How King Charles II's Health Problems Plunged Europe Into War
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- Опубліковано 24 лип 2024
- He could barely eat because of his disfigured jaw. He suffered from rickets, hallucinations, and an oversized head. He was impotent and infertile. Charles II of Spain, king of one of the largest empires in the world, was barely able to talk or walk - all because his dynasty was so inbred.
Royal inbreeding caused mutations and birth defects that could be even worse than the already estimable genetic mutations from incest. In fact, Charles II of Spain's inbred birth made him more inbred than the children born of a union between brother and sister. And that's what ultimately explains Charles II of Spain's cause of death: by 35 all his hair fell out and he could barely walk, and before he turned 39 he died without an heir, plunging Europe into a bloody war as various nations vied for his crown.
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Fck i laughed a lot
Charles was infertile because even God was like "this madness has to stop"
Ever read the Bible? God encourages this crap lol
@@bradleywayne2788 true but it had to stop at some point in time lol 😆 but to be fair, in the old testament, Adam and Eve were still populating the earth soooo they kind of didn't have a choice 😅
@Bradley Graves ... Leviticus chapter 18 explains that certain blood relations should not procreate or be taken in marriage. So the Bible sets up guidelines to avoid situations like Charles II.....t
@@bradleywayne2788 No, they don't. Not even on the old testament. Maybe you are confusing it with pedop.... which was usual on most Abrahamic religions.
@@bradleywayne2788 Look at Leviticus 18:6-18, Ezekiel 22:11 (the context is that chapter 22 is talking about sins of Jerusalem and that the people of Israel have done wicked things), Deuteronomy 27:20-23, and 1 Corinthians 5 (specifically 1 Corinthians 5:1). Christianity did not support incest. They are against incest.
Imagine how painful just the mere task of existing was for this guy.
He had no choice except to live. Suicide was out of the question for a man in the most Catholic country in Europe. Philip II (Charles V son) titled himself the "The Most Catholic King Of Spain." Charles V was also the Holy Roman Emperor. His reign was miserable. His native country, The Netherlands was in revolt and Protestantism had become a major force behind the revolt. He'd sat in over Martin Luther's disputation at the Diet Of Worms. Despite a promise of safety from the emperor a plot developed to kill Luther afterwards. He was "kidnapped" by friendly forces and hidden away.It was during his seclusion that Luther translated the Bible into German.
So disheartened he retreated into a monastery and his son Philip II succeeded him. Philip conducted the war in The Netherlands so cruelly and even sent The Inquisition in to eliminate the Protestant action. This action of turning a civil action into a religious crusade turned even Catholics against him and they joined the Protestants.
Must have been pure Hell
Imagine being a peasant and realizing you're toiling your life away for a literal rard.
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@@andrewhooper7603 In other words nothing had changed
My fave historical description about him is this: "short, lame, epileptic, senile and completely bald before 35, always on the verge of death but repeatedly baffling Christendom by continuing to live." lmao
The shade
Lol at “Baffled Christendom”
@@Rafi88 Yeah, that is a pleonasm.
Yet still a hit with the ladies
Savagery at its meanest!
It's easy to talk smack about Charles II because of what has been said and written about him, but you have to remember, none of that was his fault.
There was someone who said, "His blood was poisoned 200 years before he was born."
It is quite hard to feel sympathy with people that are royalty.In his case he really got the dirty end of the stick.People in poverty suffer from the sins of their fathers as well.With a lot less assistance.
Facts because the Habsburgs before they married Spain were inbreeding since their founding. So that infamous jaw was a physical trademark
Plus just hearing about how he was treated. It was years before anyone would even try and get him to behave even slightly normally. No therapy or anything.
@@shawn13mertle13 You dont get to choose to born in the penthouse or in the slums. Its as bad to hate someone simply for being born into the former as it is to loath the man, who was born into the latter.
I never thought badly of him. Not his fault. Poor thing.
So the painters who did their portraits where the first photoshop artists.
Lmaoooo
Yesn't ???
I think all portraitists living then took liberties in portraying how these nobles looked simply because they were being paid very well.
Yes plz 🙏lol
The phrase "warts and all" was coined by Oliver Cromwell as a reply to his portrait painter's suggestion to "touch up" his appearance...
All jokes aside daily life must have been miserable for the guy, is there a genetic condition he didn't suffer from?
Hemophilia.
Inbreeding!
It happens when ur mother and father are sister and brother
It happens when a mom and dad are a niece and an uncle.
Nope he got everything you can get from being your own bother 😆
Royals never wondered why they were so much uglier than peasants?
Not all of them. Some of the royal guys and gals were handsome or attractive, but they usually were descendents from less commonly married royal families or lower ranking nobles.
Or why all the kids they have are dying so fast.
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High child mortality was common back then so yea it would be sad but expected
@@genghiskhan5701 infant mortality in the habsburg was 20% higher than the infant mortality rate of the rest of the population actually. Inbreeding creates a lot of problems that can cause infant death, stillbirth, and miscarriage. You'd think the sheer amount of those things might tip them off, but then again maybe they didn't discuss that sort of thing outside the family? and if all your family is into inbreeding, itd seem normal i guess?
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People back then were just as intelligent as we are now , so I'm pretty confident they were aware of the royal infant mortality rate. However, then just as now, politics will override demonstrable and verifiable truths. Read up on Galileo. Back then, keeping the royal lineage "pure" was more important politically than a few extra dead kids.
never a good sign when your family tree is more of a family wreath
They kept marrying into their first cousins in austria so their family never really expanded beyond that first generation
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Marrying your uncle is just. . . weird.
Fun fact: Charles II's last recorded words were "no soy nada", or "I am nothing" in english, imagine being the king of one of the most powerful empires and feeling like this.
That's not fun, that's heartbreaking :(
Sad ... isn't it
Like allot of history on charles I have my doubts, from all accounts he could barley speak let alone articulate such thoughts!
@@Bevtone Nah he was able to talk. He definitly suffered from a delay in learning and had some problems with his personality specially early in his childhood, but was able to talk and write and make his own decions. We still have his signature for example which was quote: "I the King"
@@Bevtone More modern historian have been a lot more objective like historian Luis Antonio Ribot García who said of him: « Nor was a he has betwiched neither was he much decadent».
I bet he had hydrocephaly. That explains the big head, and the supposed “water in his head” discovered at his autopsy
I didn’t even think about that
Not to be that person, did you mean hydrocephalus? Which is what causes fluid to build and have an enlarged head.
But anyway. If he had that on top of everything else. I don't wish that on anyone. And this is coming from someone who has hydrocephalus (which is treated with a shunt. So, this poor guy probably really suffered if he had that going on too with everything else).
Sooo he couldn't chew because his under bite was so severe that his teeth didn't touch, even the more realistic portraits of him are still down playing how bad his jaw really was. I would really be interested in seeing this guys skeleton.
Me too! I wonder if perhaps the old-school "Royal Spanish Mortician" might have broken some facial bones in an effort to try to rearrange his face to look nice and "regal" for the inevitable open-casket elaborate Catholic funeral, when more people would have actually seen him than when he was alive... Ewww!
Me to. But where do we find his skeleton?
@@GodofWarChuka he is buried at the royal crypt at the monastery of escorial in Madrid
They'd just move his lower jaw backwards lol
Glad I’m not the only one who thinks like that. Comparing the skeleton of Charles II of Spain to that of a healthy merchant of the same time would be fascinating.
Bruh, they talk about alabama being bad, but the entirety of europe's monarchies for a time was more inbreed then that.
For a time?
All the remaining monarchs of Europe are all related
Egyptian Pharaohs were the same
@@mr.personhumanson6871 Some more distant than others though. The British and Danish royal families are second cousins I believe, while the Spanish (descended from the Bourbons) are WAY distant from them today (due to centuries of Catholic-Protestant split).
Both Queen Victoria of Britain and Christian IX of Denmark had a lot of children that were married off to the royalty of Europe according to custom. During World War I, every monarch in Europe, even the rulers of minor nations like Romania, and Greece, were the grandchild of queen Victoria on one side, and Chris on the other, making them both maternal and paternal cousins. (Victor Emmanuel III of Italy and Franz Joseph of Austria-Hungary being among the only exceptions, although the latter, as a Habsburg, had a tangled family tree of his own.) Both the Russian Tsar and the German Kaiser spoke English as their first language, and the Swiss press at the time called it "the cousins' war". Surreal.
@@rubenrelvamoniz Kind of freaky to see pictures of Britain's George V and Russian Tsar Nicholas II standing together. They look so much alike you could mistake the cousins for brothers, maybe twins!
I can't help but feel sorry for the man. None of those conditions were his fault.
Honestly the story of Charles the II is so strange and his familial structure almost comically so incestuous that it’s kind of easy to forget how tragic it is. He didn’t choose to be inbred or to be born into that life, but he had to suffer the consequences. Imagine how insecure and scared he must’ve been- knowing how short his life would likely be and how dysfunctional his body appeared and operated. Geez.😥
I know I feel bad for him
no, if he was so inbred then his brain would be most affected pf all, i SERIOUSLY doubt this guy had any brain power to realize what anything was, his head probably was the same as a 10 year old
Well, not as incestuous as any Pharaon, who usually married their sisters. But, ah, they were not evil spaniards...
@@MrSludov Fair point👏
I feel bad for his mother. Charles had by far the longest life of any of her kids. Most of them never made it to the age of 4. Her only other child to live past infancy died at 21. Her kids just kept dying and the poor woman had no clue why.
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@@maplesyrup6052 the irony
Hadsburg family motto - "Why go to the mall when you can go across the hall?"
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I feel really sorry for this guy. It sounds like he had a really bad life.
He was known for having people executed, so you could say hes even.
@@hugonamenlos7218 He probably wasn't the one deciding that.
bro they were royals, they were all assholes. they would invite disabled people to live inside the royal palace, simply just to laugh and ridicule them. they lived in luxury while their citizens starved outside the palace walls. they were so inbred because they were racist and xenophobic and wanted to keep the bloodline as 'pure' as possible. this is the last guy you should feel sorry for.
He brought many people to court that had physical deformities so he could make fun of them.
He was a dick and used his wealth and power to find people with deformities he could laugh at.
It's surprising no one noticed the connection between marrying relatives and deformities. Even without knowing about genetics, they still had genealogy
They probably knew a little but the desire to keep the money in the family was stronger then deformaties.
Even the Christian Church was very clear about incestuous marriages. They went with it because, as the video said, these are political acts which even the Church waives from time to time in exchange for patronage and money...
People didn't know genetics at the time, but they somehow knew that incest had negative consequences by observation. Royals had to request a Papal Bull dismissal to allow marriages between cousins, etc, because the Catholic Church forbade close relative unions. As stated in the comment above, Pope gave permission because: financial benefits and influence. Some dinasties were really loyal to Rome, and it was important for the Pope to mantain these political alliances.
Ofcourse people noticed the link between inbreeding and deformities 10s of 1000s of years ago, some cultures were more aware than others, but even in medieval europe, the peasants mocked the royals for being uglier than them even tho they were much more well off!
The royals were just hard headed asf.
Possibly they weren't even able to think clearly about this because most of them will have accumulated some neurological and psychological disabilities.
The real MVP are the painters who had to paint the hapsburgs.....
I think that honor should go to his wives who had to try and milk an heir out of him. Apparently he also stunk.
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If they were't "generous" in their paintings, imagine the punishments!
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If THOSE portraits were the best they could do, he must have looked like something Cronenberg would have thought up on an acid trip in reality
or a One Piece character
LMAO It was said that when his first wife saw him, she screamed because he was so ugly.
@@carmenmonoxide7459 Even if he was unable to speak, he must have been cursing at god for letting him exist
Maybe a jojo character who had their chin pulled out and re-sculpted with a rusty sewer pipe
Poor kid, from birth he didn't stand a chance. Talk about "sins of their fathers".
The fact that he lived that long with all those genetically disastrous issues and no substantial medical advances at that time is fascinating 🤯
"Don't cry because they are unhealthy and weak, be happy that they have royal and pure blood"
-The Habsburgs (probably)
the ones who could talk anyway
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@@sacred-chan157 That's Pretty Cool!
God, you gotta feel bad for the guy, 38 years of this?!
I can't imagine the hell he must've went through everyday. That's no way to live :(
Would not have seen his tenth birthday as a peasant, so swings n roundabouts....
Very unfortunately this serious inbreeding is still absolutely rife among the Asian and Indian families where arranged forced marriage still exists there should be a law against it by banning it as costs NHS billions every year trying to care for them, treat there special needs etc there was this very brutally uncomfortable to watch documentary on it sorry can't remember the name of it just remembered the family were Hindu married her cousin or another very close blood relative 6 children 4 profoundly disabled, blind, mute, autism, violent rages, double incontinence, swallowing problems etc etc they were from Luton area. Even in the present day monarchy are all related to Queen Victoria and her family in some way or another. Porthia cant remember how its spelt its condition that effects bladder can lead to Dementia it was what Mary Tudor and George V I get mixed up with numerals he was known as made George as had bouts of severe hallucinations, kidney stones due to kidney problems he urinated blood as well as looking blue tinge to it. As for Charles guessing going by his symptoms its only recent medical historians, neurological scientists came up with Epilepsy as doubt they knew about it in centuries past, its one thing that got u locked up in Lunatic Asylum having blackouts and Seizures I've lived for over 30years with Idiopathic Seizures one Consultant said to me brain doesnt reveal its self very easily in some people it can be seen why brain misbehaving almost instantly other times takes lot of routing around then there's people like me and hundreds upon hundreds of other people where no amount medical science and tests can't find answer as some where so very deeply in brain there's malfunction causing huge storm triggering my Seizures, in last 20years its been absolutely horrible and beyond horrific the damage from all the seizure injuries and seizures migraines has along with my very severe Fibromyalgia and mild SLE (Lupus) has totally wrecked my body I find now as I'm much more older along with decades of being very poorly each new flair up, hellish agonising Migraines and Lupus etc etc is taking so much longer to get over so utterly draining and extremely very very painfully exhausting so I can't fully imagine agonising suffering he along with others at this time to have very severe special needs especially ones that cause horrendrous agony and distress we just don't no how very very damn lucky and thankful we are with the advancement of NHS, technologies, medication like Triptans for migraines, painkillers for pain and anti sickness medication even if surgery needed we safely get knocked out they had nothing but herbs and spices as well as nasty evil concoction the fake doctors at time prescribed.
Another thing money or not it makes u appreciate the fragile sheer existence of life and what a precious gift from God we are but if he had seizure disorder then definitely had water on brain depending on both the severity of this and his Seizures very likely had a degree of learning disabilities and or brain damage
Even if he had people beheaded, he was suffering in his life
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“Kiiiiiillll meeeeeeee...”
“Indeed your highness. Kill that peasants I don’t like guards!”
honestly its a miracle he lived to be 38
He probably wanted to die. Can't imagine the pain this man went through every day :(
*39
It's a miracle he lived to be 10, let alone 39.
Probably more like a curse...😅
When Archduke Ferdinand married his wife Sophie it was considered outside of royalty and he was despised by his Uncle the next to last Emperor of the Austrian/Hungarian Empire. For some reason no one realized he was doing them a favor.
The sad thing is, part of the reason they went to that parade was because it was one of the few public functions where he could be seen in public with his wife.
Really, he just wanted a nice afternoon treating his wife like a queen and, well...
I'm still trying to figure out how his grandmother was his aunt
Because his grandmother (mother’s mother) was also his father’s sister 🥴
@@kryssy08 so, Charles' ll mom married her moms brother....... eww
@@zainabo3662 More like her uncle married her... Don't think the women had a lot of choice in the matter
@@atreyu4ws true
Me daddy is great uncle cousin and me mommy is cousin too Jajajaja! *DROOLS*
Imagine having weird history’s voice i would never stop talking
is this the same narrator from the early days of Weird History? just got better by better mic?
Thought he was Colbert at first
@@_klee7469 different narrators, i remember the first video i watched in this channel "Radioactive Boy Scout" and the guy was different.
@@greglucas7735 me too!
sounds just like him
Wow, I feel sorry for this man. He truly suffered all of his life.
This is just sad, I feel bad for him. It wasn't his fault he suffered from so many deformities :(
Charles II: what happens when your family tree becomes a family circle
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You win the comments
Most Royal families were like that, but the Habsburg´s took the biscuit .
just wait till you see the average player's family tree on Crusader Kings 2 & 3, those will make the habsburgs looks like a joke
So did many members of the British royals (George III (porphyria) and Queen Victoria (carrier of the gene for hemophilia) being obvious examples).
You mean the cake. That's the saying. Cake, not biscuit.
"painters of the era did everything possible to depict Charles as a healthy strong man"
*Shows a painting of the ugliest man I've ever seen*
It was the best that they can do to make him look accurate. He still looks WORSE than what paintings show us.
It’s interesting that with all those ailments he was able to live so long...particularly with the lack of treatments available. When I did a tour in Madrid of the castle they did not mention anything about the inbreeding. Even when I asked the tour guide brushed it away quickly. Also unfortunately there were probably a lot of miscarriages as well
@Melania Farrón That's the stupidest thing I've ever heard.
@Melania Farrón stupid response lacking of any bases or science....the problems of Charles II are widely known by everybody in SPAIN and studied in the Spanish schools without any censure....in the books of history is called "el hechizado"....and Spaniards are perfectly critical with its own history...by the way the only genocide I know is the one anglosaxons committed in USA where not a one single native was left...however my understanding is that in the Spanish America the rate of the population of "natives" is huge and in some countries even higher than european descendants...therefore I do not see where is the spanish genocide....and nothing is downplayed in Spanish history books...we have free press....SPAIN is a democracy....you can write what you want as you want...there is no censure...the only manipulation in books we can see here is the 'black legend' that you anglosaxons invented and spread against Spaniards all based on false events and manipulations....look at the history and Google the 'black legend'...you will see Spaniards did not downplay things in history books...but others do....
Spanish inquisition? Conquestsdors? Spain is no shining example.
@@silver4831 are you a shining example? Who is ? Nothing wrong with conquistadors brave men discovering the world under extreme difficult conditions, creating cities, hospitals, universities, schools, roads, banks and bringing Christianity and European civilization to many parts of the world...
Taking Christianity (or any religion) anywhere, especially when forced upon said regions/peoples is absolutely NOT a good thing to brag about lmao.
Christianity & religions have stifled humanities progress more than expanded upon it. Hahahahahaha. Then again, not surprising a schizophrenic esq type belief in an magical, invisible, omnipotent but useless sky daddy would be more detrimental than helpful. Anyone that isn't sub-80 IQ or indoctrinated easily sees this. Only reason its more vocal today is there isn't threat of execution for coming forward with the notion of hoq.obvious it is that its literally an insane cult.
As a human biologist, it's interesting how mutations have changed humanity in the last centuries. Although most mutations are detrimental some mutations have really benefited us. Roughly 10000 years ago, a mutation occurred which enabled people to be lactose tolerant throughout their lives. This small mutation has been so beneficial that it spread quickly and the majority of Europeans have it today (I made a video about human mutations a while ago). Incest however leads to awkward jaws and infertility..
"AnImAl MiLk Is BaD FoR hUmAnS!"
I heard each person carries at least 8 mutated genes. And apparently I’m a “birth defect,” aka identical twin.
I dunno about you being a biologist tbh. I don’t want to be rude but... ALL humans lack the gene for lactose tolerance. Only babies have the tolerance for human breast milk but then grow out of it. ...maybe you haven’t reached that part in biology class.
@@epstone Animal Milk IS still bad for humans. Plant based milk is the way to go.
@@awsomeboy360 Ha! I see you believe that plant-based garbage...
"Was barely able to talk or walk - all because his dynasty was so inbred."
Lmao that description. How fortunate to be in unfortunate royal blood.
I feel like the royal painter was like
"Well I tried my best"
The paintings are well known but his name is not. They probably killed the poor guy and he was just doing his best 😂
All jokes aside, this is actually really sad
How did this guy survive for 40 years??
His position saved him.
Interestingly, there are some surviving Habsburgs left in europe. Although not from the Austrian and Spanish line
It’s quite remarkable he reached that age, and he actually survived all of his closer relatives so no one close to the family could claim the throne. His heir ended up being a grandson of his elder half sister.
Having $$$ makes you live longer & that's the longest it got him.
@@Dakidpepe Bruh there were alot of his relatives who died younger than him how do u justify that haha
Yes inbreeding was common , but the difference was the spanish hagsburgs intermarriage with their Austrian first cousins
While the rest of European families married their 2 or 3rd cousins that's why their infant mortality rate, and disorders became more extreme
Also the family portrait that's displayed in the background is of the Spanish borbons not the Austrians.
Some of the other houses were bad .Henry 8 tried to get mary and his illigitamate son to marry ( half siblings)
Man, Queen Victoria and Prince Albert for the most part got seriously lucky. They WERE first cousins, but their children did not have any major deformities that I am aware of (although at least one of the nine had hemophilia).
@@thunderbird1921 Victoria spread hemophilia through so many royal houses lpl
@@abbiemarshall4956 I think Queen Vicky’s a genuine mutant for such a reason! Possibly because her mum came from a family that used to be plain inbred nobility!
I am so glad that my ancestors not only had access to non-family-members, but they also had no problem getting busy with non-Italians... I am very happy to be Italian and Scottish and Danish and Mexican... My gene-pool is nicely mixed up.
Real diversity!
Same! French, English, German, Welsh, Spanish, Greek, Italian and a dash of Viking and Jew!
@@moneyman1995100 your ancestors have left out some European genes, I am shocked!
Don't forget the African blood too.
Im scottish irish and native American
That is so sad. Every time I hear or read about King Charles the II I feel sorry for him. Poor guy didn't ask for any of it. Yes it was common back then but still all of those poor kids who suffered from inbreeding.
A number of those paintings and images (including the one from Horrible Histories) were for Charles II of England. That's a different king entirely.
Thank you for noticing!!
There’s even a painting of Leopold I of Habsburg
The portraits come from all over the place, they belong to several people.
They also had Charles I of England and Charles ii of england in. They had nothing to do with Charles ii of Spain. It's lazy editing if you ask me
@@mmaphilosophy indeed
“Mummy says it’s a strong chin for a strong boy!”
Wrong Hasburg but it still fits
There's a tax for that
@@quentinrountree3435 dude. uncool ;)
Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh nooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!😵😵😵😂
Dude, uncool(2)
Oversimplified is the best
That’s why Zeus said, inbreeding will Not be Tolerated by the Greek Gods, Spartans, and all of its Citizens!
Ironic that ancient greeks married their cousins. The bible also discouraged inbreeding yet look.
Zeus married and had 2 kids with his sister he can’t talk
Zeus did inbreed extensively, though.
No but he was totally down for beastality lol so many god created cause he was a swan or a boar lmao or some other creature lol
@@nameslesss And depending on which version you look at, he has children from his other female relatives like his big sis Demeter (birthing Persephone) and Persephone (I am not kidding)...
I was waiting for you to say that he was his own grandpa.
"We will strengthen lines of succession, and help secure political alliances." --> "Our king will be unable to stand, speak or feed himself."
He was related to himself in about 18 different ways. Both his parents and grandparents were uncle and niece.
Can you imagine this poor guy’s 21 and Me report???
LMFAOOO. I cant even imagine. He would of broke the poor machine
It'd probably read something like,
I dunno man. This gene pool is shallow and only goes in one direction.
Hahahaha! I legit lol'd at this. IDKY it was so funny to me but I thank you for the chuckle 🤭
I bet it would just say "what the fuck" in every language on earth.
@@flickcentergaming680 including languages dead for thousands of years. Hell, maybe even some alien languages to boot
"Is this the most messed-up royal tree?"
No, it's more like a royal trunk.
His health condition was described in one account as "an assassination that occurred 200 years before he was born".
Your perfect pronunciation of "Españñaaa" and that transitioning from perfect English to perfect Spanish with rugged voice and accent, even if it was only one word is what ultimately prompted me to subscribe.
Gracias for doing what you're haciendo..
He looks like an exaggerated drawing of Stallone.
And those are flattering portraits.
He looks like your own avatar, dude.
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Dueling Banjos would have been an excellent choice of music for this video.
"Sweet home Hispania!"
España, not Hispania. Hispania is how was called in Roman times.
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That actually fits into the actual song.
incredible video, I have to admit, the portrait painters did a perfect job of turning his flaws into characteristics, rather than mere flaws.
Habsburg dude seeing his sister: "It's free real estate"
Habsburgs dudes grandpa: "take a seat pal, im first".
Uugghhhh gross lmfaoo 😆😂
When they see their cousins chin: its free real estate
Too bad jerry springer wasn’t around back then.
JERRY JERRY JERRY!!
hhaaaa ! yes ! i could just imagine the episode lol
But who's going to fight onstage? That's the most important question
Lol
Or Tom Brady
If you guys made a podcast I would be all over that! Love how you narrate history!
Wow, this is fascinating. I found Weird History in accident and I'm happy I did, there is so much interesting history around us and I cannot wait to hear more!
Loving the intro! I'm a fan of consuming content about the (very) interesting history of my country from non-Spanish creators. I also like your channel very much
Fascinating subject! With very little material available online in English you’ve done a fantastic job with this 👏 Thank you 😚
Your voice's cadence, clarity, intonation, and, dialogue are so on point.
Weird History: "Is this the most messed-up royal family tree?"
The Ptolemys (Cleopatra's family): "Are we a joke to you?"
Akhenaten, King Tut, etc. too!
Royal Egyptians did the same thing too, inbreeding
Also, some ancient Egyptian royals had Diabetes.
Great video brothers. I can't wait until Timeline starts up again. Those were really top notch.👌 I know how much work those took, and I appreciate it. All the best to everyone 👍
Poor guy 😕it wasn't his fault yet he had to suffer and endure so much pain
My thoughts exactly. Can’t imagine how he felt while he lived.
"i'm waiting for my prince charming"
the prince:
Lady, please 🙏 😂
I knew about Charles II, but not this much. On a totally different and probably insignificant note, I love your transitions. Very unique.
Poor guy, he suffered greatly it seems
The intro tho🔥 the production getting so good!
Howdy from South Australia, I don't know who you are (the guy narrating W.H videos), but I love your narrations, your subtle & unsubtle humour , even if the subject of some of the videos aren't that interesting to me, I still watch them because the way you speak and present the information , still make it interesting (especially compared to those videos where its narrated by a robot)!
Sometimes your voice is in my head when I'm reading a news article :))
You got the gift of the gab Mr, please don't stop narrating these videos! :)
“Head full of water” implies he was probably severely handicapped mentally as well
I don't know why but I love binge watching this channel.
Several times this video shows paintings and portrayals of Charles II of England, who is a very obviously different King. This isn't difficult, guys.
There is even a photo from Horrible Histories Charles II song
And at 9:12 it looks like Jesus at the Last Supper?? But it says “1630” in the top right corner
So I wasn’t the only one to notice that too?
@@RedfishUK1964 My name is...my name is.....my name is.....
Well, it can be worse than the Habsburgs! The ancient Egyptian pharaohs families routinely married siblings and parents with their children. Tutankhamon was Charles's ancient doppleganger, with numerous disabilities due to inbreeding.
I believe it was one of the medical professionals of the time that described it best: He was doomed from the moment he was born, dying from a poison injected one century ago as it infected his bloodline and ultimately would be his demise.
Something along those lines
3:51 that’s Charles the 2nd of ENGLAND not Spain. I know this because that’s from Horrible Histories. Do better research please
I had to go back just to confirm!
Yeah, our Charles 2nd was certainly not against banging commoners; one of his many mistresses was actress Nell Gwyn. He also had (that we know of) eighteen bastard children but no heirs cuz his wife was barren. Honestly, the two are polar opposites.
I love this channel but the images used are a real mix of Charles’. We have Charles I and II of England in multiple portraits and family tree photos. It’s not a huge problem it’s just kind of contradictory to show inaccurate images when you are trying to present facts
BEST CHANNEL.
BEST NARRATOR.
BEST HISTORICAL CONTENT WITHOUT BEING PRETENTIOUS.
This documentary reminds me on how Queen Victoria's first cousin marriage unfortunately played a part in the end of the Romanovs reign. It's a miracle that Charles II managed to live long.
I don’t see how it alleged did.
The Romanovs were shot for political reasons, haemophilia or not.
This guy had more of a family tumbleweed
Great post!!!
How did Charles relate to the rest of his family? Yes.
I love the narrator's voice!!! He really does a good job.
Charles II had Hydrocephalus, otherwise known as "Water on the Brain".
Also, his dad got syphilis from prostitutes before Charles was even born.
@@SlapstickGenius23 so there’s a high chance he contracted syphilis from birth. They had no chill bruh
Hydrocephalus kills u shortly after birth. It ran in my family. He must have had some kind of swelling. Or it was completely fabricated to call the familys intelligence into question.
@@jamieyoho2310 There is more than 1 kind of hydrocephalus. I have congenital hydrocephalus, which means I was born with it. I'm 35 now.
I agree. The fact that they describe his head as unusually big since birth, all these health and mental issues and “water” in his skull after the necropsy screams hydrocephalus.
I was born with distal renal tubular acidosis and I never knew Charles II had it too! Kind of side-eyeing my family tree now...
One question, does your family have any correlation to Alabama or Spain?
@@homedepot. upsettingly close- Indiana on one side
@@SaunterVaguely go get your DNA tested bruh
@@SaunterVaguely is incest allowed in Indiana?
@@SaunterVaguely lol you parents are brothers moment
Beautiful video, thanks for sharing. Wishing you a wonderful day!
When is weird history’s timeline series returning!? I’m so excited for the 90s!!!
Nobody:
Absolutely nobody:
*Alabama* : Don't say a fuckin thing
lmao
yep, as the motto says: '' the stars fell on alabama''.... and yet the damn things still there
You’re showing pictures of King Charles I and Queen Henrietta of England around the 2:00 minute mark.
They shared a name, but not genes.
Also Matt Baynton as Charles II of England from Horrible Histories
@@kaledmasterme and they also showed the actual Charles ii of england as a kid. I wonder who chopped this video up. Lazy bastards lol
@@mmaphilosophy umm, Weird History didn’t find any suitable images for the paintings of Charles of Spain, because most of them were actually pretty much destroyed a long time ago.
Reminds of the Oversimplified video where King Henry VIII wanted Mary to marry Charles
"Ew, he looks inbred"
"MARY...we're ALL inbred"
Excellent content, as always!
Cover the PTOLEMY DYNASTY next!
Cover the historical Thai royals too! They must have been very inbred in the 1800s.
I'm certain some parts of Charles' autopsy were exaggerated. Most notably, having a heart the size of a peppercorn is medically impossible.
we may never know for sure, especially since hopefully noone that inbred exists in this day and age
Medical knowledge in the 17th century was not the same as today so coroners describe whatever they literally see on the autopsy reports.
Most of the rest is likely accurate. Shriveled, coal-black testicle? I'd believe it from a guy as inbred as he was. Head full of water? Hydrocephaly is more common than one might think. No blood? Well, the guy WAS dead. But the impossibly small heart and brain are almost certainly exaggerated, I'll agree with that.
Awesome show. Thanks WI.
It's brutal because I've just found your channel and your related content always seems more interesting than the one I'm watching. I have no discipline 🤣🤣🤣
he's like a human pug, probably sneezed an eye out at some point too
@Super Supper100 what? I live in the UK, have you seen my people? Lol. I'm super grateful my family comes from Germany, to put it nicely.
That could actually happen to a pug?
@@kappadarwin9476 yeah, any dog with big eyes and small skulls. Also happens to those small toy chihuahuas.
Lmao a human pug 😂😂😂
Wow, he was privileged and cursed equally poor guy💜
thanks for that pause, dude. cause i had to sit there and look over that family tree with my jaw on the floor.
The Hapsburgs, I think, shouldn't be called a gene pool. It's more like a gene puddle!