Christina because she was known as Marie or Mimi.
Hi Royalty Fandom!
@@rukminikrishna1938 hello!
I can’t wait for the series about Holy Roman Empresses! Thank you so much for these fascinating videos!
Well-
@@jonesvideo80 Well… what…?
@@aceofspades8634 wasn't there only 1 empress?
@@jonesvideo80
No, I think they're referring to the consorts of the Emperors who were empresses.
@@cinna_sultan Ohhh
I thought she meant rulers like Maria Theresa
Maria Theresa: So Maria Amalia will marry the Duke of Parma and Maria Carolina 3 will marry the King of Naples and Maria Antonia will marry the Dauphin and Maria Christina will marry the Duke of Teschen. Maria Elizabeth 1, Maria Carolina 1 and Maria Carolina 2 all died in infancy and Maria Johanna and Maria Josephs both died of smallpox. Maria Anna and Maria Elizabeth 2 are too unattractive for husbands so they shall become the Abbesses of some convents. Joseph will marry the Princess of Parma. Charles died of smallpox . Leopoldo will marry a Spanish Princess. Ferdinand will marry the Duchess of Massa. Done.
Adviser: What about Maximilian?
Maria Theresa: Meh, he can he an archbishop. I don’t care.
You are underestimating the importance of the church those days. It is called the Holy Rome Empire for a reason. Rome has it's own power above all the kings and princes and having a high position in the church gives power to the whole family. There were also some abts that were ruled as little kingdoms. Some by wealthy women of nobility and that were no nuns!
Fun fact: Napoleons and Marie Louises' son, Franz Napoleon II, was brought to Napoleons tomb (Les Invalides) by Adolf Hitler during WW2
He also slept with his Uncle's wife, Sophie of Bavaria & was rumored to be the father of Franz Joseph- listed as his cousin...
I was literally going to ask if he was living at the time, but decided the question would make me sound ignorant. So I googled it and came back to confide my ignorance and thank you for the fun fact 😊 I love Lindsay's videos and appreciate your post.
4:30 Just like Hitler did..
Wow
@@jamellfoster6029 huh!??!!
It amazes me how Europe went from thousands of years of war over religion and land, to communism, then to some of the most progressive countries in the world and some not so progressive. History is amazing.
My friend. Communism is much more “progressive” then any decaying, liberal democracy.
@@fshoaps
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Europe started both world wars with them you light a candle an explosion happens
Love it when Lindsay said “Maria Theresa!!!…oh and Francis I” @ 13:36
Perhaps you should have phrased it to "Leopold married _Charles's_ sister," instead of "Leopold married his sister", because that line made me pause the video in confusion for a moment.
Yeah the same happened to me, but I guess not even the Habsburgs went that far lol.
@@phtuber5469 i remember a video of hers mentioning that sibling marriages were frowned upon (thank goodness)
That had me pulling up some charts. Still awful, but not nearly the same.
Maria Theresa: We arent naming our daughter that!
Francis: Ok? Will you name it Maria like our other daughters?
Maria Theresa: Yep...
So spoiled by this twice a week uploads! I’m living for it! Another great video. Would love to see the Borgia’s!! Please!!!!
A series about The Borgias would be so good!
I would love to learn more about Italy's many families and their respective seats! The Medicis, the Sforzas, the d'Estes... there's so much going on before Italian unification
@@hockeygrrlmuse and talk about fascinating tidbits of information! All of those names are associated with all kinds of shenanigans!!
"What a lovely Christmas wreath."
"Ma'am that's the Hapsburg family tree."
Idea for future video maybe: I’m from Poland (live in Sweden) and would love to see a video on all the times Poland was occupied. Being the center of Europe meant a lot of invasions.
I like this idea! I’d love to better understand the history of Poland.
It's like this joke about time travellers.
One time traveller asks someone in the street about what's going on in the world now with purpose of identifying the year they are in and gets an answer that Poland is occupied.
And then tells to his friend: ''Oh no, we could be at any time point.''
(I've heard the version with Russia and Turkey being at war).
@@АлексейПупышев-ь5ц hahaha best joke ever
An interesting touch at the end might have been a short note that the son of the last Hapsburg epmeror, Otto von Hapsburg, was a big proponent of European unity and served in many international diplomatic posts. From Crown Prince and Archduke of Austria, to Mr. European Union (sort of )
Also he would have had the longest reign ever if he had been emperor. I believe it would have been 80+ years long, as he only died a few years ago and lived almost to 100 years old, and he was young when his father died.
So queen Victoria wasn’t the first Monarch to dress in black and spend the rest of their lives mourning her husband
Ah, the famous Hapsburg family wreath.
😂
I just want to say I am LOVING this series. I didn't know very much about this history beforehand but it is so fascinating
Started by: Charles the great (French)
Ended by: Napoleon (French)
That's called coincidence
........
Charles the great french?? Jajaja not really, he was more dutch/germán than anything
And napoleón comes from an italian/corsican family but yes he was french culturally
Will you continue this series with the Austrian emperors? I’d love to know more about Franz Ferdinand and his predecessors.
Franz Joseph
@@jamellfoster6029 yes, his mother, father, kids, and wife, among others.
@@ChibiProwl I can never get enough Empress Sisi content
@@craisins95 me too.
Honestly a wonderful series!! The truth (history) Is far more interesting then fiction. Thank you Linsday ☺ 💗
I’m a history buff, and your videos breaks everything down into easy to understand segments.
Interesting fact: Both Marie Antoinette & her husband, Louis XVI had significant Habsburg ancestry and were related in many aspects...
no
Excited for the last part! Thanks for this series
So helpful. Think I’ve finally got to grips with understanding the Habsburg’s and their place within HRE. Much appreciated.
Thank you for this series! I've been trying to understand the history of the HRE for days now. But you explained everything so well and simple. Thank you for this very interesting trip back in time 🙂
Thanks for getting this video out as quickly as you did. I really enjoy this series
Thank you for this amazing series Lindsay! I enjoyed every bit of it.👏🏽👏🏽
I hope everyone has a notebook in hand in order to take notes and not be confused by the Habsburg's Family tree 🤣
Omg Lindsay I just love you and your videos. Like forreal, my history fix is ALWAYS satiated whenever I click on your channel. Yaass keep 'em coming queen! 👸👸
It was Napoleon. "A short, dead, dude."
Another great video! Marie Theresa and her children as so interesting!
Would love a video on cities or countries specifically! that would be awesome. XOXO
It was the very slowness of communication that allowed the European empires to last as long
as they did...the advent of faster communication coincides with the fall and disintegration of not just those
empires but all attempts at succeeding ones.
American Empire
Great job putting this together, Lindsay. I've enjoyed learning so much in a day than an entire semester at college, thanks to your videos. Binge-worthy.
Love these!
200 years of cousin love and even Mother Nature eventually went “nah” and stopped them being able to reproduce.
Well done. Thanks so much for this series!
Thanks for these videos on the Holy Roman Empire. Maybe you want to expand a bit more on Emperor Leopold II as duke of Tuscany. There is very little info on him in English or French. You mentioned quickly his policies there, but it would be interesting to learn more. Congratulations on your channel. It is good quality history!
She talks about him more in her video about Maria Theresa's sons!
2:07 Leopold I
7:41 War of Spanish Succession
8:26 Joseph I
9:33 Charles VI
12:37 *Maria Theresa* & her husband Francis I
16:54 Joseph II
21:22 Leopold II
23:58 Francis II
What I find interesting is that Eleanor Magdelene was the sister of Maria Anna, the second wife of Charles II of Spain
They... they married off the guy who couldn't chew his own food??
"Our line has been physically and mentally declining for centuries."
-"Could it be the cousin-fucking?"
"Nah. Jews."
On the one hand, grief makes people do/say/believe stupid things, and it’s hard to blame a grieving child bride who’s lost 4 children in 4 years for going a little insane, but on the other hand, Jesus lady. Maybe your children’s deaths have more to do with the fact that you married your uncle at 15 and you were working with a gene pool that’s about three centimetres deep.
Maria Theresa looks huggable
Love it when Lindsay said “Maria Theresa!!!…oh and Francis I” @ 13:36
She looked like a doll in her teenage years, her daughters took her blonde hair and blue eyes with them haha
"Fall of the Empire from 1658 to 1806", what a long fall... Misleading titel And some mistakes: Marie Theresa was not co-emperor, she was the Empress as wife of the Holy Roman Emperor but being the Habsburg, she was ruler of all Habsburg territories, her husband being "only" the German Emperor, not ruling any realms.
First off, I want to say I love your videos! I'd love to see ones on Empresses (Both regnants and consorts) of Russia as well as other queens/empresses, like Marie of Romania, Zita of Bourbon-Parma, Elena of Montenegro, etc . Your queens of the world series was honestly one of my favorites.
Two things though on this video...your family tree image shows Maria Theresa's father (Charles) as an image that's actually her husband, which I think was corrected later. Second...Isabella's mother died of smallpox. Not childbirth. Just a heads up for double checking editing and future videos!
Also, in 18:15 it should be Polish & Lithuanian Commonwealth, not just Polish.
Francis II's portrait as Austrian Emperor greatly resembles HM Elizabeth II's father and uncle David/Edward VIII. It even vaguely resembles HRH Charles, so, one might assume there was a Hapsburg in the Windsor woodpile somewhere.
There’s some intermixing
The Habsburg-Lorraines also ruled the archduchy of Tuscany in Italy after the extinction of the Medici and up until the unification of Italy in the 1860's -the emperor Leopold II had been the grand duke of Tuscany before becoming emperor.
Thank you Lindsay for your interesting videos and thanks for acknowledging the awful treatment of the Romanichal people. It is an ethnicity not often spoke about other than in stereotypical and racist cannotations. You present the information contained in any video with grace and sensitivity... Many thanks 🥰💖
Great history video I enjoyed it can't wait to see more soon have a great day 😀
It was an amazing series. So bad that it is the last episode. BTW can u do a similar series of the roman and the Byzantine empire.
I have to say there's a mistake in the map that shows the Spanish empire: Brazil was never Spain's, it was part of portugal's empire
Very well done. Thank you!
Will you do a series on Holy Roman empresses?
Very bright commentator and producer! Bravo!
Thank you so much for the history of the Holy Roman Empire Lindsay
His heart was made of brains...never heard that one before🧐
Just became a Patreon member and enjoyed all your UA-cam videos especially the History of the Holy Roman Empire. So fun and informative
the story of the emperess Maria Therea is similar in many point of the story of Queen Victoria isn't it?!
Yeah, but I think Maria Theresa actually loved her children. Victoria didn't particularly treat her daughters well.
I find watching this channel on +1.25 somehow better. Not sure why.
Thanks for all of your work on this five-part series Lindsay. It was very interesting.
"He made her call him uncle."
Me: You can hear the Alabama banjos intensifying.
Please do a video on the Court Treasurers , the Court Bankers , of the Holy Roman Emperors and Holy Roman Empire . Also please consider doing a video on the armaments and weaponry manufacturers for the Holy Roman Emperors .
Wow! This was a great video. Loved learning all about these fascinating rulers.
I knew absolutely none of this. Thank you for the video
You know, you could be having a bad day, but never a King Charles the 2nd of Spain bad day. Poor guy.
My home town was built in honor of empress Maria Teresa
Another great video!🎉✨
Plot twist: it never fell....it's still in power under a different name. Yes, the Polish Hussars finally pushed the Turks back, because the Hapsburgs were clueless and busy marrying their relatives.
you should do Indian rulers! you could do a series on the Mughal rulers or the Delhi sultanate
Another great piece!
I was looking forward to this.
"His parents were uncle and niece"
okay, that's pretty bad
"He married his sister"
he WHAT
Not his OWN sister
I've never related much to any of the people in your videos more then Elizabeth Christine of Brunswick and being put on an unhealthy diet. When I was a child doctors thought I was anorexic so they put me on a butter and ice cream diet, which has ruined my health and gut function to this day. Weird that we've both dealt with the same issue nearly 400 years apart
this is so good
Will we have a series about the Hohenzollerns?
Maria-Theresa was not Co-Emperor, she was Empress Consort.. She did not mind, because the title of emperor was a prestigious one which her son will inherit. It was a title without power, just grandeur. Her true power reside in her many titles which hold actual power. Most notables of them are Sovreing of Austria, Queen of Bohemia, King of Hungary, and many more. She never sing her letter as Empress, but prefer her others title. Great video, Keep up the good work,
Maria Theresa's husband Francis I is a Habsburg descendant via the matrilineal line while Maria Theresa is a Habsburg through his father - patrilineal line.
Poor Charles ii he had such a tragic life it’s amazing he made it to 38
Leopold was a great ruler. sad to see how fast he died
Genetic flaws caused by inbreeding
The Habsburg house:
*Gotta catch them all!*
They knew inbreeding had consequences but rich enough to be above the law.
The shade of them saying she was looking for her HUSSSSBAND
You know, I've heard many debate on the "Empires" disolvment namely because
does a ruler have the right to abdicate both throne & Empire or just the throne
11:56 for Charles VI the portrait is of Francis I,HRE
What a great series
Francis was father of empress Mary Leopoldine of Brazil
fun fact margarita theresa the niece and wife of leopold the 1st is the girl from velasquez' las meninas
another wonderful video!
Bravo,j'adore ta video
The Holy Roman Empire may not have exactly been the most precisely named but it had some of the best monarchs as well as some not-so-good ones.
wow i learned alot in the one, another great video lins, thank you!
Please do a video on Cleopatra!
i know your videos are mainly monarchy based, but i think a small series on writers like shakespeare, jane austen, bronte sisters, etc. would be fun!
I'm surprised the Habsburgs didn't try to absorb japan into their empire.
They had enough different cultures in their empire LOL
@@2604ernesto Do you really think the Habsburgs would have cared ? Control over Japan would give them A lot of riches.
The Austrian Habsburgs were not interested in annexing territory outside Europe and during the period that they were Holy Roman Emperors Japan was politically isolated from the rest of the world
@@pedanticradiator1491 If they did assimilated japan; that would have brought them so much power.
@@savagedarksider5934
Japan is advanced, all the way in South East Asia and although they were small they were very powerful. If you were ruler of an Emperor of an empire like HRE you'd want to remain inside of the European orbit, doing otherwise would've crumbled their empire sooner.
Lindsay holiday you should a video about princess Margarete and her kids and grand kids
I see many people here are joking about names of Maria Theresa's daughters. Here is fun fact: "Maria" as first name for Austrian granduchesses was used since time of Leopold I., so Maria Theresia had to continue family tradition. Also, almost all of her firstborn grandaughters carried her name, including Marie Therese Charlotte, as was mentioned in the video. Only Maria Carolina named her eldest daughter in honour of her dearest sister, Maria Antonia.
'mother teresa contracted small pow and her daughter died from it'
lol
Well damn !! The shade of it all 21:18