Comments by "" (@sebe2255) on "Real Crusades History" channel.

  1. Definitely not one man. Charlemagne was only able to do what he did because of many Frankish kings and people before him. He didn’t exactly start from scratch and many of the processes he continued were already in motion. That being said he still performed great deeds that someone else may not have been able to achieve
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  2. Burgundy didn’t really come from Lotharingia. It was a rebellious French Duchy that acquired a lot of land in what once was Lotharingia. Also Charlemagne didn’t divide his lands. He passed all of it on to his only surviving son, Louis the Pious. His sons then divided the realm into East, West and Middle. East Frankis would eventually become the holy Roman Empire and then with a lot of roundabouts and the rise of nationalism Germany would be created out of the mess. The west had a more direct path to becoming France with the Capetians trying to centralize power and renaming the kingdom to France. The Middle part, Lotharingia, was ineed divided between East and West
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  3.  @NUMMEHARBEN  You could make the case either way. Just say that the Ruriks were actually also the true rulers of Sweden
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  4. To be fair, it rolls off the tongue better than Charles the Great
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  5.  @mattweir9674  Tbf the people that left to rule somewhere are more likely to be the ancestors of the people in that somewhere else
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  6. Yet that Salic law would be used by france to disregard claims through the female line to prevent the English king from inheriting the French throne
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  7. Yeah from him, and everyone else alive at the time who had kids. So that isn’t really special
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  8.  @moloney118  That is true for many more people. The Same goes for Johan Willem Friso, he is the most recent one I think
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  9.  @haukka119  A useful excuse for when you want to proclaim yourself Emperor
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  10. It is still funny how the modern count basically starts with William the conqueror, yet he only became King because he usurped a previously existing kingdom based on the alleged promise he was the heir of the previous king of that kingdom.
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  11.  @str.77  I still feel like they could have seen the problem coming. The Frankish realm breaking apart happened more times than you can count
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  12.  @str.77  I feel like they didn’t really try either
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  13. How does that make it the oldest monarchy?
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  14.  @robertocb7911  I guess, but Asturias itself doesn’t exist anymore. Kind of like saying England is the oldest monarchy because the Kingdom of Wessex existed in the 6th century
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