History nerds are crazy, always informing the speaker instead of asking questions xD

I find the transformation of the roman imperial titles absolutely fascinating. In the letters between the HRE and byzantines you can see the rulers struggle with the idea of what a 2nd emperor, and indeed two empires, might mean. It's a fascinating counterpoint to the chinese imperial system.

This really makes me feel like im back in class in university. except, in the comfort of my home, very nice. thanks guys!

So amazing! For me as a Franconian German living in Hamburg your lecture is so enlighting! Thanks so much!

How there isn't a bunch of movies about this guy is beyond me

This lectures are like gold

This guy knows his history, one of my favourite sites

I have always wanted a better understanding of this transition. That was very helpful. Many Thanks

I heard someone once refer to medieval Germany as a cartographer's nightmare.

First Centre Place lecture I ever watched. I’m watching it for the third time now. I love these

Couple of little mistakes here -Galicia in Poland/Ukraine doesn't derive its name from the Gauls or Celts but from the kingdom of Halicz which was one of the principalities ruled by the Kievan Rus -"Galicia" is the Latinized form of "Halicz" and the name "Wales" is not related to "Gaul" at all though the French form "Galles" may suggest it -it's actually from a Germanic word meaning "foreigner" and the same root is found in place names like Wallachia in Romania and Wallonia in Belgium -it's what the Germanic peoples called the romanized inhabitants of some of the areas they took over.

Great lecture! These questions should be held until the end though.

Woman gouges out her child’s eyes and he dies ‘He might have been a bad ruler. We wouldn’t want to judge her…’ Hardcore

As far as I know, the Galicia in Poland was a name imposed by the occupying Austrians, to negate the Polish or Ukrainian heritage of those lands.The name stuck though, we still use it. (Edit) Also the word for king in Slavic languages is derived from Carl, be it król, korol, Karol, chral etc. (second edit) I need to stop commenting before I finished watching.

I think it is much better to tell everyone to hold off questions until the end. They can write them down if worried they'll forget, as surely you will still be able to answer their questions at the end. All the interruptions really make it hard to stay on focus, even though you do a good job staying on topic. But it really gets frustrating with all the interruptions as most of us are focused on following your storyline.

Excellent - thank you!

Have to visit his shrine in Aachen, Germany

Despite efforts to extinguish Breton by such things as banning its use in schools, it has many native speakers still. Unfortunately the scope of vocabulary and numbers of native speakers for whom Breton is their first or primary language have diminished. While there is now some effort to provide bilingual education, the number of fluent speakers will soon drop below one hundred thousand. Other extant languages latinic languages, e.g. Occitan, have experienced somewhat of a resurgence, they too are disappearing as primary languages and therefore lexicons falling out of use, even though they enjoy the familiarity of adjacent languages, including French.

This is an excellent presentation that was informative and engaging. I just wish that there were fewer interruptions from the audience.

His personality reminds me of the Egyptian expert in the movie Stargate giving the lecture at the beginning of the movie.

"The Byzantine empire was clearly, despite its multinational dimension, a Greek empire while its neighbours considered it so, and whose unity was based on the power of authority, in the dominance of Orthodoxy and the use of Greek as the official language." Sylvain Gouguenheim, "La gloire des Grecs", 2017, pp. 73

Excellent presentation

I've watched over 10 hours of this guy and I don't know his name X__X Should write it somewhere in the title/description; you're a great speaker!

Nobody called Charlemagne's Empire "the Holy Roman Empire". It was simply the Frankish Empire, and Charlemagne bore the title "King of the Franks and of the Langobards". The name "Holy Roman Empire" did not appear before the second half of the twelfth century, more than 300 years after Charlemagne's death. Before that, there were just the West Franconian kingdom (regnum Francia occidentalis) and the East Franconian kingdom (regnum Francia orientalis).

The Celtic expansion into Spain happened in the Bronze Age along with Gaul and Britain. They then during the Roman Republic period expand eastwards into Turkey and down into Italy again. They did displace people but thousands of years prior.

The Frankish language Charlemagne spoke was not an ancestor of modern German, but more of the modern Dutch and Flemish languages. Modern German descended from the southern dialects in Germany (High German).

I've been Roman Catholic and I've been orthodox, the eastern church definitely has way more reference for Icons at this point.

This guy is Amazingly Smart!

Excellent presentation on Late Roman Early Medieval Times. Who is the professor and where is the lecture taking place?

Its a shame there are not more teachers of this standard

9:05 didn’t expect that... - Mormons and their fixation with genealogy- rofl

Good content

I like how Charles Vs scepter is 100 fold more expensive then the actual throne of Charlemagne in Aachen (it's made from wood and throne is not the appropriate discription)

This looks like an informative history lecture like Rome was an actual Holy Empire. What's up with the video/audio mismatch?

Is the word 'Wales' is related to 'Gauls'? I thought it came from the English 'weles', meaning foreigner or speaker of a foreign language.

He chose Aachen because he wanted it to make it easier for civilization 6 developers to create a holy Roman character and a Roman character.

With the collapse of the empire in the west, its eastern counterpart became, in reality, an entirely new and independent state, at once Greek by language and Roman in name: 'A Greek Roman empire'." Roderick Beaton, "The Greeks: a global history", New York: Basic books 2021, pp. 212

Took a ancestory test and apparently I’m directly related to him lol y’all better treat me with some respect

Frankfurt isnt in Franconia! It's in Hessen! Franconia ("Franken" in German) is in Bavaria.

Impossible to watch. There is like a 30 seconds mismatch between audio a video.

excellent

Everytime I watch these lectures, Google's algorithm assumes I'm either Christian or whack a job (read seriously Christian) .

My wife's uncle is Welsh. Back in the 1950s he was in the British army and spent some time in France. Once he and a few of his army buddies were riding on a train when this stunning French girl got aboard. All the guys took a run at her, but she shot them all down in flames. Finally, my wife's uncle took his shot, and somehow she realized he was Welsh. It turned out that she was a Brenton and apparently the people of Brittney had warm feeling for the Welsh as they were fellow Celts. She'd given the cold shoulder to all the British, but she was very happy to chat with a Welshman. So, he ended up having a very enjoyable train ride.

We were taught that central Europe, the Alps was the place where the Kelts came from, and that genetically the dark haired, short, stocky central European race is most related to them - hence the darker haired people of Wales and Western Ireland.

Gaelic and Celtic is a yeddish language forced onto the native of the UK .the natives originally spoke hebrew or aramaic before before the invasions.

The audience keeps derailing the lecture with their tangential questions.

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in Latvian we call him Kārlis Lielais, pretty much we took it from Germans, Karl the Great

I'm really confused as he's talking about protestant lands but it's still like 750 years before Martin luther.

I'm a Grandson from King Charlemagne also King Neill ( Oneill).

Couldn't finish this due to how rude theroom is. Let the man lecture! The constant interruptions ruined this.

Charlemagne wasn't the one who conquered Aquitaine, it was his father Pepin the Short! You can see it on the map!

So many interruptions...rude

For anyone that thinks that the Holy Roman Empire was just a big mess. Remember that it lasted for almost 1000 years

Dude busting out laughing reminds Beavis and Butt-Head for a teacher 😂

Dude laughs at very odd times. "Lots of people died." *snort laugh*

So was charlamagne crowned in 1753 AD?

"three centuries after the Roman Empire fell" hmmmm.... If that's true then why was there a state until 1453 that was the exact same one as... The Roman Empire?

Has there ever been a century without major war in the region of Germany?

He is my 34th grandfather

Was king Charlemagne a knights Templar cause some pictures show him wearing a Red Cross on his tunic and battling gear

Careful

I too descent from Charlemagne.

French was invented in a town close to paris The name is something like frence

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The grandfather of Europe the mighty Charles the Great!

Landgrave? Dont you mean “ graaf” which would be an “ earl”?

Charlemagne clearly spoke Franqish which was a West Germanic language and had no affiliation to Old French apart from being Indo-European. The German tribes would have understood him unlike the Gallo-Roman speaking subjects.

Aw. I wish we could see his presentation.... not the ppl he spoke to....

He wasn’t a barbarian the franks were already latinized by the battle of the catalaunian fields in the 5th century. I believe his mother spoke no Frankish

Does the Patriarch of Rome, the Bishop Leo have the authority to appoint someone to be Emperor?

Sad that he didn't call him Karl Der Große

The interruptions are unbearable. Rude and disrespectfu behaviour. They have forgotten the face of their fathers.

Charlemagne was from pepin rolo the viking In 400 you has also attila the hun

As far as I am aware, Britain was never part of the HRE?

CORRECTION: the decision to move away from Constantinople by the Pope was primarily based on the ongoing inability of Constantinople to send military aid since the Arab invasion had crippled them. The Franks gifted to the Papacy and protected them from the Lombards and in return the Pope bestowed holy legitimacy. Pope Leo who crowned Charlemagne was deeply unpopular and saved, owning his position to the Franks. The new arrangement granted the Papacy more influence and better protection so it was a done deal. The fact Irene was a women was more circumstantial and not the key driver and while she did depose her son, there’s no evidence to say he died before 800 (I can’t find the source on the “rumour” a healthy young man died from a regular form of mutilation, they mention he was blinded and imprisoned). Irene was certainly cited as an exploitable loophole for legitimacy but the fact Charlemagne would continue to chase Constantinople‘s endorsement as “Emperor” but never “of the Romans” demonstrates the imperial line was not broken as many modernly exaggerate was the key driver to the crowning.

there was no Charlemagne, his name was Karl/Carl (or latinized: Karolus/Carolus Magnus), 'Charles' itself is just a much later localized variation of Karl/Carl. Why is this important? Because ALL historical documents, architecture etc. and in ALL other languages than French (the English took the wrong name from their) refer to a Karl dynasty line, also later. One understand history much better if one deals with the real name which in difference to localized names like 'Tut ench amun' makes much more sense, since the real name is still common and so on ..

Charles the Great aka

7:02 also, surely he knows that Protestantism is a 16th century movement? this is an odd discussion here at 7:02. does the questioner mean Arianism vs Catholicism? he really should have corrected her.

the Mongols burned Hungary to the ground, but didn't stick around

Factoids from the crowd are not constructive to the presentation.

Second objection: The Franks did originally not come from the area around Frankfurt am Main, which, by the way, is not called "Franconia" (and never has been). Indeed, Frakfurt was founded by the Franks, and the Franks settled in South Hesse (Südhessen) but as colonists, appearing in this areea not before the late fifth/sixth centuries. There is an area called "Franken" which is sited upstream the Main river in northern Bavaria. The original places the Frankish tribes came from were the southern Netherlands, Flanders and northern Belgium (Salfranks), and the northern Rhineland (Rhine-Franks). The Romans called the land east of the Rhine river (opposite the city of Cologne) already in the fourth century "Francia".

5:02 Prussia was not a kingdom 1648.

The theory of celts expanding from central europe is another myth. Why would the evolved variations of celtic language be present on the epicenter of celtic expansion whereas on the latests places to suposedly arrive i.e Spain, the vestigial remnants of celt belong to the archaic forms of Celt?

Carolus Magnus was Holy Roman Emperor, the German spin on the Roman Empire. There was a Roman Emperor in New Rome the City of Constantine.

this title was meant for the Franks (Carolingian Dynasty) but the Germans seized a century later after the Carolingian collapse (I Reich, Holy Roman German Empire), setting the stage for the eventual WW1 a millennia later (II Reich)

Wasn’t it called “The Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation”?

8 million people?!? Jesus christ! 😆😆😆🙄

Dude was far from a barbarian. He fell victim to the french ladies

CORRECTION#2: “The Western Empire never fell in the eyes of the citizens.” I’m honestly puzzled at this concept. Even after being crowned, Charlemagne’s people called themselves Franks, perhaps part of a reborn Roman Empire but not Romans. It’s like the US President resurrecting the British Empire and the USA’s citizens retitling themselves as English, it’s sounds absurd. By 800 countless generations of new rulers and immigration had poured in, all of which wanting to leave their mark on history, and this gentleman himself stated the people in Rome felt alienated from the Lombards. The Western Empire was struggling to hold its Roman identity in its final decades and Justinian’s reconquest found Italy a place far removed from what they expected to find in such a short space of time. Only the top institutions operated as were before and the more comfortable the Goths got the more likely they were to take ownership, livestock and property.

Charlamagne the God probably got his name from this dude

Elephant feet.

It was Roman due to the structure of the empire. The pope chose the emperor of the holy Roman empire. It's a Roman catholic religious state kinda

He didnt write o read

He was a viking from normandy His family stole the merovingians

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Back then people were godless, they worshipped the same demon and killed each other in his name.

Iustinian was born in Macedonia, not Croatia

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