Charlemagne: How He Changed History Forever

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Warrior. Ruler. Patron of the arts and language. Terrorist. Brutal oppressor. Protector of the good. Guardian of Christendom. Father of Europe. There are so many different ways in which Charlemagne can be described, and yet the man himself is often seen as an enigma. Depending on the viewpoint of history, he could have been either a monster or a guardian angel. Yet, as with most men, the truth lies somewhere in between. The truth is that he was human.
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[@bornaxo55]

The painting in 0:56 is called “Dolazak Hrvata” by Croatian painter Oton Iveković. Its about Croats coming to Dalmatian coast, not about Franks. I understand that the painting was probably put symbolically but I just wanted to point it out because it is a nice painting and Croatian history is very rich and interesting for you to explore just like the Croatia itself.

[@nicholaspierce7762]

Hrvatska

[@cielprofondinfo]

Excellent video! One minor quip: the “average lifespan” back then was indeed short, but only due to hogh child mortality. Once one made it to adulthood, they had a good chance of living up to 50, 60, even 70 years old.

[@duhmzdaih]

Nice, I only have a couple of problems with the video: I don't think he conquered "Spain", like the whole peninsula, just a part of it, and the average lifespan was low because of infant mortality, not because adults lived significantly less time than modern people. Living to be 70 years old wasn't a feat at all, specially for a king like Charlemagne. Of course they were more vulnerable to diseases than us modern people, but if they could survive childhood they could often get to old age.

[@jasperdenotter2066]

no. the reconquista lasted from the early 700s to well into the 1400s.

[@parisfrance6483]

@@jasperdenotter2066 ???

[@williamwestbrook-rosales6508]

Yes he did who are the Vanadals, Visagoths and Ostragoths

[@duhmzdaih]

@@williamwestbrook-rosales6508 Those were tribes that didn't control the whole peninsula, ergo, they weren't "Spain".

[@jonjones8613]

That's like saying I don't have English history. I have Welsh history when whales is in England.

[@paulberge6921]

Well done, but I would've liked more dates in the narration. The first date I noted was 814, appearing at the end of the video. Thank you

[@mdj.6179]

I read that Karl de Grosse was the father of Germany. After asking many librarians over the years I found out he was Charlemagne when the internet came out...

[@Threadbow]

Must've been all the book burning in Germany Mr H had a massive EGO

[@miffedmax]

Karl de Grosse is correct. (yeah, I was a German history major)

[@oriraykai3610]

A lot of those glorious cathedrals in Europe can be traced back to the influence of Charlemagne.

[@oliviareilly7519]

just what i was looking for! thank you so much!

[@catrinacraft]

In history class we spent a lot of time on Charlemagne..

[@boygoinup2227]

Sorry but everytime I hear the name Charlamagne I think of Charlamagne the god lmao 😭😭💀💀😭😭😭💀💀💀😆💀💀😆💀😭😭💀

[@youngdave3283]

@@boygoinup2227tell us you wash you're chicken without telling us you're black

[@yallhellamessy9291]

​@@boygoinup2227cultural appropriation

[@overcomerbtbojesus]

@@boygoinup2227lol 🤣😂🤣

A waste of time.

[@ScoundrelSFB]

It's hard to fathom living in those days. The picturs and paintings dont do enough justice. Imagine every battle like "The battle of the bastards".

[@jondicsre3056]

Outstanding! You hit every important key point, but you could have specifically mentioned the Carolingian Minuscule script. Excellent summary.

[@aegon9015]

Awesome 👏🏻 thank y’all

[@admiralb2848]

Nice job. More culture than I usually absorb on KZbin.

[@matthewmaguire3554]

Thanks…Cleared up a running argument…My friend Angus insisted Steely Dan invented the name Charlemagne for their song…Thanks for settling that vault fire.🔥

[@andrewvelonis5940]

Do you know the origin of the name "Steely Dan"?

[@rambuxraider3117]

Steely Dan didn't do that. The name is a derivation from the Big Charlie bubblegum, which historians has retrospectively pinned on this gentleman.

[@jefferyschic]

That time that one monk made an err... Celebrate and celebate, have never been the same...

[@shinobi-no-bueno]

That's not Charlemagne, that's Saruman!

[@annamosier1950]

very good info

[@RichadTheLionHeat]

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[@cassie7316]

Subordinates lol

[@peter4Flags]

Thank you appreciated 🙏

[@robschillhorn7722]

Cool, found all your audio books on Storytel. I’m gonna enjoy listening to all of them while working in the workshop

[@patriciajrs46]

What is your workshop? Metalwork, or woodwork? Or other?

[@robschillhorn7722]

@@patriciajrs46 Re-upholstery

[@robschillhorn7722]

Upholstery. Not as noisy as metal or woodworking

[@patriciajrs46]

@@robschillhorn7722 Very cool. My husband and I used to do upholstery work.

[@robertpayne9009]

Thanks!

[@solaurelian7638]

I had no idea Charlemagne was so integral to the writings of the great ancients, without the words of Cicero for example, our knowledge of the Empire would be drastically reduced. Cicero is a big reason our Latin is so well known!

[@rns7426]

😊😊❤❤😊iù😂

[@TEverettReynolds]

I believe I read that Charlemagne copied over 100,000 ancient manuscripts (~800 AD), and it was only because of his efforts that the historians of the Renaissance (1400 AD) had this information, which we rely on today since only 12% of what Charlemagne copied still exists today. If it wasn't for Charlemagne's efforts to preserve history, Western Civilization might not be the same today.

[@dbjkatz]

​@@TEverettReynoldsquite possibly...although a great deal was preserved in Ireland and the Vatican itself. Two of the worst setbacks to documenting history were the destruction of the Great Library at Alexandria around the time of Julius Caesar and the Mongols destroying Baghdad (esp. its library) in 1258.

[@bobdelaney3126]

He was truly GREAT

[@christopherstein2024]

Edit: The etymology of the name of the Franks is not clear. There are multiple theories. Also nothing derived from the name Charlemagne. His name was Karl, in latin Karolus (as seen on the coin) later Karolus Magnus. Those lead to the words shown on screen including Charlemagne.

[@RossJohnson-johns224]

That interpretation came much later en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Name_of_the_Franks?wprov=sfti1

[@sully553]

So often the "barbarians" (specifically the Germanics) the ancient Romans describe were high-trust and relatively advanced societies, but they valued freedom of movement and familial ties more so than the Roman drive towards urbanization and civilized life within an empire or "nation-state". This is well played out during the Visigoth invasion of Italy at the end of the western empire. Charlemagne and the Europe of his age are fascinating because they represent an intersection of these two competing outlooks on European life.

[@user-nz6dx2fj6h]

His name was Charles, son of Pepin the Fat.

[@christopherstein2024]

@@user-nz6dx2fj6h Charles is an old french term derived from Carolus.

[@MrCorky911]

Anyone with some historical background would know "Charlemagne" is just the English translation and that all those derivations were from his actual name whether Frankish/Latin.

[@paulpugh2480]

This was very interesting.

[@HaraldEngels]

The Franks have been a Germanic tribe and they spoke Frankish (a West-Germanic language). Therefore he should be named based on his Germanic name (Karl der Grosse). The capital of the Frankish kingdom was Aachen (in Germany).

[@user-gz8we9hm2j]

Aachen has a French name, Aix la Chapelle, Capella, the language of the state of the Franks created the Old French language, the capitals of the Franks in Tournai and Paris

[@liesbethgreen6586]

Actually he spoke Old dutch, so not really. Look up the region. He was born in Flanders. So, it should be 'Karel de Grote'.

[@user-gz8we9hm2j]

Même dans le 3e Reich, il s'appelait Charlemagne en français

[@user-gz8we9hm2j]

Aix-la-chapelle porte le nom français d'Aix-la-chapelle

[@user-gz8we9hm2j]

There was nothing German about him, and his parents were born in France

[@jaymehta9037]

very nice vid will subscribe

[@jondicsre3056]

May I suggest a similar video on Clovis.

[@HistoryfortheAges]

I have a longer lecture on the Franks on my channel, you may enjoy it. It does not have fancy animations, but I hope gives a clear survey of the time. kzbin.info/www/bejne/nqDXiJlrir-gqdE

[@tildag.9809]

I just saw a video of the family tree of Queen Elizabeth II, and it turns out she's somewhat related to this king... 😎

[@unseenufo]

He spread his seed all over Europe. You are probably related as well.

[@georgimihalkov9678]

Tsar comes from the Slavic pronunciation of the name Ceaser, not Russian. Bulgaria had Tsar rulers centuries before Russia.

[@solaurelian7638]

Bulgars got clapped by Basil II

[@georgimihalkov9678]

@@solaurelian7638 Byzantines got slapped by Asparuh, Krum, Simeon, Kaloyan, Ivan Asen II ect.

[@christopherstein2024]

@@solaurelian7638 ooga booga mindset

[@solaurelian7638]

@@christopherstein2024 ok “stein”

[@christopherstein2024]

@@solaurelian7638 Yes, I rock.

[@1SaG]

I've been to Tours many times and went to university there (lovely city), so I can definitively say that the "s" in "Tours" is silent. :P

[@emredunder9108]

Amazing video! I am surprised to see the number of stock photos. When considering these ones, you should pay a lot :D

[@royrowland5763]

According to Snopes, Charlemagne is NOT the King of Hearts in a pack of playing cards today. Several cultures have had playing cards, all of them with varying features. Only the French had identified that King as Charlemagne, and even that association was relatively short-lived and had ended by the end of the 18th century. In that website's words, "The royal figures on modern playing cards no more represent specific persons than do the kings and queens in chess sets."

[@johnmrke2786]

There is a lot of unresearched bullshit in this video. Hispaniola is not the iberian Peninsula, it is an island named by Christopher Columbus 600 years later.

[@user-iv5gy3rc2b]

Snopes is a fraud and nobody uses them for fact checking anymore. Seriously.

[@LittleDoctorBird]

He said in a "standard deck"

[@byzantinetales]

One day I hope to create a graphic novel which involves Irene of Athens and Charlemagne.

[@Valhalla88888]

I read somewhere that after the Romans left Britannia in the 5th century, the Picts (Scots today in Scotland) attacked all the way south in today's England, then today's English invited Saxons and Anglos to help fight the Picts, and Charlemagne invited the King of Picts to meet him and said he was impressed by the Picts fighting the Britain's and Anglo Saxons ❤

[@fasx56]

Thank you for the History of Charlemagne's life, what a great and skilled leader. He sure accomplished a lot unifying most of Europe and then becoming King of the Holy Roman Empire.

[@BoundyMan]

The first time I heard about him was when my 6th grade school did the Broadway play "Pippin." Charlemagne was Pippin's father in the play.

[@donnalayton6876]

And to you as well relative. I am proud to be his distant relative. Hope you are as well. Proud of being Charles Martel distant, too.

[@teodytrinidad9497]

I can give back good timing and they can give back Good Kindness

[@damirsirotic052]

In Slavic languages ​​the word for king=kralj comes from Charlemagne=Karlo Veliki (Carolus Magnus), Karlo=>kralj and the Germanic word king/könig means knez=prince in Slavic languages, that's why many medieval Slavic states are called principalities, but in their self-understanding as kingdoms, but in Western historiography they are accepted literally as principalities in the Western sense, and the difference is actually only semantic. The slavic knez is actually a german king (könig) and the kralj is some extremely powerful knez, powerful like Karlo Veliki/Charlemagne, later the word kralj completely replaces the title of knez and the knez becomes something like a governor/regent of the king, a prince, although the Slavs also use the titles Ban and Župan for these positions. In the Germanic and Slavic ruling tradition, the words knez/king/könig originally denoted the leader of a tribe/clan, but in Germanic the word was elevated to royal status, i.e. there is only one king/könig, while in Slavic countries the word knez was replaced by the word kralj for the ruler of a kingdom and not just a tribe/clan. The Slavic word car=emperor comes from Caesar and in the archaic form it is used as cesar/cesarica=emperor/empress.

[@dragonfly9705]

I'm doing my family tree right now, and he appears all the time, I've got him like 20 times and I haven't finished yet. This should be interesting.

[@dragonfly9705]

@@readyready471 what...

[@eugenx]

Yes, everyone of European descent has several lines tracing to him as with many other notable royal (yet today common) ancestors.

[@vCLOWNSHOESv]

Maybe you should go rule Europe? Maybe we can find some relatives of George Washington to run for office here?

[@007Hutchings]

It's pretty common to be traced back to Charlemagne to be honest but best of luck on your family tree!

[@nathankrussow7303]

Lol same here!

[@bob_joe48]

I’m related to Charlemagne

[@jonathancummings6400]

Some people just are superior in quality ad it reflects in their lifetime achievements. Charlemagne was a TITAN and thus his historical influence is TITANIC!

[@HistoryfortheAges]

On my channel I made a short video lecture on the Donation of Constantine that took place around this time. Turned out to be one of the biggest forgeries in history!

[@PalmSandsRanch]

Awesome, just found out doing genealogy I'm a decendant of Charlemagne.

[@adriancastillo2799]

All Europeans are

[@andrewvelonis5940]

Please do a video on Constantine.

[@SuperCatdick]

He only conquered northern Spain, not the whole of it.

[@user-nz6dx2fj6h]

The Jewish kingdom of Septimania in Northwest Spain, to be precise.

[@django1197]

Wow Christopher Lee does look a lot alike his Grandfather. Yes, Christopher Lee is a grandson of Charlemagne.

[@env0x]

charlemagne is grandfather to all english people

[@SamHainScott]

Almost everyone of European descent is a descendant of him, you probably are too, a billion people today are. Lee was mistaken in thinking he had a unique connection and had a plaque made lol

[@amirlach]

@@SamHainScott Yes. The trees branch out and fold back. He had something like 20 known children. My first ansestor who landed at Plymouth in 1635 had his line recorded back 34 steps to St Arnulph who died in 641. Charels was 5 generations after him. These documents are held in the Miami-Dade Public Liabrary system. And I am another score of steps further down. While interesting, very little dna would be left after all thos generations.

[@craigbritton1089]

To those one fact experts who day 70 was a common age of death for rulers before Charlemagne; the average age of death of Roman Emperors was 51; with later Emperors being around 60

[@oakley_cool]

I NEED SOME EXPLAINING! So I’m a normal 12 year old boy from Michigan in the U.S. I love history and have recently been working on my family history. I been using ancestry for a couple months and have been working hard to pit a bunch of my families names in there. Turns out on my father’s side, I’m somehow related to Charlemagne. Is this even possible? I knew he looked like a king so I translated his name and put it in KZbin. I been reading all the comments and all the videos on him. If I’m actually related to him, LETS GO! He seems like a very important guy in history! I’m gonna try to learn more about him as well. It just seems weird that I could be related to someone who’s that amazing in history

[@michaelwilliams4851]

I wonder how many people are direct descendants of him?

[@Retro77691]

Charlemagne Was Turkish 🇹🇷

[@wizardofki]

Charlemagne may have accomplished all of those feats, but he was also ruthless and brutal in his rule and he gave his subjects the ultimatum of convert to Christianity or die which resulted in countless unnecessary deaths.

[@MaryAClark1]

A lot of people were slaughtered and some sent into slavery in his "unification" drive. And he had a great PR man, Einhard. He also came from an established family and stood on the shoulders of many educated and skilled people.

[@rjl7779]

What was that image of a knight (presumably) in solid plate armor? In the 700-800s CE? I don't think so. Makes me wonder about the rest of it.

[@rohanwilkinson1021]

I found that before the Saxon wars Charlemagne was allied to the Norse or Normans that were kicked out of North Denmark by the Saxon invader that Charlemagne saved the Dutch of Deventer from during the Saxon wars. It is also mentioned Charlemagne made alliances with any Saxon or English that opposed the Saxon wars that were launched against the Dutch of Deventer.

[@junit7590]

New Zealand Prime Minister is his 35th great grandaughter.

[@env0x]

a lot of people can trace their lineage back to charlemegne. he's my 39th great grandfather

[@tajkhan6438]

i dont think its accurate to mention that the language was older than sanskrit at 2.20. unless they knew ancient egyption which seems unlikely.

[@PhillipRemulak]

@captivating History, when your narrator begins a sentence with a persons name, they include an unnatural pause it before continuing with the rest of the sentence.

[@Callofduturocks]

Forever

[@robertscardino2527]

"Successfully adding what is now Spain into his kingdom." Not quite. He had the Spanish March, not the entirety of what is now Spain as your graphic suggests.

[@marcdaddy33]

Da God. There. Charlemagne is explained.

[@sasagaming-hz7mf]

What about harun's clock

[@aleksaradosavljevic4001]

He proved Christians worthy of them reading the bible and attending church making them devout Christians and glorifying the nation of prosperity.

[@codyj.braunva5406]

@Quentin Baggett Douay-Rheims only

[@aleksaradosavljevic4001]

@Keanu Reeves I am from Serbia. Where are you from?

[@aleksaradosavljevic4001]

@Keanu Reeves I've been following this channel for 1 year. How about you?

[@duaneharvey1088]

@@user-xo7li6hg5jyou uyyyyyyygyyyou you y uuzyyyzzuzzzz❤ 0:00

[@monalisabutweirderian2454]

He's my a million the gramps and I'm German and European

[@v.p.stolat1217]

IN WHAT YEAR WAS HE CROWNED EMPEROR?

[@KellieEverts-ss8uz]

Oh .. Charlemagne!

[@toxicsniper79]

This is really good comrade

[@kenangerstein3561]

I am fortunate to say that both Charlemagne and Julius Caesar are both in my family tree.

[@bothompson-ov6ju]

He gets the credit for a lot of things when really it's nameless Faceless people he rules over that actually do the heavy lifting

[@Retro77691]

Charlemagne Was American 🇺🇸

[@rambuxraider3117]

They named a buublegum after him - the Big Charlie!

[@r3d5ive87]

I’m sure he never went to Hispaniola.

[@Steamerbeen]

Think he had Andorra though

[@palehorsecowboy4]

Least we forget. Irminsul - Verden

[@finallyhere7678]

Please Put English captions also it will help In understanding the videos.

[@sharminabegum6877]

there is im pretty sure. press the CC

[@vedrangrudenic3228]

All amazing only @0:56 or something like that the image is a painting from Oton Iveković "Arrival of Croats at the Mediterranean" - has nothing to do with the Franks But then again the Franks were the overlords to early Croats and Charlemagne is the founder of Europe.

[@sammynourse2756]

Fun fact Charlemagne is my ancestor😎

[@cloutnate8351]

Same with 50 million other people in the world, you’re not special

[@greengoblin876]

Yup, he was a cousin fcker , it was quite popular to " keep it in the family" and boy did the kings of old keep it in the family... commenter below you said 50 million... that's a LOT of incest ..

[@Callofduturocks]

He went from smart to great in one day

[@jfxpals108]

One day his said to his kid, someday kid you will be a title of a song, and you I’ll be champion in their eyes.

[@dadadadoog]

I'd really be interested in reading about someone who changed history temporarily.

[@mooseymcflurffycat3018]

Oliver Cromwell destroyed the British monarchy. Then he died ten years later and they brought it back.

[@dadadadoog]

@mooseymcflurffycat3018 well I suppose there's a sense on which you could say that.

[@MCorpReview]

Who do the other king cards 🃏 club spade represent?😅

[@isac1971]

the spanish name for charlemagne is carlo magno

[@captainkangaroo4301]

Oh, I thought this was about Owsley. I’m sure a few will understand.

[@Covid0001]

It was very interesting when I figured out I was related to him.

[@claytonn3957]

Yes. I bet most people with Western European dna are his descendents. He did have 16 kids

[@Callofduturocks]

I’m the best cuz it’s a feeling

[@alexclement7221]

About Irene: Since the laws of Justinian (which the western Europeans mostly followed, as they gave the Byzantines 'lip service' about technically still ruling as a client state of the Empire) didn't recognize a woman as having a valid claim to the office of Impertator (and the fact that she was of lowly-status before the Emperor married her...), they considered the throne in Constantinople to be legally vacant, thereby allowing Charlemagne to reign as a "Roman Emperor" in his own right. He had rules as a King of the Franks for several years before this, though. Also, Charlemagne's ascension to Emperor pretty much destroyed any fiction of European countries being 'client states' thereafter.

[@azrulashraf00]

Basque in my glory

[@ahgolcher]

The Franks were Germanic people, this is omitted.

[@GetRidOfCivilAssetForfeiture]

I knew Charlemagne was not French(in other words, he didn’t drink wine and eat snails) but I always thought he was German (drank beer and ate sausages). I found out he spoke an ancestral language of Dutch (thus, he ate cheese and drank beer).

[@user-nz6dx2fj6h]

Where do you think the Franks came from? Germany!

[@GetRidOfCivilAssetForfeiture]

@@user-nz6dx2fj6h the Franks were a Germanic tribe that came with the rest of the Germanic tribes but they were a part of the great migration into Germany. The group Charlemagne came from was a different set of Frankish tribes. Just pointing out their language evolved into a different branch. It’s not that hard to grasp.

[@user-nz6dx2fj6h]

@@GetRidOfCivilAssetForfeiture Wrong. They had been there for a long time and only migrated into the Ardennes because of the influx of the Huns, and it was only that Germanic tribe that migrated into France.

[@user-nz6dx2fj6h]

@@GetRidOfCivilAssetForfeiture Wrong. They had been there for a long time and only migrated into the Ardennes because of the influx of the Huns into The German tribal lands, and it was only that Germanic tribe (The Franks)that migrated into France.

[@GetRidOfCivilAssetForfeiture]

@@user-nz6dx2fj6h you appear to be confusing Germanic with German. They are not the same. Germans are Germanic but not all who are Germanic are German. There was no German national identity at that time (nor French either). The language he probably spoke appears to have been most closely related to either Dutch or Luxembourgish (sp?).

[@Ador828]

Just northern part of Catalonia in Spain a small part

[@Beljk0]

Actually, there is one tiny bit of error, russian word for Emperor is "Tzar" derived from Cezar, not the word King, but point made.

[@philh2932]

Thats what he said 1:55

[@Callofduturocks]

the nature of evil itself varies so unless i know who he really is i can't confirm whether his behaviours are hell compatible

[@Callofduturocks]

There’s a difference Good Between can sustain And have to sustain an empire

[@mohammadalblowi2915]

Charlemagne used to have good relations with Harun Al-Rasheed who was the Abbasid Caliph they exchanged presents Also the infamous water clock. Tho Didn’t have good relations with the Umayyad in Andalusia.

[@TajRiddle]

anyone else here for a history report 🤣🤣

[@mathangelaz5799]

747 to 814…Charlemagne.

[@catsaresuperior43]

Ignore this 7:20

[@jayriedmuller7187]

IT'S PROBABLY a good thing he had so many kids, because they were probably special and contributed to society. And I believe Charlemagne contributed to there upbringing, at least I hope so.

[@Callofduturocks]

1 more hour it’s gonna take

[@christianlorre]

Leo putting his hopes with Charlamagne was a hugely important change. Too bad the dark ages were just starting and the papacy went through so much mess in the 900s.

[@dabass438]

When Leo 3, Pope of Rome and Patriarch of the West coronated Carolus Magnus as Holy Roman Emperor he ceased to be an Orthodox Christian and became the first Catholic Pope. So in a round about way Charlemagne helped create the Catholic Church.

[@zippyparakeet1074]

The last chapter is very inaccurate because the Eastern Roman Empire- which still existed- preserved all of those texts and even many original copies were stores in the great libraries and University of Constantinople as well as libraries all over the Empire.

[@applesandbacon]

This is excellent. Usually documentarians put a negative spin on any successful ancient European conqueror, as if the ancestors of other peoples wouldnt have done the exact same thing if given the chance and ability.

[@youwontwin481]

Cya charles 👋 🚶‍♂️

[@SaintMatthieuSimard]

Sweet. Grand'Grand'Grand'Grand'Grand'Grand'Grand'Grand'Grand'Grand'Pa was an amazing man!