Rise of the Carolingian Dynasty
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- čas přidán 29. 06. 2024
- Great powers rise and great powers fall. The Merovingians were no exception, but their slow decline allowed the rise of a new dynasty, a dynasty that would shape the face of Europe for the centuries to come, the Carolingians! #ProjectClovis
Project Clovis playlist: • Playlist
Hi there! This is Barris, a French - American that lived most of his life in France and is passionate about learning, exploring, hiking and cooking. It’s a vast and beautiful world out there so join our community as we discover the historical, cultural and culinary heritage of France, Europe and the rest of the World.
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Frankish history, especially following the collapse of the Roman Empire, is both messy and complicated, and I wouldn't have been able to accurately portray the Royal Faide without this brilliant video by "Questions d'Histoire": czcams.com/video/m8t--HG_V7k/video.html - if you understand French, then I strongly recommend you check out his channel!
And also, make sure you check out the #ProjectClovis playlist: czcams.com/play/PL5Ag9n-o0IZDEqR6WIimt6T4OlMC7AYjU.html
Merde!
Boi... any info on the boii' or boi.. awesome video barris I'm French boi but Aussie they r hard to find
The boiis are interesting but I fear they wouldn't be enough material on them to make a whole video about them. Sorry. Thanks for watching Amanda and merde!
I'm making a video on Charlemagne . Do you want to join me in a collaboration?
Named #ProjetCharlemagne
Yo
As much as I love Charlemagne, the story of the Merovingians was a tragedy
It's a pretty interesting story and definitely tragic, especially when it involves children. Thanks for watching and merde!
There bloodlines are Stihl all thru people all over the world there business banner just changed names
4:37 "attempted to murder her own daughter by jamming her head into a chest"
Early stages of a nations addiction to beheadings.
France was still growing up
Ayy its finally there, the most underrated dynasty in french history!
I 100% agree! Especially the whole Royal Faide - it's just a really interesting part of history that is totally unknown/ignored. Thanks for watching man and merde!
With two women at the helm of this exceptionally brutal, sadistic, violent... civil and familial war (most people today don't even imagine that large part of the Nibelungenlied has been inspired by those events - the rivalry between Brunhilda and Sieglinda and the slaughters that followed)
@@ThisisBarris considérant la quantité de femmes très influentes dans cette période de l'Histoire, tu as particulièrement raison de la comparer à Game of Thrones.
Time to listen to the soothing sounds of Barris and some old men chanting in the background 😍
Jokes on you, the old men chanting is ME
@@ThisisBarris you're not serious are you... Hard to tell with you frenchmen 👀
and le pump up mediaval kicks
Yes, the video was only late because I had to take Gregorian chanting classes
Napoleon has huge student of history and he deeply admired Charlemagne. In his 1804 Coronation he called his own crown “The Crown of Charlemagne” after the Ancient Crown of Charlemagne was destroyed in the Revolution
Yes, Napoléon made a lot of references to Charlemagne and the Franks overall. Largely to give legitimacy to his reign. Thanks for watching Ethan and merde!
An Italian, pretending to be a Frank pretending to be a Roman.
Ful cirkle
Was that medieval Pumped Up Kicks at the end??
maybe...
Yeah check them out on youtube they have a couple of songs where they switch the lyrics and instruments to medieval ones. The results are great
IKR? i thought too that it was weird.
Don't come to the duel yard tomorrow, I like thee.
I started singing along without even noticing... "aaalll the other kids better run run run"
**Medieval pumped up kicks playing in the background** Ah, I see you're a man of culture as well.
Anyway good job with the video ! Tbh I never knew Pepin le Bref was this important in the settlement of the Carolingian dynasty, or even that good of a military guy for all I knew. I mean the name isn't really explicit in the matter either, imagine a guy saying "oh non ! fuyez ! Voilà Pépin le Bref !". It just doesn't work lol.
Hahah yes, I wanted to sneak it in somehow!
Yes, he's often overlooked. I think he suffers from being trapped between two great figures of history so it's easy to overlook him, especially with that name. They done him dirty with the nickname smh Thanks for watching and merde!
Your accent adds to the authenticity of this video. Well done
And so the Project Clovis is finally complicated! If I'm not mistaken, it was one of the shortest among these collaborations but no less interesting. Plus it was the most focused, with a clearly defined topic in a specific chronological and geographical frames, which has advantages. I'm already starting to get excited for the next collaboration.
BTW, was that a Medieval-style cover of the "Pumped Up Kicks" in the background near the end? 😅
I made everyone wait for that one! haha Yes it was quite a small, impromptu collab that we just came up with. I agree that these smaller collabs are nice, also it stops viewers from being overwhelmed by too many videos at once. Nevertheless, I hope you'll enjoy the France collab! It'll be much bigger.
And maybe I loved it so much that I sneakily put it in the end for anyone who finished the video, just maybeee Merde!
Good to see you back Barris! Love your video's top notch quality! I've learned quite a bit of French History from your channel.
I'm happy to be back Marty! I hope it was worth the wait. Thanks for always being here to watch my videos and I'm glad you've learned something from them. It means a lot to me. Merde!
Cette chaîne mérite des millions d’abonnés..!
Merci beaucoup! Peut-être un jour :) toujours heureux de voir des francophones dans mes commentaires. Merde!
I like the Medieval Pumped Up Kicks at the end
I had to sneak it in somehow. Thanks for watching Myth Dude and merde!
Found your channel by accident a few days ago and i am really happy that i did. French history, which is always interesting, also becomes really entertaining the way you present it. Cheers!
Thank you very much Alexander! I really appreciate it. I hope you keep enjoying my videos. Merde!
Great video -- probably the best video on the topic on YT
I'm really happy you put out a video on this great part of French History! Really really interesting and well done, as always
I'm happy to see you here Wow after all this time! Thanks for your continued support and I'm glad you enjoyed the video. Merde!
C'est toujours agréable de voir que tu sort une vidéo :) merci
Et toujours agréable de voir des francophones dans mes commentaires! Avec plaisir et merde!
I just realised the Pumped Up Kicks-Bardcore remix was playing as the outro. Loved it! 10/10! great video!
Hhaha yes I wanted to sneak it in! It's such a great tune. Thanks for watching Leandros and merde!
I think I need a flowchart to keep track of ALL THE MURDER
Yes, it easily gets very convoluted! I got confused more than once while making the video. Thanks for watching and merde!
Very nice, and you're a great at reading, I'm not directly French but have a lot of French ancestry including DNA links to this troubled family. I enjoyed trying to repeat some of your words as you say them. Thank you. Much delight was had :D
What is your Haplogroup so I can confirm it and find it on the DNA Tree
H1 the most common @@marioq2759
Amazing work love the maps
Hi Barris, Glad to see you back! I hope lock down wasn't too hard for you.
Great work as always, I look forward the next episod.
See you!
Hahha was I away for so long? But yeah, the lockdown has been a bit hard, for everyone really, but mostly work has kept me quite busy. I hope the lockdown hasn't been hard on you either Bugs! Merde!
Underrated channel. Wonderful work, keep it up and subscribers will come.
Thank you Graham, I really appreciate it. It's thanks to subscribers like you that my channel keeps growing. Merde!
Love this channel!
Thank you Jake! I really appreciate it. Merde!
In my mind I heard "this is some Game of Thrones merde"! Love the narration and the depth of your series!
Merde will eventually permeate the entire video. Run while you can!
Spicy video of high quality mr Barris 👌🏻
Thank you, thank you. Only took me more than 200 hours haha merde!
You deserve much more subscribers, this video was great.
Thank you! That means a lot coming from a bread loaf. Hopefully, with the support of people like you, I'll keep growing. Merde!
Une histoire que j'ai relue il y a peu de temps, sans rentrer dans les détails...Superbe vidéo une nouvelle fois, sur un sujet riche en rebondissements, meurtres, trahisons...et mystères...Magnifique série de portraits et d'intrigues, illustrations très bien choisies...👍👍👍
Merci beaucoup Phil! Je suis toujours content de te voir ici et je suis ravi que tu aies apprecié la vidéo. Je suis d'accord - c'est vraiment un sujet intéressant et c'est dommage qu'il soit aussi peu discuté. Merde!
Please do a video on Phillipe II'Auguste'.
He was after all the first King Of France and started the centralization of the Kingdom of France under the Capetians by greatly increasing the royal demesne.
Not gonna lie that will be dope.
Excellent subject! Definitely on my list - he's a fascinating character. Merde!
A nice conclusion to a wonderful playlist of great videos! ;) I especially liked the inclusion of the genealogical chart given the first video in the playlist, i.e. it was a nice way to come full circle and all! :)
Thank you Dr. Zar! I'm glad to get the approval from someone like you. And yes, that chart was a little wink to Matt's brilliant work. Thanks for watching and merde!
It was so amazing
17:10 All the other folk with thy plate sabaton shall best make haste, best make haste, outrun my bow.
I got a good idea, you should make a video on the French Guiana colony and discuss the history of the horrid Devil's island and the many prison camps in the vast rainforest of Guiana. Maybe in a future video, you could read Dry Guillotine which is quite an amazing book. Have a good day! I very much appreciate your content!
That's a great idea! If I were ever to do that, I would love to film on site, however, I'll need to be much bigger before I can do that. I hope you can understand. I'll look up "Dry Guillotine." Thank you for the suggestion Gentlemen critic and merde!
omg i love this vid!
Thank you! Merde!
i love you barris!
And I love you too kind stranger!
It's like watching the teaser of some historic drama tv series. Great storytelling man!
This is exactly the video I was looking for thank you so much for this information! I always thought This piece of history correlated well with a Game of Thrones Style take over, obviously we have some writers who are observant!
My pleasure Ian! I'm glad you enjoyed it. And yes definitely - it just has so much political intrigue and backstabbing. It's very interesting. Thanks for watching and merde!
Here for french homework on merovingian dynasty. Thanks the whole team of #ProjectClovis ❤️
Thanks for watching and merde!!
Thanks for this outstanding video about the fundamental age of Western Europe's Late Antique period. Yet, it is unfortunate that the Merovingians' legacy remains mostly downgraded vis-a-vis their Carolingian successors, who might have never arisen to eventually trigger Charles Martel, thereby condemning our Medieval European ancestors to succumb to Islam...
Without the Merovingian Clovis, Chilperic, and Clothar, the so-called "Mayors of the Palace" would not have emerged. Indeed, without the early (brutal) Merovingian rule our beloved Western World would have never come into being, due to the forced Islamisation under the Al-Andalus province of the Umayyad Caliphate...
I'm 5 minutes in and am blown away by the quality!
Thank you! It took me a long time to make this video so I really appreciate it. Merde!
Il etait le video excellent par merovingiens. Merde!
Very good video very interesting
Thank you. I really appreciate it. Merde!
Barris if you don’t produce a top notch documentary about the rise of the direct Capetian Dynasty beginning with the Election of Hughes Capet till the end of the Bourbon dynasty with the abdication of Louis Phillip D’Orleans in your style of production I will flip shit
Well then I guess I don't have a choice! Thanks for watching and merde!
This is Barris! Tear down monarchists remnants of France’s past. This despotic, oppressive, and objectively unfair form of government led to the starvation of the French People. The building campaigns of the French Monarch as well as the extravagance of the French Court in the 17th-18th century which clearly existed as a form of government that directly extracted the wealth from the French People.
The most understandable French History Channel, keep up the French pronunciation, very cool
Please let me know the BG Chanting song titles
Thank you...
Thank you Bernard! I'm very happy to hear that. I believe the song you're mentioning is Christus Vincit. Merde!
Lol playing pumped up kicks in bardmode there at the end
Cette videos sont superb!
Merci beaucoup! Ça me fait très plaisir d'entendre ça. Merde!
@@ThisisBarris Merde! 💩
please add french subtitles so we can learn that language
Working on it and most of my videos have French subtitles. I'll keep updating videos with more and more subtitles. Merde!
something about the way you delivered 'great powers rise great powers fall' made me think the next line would rhyme- it didn't and i still appreciate the video...that's high praise, i don't take disproved expectations of rhymes lightly
Hhaha I like to subvert expectations, like certain GOT writers ;) I'm glad you enjoyed it man! Always happy to see you here. Merde!
Isn't clovis that crazy Psycho that cracked a man skull with his axe because the man broke his vase? What a badass
Yes! It's the story of the Vase of Soissons - a very obscure story so it's cool you know about it. Hopefully he became somewhat less violent once he converted to Christianity.... Thanks for watching Andrei and merde!
@@ThisisBarris No worries Barris and merda!
Better run,better run:faster than my bullet..
Lol,nice touch.
I had to put it in! Thanks for watching and merde!
amazing video. i tried reading these stuff on wikipedia but it seemed much more bland than this video. good job!
Thank you Ilay! I'm glad you enjoyed it. Merde!
Christ, and I thought the senior line of the House of Bourbon has trouble coming up with legitimate heirs and not having every branch of the family fighting over either the crowns of Parma, the Two Sicilies, Spain, and France
Yeah, their whole succession tradition was bound to create a lot of internal conflict! Imagine if Europe had stayed like that for its entire history lol Thanks for watching, always happy to see you here and merde!
There's a reason why karlings (carolingians) are infamous in crusader Kings 2
Charlemagne? Never heard of him. Hehehe...
Fantastic video. Definitely had no idea how the Carolingians truly became the power in the Frankish lands.
Carolus magnus? More like Carolus Parvus! And no I did not google the opposite of magnus smh
Thank you! I'm glad you enjoyed it and yes it's an interesting story that often gets overlooked unfortunately. Merde!
Good video. I was expecting the story of Clovis I. Watching this video, makes me believe that today's France is mixed up.
Yeah I just realized that for a collab called Project Clovis, none of us did anything related to Clovis really lol Thanks for watching Tito and always happy to see you here. Merde!
@@ThisisBarris In your opinion, who are the true forefathers of Modern France? Gauls or Franks?
Franks & Gallo-Romans both
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Very nice. Can you do a video of the slow rise of the French kingdom from the Capetingians too Louis XIV?
Yes, my aim is to eventually do the entire timeline. Thanks for watching and merde!
English subtitles next time pleaseeee or put it in this video, I don’t understand the French names pronunciation, thank you!!
I'm sorry, I hadn't realized my pronunciation made it hard to follow. I've now added subtitles (it takes some time to do) and will make sure to release videos with subtitles in the future. I hope you still enjoyed the video. Thanks for watching and merde!
Clothar’s murder of his young nephew children was one of the more brutal episodes in an already brutal history. I believe both nephews were 7 and 10 years old respectively and were to lured to their uncles Clothar and Childebert and thus savagely murdered by Clothar himself. I suppose though, if one were to look at it from a Merovingian king’s point of view, these two boys could in just a few years grow up and raise armies against Clothar, defeat him in battle, take his realm and execute he and his family. In this sense, the murder of his nephews may have been strategic and sensible (when looked at through the eyes of the brutal world of Merovingian kings).
I'm gonna look past the pumped up kicks tune at the end
So mad there’s no movies on the battle of Tours or other events of the early Middle Ages
Would you one day discuss La guerre de Cent Ans and the common myths/misconception in the Anglophone world?
yes! Would love to treat the 100 years war :) Merde
What astonished me, is how women who are considered as the timid and weak, exert the worst upon fellow women of power, when in power. Getting someone defiled to prevent her from becoming a queen in the distant future is horrible.
Can you make a video about the Merovingians?
The video is part of a large collaboration about the Merovingians so if you want to learn more, I invite you to check out the playlist in the description. Enjoy and merde!
There are a few small innaccuracies:
1) The (various) burgundies where not largely peopled by franks, but by a mix of gothic, gallic and various Mediterranean people.
a) These were also closer to associated to, than part of the frankish kingdom(s). The regions geographical barriers made military expeditions into it rather impractical, so control from outside was very weak.
2) The main factor that made the original carolingians so successful, was an excellent bureaucracy. After this was neglected, because of the family feud, the highest level of organization quickly fell to the level of the holdings of individual members of the "gentry". So the maps after the division of the kingdom among the 4 heirs represent more the fantasy of princes, than any realistic situation.
Thanks for the corrections. You're absolutely right (I believe you meant to say Merovingian, not Carolingian in the second comment right?) but alas for clarity and time-sake I had to simply/overlook some things. Thanks for watching and merde!
@@ThisisBarris , thanks for making your greatl content. I only intended to comment on the widespread tendency to think of nations as having existed far into the past, while its people have only (relatively) recently "united" as a whole. Not to criticize your work specifically.
Keep up doing what you do, you make very interesting educational material.
Oh I definitely agree! I think the idea of a nation as we have it today is a very recent concept and just didn't exist in the past. People tend to implement present ideologies in the past (for example when the French says "our ancestor the gauls", implying Gaul was a unified state that existed before France) which I think is a bad thing. I'm glad you enjoy it.
James Bryce wrote about this Empire in Europe.
You should do a video on the franco-spanish campaign into vietnam
You mean the Cochinchina Campaign? That is a pretty interesting idea. I'll definitely discuss as part of a broader Vietnam colonialism video. Thanks for watching and merde!
Oooh so this is Barry channel
Indeed it is!
Please do a video about France’s judiciary in the Ancien Régime.
That's a neat idea, although I don't know how much interest it would get. Maybe I could make combine it with the Napoleonic code? Thanks for watching and merde!
Thank you, and it’s a good idea to combine it with the Napoleonic code.
You need to make a video of Charlemagne and continue this story
Definitely planning on making a video on Charlemagne. Thanks for watching and merde!
It was evident. Everything ends in its time.
Where did you managed to find the art works and the pictures of people?
Most of it comes from the online portal for the National Library of France - gallica.bnf.fr/accueil/en/content/accueil-en?mode=desktop
It's a great place to find illustration and contemporary sources. Thanks for watching and merde!
Epic as fuck
(Sniffs and wipes away tears)
Look at Franky(or Sally), growing up so fast and learning how to love to decapitate and kill people all the while have people lunging at each others’ throat in a power struggle.
They grow up so fast..
4:18
And Frédégonde looked like she’s seen some shit, for example, two of her slaves assassinated a prince but that wasn’t her fault, of course not. No. Non.
So fast indeed!
I feel bad for Childeric III, the last of the Merovingians.
What a miserable 8 years of "rule" he must've had. You're the last living member of a once great family, thrown into the spotlight but no ability to do anything that matters. No hope, no way out, just dreadfully waiting on the small estate that was his home between public appearances.
At the end of it all, have the literal symbol of his family, the long hair that exemplified everything, shaved off him and his son and thrown into a monastery to die.
Didn't Henry II of the Plantegenet dynasty and Angevin Empire also follow Frankish tradition by splitting his lands between his sons? I ask since he was Duke of Normandy and Count of Anjou before winding up King of England, but as a French noble.
Yes, it's possible that he was inspired by Frankish traditions although I could not find anything that definitely affirm this. This was a transitory time and so no traditions were set in stone and it wasn't rare for kings to go back to the old ways. However, it's clear that the idea of primogeniture succession had emerged since his oldest son rebelled against him, not wanting his inheritance to be split apart!
Thanks for watching and merde!
@This is Barris!-French History why did you privatise the video about Gaul existence? Please answer!
Because I'm not very happy with it. I still believe in its message, but I think I could have done a better job of it. I plan on remaking it eventually.
When I was in high school I read a book by an English historian which argued that the Battle of Tours was a decisive battle of history. This historian apparently believed that if the Saracens had prevailed against the Franks, Islam would have displaced Christianity in France and throughout Western Europe.. In short Barris, you might still be speaking French, but also praying to God under the name of Allah. Of course, we can never know for certain whether this is what would have happened
Maybe, maybe not.
Its inetersting that the first steps of creating the EU started with the benelux the area that used to be the origins of the frank federation. and a few years later west germany france and italy joined in to the EEG.
History repeating it self
What is the name of the painting at 1:49? I could've sworn I have seen it before, but I haven't been able to find it.
Kriemhild’s Accusation (Kriemhild accuses Gunther and Hager of murdering her husband Siegfried) by Emil Lauffer. Thanks for watching and merde!
@@ThisisBarris Merci beaucoup monsieur
What about the Nibelungids?
MERDE , to you too ! SALUD!
I have an odd question: why is France called Frankrijk in Dutch and frankreich in German? The word rijk and Reich mean empire, but it was a kingdom. And why is Germany not called Frankreich as it was the home of Charlemagne?
Boi
Need any new ideas for a video
I have quite a long list of videos already but I always welcome new ideas. Thanks for watching and merde!
@@ThisisBarris do the Incan royal family
That's outside the scope of my channel right now unfortunately, but very interesting. Perhaps one day.
Just caught a faide
Just don't let it faide away...
Bon bah merde alors tu as pas le choix je veux un This is Barris sur Charlemagne mon ancêtre ♥
C'est ton ancêtre direct?? Wow! Je le ferais certainement un jour! Ravi de te voir ici et merde!
@@ThisisBarris Lol je dis mon ancêtre car selon la théorie tout les européens actuel (donc moi inclus) ont pour ancêtre Charlemagne car tu doit avoir au moins un Noble dans ta famille ^^
Haha j'ai entendu cette théorie mais je voulais pas te rabaisser en disant que Charlemagne est l'ancêtre de tous le monde en Europe!
@@ThisisBarris ouais tkt vivement la suite de tes vidéos 😎👌🏻
Are these things… proper? Wink wink
“Christianism”
Yeah that was me translating from French. It happens unfortunately. I hope you enjoyed the video nevertheless. Merde!
''CHRISTIANISM'' is a word?
I meant to say Christianity. In French, we say "Christianisme" and so that's where the mistake comes from - English is still my second language after all! Merde!
Why do you call it Christianism instead of Christianity?.
Cos I translated from French and didn't realise in english the word is different haha sorry