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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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@dorasmith7875 Жыл бұрын

This is the best thing on Charlemagne I have ever heard or seen. It's no surprise it's not got that many likes, because it doesn't portray Charlemagne as a hero, but instead as a capable, ambitious and brutal warlord. The man makes sense for the first time ever. This is also the first thing I've ever seen or read that gave actual reason to think a lot of people may descend from him - though I highly doubt that is all of us. One real problem, though, it never gets to the point where he mass slaughtered Saxons who wouldn't convert to Christianity. It cuts out suddenly before the ending, and there is no part 2. And don't think I'll be subscribing to your channel to see it! That'll get you lots of failures to like right there. I'm not convinced he didn't have a mood disorder that at times led to extremes of judgement and behavior, but bipolar disorder is so typical of success in some fields that is practically a symptom. Feudal warlord temperament is one of its code words.

@Andy_Babb Жыл бұрын

God I love this period of history

@garybobst9107 Жыл бұрын

Not if you had to Live in it...

@frankole121 Жыл бұрын

Haha exactly! Brutal times!

@pyrotechnick420 Жыл бұрын

The visual effects artists did a good job with the tree and the fire

@Dudeguy36 Жыл бұрын

“But those enemies of mine who did not want me to be king over them-bring them here and kill them in front of me.” Luke 19:27

@ToyotaTechnical Жыл бұрын

Christian equivalent of jihad. And you think you're the good guys.

@mangrizli8824 Жыл бұрын

It's a parable

@kafon6368 Жыл бұрын

If we keep seeing past history through modern eyes we'll end up crying about everything.

@solaris5922 Жыл бұрын

There is nothing wrong with acknowledging how horrible those people and their practices are. We are supposed to feel some way so we know we aren’t the same brutes.

@kafon6368 Жыл бұрын

@@solaris5922 That is the malignancy of revisionism. You applying modern morals on an Early Medieval person without experiencing the Early Medieval period yourself. That is wrong. Everything Charlemagne the Great did was justified given the context of the time.

@anaquezia5532 Жыл бұрын

@@kafon6368 just because there were justifications at the time that doesnt mean it was a good thing and it's not revisionism to see him through a less romanticized and more critical point of view.

@Carlosrastar123 Жыл бұрын

Straight up gangsta!

@jackiereynolds2888 Жыл бұрын

There will never be anything that instructs us all as to just who it is we all really are like history.

@aguynamednick Жыл бұрын

The sound effect at 30:02 is like something out of Monty Python 😂

@gina928 Жыл бұрын

Another brutal act in the name of religion. The Saxons had their own belief system and did not want to convert. Why should they be forced to? Remember history always repeats itself through the centuries. Charlemagne is not a valiant figure, he is a murderer.

@connorlindsay5194 Жыл бұрын

Lol pagans did the same shit , fuck ‘em.

@juliustrevor4781 Жыл бұрын

YOU SPEAK AS IF THE FOLLOWERS OF THE OLD GODS DIDNT WAGE WAR IN THE NAME OF THEIR GODS, CRY MORE YOU PAGAN LARPER!

@oriraykai3610 Жыл бұрын

They human sacrified people for fun, especially Christians. That's why...

@iraqwarveteran470 Жыл бұрын

Christianity was more than religion. It was a new social economic system. It was all about money and power. The Church was important for justifying rulers, and rulers needed churches just as much as the ancient Sumerians needed temples and priests. Same story, different color. The church owned and managed TONS of land. Bishops also raised armies for the kings in the middle ages. There's really so much to learn about it all, but keep up the quest for knowledge.

@robhowarth77 Жыл бұрын

8 minutes I have watched, of which 6 has been ads. Keep your channel.

@iraqwarveteran470 Жыл бұрын

get an add blocker, oh my god, seriously? what century are YOU living in, hahaahahah

@civilengineer3349 Жыл бұрын

Interesting fact, it was Frank warring on the saxons that pushed many to migrate from Saxony in Germany to England in lands like Wessex. When the Franks invaded Jutland, Anglia, and Denmark; those people too were driven to Britain where they settled. Later, the Norse of Norway and Sweden would seek new fertile lands to settle in and so would also migrate to Britain, Ireland, Iceland, the Baltic, the Rus, and Greenland. Eventually these migrations would focus on Northern France where the King of the Francia gave them and called Normandy.

@frekitheravenous516 Жыл бұрын

The Saxons, Angles, Jutes and Frisians left for England several centuries before charlemagne was born.

@civilengineer3349 Жыл бұрын

@@frekitheravenous516 The migration began earlier but it intensifed during Charlemagne's wars.

@Vladklx Жыл бұрын

@@civilengineer3349 nice try pagan😊

@sebe2255 Жыл бұрын

@@civilengineer3349 By the time Charlemagne was around it was almost time for Danish and Norwegian migrations. The Anglo-Saxons had already settled

@oriraykai3610 Жыл бұрын

No, because Viking raids on Britain started up after Charlemagne died. They were not warring on their fellow tribes but Brittanic tribes who were different, and many of whom were Christian.

@afghansoffthehook542 Жыл бұрын

Charlamagne's brutal massacre? As opposed to his gentle massacre?

@CasperScott-qq6ip 9 ай бұрын

Indeed there isn't exactly a nice polite way to massacre people

@josephtanner4594 Жыл бұрын

Butcher, Monster, & Plundering Land Pirate

@notoriousnono1328 Жыл бұрын

lmao he was the great leaders and the founder of the modern nation states of europe and he civilized your barbaric pagan saxon ancestors

@notoriousnono1328 Жыл бұрын

lmao he was the great leaders and the founder of the modern nation states of europe and he civilized your barbaric pagan saxon ancestors..

@Vladklx Жыл бұрын

Ha ha sys the same one who worship pagan vikings🤣

@iraqwarveteran470 Жыл бұрын

oh no! he was "great"! just like all the other great fuck heads. like andrew jackson, Bush, Obama, Caesar, Napoleon. the whole lot of them makes me sick.

@katherinecollins4685 Жыл бұрын

Interesting

@garybobst9107 Жыл бұрын

When politics and religion ride in the same cart, the storm will follow.

@lazy_lefty Жыл бұрын

Even today people still don't seem to understand this.... you can see this in American politics right now 🙄

@justadildeau Жыл бұрын

The religious cult of wokeism is married to politics. The storm is here

@billysunday7507 Жыл бұрын

Money is the motivating factor in America big dog.

@Benni777 Жыл бұрын

Ya damn right! 💯

@kafon6368 Жыл бұрын

Politics descend from religion. If you think about it, truly think about it, you'll understand.

@matthewjason5330 Жыл бұрын

Damn it

@hermanubis7046 Жыл бұрын

Nice documentary, but it's a pity they speak modern standard German, which didn't exist until more than 800 years later. They spoke Franconian, very likely Moselle Franconian, which is still spoken today in the east of the Moselle département in France, the Saarland and Rheinland-Pfalz Länder in Germany and in Luxembourg.

@sebe2255 Жыл бұрын

Charlemagne himself would probably have spoken something closer to Limburger and Aachener dialects. The Karlings had their powerbase around the Maastricht-Liege-Aachen region. Additionally, there wouldn’t really have been a single Frankish regional dialect. More so a continuum.

@DenDodde 5 ай бұрын

So you are not bothered by the fact that as soon as anyone steps outside their face gets covered in shit?

@starkilr101 Жыл бұрын

Seen

@AnthonyEvelyn Жыл бұрын

"No more brother wars" a stupid joke if ever there was one. Franks and Saxons two large Teutonic tribes along the Rhine and Weser, even though they both shared so much in common they never really liked each other. Things only got worse as the Franks became Roman Catholic and defenders of that faith, no longer adherents of the old gods. By the time of the Saxon Wars, the Franks viewed the pagan Saxons not as 'bruders' but backward heathen raiders.

@oriraykai3610 Жыл бұрын

That's because the Franks were Jews, not European pagans. All you Europeans are descended from Jews now.. HA Ha...

@raymondlong1848 Жыл бұрын

The real truth is always in-between depends who is telling the story.

@ToyotaTechnical Жыл бұрын

Christian fanatics vs everybody else

@robertrobinson-9161 Жыл бұрын

Charlemagne was a nut case 🤪

@lionsandtigersstore8814 Жыл бұрын

Hi Chronicle, just some feedback , I missed great swathes of the "Charlemagne’s Brutal Massacre Of 4,500 Saxons" because I could listen only, and the story began to be told by the actors in German and French (I think) -first in was the shower and then I was driving. You may want to adjust your further videos to dub voice over in the foreign speaking parts to reach more of an audience/ Thanks David.

@cdes68 Жыл бұрын

Gonna happen, blokes.

@christysamuel8725 Жыл бұрын

Based!

@rosehalfmann574 Жыл бұрын

Let the truth be known…

@mickvonbornemann3824 Жыл бұрын

I don’t think Franks then fought on horseback then & stirrups may not even had been fully established amongst the Franks then (like Saxons, Anglo-Saxons & Scandinavians). Although they definitly were by then used by the Byzantines, the Avars & the Lombards. Thats why after the Lombards were conquered the Lombards became his main cavalry arm. I think before then horses were mainly transport, like dragoons or mounted infantry.

@AnthonyEvelyn Жыл бұрын

By that time they actually did fight on horseback. Frankish heavy cavalry was a much feared arm of the Frankish army. They learned a lot from the Alans who had settled in Northern France.

@oriraykai3610 Жыл бұрын

Wrong. Stirrups were a Scythian invention from thousands of years before.

@mickvonbornemann3824 Жыл бұрын

@@oriraykai3610 Don't know where you got that from, but there's no evidence stirrups existed anywhere before the CE. BTW Scythian tapestries exist today found in Kurgan burials from the late bronze age to about 300BC, that picture a man on a horse (assumed being judged by man seated in front), none of which are using stirrups. Of course horse bits & reigns existed in the bronze age. I suggest you do some research on the history of stirrups (there's plenty of academic research you can find on google) & come back. You'll find you're wrong.

@anynomoustrooper550 Жыл бұрын

That is the way the Roman armies rolled. Before the Roman armies became Christians, Roman soldiers set an entire village of Christians on fire because they refused to renounce their Christian faith.

@wewenang5167 Жыл бұрын

yeah but the roman later converted to christianity but charlemagne did not convert to paganism xD.

@Anne-pv9cb Жыл бұрын

@@wewenang5167 and it destroyed them like it destroys everything.

@colleenshermer2017 Жыл бұрын

After the death and resurrection of Jesus, Christianity first emerged as a sect of Judaism as practiced in the Roman province of Judea. The first Christians were all Jews, who constituted a Second Temple Jewish sect with an apocalyptic eschatology.

@anynomoustrooper550 Жыл бұрын

@@Anne-pv9cb What is "it"? The Romans were putting lead balls in their wine for flavor. Many went crazy. Please add some context if you are going to reply.

@CasperScott-qq6ip 9 ай бұрын

No context.

@noahtylerpritchett2682 Жыл бұрын

I wish Charlemagne deported the Saxons to Britain instead of genociding them. We could of used more Saxon dna

@sebe2255 Жыл бұрын

4500 isn’t that much

@noahtylerpritchett2682 Жыл бұрын

@@sebe2255 better than 0

@oriraykai3610 Жыл бұрын

Go to Russia. Nothing but there...

@maleexile9053 Жыл бұрын

He did to women and children at least

@ThursonJames Жыл бұрын

Why is the pre-French killer of so many thousands of pre-Germans speaking German in this depiction?

@mikewendland4982 Жыл бұрын

Because he was Karl Der Grosse!

@roytofilovski9530 Жыл бұрын

The Franks were also a Germanic people.

@2adamast Жыл бұрын

He moved from Herstal to Aachen making him a first generation German migrant

@ThursonJames Жыл бұрын

@@roytofilovski9530 maybe you have information that I don’t have, but I think you’re wrong for the following reasons: 1) The current way to say “France” in the German language is “Frankreich” - the Kingdom of the Franks 2) French is a Romance language (as in from Rome) which is from Late Vulgar Latin. 3) Gaul is pre Frankish and that was Celtic. What do you have that I’m missing?

@ThursonJames Жыл бұрын

@@2adamast fair enough.

@nzobriens Жыл бұрын

Christianity is man's first attempt at Science Fiction.

@paulos9900 Жыл бұрын

Certainly not the 1st. Plenty of gods and prophets with their associated stories before Christianity. In fact the old Testament of the bible pre dates Christ....

@BobSmith-ke4jg Жыл бұрын

WTF is the point of the damn actors speaking French ,German or whatever? English is the universal language. We're looking at a damn reinactment so no point in them speaking a language that only one insignificant country speaks.

@sebe2255 Жыл бұрын

Especially when it is not even the way they would have actually spoken. Modern German and French make about as much sense as English

@iraqwarveteran470 Жыл бұрын

one of the main reasons, genius boy, is that it was filmed in Germany by germans. you think americans are the only assholes who make documentaries?

@BobSmith-ke4jg Жыл бұрын

@@sebe2255 Good point.

@BobSmith-ke4jg Жыл бұрын

@@iraqwarveteran470 Just the good ones, Capt. Obvious, and danke für Ihre dienstleistung.

@iraqwarveteran470 Жыл бұрын

@@BobSmith-ke4jg du bist eine lustiger. danke dir auch!

@Son-of-Tyr Жыл бұрын

Charlemagne was the furthest thing from a true Christian. I mean, the first commandment is 'Thou shall not Kill'. He beheaded 4,500 Germanic Pagans at Verden and destroyed one of their most sacred religious sites. He was a piece of sh*t. And to the people who think that the beginning of mass Viking raids almost immediately after had nothing to do with it, you're either blind or crazy. Even if the Viking invasions weren't out out of revenge(which they probably were) then it was because the Danes knew they'd be next. So Gudfred was an extremely insightful and practical king. He could see the forest for the trees. So he attacked...

@sebe2255 Жыл бұрын

Bruh, it was the 9th century. Every king kill people in brutal ways.

@oriraykai3610 Жыл бұрын

Your theory doesn't explain the mass number of beheadings, tortures, murders, and human sacrifice perpetrated by Saxons on EVERYONE ELSE for centuries before Charlemagne came along. Funny how you pagans always seem to overlook that "little detail"...

@Son-of-Tyr Жыл бұрын

@@oriraykai3610 So you're saying Christians didn't do any of that? The Verden massacre was just payback for all the terrible things the big, bad Saxons did to the tiny, powerless Carolingian empire?

@benjaminbauer2947 Жыл бұрын

Wow! A witch.

@VikingMuayThai Жыл бұрын

Tell a Christian about this event, and how their religion of brotherly love was spread by the sword. They cant reconcile it in their minds and shut down completely.

@manueldumont3709 Жыл бұрын

Let's face it, THE(os)-RaMoon CATH(SETH)olic chURch, Never abided by jeZEUS'(Turn the other cheek)-DOGma, from the outSET(No empire can Afford, to Look-Weak) . 😇

@marthaperdew Жыл бұрын

Exactly

@mrd5963 Жыл бұрын

I'm catholic and I agree 😁 cross or the sword

@peggybrem2848 Жыл бұрын

Christianity is plagued with awful truths.

@kencoburn6263 Жыл бұрын

Get over yourself.

@karanmonza7534 Жыл бұрын

⏰⏳⌚📺

@leenyok85 6 ай бұрын

11,000 dead in gaza. what do you call that?

@Fritz999 Жыл бұрын

Why call him Charlemagne? His name was Karl, nothing else.

@sebe2255 Жыл бұрын

It was actually Sjarel

@iraqwarveteran470 Жыл бұрын

i think that was frenchified. the germans today call him Karl der Grosse, or Karl the Great.

@colleenshermer2017 Жыл бұрын

The Saxons were the tribe of dan, the northern kingdom, fighting the southern kingdom, Judah, Christianity

@Sean-jc6cu Жыл бұрын

😂 no, just no

@oriraykai3610 Жыл бұрын

Wrong. The Franks were though.

@wewenang5167 Жыл бұрын

wait charlemagne speak german? I thought he was French?

@noahtylerpritchett2682 Жыл бұрын

Franks came from Germany. They adopted Latin languages only after the 900s. The 700s he spoke Frankish. A Germanic tongue.

@tibsky1396 Жыл бұрын

Anyway, there was neither French nor German as we understand it today. But he was a Salian Frank, like the "French" Nobles later, even when they began to speak in vulgar Latin. That is to say Romanized Germanic. Charlemagne still spoke an Old Frankish language (quite close to Old Dutch) as a vernacular, but strongly emphasized Latin as an administrative language, with the addition of the presence of the Gallo-Roman population, this gave birth to the French language, and to Occitan language in the south by the way, in the middle of the 8th century (Oath of Strasbourg).

@sebe2255 Жыл бұрын

@@noahtylerpritchett2682 Most of thr Franks didn’t adopt a latin language and still speak Frankish today

@noahtylerpritchett2682 Жыл бұрын

@@sebe2255 the Ripuri

@sebe2255 Жыл бұрын

@@noahtylerpritchett2682 Yes them in Germany, sadly the German dialects are dying. Dutch is also Frankish (more Salien), and is the official language of a few countries. And the Netherlands still has more people speaking local Frankish dialects.

@estatesales9818 11 ай бұрын

26:53 WTF I hate Anglo docu-series. The BBC classics were so amazing compared to this trash.

@benitomontemayor873 Жыл бұрын

My family: Visigoths, Burgundian, Spanish Conquistadors, Native American Floridian Seminole. Hunter gatherers, slave keepers, slaves themselves like me. (Currently own a 2005 Corolla that’s for the Green commercial.)

@pentegarn1 Жыл бұрын

That's how our Saxon family ended up being converted....by force. It's only embraced its pagan roots again since the 1980s. Never again!

@Vladklx Жыл бұрын

Cope😂

@sebe2255 Жыл бұрын

The pagan roots it didn’t have from 900 till 2000, casually disregarding 1100 years of more direct ancestors lol

@heathenhammer2344 10 ай бұрын

@@Vladklxcope with failing Christianity.

@clarenceorozco5300 Ай бұрын

Paganism is a pretty dumb thing that still exist in the modern world (I'm not seeing this through a christian perspective btw)@@heathenhammer2344

@mistaman4638 Жыл бұрын

Well God wanted them to die, It was Gods will... So that that. !! Isnt religion fun !!!

@kafon6368 Жыл бұрын

Pretty amusing tbh

@jefferyeis9287 Жыл бұрын

Since Charlemagne was my 39th G Grandfather I must admit some level of prejudice, however, I am quite sure he had a perfectly good reason for doing all the things he did. It's easy to play Monday Morning Quarterback and judge after the fact, but I seriously doubt anyone from modern times would be able to go back and do a better job (if time travel were possible). If he had not been such a great leader, his name would have been lost in history, known only to scholars. The truly sad thing is, such greatness is no longer possible in today's world.

@travisinthetrunk Жыл бұрын

There’s never a “perfectly good reason” to slaughter 4,500 people.

@nizamzakaria Жыл бұрын

Stop justifying evil. What’s next in your logic, justifying Hitler. White folks like you are incorrigible aren’t you? Shameless.

@shannonradford4057 Жыл бұрын

Hello cousin he was my 35th grandfather, as you know we connect to most ancient kingdoms through him. I sure enjoy genealogy and finding these amazing historical lines in family research makes history all the more amazing.

@Vladklx Жыл бұрын

@@travisinthetrunk But he bring civilization to these illiterate tribals..

@MixerRenegade95 Жыл бұрын

@@Vladklx Hwaet is mid du?

@davidraley3239 Жыл бұрын

Do you understand how many people listen ONLY.? Yet you include non English content? Disliked

@Metacomet7 Жыл бұрын

Subtitles, blech. If I wanted to read I wouldn't be on KZfaq.

@aldeuce9106 Жыл бұрын

I don't mind sub-titles but seriously. Modern German?

@2adamast Жыл бұрын

Meanwhile I am here reading your comment

@a.a.stines829 Жыл бұрын

@@aldeuce9106 Modern German because this is a German-made film. If you speak German the original film is called Karl der Große and has three parts.

@sebe2255 Жыл бұрын

@@michaelmurdock4607 They’d speak Frankish, modern Dutch or some German dialects. Latin would also be used for church and official matters. Though even here Frankish and later High German and old French were used (depending on the kingdom).