@4:59 I don't know which is crazier, two 14-year-olds getting married while his father watched them consummate or the fact that the 14-year-old groom fell in love with a 38-year-old woman.
It was common, if not a required, to have an audience on the wedding night in order to confirm the act was consummated. The court was also present during the delivery of royal babies.
Omg the last time I was this early Henry Viii was still married to Cathrine of Aragon(EDIT :OMG TYSMMM FOR THE LIKES AND POSITIVE COMMENTS HOPE YALL HAD A GOOD DAY !）
I heard about these queens from the history books before, but I didn't even know that there was a rivalry between these two. Thank you Lindsay for the forgotten history
Elizabeth I and Catherine de Medici knew how to play the game which catapulted them to the ultimate peak of power. But history is hardly kind to women who wield power.
Honestly, just how much of Catherine's actions were because she was a mother trying to protect her children? I've wondered this for so long, especially as I learned more about her and looked deeper. After Henri II of France died, Catherine was a widow in a foreign court with several underage children, seven to be exact, and with all the pains in the back that she faced from the beginning of her widowhood until her death, protecting her family was probably one of the biggest priorities if not the biggest priority on her mind when dealing with said pains in the back. Henri IV of France even said this quote about her: "I ask you, what could a woman do, left by the death of her husband with five little children on her arms, and two families of France who were thinking of grasping the crown-our own [the Bourbons] and the Guises? Was she not compelled to play strange parts to deceive first one and then the other, in order to guard, as she did, her sons, who successively reigned through the wise conduct of that shrewd woman? I am surprised that she never did worse." If even he of all people was willing to admit that one of the biggest reasons (if not the sole reason) Catherine did what she did was to ensure the safety of her children, especially the sons who ruled while they were still underage, then I can definitely believe that one of her primary reasons for her actions if not the primary reason was her children. She may have been queen mother of France after being widowed and was regent for two of her sons due to their youth, but she was also a mother. No doubt she was very aware that her children, especially her sons, were underage even for the time and therefore needed all the support and protection they could get, so it's really no surprise that she devoted everything she had and did all she could so that they had that support and protection, even if she was the sole source of both. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if she was the sole source of support and protection for them at times. There's a very good reason why the Mama Bear trope exists on TV Tropes when describing mothers, and I definitely count Catherine as one with all that she did. She went to a lot of lengths to ensure her sons would remain on the throne of France despite the many threats to their reigns, and many of those lengths if not all of them were to ensure that those threats would not get to them in any shape or form. She, in my eyes, did this not just as a queen mother and queen regent, but as a mother to ensure the safety and security of her children, even if all of them predeceased her except for Henri III of France and Margaret of Valois. She may have also never done worse things than what she did, but I'm willing to bet that she was at least willing to do worse if the situation ever called for it, because from what I've seen and heard in both real life and in popular culture, the wrath of a mother is truly something to behold. Catherine is far from the only woman in history vilified for this though: how many women in history, such as Agrippina the Younger, Hurrem Sultan, and many others, have been vilified for so long for actions they committed that, when looked at in a different lens, could have at least been rooted from the fact that they were mothers wanting to protect their children and ensure that they would have secure lives? I think that far too many, including Catherine, have suffered vilification just because they dared to claim power when maybe, just maybe, a far stronger motivation if not their sole one was the next generation and ensuring that they had at least some form of security in their lives long after those before them had passed on. I hope that as women in history who held power are reevaluated and reexamined, or at least looked at again and are learned about by more and more people, that the fact that some of these women if not all of them were mothers and therefore may have been simply trying to protect their children is taken into account more frequently and that it's used as a lens to examine certain historical events and actions where it might apply.
*Mary Queen of Scots was not the granddaughter of Henry VII, but his great granddaughter. Elizabeth I was his granddaughter and 1st cousin of James V of Scotland (Mary's Dad) even though she was young enough to be his daughter (Henry VIII had his younger kids late in life & was old enough to their grandpa).
I would argue that Catherine and Elizabeth weren’t rivals at all. Elizabeth wanted to concentrate on ruling England and fixing the economic problems that she inherited from both her brother and sister: she had no interest in wars. And while Catherine might have preferred a Catholic on the English throne, France had enough problems with internal strife and an adversarial relationship with Spain to deal with. In fact, it was Mary, Queen of Scots, her husband Francois II and her Guise relatives that had the most adversarial relationship with Elizabeth, and the relationship with France definitely improved with Francois’ death and Mary returning to Scotland. Overall, I would consider Elizabeth and Catherine to be uneasy allies more than rivals.
Hi Lindsay, I'm glad that you liked my book so much (Blood Fire and Gold) that it inspired you doing a video. I enjoyed that. Would you like to do a collaboration type video on the Serpent Queen? Estelle Paranque
I've always been really sad for Elizabeth, thinking she never wanted to be married, then the moment she thought she might want to, her people didn't want him to be her husband. ❤️ Gloriana has always been my favorite queen and if I could go back in time, I'd definitely go back to see Elizabeth at her court.
I cannot express how excited I am to watch this video! I've been binging your content about Elizabeth and Cathrine and was so excited when I saw this!!
Wow brilliant i knew most of Elizabeth's story, but nothing about the Medici queen thank you.. I love the way you narrate easy to understand ehat you are saying . And you make it so interesting 😉. Keep up the good work
This is the first time that any of this has made sense to me, and that's after years of reading many wonderful books. Thank you for your excellent diction and the pace of your dialogue. What a crazy history this was!!
Fully agree!! I have so many ideas: Ferdinand I and Philip the Fair Maria Theresa and Frederick the Great Francis I and Charles V (maybe a 2 parter including Henry VIII in like a "hate triangle") George II and his father George I Sorry, I'm a history nerd
@@monical.r13 George I and George II sound like a great idea! I even considered George III's wife Charlotte and his mother Augusta. That might be more of a one-sided antagonistic rivalry from Augusta's side.
I was surprised ro find that safiye sultan of the ottomans respected her contemporary Elizabeth I because as Valide Sultan, she technically only ruled the harem not the empire but she was rhe real power behind the throne yet could never say so or act like it like Elizabeth did
Another tuesday another amazing video by the Queen of History! Your voice is so soothing and amazing to listen to Lindsay! Could hear you for hours talking about painting and never get bored! Your hardwork is always appreciated. Can you please consider covering Queen anne? Under her Britain was born and she and her husband george deserved much better with their children.
i just love when these videos help establish a good world view timeline, and help me associate and reconcile large events with each other. Plz make more like this.
Me too, man! Catherine de’ Medici is my 14x great-grandmother! In my honest opinions, based on historical nuances and what I studied about her as well as her regency during the French Wars of Religion, she was not as bad/tyrannical as commonly portrayed. I am descended from Élisabeth of France, Queen Consort of Spain, and Claude of France, Duchess Consort of Lorraine, the daughters of Catherine de’ Medici and Henry II of France. The popular “Serpent Queen” narrative is so tiresome…
Honestly, I can see why. From what I've read and heard of her, I've been wondering for quite some time just how much of Catherine's actions were because she was, at the same time as she was a queen regent for at least two of her sons, a mother simply trying to protect her children. When her husband Henri II died, many of her children if not all of them were still underage, and Catherine might have been one of their only sources of support to protect them from harm if not the sole source. Catherine might have been a queen consort and later a queen mother, but she was also a mother. Her children and their well-beings were, if not her greatest priority, one of her greatest priorities, and like many, if not all mothers, she would have done anything to ensure they were safe and could live peacefully. Even her son-in-law, Henri IV of France, once said that she was compelled to do what she had to do when dealing with the Wars of Religion and those fighting them for the sake of her children, even noting the fact that several of them were underage even at the time. He even said that he was surprised that she didn't do worse things than what she ultimately did throughout her life. There's a very good reason why the Mama Bear trope exists in TV Tropes, and I definitely consider Catherine one herself.
Hi there Lindsay, could you do a series of videos about Polish Kings and Queens as well as their consorts. I'd love to see more videos about Polish history on your channel.
Oh! More English history?! Yes please! This is my favorite subject Lindsay and i LOVE all your videos on it! Good Queen Bess was amazing! And you are too❤❤❤👸👸👸
I have the same birthday as Catherine de Medici (April 13)! I knew a bit about her already, but I never knew about her frenemy relationship with Elizabeth I.
What an incredible closing line… _”…they (Queens Elizabeth & Catherine) both ended in much the same place, as dazzling exclamation points at the end of two great dynasties…”_
I was going to say. I never heard anything about Elizabeth leaving England in her reign if not her life. Do I wondered if they ever actually meet face to face. I don’t think even if they did, Catherine’s alpha dog ego would have gotten in the way
Suggestion: Princesses who were 𝗮𝗹𝗺𝗼𝘀𝘁 queens regnant Note: female heirs who could've been queens regnant but did not due to their death, renouncing their right or other factors. Ex: Princess Charlotte of wales who would've been queen regnant have she not died in childbirth. Sophia of Hanover would've been queen regnant have she outlived Queen Anne. Princess Charlotte, Duchess of Valentinois who would've been sovereign princess have she not renounced her right in favor of her son.
13:34 wait wait wait. Elizabeth’s astronomer was John Dee, Catherine’s was Nostradamus, and the church didn’t just outwardly say these two were witches and condemn them??? That’s amazing. Those are two of the most famous male occult figures in history, next to Crowley and Gardner. I am absolutely stunned by that
Imagine, being 14 years old and just got married to a man you never met before, and then your father-in-law watches the night you are lose your virginity. A nightmare!
I have to say that your voice is very pleasant to listen to and your videos are so interesting! I will actually click off of videos if I do not enjoy the narrators voice or if it's AI. When the documentary quality matches the narration and voice, it's PERFECT😊 THANK YOU😁
Personally, if I were Catherine, I wasn't about to allow Henri and Diane to humiliate me one more time before he died, either. 🤷♀️ I'm just petty like that.
I always find it absurd that many call Catherine de Medici was a commoner. Yes, her father was not of royal blood or aristocratic enough and his title of Duke of Urbino basically on loan to them and was returned to it’s legitimate own later. But many tend to forget than even if Catherine did not end up marrying Henry II, she would still be the sovereign Countess of Auvergne upon the death of her aunt Anne de La Tour d’Auvergne in 1524. In fact, Catherine de Medici became the sovereign Countess of Auvergne in 1524 at the age of 5 though control of the county was held by her uncle John Stewart, Duke of Albany and jure uroxis Count of Auvergne and Lauraguais. John Stewart died in 1536 and thus the control of the County of Auvergne should have passed to Catherine de Medici, but as she was already married to Henry, Duke of Orleans - the control and authority over the county was exercised by her current guardian, none other than King Francis I of France. Upon Catherine’s death, the County of Auvergne, Boulogne and Lauraguais merged with the French crown and thus in made the County the last French independent sovereign feudal state to be absorbed to the French crown.
I am a fan of this channel, however, I am very disappointed in the advertisement regarding hormone stabilization for women. Specifically, the comment that you made that had Catherine and Elizabeth had their hormones managed, maybe they would’ve gotten along better. That comment is so disappointing, especially coming from a woman! This is the kind of crap that men have believed for like ever, and is one of the reasons why women are held down in much of western society. I cannot speak for eastern society, but I am very, very disappointed!
I also checked out the sponsor's website and it's very misleading. I have a background in ad/pr, but I'm a science librarian now, and I can say from both perspectives that the marketing language on their website is sketch and troubling (for example, they mention "toxins"/"toxic waste"/"detox" - these are all meaningless marketing terms, not scientific ones; they also claim that their "natural ingredients" are featured in a number of scientific publications [in a way that implies that these publications would endorse their products and without specifying which ingredients they're talking about - they could literally mean water]). Love Lindsay's content, don't love this sponsor!
I find it interesting that Elizabeth I was actually born in the Chinese year of the snake, whilst Catherine was born in the year of the rabbit... Most likely the Rabbit of Caerbannog, but still just a harmless wee bunny!
Wow, this was intense but so informative. I like parallels: it makes events so much clearer to me. Could you refer me to one of your épisode that would explain the beginng the feud between England and France please?
Tuesday delights! Thank you Lindsay.❤👍😊 Poor Mary Queen of Scots didn't stand a chance with those two ruling France and England. Mary wouldn't have been allowed to live in peace and obscurity in either France or England (Perhaps as queen-regnant of Scotland she did not want to live in obscurity?)
Mary was fed the lime she was rightful Queen of England. Even the pope told her this as Elizabeth was protestant and Mary Catholic. And the pope sanctioned Elizabeth assassination so May cold gain the throne
Philip hadn't seen Mary in many months of not years by that point so knew it wouldn't have been a child but more likely a phantom pregnancy. Most likely brought on by her pathological want and need for an heir. She had a few phantoms. Her last 'pregancy' turned out to be cancer though which killed her.
I have to wonder if Elizabeth’s refusal to produce an heir was a snub to her father and his destructive obsession with securing the Tudor dynasty. The line died with her, maybe she had the last laugh and it was revenge for her mother.
No, it wasn’t. It was due to lack of reasonable options. She was engaged to be married for a while, and quite excited for it, but the engagement fell through. She also clearly wanted to marry Dudley, but couldn’t. Elizabeth didn’t remember her mother, and had very little attachment to her. She left her in the criminal’s grave she was buried in, while Mary I had intended to move her mother’s grave to a location befitting her position but died before she could
This is a word for word remake of your Medici video from 4 years ago, spliced with Elizabeth content. Not complaining, but since I just watched the other one last week, i was having MAJOR deja vu 😂
They probably did have an intense rivalry. I just don’t agree that Elizabeth and Catherine were on equal footing as rulers as your video states. Elizabeth had decided not to wed. We can’t say for sure, but Elizabeth had no desire to he ruled by a husband. Also the fact that if she had married her husband might want to he king. He might try to get rid of her. I do admire Catherine de Medici. She was a Queen consort. Catherine was basically told who she would marry. Her husband was the 2nd son of the King France. Her husband, the king, was killed in a jousting accident. Yes, Catherine was the regent to her son as well as the power behind the throne of her sons who became king, Francis II, Charles IX, and Henry III. Elizabeth had the ability to rule as the sovereign. Even though Catherine had power I feel it wasn’t the same as Elizabeth’s.
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LOVE your history videos Lindsay! You're the best teacher there is! Than for all your hardwork! All those AI generated documentaries combined have NOTHING on you. Hearth please
@4:59 I don't know which is crazier, two 14-year-olds getting married while his father watched them consummate or the fact that the 14-year-old groom fell in love with a 38-year-old woman.
French men apparently have a thing for this. Just look at their current president and his wife, who is 25 years his senior and groomed him as teen :D
It was common, if not a required, to have an audience on the wedding night in order to confirm the act was consummated. The court was also present during the delivery of royal babies.
And the 38-Year-old-woman was his carer
@@Martin-Tellothat's so gross.
Diane is a sicko he was a child.
Omg the last time I was this early Henry Viii was still married to Cathrine of Aragon(EDIT :OMG TYSMMM FOR THE LIKES AND POSITIVE COMMENTS HOPE YALL HAD A GOOD DAY !）
wilddd lmao 😭🙏
🤣🤣🤣🤣
Great comment!
Or was she still married to Henry's brother, Arthur?
Haha, so cheaky 😂
I heard about these queens from the history books before, but I didn't even know that there was a rivalry between these two. Thank you Lindsay for the forgotten history
It's all in my book, Blood Fire and Gold. Thank you Lindsay for giving it a bigger platform.
Catherine Medici has gotten more notice since the tv series Reign.
Elizabeth I and Catherine de Medici knew how to play the game which catapulted them to the ultimate peak of power. But history is hardly kind to women who wield power.
It’s hardly kind to kings either. Victim points = 0
@@debbylou5729 nope quit lying cuz there's no competition going on here
Honestly, just how much of Catherine's actions were because she was a mother trying to protect her children? I've wondered this for so long, especially as I learned more about her and looked deeper. After Henri II of France died, Catherine was a widow in a foreign court with several underage children, seven to be exact, and with all the pains in the back that she faced from the beginning of her widowhood until her death, protecting her family was probably one of the biggest priorities if not the biggest priority on her mind when dealing with said pains in the back. Henri IV of France even said this quote about her: "I ask you, what could a woman do, left by the death of her husband with five little children on her arms, and two families of France who were thinking of grasping the crown-our own [the Bourbons] and the Guises? Was she not compelled to play strange parts to deceive first one and then the other, in order to guard, as she did, her sons, who successively reigned through the wise conduct of that shrewd woman? I am surprised that she never did worse."
If even he of all people was willing to admit that one of the biggest reasons (if not the sole reason) Catherine did what she did was to ensure the safety of her children, especially the sons who ruled while they were still underage, then I can definitely believe that one of her primary reasons for her actions if not the primary reason was her children. She may have been queen mother of France after being widowed and was regent for two of her sons due to their youth, but she was also a mother. No doubt she was very aware that her children, especially her sons, were underage even for the time and therefore needed all the support and protection they could get, so it's really no surprise that she devoted everything she had and did all she could so that they had that support and protection, even if she was the sole source of both. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if she was the sole source of support and protection for them at times.
There's a very good reason why the Mama Bear trope exists on TV Tropes when describing mothers, and I definitely count Catherine as one with all that she did. She went to a lot of lengths to ensure her sons would remain on the throne of France despite the many threats to their reigns, and many of those lengths if not all of them were to ensure that those threats would not get to them in any shape or form. She, in my eyes, did this not just as a queen mother and queen regent, but as a mother to ensure the safety and security of her children, even if all of them predeceased her except for Henri III of France and Margaret of Valois. She may have also never done worse things than what she did, but I'm willing to bet that she was at least willing to do worse if the situation ever called for it, because from what I've seen and heard in both real life and in popular culture, the wrath of a mother is truly something to behold.
Catherine is far from the only woman in history vilified for this though: how many women in history, such as Agrippina the Younger, Hurrem Sultan, and many others, have been vilified for so long for actions they committed that, when looked at in a different lens, could have at least been rooted from the fact that they were mothers wanting to protect their children and ensure that they would have secure lives? I think that far too many, including Catherine, have suffered vilification just because they dared to claim power when maybe, just maybe, a far stronger motivation if not their sole one was the next generation and ensuring that they had at least some form of security in their lives long after those before them had passed on. I hope that as women in history who held power are reevaluated and reexamined, or at least looked at again and are learned about by more and more people, that the fact that some of these women if not all of them were mothers and therefore may have been simply trying to protect their children is taken into account more frequently and that it's used as a lens to examine certain historical events and actions where it might apply.
Make a channel
Bingo. Could NOT have said it any better.
*Mary Queen of Scots was not the granddaughter of Henry VII, but his great granddaughter. Elizabeth I was his granddaughter and 1st cousin of James V of Scotland (Mary's Dad) even though she was young enough to be his daughter (Henry VIII had his younger kids late in life & was old enough to their grandpa).
I would argue that Catherine and Elizabeth weren’t rivals at all. Elizabeth wanted to concentrate on ruling England and fixing the economic problems that she inherited from both her brother and sister: she had no interest in wars. And while Catherine might have preferred a Catholic on the English throne, France had enough problems with internal strife and an adversarial relationship with Spain to deal with.
In fact, it was Mary, Queen of Scots, her husband Francois II and her Guise relatives that had the most adversarial relationship with Elizabeth, and the relationship with France definitely improved with Francois’ death and Mary returning to Scotland.
Overall, I would consider Elizabeth and Catherine to be uneasy allies more than rivals.
Elizabeth even said once that out of all the rulers of Europe at the time, Catherine was the one she feared the most
Please do make a video on Rajiya sultan of Delhi and Rani Lakshmi Bai of jhansi, the warrior queens of India, among many ......❤
Now I have to find out ab them 💯💯💯💯
India had some great women.
Hi Lindsay, I'm glad that you liked my book so much (Blood Fire and Gold) that it inspired you doing a video. I enjoyed that. Would you like to do a collaboration type video on the Serpent Queen? Estelle Paranque
I've always been really sad for Elizabeth, thinking she never wanted to be married, then the moment she thought she might want to, her people didn't want him to be her husband. ❤️ Gloriana has always been my favorite queen and if I could go back in time, I'd definitely go back to see Elizabeth at her court.
I cannot express how excited I am to watch this video! I've been binging your content about Elizabeth and Cathrine and was so excited when I saw this!!
Wow brilliant i knew most of Elizabeth's story, but nothing about the Medici queen thank you.. I love the way you narrate easy to understand ehat you are saying . And you make it so interesting 😉. Keep up the good work
It's all in my book Blood Fire and Gold. I'm so grateful to Lindsay for bringing my book to a bigger audience. :)
You should watch 'The Serpent Queen'. It's a great series. I gotnit on a website I use for series and movies and screen mirror it to my TV.
This is the first time that any of this has made sense to me, and that's after years of reading many wonderful books. Thank you for your excellent diction and the pace of your dialogue. What a crazy history this was!!
Are these great rivalries gonna become a series? That would be so cool.
If so Henry VIII and François I should be part 2
@@jacquesgotbacque part I
bcz they were earlier
Fully agree!! I have so many ideas:
Ferdinand I and Philip the Fair
Maria Theresa and Frederick the Great
Francis I and Charles V (maybe a 2 parter including Henry VIII in like a "hate triangle")
George II and his father George I
Sorry, I'm a history nerd
@monical.r13 those are great ideas!!! I'm a history nerd too lol
@@monical.r13 George I and George II sound like a great idea! I even considered George III's wife Charlotte and his mother Augusta. That might be more of a one-sided antagonistic rivalry from Augusta's side.
I was surprised ro find that safiye sultan of the ottomans respected her contemporary Elizabeth I because as Valide Sultan, she technically only ruled the harem not the empire but she was rhe real power behind the throne yet could never say so or act like it like Elizabeth did
So excited to learn more about the de Medici family!
I know her channel focuses on women in history but i hope she makes a video on francois 1 vs charles 5. Their rivalry was so interesting
True!!
It was epic.
Another tuesday another amazing video by the Queen of History! Your voice is so soothing and amazing to listen to Lindsay! Could hear you for hours talking about painting and never get bored! Your hardwork is always appreciated. Can you please consider covering Queen anne? Under her Britain was born and she and her husband george deserved much better with their children.
i just love when these videos help establish a good world view timeline, and help me associate and reconcile large events with each other. Plz make more like this.
I am a proud Catherine de Medici apologist.
Me too, man! Catherine de’ Medici is my 14x great-grandmother! In my honest opinions, based on historical nuances and what I studied about her as well as her regency during the French Wars of Religion, she was not as bad/tyrannical as commonly portrayed.
I am descended from Élisabeth of France, Queen Consort of Spain, and Claude of France, Duchess Consort of Lorraine, the daughters of Catherine de’ Medici and Henry II of France.
The popular “Serpent Queen” narrative is so tiresome…
Honestly, I can see why. From what I've read and heard of her, I've been wondering for quite some time just how much of Catherine's actions were because she was, at the same time as she was a queen regent for at least two of her sons, a mother simply trying to protect her children. When her husband Henri II died, many of her children if not all of them were still underage, and Catherine might have been one of their only sources of support to protect them from harm if not the sole source. Catherine might have been a queen consort and later a queen mother, but she was also a mother. Her children and their well-beings were, if not her greatest priority, one of her greatest priorities, and like many, if not all mothers, she would have done anything to ensure they were safe and could live peacefully. Even her son-in-law, Henri IV of France, once said that she was compelled to do what she had to do when dealing with the Wars of Religion and those fighting them for the sake of her children, even noting the fact that several of them were underage even at the time. He even said that he was surprised that she didn't do worse things than what she ultimately did throughout her life. There's a very good reason why the Mama Bear trope exists in TV Tropes, and I definitely consider Catherine one herself.
Hi there Lindsay, could you do a series of videos about Polish Kings and Queens as well as their consorts. I'd love to see more videos about Polish history on your channel.
Oh! More English history?! Yes please! This is my favorite subject Lindsay and i LOVE all your videos on it! Good Queen Bess was amazing! And you are too❤❤❤👸👸👸
Please do video about Great Dutchy of Lithuania royals.
I would love a rivalry series! That would be awesome 🩷🩷🙏🙏 love your work Lindsay!🥰
I have the same birthday as Catherine de Medici (April 13)! I knew a bit about her already, but I never knew about her frenemy relationship with Elizabeth I.
there two things i love: history + tea time and Lindsay serves both and I love it :)
What an incredible closing line…
_”…they (Queens Elizabeth & Catherine) both ended in much the same place, as dazzling exclamation points at the end of two great dynasties…”_
I finished Blood, Fire & Gold last month! You have the best content. I share you with all my friends when they have history questions. Great Video!
Fun fact. Elizabeth I was known as 'The Cat' at court. Katarina d'Medici is 'The Serpent.'
Cat vs Viper = boss fight
I was going to say. I never heard anything about Elizabeth leaving England in her reign if not her life. Do I wondered if they ever actually meet face to face. I don’t think even if they did, Catherine’s alpha dog ego would have gotten in the way
These videos are the highlight of my Tuesdays
Thanks for the video Lindsay
"Each had shown valor in the joust" .....🤢🤮
Suggestion: Princesses who were 𝗮𝗹𝗺𝗼𝘀𝘁 queens regnant
Note: female heirs who could've been queens regnant but did not due to their death, renouncing their right or other factors.
Ex: Princess Charlotte of wales who would've been queen regnant have she not died in childbirth.
Sophia of Hanover would've been queen regnant have she outlived Queen Anne.
Princess Charlotte, Duchess of Valentinois who would've been sovereign princess have she not renounced her right in favor of her son.
Lindsay: I’m gonna be discussing the Medici family
Me: YASSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!
Last time I was this early, Anne Boleyn still had her head.
Let’s get this woman to 1 MILLION 0:09
Queen Elizabeth was having enemies left and right, god
13:34 wait wait wait. Elizabeth’s astronomer was John Dee, Catherine’s was Nostradamus, and the church didn’t just outwardly say these two were witches and condemn them??? That’s amazing. Those are two of the most famous male occult figures in history, next to Crowley and Gardner. I am absolutely stunned by that
Elizabeth’s was John Dee, this made me mad hearing this lol.
@@Mascaramaskofdeath why?
All monarchs had 'astronomers in those days.
My ancestor was married to John Dee's sister Jane Dee. I am a direct descendent.
@ what are your thoughts on spiritual religions?
Imagine, being 14 years old and just got married to a man you never met before, and then your father-in-law watches the night you are lose your virginity. A nightmare!
Imagine they put there hand in you to make sure your a virgin before you get married 😮
So many, many felonies! It had to have been hell being that close to the Throne.
This was really cool! Thanks, Lindsay!
I have to say that your voice is very pleasant to listen to and your videos are so interesting! I will actually click off of videos if I do not enjoy the narrators voice or if it's AI. When the documentary quality matches the narration and voice, it's PERFECT😊 THANK YOU😁
Personally, if I were Catherine, I wasn't about to allow Henri and Diane to humiliate me one more time before he died, either. 🤷♀️ I'm just petty like that.
I always find it absurd that many call Catherine de Medici was a commoner. Yes, her father was not of royal blood or aristocratic enough and his title of Duke of Urbino basically on loan to them and was returned to it’s legitimate own later. But many tend to forget than even if Catherine did not end up marrying Henry II, she would still be the sovereign Countess of Auvergne upon the death of her aunt Anne de La Tour d’Auvergne in 1524. In fact, Catherine de Medici became the sovereign Countess of Auvergne in 1524 at the age of 5 though control of the county was held by her uncle John Stewart, Duke of Albany and jure uroxis Count of Auvergne and Lauraguais. John Stewart died in 1536 and thus the control of the County of Auvergne should have passed to Catherine de Medici, but as she was already married to Henry, Duke of Orleans - the control and authority over the county was exercised by her current guardian, none other than King Francis I of France. Upon Catherine’s death, the County of Auvergne, Boulogne and Lauraguais merged with the French crown and thus in made the County the last French independent sovereign feudal state to be absorbed to the French crown.
These queens are connected to Mary Queen of Scots. Catherine de Medici is Mary Queen of Scots Mother in law and Elizabeth I is Mary's cousin.
All of the Western European royals are inbred.
Yay 🎉 New Series ❤ And Can You Please Do Other Dynasties As Well Please And Thank You 💓
It's fantastic that you cover history that relates to current tv shows.
Hey Lindsey love your videos ❤ can you do a video on the Irish monarchs?
Who else thinks the thumbnail is on point?
Two divas queening it out
The fact that Elizabeth actually accepted Francis, Duke of Anjou’s proposal really shocked me as I never knew any of her affections went that far.
I am a fan of this channel, however, I am very disappointed in the advertisement regarding hormone stabilization for women. Specifically, the comment that you made that had Catherine and Elizabeth had their hormones managed, maybe they would’ve gotten along better. That comment is so disappointing, especially coming from a woman! This is the kind of crap that men have believed for like ever, and is one of the reasons why women are held down in much of western society. I cannot speak for eastern society, but I am very, very disappointed!
You make a valid point, I have edited.
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Love your videos! Not sure about the Nostradamus business though. Any event that happened after his "predictions" could be spun to fit them.
I find it interesting that Elizabeth I was actually born in the Chinese year of the snake, whilst Catherine was born in the year of the rabbit...
Most likely the Rabbit of Caerbannog, but still just a harmless wee bunny!
I can’t wait to see if Lindsey will cover the Pazzi conspiracy.
💯 I will, and lots of other juicy bits!
There was so much information in this video. I can only guess how much you had to leave out in order to streamline this. Talk about Game Of Thrones!
Ugh I just wish I could time travel and convey to Henry VIII how epic Elizabeth I is historically.
And he’d probably accuse you of witchcraft and execute you! 🤣 but I agree!
Wow, this was intense but so informative. I like parallels: it makes events so much clearer to me. Could you refer me to one of your épisode that would explain the beginng the feud between England and France please?
BABE, WAKE UP! A NEW RENAISSANCE VID JUST DROPPED!!
Tuesday delights! Thank you Lindsay.❤👍😊
Poor Mary Queen of Scots didn't stand a chance with those two ruling France and England. Mary wouldn't have been allowed to live
in peace and obscurity in either France or England (Perhaps as queen-regnant of Scotland she did not want to live in obscurity?)
Mary was fed the lime she was rightful Queen of England. Even the pope told her this as Elizabeth was protestant and Mary Catholic. And the pope sanctioned Elizabeth assassination so May cold gain the throne
Are any of the letters between Elizabeth and Francois available to read? I’d love to see their version of ‘steamy’ love letters 👀😂
Yes, that would be interesting.
Is it true that Mary's husband said that her "pregnancy" was more likely to end in a gust of wind than in an actual child?!
Ha, ha. Damn, I so want this to be true!
Philip hadn't seen Mary in many months of not years by that point so knew it wouldn't have been a child but more likely a phantom pregnancy. Most likely brought on by her pathological want and need for an heir. She had a few phantoms. Her last 'pregancy' turned out to be cancer though which killed her.
I love this channel so much! 🫶🤍☺️
I didn't realize how much the actresses (young and older) look so much like Catherine. Wow.
I am so happy that I happened upon your channel! Good stuff❤
Very good. Enjoyed. Thank you.
Excellent video… hope to see more of this soon. Thanks 🙏🏻 so much for sharing.
See at first when I saw this I thought you was gonna do a rivalry between Queen Elizabeth the first and Queen Mary the first
I have to wonder if Elizabeth’s refusal to produce an heir was a snub to her father and his destructive obsession with securing the Tudor dynasty. The line died with her, maybe she had the last laugh and it was revenge for her mother.
I’ve had that thought as well
No, it wasn’t. It was due to lack of reasonable options. She was engaged to be married for a while, and quite excited for it, but the engagement fell through. She also clearly wanted to marry Dudley, but couldn’t.
Elizabeth didn’t remember her mother, and had very little attachment to her. She left her in the criminal’s grave she was buried in, while Mary I had intended to move her mother’s grave to a location befitting her position but died before she could
Could you make a video on Korean history? Or do a full history on the Ottomans?
who else like Lindsay
Well I’m earlier then I though I would be
I love this idea! Historical rivalry ❤
I'd say both . But ( don't come at me ) Catherine De Medichi was a true serpent Queen
What does the Kennedy family tree have anything to do with Elizabeth I, Catherine Medici, or Mary of Scots??????
Is there a possibility you talk about the brazilian royal family? Dom Pedro I and Dom Pedro II, please?
I’m sorry I like the whole reign version much better than the Shelby
This is a word for word remake of your Medici video from 4 years ago, spliced with Elizabeth content. Not complaining, but since I just watched the other one last week, i was having MAJOR deja vu 😂
I love your voice and delivery!
They probably did have an intense rivalry. I just don’t agree that Elizabeth and Catherine were on equal footing as rulers as your video states. Elizabeth had decided not to wed. We can’t say for sure, but Elizabeth had no desire to he ruled by a husband. Also the fact that if she had married her husband might want to he king. He might try to get rid of her. I do admire Catherine de Medici. She was a Queen consort. Catherine was basically told who she would marry. Her husband was the 2nd son of the King France. Her husband, the king, was killed in a jousting accident. Yes, Catherine was the regent to her son as well as the power behind the throne of her sons who became king, Francis II, Charles IX, and Henry III. Elizabeth had the ability to rule as the sovereign. Even though Catherine had power I feel it wasn’t the same as Elizabeth’s.
Could you do a series about the French kings?
Can you please 🙏 make a video 📹 🙏 of Queen Claude of France 🇫🇷 please ❤️ 🙏
I really enjoy your channel. Thank you for sharing your work.
Elizabeth reminds me of Rhaenyra and Catherine of Alicent of "House Of the Dragon"
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The sponsor doesn't list any side effects on their site. They just say to talk to your doctor and that some people may experience "adverse effects" (without specifying what those effects might be). That, along with the misleading marketing language all over their site, makes them super-sketch.
Both I pick both
Please do a video about the history of Iran.
Thanks!
Thank you!
Obsessed with the show! I needed to know more.
Marie Antoinette and Queen Charlotte next???🙏🙏😫😫💕💕💐
Now I'm more interested in a video about every French monarch like you did with the British monarch😊
Love that even when women were in charge the France v England rivalry continued.
Great job 👍. Please do a series on the France kings and queen consorts just like the English one.
I love your content! can you cover game of thrones pls? ik its fantasy but I think you'd be really good at telling it
19:00 What are the Kennedys doing here? 😅
I’m here after watching serpent queen….. I’ve already watched your videos of both woman separately so now I’m here for the riverly
I was never too interested in the Royals’ lines but your videos are very captivating. 🤔👍
Wonderfully done!
I would be lying if I didn’t say Sid Myer’s Civ6 didn’t bring me here…
LOVE your history videos Lindsay! You're the best teacher there is! Than for all your hardwork! All those AI generated documentaries combined have NOTHING on you. Hearth please