Also I think it's super funny that skill shares your sponsor for this because if Charlemagne were alive today and had the internet he would seriously be all over your channel and skillshare without even thinking about it. Christopher Lee is a recognized descendant of Charlemagne and the reason he was able to use Charlemagne chill coat of arms on his Rock album was by permission of the Pope.
@David Carty what?? He successfully defended France when all of Europe declared war to crush the principles and beliefs that the revolution had. Then he began to conquer or puppet state a lot of Europe with his only bad move being invading Russia, were it took natural elements to drive him back and defeat him. Napoleon along with Alexander the Great are two of the most iconic Western figures to date
This is a ruler I've been obsessed with. Ruthless on the battlefield, jovial in the palace, a fastidious learner, and who seemed like a sitcom dad (big-eater, loved drinking, enjoyed singing and laughing, but a very devoted father).
@@Glamosapien Probably. It's been so long ago since he died that it would be rather hard to find any European that doesn't have a single drop of his blood lol
Danomite any one that has at least one European ancestor because Charlemagne had like 12 children not counting illegitimate children and each one of those kids had multiple children five or more so 5 x 12 and so on
Dear Simon, Charlemagne is great to see. I was hoping that you would consider the fathers of history, Herodotus, and Thucydides. Especially Thucydides though. His history of the Peloponnesian War is a masterpiece written not for the moment, but for the ages!
Biographics is a multipurpose channel for me. I love to learn about people, and this is perfect. I love to watch something while I eat, this is what I watch. But, when I feel really depressed, like I do right now...this is what I watch. Thank you so much for being so awesome for so many reasons.
@@etho7351 it must have been confused with the letter "y" back then. Like how "ye shop" was actually supposed to be "the shop", but Germans didn't realize "y" made a "yuh" sound instead of a "th" sound. In all those words, g makes a yuh sound. So it's likely G didn't exist back then. At least, that's how i see it.
Simon I gotta say, you make some of the most informative and entertaining content on this platform, and you inject your personality in it perfectly. Love the show, keep up the great work!
Charlemagne’s daughters never “formally” married but we know that One of his daughters eloped with Einhard, who was in Charlemagne’s court. Also Bertha had at least three children, of the other daughters not much is known about them.
When on holiday in Germany some years ago,I visited Aachen Cathedral,I was amazed to find inside,a much bejewelled coffin,inside a glass case on a high cataphalque, it contained the body of The Holy Roman Emporor, Charlemagne! I’d studied him at school as a youngster,but thought his remains had been lost in antiquity, to say I was amazed, would be an understatement!
The german holy romain empire was created two generation after the dead of Charlemagne. Charlemagne was the son of Pépin le Bref, the new King of Francs and creat the empire carolingien Empire who was split in 3 after the dead of Louis le Pieux
Great video and this time, my opinion matters^^ I studied Karl in Paderborn, one of his favorite and most elegant places to stay. I read Einhard, heck, I even gave tours in some of his buildings before and during university times. I know Charlemagne like very few other historical figures and besides some more pictures maybe I don't think anything major was left out or misleading or anything. Great job capturing his ideas and ways!
Your videos are amazing man, love it! I have a request- Sir Frances Drake, he is my favorite person in history ever (well military type person, that is). And I would love to see one of these about him. Cheers!
Hi! Great video as per usuall. May I request you to make a video about the life of Lafayette. Since he is implacated in the revolutions both American and French
Damn, you're the busiest man on CZcams. But great video like usual, I originally found you because of biographics which I instantly fell in love with, but I branched out to all your other channels....and I'm a huge history fan and didn't watch your other channels for the content necessarily but because you kill it every video, unbiased statements based on evidence and not having any bias. So now I'm subbed to all your channels and you better believe I'm on the notification squad for all of them. Keep up the great work
This is so very informative! I attempted to research Charlemagne not long ago but kept getting side tracked and never actually learned much, so this is fantastic! Thank you!
Field Marshal Mannerheim of Finland would make a most interesting episode - soldier, spy, President and voted greatest Finn of all times who lived through two world wars, the Russo-Japanese War, the Russian Revolution and a Civil War.
Thank you, and thank skill share then, these are extremely enjoyable, so much so I'd personally call it art. Hope to see more from you, lobster-back youtube man.
Love your work,been a fan for a long time!Keep it up.may i suggest Charles the fourth,Wenceslaus and sigismund of the Holy Roman Empire.Sigismund founded the order of the Dragon which later Vlad the Impaler was a part of.
Wow! As a teen my father moved our family from California to Spain. We lived in a tiny mountain village called Mora d' Ebro. I could never figure out why such a small village would have the ruins of such a huge castle. Who knew they were once so strategic! Fascinating!
Simon, Charles and the Carolingian culture are my primary field right now, and but for some minor quibbles, this was a damn good presentation! For a 20 minute video, you covered the highlights, without glossing over his faults. Good work!
I like this channel it gives a full history lesson without all the fluff! Straight to the point, key points, interesting facts and the accent is very nice 👍
I love your channel and enjoy learning these important historical figures through your concise yet thorough format. Can you please create a content on the life and story of Jose Rizal? Thanks.
How on earth you guys manage to do such an imense work? Congrats! Hope for a video about King Michael of Romania, an important figure to the end of WW2.
Sort of ironic that thanks to this man, who even by the standards of his time, led an incredibly violent life, we don't all write/type in all caps rage mode.
Robert the Bruce would be a good one. The Charlemagne one is Interesting and I've learned a lot but it's because I am Keen on learning about evil people. He slaughtered pagans and destroyed the ancient religion and forced Christianity onto them. However good a leader he might have been, these crimes are unforgivable
18:18 "Which coincidentally is my facebook status" The guy/girl making the subtitles is amazing 18:28 ""Which coincidentally is my facebook status when my mom is online"" i laughed really hard
@@eoinsweetman9263 39 battles Duke of Wellington commanded including Waterloo. Napoleon had 56 battles to his name including his loss to Duke of Wellington. The duke is one of the greatest military minds ever.
The Cantabrian mountains also extended that southern buffer from Moorish encroachment, starting in 711AD, with the founding of the Kingdom of Asturias (which would later become the Spanish Kingdom of León) by the Visigothic king, Don Pelagius, following the Christian (joint Gothic and Celtiberian force) victory in Covadonga.
Love the vid. If you have a lot of places like this video, please include maps showing the relationships between the places. Also, Hildegard may have had twins or triplets though she would have still been a young bride.
Thanks for this vid. I tend to struggle with Frankish history, so this was great for an overview. Kind of cool to see kings who did a bunch of reform. I put Charlemagne in the same sort of kingly category as Alexander and Frederick II. All styled The Great, all put in great governance systems. All left great stories (the Song of Roland's a pretty interesting dive into exploring differences in fiction of personality, psychology and outcomes), though Fritz left us with a lovely shade of blue and a whole collection of really lovely flute concertos.
Simon, I could listen to you read the ingredients off of a box of cereal you're so clever and suave. The fact that you're giving us excellent, well researched history, with a side of humor thrown in, just makes it just, well, fantastic. Keep it up, and more women in history if possible, please!!
There really aren't any significant woman in history. He should just give a shout out to the mothers of each historical figure he profiles. For example; Olympia was one of the most significant woman in history because she gave birth to and nourished Alexander of Macedon.
the battle of roncevaux pass was an ambush and only really included charlemagne's rearguard and wagontrain, by the time he came to the rear of his collumn he realised that there was nothing that could be done without incurring huge losses, the basques would have no chance in an open field but here they had expertly carried out an ambush, they had also cut of the wagontrain by pushing boulders down the slopes of the pass , they then manned the obstruction when they saw reinforcements coming down , which combined with the darkness and the less than ideal fighting conditions got charlemagne to simply agree that there was nothing that they could do and turn around, and his armies would later return and take over the entire area anyway, (and the loot was mostly the result of raiding Basque villages and towns anyway, had he not done so (and honestly he pretty much did it cause he assumed they would side with the arabs against him and perhaps mostly to fill his coffers thinking they couldn't do anything anyway, so he would likely not have been ambushed had he left them allone)
That’s what the his contemporary biographers wanted people to think. In reality he made several trips to Rome prior to the coronation and was in constant contact with the Pope. It was orchestrated.
This essential too since there was an absolute power void in the West after the western roman empire fell. There is also the issue of the eastern roman empire's connivance with the patriarch of Constantinople to undermine the pope's influence.
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Duke of Marlborough, Duke of Wellington and Oda Nobunaga please
Yes, and Johann Von Leers, Hannibal, and Eli Cohen.
Composers.
Also I think it's super funny that skill shares your sponsor for this because if Charlemagne were alive today and had the internet he would seriously be all over your channel and skillshare without even thinking about it. Christopher Lee is a recognized descendant of Charlemagne and the reason he was able to use Charlemagne chill coat of arms on his Rock album was by permission of the Pope.
you get one month for free usually, and if you try to cancel they will give you another month to keep you around :)
"Heavy metal album sung by Chrostopher Lee".
Can we stop for a few seconds and appreciate how awesome of a human being Christopher Lee was?
I gave you the chance of aiding me willingly...
...but you have elected the way of...
PAIN!
Christopher Lee was charlamanes descendant.
I SHED BLOOD OF SAXON MEN
I swear that portrait of Charlamane looks just like Lee.
Lee was a certified badass.
"I'm not the successor of Louis XVI, I'm the successor of Charlemagne"
Emperor Napoleon Ier
@David Carty what?? He successfully defended France when all of Europe declared war to crush the principles and beliefs that the revolution had. Then he began to conquer or puppet state a lot of Europe with his only bad move being invading Russia, were it took natural elements to drive him back and defeat him. Napoleon along with Alexander the Great are two of the most iconic Western figures to date
David Carty actually he is arguably superior to Charlemagne, look at the napoleonic code don’t speak about things you haven’t researched
@@JW-jd6sn I wouldn't say invading Russia was his only bad decision. The Peninsular war in Iberia was what began his downfall
@@tritonewt3344 agreed, it wasnt his only mistake but definitely his most costly and deciding mistake that changed the outcome for Napoleon
@David Carty Napoléon had a bigger impact in Europe than Charlemagne and greater military achievements.
This is a ruler I've been obsessed with. Ruthless on the battlefield, jovial in the palace, a fastidious learner, and who seemed like a sitcom dad (big-eater, loved drinking, enjoyed singing and laughing, but a very devoted father).
I really liked reading The Song of Roland which just encourages this image of Charlemagne.
I wish King Charlemagne died instead of his youngest brother Pepin who died at age 6. 👑💍
@@Cougelly1999 I wish King Charlemagne died instead of his youngest brother Pepin who died at age 6. 👑💍
In my city in germany there is a big Roland statue in his honor.
👍🏻
If you are a descendant of Charlemagne... Hello distant cousin.
Greetings
I probably am. Hello cousin.
Me too. Pretty cool
Yes Otto here
Well, Cindy Crawford is.
Fun Fact: In addition to singing songs about Charlemagne, Christopher Lee was a direct blood descendent
Funner Fact: Every single person of Western European lineage is a blood descendant of Charlemagne.
smartacus88 everyone?
@@Glamosapien Probably. It's been so long ago since he died that it would be rather hard to find any European that doesn't have a single drop of his blood lol
Danomite any one that has at least one European ancestor because Charlemagne had like 12 children not counting illegitimate children and each one of those kids had multiple children five or more so 5 x 12 and so on
Mr.roasts alot countless people have had insane amounts of kids
Is it bothering anyone else that he’s saying “Shar-main” instead of “Shar-le-main” ?
Yes.
Fuckin triggered.
I think he's saying all 3 syllables, just a bit slurred together.
Charles the magnificent.
Char Le Magne
aNGERY rEACTS oNLY
His father Charles "The Hammer" Martel sounds like a pro wrestler.
Charles was givin the name the hammer after stopping the Muslims from gaining a foothold in france
There was a wrassler in the 80s named Charles Martel
Charles "The Hammer" Martel had an incredible signature aerial finishing move.
@@cmfgates You sure you don't mean Rick Martel?
@@Thumper17 possible
Finally a video on one of the greatest conquerors and kings of European history. Thank you for doing this Shell :)
Glad you enjoyed it.
25 December : Christmas Day, anniversary of the coronation of Charlemagne as emperor
also today
thank you in deed..now i know what a cruel despot charlemagne was using christianity as an excuse to conquer europe..
@@SenemOz bruh. you’re really demonizing legendary rulers based on modern day principals?
1:25 - Chapter 1 - Rise to power
5:15 - Chapter 2 - The warrior king
9:50 - Mid roll ads
11:10 - Chapter 3 - Caroligian war machine
13:10 - Chapter 4 - Caroligian renaissance
15:35 - Chapter 5 - Holy roman emperor
17:05 - Chapter 6 - Private life of an emperor
19:25 - Chapter 7 - Legacy
Fake history!
Thank you.
I wish King Charlemagne died instead of his youngest brother Pepin who died at age 6. 👑💍
Dear Simon, Charlemagne is great to see. I was hoping that you would consider the fathers of history, Herodotus, and Thucydides. Especially Thucydides though. His history of the Peloponnesian War is a masterpiece written not for the moment, but for the ages!
I wish King Charlemagne died instead of his youngest brother Pepin who died at age 6. 👑💍
Biographics is a multipurpose channel for me. I love to learn about people, and this is perfect. I love to watch something while I eat, this is what I watch. But, when I feel really depressed, like I do right now...this is what I watch. Thank you so much for being so awesome for so many reasons.
I hope you're feeling a little better now?
Gero I know how you feel. I have suffered with depression in and off since I was 4. Your more than welcome to message me x
Read the Bible.
Charlemagne and
the champagne campaign.
Is g a vowel sometimes
Noice.
@@etho7351 G is never a vowel.
@@etho7351 it must have been confused with the letter "y" back then.
Like how "ye shop" was actually supposed to be "the shop", but Germans didn't realize "y" made a "yuh" sound instead of a "th" sound.
In all those words, g makes a yuh sound. So it's likely G didn't exist back then.
At least, that's how i see it.
Very clever.
Simon I gotta say, you make some of the most informative and entertaining content on this platform, and you inject your personality in it perfectly. Love the show, keep up the great work!
I AGREE
Just don't trust everything he says. He puts out so much, so fast, that sometimes his facts are a bit off.
Grifter
Charlemagne’s daughters never “formally” married but we know that One of his daughters eloped with Einhard, who was in Charlemagne’s court. Also Bertha had at least three children, of the other daughters not much is known about them.
When on holiday in Germany some years ago,I visited Aachen Cathedral,I was amazed to find inside,a much bejewelled coffin,inside a glass case on a high cataphalque, it contained the body of The Holy Roman Emporor, Charlemagne! I’d studied him at school as a youngster,but thought his remains had been lost in antiquity, to say I was amazed, would be an understatement!
Charlemagne was a direct descendant of King Darius I. 👑💍
@Yarp Yarp Of course Charlemagne was a direct descendant of King Darius I since King Darius I lived 1200 years before Charlemagne did. 👑💍
The german holy romain empire was created two generation after the dead of Charlemagne. Charlemagne was the son of Pépin le Bref, the new King of Francs and creat the empire carolingien Empire who was split in 3 after the dead of Louis le Pieux
I've been waiting for a Charlemagne video for the longest time! Thanks Simon!!!!!
AWESOME 👍 very well done. Thanks, again; always a pleasure to see your work
The section about the wars with the Saxons sounded like a chapter form Tolkien.
Great work!
I would really like to see a Frederick de Great biography by you.
Keep up the good work!
Great video and this time, my opinion matters^^
I studied Karl in Paderborn, one of his favorite and most elegant places to stay. I read Einhard, heck, I even gave tours in some of his buildings before and during university times. I know Charlemagne like very few other historical figures and besides some more pictures maybe I don't think anything major was left out or misleading or anything.
Great job capturing his ideas and ways!
Your sponsor segues are as slick as a breaching charge, and I love it lol
Highland Outsider so that's how it's spelled
Your videos are amazing man, love it! I have a request- Sir Frances Drake, he is my favorite person in history ever (well military type person, that is). And I would love to see one of these about him. Cheers!
Thank you for this video. This is great information and knowledge. I'd suggest to use more maps to illustrate wars and campaigns.
Hi!
Great video as per usuall.
May I request you to make a video about the life of Lafayette. Since he is implacated in the revolutions both American and French
Damn, you're the busiest man on CZcams. But great video like usual, I originally found you because of biographics which I instantly fell in love with, but I branched out to all your other channels....and I'm a huge history fan and didn't watch your other channels for the content necessarily but because you kill it every video, unbiased statements based on evidence and not having any bias. So now I'm subbed to all your channels and you better believe I'm on the notification squad for all of them. Keep up the great work
Dido
This is so very informative! I attempted to research Charlemagne not long ago but kept getting side tracked and never actually learned much, so this is fantastic! Thank you!
Super interesting subject! I think it would have been easier to follow if it was in two parts though... that was a lot of information.
Could you possibly do a video on William the Conqueror?
I want an animated version of his fat corpse-explosion.
Yes....a double one.....Harold II and William 1
He has now.
@@kurington.blogspot7876 nope
We are the Fleming same as Flemish Flanders ! Get your History RIGHT....WE ARE STILL ALIVE....
May I ask what the name of the song at 13:07 is? Please and thank you.
Also, another great video! I love your content!
Hi Simon, can you do a biography on someone from Portugal? Thx love your channel.
YES, like Vasco da Gama!!
Soldier million would be a good one.
I love this channel as I learn so much info and it’s fun to learn 😊😊 keep up the good work Simon 😊😊
I appreciate the technique in these videos of flashing the relevant dates on the screen. It really aids in better understanding the presentation.
Funny how that person is seen as the greatest citizen by both - the germans and the french.
Not for the French sorry ...
@@rachelsombo9045 Napoleon?
@Young Pappy Or Frederick the Great.
Well he was a Frank, which the French and the Germans are both Franks
Despite having killed scores of them in the name of religion
Field Marshal Mannerheim of Finland would make a most interesting episode - soldier, spy, President and voted greatest Finn of all times who lived through two world wars, the Russo-Japanese War, the Russian Revolution and a Civil War.
9.
Nice segway today, that was skillful : )
And hey, make a video about Richard Feynman!
Great stuff! Feels like you might have more information that could be interesting around this period...
You guys helped me rediscover my love of history! Keep up the great work!
Could you do Owain Glyndwr? The last ever welsh prince that ruled
Thank you, and thank skill share then, these are extremely enjoyable, so much so I'd personally call it art.
Hope to see more from you, lobster-back youtube man.
Love your work,been a fan for a long time!Keep it up.may i suggest Charles the fourth,Wenceslaus and sigismund of the Holy Roman Empire.Sigismund founded the order of the Dragon which later Vlad the Impaler was a part of.
Wow! As a teen my father moved our family from California to Spain. We lived in a tiny mountain village called Mora d' Ebro. I could never figure out why such a small village would have the ruins of such a huge castle. Who knew they were once so strategic! Fascinating!
Simon, Charles and the Carolingian culture are my primary field right now, and but for some minor quibbles, this was a damn good presentation! For a 20 minute video, you covered the highlights, without glossing over his faults. Good work!
Trusting you'll know: it's shar-la-maine, right? Simon's not pronouncing the la
@@lainwired3946 Yes. I think he's just slurring over it because he's trying tocover 70-odd years of history into 20 minutes. :-)
@@Liutgard thought so. It happens. Thanks for the reply
@@lainwired3946He's pronouncing it correctly in French. It's a French word.
YES! Been waiting so long for this one
Simon and the crew consistently put out so many good videos. I don't know why, but I'm partial to English accents for documentaries.
Extremely interesting. I didn't know much about Charlemagne until now. Thanks for the good work that you do!
I love this! We're learning about Charlemagne in our homeschool lessons rn.
Thanks for making the video. Been waiting for this one :)
I really enjoyed this video. Please do one of Alphonse X (The Wise) of Castile.
I visited the cathedral where he's buried in Aachen, Germany
Nice
It was probably beautiful
@@masterofpain120 Very beautiful
Basil II
Hey simon! Im hoping you could do Gambino and Lucky Luciano next?
I like this channel it gives a full history lesson without all the fluff! Straight to the point, key points, interesting facts and the accent is very nice 👍
another inspired and detailed presentation , Thanks
That glowing, lemon-flavored Life Saver in the background is so random...
Lemon-flavored Sauron.
Yes, I can't stop looking at it...trying to figure out what it is.
I love your channel and enjoy learning these important historical figures through your concise yet thorough format. Can you please create a content on the life and story of Jose Rizal? Thanks.
Hello. Is the lamp on your left in the video on a tripod or something else? Really like it. And the video(s).
Yay! Great video as always, thank you simon
"I suddenly remembered my Charlemagne. "Let my armies be the rocks, and the trees, and the birds in the sky."
- Henry Jones Sr
yes!!!
You should've sent that comment to the Marx brothers!
*angry German noises*
From Indiana jones and the last crusade
@@darrenabbott6264 don't be ridiculous. Communists don't have onions to eat 🤣
You guys should cover: Attila, Arpad, Svatopluk. St. Stephan. Theres some great stories in there
Loving your channel!! Thank you!
Awesome. I've been waiting for this one
How on earth you guys manage to do such an imense work? Congrats!
Hope for a video about King Michael of Romania, an important figure to the end of WW2.
Nobody honey
No sir you are a typical 23 or 24 year old. Automobiles are a myth. You probably use your vacuum in sinful ways.
@@lakesheppard5466 STFU
Lake Sheppard Are you alright buddy? You sound a bit... creepy.
Sort of ironic that thanks to this man, who even by the standards of his time, led an incredibly violent life, we don't all write/type in all caps rage mode.
Or fraktur for that matter...
OML, I love your segways into the sponsors 😂
Great video guys, could you please make an episode about Billy Mays (Lord of the Pitch)?
Amazing as ever. Maybe you can do one on Ludwig Boltzmann. The father of statistical mechanics. The world lost him to suicide because of depression.
Robert the Bruce would be a good one.
The Charlemagne one is Interesting and I've learned a lot but it's because I am Keen on learning about evil people. He slaughtered pagans and destroyed the ancient religion and forced Christianity onto them. However good a leader he might have been, these crimes are unforgivable
Please show a progressing map when talking about geoprphy. Thx so awesome love the contint
Great video - lots of interesting history
18:18
"Which coincidentally is my facebook status"
The guy/girl making the subtitles is amazing
18:28
""Which coincidentally is my facebook status when my mom is online""
i laughed really hard
Hahaha, I thought I was the only one that caught that 🤣
Yeah. 😝
Duke of Marlborough, Duke of Wellington and Oda Nobunaga please
Wellington is dramatically overrated but then again I was born in a stable.
Hell yeah, Wellington is awesome.
@@eoinsweetman9263 39 battles Duke of Wellington commanded including Waterloo. Napoleon had 56 battles to his name including his loss to Duke of Wellington. The duke is one of the greatest military minds ever.
@@nickcaesar5833 How would he have done on his own at Waterloo?
@@eoinsweetman9263 what just the Duke versus the entire French Army, silly question Wellington would off won.
Superb bio. More bios about the european kingdoms.
Love your channel. Always good interesting content.
Request :) some Vikings or Celtic historical figures ? maybe some Natives ? LOVE this series btw :) keep em up
Natives?
Joined at the right time. My two favorite persons in history. First, Archimedes and now Charlemagne.
The Cantabrian mountains also extended that southern buffer from Moorish encroachment, starting in 711AD, with the founding of the Kingdom of Asturias (which would later become the Spanish Kingdom of León) by the Visigothic king, Don Pelagius, following the Christian (joint Gothic and Celtiberian force) victory in Covadonga.
Love the vid. If you have a lot of places like this video, please include maps showing the relationships between the places. Also, Hildegard may have had twins or triplets though she would have still been a young bride.
Administrative reform? Yeah baby, that's what turns me on.
When is the Augustus Biographics coming tho?
Thanks for the great video simon
Great video like always. You are a great inspiration for my channel! 😁
The real test with such an empire is how to divide it among sons without endless civil war for decades afterwards.
Indeed
The trick would be to have it divided but let it continue to thrive as a single nation. Kinda the opposite of the EU today.
I think a video on Judah Maccabee would be quite interesting too see.
Spot on
I've been waiting on this one for a while now lol
I totally suggested this ..... 6 months ago but thank you for making it Simmons
Thanks for this vid. I tend to struggle with Frankish history, so this was great for an overview.
Kind of cool to see kings who did a bunch of reform. I put Charlemagne in the same sort of kingly category as Alexander and Frederick II. All styled The Great, all put in great governance systems. All left great stories (the Song of Roland's a pretty interesting dive into exploring differences in fiction of personality, psychology and outcomes), though Fritz left us with a lovely shade of blue and a whole collection of really lovely flute concertos.
What I just saw was a team of dedicated CZcamsrs working their tails off to get this vid out to us. Great work you guys! You never disappoint.
Great video. How about one on Maximilian Kolbe?
Excellent episode!
Simon, I could listen to you read the ingredients off of a box of cereal you're so clever and suave. The fact that you're giving us excellent, well researched history, with a side of humor thrown in, just makes it just, well, fantastic. Keep it up, and more women in history if possible, please!!
There really aren't any significant woman in history. He should just give a shout out to the mothers of each historical figure he profiles.
For example; Olympia was one of the most significant woman in history because she gave birth to and nourished Alexander of Macedon.
I wish King Charlemagne died instead of his youngest brother Pepin who died at age 6. 👑💍
"I am torn by a great sorrow because I foresee what evil things they will do to my descendants and their subjects"
Charlemagne
the battle of roncevaux pass was an ambush and only really included charlemagne's rearguard and wagontrain, by the time he came to the rear of his collumn he realised that there was nothing that could be done without incurring huge losses, the basques would have no chance in an open field but here they had expertly carried out an ambush, they had also cut of the wagontrain by pushing boulders down the slopes of the pass , they then manned the obstruction when they saw reinforcements coming down , which combined with the darkness and the less than ideal fighting conditions got charlemagne to simply agree that there was nothing that they could do and turn around, and his armies would later return and take over the entire area anyway, (and the loot was mostly the result of raiding Basque villages and towns anyway, had he not done so (and honestly he pretty much did it cause he assumed they would side with the arabs against him and perhaps mostly to fill his coffers thinking they couldn't do anything anyway, so he would likely not have been ambushed had he left them allone)
Excellent video! Great content!
Is there one on William the conqueror?
Wait, so Charlemagne was crowned Holy Roman Emperor out of nowhere? Huh, I thought that was a joke made by Bill Wurtz.
@@Spongebrain97 you're right Sir.
@@Spongebrain97 irony
25 December : Christmas Day, anniversary of the coronation of Charlemagne as emperor
That’s what the his contemporary biographers wanted people to think. In reality he made several trips to Rome prior to the coronation and was in constant contact with the Pope. It was orchestrated.
This essential too since there was an absolute power void in the West after the western roman empire fell. There is also the issue of the eastern roman empire's connivance with the patriarch of Constantinople to undermine the pope's influence.
I love the extra bits in the subtext.
Yes yes yes I was literally thinking today how awesome a video about charlmange would be
He was a fanatic Catholic ruler that united Europe and crushed pagans
Fridrich The Great, please. You will have a huge amount of interesting facts with this one!!!!
Very cool presentation, sir.