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My 13 year old daughter just had a debate wherein she had to debate the question: Charlemagne- hero or villain. She argued for hero and won so I saw this pop up and thought I'd refresh my own memory of the subject. Thank you for this documentary.
@@coolwhiprofl Yeah but hes directly descended from him, but i mean just look at a picture of Christopher Lee and Charlemagne, its crazy how much they look alike.
53:28 For those confused, they probably meant "Ottonian" rather than "Ottoman". They are not directly related to Charlemagne though, they simply took the crown of the East Francia after the carolingians.
I like these videos too. But your love of the "unbiased" history, suggests your used to your usual historical information being biased? Can I ask where you just taught biased propaganda in school? In which country?
@@NeilLewis77 Historical information is almost always biased. Often times simply because there is a lack of unbiased sources and historians have to just do guesswork, especially when it comes to the early middle ages and before
@@sebe2255 yes and the creators of this channel are using the same sources as other historians. so what makes this channel more unbiased than any others? i think this is a great channel and i love it but im just confused by the wording of the praise. "love your unbiased history"? what history books and documentaries am i supposed to be avoiding? which are the biased ones that the OP was referring to?
@@sebe2255 ye mate. I know that. Obviously. But that's not what the OP was saying, that's not what I was saying and it's completely irrelevant to my question bud. It's just muddying the waters. What is the "biased history" that the OP is complaining about?
Read French: "Charl le Magne" means "Charles the Great". To the Germans, he is known as "Karl der Große." He is considered the founding father of both nations.
In France, Clovis often is, which makes no sense. As for Germany, I never met anyone who thinks Charlemagne is their founding father. German tribes existed before him, and were very much not united after him
@@Kingedwardiii2003 Well Arminius is more so a heroic figure, but he absolutely isn’t a founding father of Germany. He was killed by his own tribe and replaced by a more pro-roman relative (the son of his brother).
@@dittmannrudolfrohr2149 That is what I'm thankful for. Without Charlemagne & the Catholic Church, Europe would still be like India -- worshipping animals and doing nonsensical superstitious rituals with animal guts. Animal sacrifice.
@@dittmannrudolfrohr2149 and what do you think the outcome would have been under the caliphate..? Better? At least Christianity left a unique lasting cultural legacy on Europe
Charlemagne was a great person who had great people supporting him, otherwise he wouldn't have succeded in his endeavours. A great inspiration for today's leaders. Very good documentary. Thank you.
In my younger days I had the great fortune to have studied in Aachen. I still consider it my second home. I was only in my teens then so didn’t fully grasp the historical significance of that beautiful city so it was lovely to learn about it from this video. The Aachener Dom is one of the most beautiful buildings I’ve ever seen.
@johnhaydu2627 Not until after the Renaissance. White people started taking over during the 1700s. During the 1700s, white supremacists started changing all history to white, and made it illegal for black people to learn. Take for instance all of the Graco Romans statues were polycromy meaning they were painted. White supremacists destroyed most of the statues of black Romans and Greeks, and painted over all the rest of the statues with white paint. So why paint the statues white if they were white people? Look up Agnes Dunbar she is the niece of Robert the Bruce who was a black Scottish king. Read her bio and notice her nickname.
Did you notice that all the pinces named Carloman on the Carolingian dinasty never got the oportunity to reign? They always died young or were defeated by their sibilings.
Great documentary but you made a slight mistake towards the end. König is the German word for King, Kaiser is the word for Emperor. Korol is the Russian word for King, Czar for Emperor. Both Kaiser and Czar are derived from Caesar, but the Caesars were Emperors, as opposed to Kings. 54:30
Charlemagne was the greatest of all medieval kings in Europe, about a thousand of them. He was a head taller than his contemporaries, had a high pitched voice and a small paunch according to his biographer Eginhart. The place of his crowning in 800 is said to be a metre-wide reddish circular antique , Egyptian, stone in the entrance of today s St Peters Basilica.
Great video I always enjoy watching your videos. I love history and you make it fun to learn about history. Thank you for all the hard work you do on these videos.
Just about anyone with a European extraction claims an ancestral link to Charlemagne. For example, my mother was a member of the Dames of the Magda Carta. She had traced her ancestry directly to him.
Proving hard to keep up with the profiles, thanks for the great work. Ireland's Michael Collins worth considering, truly remarkable story of one man against the greatest military force the world has ever seen.
Its very interesting that this great man was born in such backwater place. Also, he was born into the period which was just few generations far from the fall of Roman Empire. I would like to see how these people lived there because I can imagine that the south was pretty much still advanced and the tribes who were originally attacking Roman Empire were still finding the way how things are working.
@Nobody Have you seen Barbarians season 2? Black Germans in ancient Germania. I shit you not. Nevermind the fact that nothing is based on the actual historical events.
@@jessiemeisenheimer8675 Tbf it wasn’t a black Germanic tribesman, it was a woman from North Africa. That being said, Arminius’ gay brother dying makes way less sense that a black person in Germania
Most informative documentary episode about charllaman King 🤴 of Frankish kingdom..excellent historical coverage channel of historical persons thanks for sharing
Well, I am NOT related to him, that's actually true. I loved your piece on him; in my opinion, I don't believe he was great, for several reasons which is all I need to say. But I love History and your channel is INCREDIBLE; I plan on watching all of the episodes. Thank you!!
Would have been easier to just say "we hate Christianity and Charles, everyone else around him did cool things. He did not cool things. The end." - People Profiles
One of the most powerful emperors in medieval age, as i visited france in 2015. A son of France ♥🔥 and one of my fav and respected characters. He created a empire and made him as a holy roman emperor the first of many rulers who ruled that. His empire survives many challenges until 1806. One of the powerful rulers. Vive la france. My fav country. Known as a father of 🌍🌎 because of he created a vast empire and united most of Europe since the roman empire. Brilliant and thnk you for this video. He is one of the best rulers ever to rule Europe,most of Italy and also the many Gallic and germanic tribes. Again thnk you for these content.He also helped the Carolingian renaissance and the revival of western church with that. Also he is a main ancestor of dynasties who ruled and rules Europe 🌍. But also his some actions led the schism between westen and eastern empires as well as the western and orthodox churches . Because he didn't think irene of athens as a legitimate ruler and he himself declared as a roman emperor and 👑 himself. best wishes aijaz from pakistan
More so a father of France that a son of France. France didn’t exist yet, though a distinct “French” culture was developing in Northern France at this point
Just did a recent bloodline study to see where my family comes from. Turns out Charlemagne is my 41st great grandfather… now I’m attempting to learn as much about him as possible 😅
payback by the Church for what Aleric did to Rome? "24 August 410, Alaric and his forces began the sack of Rome." The Church just gave fancy titles. the Holy Roman Empire, how great thou art! One could make the case that the Roman Church did more killing than the Roman Government. The Fasces never weilded as much power. its all interesting indeed. then there was this too - September 8-11, 9 AD, when an alliance of Germanic peoples ambushed three Roman legions led by Publius Quinctilius Varus and their auxiliaries. The alliance was led by Arminius, a Germanic officer of Varus's auxilia. now this war is upon the west as a whole. very interesting ...
Is there a reason why Charlemagne in the thumbnail looks like one of his descendants, Christopher Lee? Fun fact, he sang in a metal band named Charlemagne toward the end of his life.
That image is from centuries after his death and probably looks nothing like him. He probably had no beard and short hair (to look more like the Roman emperors of old who’s legacy he wanted to claim)
The "Father of Europe" is exactly that. In 40 generations we've well over a trillion ancestors & forty generations of each of my parents are Charlemagne's grandchildren. Not once or twice, but several hundred times, just like every other person with modern European ancestry.
The actual number of blood descendants from Charlemagne is limited to approximately 2500 in present time, 5000 through marriage. He is the titular head of European descendants en mass, through unification of Christendom, albeit not literal progenitor! Majority of bloodline families are now extinct!
@@davidhightower3455 2500 descendants of Charlemagne is abject nonsense! In forty-two generations my parents EACH have 2,199,023,255,552 ancestors for nearly 4.4 trillion. At 44 generations that's over 17.5 trillion, 45 generations 35 trillion...
@@charlesvigneron565 You should leave math alone for a while same with ancestry. Just find out where the 17 trillion people or 45 trillon people are hiding.
@@theotherguy8007 What kind of math or sources you used when you said "The actual number of blood descendants from Charlemagne is limited to approximately 2500 in present time, 5000 through marriage."?
All modern Europeans are direct descendants, many times over. In 40 generations we've 2,199,023,255,551 ancestors, More people than have lived in the last 20,000 years.
It's just the ceremonial title as Emperor of the (Western) Roman Empire wich already exited previously.. germanic kings were just very eager to return the title to themselves. He was a great leader and defender, but never some kind of "Father" of Europe.
Reineke A donkey could have walked back and forth from roman region to germanic region without getting attacked, Thats how strong Roman Empire was in those times... Franks are reason the roman got respected again but main reason is religion/christianity that roman empire was powerfull again...
The title Magnus (the Great) isn't necessarily meant as "good"; it has much more to do with accomplishment & even respectful fear. Therefore, Charlemagne was definitely worthy of his lofty title 🤔
The actual bloodline descendants of Charlemagne is circa 2500, 5000 through marriage. Majority actual bloodline descendant families are extinct! He is the titular head of European descendants en mass through the unification of Christendom.
I forget the statistic,but a lot of French/German people are related to his bloodline. I did one of those DNA tests and it said I was which was fascinating. It was also fascinating there was no hard distinction between French and German DNA considering the exchange of borders and the United Francia kingdom.
Hold up. Now the title duke had been around since Roman times, although the used the title in different contexts, but, iirc, it was Charlemage who set up the system of counts. Later, the title became hereditary but in Carolingian, it was an appointed position.
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Can you forward this to Hollywood for a series season 1 to season 5 called Europe
It's a good time to be alive just for the amazing access to historical documentary's on UA-cam.✌️🇺🇸
Strangely, no videos about Jan.6th. even though yesterday was the 3rd anniversary ? The committee did vote to indict months ago ? Meanwhile ::::"
@@darrylbunch6929Plenty of coverage. It was a riot much like the BLM and Antifa craziness that killed dozens and injured thousands.👌🇺🇲
@@darrylbunch6929Id be more interested in the riots in 2020 that killed dozens hurt thousands and burned the cities of America.
My 13 year old daughter just had a debate wherein she had to debate the question: Charlemagne- hero or villain. She argued for hero and won so I saw this pop up and thought I'd refresh my own memory of the subject. Thank you for this documentary.
Great dad
Home school?
Christopher Lee in his 90s released a heavy metal album called Charlemagne.
He was related to Charlemagne
@MrBoruch the same way that everyone living today with European heritage are "related" to Charlemagne. Statistically and genetically it's unavoidable.
@@coolwhiprofl not exactly, Lee's parents were actual royalty.
@@coolwhiprofl Yeah but hes directly descended from him, but i mean just look at a picture of Christopher Lee and Charlemagne, its crazy how much they look alike.
@@sultankebab1587 where did you found a picture of Charlemagne?
In university in 94 this was one of the books i had to read. Absolutely loved it. Read it a bunch of times.
Whats the name of the book brother
@@rojvankoc7252 i don't know where it is atm, i think its called something like, the two lives of charlemagne.
53:28 For those confused, they probably meant "Ottonian" rather than "Ottoman". They are not directly related to Charlemagne though, they simply took the crown of the East Francia after the carolingians.
They were a saxon line. Funny how the next emperor of the west after carolus magnus is a saxon. Considering his arch enemy was a saxon.
he made sure all the children learned to read and write. ❤
Yes in reference to Otto III, I believe
In Germany, he is called Karl der Große ( Karl the Great)
richtich
How reich
in Belgium to but its a modern name
In French it’s Charlemagne
@@TheChoppedinhalfspeaking of Belgium, my lord that nation has a repulsive history of murdering Africans. Disgusting.
Finally, a decent well done documentary on Charlemagne! Thank you.
Thank you for another informative and interesting historical documentary. Marvellous narrator with well produced visuals too.
I was looking for Charlemagne on your channel just yesterday! Thank you! I love the unbiased history on your channel, it's so refreshing.
I like these videos too.
But your love of the "unbiased" history, suggests your used to your usual historical information being biased?
Can I ask where you just taught biased propaganda in school?
In which country?
@@NeilLewis77 Historical information is almost always biased. Often times simply because there is a lack of unbiased sources and historians have to just do guesswork, especially when it comes to the early middle ages and before
@@sebe2255 yes and the creators of this channel are using the same sources as other historians.
so what makes this channel more unbiased than any others?
i think this is a great channel and i love it but im just confused by the wording of the praise. "love your unbiased history"?
what history books and documentaries am i supposed to be avoiding?
which are the biased ones that the OP was referring to?
@@NeilLewis77 I am just saying that the primary sources themselves are often biased. Not that this is a bad channel
@@sebe2255 ye mate.
I know that.
Obviously.
But that's not what the OP was saying, that's not what I was saying and it's completely irrelevant to my question bud.
It's just muddying the waters.
What is the "biased history" that the OP is complaining about?
"Let my armies be the rocks and the trees and the birds in the sky". -Charlemagne
Awesome
Indiana Jones and the last crusade
The most comprehensive historical recount of King Charlemane the man and his accomplishments. Awesome! TY.
Read French: "Charl le Magne" means "Charles the Great". To the Germans, he is known as "Karl der Große." He is considered the founding father of both nations.
In France, Clovis often is, which makes no sense. As for Germany, I never met anyone who thinks Charlemagne is their founding father. German tribes existed before him, and were very much not united after him
@@sebe2255yea I thought it was Arminius
@@Kingedwardiii2003 Well Arminius is more so a heroic figure, but he absolutely isn’t a founding father of Germany. He was killed by his own tribe and replaced by a more pro-roman relative (the son of his brother).
@@sebe2255you seem to never have met a german
@@florianschneider8396 I wish lmao, most of them would barely even know Arminius
In Brazil, he's called "Carlão, o Brabo."
Yes! The Father of Europe and First Holy Roman Emperor! Thanks for this!
@@dittmannrudolfrohr2149 would you havd preferred that or Muslim occupation in the late 700?
@@dittmannrudolfrohr2149 That is what I'm thankful for. Without Charlemagne & the Catholic Church, Europe would still be like India -- worshipping animals and doing nonsensical superstitious rituals with animal guts. Animal sacrifice.
The Unholy G*rman Confederacy
@@dittmannrudolfrohr2149 and what do you think the outcome would have been under the caliphate..? Better? At least Christianity left a unique lasting cultural legacy on Europe
@@Ditka-89 Roman papal traditions are not biblical Christianity.
Charlemagne was a great person who had great people supporting him, otherwise he wouldn't have succeded in his endeavours. A great inspiration for today's leaders. Very good documentary. Thank you.
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Except for slaughtering the Saxons.😢
@@susansusan19804000 isn’t even that many all things considered
In my younger days I had the great fortune to have studied in Aachen. I still consider it my second home. I was only in my teens then so didn’t fully grasp the historical significance of that beautiful city so it was lovely to learn about it from this video. The Aachener Dom is one of the most beautiful buildings I’ve ever seen.
How you guys don't have several millions subscribers is baffling. There are few notifications that get me as excited as when PP releases a video.
I just subbed. Hard to find great, fresh, new documentaries on the tube. Most are just reuploads.
People don't understand how amazing history was and instead prefer Taylor swift🤢
Well people are finding out all the kings and queens of Europe were black
@@tommyjohnson6410 people thought they were white?
@johnhaydu2627 Not until after the Renaissance. White people started taking over during the 1700s. During the 1700s, white supremacists started changing all history to white, and made it illegal for black people to learn. Take for instance all of the Graco Romans statues were polycromy meaning they were painted. White supremacists destroyed most of the statues of black Romans and Greeks, and painted over all the rest of the statues with white paint. So why paint the statues white if they were white people? Look up Agnes Dunbar she is the niece of Robert the Bruce who was a black Scottish king. Read her bio and notice her nickname.
Did you notice that all the pinces named Carloman on the Carolingian dinasty never got the oportunity to reign? They always died young or were defeated by their sibilings.
Great documentary but you made a slight mistake towards the end. König is the German word for King, Kaiser is the word for Emperor. Korol is the Russian word for King, Czar for Emperor. Both Kaiser and Czar are derived from Caesar, but the Caesars were Emperors, as opposed to Kings. 54:30
They all come from Caesar, but Czar doesn’t necessarily mean Emperor. It basically depends on the period
Charlemagne was the greatest of all medieval kings in Europe, about a thousand of them. He was a head taller than his contemporaries, had a high pitched voice and a small paunch according to his biographer Eginhart. The place of his crowning in 800 is said to be a metre-wide reddish circular antique , Egyptian, stone in the entrance of today s St Peters Basilica.
I like that you mention his paunch as a desirable trait. As it should be, a little extra belly fat is extra protection against blades and arrows!
He is the father of Europe. His blood runs through the blood of the most noble dynasties of any other house.
i am related to this man
@@jellyfishsquawka bunch of us are
@@jellyfishsquawkI too can trace my family all the way back to Charlemagne. I've often wondered how many people can.
Great video I always enjoy watching your videos. I love history and you make it fun to learn about history. Thank you for all the hard work you do on these videos.
Thank you!! I've been waiting for this one!
Very much appreciated.
I did French school and we covered Charlemagne. However I’ve learned a lot more from your documentary than I ever did at school.
if the vid begins with "The man known to history as..." you know it's gonna be a banger
Th man known to history as Big Charley! They even named a bubble gum after him!
I now think the same thing when I hear the intro
Just about anyone with a European extraction claims an ancestral link to Charlemagne.
For example, my mother was a member of the Dames of the Magda Carta. She had traced her ancestry directly to him.
I love learning about great men from history and Charlemagne was a great king
I love how the thumbnail is just Sir Christopher Lee but with a longer bead. Fits well since Sir Lee is related to Charlemagne.
Proving hard to keep up with the profiles, thanks for the great work. Ireland's Michael Collins worth considering, truly remarkable story of one man against the greatest military force the world has ever seen.
An amazing documentary. Well done.
Ohhh bro finally. I’ve been waiting for this
Great Documentary! Good to have something intelligent to watch!
Its very interesting that this great man was born in such backwater place. Also, he was born into the period which was just few generations far from the fall of Roman Empire. I would like to see how these people lived there because I can imagine that the south was pretty much still advanced and the tribes who were originally attacking Roman Empire were still finding the way how things are working.
Another great video from the people’s profile.
This is a real person, so important to the world's progress. At that time. I wouldn't cancel him. Lol
Enjoyed the episode very much.
We need a Netflix dramatized series about this wise king!
@Nobody Have you seen Barbarians season 2? Black Germans in ancient Germania. I shit you not. Nevermind the fact that nothing is based on the actual historical events.
@@jessiemeisenheimer8675 Tbf it wasn’t a black Germanic tribesman, it was a woman from North Africa. That being said, Arminius’ gay brother dying makes way less sense that a black person in Germania
Netflix would butcher and everyone would take it as an historical breakthrough. It would be tragic.
His father had never served at the Merovingian court. Because Charlemagne's grandfather Pepin of London is the one who took the throne.
Most informative documentary episode about charllaman King 🤴 of Frankish kingdom..excellent historical coverage channel of historical persons thanks for sharing
Modern musician BLC quoted in his song: "I never will be no Charlamage!" Indeed he never amounted to more than a nero.
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Thank you so much for this. I enjoyed it and learned from it.
Crazy! to think we lived on the same planet as these people! Time is a strange and peculiar.. cruel tool!
Well, I am NOT related to him, that's actually true. I loved your piece on him; in my opinion, I don't believe he was great, for several reasons which is all I need to say. But I love History and your channel is INCREDIBLE; I plan on watching all of the episodes. Thank you!!
Cant believe I was never taught anything about this at school
By the way, he is also known as St.Charlemagne,you can Google it.
Would have been easier to just say "we hate Christianity and Charles, everyone else around him did cool things. He did not cool things. The end." - People Profiles
Thanks for the upload!
I love how you have him looking a bit like his most famous contemporary descendant the late legendary Sir Christopher Lee
"Charles the Warhammer". Hell of a name.
That’s a huge transition for Charlemagne to go from the Father of The Holy Roman Empire to the podcast with Andrew Schultz 📈🙌
I know what I'm falling asleep to tonight
If I had to have a king and I could pick one, Charlamagne would be my pick.
He was the first of a long list of German/ Western rulers who drooled over the Roman Empire!
Please could we have more literary figures? These are wonderful.
Is that Christopher Lee in the thumb nail? (yes, I know ;) )
I shed the blood of the Saxon men!
Lol Christopher Lee really looks like his ancestor here!
The best part about Charlemagne is his ability to, if an equip card is attached to him, destroy any card on the field. Synchro summons are great!
One of the most powerful emperors in medieval age, as i visited france in 2015. A son of France ♥🔥 and one of my fav and respected characters. He created a empire and made him as a holy roman emperor the first of many rulers who ruled that. His empire survives many challenges until 1806. One of the powerful rulers. Vive la france. My fav country. Known as a father of 🌍🌎 because of he created a vast empire and united most of Europe since the roman empire. Brilliant and thnk you for this video. He is one of the best rulers ever to rule Europe,most of Italy and also the many Gallic and germanic tribes. Again thnk you for these content.He also helped the Carolingian renaissance and the revival of western church with that. Also he is a main ancestor of dynasties who ruled and rules Europe 🌍. But also his some actions led the schism between westen and eastern empires as well as the western and orthodox churches . Because he didn't think irene of athens as a legitimate ruler and he himself declared as a roman emperor and 👑 himself. best wishes aijaz from pakistan
The germans would say he is a german haha.
@@paulhoffmann3405 And he was neither
More so a father of France that a son of France. France didn’t exist yet, though a distinct “French” culture was developing in Northern France at this point
@@sebe2255He was german learn history
He was a Frank .... And the Franks are a German people ... In his time, the French did not exist ...
Great work on this documentary
Just did a recent bloodline study to see where my family comes from. Turns out Charlemagne is my 41st great grandfather… now I’m attempting to learn as much about him as possible 😅
This is going be a good one.
Amazing video!
He was great for Europeans and christians without any doubt .He unified most of western Europe
payback by the Church for what Aleric did to Rome? "24 August 410, Alaric and his forces began the sack of Rome." The Church just gave fancy titles. the Holy Roman Empire, how great thou art! One could make the case that the Roman Church did more killing than the Roman Government. The Fasces never weilded as much power.
its all interesting indeed.
then there was this too - September 8-11, 9 AD, when an alliance of Germanic peoples ambushed three Roman legions led by Publius Quinctilius Varus and their auxiliaries. The alliance was led by Arminius, a Germanic officer of Varus's auxilia.
now this war is upon the west as a whole. very interesting ...
Is there a reason why Charlemagne in the thumbnail looks like one of his descendants, Christopher Lee? Fun fact, he sang in a metal band named Charlemagne toward the end of his life.
That image is from centuries after his death and probably looks nothing like him. He probably had no beard and short hair (to look more like the Roman emperors of old who’s legacy he wanted to claim)
There's a song by the blossoms about Charlemagne...
The "Father of Europe" is exactly that. In 40 generations we've well over a trillion ancestors & forty generations of each of my parents are Charlemagne's grandchildren. Not once or twice, but several hundred times, just like every other person with modern European ancestry.
So true there are so so many ppl who can trace back to him. He is the link for so many.
The actual number of blood descendants from Charlemagne is limited to approximately 2500 in present time, 5000 through marriage. He is the titular head of European descendants en mass, through unification of Christendom, albeit not literal progenitor! Majority of bloodline families are now extinct!
@@davidhightower3455 2500 descendants of Charlemagne is abject nonsense! In forty-two generations my parents EACH have 2,199,023,255,552 ancestors for nearly 4.4 trillion. At 44 generations that's over 17.5 trillion, 45 generations 35 trillion...
@@charlesvigneron565 You should leave math alone for a while same with ancestry.
Just find out where the 17 trillion people or 45 trillon people are hiding.
@@theotherguy8007 What kind of math or sources you used when you said "The actual number of blood descendants from Charlemagne is limited to approximately 2500 in present time, 5000 through marriage."?
Thank you 😊 💓 ...we will see this again, I imagine ...as moral decay increases 😢
It's crazy how many of us look like him in our old age.
The actor Christopher Lee was a direct decendant of charlemaigne.
Count Dooku.
bill hader another actor related to him
All modern Europeans are direct descendants, many times over. In 40 generations we've 2,199,023,255,551 ancestors, More people than have lived in the last 20,000 years.
So is almost everyone else
The Man with the Golden Gun
Much more interesting than the quarter of a page chapter of him in 10th grade history
When i went to university in 94 one of the books i read was charlemagne. Read it a bunch of times. I would have never known about him otherwise.
Amazing info. Family History!
I came across an article saying the last name vigil ( which is my surname from my father ) might link me to this guy so now I gotta watch this. 🎉
Girl please…you got dat peasant blood in you.
So interesting, truly.👍🏽🙂
I love how the depiction looks very much like Christopher Lee.
"Who's name means the warhammer"
Several of us smile at each other there, maybe making a sign of the comet. 😉
It's just the ceremonial title as Emperor of the (Western) Roman Empire wich already exited previously.. germanic kings were just very eager to return the title to themselves. He was a great leader and defender, but never some kind of "Father" of Europe.
Reineke A donkey could have walked back and forth from roman region to germanic region without getting attacked, Thats how strong Roman Empire was in those times... Franks are reason the roman got respected again but main reason is religion/christianity that roman empire was powerfull again...
I enjoyed this.
Great stuff 👏
Do video on Christopher Columbus and Herman Cortez.
Charlemagne was absolutely based
Fascinating history, very well done. Interesting about Hitler too, blaming Charlemagne for the demise of the Teutonic gods !
I was hoping you would do one on this bloke. Top Job.
@Jim N why, his not a man?
I love the channel
This guy was so important they even named a bubble gum after him! The Big Charlie!
U guys r brilliant!!!
The title Magnus (the Great) isn't necessarily meant as "good"; it has much more to do with accomplishment & even respectful fear. Therefore, Charlemagne was definitely worthy of his lofty title 🤔
Really?who knew!😁
I like how the thumbnail portrait is essentially Christopher Lee.
Only one hour for Charlemagne
Thanks.
So….the guys OP AF
Interesting documentary
My 40th great grandfather, and, LOL, all of y'alls too.
The actual bloodline descendants of Charlemagne is circa 2500, 5000 through marriage. Majority actual bloodline descendant families are extinct! He is the titular head of European descendants en mass through the unification of Christendom.
@@davidhightower3455 What's your point?
Your voice is so relaxing 😊I could listen to it all day🤍
I forget the statistic,but a lot of French/German people are related to his bloodline. I did one of those DNA tests and it said I was which was fascinating. It was also fascinating there was no hard distinction between French and German DNA considering the exchange of borders and the United Francia kingdom.
Apparently Charlemagne invented Aachen’s Razor. That’s the simplest explanation anyway
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I traced my ancestry on my father's side to King Charlemagne. This is fascinating!
hahahah yea eight
@@nbawinningtips I'm serious. Shall I post my family tree from Ancestry? What is the purpose of your sarcastic reply?
@@chrystalweaver618a lot of Europeans have Charlemagne's DNA in their cells 😊
@neilrichardson7454
I'm sure. I was just surprised to find that out. That's all.
I did some digging and I found out I’m related to him as well and King Alfred. I was like wow that’s crazy lol
Great job ! Can you make episode about Otto the great ¿
Gee wiz I love this narrator's voice. I feel like Fran from Black Books 😂
Super thanks
Don’t forget your work
Hold up. Now the title duke had been around since Roman times, although the used the title in different contexts, but, iirc, it was Charlemage who set up the system of counts. Later, the title became hereditary but in Carolingian, it was an appointed position.
What if Charlemagne was Immortal and tolerant of non-orthodox/Catholic Christians (Arianists) and Pagans?