While doing some ancestry research, I discovered that Charlemagne is one of my ancestors. For a while, I was feeling pretty special, until I read an article that said half of today's Europeans also can trace their ancestry to Charlemagne.
You want to talk about French blood King Robert The Bruce and Scotland Robert I (11 July 1274 - 7 June 1329), popularly known as Robert the Bruce (Medieval Gaelic: Roibert a Briuis; Modern Scottish Gaelic: Raibeart Brus; Norman French: Robert de Brus or Robert de Bruys; Early Scots: Robert Brus; Latin: Robertus Brussius), was King of Scots from 1306 to his death in 1329. Robert was one of the most famous warriors of his generation and eventually led Scotland during the First War of Scottish Independence against England. He fought successfully during his reign to regain Scotland's place as an independent country and is now revered in Scotland as a national hero.
This is actually the first time I heard how to correctly pronounce his name! I enjoy heating the names of people and places in the local language and accent.
Charles le magne Charles the main Carl the great, Karel de Grote Karl dem großen, Carolus Magnus. I guess his name should be German or Dutch since he was born in a Dutch speaking region in Germany.
if one travels back in time and calls him "Sharllemanjeh" guess who wouldn't feel adressed it was always "CAROLVS MAGNVS" in old documents/coin legends and its correct delatinized form is Karl de Grot(e) = Carl the Great
Charlemagne was NOT the king of France but of the Frankish empire. That empire included the countries France, Belgium, the Netherlands, western Germany and northern Italy. France and Germany emerged AFTER the dissolution of Charlemagne's empire .
@@deyzacvincent3091 You cann call it whatever you want. In English it's called the Frankish Empire. In German it's called 'das Frankenreich. The Frankish Empire of Charlemagne included France, West Germany, parts of Italy, as well as the Netherlands and Belgium. France is just France.
Pourquoi, alors que la réalisation et les historiens spécialistes sont français, les cartes et illustrations sont en anglais ? Le reportage est de qualité, hélas une beaucoup trop grande place est réservée aux incessantes batailles, une fenêtre sur les peuples, la vie quotidienne, les mentalités de l'époque nous auraient apporté une plus grande compréhension sur le personnage et les tenants et aboutissants sur sa place singulière dans l'Historiographie Franco-Allemande. La seconde partie, à partir de son couronnement en tant qu'Empereur, Imperator Romanorum (« empereur des Romains »), en gagnant de la profondeur d'analyse, est de bien meilleure qualité. Elle laisse apparaître sa stature politique et son rayonnement dans l'espace et le temps, en tant que souverain réformateur, soucieux d'unification religieuse et de culture, protecteur des arts et lettres, à l’origine de la « renaissance carolingienne ».
Germany didn't exist until unification in 1871. Before that, it was a bunch of German states. France was created under the Capetian Dynasty as the kingdom of France in 987.
@Sergecalifornia King of the Franks, not king of France ! The first capetian to call himself " roi de Francie" instead of roi des Franciens was Philippe Auguste, dictus "Damnatio Memoriae" for having destroyed the Order of the Templar Knights, believing that their immense wealth was in form of gold monney, or cedit cards, instead of territorial goods, commanderies in the whole of Europe, hospitals, churches, refuges for the poor, that Phil shoud have all sold, one per one, to afford the necessary sum to pay his gargantuesque debts.
The French state was created as a distinct Kingdom in 843 at the treaty of Verdun, who split Charlemagne and Louis 1st Empire. The western part evolved in continuous existence until France we know today. 987 is just a change of dynasty, meaning an other family taking the crown of France, which happened literally in all countries. In this case we do not talk about a new country as the institutions did not change
He was french, since Clovis this kingdom was led by franks but it was a union of three ethnicities (gallo-Romans and franks) which is basic of France. The Frankish Kingdom is also known as Francia.
@@thomasp3428 but Clovis was 100% a Romanized Germanic as were the Franks. Yes half of the Frankish Empire/Francia was as you mentioned definitely a Gallo-Roman populace, though under that same Romano-Germanic rulership, and this, after the 843 Treaty of Verdun breaking up the empire, became first the West Frankish Kingdom or West Francia, and later the Kingdom of France. But the other half of the Frankish Empire / Francia was Germanic, including all the newly conquered lands like Saxony. After the 843 Treaty of Verdun this half became the Eastern Frankish Kingdom, which then became the Kingdom of the Germans, and eventually the Holy Roman Empire.
I discovered the same through genealogy research about my ancestry :D I am descended from Charlemagne as well, as well as 3-4 saints so far and other roman emperors/French and English royalty and nobility. Kinda blew my mind a bit
A while back I saw a documentary on Charlemagne and in it they mentioned that Pepin la Bref or pep in the short was a joke and it is thought that he was very tall. Charlemagne himself was extremely tall for the age and would be very tall today. NBA small forward size.
Pippin or Pepijn the short was a puppet, he didn't play a large roll in history. He was the grandson of Dagobert the late from Brabant. At least that's what you learn on Dutch schools.
That is what the French have always done: they have had a tradition in appropriating historical figures and sell them as "French" to the world for centuries now, vide Marie Salomea Skłodowska, Frederic Chopin, Charles the Great (Frenchified "Charlemagne"), Clovis etc. etc.
For the absolute low IQ french haters in the comment sesction like this one: "Charles is a masculine given name predominantly found in English and French speaking countries. It is from the French form Charles of the Proto-Germanic name ᚲᚨᚱᛁᛚᚨᛉ (in runic alphabet) or *karilaz (in Latin alphabet), whose meaning was "free man"
You're right there. He was born in Aken an Region of Germany where they mostly spoke a form of Dutch at the time. So Carl the great would be better than Charles let main.
@@sauronmordor7494 he was as a German, actually had very little to do with France that we know today. Don't understand why he is called Charles le main and not carl the great or Karel de Grote.
It is very interesting to get remarkable insights into the French self-perception and the construction and maintenance of nationalist myths. Presenting the Frankish king (and later emperor) Charles as French is historically plump but it seems that the French believe it (the Franks originating from the Middle and Low Rhine by the way, which is Western Germany and Eastern Netherlands today). Indeed, caught in nationalist jingoism, the French have had a long tradition in appropriating historical figures and sell them as "French" to the world for centuries now, vide Marie Salomea Skłodowska, Frederic Chopin, Charles the Great (Frenchified "Charlemagne"), Clovis etc. etc.
The famous anthropologist Carlton Kuhn attributed most of the Franks and Alemanni to the Celtic type, which is a Nordic subtype containing a Dinaric and Alpine admixture, and is characterized by mesocephaly, a low arch, a protruding nose and darker pigmentation: «[The skeletal] series clearly demonstrate that the Franks were a moderately diverse group, but differing as a whole from the main North Germanic type from which they probably descended. Although individuals belong to this type, the Franks in general resemble the Celtic peoples who occupied Belgium and northern France before them. This similarity includes a total cranial index value of about 76 and a cranial arch height of 132 mm. There are no special differences in the size or shape of the skull between the Merovingian Franks and the local Celts, except for one important fact: instead of falling into the range between the Celts and other Germans, according to many metric criteria, the Franks are slightly superior to the Celts themselves. This is true for facial
Hello i m french. Charlemagne Is nota a King of France ......which dies mit exist at the time and thé latin word Francia Is used for a región in Neustria......he Is Rex Francorum King of the Franks......Rex Franciae (King of France) will appear for the first time under Louis Vl 11th century Or are we going to say that Julius Caesar was also French because he took ......FRANCE.....(GAUL) sorry but if sous Talk about History do if according to History otherwise do mit complain about Others doing the same....like Aquitaine Is.....English.......Lithuania Is polish.......Kiev Is swedish because the Vareg Vikings founded IT.......or England Is actually Dänisch......as América.....and so in and so on........
The Phrygians are from the lands above Crimea the Frisians did live in the region you talk about . A small but important difference of pronunciation makes for very confusing info.
In his lifetime there was no 'France' and he wasn't King, but Emperor France's origin can be dated at the earliest to the year 843, when the Merovingian/Carolingian Empire was divided into West Franconia (the later France), Burgundy and East Franconia (the later Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation). But by then, of course, Charlemagne was long dead. He died where he lived most of his life, in the german city of Aachen, which had never been part of France.
France can find its roots with Clovis when he became King of the Franks in 481 and Converted the country to catholicism, that s french history, you can t make your own history ;)
@@houlala16 Yes, of course - and Clovis spoke French, I suppose. Please leave history to historians and stop getting your knowledge from anachronistic nationalist books. By the way: following your logic, Arminius was the first "King of Germany", Cerdic the first "King of Great Britain" and Liuvigild the first "King of Spain". 🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️
Too nationalistic. Germans also claim him as theirs. But neither France nor Germany existed at the time. Nation states are a much later invention, and yes, invention ought to be the word stressed here.
Very good point, Thomas. Charlemagne himself chose his capitol as Aachen where Frankish/Ripuarish dialects are spoken to this day. Charlemagne's son, Louis the Pious, was the first Frankish king to settle permanently in what is now known as France...
That's not true. Every French king claimed inheritance from Clovis. Germans with late XIXth century nationalism and creation of their new nation-state claimed inheritance on something they had no business on. Otto dynasties are not Franks. There's a clear Frankish continuity before and after in France.
Germany already did exist back then already, only not as a unified nationstate. While the history of pre-France begins with the conquest of Gaul by the Germanic tribe called the Franks.
@@deyzacvincent3091 true, no need to be a genius... all it takes is basic knowledge and understanding of History... which obviously you do not have. King of the Franks and King of France is not the same thing. Sorry if you don't understand that.
@@schuylerleithulfr788 The famous anthropologist Carlton Kuhn attributed most of the Franks and Alemanni to the Celtic type, which is a Nordic subtype containing a Dinaric and Alpine admixture, and is characterized by mesocephaly, a low arch, a protruding nose and darker pigmentation
Why does the man, narrator, keep pronouncing his name as char-lo-mine? I don't mind Char-lo-lmanya, but not mine. There is no I sound in the last part of his name.
can the medieaval grimoires of "Sol-om-on" be those of Charlesmagne? It's not only the same sound, it's the same concept, the Head of the Sun God! Charlesmagne is acossiated with the Lion and the sun and the emperor and the King of Cups, the Bearer of the Graal!
very good video, but how can Charlemagne be considered "French"??? There was no France and he was king of the Franks who were a Germanic race. He certainly didn't speak French. What was "French" about him?
He was french because hé was a frank and not a german hé is thé succesor of clovis 1er his empire was « frankish empire»and not german empire frank was the old name of the french
@@tsm_nael7711 Excuse me, but your history is flawed. The Franks were a "Germanic" tribe. The word "french" may derive from it, but to call the "Franks" French is absurd.
@@LazlosPlane he was thé sucessor of clovis 1er the first king of thé franks thé frankish kingdom start in Strasbourg in France so Charlemagne was french
Interesting that Charlemagne extends Catholic rule into the pagan lands of Saxony where the choice you could make was limited to convert to Catholicism or die while the Muslims "impose" Islam on the Iberian Peninsula where one could be a worshipping Catholic or Jew with your own house of worship..
This documentary is full of anachronies that any French would spot immediately : France did not exist as of yet at Merovigian nor Caroligian times : one would have to change every occurrence of the word "French" for the word "Frankish" (Charlemagne was not the King of France, but the King of the Franks). These dynasties were all Germanic. The Kingdom of France was born a few cent. later, together with a sense of nationality, not before the XIth century with the Capetian dynasty. Historiography identified Charlemagne as a French King in the XIXth cent. for nationalistic purposes.
@@oriraykai3610 pretty much all abortion is, thats why jews push and fight for it it so much , same with their brit Milah ceremony--its all blood and guts for them
Les français s'accaparent encore l'histoire de Charlemagne? Ne mentionnez pas le père de Charles Martel, Pepin de Herstal, ce serait trop facile de savoir dans quelle région il est né. Charlemagne n'était pas plus un roi de France qu'un roi de Belgique, de Hollande ou d'Allemagne, il était roi des Francs point barre.
I think there are a lot of people here who get screwed by genealogy software. How could we know that they are descendants of Carolus Magnus when we cannot even say with accuracy where and when a prince like him was born. And do you really think he has officially recognized all his children? Good big pigeons. 😂
They had the choice of being executed for their crimes or converting to Christianity. The barbarians like Saxons would have unceremoniously executed them. You were saying?
Funny in my country we call this guy Carl the great. His minor roll as king of what we would later name France is a side story. Funny to see that the French tell it as the main story.
Ok nazi. Clovis is our first french king. You're not inheritors from the Franks nor Charlemagne nor crusaders. Cry and cope. You call France = Frankreich. cope and cry.
could be Canadians who speak French. cant hear any tell tale signs of our accent in the main Male voice, but the female narrator I'd say is possibly anglophone from Montreal.
A pure genocider, like the roman empire 😂, and also you forgot to mention charlemagne family is not of frankish origin, there are from todays belgium, not france
@@oriraykai3610saxons were and are different from the gallo-romans or carolingians, and a fact is that charlemagne had no difficulty in applying his laws as saxons and franks were practically the same people, but the gallo romans were the descendants of the romans in gaul
24:52 - авары происходят от монголов как гунны и славяне??? Что за нонсенс?! Если об аварах и гуннах известно что они пришли в Европу из Центральной Азии и авары возможно были монголоязычны (а возможно и не были), то про славян зачем рассказывать такую антинаучную чушь?
'The King of France'... ugh. Again someone propelling this popular misconception created by french nationalist propaganda... France did NOT exist at that time. In fact Charlemagne was a german frank, spoke a german language and the capital of his empire was the city of Aachen, which has always been a city of Germany/german states with a german population but never one of France. one of Charlemagne bore the name 'Louis the German'.... Charlemagne was King of the Frankish Kingdom. The Frankish Kingdom was split into 3 parts a century after his death, one of these parts was West Francia which a few centuries later on top of that became slowly known as France... but still was far away from being a unified country, let alone a single nation.
Aachen of French origin, former Aix-la-Chapelle, Charlemagne spoke Latin, there was no German when the empire was divided, the main language was Old French, it was written during the partition agreement
De Franken waren niet Duits, zij spraken oorspronkelijk een taal die ook bekend staat als Oud-Hollands. Het grootste Frankische grafveld, de grafheuvels op de Donderberg bij Rhenen die 1.100 Frankische graven bevat, bevind zich dan ook in Nederland. Tevens is in Nederland bij Dorestad de grootste Karolingische muntenschat gevonden. Je kunt dus zeggen dat de Franken Nederlanders waren. Echter, Karel de Grote is in noord Gallië geboren, dus in Frankrijk, dat maakt hem Frans. Tevens verkozen de Franken duidelijk de Gallisch-Romaansche cultuur, religie (het Christendom) en taal boven die van de "Germanen" en voerden juist oorlog tegen de Duitse Saksen. En zoals hierboven al vermeld was Aken oorspronkelijk Aix-la-Chapelle een Romeinse nederzetting in noord Gallië. In moderne termen kun je zeggen; Charlemagne was een Fransman van Nederlandse afkomst die een hekel had aan Duitsers.
Что за бред и церковная пропаганда? Какие язычники, какие идолы и святилища в восьмом веке? Неужели это табу, которое мешает нам сказать правду о никейском христианстве и его кровавой борьбе за монополию на веру? Лангобарды и все германские племена, с которыми воевал Карл, с IV-V веков нашей эры уже были христианами арианского толка. В язычничестве оставались лишь единичные германцы.
Charlemagne was never king of France, he was the king of the franks. The Frankish state is the ethnopolitical history of the germans people, not the modern french people.
😅😅😅😅😅 Charlemagne n’était pas Allemand. Et Ce n’était pas un germanique. Ses ancêtres, fixés dans le Nord de la France actuelle, étaient originaires de Belgique, et d’ascendance Celte. Les Francs ont donné leur nom à la France. Les Allemands se considèrent comme des germaniques, et en réalité, seuls ceux du nord, vers le Danemark , les Prussiens aussi , sont très mélangés de germains. Sur le reste du pays , en Bavière, vers l’Autriche, ils descendent surtout de celtes , comme la majorité des Français, des Italiens et des Autrichiens. Arrêtez de croire aux conneries nazies. Vous n’êtes pas de purs germains . Et l’Allemagne est une création récente (1871) alors que la France remonte, effectivement , aux Carolingiens, même si elle ne portait pas encore son nom. Notre Charlemagne a choisi de résider à Aix la Chapelle pour des raisons pratiques, afin d’être au plus près des régions conquises à l’Est 😉 1870)
Charlemagne NEVER was king of France. France didn’t exist at that time. A true historian would never make that mistake.
Браво!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Он был королём франков, и что? Это допустимое упрощение для нучно-популярного фильма.
Love watching documentaries like this
Love this kind of videos. Very educational and important history. Thank you for charing.
While doing some ancestry research, I discovered that Charlemagne is one of my ancestors. For a while, I was feeling pretty special, until I read an article that said half of today's Europeans also can trace their ancestry to Charlemagne.
Hello cousin!
Hi cousins !
You're still Special. Feel that from within.
Charlemagne is my great great great great great great great great great great great great great great grandfather
Then you are from the special half of Europe
You want to talk about French blood King Robert The Bruce and Scotland
Robert I (11 July 1274 - 7 June 1329), popularly known as Robert the Bruce (Medieval Gaelic: Roibert a Briuis; Modern Scottish Gaelic: Raibeart Brus; Norman French: Robert de Brus or Robert de Bruys; Early Scots: Robert Brus; Latin: Robertus Brussius), was King of Scots from 1306 to his death in 1329. Robert was one of the most famous warriors of his generation and eventually led Scotland during the First War of Scottish Independence against England. He fought successfully during his reign to regain Scotland's place as an independent country and is now revered in Scotland as a national hero.
nice brother
What about Biggus Scrotumus?
Is he a Robertian like us Capetians? :D
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VERY good documentary! Thank you for the translations!
Excellent documentary 👏👏👏👏👏
This is actually the first time I heard how to correctly pronounce his name! I enjoy heating the names of people and places in the local language and accent.
Charles le magne
Charles the main
Carl the great, Karel de Grote
Karl dem großen, Carolus Magnus.
I guess his name should be German or Dutch since he was born in a Dutch speaking region in Germany.
@@Hooibeest2D his name should be whichever language you are speaking
if one travels back in time and calls him "Sharllemanjeh" guess who wouldn't feel adressed
it was always "CAROLVS MAGNVS" in old documents/coin legends and its correct delatinized form is Karl de Grot(e) = Carl the Great
Charlemagne was NOT the king of France but of the Frankish empire. That empire included the countries France, Belgium, the Netherlands, western Germany and northern Italy. France and Germany emerged AFTER the dissolution of Charlemagne's empire .
Non la France commence sous clovis France et le nom moderne de franc faut pas être un génie pour le comprendre
@@deyzacvincent3091 You cann call it whatever you want. In English it's called the Frankish Empire. In German it's called 'das Frankenreich. The Frankish Empire of Charlemagne included France, West Germany, parts of Italy, as well as the Netherlands and Belgium. France is just France.
there is a documentary series of all the french Kings , in French. Hope you upload in English the rest
Pourquoi, alors que la réalisation et les historiens spécialistes sont français, les cartes et illustrations sont en anglais ?
Le reportage est de qualité, hélas une beaucoup trop grande place est réservée aux incessantes batailles, une fenêtre sur les peuples, la vie quotidienne, les mentalités de l'époque nous auraient apporté une plus grande compréhension sur le personnage et les tenants et aboutissants sur sa place singulière dans l'Historiographie Franco-Allemande.
La seconde partie, à partir de son couronnement en tant qu'Empereur, Imperator Romanorum (« empereur des Romains »), en gagnant de la profondeur d'analyse, est de bien meilleure qualité. Elle laisse apparaître sa stature politique et son rayonnement dans l'espace et le temps, en tant que souverain réformateur, soucieux d'unification religieuse et de culture, protecteur des arts et lettres, à l’origine de la « renaissance carolingienne ».
L histoire de mon arrière arrière arrière grand père Charlemagne le rois des francs
Germany didn't exist until unification in 1871. Before that, it was a bunch of German states. France was created under the Capetian Dynasty as the kingdom of France in 987.
@Sergecalifornia
King of the Franks, not king of France !
The first capetian to call himself " roi de Francie" instead of roi des Franciens was Philippe Auguste, dictus "Damnatio Memoriae"
for having destroyed the Order of the Templar Knights, believing that their immense wealth was in form of gold monney, or cedit cards, instead of territorial goods, commanderies in the whole of Europe, hospitals, churches, refuges for the poor, that Phil shoud have all sold, one per one, to afford the necessary sum to pay his gargantuesque debts.
The French state was created as a distinct Kingdom in 843 at the treaty of Verdun, who split Charlemagne and Louis 1st Empire. The western part evolved in continuous existence until France we know today. 987 is just a change of dynasty, meaning an other family taking the crown of France, which happened literally in all countries. In this case we do not talk about a new country as the institutions did not change
Very interesting documentary. I enjoyed it thoroughly. Looking at all of the art was quite nice.
What a wrong title! Nationalist and anachronistic! King of France?! What nonsense!
Because France=Frankia,Francia
In the 3rd Reich, he was called the ancestor of France and the French, the SS division of the French was named after him
Clovis is king of France to this today and all you can do rage about it in your obes-se-bed by posting self-liked comments on YTB.
Cope and cry.
@@wertyuiopasd6281
gang liaber go schissa !
accept the truth,Even Charlemagne is the Germanic,He ruled France,Beyond the Doubt,And the French are Franks but Latinzed
That would be King of the Franks, not of France, with France only composing half of the Frankish realm and Germany composing the other half
He was french, since Clovis this kingdom was led by franks but it was a union of three ethnicities (gallo-Romans and franks) which is basic of France. The Frankish Kingdom is also known as Francia.
@@thomasp3428 but Clovis was 100% a Romanized Germanic as were the Franks.
Yes half of the Frankish Empire/Francia was as you mentioned definitely a Gallo-Roman populace, though under that same Romano-Germanic rulership, and this, after the 843 Treaty of Verdun breaking up the empire, became first the West Frankish Kingdom or West Francia, and later the Kingdom of France.
But the other half of the Frankish Empire / Francia was Germanic, including all the newly conquered lands like Saxony. After the 843 Treaty of Verdun this half became the Eastern Frankish Kingdom, which then became the Kingdom of the Germans, and eventually the Holy Roman Empire.
Franks' kingdom = France. No germany. Germany was a colonization of the franks's kingdom of Francia.
@@GeoPolitique., or the other way, considering that the Franks came from Western Germany/Benelux. They expanded into Gaul. Not from Gaul.
@@adamthetired9319 But their kingdom from Gaul ;)
While conducting genealogy, I discovered Charlemagne is my ancestor. Apparently, millions are descended from him.
I discovered the same through genealogy research about my ancestry :D I am descended from Charlemagne as well, as well as 3-4 saints so far and other roman emperors/French and English royalty and nobility. Kinda blew my mind a bit
The same here, blonde hair blue eyes. And no shit last name Magnus
he naughty naughty. why yall so obsessed over religion though?
We’re all related to Charlemagne, Genghis Khan and Groucho Marx…
Rape people just like he raped local cultures. Amazing how it spreads!
when the title already includes an error. achievement unlocked.
A while back I saw a documentary on Charlemagne and in it they mentioned that Pepin la Bref or pep in the short was a joke and it is thought that he was very tall. Charlemagne himself was extremely tall for the age and would be very tall today. NBA small forward size.
Pippin or Pepijn the short was a puppet, he didn't play a large roll in history. He was the grandson of Dagobert the late from Brabant. At least that's what you learn on Dutch schools.
@@Hooibeest2D I was just saying that I heard that he was actually really tall and it was kind of a sarcastic or comedic nickname.
Has it now become the fashion to Frenchify the names of people like Charles & Charlemagne, even when speaking in English?
It is a French production
That is what the French have always done: they have had a tradition in appropriating historical figures and sell them as "French" to the world for centuries now, vide Marie Salomea Skłodowska, Frederic Chopin, Charles the Great (Frenchified "Charlemagne"), Clovis etc. etc.
@@paulee4927 They are French.
Charles is a french name, you absolute 0 IQ brit.
For the absolute low IQ french haters in the comment sesction like this one:
"Charles is a masculine given name predominantly found in English and French speaking countries. It is from the French form Charles of the Proto-Germanic name ᚲᚨᚱᛁᛚᚨᛉ (in runic alphabet) or *karilaz (in Latin alphabet), whose meaning was "free man"
@@paulee4927 stop liking your own comments you cringelord brit.
First 5 seconds and there's an error. The dynasty got its name from.charles martel. Not Charlemagne. Who also got name.frartel
Best Doc
Not just France, Germany too along with Belgium and the Netherlands. At least "ruled" over parts of what would become each of these nations.
And England, William the conqueror was a descendant of charles the great, and the Viking Rollo
@@zacheryvorse8130 C'étais un Normand donc Français
These countries did'nt yet exist. It's really anachronistic.
You're right there.
He was born in Aken an Region of Germany where they mostly spoke a form of Dutch at the time. So Carl the great would be better than Charles let main.
@@sauronmordor7494 he was as a German, actually had very little to do with France that we know today. Don't understand why he is called Charles le main and not carl the great or Karel de Grote.
I’m related to Charlemagne. He’s an ancestor of mine.
He was prolific. So many are descended from him. Something to be proud of.
I'm a descendant of Robert the Bruce
@@aquastar4336 Are the Stuarts descended from this great man?
You and me and 1/2 of the rest of the world!!!
As someone in 2020 he's seems like a piece of shit, but for his time he really wasn't.
This is my ancestor
It is very interesting to get remarkable insights into the French self-perception and the construction and maintenance of nationalist myths. Presenting the Frankish king (and later emperor) Charles as French is historically plump but it seems that the French believe it (the Franks originating from the Middle and Low Rhine by the way, which is Western Germany and Eastern Netherlands today). Indeed, caught in nationalist jingoism, the French have had a long tradition in appropriating historical figures and sell them as "French" to the world for centuries now, vide Marie Salomea Skłodowska, Frederic Chopin, Charles the Great (Frenchified "Charlemagne"), Clovis etc. etc.
Thanks for that. I was going to make the same comment.
The famous anthropologist Carlton Kuhn attributed most of the Franks and Alemanni to the Celtic type, which is a Nordic subtype containing a Dinaric and Alpine admixture, and is characterized by mesocephaly, a low arch, a protruding nose and darker pigmentation: «[The skeletal] series clearly demonstrate that the Franks were a moderately diverse group, but differing as a whole from the main North Germanic type from which they probably descended. Although individuals belong to this type, the Franks in general resemble the Celtic peoples who occupied Belgium and northern France before them. This similarity includes a total cranial index value of about 76 and a cranial arch height of 132 mm. There are no special differences in the size or shape of the skull between the Merovingian Franks and the local Celts, except for one important fact: instead of falling into the range between the Celts and other Germans, according to many metric criteria, the Franks are slightly superior to the Celts themselves. This is true for facial
The Franks were Celts
Charlemagne's parents are from the north of France
French hands are in constant pain .
From patting themselves on the back .
It's not just them the Spanish too .
Where is the French version of this??
My favorite King!!
Hello i m french. Charlemagne Is nota a King of France ......which dies mit exist at the time and thé latin word Francia Is used for a región in Neustria......he Is Rex Francorum King of the Franks......Rex Franciae (King of France) will appear for the first time under Louis Vl 11th century
Or are we going to say that Julius Caesar was also French because he took ......FRANCE.....(GAUL) sorry but if sous Talk about History do if according to History otherwise do mit complain about Others doing the same....like Aquitaine Is.....English.......Lithuania Is polish.......Kiev Is swedish because the Vareg Vikings founded IT.......or England Is actually Dänisch......as América.....and so in and so on........
Clovis is King of France.
Why are so many of the graphics in the shape of South Dakota?
>>>>>>>TH-cam HISTORY,,,,,IT DOESN'T GET ANY DULLER THAN THIS.
What’s with the audio quality drop at 49:40?
This documentary seems to have a French bias- the interviewers are French and Karl der Grosse and his family are referred to by French names.
They're French.
Pourquoi ils sont chinois ?
The Phrygians are from the lands above Crimea the Frisians did live in the region you talk about . A small but important difference of pronunciation makes for very confusing info.
In his lifetime there was no 'France' and he wasn't King, but Emperor
France's origin can be dated at the earliest to the year 843, when the Merovingian/Carolingian Empire was divided into West Franconia (the later France), Burgundy and East Franconia (the later Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation).
But by then, of course, Charlemagne was long dead. He died where he lived most of his life, in the german city of Aachen, which had never been part of France.
France can find its roots with Clovis when he became King of the Franks in 481 and Converted the country to catholicism, that s french history, you can t make your own history ;)
@@houlala16 Yes, of course - and Clovis spoke French, I suppose. Please leave history to historians and stop getting your knowledge from anachronistic nationalist books. By the way: following your logic, Arminius was the first "King of Germany", Cerdic the first "King of Great Britain" and Liuvigild the first "King of Spain". 🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️
@@paulee4927 HAHAHAHA it's end game mister weak bot ;)
@@houlala16 king of the franks is no french king
Aachen was called in French Aix la Chapelle
The Franks are my ancestors.i want my family's land and wealth back! Asap
I seriously doubt you can trace any direct lineage back to charlemagne
Very cool, but the pronunciation is abysmal throughout.
Demand your money back!
Clearly not originally written in English. Awful translation job.
Why is the woman saying bar-varia?
Too nationalistic. Germans also claim him as theirs. But neither France nor Germany existed at the time. Nation states are a much later invention, and yes, invention ought to be the word stressed here.
Yeah but the French and German were distinct people.
Very good point, Thomas. Charlemagne himself chose his capitol as Aachen where Frankish/Ripuarish dialects are spoken to this day. Charlemagne's son, Louis the Pious, was the first Frankish king to settle permanently in what is now known as France...
Actually it's not.
You just don't understand history.
That's not true.
Every French king claimed inheritance from Clovis.
Germans with late XIXth century nationalism and creation of their new nation-state claimed inheritance on something they had no business on. Otto dynasties are not Franks. There's a clear Frankish continuity before and after in France.
Germany already did exist back then already, only not as a unified nationstate. While the history of pre-France begins with the conquest of Gaul by the Germanic tribe called the Franks.
Charlemagne - The King of France... lol that doesn't start too well... lol
France did not exist. Charlemagne was king of the Franks.
@@thornil2231 Francia=Frankia=France
@@thornil2231 France from Latin Francia and this name was in his time
@@thornil2231France et le nom moderne de franc faut pas être un génie pour le comprendre et ça change rien à l'histoire de France 😘
@@deyzacvincent3091 true, no need to be a genius... all it takes is basic knowledge and understanding of History... which obviously you do not have. King of the Franks and King of France is not the same thing. Sorry if you don't understand that.
Flawed title surely, there was no where called France in 768!
The name France is named after the Franks. That is where the name comes from.
@@schuylerleithulfr788 yes, but it still wasn't "France." Charlemagne spoke Frankish German. There is no "Kingdom of France" before 987.
@@anthonykaiser974 No, I completely agree. The Franks and Charlemagne were Germanic. But I just wanted to remind you.
@@anthonykaiser974 The French Monarchy claimed heritage from Charlemagne. You are right but it is a sort of allegorical thing.
@@schuylerleithulfr788 The famous anthropologist Carlton Kuhn attributed most of the Franks and Alemanni to the Celtic type, which is a Nordic subtype containing a Dinaric and Alpine admixture, and is characterized by mesocephaly, a low arch, a protruding nose and darker pigmentation
Why does the man, narrator, keep pronouncing his name as char-lo-mine? I don't mind Char-lo-lmanya, but not mine. There is no I sound in the last part of his name.
can the medieaval grimoires of "Sol-om-on" be those of Charlesmagne? It's not only the same sound, it's the same concept, the Head of the Sun God! Charlesmagne is acossiated with the Lion and the sun and the emperor and the King of Cups, the Bearer of the Graal!
Editing is on the internet dead. Some good info, very amateurishly done.
very good video, but how can Charlemagne be considered "French"??? There was no France and he was king of the Franks who were a Germanic race. He certainly didn't speak French. What was "French" about him?
He was french because hé was a frank and not a german hé is thé succesor of clovis 1er his empire was « frankish empire»and not german empire frank was the old name of the french
@@tsm_nael7711 Excuse me, but your history is flawed. The Franks were a "Germanic" tribe. The word "french" may derive from it, but to call the "Franks" French is absurd.
@@LazlosPlane he was thé sucessor of clovis 1er the first king of thé franks thé frankish kingdom start in Strasbourg in France so Charlemagne was french
@@LazlosPlane création of France is 481 and germany 843 when Charlemagne kingdom has been divided
@@LazlosPlane go on yt and search « history of France every year
Just got my results for my ancestry and found out I am related to him.
You look like you also got some Nubian queen in you.
based
how unspcecial. almost everyone is.
Charlemagne for President !
the narrators are aweful.......... ufff
Charlemagne Was Portuguese 🇵🇹
Interesting that Charlemagne extends Catholic rule into the pagan lands of Saxony where the choice you could make was limited to convert to Catholicism or die while the Muslims "impose" Islam on the Iberian Peninsula where one could be a worshipping Catholic or Jew with your own house of worship..
This documentary is full of anachronies that any French would spot immediately : France did not exist as of yet at Merovigian nor Caroligian times : one would have to change every occurrence of the word "French" for the word "Frankish" (Charlemagne was not the King of France, but the King of the Franks). These dynasties were all Germanic. The Kingdom of France was born a few cent. later, together with a sense of nationality, not before the XIth century with the Capetian dynasty. Historiography identified Charlemagne as a French King in the XIXth cent. for nationalistic purposes.
Charlemagne is also the roi de Suisse /Schweiz/ Svizzera/ Switzerland.
France and Switzerland did NOT exist in 800 CE !
Charlemagne the great.
Charlemagne Was Australian 🇦🇺
Yes my ancestors too , yet several others I know do not decend from him.
What did Aldous Huxley mean when he said Charlemagne took a serious wrong turn at some point?
Huxley thought Europe should have remained barbarian and still practice human sacrifice today.
@@oriraykai3610 Thank you
@@oriraykai3610 pretty much all abortion is, thats why jews push and fight for it it so much , same with their brit Milah ceremony--its all blood and guts for them
Slavic are of Mongolian origin? WTF?
Nothing but gangsters
The Saxons were the good guys?
Please rewrite this. At that time there was no France. Charlemagne was a FRANK. The term “French” didn’t exist.
Yes and his language isn’t related to the French language at all haha. Frankish dialects were Germanic languages!
@@jeffm902 He spoke Latin
@@jeffm902 Its language is closer to Flemish, which is common in northern France
@@ОлегВоло-с2н he spoke an old form of German and was born and lived in Aachen
@@SF-eo6xf His language is dead, he was born in Liege, Aachen made his residence, his parents are from the north of France
Hispania=Iberian peninsula.
Spain, a modern day country,created or made up in 1784.
Pésima traducción. El traductor habla de : 1747 etc etc.
Esto le resta seriedad al documental. Lamentable!!!
The pretentious way the narrators say Charlemagne tho. Uggh. I'm out. Can't sit through that for an hour.
Charligmagn is like a western confuscious
Char-la-main.
Carolinguian
@@guib6055 I think these are named after Carloman. Not after Charlomagne.
Those two were brothers.
@@patriciajrs46 were just making fun of his pronunciation lady
Les français s'accaparent encore l'histoire de Charlemagne? Ne mentionnez pas le père de Charles Martel, Pepin de Herstal, ce serait trop facile de savoir dans quelle région il est né. Charlemagne n'était pas plus un roi de France qu'un roi de Belgique, de Hollande ou d'Allemagne, il était roi des Francs point barre.
If you call it “ french kingdom” then same is valid if you called french republic like it is today since 1944/45
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By 800 he would only have been 14, according to you! Wrong, can't be.
I think there are a lot of people here who get screwed by genealogy software. How could we know that they are descendants of Carolus Magnus when we cannot even say with accuracy where and when a prince like him was born. And do you really think he has officially recognized all his children? Good big pigeons. 😂
The design upon which the maps and art are shown is an outline of the map of South Dakota! 😂
14:00 Christianity spreading by the sword
Amen ⚔️
They had the choice of being executed for their crimes or converting to Christianity. The barbarians like Saxons would have unceremoniously executed them. You were saying?
@@oriraykai3610 forced conversions of populations
1.92 meters tall, please!
Why not? They say Rollo was 2 meters, or 6' 5".
i see AUSTR ASIA Explain please this
IT IS Not the Verdun massacrer but thé VERDEN massacre prononce ferden old saxon
You worked because you had debts
The king of FRANCE?
Yes
Clovis is considered our first king centuries before Charlemagne.
1046th 😊
Why is the tapestry shaped like the state of South Dakota?
OK good I'm not the only one seeing that.
Funny in my country we call this guy Carl the great. His minor roll as king of what we would later name France is a side story.
Funny to see that the French tell it as the main story.
Ok nazi.
Clovis is our first french king.
You're not inheritors from the Franks nor Charlemagne nor crusaders. Cry and cope.
You call France = Frankreich. cope and cry.
niet koning van Frankrijk, maar koning der Franken dat meer en veel groter was dan het huidige frankrijk.
34:00 obviously Islamic
The narrators have almost flawless accents. Or maybe they're US expats who haven't lived in the US for a while?
could be Canadians who speak French. cant hear any tell tale signs of our accent in the main Male voice, but the female narrator I'd say is possibly anglophone from Montreal.
They're French. Not canadians nor americans.
The gauls are not the french, the franks are not the french, the french became french in 1784 FFS
Music too loud. Waste of time.
SorryIcouldn'tunderstandthemumbling of thenarrator.
Not king of France. Frankish empire
France=Frankia=Francia
@@adrienrabiot3624 Fränkisch empire was also the origin of Germany, so not only France
@@KarlMartell732 Just a little bit of the west and the area where Bavaria
Francia=Frankia.
Francus=Français
Francia = France du nord ancien. Occitania = France du sud ancien
3:25 Historian guy was burning down. He can hardly keep his eyes open. 🤣🌴🪴🤏😵💫
A pure genocider, like the roman empire 😂, and also you forgot to mention charlemagne family is not of frankish origin, there are from todays belgium, not france
What were the Saxons then?
@@oriraykai3610saxons were and are different from the gallo-romans or carolingians, and a fact is that charlemagne had no difficulty in applying his laws as saxons and franks were practically the same people, but the gallo romans were the descendants of the romans in gaul
24:52 - авары происходят от монголов как гунны и славяне??? Что за нонсенс?! Если об аварах и гуннах известно что они пришли в Европу из Центральной Азии и авары возможно были монголоязычны (а возможно и не были), то про славян зачем рассказывать такую антинаучную чушь?
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Er war Franke....
Franconian did not exist
The term "Franks" still causes discussions among historians and philologists. It is first found in the form of Lat. francus.
Ja Kaiser von Frankreich
'The King of France'... ugh. Again someone propelling this popular misconception created by french nationalist propaganda... France did NOT exist at that time. In fact Charlemagne was a german frank, spoke a german language and the capital of his empire was the city of Aachen, which has always been a city of Germany/german states with a german population but never one of France. one of Charlemagne bore the name 'Louis the German'.... Charlemagne was King of the Frankish Kingdom. The Frankish Kingdom was split into 3 parts a century after his death, one of these parts was West Francia which a few centuries later on top of that became slowly known as France... but still was far away from being a unified country, let alone a single nation.
Aachen of French origin, former Aix-la-Chapelle, Charlemagne spoke Latin, there was no German when the empire was divided, the main language was Old French, it was written during the partition agreement
The coin of the Frankish kingdom was a denier, it is a medieval French coin, there is nothing German in the Frankish kingdom
Francia=Franken=Frankia
Charlemagne's parents are from northern France and southern Belgium, he is of French descent
De Franken waren niet Duits, zij spraken oorspronkelijk een taal die ook bekend staat als Oud-Hollands. Het grootste Frankische grafveld, de grafheuvels op de Donderberg bij Rhenen die 1.100 Frankische graven bevat, bevind zich dan ook in Nederland. Tevens is in Nederland bij Dorestad de grootste Karolingische muntenschat gevonden. Je kunt dus zeggen dat de Franken Nederlanders waren. Echter, Karel de Grote is in noord Gallië geboren, dus in Frankrijk, dat maakt hem Frans. Tevens verkozen de Franken duidelijk de Gallisch-Romaansche cultuur, religie (het Christendom) en taal boven die van de "Germanen" en voerden juist oorlog tegen de Duitse Saksen. En zoals hierboven al vermeld was Aken oorspronkelijk Aix-la-Chapelle een Romeinse nederzetting in noord Gallië. In moderne termen kun je zeggen; Charlemagne was een Fransman van Nederlandse afkomst die een hekel had aan Duitsers.
I’m happy that now I know that I’m related to Charlemange u don’t have to believe me but on my dads side- my dad knows it’s true…
Hello cousin - I'm a descendant of Charlemagne on my mothers side!
@@martingardener90 what’s ur name u don’t have to say
@@martingardener90 I have some cousins but only like 5
@@meki- I don't have any 1st cousins!
@@martingardener90 oh k
Karl der Große > Charlemagne
In the 3rd Reich, he was called the ancestor of France and the French, the SS division of the French was named after him
What's with these pronunciations?
Что за бред и церковная пропаганда? Какие язычники, какие идолы и святилища в восьмом веке? Неужели это табу, которое мешает нам сказать правду о никейском христианстве и его кровавой борьбе за монополию на веру? Лангобарды и все германские племена, с которыми воевал Карл, с IV-V веков нашей эры уже были христианами арианского толка. В язычничестве оставались лишь единичные германцы.
austraisia
Also, the marche hispaniae reached Porto, so stop promoting fascisms and modern day countries agendas and explain the truth
Charlemagne was never king of France, he was the king of the franks. The Frankish state is the ethnopolitical history of the germans people, not the modern french people.
😅😅😅😅😅 Charlemagne n’était pas Allemand. Et Ce n’était pas un germanique. Ses ancêtres, fixés dans le Nord de la France actuelle, étaient originaires de Belgique, et d’ascendance Celte. Les Francs ont donné leur nom à la France. Les Allemands se considèrent comme des germaniques, et en réalité, seuls ceux du nord, vers le Danemark , les Prussiens aussi , sont très mélangés de germains. Sur le reste du pays , en Bavière, vers l’Autriche, ils descendent surtout de celtes , comme la majorité des Français, des Italiens et des Autrichiens. Arrêtez de croire aux conneries nazies. Vous n’êtes pas de purs germains . Et l’Allemagne est une création récente (1871) alors que la France remonte, effectivement , aux Carolingiens, même si elle ne portait pas encore son nom. Notre Charlemagne a choisi de résider à Aix la Chapelle pour des raisons pratiques, afin d’être au plus près des régions conquises à l’Est 😉
1870)
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