The Habsburg family once ruled half of thee world, now they sign autograph on a convention in Texas... that has to be the most hillarious thing I've heard in months
The main branch of the Habsburgs is still actively involved in European politics, so that's something. Eduard currently serves as the Hungarian ambassador to the Vatican.
A short explainer: 'Hofrat' is an honorary title granted to long-serving Austrian civil servants. So calling someone a 'Herr Hofrat' is synonymous with calling him a corrupt old career party man.
There's an amount of liking Neon Genesis Evangelion that's perfectly fine... and then there's the amount Mr, I'm sorry, LORD Definitely has an Asuka body pillow does.
ok, so I heard about him before (behind the bastards, Napoleon the third episodes,) and I figured he'd be that guy because all they said is that he's a weird Catholic influencer and he likes anime way too much
@@robinrehlinghaus1944 100% Agreed! Honestly that's what makes it so funny to me?? 😂It's the pettiest way to phrase/frame a thing that is technically true.
Hitler more lived on the boarder and was a germanboo all his life. He was a full blooded german, aside living on the austrian boarder i guess. He also was german official when doing so and renounces all of his relatives but his niece and the hitler he took the name from.
I imagine he already does it ritually, he knows the perfect Austria Hungary strat that hes forged since release, he also probably got exited when he heard about every nation getting a habsburg path and was then upset when he realised it was April Fools😅
"Franz Joseph is one leg of a Love Triangle." I love remembering that Blood Rose Rebellion is a fanfiction AU pretending to be an alternate history series.
He called the Pole Waschlapksi? I'm 99% sure that's derived from the German word Waschlappen (cleaning rag) which can also mean weakling or coward. Play the subtext clip again.
What makes you think he's Polish? There are plenty of Austrians of Polish descent with Polish names. He's probably just another Austrian character with a pun for a name.
@@JamesTullos also the poles in austria hungary where much less rebellious than poles pretty much everywhere else, and the Czechs devoloped a strong nationalistic movement way later than the other regions of the empire, by ww1 the Czechs mostly still wanted to be part of the empire, although with more automy. I dont know if this dude has some personal bias against these groups, but there probably the last ones id blame for the fall of austria hungary lmfao
@@JamesTullos also most former minorities in the austro Hungarian empire are now minorities in austria proper, in fact pretty much every former austro Hungarian region has a population from every other former austro Hungarian region, due to centuries of unification. Remember not only is Czechia right next to austria, but there was no border there for a long time, they where even part of the austrian half of the empire. Its very possible that they where austrians who decend from other regions, its quite common.
The Double-Headed Eagle isn't specifically a Hapsburg emblem, but rather an ancient heraldic charge originating around the Near East. Similar to the Star-and-Crescent, come to think of it.
@@viktorhermansson2284 no it was used by the hittians after thems the romans adopted it . the austrians wanted to look roman so they stole the eagle as their image the russians did the same later albania and serbia also adopted it since they inhabit land that used to be roman/byzantine
Yeah former royals are kinda weird like the Hohenzollern try to sue the german government for return of a bunch Castles and art even though they already settled the issue with the weimar republic. They also try to proof that their Nazi grandpa totally wasnt a Nazi even though he was and he helped Hitler to become chancellor. So writing a weird childrens book is kinda harmless.
This revanscism from descendants of royals is surely troubling and disgusting. Here in Russia we had some of Romanovs celebrate their weddings in basically one of the biggest churches and were protected by military. Totally creepy bs. I don't even want to mention the weird worship of Nicholas 2 by some Orthodox ppl. Even his naming as a saint was only done by the church to appease the foreign believers who were mostly descendants of white emigration, but there is a weird sect that worships him as much as Jesus. The dude who had no remorse after Bloody Sunday. Monarchical revanscism is dangerous and creepy
@@KateeAngelI mean, French Napoleon fans are mostly funny, but there's quite a few of them who are *weird* and have the sort of political views that are... considered unacceptable by many, so I'll agree that most 21st century monarchists are on a spectrum that goes from weird and funny to creepy and kinda dangerous
@@KateeAngelSome Russians also really like the whole White Movement aka White army and those dudes were combination of Monarchists and Fascists that received help from, Japan, USA, UK, France, Germany, etc. Kolchak literally blew up tunnels with civilians in them to escape Red army with his gold. Czech legions gave him up to Soviets for a reason.
To this day, Maximilian of Habsburg is a controversial figure in Mexico. This is due to him supposedly being “in love with the country “ so he is generally seen as benevolent… but you know… this was after Mexico’s independence and an Emperor was not a popular idea at the time.
Didnt the guy who overthrew him to make a republic become a dictator and sold out mexican territory like texas and california to the usa in a secret treaty?
@@raipe125 He tried to get Benito Juárez as his Prime Minister for his liberal constitutional monarchy. Which gave the hardcore conservative monarchists and the catholic church who brought him to Mexico to essentially turn it into a pseudo medieval feudal state an absolute fit. Same as his fluency in Nahuatl which he used to listen to indios complain about the landowners abusing them.
1:26 Another fun fact! Maximilian's cousin, Pedro II, was Emperor of Brazil and the son of Maria Leopoldina, a Habusburg (and the reason for the gold in the flag of Brazil). Not only that but Maximilian was also briefly engaged to Pedro II half-sister, Maria Amelia, before she passed away from tuberculosis.
Another fun fact. Dom Pedro’s descendants still register themselves as princes and princesses and still believe they have a claim to the Brazilian throne, even though there’s been no monarchy in over 130 years
1:10 not exactly true, he agreed to be frances puppet emperor, it was the french making him emperor of mexico not Maximilian. This expedition actually killed Maximilian and franz johseph never quite forgave the french for that.
@@thedeadlysquidward1641 imagine spending your whole life defending your home from crisis after crisis for nearly a century, then when your too old to rule your country alone, a close family member dies and people are calling you a monster for the actions of the government you let take charge of the country in avenging that family member.
Just so you know, that was mostly the Spanish Habsburgs, which is why the spanish Habsburgs are extinct. The main Habsburg family did not have the Habsburg jaw, there was some incest but not much more than every other royal family.
I just wanna mention that the Double Headed Eagle was the symbol of Byzantine Empire long before it was a symbol of the Habsburgs. Not only that but it was an important symbol for Russia and most Eastern Orthodox countries, as well as many Islamic counties that tried to replicate Byzantium like the Ottomans or the Seljuks. If you look at the Albanian flag all it is is a Black 2 headed eagle on a red background. Honestly if I had to send that bird to a place with the most double headed eagles I'd have sent him to Constantinople or Moscow.
I dont know this for sure, but im pretty sure the brave head is supposed to be the austrian half of the empire, and the cowardice head was supposed to be the hungarian half. Why do i think this? Because historically the hungarian half of the empire was much more moderate than the austrian half, and they never wanted to really sieze on any opratunities die to fear it would make the austrian half more powerful, art and such at the time would often display the empire as a Reichsadler with its two heads fighting eachother, or a reichsadler where one head is holding the other back.
"the cowardice head was supposed to be the hungarian half. Why do i think this? Because historically the hungarian half of the empire was much more moderate than the austrian half" Wow, clearly you've never met a Hungarian in your life. The Hungarian half of the empire was a lot more nationalistic and prone to beating the identity out of their minorities than the Austrian half. Still are, in fact.
Fun fact about Maximilian I, he was more of a puppet ruler sent there by Napoleon III than an attempt by the Habsburg to rebuild their american empire (although I guess when you're handed an entire country you don't complain too much). I thought Napoleon fans in France were weird but wow, Austrian and Hungarian Habsburg enjoyers are weirder still 😂
The name Waschlapski is quite interesting if you speak German. It is close to the word "Waschlappen", which translates to "washing towel" and is used to describe a weak or unable person. So it's like naming him "idiotski" or "dumbassski"
4:15 the reichsadler is an extremely old symbol dating back to the roman empire, it became a symbol of Germany die to its connections with the holy roman empire. Both Germany and Austria still use the reichsadler as national symbols, the germans dropped one of the heads and use it in there seal, while the austrians still have the original reichsadler in there state flag and national seal, look it up. The reichsadler was so much more than the symbol of the habsburg family
HUNGARY MENTIONED RAAAH🦅🔥🔥🔥🗣️BOJLER ELADÓ 🇭🇺🦅🔥🔥WTF IS SLOVAKIA🗣️🗣️🇭🇺🇭🇺🦅 edit: i'm slighly offended that you haven't put in the picture of viktor orbán wearing a greater hungary scarf when talking about the trianon treaty
I see some nutjobs from Hungary from time to time talking about Slovakia but despite how low we think of our country, noone is jelous of whatever you are cooking down there, not even slovakian hungarians. Perhaps you should ask them to help you figure out how to run the country without half of the world looking at you funny. 🤣
You’d think a dynasty that ruled over so many European countries wouldn’t be so prone to inbreeding, given the diversity of the gene pools they oversaw.
You'd think wrong. Because they ruled so many lands and because they wanted to keep them they put effort into keeping inheritance in the family. Also they refused to mix with non-Catholics.
@@politkos5348 But ironically enough it’s also what cost them their power in Spain, since Charles II was infertile because of genetic problems due to inbreeding.
As a lifelong Habsburg fan, this is a book I want to read myself. I don't care about the quality, I just want a Habsburg momento! And a fan convention in the US? Dang, that is something I wish I could have attended and I'm not even a Monarchist.
World War I began after the assassination of Franz Ferdinand, not Franz Joseph. He was the heir to the imperial throne of Austria and hadn’t yet become emperor when he was assassinated
He didn't say Joseph was assassinated, he said he started the war, which he did when he sent the ultimatum to Serbia with unreasonable demands which served as a basis for a declaration of war. Ferdinand couldn't start the war on account of him being dead, you see.
@@westvirginiaglutenfreepepp7006 "with unreasonable demands" Dude, define 'unreasonable'. The Serbians sponsored an assassination of the heir to Austro-Hungarian the throne because they wanted Bosnia-Herzegovina for themselves.
@@fds7476"the serbians" ie a few people in the serbian government who did not have the state's backing and who the majority of the government were unaware of. Serbia as a country was not to blame for the war, and the Austrians had every possible opportunity to negotiate or deescalate themselves. Instead they kept pushing it and sent an ultimatum with a 48 hour deadline whose clauses allowed serbians to be arrested on serbian soil if the Austrians believed them to have committed a crime against Austria Hungary, which would be unacceptable to any country. And Serbia agreed to everything else! The Austrians wanted the war and they got it. Play stupid games win stupid prizes
@@-._lunamidnight_.- Because I count ‘morally grey’ characters as ‘subversive’, even though we see them in almost 100% of fantasy books nowadays, and a lot of people praise them as ‘realistic’ (it isn’t realistic to be a mass murderer) and if you make an actual good guy as your Protagonist, some people will call them ‘boring’ or ‘boy scouts’. And I promise you that not that much will agree with me.
@@Jon-Rimmer I see your point and it makes sense why do you consider morally grey characters 'subversive', but (in this particular example) I don't see it as the author wanting to be subversive (with some exceptions like the edgy batmans) but wanting to write complexity when they don't have the skill to do it yet
@@-._lunamidnight_.- Complex characters don’t need to be Morally Grey, just have flaws and make mistakes. That’s every single well written Protagonist, but people can be very much blind to depth, and the only way they can see it is if it’s right up in their face. Superman is complex, but every body calls him boring because he is a good person and isn’t willing to do something terrible. Game of Thrones started this trend for me.
@@Jon-Rimmer Well, I'd say that a complex character has to have more than flaws and mistakes. But my main problem with the morally grey characters is the writer not committing to the 'morally grey' bit. It starts with "this character did some morally questionable actions" and goes to "this character is actually the good guy and did nothing wrong" and the narrative bends over backwards to justify their actions. I had thought you were talking about morally grey characters in general, but it seems to me that you're talking about characters that were already known as morally good (like superman) and were given a twist, subverted. But again, I don't think you'll find many people disagreeing with your take. And the people who like edgy characters aren't there for the subversion, just the edginess. Could be any character, subverted or not
1:02 if you wanna play the "originally from" game you can trace them all the way back to eithopia, just like every other human on earth. A family that lives in vienna for over 700 years is austrian lmfao
2:04 bro,the hell are you blaming him,blame Serbs for funding terrorist,by that logic it wasnt Ossamas fault for 9/11,it was Americans fault for some reason. I am still using your logic. Also Russians wanted war with Germans and Austrians,and they incuraqed Serbians to not back down.
true but the austrian demand to serbia was meant to turn them into a defacto part of austria and ruin the legitimacy for their country, still the power play was merely a miscalculation as usually games in Europe lead to one backing down so that war could be avoided.
As an Austrian I feel obliged to mention, that the one wekrd guy who started the 2nd worldwar didn't see himself as Austrian and legally became a German in 1931 or 2... we didn't want him here (mostly). Beethoven meanwhile was infact, and as we all know, an Austrian.
it? actually, austria-hungary wasn't anti-semitic compared to other countries at the time so if eduard respects habsburg history he shouldn't be either
@nokedili Austria-Hungary was relatively progressive for its time period. At least in terms of acknowledging rights of ethnic minorities. Like Poles and Czechs - the two nations the author doesn't seem to like a lot You know that people usually don't have the same ideology as your great grandparents?
Austria-Hungary was fairly benevolent when it came to religious and ethnic minorities, including Jews. The Habsburgs in particular were considered to be strongly philosemitic (in stark contrast to the Romanovs or the Hohenzollerns). Apparently, the WW1-era Austro-Hungarian armies had a much higher percentage of Jews serving in their officer's corps than any other major country, including the UK.
@@angelikaskoroszyn8495 Czechs were second class citizens in their own homeland where they were majority. There was nothing progressive about "acknowledging" them.
3:24 thats how it worked during franz johsephs time as well, both hungary and austria had there own governments, just like anywhere else. Franz johseph was not a dictator, at least not at the end of his reign. I think you fundamentally misunderstood the role of the Habsburgs in the late austrian empire, usally refered to as Austria-Hungary
Franz Joseph resisted quite a lot to constitution and was still in favor of absolutism in second half of 19th century. He was reactionary and Austria-Hungary was silly backwards country.
Ferdinand, the race car-driving would -be crown prince, is apparently pretty chill about things. I heard someone describing an interview he gave where he laughed about having to pay the tourist's fee to visit the former palace and other Habsburg sites. He just sounded like "Ha, isn't that funny?!" Seems like Eduard might be the grouch of the family.
Fun fact: It is possible that Don Quixote was inspired by a Habsburg monarch: Charles I of Spain, who was also Charles V of the Holy Roman Empire. Miguel de Cervantes supposedly based the main character in Charles I/V, who was too obsessed with medieval values that were dying in the Early Modern Period, like chivalry trial combat and the obsolete idea of a "Christian Universal Monarchy".
Nicholas' immediate family isn't, but he had a lot of relatives and many of them got out alright. Most royal families had limited dating pools because they had to be of the same class, so many aristocratic families were interconnected or spread around
Same with the Habsburgs it’s just less important families pretend to be them Seriously, what does the current royal family have to do with that castle Oh and Hohenzollern’s are imperial so why they’re pretending to be Romanov I don’t understand I guess Russia doesn’t want to be a junior branch
This book reminds me of a book I read in college, _Don Jose: the Last Patrón._ I read it to learn more about the peonage system, and the ending kinda read to me like "Damn, my grandpa was basically a king; kinda sucks those peasants left. Anyways, heres some herbs"
@@thedeadlysquidward1641 en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Romanov “Of the 65 members, 47 survived and went abroad” Please fact check stuff before you say it.
I like how the characters conveniently (for them) ignore the fact that double-headed eagle is also a symbol of Russia (which came here from Byzanthium, a real descendant of Roman Empire, unlike the wannabe HRE).
small correction: the 5th of may actually celebrates the battle of Puebla, in which the mexican army defeated the larger, better-trained french invaders. still, it’s part of the second french intervention in which the fr*nch and Maximillian of Habsburg wanted to establish a monarchy here in mexico, and thankfully, failed.
Man I hate the Baader-Meinhof phenomenon. I watched Neon genesis evangelion a few months ago and since then everywhere I go I have to see it or hear about it
Eduard is living proof that: - Descent is no indicator of greatness - Rich people still have too much political power - If you dream of having your stories published... you really can't do worse than him.
What are your thoughts on Project 2025? Would you review it? I know it is not a fictional book and it is almost 1000 pages long, but I think it is worth checking out on some of its parts that could possibly change the USA for the worst
Austrian here: From time to time one of the weirder former nobles in Austria suggests on national TV during some interview or another about some not related topic (like one Habsburg is a Formula 2 racer) that maybe ppl could pls stop with that silly republic business, and it's one of the few things that weirds out the whole political spectrum in Austria (with the exception of small parts of the right wing Austrian Freedom Party some nobles belong to)
The Hungarian state that appeared out of the 1848 revolution was very much a functioning state with laws, unique currency, institutuions, Army, and Taxes. The problem was that they got absolutely destroyed by the Austrian, and Russian armies.
Great video, just wanted to mention that "Hofrat" is a title given to civil servants for long years of services. So Hofrat Turbulent is representing the state bureaucracy
in a comic story titled Rise and Fall of Bartholomew Simpson from Issue #47 it showcases a future where Bart is at deaths door and in that future Ned Flanders pays for his daughters estrogen treatments with his pension as Rod and Todd Flanders are trans lounge singers so Flanders is not a TERF.
So when I was an undergraduate history student in Ireland my lecturer took a class to Rome to see the sights. That lecturer had written a piece on the Habsburgs but it wasn’t overtly flattering Eduard invited us for Champaign and cake. Proceeded to tell us, uni level history students, that the habsburgs never caused any genocides or wars, that Ireland was much better when it was conservative, and fought with us for an hour. Feck off mate
@fds7476 names ending in -ski are usually associated with slavic people, and slavic people were not treated equally in Austra-Hungary, the last true stronghold of the habsburgs. So making your villain character slavic while coming from a family that's ruled over many slavic people and not treated them fairly, it's a little icky I think
@@ic5889 I gotta disagree. The Habsburgs weren't perfect in that regard, but they were nothing short of _trailblazers_ compared to the other European powers in terms of making their empire a multi-ethnic community. They went to great lengths to foster, emancipate and encourage various ethnic identities and languages, especially the various Slavic groups in their empire. The imperial anthem had 14 official versions, including Czech, Croatian, Serbian, Polish, Ruthenian, and Slovenian. Just a few months ago, Vladimir Putin was on TV complaining to Tucker Carlson that the Austrians were 'to blame' for making the Ruthenians believe that they were an independent people (rather than a Russian sideshow).
@fds7476 I was gonna respond to the rest of your comment but I'm sorry did you just quote putin in favour of your argument??? I can hardly imagine a set of two people I'd be less likely to believe than Vladimir putin and tucker carlson, figures they'd get along
1:58 you did it again, you blamed a national hero of austria for not preventing anworld war when the guy was a de facto figurehead at the time. The man spent his entire, very long, life preventing tragedies like ww1 and your blaming him for it when he was on his death bed?
@@martinsriber7760 and the queen of England signs all the laws, does that mean the queen is responsible for those laws? He saved the empire many many times, hes a complicated figure but he was an overall good monarch that help austria together in a century where it realistically should have collapsed about 30 times lol. By the end of his life he stepped back from politics but was still a very popular and unifying figure, look up greatest austrian ruler or best austrian ruler and i guarantee hes the first guy that would come up.
@@budgetcommander4849 that's a discussion in in of itself, but i dont franz johseph was well enough at this time to be reasonably expected to strongarm the government lol
The Habsburg family once ruled half of thee world, now they sign autograph on a convention in Texas... that has to be the most hillarious thing I've heard in months
The main branch of the Habsburgs is still actively involved in European politics, so that's something.
Eduard currently serves as the Hungarian ambassador to the Vatican.
@@fds7476yeah we watched the video.
I’m sure a descendant of Emperor Augustus is out there working as a Burger King cashier.
A short explainer:
'Hofrat' is an honorary title granted to long-serving Austrian civil servants. So calling someone a 'Herr Hofrat' is synonymous with calling him a corrupt old career party man.
Head of Habsburg dynasty was member of EU parliament and his heir is motor racing driver.
EU parliament members are democratically elected. If he's a member, that means that Austrians voted for him.
@@PasserMontanus I am well aware. Why are you telling me this?
@@martinsriber7760 Because there's a lot of stupid people on the internet who can easily misunderstand you.
Its democratically elected but cant do jack sh*t cause we have unelected eu councils aka technocracy to actually rule.
@@marocat4749
You mixed up ancestor with descendant.
There's an amount of liking Neon Genesis Evangelion that's perfectly fine... and then there's the amount Mr, I'm sorry, LORD Definitely has an Asuka body pillow does.
Let's be honest, he's into Yuki Ikari. Old habits die hard.
What is bro waffling about
ok, so I heard about him before (behind the bastards, Napoleon the third episodes,) and I figured he'd be that guy because all they said is that he's a weird Catholic influencer and he likes anime way too much
lord "definitely owns an asuka body pillow" is crazy lol
@@Boydarshut up.
Also the kaiserreich regularly tags him on art of Habsburgs turned into anime waifus and he tells them how to improve the uniforms lol
kaiserreich would probably have a silly convo with hitler tbh
01:22 - 01:37 --> "Statistically speaking, 100% of World Wars have been started by Austrians." This is the funniest way to phrase this! 🤣
It's also a stupidly oversimplified way to phrase it
@@robinrehlinghaus1944 100% Agreed! Honestly that's what makes it so funny to me?? 😂It's the pettiest way to phrase/frame a thing that is technically true.
@@NaritaZaraki Yeah lol
Hitler more lived on the boarder and was a germanboo all his life.
He was a full blooded german, aside living on the austrian boarder i guess. He also was german official when doing so and renounces all of his relatives but his niece and the hitler he took the name from.
Except WW1 was started by Serb ultranationalists doing a terrorism, so...
This Habsbrug guy should try HOI4, he would probably love it.
He plays ck3 at least, and 40k IIRC
@@everynametaken Imagine playing CK3 as a preset, historical character that's provably your great^3 grandfather.
Probably loves to reform Austria Hungary.
I imagine he already does it ritually, he knows the perfect Austria Hungary strat that hes forged since release, he also probably got exited when he heard about every nation getting a habsburg path and was then upset when he realised it was April Fools😅
"Franz Joseph is one leg of a Love Triangle."
I love remembering that Blood Rose Rebellion is a fanfiction AU pretending to be an alternate history series.
There are way more interesting, the one who was famous being a commons peoples person and frequenting brothels why his mom closed them even?
Or maria theresia who is actually a pretty amazing person screwed over as woman and still managing a lot, and public school duty
@@marocat4749 She also changed the law so Romani would only get executed for entering the country if caught for the third time.
@@martinsriber7760progress, I guess
difference?
He called the Pole Waschlapksi? I'm 99% sure that's derived from the German word Waschlappen (cleaning rag) which can also mean weakling or coward. Play the subtext clip again.
Oh my God.
What makes you think he's Polish?
There are plenty of Austrians of Polish descent with Polish names. He's probably just another Austrian character with a pun for a name.
@@JamesTullos also the poles in austria hungary where much less rebellious than poles pretty much everywhere else, and the Czechs devoloped a strong nationalistic movement way later than the other regions of the empire, by ww1 the Czechs mostly still wanted to be part of the empire, although with more automy. I dont know if this dude has some personal bias against these groups, but there probably the last ones id blame for the fall of austria hungary lmfao
@@JamesTullos also most former minorities in the austro Hungarian empire are now minorities in austria proper, in fact pretty much every former austro Hungarian region has a population from every other former austro Hungarian region, due to centuries of unification. Remember not only is Czechia right next to austria, but there was no border there for a long time, they where even part of the austrian half of the empire. Its very possible that they where austrians who decend from other regions, its quite common.
@@fds7476 Both villains have germanised Slavic surnames. Do you honestly believe that's coincidence?
You’ve got to review Saddam Hussein’s romance novel or Werner von Braun’s sci-fi book next!
saddam hussein's whatnow
He already did Hussein’s romance novel
@@angelvalerio9746oh boy this has to be good
Dont forget Mussolini's romancr novel
Von Braun’s what now
Others conquer with Mars. The Habsburgs conquer with Venus. The Japanese conquer with anime.
Apollo, got it
Austrae est imperae orbi universo
*Seshū Shinnōke conquer with anime
@@huskadog7748
Belli alii gerant. Tu, felix Austria, nube!
“The power of God and Anime is on my side!”
What is it with writers and using the same amount of subtlety that I use for placeholder names? Namely: Zero.
It's a bloody children's book you elephant poo
Your username got me to subscribe to you.
The Double-Headed Eagle isn't specifically a Hapsburg emblem, but rather an ancient heraldic charge originating around the Near East. Similar to the Star-and-Crescent, come to think of it.
Isnt it basically the emblem for most empires in europe. And by empire i mean simply those who leaders calls themselves emperer (keaser and tsar)
It’s more typically… “Rome, Persia, and people deriving legitimacy from them”
I think its most with the austrian hungarian, which is weird as shouldnt hungary usually be bitter treated as not really equal partner in that?
it also is a symbol for albania too, it's in the flag and has been for hundreds of years. not sure why...
@@viktorhermansson2284 no it was used by the hittians after thems the romans adopted it . the austrians wanted to look roman so they stole the eagle as their image the russians did the same later albania and serbia also adopted it since they inhabit land that used to be roman/byzantine
WHICH SIDE ARE YOU ON?
DUBBIE'S FIRST HEAD
DUBBIE'S SECOND HEAD
I had to look up that Habsburg convention thing out of disbelief but lo and behold, it was actually a thing.
JKR character names
Yeah, she literally finds the most stupid and obscure names to put in her books (I’m not even sure if Dumbledore is a real name lol)
Yeah former royals are kinda weird like the Hohenzollern try to sue the german government for return of a bunch Castles and art even though they already settled the issue with the weimar republic. They also try to proof that their Nazi grandpa totally wasnt a Nazi even though he was and he helped Hitler to become chancellor. So writing a weird childrens book is kinda harmless.
This revanscism from descendants of royals is surely troubling and disgusting. Here in Russia we had some of Romanovs celebrate their weddings in basically one of the biggest churches and were protected by military. Totally creepy bs. I don't even want to mention the weird worship of Nicholas 2 by some Orthodox ppl. Even his naming as a saint was only done by the church to appease the foreign believers who were mostly descendants of white emigration, but there is a weird sect that worships him as much as Jesus. The dude who had no remorse after Bloody Sunday. Monarchical revanscism is dangerous and creepy
royals and aristocrats are reacrionary, priveleged and entitled? color me shocked.
@@KateeAngelI mean, French Napoleon fans are mostly funny, but there's quite a few of them who are *weird* and have the sort of political views that are... considered unacceptable by many, so I'll agree that most 21st century monarchists are on a spectrum that goes from weird and funny to creepy and kinda dangerous
@@KateeAngelSome Russians also really like the whole White Movement aka White army and those dudes were combination of Monarchists and Fascists that received help from, Japan, USA, UK, France, Germany, etc.
Kolchak literally blew up tunnels with civilians in them to escape Red army with his gold. Czech legions gave him up to Soviets for a reason.
@@KateeAngelhe was remorseful after the bloody sunday.
To this day, Maximilian of Habsburg is a controversial figure in Mexico. This is due to him supposedly being “in love with the country “ so he is generally seen as benevolent… but you know… this was after Mexico’s independence and an Emperor was not a popular idea at the time.
Didnt the guy who overthrew him to make a republic become a dictator and sold out mexican territory like texas and california to the usa in a secret treaty?
What about Agustin Iturbide?
@@sacodepapas488 moral of the story, if a creepy french guy offers you an adventure, dont hop in the van.
He also was too liberal and modern for the mexican conservative
@@raipe125 He tried to get Benito Juárez as his Prime Minister for his liberal constitutional monarchy. Which gave the hardcore conservative monarchists and the catholic church who brought him to Mexico to essentially turn it into a pseudo medieval feudal state an absolute fit. Same as his fluency in Nahuatl which he used to listen to indios complain about the landowners abusing them.
I'm glad that this video exist in not glad it took youtube 2 weeks to tell me about it.
I'm not sure what you're seeing because this video isn't even public yet.
@@JamesTullos Stop talking about history! You're attracting time travelers!
1:26 Another fun fact! Maximilian's cousin, Pedro II, was Emperor of Brazil and the son of Maria Leopoldina, a Habusburg (and the reason for the gold in the flag of Brazil). Not only that but Maximilian was also briefly engaged to Pedro II half-sister, Maria Amelia, before she passed away from tuberculosis.
Another fun fact. Dom Pedro’s descendants still register themselves as princes and princesses and still believe they have a claim to the Brazilian throne, even though there’s been no monarchy in over 130 years
@@linusmota9712 🤦🏼♀️
1:10 not exactly true, he agreed to be frances puppet emperor, it was the french making him emperor of mexico not Maximilian. This expedition actually killed Maximilian and franz johseph never quite forgave the french for that.
Also Franz Josef did not start WWI it started because his nephew was shot
@@thedeadlysquidward1641 imagine spending your whole life defending your home from crisis after crisis for nearly a century, then when your too old to rule your country alone, a close family member dies and people are calling you a monster for the actions of the government you let take charge of the country in avenging that family member.
Well you learn something new everyday about the Hapsburgs minus the incest among the family.
Just so you know, that was mostly the Spanish Habsburgs, which is why the spanish Habsburgs are extinct. The main Habsburg family did not have the Habsburg jaw, there was some incest but not much more than every other royal family.
@@huskadog7748 interesting
CZECHIA MENTIONED
you pronounced pospíšil almost correct, the í should be longer. it means Hurried (as in the past tense, not the passive)
IVE BEEN BINGING YOUR VIDEOS AND A LOT OF THEM ARE SO LONG ISTG IM NOT OKAY 😭
I just wanna mention that the Double Headed Eagle was the symbol of Byzantine Empire long before it was a symbol of the Habsburgs. Not only that but it was an important symbol for Russia and most Eastern Orthodox countries, as well as many Islamic counties that tried to replicate Byzantium like the Ottomans or the Seljuks. If you look at the Albanian flag all it is is a Black 2 headed eagle on a red background. Honestly if I had to send that bird to a place with the most double headed eagles I'd have sent him to Constantinople or Moscow.
I dont know this for sure, but im pretty sure the brave head is supposed to be the austrian half of the empire, and the cowardice head was supposed to be the hungarian half. Why do i think this? Because historically the hungarian half of the empire was much more moderate than the austrian half, and they never wanted to really sieze on any opratunities die to fear it would make the austrian half more powerful, art and such at the time would often display the empire as a Reichsadler with its two heads fighting eachother, or a reichsadler where one head is holding the other back.
thank you for being here and correcting all the mistakes, greetings from hungary
@@nokedili greetings 😊 hope your days been nice
"the cowardice head was supposed to be the hungarian half. Why do i think this? Because historically the hungarian half of the empire was much more moderate than the austrian half"
Wow, clearly you've never met a Hungarian in your life. The Hungarian half of the empire was a lot more nationalistic and prone to beating the identity out of their minorities than the Austrian half. Still are, in fact.
@@fds7476 being more insular is not the same as being more accepting lol
@@fds7476 and yes i am aware that magyarization was not good.
The current "heir to the throne" is actually Ferdinand Habsburg, a 27-year-old race car driver.
Having a race car driver be the emperor of your country actually sounds pretty cool.
@@michaelkaminski1166 Well, before he sustained a disabling injury, Henry VIII would joust, something that was somewhat old-fashioned even in his day.
Fun fact about Maximilian I, he was more of a puppet ruler sent there by Napoleon III than an attempt by the Habsburg to rebuild their american empire (although I guess when you're handed an entire country you don't complain too much).
I thought Napoleon fans in France were weird but wow, Austrian and Hungarian Habsburg enjoyers are weirder still 😂
Whats weirder is that they're Texans!
The name Waschlapski is quite interesting if you speak German. It is close to the word "Waschlappen", which translates to "washing towel" and is used to describe a weak or unable person. So it's like naming him "idiotski" or "dumbassski"
15:15 well you gotta remember that alot of Texans are descendents of germans
4:15 the reichsadler is an extremely old symbol dating back to the roman empire, it became a symbol of Germany die to its connections with the holy roman empire. Both Germany and Austria still use the reichsadler as national symbols, the germans dropped one of the heads and use it in there seal, while the austrians still have the original reichsadler in there state flag and national seal, look it up. The reichsadler was so much more than the symbol of the habsburg family
HUNGARY MENTIONED RAAAH🦅🔥🔥🔥🗣️BOJLER ELADÓ 🇭🇺🦅🔥🔥WTF IS SLOVAKIA🗣️🗣️🇭🇺🇭🇺🦅
edit: i'm slighly offended that you haven't put in the picture of viktor orbán wearing a greater hungary scarf when talking about the trianon treaty
I see some nutjobs from Hungary from time to time talking about Slovakia but despite how low we think of our country, noone is jelous of whatever you are cooking down there, not even slovakian hungarians.
Perhaps you should ask them to help you figure out how to run the country without half of the world looking at you funny. 🤣
@@robertkalinic335 it probably wasn't clear enough, my comment was ironic and i don't agree with my government's actions or foreign policy
@@nokediliSorry then
@@robertkalinic335 no problem
Orbán was the first thing to come in my mind when a Hungarian fantasizing about their country's (supposed) former glory was mentioned.
A double headed eagle named “krii” sounds like an Egyptian deity.
You’d think a dynasty that ruled over so many European countries wouldn’t be so prone to inbreeding, given the diversity of the gene pools they oversaw.
It was a deliberate choice to maintain their power
You'd think wrong. Because they ruled so many lands and because they wanted to keep them they put effort into keeping inheritance in the family. Also they refused to mix with non-Catholics.
@@martinsriber7760 Perhaps, but it is kinda ironic anyway.
@@politkos5348 But ironically enough it’s also what cost them their power in Spain, since Charles II was infertile because of genetic problems due to inbreeding.
@@marianatheschizoid5912 yeah lol
Their desperate method to maintain power ended up costing them everything
The Phantom Menace is good for pacing, structure and plot but it suffers from unadulterated George Lucas dialogue.
Agreed. The dialogue is difficult to get past even after all these years, but it's still one of my favourite movies.
"Get over yourselfes", wow how empathetic. The treaty of Trianon was a serious humiliation to Hungary
As a lifelong Habsburg fan, this is a book I want to read myself. I don't care about the quality, I just want a Habsburg momento! And a fan convention in the US? Dang, that is something I wish I could have attended and I'm not even a Monarchist.
Hofrat/Court councillor is a title, not a name
World War I began after the assassination of Franz Ferdinand, not Franz Joseph. He was the heir to the imperial throne of Austria and hadn’t yet become emperor when he was assassinated
He didn't say Joseph was assassinated, he said he started the war, which he did when he sent the ultimatum to Serbia with unreasonable demands which served as a basis for a declaration of war. Ferdinand couldn't start the war on account of him being dead, you see.
@@westvirginiaglutenfreepepp7006
"with unreasonable demands"
Dude, define 'unreasonable'.
The Serbians sponsored an assassination of the heir to Austro-Hungarian the throne because they wanted Bosnia-Herzegovina for themselves.
@@fds7476"the serbians" ie a few people in the serbian government who did not have the state's backing and who the majority of the government were unaware of. Serbia as a country was not to blame for the war, and the Austrians had every possible opportunity to negotiate or deescalate themselves. Instead they kept pushing it and sent an ultimatum with a 48 hour deadline whose clauses allowed serbians to be arrested on serbian soil if the Austrians believed them to have committed a crime against Austria Hungary, which would be unacceptable to any country. And Serbia agreed to everything else! The Austrians wanted the war and they got it. Play stupid games win stupid prizes
@@fds7476 You can read the demands.
@@westvirginiaglutenfreepepp7006I wouldn't say unreasonable, the Serbs agreed to all demands but one.
Day 3 of asking for a return for reading hot takes. Mine is that writers need to stop subverting their chosen genre for the sake of it
Genuine question, how is this a hot take? I'm pretty sure most people agree with this
@@-._lunamidnight_.- Because I count ‘morally grey’ characters as ‘subversive’, even though we see them in almost 100% of fantasy books nowadays, and a lot of people praise them as ‘realistic’ (it isn’t realistic to be a mass murderer) and if you make an actual good guy as your Protagonist, some people will call them ‘boring’ or ‘boy scouts’. And I promise you that not that much will agree with me.
@@Jon-Rimmer I see your point and it makes sense why do you consider morally grey characters 'subversive', but (in this particular example) I don't see it as the author wanting to be subversive (with some exceptions like the edgy batmans) but wanting to write complexity when they don't have the skill to do it yet
@@-._lunamidnight_.- Complex characters don’t need to be Morally Grey, just have flaws and make mistakes. That’s every single well written Protagonist, but people can be very much blind to depth, and the only way they can see it is if it’s right up in their face. Superman is complex, but every body calls him boring because he is a good person and isn’t willing to do something terrible. Game of Thrones started this trend for me.
@@Jon-Rimmer Well, I'd say that a complex character has to have more than flaws and mistakes. But my main problem with the morally grey characters is the writer not committing to the 'morally grey' bit. It starts with "this character did some morally questionable actions" and goes to "this character is actually the good guy and did nothing wrong" and the narrative bends over backwards to justify their actions.
I had thought you were talking about morally grey characters in general, but it seems to me that you're talking about characters that were already known as morally good (like superman) and were given a twist, subverted. But again, I don't think you'll find many people disagreeing with your take. And the people who like edgy characters aren't there for the subversion, just the edginess. Could be any character, subverted or not
I just wanted to say you're my favourite person talking about books on the internet, by a long long shot. Just chef's kiss. No notes.
I was NOT expecting the Jojo Rabbit clip but it made me extremely happy.XD
The Mexicans didn't kick Maximilian out, they shot him.
james if you taught a history class, i'd be seated because you tell it like it is 😌
James is used to describe ugly things and biased writing, and oh boy, history ain't short of either.
1:02 if you wanna play the "originally from" game you can trace them all the way back to eithopia, just like every other human on earth. A family that lives in vienna for over 700 years is austrian lmfao
Eeeewww!!! WALLS?! Yuck get a green screen like a professional would ;)
Okay, now make a video about Trippie the three headed dragon
The bourbons are still in power, just in Spain.
Hey, my parents were first cousins, and I turned out perfectly dog FaCE banana pATch! 🎉
Glad since you made that 2024 update video your channel has been doing really well. Much deserved!
2:04 bro,the hell are you blaming him,blame Serbs for funding terrorist,by that logic it wasnt Ossamas fault for 9/11,it was Americans fault for some reason.
I am still using your logic.
Also Russians wanted war with Germans and Austrians,and they incuraqed Serbians to not back down.
true but the austrian demand to serbia was meant to turn them into a defacto part of austria and ruin the legitimacy for their country, still the power play was merely a miscalculation as usually games in Europe lead to one backing down so that war could be avoided.
Never been this esrly to a james video. Followed for a while. Happy to see you holding stong
As an Austrian I feel obliged to mention, that the one wekrd guy who started the 2nd worldwar didn't see himself as Austrian and legally became a German in 1931 or 2... we didn't want him here (mostly). Beethoven meanwhile was infact, and as we all know, an Austrian.
bist deppat
Beethoven was born in Germany.
@@WilliamTice Sssshhhhh... nobody here knows that.
He dodged a bullet by not including a jewish character. I may just wonder how it would be named...
it?
actually, austria-hungary wasn't anti-semitic compared to other countries at the time so if eduard respects habsburg history he shouldn't be either
@nokedili
Austria-Hungary was relatively progressive for its time period. At least in terms of acknowledging rights of ethnic minorities. Like Poles and Czechs - the two nations the author doesn't seem to like a lot
You know that people usually don't have the same ideology as your great grandparents?
@@angelikaskoroszyn8495 i know but he managed to include the internet so maybe, just maybe he can realize that the world has moved forward since then
Austria-Hungary was fairly benevolent when it came to religious and ethnic minorities, including Jews. The Habsburgs in particular were considered to be strongly philosemitic (in stark contrast to the Romanovs or the Hohenzollerns).
Apparently, the WW1-era Austro-Hungarian armies had a much higher percentage of Jews serving in their officer's corps than any other major country, including the UK.
@@angelikaskoroszyn8495 Czechs were second class citizens in their own homeland where they were majority. There was nothing progressive about "acknowledging" them.
2:06 Almost failed the quick time event
I was waiting for this video sooo bad
Can Hamburgs write a dark children’s fantasy novel next
So
Like
The head looking to the past and future thingy
Is not from history
It's from 40k.
Bottom text?
Maybe a mythological fusion with Janus?
3:24 thats how it worked during franz johsephs time as well, both hungary and austria had there own governments, just like anywhere else. Franz johseph was not a dictator, at least not at the end of his reign. I think you fundamentally misunderstood the role of the Habsburgs in the late austrian empire, usally refered to as Austria-Hungary
Franz Joseph resisted quite a lot to constitution and was still in favor of absolutism in second half of 19th century. He was reactionary and Austria-Hungary was silly backwards country.
But is it better than Blood Rose Rebellion?
Ferdinand, the race car-driving would -be crown prince, is apparently pretty chill about things. I heard someone describing an interview he gave where he laughed about having to pay the tourist's fee to visit the former palace and other Habsburg sites. He just sounded like "Ha, isn't that funny?!" Seems like Eduard might be the grouch of the family.
Fun fact: It is possible that Don Quixote was inspired by a Habsburg monarch: Charles I of Spain, who was also Charles V of the Holy Roman Empire.
Miguel de Cervantes supposedly based the main character in Charles I/V, who was too obsessed with medieval values that were dying in the Early Modern Period, like chivalry trial combat and the obsolete idea of a "Christian Universal Monarchy".
7:41 just imagine the song Im dienste des is playing
aren’t the romanovs famously not around anymore?
Nicholas' immediate family isn't, but he had a lot of relatives and many of them got out alright. Most royal families had limited dating pools because they had to be of the same class, so many aristocratic families were interconnected or spread around
Nicholas II has siblings and cousins, who had kids. Do xou think all of them got killed?
Same with the Habsburgs it’s just less important families pretend to be them
Seriously, what does the current royal family have to do with that castle
Oh and Hohenzollern’s are imperial so why they’re pretending to be Romanov I don’t understand I guess Russia doesn’t want to be a junior branch
We got Hapsburg with Eva fascination in this timeline rather than Code Geass
This book reminds me of a book I read in college, _Don Jose: the Last Patrón._ I read it to learn more about the peonage system, and the ending kinda read to me like "Damn, my grandpa was basically a king; kinda sucks those peasants left. Anyways, heres some herbs"
I thought the romanovs were all dead???
The nikolai branch yes, but there’s still habsburgs from different smaller branches in places like Australia
Why?
@martinsriber7760 All of the Romanovs were killed by the Soviets during the Russian Revolution.
@@thedeadlysquidward1641 No, they weren't.
@@thedeadlysquidward1641 en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Romanov “Of the 65 members, 47 survived and went abroad” Please fact check stuff before you say it.
Hey James! Idk if your into this but the SCP universe did a video called SCP-3288 the aristocrats has the Hapsburgs at a central theme
I like how the characters conveniently (for them) ignore the fact that double-headed eagle is also a symbol of Russia (which came here from Byzanthium, a real descendant of Roman Empire, unlike the wannabe HRE).
It’s also the symbol of glorious Albania
I think it was associated with the Ottomans as well
On heraldry two headed eagle symbolise male eagle while regular single headed mean female one.
Tell me you don't understand the HRE without telling me you don't understand the HRE
@@petrfedor1851But Eagles don't even have peens, they have cloacas. How can males have two heads? 😜
small correction: the 5th of may actually celebrates the battle of Puebla, in which the mexican army defeated the larger, better-trained french invaders. still, it’s part of the second french intervention in which the fr*nch and Maximillian of Habsburg wanted to establish a monarchy here in mexico, and thankfully, failed.
Man I hate the Baader-Meinhof phenomenon. I watched Neon genesis evangelion a few months ago and since then everywhere I go I have to see it or hear about it
quick question, have you heard of the podcast "Terrible Book Club"? You might find titles for future videos in that podcasts.
Eduard is living proof that:
- Descent is no indicator of greatness
- Rich people still have too much political power
- If you dream of having your stories published... you really can't do worse than him.
What are your thoughts on Project 2025? Would you review it? I know it is not a fictional book and it is almost 1000 pages long, but I think it is worth checking out on some of its parts that could possibly change the USA for the worst
Austrian here:
From time to time one of the weirder former nobles in Austria suggests on national TV during some interview or another about some not related topic (like one Habsburg is a Formula 2 racer) that maybe ppl could pls stop with that silly republic business, and it's one of the few things that weirds out the whole political spectrum in Austria (with the exception of small parts of the right wing Austrian Freedom Party some nobles belong to)
The Serbs started WWI
2:34 no banned at threat of invasion in fact, hungry remained a kingdom but weren’t allowed to have a king
You should read Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Zhao
It's on the list.
Funny thing is, it was Hungarians who rebelled against the empire first, they just failed to establish functioning state
The Hungarian state that appeared out of the 1848 revolution was very much a functioning state with laws, unique currency, institutuions, Army, and Taxes. The problem was that they got absolutely destroyed by the Austrian, and Russian armies.
Great video, just wanted to mention that "Hofrat" is a title given to civil servants for long years of services.
So Hofrat Turbulent is representing the state bureaucracy
As a Hungarian, I kinda wish this dude just went back where they came from if u catch my drift
So the ruling the country ?
"the villain is the status quo"
oh so it's an LGBTQ+ book!
Total American cultural victory
Did you know there was a speed dating event after the hapsburg event I'm not joking
in a comic story titled Rise and Fall of Bartholomew Simpson from Issue #47 it showcases a future where Bart is at deaths door and in that future Ned Flanders pays for his daughters estrogen treatments with his pension as Rod and Todd Flanders are trans lounge singers so Flanders is not a TERF.
15:06 that’s legit next to where I live lol
Ironically, when they controlled that giant part of the world's surface, one place they didn't control was Castle Hapsburg.
The names sound hilarious.
13:39 the Phantom Menace is the best Star Wars movie
Wait isn’t this Habsburg a massive weeb?
I was still watching, I wouldn't say you were completely rambling though.
So when I was an undergraduate history student in Ireland my lecturer took a class to Rome to see the sights. That lecturer had written a piece on the Habsburgs but it wasn’t overtly flattering
Eduard invited us for Champaign and cake. Proceeded to tell us, uni level history students, that the habsburgs never caused any genocides or wars, that Ireland was much better when it was conservative, and fought with us for an hour. Feck off mate
I mean, Ireland was better when it was Conservative, look at the immigration crisis it’s facing
@@Tricky2109 back then we had a emigration crisis
I just don't think you should have that last name and then write a villain who's name ends in -ski.
Why?
@fds7476 names ending in -ski are usually associated with slavic people, and slavic people were not treated equally in Austra-Hungary, the last true stronghold of the habsburgs. So making your villain character slavic while coming from a family that's ruled over many slavic people and not treated them fairly, it's a little icky I think
@@ic5889
I gotta disagree. The Habsburgs weren't perfect in that regard, but they were nothing short of _trailblazers_ compared to the other European powers in terms of making their empire a multi-ethnic community.
They went to great lengths to foster, emancipate and encourage various ethnic identities and languages, especially the various Slavic groups in their empire.
The imperial anthem had 14 official versions, including Czech, Croatian, Serbian, Polish, Ruthenian, and Slovenian.
Just a few months ago, Vladimir Putin was on TV complaining to Tucker Carlson that the Austrians were 'to blame' for making the Ruthenians believe that they were an independent people (rather than a Russian sideshow).
@fds7476 I was gonna respond to the rest of your comment but I'm sorry did you just quote putin in favour of your argument??? I can hardly imagine a set of two people I'd be less likely to believe than Vladimir putin and tucker carlson, figures they'd get along
@@fds7476 That was appeasement derived from necessity, not sign of benevolence. They did Germanisation and Recatholisation before that.
I swear I've seen that lamp before...
Double headed Eagle. The symbol of Italians region Friuli.😂
Hot take: the Emperor of Man was a Hapsburg.
That would explain why all his sons came out so fucked up
The symbol belongs to an ancient agricultural, war diety called Ninurta/Ningirsu.
15:03 weirdly enough paris didn't cross my mind
versailles would be even more ironic
who let the habsburg cook bro
1:58 you did it again, you blamed a national hero of austria for not preventing anworld war when the guy was a de facto figurehead at the time. The man spent his entire, very long, life preventing tragedies like ww1 and your blaming him for it when he was on his death bed?
Dude, who was the emperor when Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia? Who signed To my peoples? Why the fuck is he national hero of Austria?
@@martinsriber7760 and the queen of England signs all the laws, does that mean the queen is responsible for those laws? He saved the empire many many times, hes a complicated figure but he was an overall good monarch that help austria together in a century where it realistically should have collapsed about 30 times lol. By the end of his life he stepped back from politics but was still a very popular and unifying figure, look up greatest austrian ruler or best austrian ruler and i guarantee hes the first guy that would come up.
@@huskadog7748yeah actually queen elizabeth isn't off the hook for the horrors she signed off on
@@budgetcommander4849 that's a discussion in in of itself, but i dont franz johseph was well enough at this time to be reasonably expected to strongarm the government lol
Plus it wasn't even a 'world war' until a certain three identical cousins decided to get involved...