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This is the story of the dramatic and violent life of the Middle Ages' most important emperor: Charlemagne. His life as a political strategist, a passionate lover, a man that conquered most of Europe, and a cultural visionary.
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@andrewthompson6192 Жыл бұрын

This is a truly remarkable comprehensive docu-drama video that encompasses the life story of Charlemagne, his legacy, his decisions.

@holdencaulfield8429 7 ай бұрын

Yes! Sock puppet, and they made it all themselves. All above board nothing to see here.

@0hMyLife Жыл бұрын

I've seen this on yt before but it was dubbed with an English voice over.....wish I could find it bc this is an amazing documentary!!

@sivanlevi3867 6 ай бұрын

That's a man who's a hard act to follow. Up until I watched this, I had no idea how amazing Charlemagne was as a person. There's no way that any man alive today can match what he did.

@danyohawk4230 Жыл бұрын

One of the multiple legendary leaders of world. Charles Martel , Otto, Alphonso the battler , and Oliver Cromwell ( lord protector I know ) to name a few more. Awesome doc!

@LoneMagpie91 8 ай бұрын

Oliver Cromwell was a scumbag tbh and his regime fell for a reason

@xavisanchez7522 5 ай бұрын

Alphons, el bataller, Catalan speaker ruler from Urgell Family

@christineingram55 Жыл бұрын

This was better than watching the tv,so absorbing,and very interesting.He certainly had something about him to get that many men to follow him everywhere. I enjoyed it so much as I never learnt history for this and it was really in depth,I also liked hearing the story from both the historians and the scholar too.🥰

@jakemeyer8188 10 ай бұрын

If crossing the mountains was so dangerous, and nearly led to his and his armies destruction, he should have taken the path under the mountain; the mines of Moria...Kazad Duhm. I believe the Balrog had already been cleared by the time of Charlemagne.

@justinjian Жыл бұрын

Amazingly well produced!

@costrio Жыл бұрын

Thank you for this presentation. Well produced and informative.

@user-di4ho1qs5l 7 ай бұрын

I really like this documentary. It really brings out the details about Charlemagne and who he really was.

@surveyore7 Жыл бұрын

Wow! Probably the most 'informative' biography of Charlemagne! I have nothing to compare it or its substance. I like the format how it was told/written between the two Monks. Makes me want to find Einheart's (sic) version. I can read Latin, but an English translation would be much better!

@doesthisfacemakemelooklike535 Жыл бұрын

I AM A DOUBLE DIRECT DECENDENT (1) Charlemagne is Cheley Hokanson's 35th great grandfather.ON MOTHERS SIDE Cheley Hokanson her daughter Carol len Smith, his daughter Leonard Emmett smith her son Viola Winifred Smith his mother → Jones David Waggoner her father → Martin Franklin Waggoner his father → James Waggener his father → Richard Waggoner his father → Ann Waggener his mother → James Jones, II her father → James Jones his father → James S Jones, I his father → David Nathaniel Jones his father → John Elias Jones his father → Sir William Jones, Kt. his father → Elizabeth Jones his mother → Juliana Cornwall her mother → Sir Richard Corbet, MP her father → Sir Roger Corbet, Kt. his father → Robert Corbet, Lord of Moreton, MP, Sheriff of Shropshire his father → Sir Roger Corbet, Kt., Sheriff of Shropshire his father → Elizabeth Corbet his mother → Sir Fulk le Strange, 1st Baron Strange of Blackmere, Lord of Blackmere her father → Robert le Strange, Lord of Wrockwardine his father → John le Strange, III his father → John le Strange, II his father → John le Strange, I his father → Matilda "Maud" de Hunstanton his mother → Ralph de Hunstanton le Brun her father → Herlewin Le Brun his father → Jean de Bourg de Conteville, Comte De Commines his father → Baldwin III, count of Flanders his father → Arnulf I the Great, count of Flanders his father → Baldwin II "the Bald", count of Flanders his father → Judith, countess of Flanders his mother → Charles II "the Bald", Western Emperor her father → Louis I, The Pious his father → Charlemagne his father (2) Charlemagne is Cheley Hokanson's 35th great grandfather...ON FATHERS SIDE Cheley L. Hokanson daughter of Oliver Hokanson Ellen L. Yada his mother → Nellie eldora Yada her mother → Horace Greeley Hurd her father → J. Alanson Hurd his father → Susannah Hurd his mother → Heli Foote her father → Dr. Ichabod Foote his father → Capt. Joseph Foote his father → Lt. Robert Foote his father → Nathaniel Foote "the Settler" his father → Joane Foote his mother → John Brooke her father → Robert Brooke his father → Florence Brooke his mother → Cicely Ashfield her mother → John Tendring her father → Sir William Tendring his father → Maud Tendring his mother → William de Kerdeston, II, 2nd Baron Kerdeston her father → Roger de Kerdeston his father → Margaret de Gaunt his mother → Gilbert de Gaunt, 1st Lord Gant her father → Gilbert de Gaunt, Earl of Lincoln his father → Robert de Gant (Gaunt), lord of Aalst, Folkingham and Bridlington his father → Walter van Gent, lord of Folkingham (aka Walter de Lindsey) his father → Gislebert dit “Le Grand” van Gent, baron de Folkingham, seigneur de Hunmanby his father → Gisela van Gent Aalst his mother → Frederick I, count of Moselgau her father → Siegfried I, count of Luxembourg his father → Cunigunda, countess of Trèves & Ardennes his mother → Ermentrude of France her mother → Louis II the Stammerer, king of the West Franks her father → Charles II "the Bald", Western Emperor his father → Louis I, The Pious his father → Charlemagne his father

@hunternorth8817 Жыл бұрын

@@doesthisfacemakemelooklike535 that is some fascinating family history.

@doesthisfacemakemelooklike535 Жыл бұрын

@@HASHKATZ YES, BUT I CAN ACTUALLY PROVE IT....SMILES AT YOU....HAVE A NICE DAY DEAR... I AM A DOUBLE DIRECT DECENDENT (1) Charlemagne is Cheley Hokanson's 35th great grandfather.ON MOTHERS SIDE Cheley Hokanson her daughter Carol len Smith, his daughter Leonard Emmett smith her son Viola Winifred Smith his mother → Jones David Waggoner her father → Martin Franklin Waggoner his father → James Waggener his father → Richard Waggoner his father → Ann Waggener his mother → James Jones, II her father → James Jones his father → James S Jones, I his father → David Nathaniel Jones his father → John Elias Jones his father → Sir William Jones, Kt. his father → Elizabeth Jones his mother → Juliana Cornwall her mother → Sir Richard Corbet, MP her father → Sir Roger Corbet, Kt. his father → Robert Corbet, Lord of Moreton, MP, Sheriff of Shropshire his father → Sir Roger Corbet, Kt., Sheriff of Shropshire his father → Elizabeth Corbet his mother → Sir Fulk le Strange, 1st Baron Strange of Blackmere, Lord of Blackmere her father → Robert le Strange, Lord of Wrockwardine his father → John le Strange, III his father → John le Strange, II his father → John le Strange, I his father → Matilda "Maud" de Hunstanton his mother → Ralph de Hunstanton le Brun her father → Herlewin Le Brun his father → Jean de Bourg de Conteville, Comte De Commines his father → Baldwin III, count of Flanders his father → Arnulf I the Great, count of Flanders his father → Baldwin II "the Bald", count of Flanders his father → Judith, countess of Flanders his mother → Charles II "the Bald", Western Emperor her father → Louis I, The Pious his father → Charlemagne his father (2) Charlemagne is Cheley Hokanson's 35th great grandfather...ON FATHERS SIDE Cheley L. Hokanson daughter of Oliver Hokanson Ellen L. Yada his mother → Nellie eldora Yada her mother → Horace Greeley Hurd her father → J. Alanson Hurd his father → Susannah Hurd his mother → Heli Foote her father → Dr. Ichabod Foote his father → Capt. Joseph Foote his father → Lt. Robert Foote his father → Nathaniel Foote "the Settler" his father → Joane Foote his mother → John Brooke her father → Robert Brooke his father → Florence Brooke his mother → Cicely Ashfield her mother → John Tendring her father → Sir William Tendring his father → Maud Tendring his mother → William de Kerdeston, II, 2nd Baron Kerdeston her father → Roger de Kerdeston his father → Margaret de Gaunt his mother → Gilbert de Gaunt, 1st Lord Gant her father → Gilbert de Gaunt, Earl of Lincoln his father → Robert de Gant (Gaunt), lord of Aalst, Folkingham and Bridlington his father → Walter van Gent, lord of Folkingham (aka Walter de Lindsey) his father → Gislebert dit “Le Grand” van Gent, baron de Folkingham, seigneur de Hunmanby his father → Gisela van Gent Aalst his mother → Frederick I, count of Moselgau her father → Siegfried I, count of Luxembourg his father → Cunigunda, countess of Trèves & Ardennes his mother → Ermentrude of France her mother → Louis II the Stammerer, king of the West Franks her father → Charles II "the Bald", Western Emperor his father → Louis I, The Pious his father → Charlemagne his father

@paulleverton9569 10 ай бұрын

@@doesthisfacemakemelooklike535 Every slag in Europe reproduced with Charlemagne. It's a statistical probability that you're descended from Julius Caesar, Charlemagne and/or Genghis Khan but discretion _is_ the better part of valour (so don't be boring random strangers with totally unverifiable claims about being related to someone from the 8th Century).

@jrmckim 7 ай бұрын

@@doesthisfacemakemelooklike535 dude you posted the same longass comments. Then say you can prove it, but I see no proof. I don't know who Cheley Hokanson is... is that you? Okay cool. I'm related to Robert the Bruce and Mary, Queen of Scots. Found that out through DNA test. Pretty cool huh?

@daya820 Жыл бұрын

Excellent, thank you

@kdmccelticindiian2810 8 ай бұрын

DO YOU HAVE A AUDIO TRANSLATION FOR THE BLIND SO WE CAN KEEP UP WITH MORE THAN JUST THE NARRATIVE. SERMS WE'RE MISSING ALMOST MIRE THAN 1/2 OF WHAT'S GOING ON!!!

@cdfdesantis699 Жыл бұрын

One of the best documentaries about Charlemagne I've seen.

@wonemohsirehtafmai2982 Жыл бұрын

Subtitles don't play well on smartphone screens. Bummer, I was looking forward to this 😭

@DNTodt Жыл бұрын

You need an upgrade.... it's your phone that is the problem

@danaglabeman6919 8 ай бұрын

Love how from the very beginning, this guy who supposedly knew Charlemagne walks into a 13th century room.

@truewellu7700 9 ай бұрын

great story

@user-di4ho1qs5l 11 ай бұрын

I really liked this documentary about a unique person that Charlemagne was.

@tamaveirene Жыл бұрын

Amazing documentary! Truly educational and informative!!!!

@3mate1 Жыл бұрын

23:08 Every historical documentary in this time period has to have an experiment with long bow and arrow, and a broad sword, and whatever other weapons of the time period. It got really old in the 2000's

@maryanne7414 Жыл бұрын

Ausgezeichnet!🌹

@ronniecorbett6306 8 ай бұрын

Sir Christopher Lee was a direct descendant of Charlemagne.

@Perspectiveon 7 ай бұрын

Never cease to amaze me the story causing Vikings to commence raiding is never told. In short Charlemagnes Christian crusade against Northern Pagans made them unite. His conquest and brutal christianization of Saxony in 785 a.d. after a decade long Campaign is the background story. All Pagan sacred sites were destroyed and those who refused to convert were slaughtered numbering several thousands. Pagan areas all over the North was interconnected and it must have seemed an existencial threat bc just North of Saxony a Fortress Wall not unlike Hadrians Wall across the main land was built during the 790s (Dannevirke). At least five major Ring-fortresses was also built during the following Century (Aggersborg, Fyrkat, Trelleborg etc). Viking raids at any and all Christian hold areas across Europe (Lindisfarne 793) was a direct cause-effect result. Christians had become legitimate targets in an all-out war for the existence of pagan belief. The Viking era had begun.

@SomeBody-rm6hf Ай бұрын

Yes, along with Saint Alfred.

@b-randomproductions Жыл бұрын

big ups from canada

@sandyimmanuelkarliman3112 Жыл бұрын

Charlemagne - Emperor of the Christendom

@0hMyLife Жыл бұрын

5:52 History Hit ad ends here

@agentzero147 9 ай бұрын

It’s piece meal from a German documentary on Charlemagne. Just can’t find a legit doc on him.

@Ravenoflight2275 Жыл бұрын

Damn Charlemagne

@AltairEgo1 2 ай бұрын

This is like a Fire Emblem story.

@annamosier1950 Жыл бұрын

wow

@riverlady982 11 ай бұрын

1:49:40 They just told me that he lived like what over 20 years past all of his friends he grew up with family members people trusted most from early in his life, that's sad.

@toolguyslayer1 Жыл бұрын

7:12 why is silence everyone if you are in the right what is a warrior keep secrets its secrets are large enough to steal the entire countries there is talk of those people killing the original owners of the land in their sleep 😴 after a hard battle war tactic 101 the enemy of my enemy is my friend until my enemy is gone and then my friend becomes my enemy. it is not so much what you do as much as how you do that defines your character reality 101

@Nicholas-ch5ln Күн бұрын

Charlemagne treatment of the Lombard princess and himiltrude were horrible

@allycinwunderland 10 ай бұрын

1:31:03 I have never heard someone say "uhh" this many times in a row

@allycinwunderland 10 ай бұрын

She says it 12 times in 30 seconds

@toolguyslayer1 Жыл бұрын

39:09 if that's all I had to eat I would be a little upset too I have noticed how the food is color-coordinated also I mean really apples apples grapes onions potatoes sauerkraut bell peppers bread and you can't make me a samitch 😂😆

@xavisanchez7522 5 ай бұрын

Makes sense that saxons and franks understood each other literally, because that means that french came from somewhere else, not from the franks.That means that langue occitan was truly the main language and it later incorporated some saxon words

@jrmckim 7 ай бұрын

Are we sure the old guy isn't just an elderly Joseph Gobbells ??

@busterbiloxi3833 Жыл бұрын

"Jinty" Nelson?

@everettst.claire870 Жыл бұрын

Charlemagne was blonde. Pretty famously so as a matter of fact.

@lj9524 Жыл бұрын

Very well done! War, greed, lust, revenge and power mongers….history repeats itself. Is the human race destined to destroy itself?🤔💔✝️

@evertjan9479 Жыл бұрын

No, everything ends, only humans are arrogant enough to think they are special and thus they will be spared the inevitable..all life comes to an end, everywhere in the universe. No man or god can prevent it.

@DNTodt Жыл бұрын

You won't be around to see it... so no

@swiftcee266 3 ай бұрын

At the time of Charlemagne, Europe was in a state of abject misery, life was short and brutal, nobody, not even the Charlemagne himself could write his name without assistance. The only people with any education were the priesthood. Their education was severely limited to a little bit of neoplatonism and some classical Latin because that was always been deemed necessary by the church. Everything else was Pagen and thrown in the bin. The Greek scholars, the Nestorian scholars had been expelled from Christian Europe and had found refuge in what is now Northern Persia, place called Gundeshapur. There amongst there amongst their arab brethren, learning was treasured and transcribed into arabic and with the advent of Islam the whole picture started to change because while Christians were busy having conventions debating how many angels could stand on the head of a pin, or had a whole school of study of theology and the nature of God, the Holy Quran says that anybody who tries to decipher the nature of God is crazy, but if you want to know about God you study his works in nature. So a flourishing series of schools & scholarships started studying nature, science, the Greek texts which they inherited from the Nestorian scholars and the world's biggest library was amassed at Baghdad. With the advent of the Moorish invasion of Spain, Moorish toleration came to Europe. Now in Christian Europe, pagans and Jews alike were persecuted, in Moorish Spain, Christians, Jews and Muslims lived side by side. They each had their own schools, they had their own education. The foundations of European literature were laid there, the foundations of European science were laid there, there was a university at Cordenue in the ninth century which later became the role model for the University of Paris and later in it’s turn became the precursor of Oxford and Cambridge, and it was from Spain that knowledge of the Greek classics started to seep back into northern Europe. The Greek classics were translated not from Greek, but from Arabic, and not by Christian scholars but by the most multilingual group of people in Spain mainly the Jews, it was at the Jewish hashiva that the Greek classics were translated into European languages and into Latin. Then through the Rex Deus influence spread back into the theological school in Charte, which stimulated a movement known as the The Scholastics, also known as The Schoolmen, included as its main figures Anselm of Canterbury ("the father of scholasticism"), Peter Abelard, Alexander of Hales, Albertus Magnus, Duns Scotus, William of Ockham, Bonaventure, and Thomas Aquinas, and they would not have been able to do their studies without this input from them, from the classical times, an input which came in despite the church, not because of it, and it is for that reason that Pythagoras and Socrates are carved on the west front of Chartres Cathedral. This is the reason why you have an ancient initiate amid a couple of pagans on the west front of a Christian Church. In Moorish Spain we not only had glorious architecture, but they had scientific studies. They produced an instrument called an astrolabe, it is the precursor to the sextant and a Christian monk called Nicholas of Lynn in the thirteen hundreds used one of those, it was a new toy to him, to explore the North Atlantic and island hop right across the North Atlantic, setting a precedent for another member of the Rex Deus families, Earl Henry Sinclair of Orkney and Rosslyn, who crossed the Atlantic 100 years before Columbus, landed in Nova Scotia, over wintered in Massachusetts and Rhode Island and went back and forth at least twice. That is recorded not only in stone in Rosslyn Chapel in Scotland it's recorded in the United States as well with the carving of the Westford Knight at Westford in Massachusetts, and the erection of probably the most controversial building in the United States, which is the old stone mill at Newport otherwise known as the Newport Tower which is built precisely according to templar principles.

@BarbaraatQueensAvenueTarot 7 ай бұрын

What a surprise that Rome helped to overthrow the descendants of Jesus and Mary Magdeline. Not complaining as I'm descended from both lines but again, the Magdeline is thrown under the bus by Rome.

@patriciaheil6811 Жыл бұрын

You do know that this is in German don't you? p.s. translations aren't as good as you think they are

@taniagarciaduenas48 Жыл бұрын

in il monasteri in la morte de il principe prima della sua morte la sua corona era il vero sinbolo dela vita ella morte sotto la corona scribebano la sua data di vita e sepultura il monasteri erano sue sinbollogia del cristianismo ,

@victorm3054 10 ай бұрын

I'm literally 0:35 seconds in, and I see a documentary where a character is walking in a hallway lit up by torches. The torches were almost never used apart from Hollywood movies because they emit too much smoke and they burn too fast. Also its bright outside. That already tells me everything there is to know about the quality of this movie

@havestrength5802 9 ай бұрын

you want to see a documentary in mostly darkness so nothing can be seen?

@eddygonzalez6018 8 ай бұрын

The castle didn't look like that either, but the crown did look like the replica of the original in Aachen, in Germany. I'll give them a thumb up for historical accuracy ;)

@LoneMagpie91 8 ай бұрын

"Dark Ages"

@james3210 Жыл бұрын

QUI A EU CETTE IDEE FOLLE, UN JOUR D'INVENTER L'ÉCOLE? CEEESST CEEEE

@pdruiz2005 10 ай бұрын

At 1:15. What? A realm that encompassed almost the whole of Europe? Charlemagne's realm covered France, the Low Countries, Switzerland, western Germany and northern Italy. If we're being very generous, we can also include possibly central Germany, Bavaria, the Austrian Tyrol and bits of northern Spain. That's it. That is not almost the whole of Europe. Hell, it doesn't even cover most of Germany. LOL. What a bunch of bunk.

@harrybruijs2614 8 ай бұрын

You should take a look at a map of his empire. It does stretch from far into the Balkan and to the Oder in the east. So it does encompass modern Germany and a bit, because Maravia and Bohemia were part of it. Off course you are right it didn't was the whole wat we call now Europe, but a very big part of it. By the way Europe is an artificial construct and it is very ambivalent where the borders are. I for instance don't think Russia is part of it culturally so for me it ends at the border of the EU and Ukraine. But geographically it ends at the Ural by definition.

@IrishCinnsealach 8 ай бұрын

@@harrybruijs2614 you don't think Europe is culturally part of Europe Are you for real Russians are east slavic people include the polish Bulgarians Czechs Croats Slovaks Bosnians Ukrainian Belarusian Slovenian Ends at the border of eu Hysterical Parts of Finland are further east than st Petersburg Strange how this non cultural Europe russia has been participants in all European sporting tournaments was a member of the council of Europe played in the European champion league the European Uefa cup Russia is an eastern European country that expanded into asia For God's sake even the name Russia is taken from the ruruk empire and the rus people who were Scandinavian

@aceshroud6098 Жыл бұрын

Michele cera was in the dark ages

@toolguyslayer1 Жыл бұрын

1:47:27 isn't he eating pork

@gaiusflaminius4861 8 ай бұрын

This documentary casts light on many interesting details but it fails to bring up the perspective of the Roman Emperor that Charlemagne embraced when he laid claims to the title and the circumstances under which he did that. The documentary exacerbates the German perspective at the expense of the connection to the Roman Empire, damaging historicity of this account. There're absolutely no mentions of Roman empress Irene of Athens as well as Charlemagne's aspiration to legitimize his claims by having Constantinopolitan (i.e., the Roman Empire) court recognize him as a co-emperor, no hints at one of the most remarkable legal disputes of the Medieval epoch - the _Two Emperors problem_ , to speak nothing of _translatio imperii_ . No wonder that the use of cliches took over the course of the narration: "The Holy Roman Empire", which was effectively the renewed Western Roman Empire, the word "byzantine" put into the mouth of a monk-philosopher that is a glaring mistitling, "the first medieval emperor" is the notion that was alien to the people of the era. The post-800 period was recounted quite formulaically and hurriedly.

@nicolethompson8613 5 ай бұрын

Please let me know if you have found one that is more historically accurate, I would like to have the most accurate account. Thanks!

@asaiira 5 ай бұрын

4:46 how casually they make women hate women. Its a whole new religion.

@4leks11 Жыл бұрын

Historical depiction yet main character has no helmet.

@evalevy2909 Жыл бұрын

How could he marry the Italian princess when he already had a wife? As we saw from Henry the 8th , divorce was not easily done especially without the popes approval. How did that happen.

@justaride7444 Жыл бұрын

Henry the 8th lived half a millennia (1491-1547) after Charlemagne (768-814) . At that time the pope didn't carry anywhere near as much power as during Henry's age. During the Renaissance (Henry's age), the papal territory expanded greatly and the pope became one of Italy's most important secular rulers as well as the head of the Church.

@annastinehammersdottir1290 Жыл бұрын

@@justaride7444 Yes: not only was the pope of Henry VIII's time related to the woman (Catherine of Aragon) scorned but the Holy Roman Empire geo-politics and power dynamics of the day would not allow it.

@justaride7444 Жыл бұрын

@@annastinehammersdottir1290 Oh, didn't even know Catherine was related to the Pope at the time. I can see how that would make divorce even more of a no-no. Nevertheless the Papal States of the Age of Exploration were one of the Great Powers mandating much of life in christian Europe. Especially when compared to the Pope in the so called 'Dark Ages'.

@andrecostermans7109 Жыл бұрын

Those times the pope ( some off them married with children) was selected between Rome's aristocraty , the same families that delivered Rome's emperors during roman conquests . For them to annul the first marriage was no problem as she was not of 'noble family' . And ' reading' between the lines , those popes loved gold , silver and a percentage of the spoils of war carried out in the name of christianity . Many of those ' pope deliviring ' families saw christianity as a usefull tool to restore the roman empire , to gain power and prosper .

@eddygonzalez6018 8 ай бұрын

@@justaride7444 Catherine of Aragon was not related to the Pope, but she and her parents, Queen Isabella of Castile and King Ferdinand of Aragon were staunch Catholics and had the Pope's favor.

@craftingwithviovieux 9 ай бұрын

I wish I didn’t have to read translations

@harrybruijs2614 8 ай бұрын

It is very annoying if you understand the languages . But I suppose you do not mean that.

@rakibalmahdi2401 Жыл бұрын

1st!

@roberthaugen9871 Жыл бұрын

I get a strange feeling of "revision" from this enactment.

@tbthomas5117 Жыл бұрын

You got that right. This is what passes for 'scholarly dramatic history...' on YTube? Anything for a Buck. Try to find a college or university that includes actual course-work in 'Critical Thinking' anywhere on Earth. (Is it possible mankind is engineering a self-induced extinction event?)

@Riderules73 6 ай бұрын

The AI English voiceover of the German speakers is extremely irritating.

@LODOWICKMUGGLETON Жыл бұрын

Started quite well, but destroyed by having the characters speaking a colloquial familiar modern German, and invented by a non German who obviously does not understand either the modern of mediaeval meaning of Karl.

@harrybruijs2614 8 ай бұрын

It was originally a German video, that's why they are speaking German . For me the English translation is quite annoying . I have learned in school English, German and French. They should have posted it without subtitles and English narrator.

@s1nb4d59 Жыл бұрын

Stop with the ads shortly after the start,everyone knows what were watching guys and its helluva annoying.

@tarynolyvia Жыл бұрын

Why are you spamming negative comments on different docu-dramas? Why don’t you enjoy the free entertainment and try to learn something instead?

@s1nb4d59 Жыл бұрын

@@tarynolyvia Why use drama actors when theres so much real content out there to show instead?spamming those ads shortly after the doco actually starts i found to be at best an irritant,why dont they show that ad at the start or end of the programme,it just dosnt make any sense.

@jenh7004 Жыл бұрын

Pay for the ad free version. 🙄

@s1nb4d59 Жыл бұрын

@@jenh7004 I dont get ads,i was referring to the history hit plug just randomly thrown in sometime after the start,its done in very bad taste and either should be shown at the start or end of the video.

@thedukeofswellington1827 Жыл бұрын

@@s1nb4d59 your objecting to a channel recommending you to check out their channel? 🤣

@ravedad5893 4 ай бұрын

why dramaticse? just give me history lecturers talking about history. it's not hard! Goddamit I want to learn about the period but I cant trust this now. stop this! RIGHT NOW

@user-nb7sr1pe8o 5 ай бұрын

So when you will you get back with the gang

@herbertvonsauerkrautunterh2513 8 ай бұрын

I cringe every time I hear Charlemagne .. it's Karl as he was German

@pdruiz2005 10 ай бұрын

At 1:59:20. Well, that's a bit of a stretch--calling this out-of-the-way realm "THE superpower in Europe." We're forgetting the Umayyad Caliphate, which conquered the whole of the Iberian Peninsula in a short 50 years after 711 AD. That massive empire of 4.3 million square miles stretched from modern-day Portugal and Galicia in the west all the way to modern-day Pakistan and Afghanistan in the east. Its capital was glittering Damascus and then the even grander Baghdad, with 1 million inhabitants, the first city in the world since imperial Rome to have achieved such a size. THAT was the true superpower in Europe at the time, not a primitive kingdom in the remote northwest of the continent that fell apart as soon as Charlemagne died.

@harrybruijs2614 8 ай бұрын

In the time of Charlemagne the Ummayad Chaliphate didn't exist anymore and Spain didn't belong anymore to the Abbasite. So His empire was the superpower of Europe for a short time.

@IrishCinnsealach 8 ай бұрын

The umayyad caliphate never conquered the whole of iberia they ruled different parts at different times and never the northern kingdoms Strangel how they conquered it all yet the kingdoms of Castile aragon Leone asturias and navarre all formed from 722 onwards The true superpower in Europe That's hysterical The umayyad caliphate was defeated by pelagius in 722 and then again in the battle of tours which was the last time the arab caliphates ever tried to invade western Europe And you call the Carolingian empire a remote northwest of the continent And it fell apart after Charlemagne Are you for real It became the west francia empire and then the kingdom of france The umayyad caliphate fell apart in 750 It lasted for 90 years the Carolingian empire lasted for 120 years 01 Tell me when the caliphates ever conquered anywhere in western Europe They didn't Charlemagne captured Barcelona in 801 The only reason the umayyad caliphate even had success in iberia is because the visgoths were not there and were fighting in other regions

@BESTINTHEWORLD0007 7 ай бұрын

@@IrishCinnsealach The caliphate went deep into france and invaded gaul again after battle of poteirs Simply, they stopped because after it the abbaseid revoltion happend and the abbassids didn't control spain but stayed in umayyed controle and the arabs there alone without those in middle east and north africa couldn't invade the franks If someone stoped the invasion of western europe, it was the abbassid revolution Charlemagne himself couldn't invade iberia he tried and failed and his army was destroyed in ambush by the basques

@nicolethompson8613 5 ай бұрын

@@IrishCinnsealachthank you for refuting and correcting that patently ridiculous claim about the caliphate.

@riverlady982 11 ай бұрын

I'd never before heard about Charlemagne's multiple wives and his general duchebaggery behavior and attitude in these kinds of ways. He certainly seems like an awful husband and father and not exactly a great friend to anyone. Not to mention the fact that he seems like a terrible person to have married into your family. He just comes off as a very selfish person overall in this documentary.

@darlingstuff1560 3 ай бұрын

Why a dark haired actor when the manuscript showing him mourning his dead friend....clearly shows a blond??

@bodhranlowd Жыл бұрын

They spoke modern German? Might as well just use English in the reenactment.

@DNTodt Жыл бұрын

🙄🙄🙄 seriously dude?? Stop your complaining....

@harrybruijs2614 8 ай бұрын

No one speaks or understands old Frankisch anymore. But German and Dutch are the two languages that are closest to it. Besides it is a German video. When you are so purist then every video about English history should be in Old and middle English or/and Norman French.

@alexanderSydneyOz 5 ай бұрын

Personally, I find history conveyed with syrupy fake drama, stupid pompous music, and hollywood style video, quite cheesy. If you want to learn about history, watch some history. This is more akin to learning 'history' by watching a video game.

@iamshango3005 Жыл бұрын

America really does have an eagle eye

@kelvinwong8449 Жыл бұрын

Since the channel is in German, please change the title into German. Don't pretend to be in English please.

@ericaforsyth145 Жыл бұрын

It is english

@djollyrodjeur 6 ай бұрын

You have ONE name to put on your thumbnails... ONE!! And you can't even do that without fucking up the spelling

@wbytnwildbillyoutubenetwor3455 Жыл бұрын

the only one that can forgive anyone is god and that is what make priests and the church a lie

@lamchol7318 Жыл бұрын

too long. Parts in German are unnecessary. I stopped watching.

@doesthisfacemakemelooklike535 Жыл бұрын

@margritpiepes8242 3 ай бұрын

Very interesting j am a descendant of King Wernicke that lost the battle to Charlemagne and had to stop being a pagan ( kinda sucks)

@BruceDee Жыл бұрын

Need a producer 1 selling a VanDyke James 11 signature in pencil baby Stuart 3mill$

@SnakeBush 4 ай бұрын

terrible

@dr.barrycohn5461 Жыл бұрын

Why not make it in English. So they speak German and squeamish. Ww can understand it.

@harrybruijs2614 8 ай бұрын

Because the original is out of Germany. They should have broadcasted it without subtitles and English narrator it is very annoying if you can understand German and French. And you can always choose for the subtitles.

@mariamesser2418 Жыл бұрын

English please

@sydmccreath4554 Жыл бұрын

Read the ENGLISH subtitles

@iainrendle7989 Жыл бұрын

Or learn German.......as this was originally a German documentary, produced by a German company for a German TV company, operating and transmitting in Germany......but yes it should be in English, as everyone in the world speaks English!!!!!!!!

@mariamesser2418 Жыл бұрын

I apologize for my not knowing. I asked for English because of my dyslexia. It makes it difficult for me to follow subtitles my apologies.

@LKaufman9050 Жыл бұрын

@@mariamesser2418 Maria -- dubbing the show in English is reasonable. I don't have dyslexia, but I'm American and I don't read movies! I know -- this one is our loss. It looks like it would have been a good one.

@sebe2255 Жыл бұрын

@@iainrendle7989 If they are dubbing it to English anyway, they might as well dub the acted parts

@lemming9984 Жыл бұрын

Interesting subject, but God, I hate re-enactments. A straight documentary would have been much better. I gave it about 15 minutes.

@elleryeggen9678 Жыл бұрын

I agree. And I'm not buying the whole romance part(s) either.

@barryjive1104 Жыл бұрын

Absolutely. Reenactors should be seen but never heard. Full stop.

@lemming9984 Жыл бұрын

@@barryjive1104 ..or preferably not seen OR heard!!

@sebe2255 Жыл бұрын

Especially when they annoyingly speak German (which is inaccurate anyway) making it annoying to just listen to

@elleryeggen9678 Жыл бұрын

@Chief Sitting Feather (We'z fake Indigenous!!) not sure where you're coming from?

@Brian1Graves Жыл бұрын

What hilarity! Death, destruction, grief, pain, murder, rape all in the name of a god which doesn't exist. 🤣

@tbthomas5117 Жыл бұрын

I had to force myself to watch the whole thing. I would characterize this as the historical equivalent of fake-news, pure speculation, and ridiculous attempts at dramatizing supposedly authentic events, for which there is no evidence whatsoever. A complete waste of time. (Loved the fancy MRI 'analysis' of Charlegmagne's bones. What a crock!;)

@harrybruijs2614 8 ай бұрын

It is based on the Chronicle by Einhard. Besides that there are multiple Annales so all is very well documented, but off course out off the view of the Franks.

@busterbiloxi3833 Жыл бұрын

Constantinople is a Greek city!

@iainrendle7989 Жыл бұрын

No it isn't, it was not even really named originally as it was more or less a trading station for the Greek colony that was set up by Byzas (if the folklore is accurate), though the romans made it more of a commercial entity......it then became the Capital of the Eastern Roman Empire......named after Constantine when he made the relative small trading town into his Capital in 330CE......you know that famous Roman Emporer. The people of Byzantium termed themselves Roman, even though they popularised a variant of Greek after the fall of the Roman empire as the language of the hierarchy and administration.

@darkwitchofthenorth5785 Жыл бұрын

Though some Greek influence may have been present, Constantinople was first Roman, Byzantine, Latin and later under the Ottoman Empire.

@iainrendle7989 Жыл бұрын

@@darkwitchofthenorth5785 It was never Latin......whatever that is other than a Language!!!!! The Romans took over and adopted much of ancient greek philosophies, education, culture, idiologies as well as their colonies and territories, ie Asia Minor (which included the original town and surrounding lands that would become Constantinople), Egypt, the Levant etc.

@darkwitchofthenorth5785 Жыл бұрын

@@iainrendle7989 The Latin Empire, also referred to as the Latin Empire of Constantinople, was a feudal Crusader state founded by the leaders of the Fourth Crusade on lands captured from the Byzantine Empire. The Latin Empire was intended to replace the Byzantine Empire as the Western-recognized Roman Empire in the east, with a Catholic emperor enthroned in place of the Eastern Orthodox Roman emperors.

@darkwitchofthenorth5785 Жыл бұрын

@@iainrendle7989 not just a language… it meant Christianity.

@LilStoops Жыл бұрын

At least speak French if you are going to go the native speak non-subtitle angle.

@wirralnomad Жыл бұрын

The Franks were German so they spoke Germanic!

@scobra5941 Жыл бұрын

Seems a bit of a tosser this Charlemagne character.

@PPuffNstuff Жыл бұрын

It's either in English or it's not. Make up your mind.

@DNTodt Жыл бұрын

Oh no subtitles 😕 what shall ever you do?!?!🙄😂

@jimanders6750 Жыл бұрын

stop repeating previous episodes, you will get dislikes!

@iainrendle7989 Жыл бұрын

Or the viewer should realise that this is all the documentaries rolled together in to one and if they have watched the individual documentaries that have already been published it is probably not very wise to watch it in the longer format, but not sure if need to dislike!!!!!

@PeachysMom Жыл бұрын

No one cares about dislikes since they don’t count anymore. Calm down

@turtlegrams6582 Жыл бұрын

that damned bible isn't as old as the Torah, Nor The Apostle"s Writing's !

@turtlegrams6582 Жыл бұрын

GOD JESUS CHRIST DOESN'T have a mother ! That is BLASPHEMY to say such a thing !

@theConquerersMama Жыл бұрын

Just beamed onto the planet and raised himself, I guess. 🤷

@turtlegrams6582 Жыл бұрын

@@theConquerersMama , O how humans underestimate GOD JESUS CHRIST ! Mary would be horrified that humans think of her as being anything other than the girl who believed & loved GOD JESUS CHRIST and willing to trust HIM and be use as nothing More than a vessel to feed GOD JESUS CHRIST while HE grows to FULFILL EVERY PROPHECY' SCRIPTURE OF HIMSELF AND HIS COMPLETE WORD , HE Didn't even need/use her or her parents born into sin carnal flesh blood ! NO WHERE In HIS WORD has HE put any elevation in any way to Mary, it FACT, HE calls everyone HIS family ! Read HIS WORD'S for yourself - not let other's tell you what you should think . GOD JESUS CHRIST Give free conscience , free of traditions of man/men/humans who are All born into sin with a sinful nature ! Every single one of us, including every person in the roman catholic hierarchy system, Which is a Proven system of sodomites and pedophiles to which that system Still protects the perpetrators and Still won't release the victims files ! That sun-god sun-day and Crucifying GOD JESUS CHRIST every second of every day and Never taking HIM off the cross (my GOD JESUS CHRIST IS RISEN) are leading millions straight to hell=( vaporization ) on GOD JESUS CHRIST RETURN, SOON ! They 🇻🇦 system Will soon make a sun-god sun-day climate lie's lockdown for their pagan pathism worship . KJV Bible James 4:4 you adulterers and adulteresses, know you not that the friendship of the world is enmity with GOD? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world Is the enemy of GOD . KJV John 14:6 JESUS SAY unto him, I AM THE WAY, THE TRUTH, THE LIFE : No one comes to THE FATHER BUT BY ME . KJV Matthew 23:9 And call no man father upon the earth : for one is your FATHER, WHICH IS IN HEAVEN . KJV Revelation chapter's 13 & 17 ... Ephesians 6:12 Revelation 22:18,19 Revelation 18:4

@dmbdmb3828 7 ай бұрын

👑 ✏️ Description: “This is the story of the dramatic and violent life of the Middle Ages' most important emperor: Charlemagne. His life as a political strategist, a passionate lover, a man that conquered most of Europe, and a cultural visionary. Welcome to Chronicle; your home for all things medieval history! With documentaries covering everything from the collapse of the Roman Empire to the beginnings of the Renaissance, from Hastings to Charlemagne, we'll be exploring everything the Middle Ages have to offer.”

@dmbdmb3828 5 ай бұрын

⚜️ Crowned Dec 25, 800 AD

@dmbdmb3828 5 ай бұрын

⚜️ born 748 AD

@taniagarciaduenas48 Жыл бұрын

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