Hi. Shout-out? It'd be cool

Spaniards can be quite sarcastic/funny when they are giving titles to their monarcs E.G. "the handsome", "Joseph bottle", "the impotent"

"Mommy says it's a strong chin for a strong boy!". - Emperor Karl V

“Anglo-supervillain Philip II” is how I’m going to refer to Philip II from now on

The fun thing about our worst ruler Fernando VII is that he was titled "The Beloved" cause in our war of independence (Peninsula war), everybody from the political spectrum except the french loyalists fought so he could come back to Spain just to fuck up the country in hundreds of ways

>philip II defaulted on his debts 5 times absolute sigma male grindset

As a spanish i can tell you that Charles II wasn't as bad as is told, he made great reforms and tbh the empire was in bankrupt so he couldn't do that much, he tried at least, Felipe IV was defenetly worse than him. And Felipe III was a great monarch, I think you were wrong there, he made the Pax Hispanica and stopped spending money in wars.

Eventually he will do all of Europe lol

You can tell he had that conversation about Ferdinand VII being the worst with a spaniard. While most international people know about the memes of the bewitched kingz, spaniards know reality is even darker. And its not even for America or Napoleon, which adds, but all the constitutional issues and coups that came after. Really good job.

"They completed the Reconquista, established the Spanish inquisition, founded Christopher Columbus voyage and stablished Spain as a major European power." Jesus Christ, these guys truly deserve to be top 1, what a Chad and Chadette lol

Charles III is one of the most underrated kings in history imo. Ferdinand and Isabella, yeah easy choice there. Charles V at least got to live out his final years in peace.

Apart from rope, "cuerda" means mentally sane in spanish. So, in this case, Juana's mother was refered as "la cuerda" in oposition of Juana (Joanna) being "la loca" (mad).

Fun fact: Charles I/V famous phrase which will become Spanish motto “Plus Ultra” or “Further Beyond.” You also may noticed this phrase from the famous shounen genre of anime called My Hero Academia.

*Pain and Sadness for Spain* 1665-1931 0:37 Ferdinand VII - The Lost Empire 1:25 Charles II - The Ill, The Disabled, The Depressed 2:19 Charles IV - Replaced by Napoleon 2:42 Alfonso XIII - The Unpopular Peace Prize 3:02 Isabella II - The Chaotic Domestic *Strange Circumstances* 1504-1555, 1870-1873 3:24 Philip I - The Duke of Burgundy, The One Who Dropped Dead 3:54 Johanna I - The Mother of The Son Ruler, Rope Punishment 5:07 Amadeo I - The Coronation & The Abdication, Unstable Politics 5:53 Joseph I Bonaparte - Brother of Napoleon, The Despised *Insignificant* 1598-1621 7:04 Philip III - The Regular King 7:57 Phillip IV - The Fractured Land King, *Ok* 9:25 Alfonso XII - The Short Reign, The Economic Recovery 9:51 Ferdinand VI - Commerce King, War of Austrian Succession, Wife Died and Lost His Mind 10:36 Philip V, The Bourbon - The French King of Spain, Recovered Economy *The Best* 1474-1516, 1556-1598, 1759-1788 11:26 Charles I - Charles V Holy Roman Emperor, Too Overstretched, The Exhausted, The Expander 12:59 Philip II - The Conqueror, Defender of Catholic Europe, Silver Bullion Inflation, Debt, The Spanish Armada Catastrophe 14:03 Charles III - The Well Prepared, The Experienced, The Modernizer, The Spanish Nation Maker 15:11 The Catholic Monarchs, The Founding Marriage, Ferdinand I and Isabella II - Equal Partners, Global Empire Builders w/Christopher Columbus, 16:03 Capable, Imprinted Into Spanish Historical-Culture

As a Spanish, I agree with your list, although I would say that Charles III is not really known despite his prosperous reign. And even though the reign of Philip IV was a time of decline, the arts in the country continued to prosper a lot and it is known as the "Golden Century" in Spain, with such figures as Velázquez, Quevedo or Zurbarán.

A note of Joanna I's mother being called "La Cuerda", It doesn't mean "The rope", it means "The Sane" which plays into her being the one capable and her daughter being the mad one

I feel like Ferdinand II deserved his own ranking apart from his status as one of the Catholic Monarchs, due to reigning as King of Aragon in his own right and effectively controlling Castile for 12 years following his wife's death. It was *him* and not Philip the Handsome who had declared Joana insane, and it was *him* who governed Castile in her name for nearly the entire time between Isabella's death and his own. Philip's time as king lasted for less than a year, and Charles only took over following Ferdinand's death.

Thanks for recognizing that Charles the II. deserves pity, not mockery. Poor guy.

Funny enough, Charles II was not actually that terrible of a King. He was mentally sound enough to leave multiple wills and partake in the running of government… and Spain fought essentially no wars during his reign, the country didn’t descend into anarchy. By Spanish standards that seems pretty good

Wow, you really got the worst king right, I was fearing you would put poor Charles II as the worst, but Ferdinand VII was incredibly damaging. The son of a bitch got us a 40 years delay in history.

Isabel I on her own is a complete absolute bamf and Ferdinand recognized his wife was a bamf and was a military and political beast. He even managed Spain for Juana while Charles was still underage and raised Ferdinand I HRE. I love their motto "Tanto Monta" Because there they recognize the equal power of each other and their kingdoms. You should see TVE's Isabel. They show all the battles, maneuvers and political savvy of Isabel and Ferdinand, there is a movie about Juana and there is also a sequel series about Charles which details all the conflicts and political intrigue in their lives as well. One of the best historical series I have ever seen a lot of the scenes and seem like out of the pages of history and paintings while using actual historical spots. One of the scenes I was shaken by the most is the one where Juana is crying over Philip which looks just like the painting. Just a fan.

I can feel it... French Kings. Ottoman Sultans and Russian Czars waiting anxiously for their turn. Suleyman the Magnificent and Catherine the Great delving into Readers Digest while Louis XIV trying his best to out on his high heels before the big moment...

As a fun fact about Carlos IV you can see in the painting portaying him and the Royal family he is not centered, the center of the painting is completly empty and the colsest person to the center is not even him, but the queen. Is just *chef kiss*

In Flanders, we get thaught that Charles V is one of the greatest people to have ever lived en Phillips II to be an absolute devil. Of course, this video is about Spain.

Never clicked on a video faster, do French kings next

Gracias hermano por traer este top un saludo desde España

Puts Ferdinand VII as the worst one, i press like. All my homies hate Ferdinand VII

I didn't know Philip IV was called "the great", i've always thought of him as an incompetent ruler who accelerated the decline of the Spanish Empire. He left the matters of state to his corrupt nobles, provocated revolts everywhere, lost two major wars, lost Portugal and the Netherlands (and even Catalonia for some time) i'd have rank him 17th.

"I'm tired" - Charles V

1:31 "every moment of my life is Spain" that's devotion to the nation!

Amadeo I: The Spanish people are ungovernable Spectrum: The Spanish are ungovernable Me (Someone how is Spanish): Yeah, I think your right

To be fair about Phillip II's failure in "La Armada invencible" weather was responsible, but he also repelled the british in the "counter Armada". Even if I'm from Spain, I'm kinda sad I forget sometimes some of the Bourbon kings lol Also, if anyone wants to visit Spain, you will be welcomed everywhere! If you like history I recommend Toledo, Granada or Madrid (just a few examples)

Really nice list, but in my 30 years as a spaniard who happens to be a fan of history never have I heard "Philip IV the great", nobody calls him that (and with good reasons XD). You really hit the nail on the head with Ferdinand VII though.

4:30 "la cuerda" in this contexts means actually "the sane". Estar "cuerdo/a" means "To be sane" Juana was called "Juana la Loca" "Joanne the Crazy/Mad" so in contrast her mother was called "la cuerda" "the sane", not "the rope" ;)

Important data about Amadeo He asked to meet Cervantes at his castle. Cervantes was dead...like more than 100 years ago. He was quite dumb. One history teacher said once "He returned to his island to have kids, which was what he was good at" Edit: Alfonso XII is also famous because his first wife Mercedes - which he apparently loved, although some sources differ - died very young. He became extremely sad and there was a song that said this. "Donde vas Alfonso XII, donde vas, triste de ti Voy en busca de Mercedes, que hace tiempo no la vi Ya Mercedes, Ya Mercedes, muerta está, que yo la vi Cuatro nobles la llevaban por las calles de Madrid" Which basically said "Where are you going Alfonso XII, where are you going sad of you/sad man I'm going to search for Mercedes, as there has been a lot of time since I saw her She is already dead, Mercedes is already dead, I saw her Four noblemen moved her around Madrid streets" Yep, depressing, I even read once that kids sing this horrible song on the streets...but I hope it's just a rumour Edit 2: Fernando VII had a gigantic d****. No, I'm not joking, he had gigantism in that specific area and he had to have sex with a...cushion that look like a doughnut to not hurt their wives. Edit 3: Also, Philip V had some serious mental issues and he was also addicted to sex. He even had sex with her wife only two days before her death, when she was also dead.

If it wasn't for the unified requirement, I'd bet Alfonso X of Castille would dominate this list.

Im Spanish and I never heard someone calling Filipe iv "the great" indeed we r taught that it's reign was only good in a cultural perspective

Can you do the same for Bulgarian kings. I know its not as mainstream as ranking English or French kings, but it would be very very interesting, as the Bulgarian empira has had many dramatic moments.

Oh boy this one is going to be a banger I can feel it.

Other queens: i wAS a WoMAn iN A mAnS WoRLd sO HaRd Isabella of Castile: I inherited a literal bankrupt, crime-ridden, second-rate kingdom that was being invaded by Portugal while also going through a succession civil war Other queens: We made reforms!! We are so important!! Isabella of Castile: I fused my kingdom with Aragon, Granada and Naples, fought the medieval superpower France to a standstill, triggered colonialism, I signed the most famous and remembered treaty from high school (Treaty of Tordesillas), the queen in chess becomes the most powerful piece because of me, established the first global currency in the piece-of-eight that becomes the literal basis of modern US dollars and Chinese yuan, and also you want some chocolate? tobacco? popcorn? Columbian Exchange y’all, or maybe you want to hear the joke that nobody expects haha just give me thirty years with my husband who i love and respect

Another amazing video as always. Love watching this channel grow

Philip II gets bonus points for being one of, if not THE, best role for a bass in operatic history

*la cuerda * means something like *the mentally healthy *, juana was known as *la loca * literally the opposite Yes, the same word but you need a little context to translate it

Philip II on 3rd without mentioning the loss of the Northern Lowlands and the faillures of the Eighty Years’ War. Losing some of the richest parts of your empire is quite a faillure by itself. Losing those and gaining an extra rivalry, now that is much worse.

Isabella II near the bottom of the list really warms my Carlist heart.

so, you can say that Charles II's life is Spain without the S.

My personal favourites for each dinasty are Carlos II and Carlos III as both modernized the country and recovered it economically. Also, both were described to be kind, warm-hearted and empathic.

You know Spain had some good monarch when napoleon's puppet hits top 10

I said I was never gonna timeline the Western or Eastern Roman Emperors? Well, nobody said anything about Spanish monarchs. So... Ferdinand II and Isabella I 15:08 Joanna I 3:54 Phillip I 3:24 Charles I 11:27 Phillip II 13:00 Phillip III 7:05 Phillip IV 7:57 Charles II 1:26 Phillip V 10:36 Louis 3:18 Ferdinand VII 9:52 Charles III 14:04 Charles IV 2:20 Ferdinand VII 0:39 Joseph 5:53 Isabella II 3:03 Amadeo I 5:07 Alfonso XII 9:26 Alfonso XIII 2:44

You should rank the kings of France!

I agree heavily on Charles I and Phillip II not being #1 and #2 respectively because even though they were probably the best ever happened to all of their realms all at once, I agree Charles III and Ferdinand and Isabella even though weren't as great of monarchs as Charles I and Phillip II, they were better to Spain alone. Hats off to that unbiased ranking, were it be ranking them as monarchs instead of spanish monarchs, the top 4 would have been different

Wouldn't mind seeing a list of monarchs before the unification of Spain all the way back to the kingdom of Asturias

Please do all Armenian kings ranked from Urartu to Cilician Armenia

as a neapolitan charles III ( In Naples is Carlo VII or VIII ) we love charles , it would be interessing to do a list of the kings of naples and two sicilies as had a vast spectrum between bad and good rulers

Enjoying these videos. Cant wait for more of these!

Good tier. More o less the first ones are the same people that I had in mind, maybe, for me, Charles I can have a better position, because between Chales and Phlip, Charles did the things a bit better. Anyway, great monarhs both of them.

I came for your Rome stuff, but these are fun as well I must say. An easy video for the future could be Mexican Emperors, since IIRC there were only 2 of them 😉

That is brilliant! If you could do this for the kings of France my life would be complete

Nice video! I've got an idea for a video: Top Castillian Kings (Hope to see Alfonso The Wise on top)

I would place Alfonso XIII higher on the list because he is thought to be one of the first investor and promoter of erotic movies in Spain, and though it isn't that much, It is way more than most of the Spanish monarchs have done throughout our history. Jokes aside, I have just watched two of your videos and I think they are arresting given how fun and thorough they are. Nice job!

I don’t comment much but I really enjoy your way of presentation. Great video

"The inbreed guy" was actually a good king, or at least he was surrounded with competent people

Great video by the way, do Scottish kings next please!

Ranking rulers of England, Russia, France, Ottoman and Sassanid would all be top tier vids.

A funny fact about Amadeo: people used to make fun of him constantly in his face because of his accent

15:08 the catholic monarchs 3:53 Juana I 3:24 Felipe I 11:25 Carlos I 13:00 Felipe II 7:04 Felipe III 7:56 Felipe IV 1:25 Carlos II 10:35 Felipe V 3:17 Luis I 9:50 Fernando VI 14:04 Carlos III 2:19 Carlos IV 5:51 Jose I 0:38 Fernando VII 3:02 Isabel II 5:06 Amadeo I 9:25 Alfonso XII 2:43 Alfonso XIII

Could you rank Polish monarchs at some point? Some of them are less known than their French or Prussian counterparts so you could shed more light on them!

So glad I found this Channel. I’m always looking for these educational entertaining videos

It's such a shame that Philip IV's eldest legitimate son Balthazar Charles died when he was 16, especially coming two years after his mother's death. That seems to have had a huge impact on Philip's ability to be King, as he was naturally devastated.

1:11 He was also generally a terrible person. In 1818 his second wive, Maria Isabel of Braganza was going into labor and she stopped breathing before she could deliver. Her sister and many others saw the signs that the Queen was still alive, but Ferdinand told them to cut her open and get the baby inside out of her. She let out a scream during the surgery and died for real.

Very interesting! I'm trying to learn a bit about non-British royalty, & it was particularly interesting to hear what Spanish people think of their monarchs & their history.

Do a ranking of every single monarch of the three major pre-islamic iranian powers (Achaemenid, Parthian, Sassanid empires)

I feel like many of the Spanish Monarchs' lives could be made into melodramatic telenovelas, and you wouldn't even know that those are real lives led by real people.

“Who is the worst Spanish monarch?” Spectrum: The inbred guy! Spaniards: ARE YOU AWARE HOW LITTLE THAT NARROWS IT DOWN!

I am from Spain, well done. Nevertheless I would put Charles II higher, he was a good monarch. The economic increased and he was loved by people.

I want him to cover the French kings, he's already went over the ones in my country (England). I disagree with some of his placements on the video with the King's and Queens of my country however its his opinion and I respect that, thank you for the videos too mate they are really good buddy 👍👏😀

English monarchs next? The only country other than rome where I know a significant portion of the ruling monarchs lol. But fr im fine with anything u make. Shits fire

Awesome, suggestion for next video on French monarchs?

U should rank the Plantagenets

One of the main reasons the king that couldn't put 2 and 2 together was better than the one who lost colonies and left a civil war was because the first one KNEW his debilities and who to trust the things he couldn't do to. He was actually a "good" king if you think about it

cool video I would really love to see one about Poland monarchs

Idea: do the Holy Roman Emperors or just the Habsburg rulers of Austria next

I am a Basque histoy student and I have to say that it is a really good ranking. The biggest mistake for me it's to have put Joanna I, but as you have remarked that she did not have any effective power it is not a big issue. Perhaps, from a Spanish perspective it is difficult to place Phillip IV so high as during its reign the Hispanic Monarchy officially lost its European hegemony in favor of France because of the Peace of Wesphalia.

You should do more ranking of monarchs around the world

The fact that it took so long to get to the chaos that was Isabella II says a lot. I wholeheartedly agree, though.

Can't wait to see what nation he does next!

In keeping with this video method, you should rank the Napoleonic Marshals, many were badasses in their own right but largely overshadowed by casual historians

A video on the royal dynasties of the Aztecs, Incas and Mayans would be nice.

I would suggest trying to do videos on the separate kingdoms before they United into Spain... but that may be a little difficult seeing as how some of the kings, there's very little records of... they call it the dark ages for a reason...

The painting of little charles must be the most scary thing I have ever seen.

Philip II Was a Supervillain In Portuguese History.

grate video. can you do one about swedens kings next

The story about Joanna being tortured by her mother is an English mistranslation of a letter from Cardinal Cisneros. Cardinal Cisneros wrote 'dar cuerda' which in Spanish means 'to wound up' for talking. The culprit of this mistranslation was Bergenroth. Spanish scholars that read the original document argue that he is wrong.

Nice list of the best Spanish Kings, The Spanish and British monarchies still exist today, the Portuguese monarchy no longer exists. Nice to learn after the unification of Spain it still felt that Spain was divided into kingdoms. There is an ancient Peruvian painting that shows the Inca kings and the Spanish kings that show Carlos Quinto aka Charles V as a Black man, King Phillip II is shown as a Mulato.

4:31 A correction "La cuerda": "The sane one". Cuerda also means rope, but not in that context

Actually Charles II reign was one of regeneration, military reformation and economic recuperation. He surrounded himself with excellent advisors. He was a great and competent king.

Strange, Spectrum uses Juan and Alfonso but then also Charles and Philip.

I think you place Joseph too high cause no matter what his reforms were for Spain, having him made Spain first and foremost a French puppet, thus Joseph was a better "Spanish" King for France than for Spain.

Please can you do ranking the French kings in the future

All Swedish monarchs next? All the way from Eric the Victorious?