The Scariest & Most Feared Queens of the Middle Ages...

[@juliairzyk]

You left out the best Olga of Kiev story. After she laid siege to the capitol she said she'd stop if they gave her 2 birds from every house in the city. They complied and she tied burning embers to the birds, who then returned to their homes and burned the city to the ground.

[@fame545]

Just another reason not to trust birds

[@misscyanic2484]

St. Olga is my historic girl crush❤ what an absolute demoness! The embodiment of Scorched Earth🔥

[@rarebird_82]

I know! Given that a lot of the art shown here depicted the birds flying with flaming embers beneath them 🤔

[@kyrawilliams7497]

Anyone else learn about her from Puppet History? 😅

[@josephwear9572]

Yeah that’s the story she’s most well known for.

[@augustbliss]

Olga just didn't get revenge, she absolutely went Medieval on them. Hell Yes!!!

[@nyxspiritsong5557]

Lol went medieval on them.......😂😂😂 sorry I'm easily amused and that made my night.

[@augustbliss]

@@nyxspiritsong5557 😊😃

[@0megaVon]

LMFAO 🤣🤣💀

[@nancytestani1470]

Was quite witty..ha.

[@Steven-dt5nu]

😂

[@mariapdr3261]

The irony is that they killed St. Olga’s husband because they thought dealing with Olga would be easier and they would be able to successfully pressure her into remarrying one of their nobles.

[@Bigmtj10678]

I’m becoming obsessed with the medieval era now. Found a new addiction

[@ttiroff]

This is the best channel ever. I have learned so much from watching it. Thanks for the hard work.

[@mayavail2970]

he lifts his scripts straight from wikipedia lol (compare the part about olga of kiev to her wiki page)

[@TheHunt-t8o]

@@mayavail2970who cares if he does? Even if he did verbatim he would still be creating something different enough via his narration and creative and visually pleasing videos that he surely attracts and thus informs a contingent of people who wouldnt care to read wikipedia pages. Damn man, haters

[@KingoftheWinterWolves13]

Great Video! Not sure if you take recommendations or requests but a video on illegitimate children, both male and female, would be cool and their place in society at all levels as I feel like series like Game of Thrones have given people a somewhat incorrect view of them.

[@normairizarryni]

I absolutely love Olga of Kiev. She was a woman ahead of her time and was a total badass.

[@SusannahDyro-gd1nx]

Olga you go girl 😅

[@mrlume9475]

Great content as always. I thought there was little of interest in the medieval period until I came across your channel. Fascinating stuff!

[@David-xh9cw]

Always a treat! Ty!

[@GirtheAlienGoldfish]

Fredegunde also comes to mind.

[@amy43215]

I absolutely love the sarcasm when you mention how many women were accused of witch craft

[@Ninjachucks]

Love this channel!!

[@andrealittle2836]

Me too!

[@a.d.clarke4990]

You could have also talked about the other Matilda. The actual Queen during the Anarchy as Stephen’s wife. She effectively led the resistance after the Battle of Lincoln in 1141 and she was probably the main reason why the Angevins were defeated at the Rout of Winchester and ultimately forced to free Stephen. Pretty badass, wouldn’t you agree?

[@overcomerbtboj]

One correction - william II was succeeded by his brother henry 1 not his son

[@carovegan94ec60]

So cute and beautiful thumbnail, Cryptopsy's album cover "None So Vile" 😍😍😍

[@Flutterhigh444]

All these women are literally iconic and revolutionary.

[@giobtcsamsung]

Not really

[@LordOfEstonia]

Male tyrants: viewed as evil and disgusting monsters Female tyrants: So badass! girl boss!! ???

[@NickMak-m2c]

@@LordOfEstonia can we not bring modern day dumbassery into the past too

[@JjjjjjVvvvv-ny6od]

As a female, i dont agree with this

[@hollybyrd6186]

Olga was a badass!

[@Carrie-q3o]

She also had their army and nobles destroyed. She pretended to be naive and agreed to marry the king who killed her husband.

[@LindaCooper-i3f]

Lots of spunk obviously.

[@normairizarryni]

A woman not to be messed with

[@Carrie-q3o]

@@normairizarryni she was about 15 when she destroyed her enemies.

[@datmelonblob]

i was expecting wu zetian to be here lolll

[@babyramses5066]

Yes she should've been ..ultimate medieval tiger mom

[@haldemarest]

I was expecting Brunhilda or Fredegund

[@lenol0315]

Cryptopsy album has Herodias, with head of John the Baptist on it lol

[@Rydonattelo]

Let the madness commence ⚔

[@Stephan-bj3lh]

Thank God I missed the middle ages!!!!

[@OstblockLatina]

1:17 - the two images of Hagia Sophia depicting the structure with minarets, come from the tima after the fall of the Byzantine Empire and after the fall of Constantinople into Ottoman hands, after the churches had been adapted to be mosques, therefore are incorrectly used when speaking about the times of Justinian and Theodora. Oh, btw. the first image looks more like the blue mosque than Hagia Sophia, and that mosque was built by the sultan in the early 1600s.

[@celticgypsy11]

How about Catherine de Medici?

[@multiyapples]

I definitely am glad I can't mess with them.

[@shonamcwilliam2842]

I tried. I wanted to know, but you're too quick with the info. My brain exploded 😮😅

[@a.d.clarke4990]

3:25 she wasn’t a queen. She was Lady of the Mercians and ruled Mercia after her husband died. Daughter of Alfred, sister of Edward the Elder.

[@ElectriCobra]

clicked because None So Vile album cover

[@fijaystudio]

Olga was cool!

[@LindaCooper-i3f]

And also an ancestor of my ex-husband and oldest son.

[@ViciousDelicious-td8jl]

I'm still waiting for an Olga of Keiv movie...

[@LindaCooper-i3f]

That makes two of us!

[@tfm_whonow]

nice

[@Elli-nu4jx]

There is no certainty in Olga's heritage, but the theories vary from Bolgarian to Viking to Halychynian. Also, Olga of Kyiv would be the right spelling. She started to be viewed as a Saint long before the canonisation by Eastern Church, during the rule of her grandson Volodymyr.

[@chicagogyrl4846]

My middle name is Theodora. Thanks! 😊

[@madgds]

Oh right because Fredegund and Brunhilda need their own video!

[@jovanweismiller7114]

St Olga is also a Saint in the Byzantine Catholic Churches, not just the Russian Orthodox.

[@LindaCooper-i3f]

Interestingly amazing 😻!

[@VioletDisregard23]

Was anyone else amused by the idea of a celibate woman being considered more masculine? Celibacy doesn’t strike me as a quality that would be considered particularly masculine even by today’s standards.

[@TheHunt-t8o]

Looks like you were alone with those thoughts lol

[@hallievanoutryve3109]

I found it amusing that they were better regarded, but think that is only bc of her high social status. I doubt a celibate peasant would have been looked on as anything positive unless she was a nun. Today- men/boys on the internet automatically class a woman with any masculine traits as a joke, a disagrace, even dangerous. But in the real world certain male traits in women are praised in the context of work or school…. As long as they soften their ambition, with sweetness less they be deemed ‘cold bitches’.

[@hallievanoutryve3109]

@@TheHunt-t8oyea, so funny. Bc obviously a woman not banging dudes must be ‘masculine’. Regardless of her body, face, personality, and interests? Or do you think no girl with ‘feminine’ looks and interests could be celibate? Hopefully do you realize that is completely illogical- being celibate has nothing to do with gender or body type-unless you think ‘use it or lose it’ means you literally lose your lady parts and grow twig and berries?

[@Toxus8]

I see that Cryptopsy album cover 😏

[@theauspex]

Didn't Olga of Kiev use pigeons to set the city on fire after they were all drunk?

[@the13xiii52]

OLGA! GOD DAMN! Where do I get a woman like that!?!

[@lesliemackerel9416]

Bro, she would have unalived you

[@NickMak-m2c]

@@lesliemackerel9416 I think he [OP] meant a woman that would unalive everyone to avenge his [OP's] death, in other words he wants a woman like that if he were the situation's Igor, not as the nobles that killed Igor.

[@chuckw8391]

😂

[@fungusmcbungus7943]

Nice, let's see a Queens of the Stone Age video next.

[@mysterycrumble]

why has suiko got a motorbike on her head?

[@olivere5497]

No amanirenas?

[@LindaCooper-i3f]

I think that’s supposed to be Armenians.

[@olivere5497]

@@LindaCooper-i3f nah brah,learn the classics brah. Ancient Nubian Queen who thought off the Romans and was celebrated in medieval histories.

[@sapphicgeek24]

Festive Fact: The Anarchy is the historical inspiration for the Game of Thrones prequel House of the Dragon.

[@medeasherbs]

where is wu zetian tho

[@erikreber3695]

You left out Boudica...

[@cherylbrooks7005]

❤

[@RedKresnik11]

“Women hold up half the sky” ~Chairman Mao Women always have.

[@misscyanic2484]

Mama is the whoopin post that holds up the world ~ MissCyanic

[@grapeshot]

Yes that Queen of Kiev have they sure could use her now over in Ukraine.

[@LindaCooper-i3f]

How true that is, but keep it in mind that Putin is a modern day Lenin.

[@MayaLarsen-y3r]

Izabella I of Spain (1454_1504), Mary The Rich (1457_1482) Jadwiga king of Poland,

[@NickMak-m2c]

Katherine the Great > Mary, Izabella

[@LoriVanAuwelaer]

Hey y'all 😮

[@awantedboi]

If she ain’t like Olga, I don’t want her.

[@LindaCooper-i3f]

Good grief.

[@josepartida1711]

Don’t fuck with Olga

[@LindaCooper-i3f]

Tell it like it is!

[@isthattrue1083]

Russ was really really small.

[@giuseppelogiurato5718]

Lol, I know it's just the way he talks, and there's nothing wrong with it, but to my ears he always sounds like an intelligent/rebellious student being forced to read his "A+" book-report aloud in front of his entire class, and he's hating every minute of it, and wishing he hadn't done such a good job... I almost expect him to close each video with, "There; I read the whole thing, just like you asked. Can I go outside and play now?"

[@nancytestani1470]

Not me..has a really modulated voice and interesting

[@GreatGreebo]

*Subscriber no. 128* here. Do you still read your comments? Please let me know. If you don’t then there is no point in me leaving them anymore. Cheers 🤘

[@beebeelicious]

Hello, love the videos but can yousort out your pronunciation? Cheers 🩵

[@giuseppelogiurato5718]

Not complaining or hating, but I will go ahead and point out that showing Ottoman-era images of Hagia Sophia as a mosque with minarets while talking about the time of Theodora is unnecessarily anachronistic, but it's ok, because this is not a video about Eastern Orthodoxy... (The images in these videos are obviously not intended to exactly match up with the narrative; they seldom do; they're just there to suggest a mood or landscape)... Still, I wouldn't be surprised if every ODox-Xtian immediately notices it and "cringes", ever so slightly. (No one's gonna freak out about it, but we do notice those little things.) It was better for everyone when it was still a museum, imo. (Meanwhile, Greeks are still like, "They took our Cherch!", a la South Park)

[@babyramses5066]

Nah ..it's a fair assessment. This is a history channel. Unrelated- I also hate the ottoman updates to the hagia zofia. Those huge black signs inside are tacky af.

[@giuseppelogiurato5718]

@@babyramses5066omg, those huge disk-sign-thingies... Yuck! The calligraphy is not ugly, but I agree, it's like putting mustard on a cheesecake. Totally incongruous with the aesthetic of the architecture. What frightens me is that the Turkish government is not doing enough to preserve it; it would be a HUGE tragedy if it collapsed, bigger than the Notre Dame fire a few years ago... whether as a church or a museum or a mosque, the loss would be tragic, especially if there were people inside, whether Christians/Muslims/innocent tourists etc...

[@FishBoneD14]

Henry I was William II brother not son

[@-JA-]

🫢👍

[@jeffhumble5144]

Enjoy the info. Would like longer videos. Also take the pace down a notch. You talk so fast that about 25% of the info is lost. Constructive criticism of course :)

[@LucienSabre]

I too would love longer videos. 👍💗 The pace on the other hand seems great to me; he doesn’t speak that fast, I’ve never lost info or anything else…but that’s just my personal impression/opinion. ☺️

[@UnchainedMelodie92]

​@@LucienSabreI agree 100%! I would also like longer, more in-depth videos, but the pace is perfect!

[@estherdimaggio9156]

Olga's so cool. Shame about the forcing Christianity on the pagan people though

[@areyoutheregoditsmedave]

celibacy is definitely respectable

[@chicagogyrl4846]

If you could speak a little slower, that would be helpful!

[@h0rriphic]

Find the ⚙️

[@joserocha7850]

I thought this was supposed to be scariest and most feared??

[@paxtwn]

cryptopsy reference

[@andrealittle2836]

Shame that “strong women” have to be so evil to get control

[@babyramses5066]

To be fair, men who took control had to do atrocities also because it was the middle ages and life was short and cruel

[@NickMak-m2c]

that was just human culture overall, they didn't think the same way as we do nowadays

[@paulphoenix1669]

Any other Cryptopsy fans in the house tonight? Wynyk

[@theconqueringram5295]

This is peak feminism.

[@areyoutheregoditsmedave]

the girlbossing will continue until all infrastructure fails

[@4sername]

how was the first broad scary?

[@PrinceIsot]

No wonder i find Russian women so attractive 😂

[@LindaCooper-i3f]

My oldest son is desperately seeking a bride from the Ukraine 🇺🇦.

[@oceanelf2512]

Olga was vile.

[@StEvEn420BrUlE]

Hell yeah cryptopsy

[@LoriVanAuwelaer]

Hey y'all 😮