Who Would Be King of Finland?

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Chart/Script: Matt Baker usefulcharts.com
Narration: @JackRackam
Intro animation: @AlMuqaddimahYT
Intro music: "Lord of the Land" by Kevin MacLeod and licensed under Creative Commons Attribution license 4.0. Available from incompetech.com

[@thalesvondasos]

When Louis adopted Moritz: "Oh, yeah. It's all coming together."

[@kaiserredgamer8943]

r/technicallythetruth

[@rustee00]

It was a pro gamer move

[@rukminikrishna1938]

Moritz is in my class

[@lassemanninen4750]

Prince Donatus has visited Finland. HS, (Helsingin sanomat) bigest magazine of Finland was host. He was offerd to sit to the throne of Finland, in National Museum and crown of Finland was there also, so that he can put it to hes head. Of course as photoshoot only. He flat out refuse. He is old nobility, and to them regilias still mean something. Great man.

[@elvinbi1367]

epic

[@suvikoivunen8752]

I don´t think it was prince Donatus, it was prince Philipp von Hessen, Donatus´s younger brother. The idea was that the eldest son would inherit the Hesse titles and lands etc, and the younger son would get Finland. Prince Philipp met some of our "dignitaries", for example our president of the time. All this is well documented in the press. You have only know Finnish.

[@tardwrangler]

Based

[@vilivonkin6243]

now we have mr. pedofile as "king".

[@jyrkilehtinen9886]

You even do bnot have to know finnish because nowadays any text can be easily translated with Chat GTP (just do not ask it any questions but give it a text to trasnlate).

[@weepingscorpion8739]

Amazing. I was thinking about this exact question the other day. Thank you for answering this. :) Speaking of short lived post-WWI monarchies, what about the Kingdom of Lithuania, which also only had one king, Mindaugas II? Could also be an interesting topic.

[@UsefulCharts]

If this gets enough thumbs up, I'll put it on the to-do list.

[@weepingscorpion8739]

I hate to spam with suggestions because I know that you're a busy man, but another fun subject could be: Who would be King of Iceland? It's not particularly unique per se but it would also answer the question: Who would be King of Denmark if the succession rules had not been changed, since the changes made in 1953 and 2009 would most likely not apply to the Kingdom of Iceland. It's very hypothetical but I feel like that that's this series is about.

[@risannd]

Don't forget the King of Yugoslavia and King of Albania

[@lvoldum]

@Weeping Scorpion If a constitutional change hadn't been made in Denmark in 1953, King Frederik IX's brother Knud would have been first in line to the throne, and his son Ingolf (our present queen Margrethe II's cousin) would have be second.

[@ferrarileadstrategist319]

hold up if he was the only king in lithuania how was he the second??

[@anterosaunaniitty4394]

The answer is simple: Kekkonen

[@Zz-jo5si]

I agree

[@santtula8388]

Oho Lepa täällä.

[@Sipu97]

Kekkonen, Kekkonen, Kekkonen.

[@Minastir1]

What about the chosen successor Väyrynen?

[@Sipu97]

Oh yes, we mustn't forget about the eternal Väyrynen.

[@Rakettivuori]

It was not entirely on Finland to not make Kaarle (or Charles in English) king. He himself said he's going to make the best decision for his kingdom and that was to not take the crown

[@acanadianchicken]

Mostly because Germany lost WW1, he knew that with the Western Allies being the dominant economic force, he didn't want Finland to be diplomatically or economically isolated

[@joeyrivenbark5056]

Very interesting how the would-be King has twin children, just as the King once had.

[@UsefulCharts]

Definitely. Not a lot of examples of twins in royal lines.

[@lightyagami3492]

Im sure that would create a succession crisis no?

[@lightyagami3492]

@@karlkarlos3545 which is very possible 😂😂

[@lisal5718]

Karl Karlos I once heard that during the middle ages and maybe also later, they chose the last born child if both twins/tripplets (not even sure if this ever happened in a royal family with all children+mother surviving)were male. Because the people believed that that the second/last twin was conceived first.

[@Avalikia]

Fun facts about twins and genetics: There haven't been any genes found that increase the odds of identical twins - instead they seem to be able to happen to pretty much anyone, with the strongest factor being maternal age - if the mother is older, they're more likely. Exactly why identical twins happen isn't very well understood. On the other hand, fraternal twins are quite genetic, but it's the mother's genetics that matter, not the father's. If the mother inherits genes that cause her to be more likely to release two eggs instead of the usual one, then she's more likely to have twins. This is why in families who have multiple sets of twins, the twins are usually fraternal. How does that apply here? Well, I'm very much wondering if they're absolutely sure that Kaarle I's two sets of twin boys are identical - otherwise that seems to be a bit odd, especially since I looked it up and their mother was in her 20s when she had both sets of twins. On the other hand, royal bloodlines are rife with genetic anomalies because of all the, er, close ties between spouses. In fact, the parents in this case were second cousins - which isn't extremely close, all things considered, but neither was it extremely far... That being said, because it's the mother's genetics that are important for increasing the odds of twins, there is actually no genetic reason why Prince Donatus had twins, just like his grandfather - that's a coincidence. I didn't see any info on if they're identical or not, though I looked up the age of his wife when they were born, and she was in her early thirties so maybe that part of it isn't weird.

[@shaniasstitches8026]

To make Cecilie's story sadder, she had a daughter that wasn't on the flight, was adopted by Prince Louis. She died at the age of 2 from meningitis

[@annuli96]

I am so happy that you made this video! Lots of love from Finland ❤️

[@ShadowMinnie]

Who else but Mannerheim?

[@eric11]

Mannerheim

[@hans9862]

Mannerheim

[@SuviTuuliAllan]

eeewwwwwwwwwwwwww

[@hans9862]

@@SuviTuuliAllan eeeeeeeeeeewwwwwwww your self

[@kjr63]

Mannerheim was part of the monarkists who chose this german prince as king.

[@cormacmacsuibhne5796]

That story of the plane crash almost made me cry.

[@UsefulCharts]

Yeah, very sad story.

[@Gameflyer001]

There's an episode of "The Crown"'s second season, "Paterfamilias", which delves into Prince Philip's past regarding this event.

[@lightyagami3492]

I guess that branch of the house wasn't destined to last. Ironically the eldest branch is the last surviving branch of the house of Hesse.

[@thesuomi8550]

Torille

[@Markus1002]

Perkele

[@samimakela8107]

&kuninkaallisuuden

[@teukka623]

TheSuomi pää kii

[@jaajaa1631]

Saunan taakse

[@juusosuur-uski819]

Mikä tori?

[@TheDogThatBarks]

It was actually Kaarle who ditched the idea to be a king, cause he saw that it would be a political shitshow for Finland if he became the king

[@Kissakana]

Well yes but both parties were equally on the same idea. But you're correct Kaarle I ditched it later as WW1 had ended.

[@TheNunoricardo]

Prince Frederik Charles of Hesse Kassel lived most of his life in Denmark. Since 1866 the family of Hesse Kassel was deposed by Bismarck Chanceler of the kingdom of Prussia, during the process of German reunification. The marriage between princess Margaret and elector prince Frederik Charles of Hesse Kassel, futur king of Finland, engaged the healing process of the two families. The same happened with the marriage of the daughter of kaiser Willem II of Germany and the crown prince of Hannover.

[@samirantanen707]

I thought this was already settled decades ago, Jari Litmanen!

[@merimursu123]

Litti kyl ainoo Kuningas mitä ite kumartelee

[@Sipu97]

Yeah no.

[@davidringmann3395]

How about the Granddukes of Luxembourg, or the princes of Monaco and Liechtenstein? Not to forget the former royalty of Greece, Bulgaria and Romania.

[@UsefulCharts]

All on the to-do list :)

[@thanasismavromixailidis918]

@@UsefulCharts Greece will be pretty straight-forward. However, one hitch: all monarchist constitutions following 1863 demanded that any monarch be a descendant of George I, Greece's second king. What would happen if they all just disappeared?

[@lvoldum]

@Thanasis Mavromixailidis I didn't know that (about the 1863 monarchy constitution) - and I'm even Danish, as was George I ;) Well, both the Spanish Royal House (through Queen Sophia) as well as the British Royal House (through Prince Philip) have a lot of descendants of George I, as has ex-king Konstantin of Greece...

[@robertheal5137]

Tsar Simeon is not dead yet !

[@theduckyduck27]

Can you do a video on who would be the king of Sweden today if Charles XIII hadn't adopted Charles XIV John of the Bernadotte house?

[@UsefulCharts]

Good one.

[@juane.sanchez8343]

Charles XIII in fact wasn’t childless, he did have however an illegitimate child, Count Carl Löwenhielm. It would be interesting if for some reason, Bernadotte didn’t accept the offer to be King, then it would’ve been likely for Count Carl to be king. But it’s fun to theorize.

[@theduckyduck27]

@@juane.sanchez8343 Being illegitimate makes you unable to claim the throne, with very few exceptions. Plus, Löwenhielm had no children.

[@Dave_Sisson]

@@theduckyduck27 Tell that to "William The Bastard", Duke of Normandy who became William I of England.... although he did have a large army to help him press his claim.

[@menchualcarazmoreno1743]

@@Dave_Sisson Not 'claim', but conquer.

[@avantelvsitania3359]

Great video! It is amazing that the House of Hesse was capable of being reunited after all these centuries, like the House of Mecklenburg. Just two notes: 6:32 - I don’t know where did you saw that Prince Moritz has died in 2010. Where I searched, including in Wikipedia, it says that he died on the 23 of May of 2013 7:04 - About the Roman Throne claim, if you count the lineage of Charlemagne as Holy Roman Emperors, then prince Donatus is the non-morganatic closest heir of Lambert II, Count of Leuven, nephew of Louis of Lower Lorraine, whom was cousin of Louis V of France, the last Carolingian king of France. After the death of Louis V, the French nobility elected Hugh Capet as their new King, starting a new dinasty. But if the Carolingian line of Charlemagne was preserved, Louis of Lower Lorraine would be the rightful Heir. Basically prince Donatus, besides being the Heir of the House of Hesse and the Finnish Throne, could also be the hypothetical Carolingian pretender to the Throne of France, and thus to the Roman Empire, by the lineage of Charlemagne.

[@tagalongtoourpast]

Well done, Jack Rackam and UsefulCharts! If this type of video had been around "back in the day", I'd know a LOT more about history!! But - better late than never.

[@emmachristina22]

Very interesting video, thanks for that! Greetings from Finland!

[@cormacmacsuibhne5796]

Your next video should be who would be King of Portugal and who would be Emperor of Brazil today. These two topics are related so they should be in the one video. Also there's a dispute about who the rightful Emperor of Brazil is so this should be a good video.

[@UsefulCharts]

I meant to do that one in December but had to postpone it. Hopefully early 2020.

[@fabianoasc]

@@UsefulCharts There is a growing Monarchist movement in Brazil. The Imperial flag is seen in protests against the corruption of the republic and there is a lot of you tube channels spreading the restoration of the Empire.

[@nathatos]

@@UsefulCharts Please, include the Saxe-Coburgo e Bragança branch

[@bonhamcarter4488]

You actually skipped an important detail when mentioning about Prince Philip's Hessian connections. Grand Duke Louis IV in the tree is actually Philip's great-grandfather as well. Louis IV had married Princess Alice, a daughter of Queen Victoria, and their daughter was another Victoria (of Hesse and by Rhine), who had married Louis Alexander of Battenberg/Mountbatten. Their daughter was Princess Alice of Battenberg/Mountbatten, the mother of Prince Philip. Thus Victoria, daughter of Grand Duke Louis IV of Hesse and by Rhine, was the maternal grandmother of Philip. Her sister was Alix, the last Empress of Russia, consort of Tsar Nicholas II. Nicholas had Hessian blood as well. His paternal grandmother was Marie of Hesse, a daughter of Grand Duke Louis II of Hesse and by Rhine, and the sister of Alexander who had married morganatically and created the Battenberg/Mountbatten line, as well as the aunt of the aforementioned Louis IV.

[@EAlyahya]

The House of Hesse-Kassel and Hesse-Darmstadt (and its Battenberg branch) end up having been descendants of Queen Victoria as well.

[@justsomeghostwithinterneta7296]

Man, I've been waiting for this!

[@miamidolphinsfan]

An extremely interesting video ! Thanks Jack !

[@renerpho]

Nice to see the House of Hesse featured. I was born in Battenberg, and am now living in Marburg!

[@TheWatcher5292]

You sound different... Hm, not a clue

[@PaulEKlein]

wtf is a jack? I don't like change....

[@saturnproductions1827]

I’m happy that you did a video on the old Finnish Monarchy

[@gzpo]

Good one! Thank you!

[@levimcglinchey5843]

You've got his speaking pattern down to a tee!

[@karlkarlos3545]

I watched a lot of your videos lately, and it seems that most of those royal lines end up in Germany sooner or later.

[@thomasdixon4373]

Great vid as always

[@theyoshi202]

“Hess” aahhhhhhh that pronunciation makes me want to eat ocean plastic

[@theultimatefreak666]

Hab nur ich an den Rudolf gedacht?

[@chiquiflautro]

Matt, I hope you've not decided to stop doing narrations yourself. I think it suits this channel better.

[@qwertyqwerty-ek7dy]

In finnish the "e" in Kaarle isnt silent. Interesting video. A lot of people dont seem to know about this. :)

[@isakpalsson9012]

English is one of the only languages with silent e's at the ens pf every other word, but they pronounce every language accordingly

[@902d]

English natives are arrogant and lazy and don’t even try.

[@qwertyqwerty-ek7dy]

@@902d No one makes a video like this If they woudnt care.

[@porto2549]

The more I watch your channel, the more I realize that European royal family trees are actually circles.

[@Ichigoeki]

It's in the literal middle of everything, and there were hell of a lot of kings and princes and princesses there one time.

[@devolvy1542]

As someone who is from Darmstadt, I kinda laughed the first time you said "Darmstadt". You actually did well with the pronunciation, I think it was the way you emphasized the first r that sounded funny.

[@SprayCoke33]

Cheers from Finland! BTW, little mistake: Moritz died in 2013, not 2010

[@pierrebacalhau6042]

Awesome video!!! Love your content! Could you do a video to determine the heir to the Zulu throne? I'm very intrigued on this matter.

[@UsefulCharts]

I've got the Zulus on the to do list. They actually still have a king.

[@pierrebacalhau6042]

UsefulCharts oh!!! Can’t wait to see it then!!

[@daddypoil]

Impressive work !

[@DylanSmith-kw9sz]

In a hypothetical world, let’s say that the Kingdom of Finland and the Grand Duchy of Hesse were both restored. I would imagine that Prince Donatus would be the Grand Duke and that his older sister, Princess Mafalda would be Queen of Finland. Am I correct or would it be the other way around or is it possible that Donatus could fill both roles?

[@blueoceancorporations1019]

Personal union intensifies

[@telewiza]

Nice, video. ´The story of the King of Finland is not very well known even in Finland. Some small remarks. You put the emphasis on BRAbant and not the other way around. Brabant became part of the Bourgondian duchy. There is also a part in the Netherlands what is called Noord Babant. Finland was not part of the Russian Empire. The Tsar was Grand Duke of Finland, note that is the Swedish title Grand Duke and not the Russian title Grand Prince. It was therefore a personel union between Russia and Finland. That is why Finland considered itself independent when the abdicated.

[@TheOwenMajor]

I'm sure he was referring to the de facto status of Finland being part of the Russian Empire, not the de jure status. Much like the Soviet nations being "independent".

[@rasmuskuivalainen4741]

@@TheOwenMajor Exactly this. Very few Finnish historians consider that there was an union between Russia and Finland. Even if Finland was an autonomous region it was still very much part of the Russian empire. The last Russian emperor, Nikolai II, was eager to russify Finland so Finns took the opportunity to break up from Russia/Soviet Russia when it had the chance during the Russian civil war.

[@telewiza]

@@rasmuskuivalainen4741 I am very aware of the Russification of Finland during the early 1900's. Actually my mothers grand father had to change his name because the Russians thought it was to hard to write it. Now her name is Kivi. I was only mentioning it because it is de jure the true and becasuse this is about the monarchies, the title of grand duke versus grand prince...

[@SavolaxMitsu]

@@telewiza Interested know what was his orginal name?

[@telewiza]

@@SavolaxMitsu It's name was Peuranen.

[@MegaMegatron15]

I would go about it a bit differently. If Finland kept its monarchy in 1918, then Germany won WW1. Meaning all the sub-princes will still reign. That would put Moritz and Donatus as rulers of Hesse and unable to rule Finland. That means, after Wolfgang dies, in order to avoid potential conflicts, the throne passes through his younger dead brother Christoph instead, on to his son Karl Adolf Andreas. So instead of Moritz and Donatus, we have Kaarle II now.

[@untruelie2640]

Not essentially. In such cases, the more senior line usually gets the more important title/crown. (There are many examples in history for this) Therefore, Moritz would've become King of Finland and Karl Adolf Andreas would've become Landgrave of Hesse. (In this this alternate history, the fateful plane crash likely would've never happened. Note that the branch of Hessen-Kassel lost their territory in 1866 to Prussia - by 1918 they weren't a ruling house anymore. "Landgrave" was just a fancy title, nothing more.)

[@deutschermichel5807]

You all seem to have forgotten that at the time of the First World War, the Landgraviate of Hesse no longer existed, but was annexed by Prussia in 1866 as a punishment for having taken the opposing side. Therefore there would have been no proplem with becoming King of Finland. Only if the Emperor and King decided to return the lands to the house of Hesse-Kassel, we would have now have his Majesty, King Donatus of Finland, Grandduke and Landgrave of Hesse, etc.

[@YT911YT]

He died this Year a few Months ago so his son Christoph is the current leader born 1969

[@revinhatol]

OLDENBURG

[@Protostarofficial]

Thank you for this interesting video about the very much unknown topic

[@FRAGIORGIO1]

I had heard that the heir is not Donatus, but Prince Philipp, who is 50 years old ! Btw, the King of Italy was not Manuel IIi but Victor Emanuel III or Vittorio Emanuele III in Italian.

[@roblundie8378]

Thanks for the vid

[@BayekdeSiua]

We Brazilian monarchists really liked your videos, you could make one about Brazil "Who would be the Brazilian emperor?" Greeatings from Brazil !

[@RunaSunset]

I never clicked harder. Sincerely, a Finnish person who loves history and especially the fact that Finland was a monarchy for 2 months

[@staunchsquire7437]

Come back to sweden my dear brother from another mother!

[@RunaSunset]

@@staunchsquire7437 only if my life depended on it

[@staunchsquire7437]

@@RunaSunset with an expansionist russia you can never be to cautious, Make the north great again!

[@SocialistFinn1]

@@staunchsquire7437 uhhh, no thank you haha

[@GrumpyGremlin.]

@@staunchsquire7437 What if we create Kalmar Union "again" ?

[@heatherknight2173]

I had to subscribe not only because I love watching your videos and because I love learning about history and previous monarchies but also because my cat loves chasing the mouse on the screen when I watch your videos. 😂 😻

[@robinson-gissettealekjandr4772]

I'm sure someone's mentioned it, but the Grand Duchy ruled by the Darmstadt branch of the family was actually Hessen und bei Rhein (Hesse and by Rhine). Grand Duke Louis IV was also married to Queen Victoria's daughter Princess Alice, and they were in turn the parents of Prince Louis Alexander's wife and Prince Alice Mountbatten's mother, Princess Viktoria of Hesse and by Rhine.

[@nattiedraws]

"He did pretty well in the making heirs department"

[@urbo92]

Technically it would be the Emperor of Rome, but let's go with King of Finland.

[@Tapanitseini]

What?? I was just thinking about you making this exact video day before! How is this possible? 😂 🇫🇮

[@etymology3]

You gotta pronounce that E at the end of Hesse. Hess-eh

[@ormondomaha]

"Hess" does seem to be the correct pronunciation in British English. But this is a word where the American and British pronunciation are different and it is weird to hear a speaker with an obvious American accent using the British pronunciation for the name here. The American pronunciation is indeed "Hess-eh".

[@theultimatefreak666]

@@ormondomaha you brits destroy everything dear to us Germans, how did we deserve this?

[@ormondomaha]

@@theultimatefreak666 I am American, not British! I use the American two syllable pronunciation myself. :)

[@ilikevideos4868]

Also in Kaarle.

[@Sipu97]

Almost always when I watch sports with English speaking commentators, they don't even try to look up how the foreign names are pronounced and as a result it takes a long time to understand of whom they are talking about. Only the F1 commentator person for Sky sports seems to attempt and he makes an okay job. It's quite annoying, because our news reporters and sports commentators almost always try to pronounce the names correctly or at least in a way that is close to the actual pronunciation but made a bit easier. They practice the names. It's not about nailing it, but taking the effort.

[@ristusnotta1653]

I think c.g.e mannerheim's line would be more likely because of his influence

[@N11Productions]

Yeah, he was actually the regent successor of Karl I

[@ristusnotta1653]

@Bla Blu he was from a noble family meaning he had origins from many different countries, not just Sweden, like every other noble man during that time

[@ristusnotta1653]

@Bla Blu yep

[@rkariv]

In the motion picture "King Ralph" staring John Goodman, There is a character of "The King of Finland", who visits UK witg his wife & daughter.

[@nikolaytsankov9066]

I'm early, let me think of a joke In 1886 Bulgaria kicked out the ruling prince of the house of Mountbatten and elected a Windsor one instead.

[@V750.]

tell the real name Saxe-coburg-Gota the name Windsor is a made up lie by Elizabeth 2 so that the family name can sound more English because they are not even English also when we elected Simeon it was one of the biggest mistakes that we did he stole everything from Bulgaria and left

[@Valandix]

@@V750. Wait, so that does mean Phillipe the First (King of the Belgians) are from the same dynasty from Elisabeth 2 :jerry:

[@lightyagami3492]

@@V750. funny thing is when she dies the house of sax-coburg-gotha will die out in the UK. It should technically be Gluksburg when/if charles takes the throne.

[@untruelie2640]

There is a mistake in the video (unfortunately, it is otherwise quite well made). The House of Hesse-Kassel lost their territory (the Electorate of Hesse, although there was no Emperor to elect anymore) in 1866 when it was annexed by Prussia. Since then, the title of "Landgrave of Hesse" was purely ceremonial, I suppose.

[@ankeuttajaespanjassa]

Drops casually Luther's name and all the Finns are here like "ooooh" while rest viewers probably have no idea who the guy was

[@littlethingcalledtiina]

Well done! :)

[@dorderre]

Man I love hearing you breaking your tongue trying to pronounce Darmstadt :D Appreciate the effort tho :)

[@aqui1ifer]

My Father’s ancestors hail from a small village near Darmstadt called Habitzheim (though today it’s part of Otzburg in Hesse), cool to know!

[@aleksipulkka]

i remember seeing an ad in finnish tv which had prince donatus in it and he said something among the lines "i could have been the king of finland" and there have been news articles like "check out the guy who could have been the king of finland" in popular finnish news papers.

[@kianzafari5353]

UsefulCharts. Can you make a chart of the royal family trees of the popes. Some Italian/Papal families behind the Holy See/Papal States, produced almost all of the popes together. Many of the families are also connected with each other, which would make this chart even more interesting. Examples of royal families could be: House of Medici House of Orsini House of Este House of Barberini House of Colonna (descendants of the Julio-Claudian dynasty and counts of Tuscany) House of Torlonia House of Chigi/Albani House of Borgia House of Borghese House of Della Rovera House of Massimo House of Farnese House of Aldobrandini House of Pamphili Etc.

[@felps1917]

You should doing the chart of who would be king (or duchy or ruler) of the new states created after Treaty of Brest-Litovsk (you know the Lithuania, Ukraine etc...)

[@filipematias5127]

There was also the Landgraviate of Hesse-Homburg which was incorporated in the Kingdom of Prussia in 1866 along with the Electorate of Hesse-Kassel - both these 2 as well as the Grand Duchy of Hesse and Rhein were ALL 3 ruled by different branches of the House of Hesse!

[@rokka7188]

Not to mention, before this there were chieftains of various Finnish regions and tribes that called themselves 'Kuningas', which was an old variant word I believe of Germanic to old word for King - 'Kuningaz'. And just like the vikings, they did raids to Sweden, Novgorod, etc. And one of the regions in-particular, Karelia, could've played a part in creation of Stockholm according to one of the Viking sagas, which they burned down one of the larger towns of Sweden. Though they weren't exactly monarchy nor bloodline-focused. One of the passing stories I've heard, is that people earned their surnames by proving their worth to this local King, and their son's would also have to prove their worth to earn their names. There might've been also some partial democracy similar to Novgorod. Though due to crusades by the Christians, it's not 100% known, besides the viking sagas and folk tales that had passed from grandparent-to-grandchildren. Though not that they were willing, since Karelians and Tavastinians were particularly against Christianity, and there were even legends of chieftains like Kirmukarmu who hunted christians and resisted them, including fighting against Russians.

[@cocobeandarla]

Please do one of who would be King of Portugal!

[@UitdenOosterhout]

Don’t forget there is also a part of Brabant in the Netherlands which was once one brabant with the one of belgium

[@allenman97]

I knew the British connection because Of the crown on Netflix

[@wimpylegend2590]

Could you do Wales next?

[@DeWorDeR]

that start music is from a game... maybe called Stronghold?

[@johnvincent1595]

I like their Regalia particularly the crown.

[@MegaWingcommander]

6:59 Who you gunna call, Donatus..

[@V750.]

Plz i beg you make a chart about Bulgaria my country i also want to see about Greece because i live there for more than 10 years

[@Mihalovics_Krisztofer]

VIDEO IDEA *Who would be the King of Hungary?*

[@CitrusyGuy]

Well the king of Hungary was the Austrian emperor due to inheritance laws so karl Ginsburg would be king

[@Taistelukalkkuna]

There would be no other monarch, than our Eternal God-Emperor Väyryhito.

[@Puritykill]

Brabant, is not only part of Belgium, but also a province in the Netherlands called: Noord-Brabant (North-Brabant) =)

[@vickyc2573]

The surname used by some members of the UK royal family is Mountbatten-Windsor, not Windsor-Mountbatten

[@chuck430]

Philip the Magnanimous gave himself that title

[@Valandix]

At least he isn't the Humble

[@chuck430]

@@Valandix maybe humble brag

[@hhezze1893]

Interesting video especially since I'm from the house of Hesse myself despite being from the UK 👍

[@presidentforlife1732]

I wonder what happened to Friedrich Hesse-Kassel after the Kingdom of Finland stopped existing. He never visited Finland though.

[@mikrokupu]

In 2017 the biggest paper if Finland made a story of the possible "current king", Philipp von Hessen, when he visited his "kingdom". The "king" doesn't live a royal life, he is a professional photographer.

[@MartenDE]

Great pronounciation of the German variant of "R" in the word "Darmstadt"! If I may offer a piece of critique though: "Rothschild" is a compund of "Roth" and "Schild", so pronouncing it like ""the child of Roth"" is technically wrong.

[@untruelie2640]

One small note: Officially, noble titles don't exist in Germany anymore. The ruling dynasties lost their titles and privileges in 1918/19 and reverted to their next most senior titles; however they legally became part of their surnames. So the full legal name of Donatus is "Heinrich Donatus Philipp Umberto Prince and Landgrave of Hesse", "Prince and Landgrave of Hesse" being his full surname (which is true for all other family members). However, it is tradition in the family that the head of the house (currently Heinrich Donatus) calls himself just "Landgrave of Hesse" while all the other family members call themselves "Prince of Hesse" or "Princess of Hesse", leaving the "landgrave" part out.

[@moppes1455]

Could YOU also do a WHO would be the Khan of the crimean khanate

[@SAOS451316]

Prince Donuts

[@fabiodimiceli2218]

Could you do who would be pharaoh of egypt today?

[@morsecode980]

Actually, Prince Wolfgang adopted his nephew, Prince Charles Adolf, during WW2. Unless adoption were to make him illegitimate, I would think this Prince would become “King Charles II” after Wolfgang’s death. Charles II would reign until his death this year (2022,) being succeeded by his son, Prince Christoph, as “Christoph I.”

[@emilybarclay8831]

Dynastic adoption is not common in Europe, a lot of monarchies use the term _heirs of the body_ in their dynastic traditions and that does seem to exclude adopted children who have no blood ties. But i can’t see it being too hard to her an adopted son recognised as heir, I just can’t think of an example of that ever happening before

[@tuikkur.5655]

@@emilybarclay8831 Current Sweden's Royal family, house of Bernadotte started when old and childless king Charles XIII of Sweden adopted a French general called Jean Baptiste Bernadotte. He later became King Charles XIV John of Sweden.

[@mrXOwarrior]

Please someone do the Crusader Kings of Jerusalem and Cyprus!

[@UsefulCharts]

It's coming.

[@mrXOwarrior]

@@UsefulCharts Yes! Will you start with Godfrey of Boulougne?

[@12345678900987659101]

Kaiserreich Gang where are you at?

[@beingwilla7639]

Can you do a video on monaco

[@buymybooks437]

When are you going to the Zulu king family tree?

[@AnglosArentHuman]

Who would be king of Argentina? We never had a king, but we sure as Hell tried! There were tons of proposed Constitutional kings and queens of the United Provinces of the River Plate during the 1816-1820 period: Incan nobility, several members of the House of Bourbon of different nationalities, Brazilian royalty, etc.

[@fabiodimiceli2218]

well maybe one of the daughters of the current king of the Netherlands Willem Alexander i mean his wife is from Argentina or maybe a relative of pope Francis

[@Nooticus]

Great video as always but I much prefer your narration!

[@hoapham7389]

He stepped down volutarily.

[@rahmadgerpol111]

How about the family connection between Queen Elizabeth II and Three Minor European Monarchs ( Hans-Adam II of Liechtenstein, Henri of Luxembourg, Albert II of Monaco ) ???????

[@AML2000]

The European royal families intermarried so often over more than a millenium that all of them are related in some way to the others, often in multiple ways.

[@eliasstenman3710]

I would like to mention the fact that Peter III of Russia shortly laid claim to Finland before he was emperor.

[@isakferm7686]

For those who had played hearts of iron 4 with kaiserreich, it’s a 50/50 chance if that monarchy will hold

[@imgonewiththewindfab]

I went directly to description to see if it was uploaded April 1 as part of April fools.. Then realized its was uploaded Dec 11 so its a fact!!! 😮😮😮😯😯😯

[@blitzkrieg2928]

King Spurdo Sparde ofc, and Gondola as his heir.

[@louisgray3479]

Corsica also had a king once (for half a year). What about him?