Why Was Catherine de Medici Known As The Black Queen Of France?

[@RealRoyalty]

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[@catherinenewman6516]

Queen Charlotte was not black to find an ancestor who might have been black you have to go back 500 years before queen charlitte

[@Kenzalina_]

⁠@@catherinenewman6516This is about Catherine de Medici Queen of France. No idea why you brought up Queen Charlotte who was Queen of England. Catherine de Medici was a contemporary of Elizabeth I. Not sure what you were watching, as Charlotte lived nearly 300 years after Catherine.

[@purplevelociraptors3255]

​@@catherinenewman6516yyyypoop😢 ok l

[@isabelladefigueiredo3810]

I knew it! The voice's narrator is a very familiar one to me 🤩

[@nataliecartmel7213]

Y N. N ñ n. N n n n​77 I'm mñnn

[@Mister-Mayhem37]

A HUGE fan of "The Serpent Queen" on STARZ! Yes...im sure are some stretching of the truth in many scenes but....i love the show!

[@shanicesm6208]

I love the show as well!! ❤I have to watch it when the kiddo is sleep and man in his man cave!! 😂

[@BimRen246]

I love the show as well. The show takes a lot of liberties as it is fiction and not a historical documentary.

[@shekinah533]

Interesting I never heard of that show. I will definitely look that up. Love browsing the true history and then watching how it plays out in the movie portrayal . Thx

[@princesspeach1606]

I liked “Reign” years ago. Was about Mary queen of Scot’s but Catherine Medici is in it. But yeah “serpent queen” is good aswel.

[@miketime4290]

That woman deserves an Emmy for that performance. My God

[@catherineliam1144]

It takes a woman of stupendous strength,fortitude and intelligence to navigate the trials of regency,motherhood and religious discontent which she did. I’m proud to be called Catherine!

[@MasterMercenaryMusic]

There's no shortage of impressive Catherines out there...

[@beaz_nutz]

@@MasterMercenaryMusicmeh… once upon a time. Now it’s just a basic name.

[@karenfield748]

Well said! And yes, Catherine is a strong, beautiful name!🎉

[@A.Candido-j1e]

... We WERE Not. RAiSED STrict Religious any MoRE i love HisTory. we should learn of HisTory. ThaTs pur credo

[@mellchiril]

If only a name alone was enough to be great

[@gothmamasylvia462]

You have done justice for a woman who has been vilified so much, and misunderstood by almost everyone.

[@tonymcdonnly6492]

This is an excellent documentary on Catherine de Medici.

[@candybox5360]

This was brilliant. A woman leader before her time. Misunderstood and lied about, she did her best for the Valois. Love her. No snakes. ❤

[@andyroo9381]

Yet another strong woman in history. I loved this presentation!

[@maryellencook9528]

If Catherine de Medici had been born male, a lot of Europe would be speaking Italian, I think.

[@Ben360net]

Yeah but it would have depended on who she would have married though

[@NickHammond-m2f]

Terrificslly done. Powerful people will never be sern as anything but scheming people. But thsbks to shows like this. We get to see them in very different lights.

[@beaz_nutz]

Usually women. Men always seem to get their glory in history. One of my favorite quotes in GOT “Someday you’ll sit on the throne and the truth will be what you make it.” As Cersei tells her psychotic son Joffrey.

[@Menapho]

This woman’s greatness can never be overstated.

[@lindalievens991]

I believe she was a strong and intelligent woman, who loved France , her family and God.

[@ElizabethS-wv2ge]

Agreed!

[@A.Candido-j1e]

@@lindalievens991 ... and as. We Know From HisTory She was very upset because Of ThE DeaTh of ThE Queen of ScoTs

[@GilaBert-sq4hj]

She was very young about eleven or twelve years old when she married. Poor her.😑 But she could survive in that harsh royal environment in that French court ,so surely she was a great survivor.

[@Joycemcnamara]

She is one of the most amazing women in history. The only shrewder Queen is Elizabeth I.

[@marvelouspetronela]

I would argue Katherine II The Great, Empress Wu Zeitan or Empress Cixi.

[@HelloKittykat21]

All amazing women bossing it in their times against the odds.

[@ElizabethS-wv2ge]

QEI was arguably far crueler, albeit through her agents, she almost,killed off all the Plantagenets. CdeM was far bolder and braver and really tried for peace until she had to go for broke.

[@Joycemcnamara]

@@marvelouspetronelaI’ve only watched a couple of docs about the great Chinese empresses. They are indeed impressive and I thank you for reminding me of their contributions. The west tends to forget that China has been ahead of every game for a thousand years before us! I study Russian history interminably and find it fascinating, albeit unapologetically brutal and cruel. Katherine dragged her country, like her predecessor Peter the Great into an enlightened period compared to their medieval lifestyle previously, but at what cost? Peter tortured his own son to death, Katherine killed her husband and did treat her own son (whose father was never known for sure), although an idiot too, horribly. The Russian culture is so out there, those raised in a democratic society cannot even fathom some of the seemingly inhumane actions they’ve committed in the past and now in present times. Stalin and his gulag “archipelago” imprisoning 50 million people, the Holodomor, WW II and another 20+ million casualties and now Putin with his war crimes and illegal invasions of sovereign nations like Chechnya, Georgia, and Ukraine, to name just a few.

[@beaz_nutz]

Cannot forget Queen Elizabeth II was one of the greatest during her reign. She was a proper badass.

[@yankeetherebel]

29:20 The problem was and still is that the Catholic convictions aren't religious, they're carnal. Protestantism was born upon the recognition of Catholicism's many deviations from the Bible. The Protestants desired to abide by the Word of God... not of man. Once the Bible/Word of God was made more widely available in translations that the common people could understand, people realized that much of the Catholic religion had no biblical basis and therefore people began rejecting Catholicism in favor of Protestantism. The leaders of the Catholic church were well aware of their many deviations and in fact embraced them as being personally profitable. They had no interest in rejecting their deviations. So it's true that the attempted resolutions were doomed from the start, but not on the grounds of both sides' religious convictions, rather it was due to the religious convictions of the Protestants and the carnal desires of the Catholics.

[@cl5470]

And yet both are based on a made up story the Romans promoted to trick slaves into thinking they would get justice and equality in the afterlife as long as they were good slaves on Earth.

[@danielbarcenas4175]

One of my favorite videos you guys have made.

[@robert-surcouf]

It should be really hard for Catherine before she die to have lost one husband and three sons, also knowing that the last one will likely be childless and the whole dynasty cease to exist despite all Catherine's efforts.

[@susanmercurio1060]

In addition to her loss of both her parents

[@Chipoo88]

Glad to see the People’s Profile here. Great quality content

[@danmayfield3909]

Hopefully they got permission from them for it to be used. I love the people’s profile videos

[@manuellubian5709]

Great video. Very informative. It really did a fantastic job highlighting a part of European history that we don't often get in America, or taught as part of world history curriculum information. However one thing that I would like to suggest although this is my first time to your channel I would like to suggest and hope that in the future you seek to do interviews or bring in other footage of people that have talked on your subjects just to put a little additional variety into your videos.

[@Uzair_Of_Babylon465]

Great video keep it up you're doing amazing things 😁👍

[@katharper655]

All I know is SHE is highly-villified amongst the elderly of my extended Cajun family. Not A single conciliatory word have I heard regarding Catherine de Medici, not even at our behemoth Family Reunions. We Cajuns have LOOOOOOONG MEMORIES.

[@minui8758]

I thought the Cajuns were Roman Catholic. Presumably a Calvinist group of them? Or Catherine did other stuff they hated?

[@katharper655]

@@minui8758 I am Protestant by choice and by rearing. I believe the story goes that some of our kind, separated from our Homeland, were converted in a gesture of homesickness. My branch of the family are a scattered Representation of religious sects. I had a Great Uncle who was a Snake Handler.... as I understand it a rather extremist group of Pentecostals who took Mark 16:18 "And they shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing it shall not hurt them" seriously. SOME tried the "deadly drink" bit...by which they stupidly expired. We are a religious patchwork, it would seem.... fun-loving barbarians being most prevalent.

[@manuellubian5709]

I too have relatives from Louisiana. Although our family is not Cajun. We're more French by birth. So what is it that your family had against Catherine de Medici? What did she do, to the Cajuns of Louisiana?

[@katharper655]

@@manuellubian5709 .It's more what she did to the Huguenots of France, who were forced to flee France or join the nearly 250, 000 Dead Huguenots filling the Seine river from bank to bank for hundreds of miles...and the slaughter wasnt just in Paris, nor only on St. Bartholomew's Day. It went on for the better part of a year. My family lost their Crown-gifted estates, their titles, and most importantly for many of them, their LIVES. And that is the start of tribulations as the fact they were Protestants followed them across the sea and into the predominantly CATHOLIC south of AMERICA.

[@TheBreechie]

Are you sure your family are actually of Cajun decent? There are some major historical discrepancies that make me think your Cajun identity is likely recent identity born of location? Cajun’s are pretty much descended from the Arcadians who were Catholic French people thrown out of what is now Nova Scotia by the English in 1775 - Catherine had been dead 186 years… If perhaps your family have any reason to hate CdM it’s likely because you come from Huguenot blood. You most definitely are not a Cajun now that I can read your second reply…

[@zero_bs_tolerance8646]

Thank you. Enjoyed.

[@sherrievandeursen3676]

I think she was a furiously loving mother, cared for her children, her faith and her country. She stood the test of time and the slanders of others who were threatened by her intelligence and passion. God bless!

[@mynx6912]

They literally explain why she was called "The Black Queen" in the first 20 mins 😂

[@GrimmGhost]

That's too long to pay attention. Was she of Bantu heritage?

[@benteknudsen3248]

Oh Cathy, bless - you did your best

[@alessandrarosina7855]

Very interesting video about the 1st Queen of the medici family, she was not a black queen and madame serpent are commonplaces, because there was a lot of envy and jealousy, she certainly belonged to a bourgerois family, who financed painters and sculports:Lippi, Donatello, verrocchio, botticelli, Michelangelo, likesome rest the Gonzaga lords of Mantova, mercenaries, was truly medici in every from of art and architetture:castle of loire and hotel de la reine and tuilieres. She was icon of fashion and jewels, an influncer and the kingdom of France during the wras of religion maskedwere for power and to have the throne. She embodied royalty, and was bourgerois and knew how to impose herself. Queen Catherine wanted glory for france and her acquired lineage. Unfornately it wasn't like that.

[@hanselpollack4075]

Thoroughly engaging and informative! Thank you. It must heard again, with pen in hand, to sort out for an average history lover, and lover of France for conclusions. However, I found sufficient evidence in your presentation to conclude, that Catherine was not only gifted in political leadership, but a setter of policies long termed astute in later decades, even centuries. Her deep spoken faith leads me to believe she was appointed and anointed by the God to whom she was so yielded for this very season.

[@editfaris6719]

Based on what I heard just now, she did her very best that she could with all the challenges and personal unhappiness.

[@MarcellaGeddes]

I Believe She Was As She Set Out To Be & One Of The Greatest Queen's In All Of History 👑🌹💜✝️⚜️🕊️

[@viewyourdealrichie451]

Z❤

[@debbralehrman5957]

Thanks 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼

[@rachaelb.]

I suggest breaking and or pausing the narration more often, to give our brains a little time to absorb the onslaught on info. It's too much work to pause the vid every 3 mins. Take a breath, take a pause, and stop making vids that cut out all pauses. We all need a pause now and then. It's ok.

[@migamaos3953]

Unsurprised it’s a woman commenting this tbh

[@marvelouspetronela]

​​@@migamaos3953unsurprised it's an incel of a man with the misogynystic comment.

[@chuckw8391]

I agree, otherwise a pleasant voice

[@jeanniegrable7810]

You can always pause it yourself😊

[@gonefishing167]

Really good, thank you. She certainly tried her best for her adopted country. Shame how peoples names are either shamed through history or are made paragons of virtue ( when they are not!) by the same history. 🙏🙏👵🇦🇺

[@debbralehrman5957]

As I listen to your summary at the end. I still thank you for the video. But want to add my thankfulness that I was born in the last half of the 20th Century. Women and people today(even if things are not perfect) are so much better off. I think for the the time she lived and the resources she was allowed. I think she did a darn good job. If she was so good at killing people off. Why did she let that @#%@#$ Diane de Poitiers live so long. 🤷🏼‍♀️Just sayin'?

[@lindacarter7013]

Loved her real story, She was an Amazing leader👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽🙏🏽❤️🙏🏽😍

[@harperoconnor5285]

If he was that "devoted" to his mistress, I wonder how many of those 8 kids were actually his.

[@CountessKitten]

They were all his

[@wandapease-gi8yo]

The chance that Catherine could have had lovers is vanishingly small. She was watched at all times.

[@anitawallace265]

Did''nt Diane, Catherine's cousin allow Catherine's husband, the King sleep W/ Katherine @ Intervals? Each time, she became Pregnant by her Husband..

[@CountessKitten]

@@anitawallace265 I can't believe you would even type that? Like, are you trolling? 😭🤣

[@EugeniaSyro]

Catherine was a bad ass!

[@lliamjurdom9505]

I think she was a patron to Nostradamus ...

[@algini12]

She was. The Spanish Inquisition were going to torture Nostradamus. Catherine stopped them. They tried to push back and keep him. But you didn't mess with her.

[@shekinah533]

Thank you! This was very powerful, you expounded on not just the woman but her power to wield a Monarchy in a world where she operated in the foreground under the figure head of a king. The connection to the expounding Historical factions that was prevailing at that time shows a priceless connection of historical value. Awesome!🫶🏽

[@AnnacolleenEtters]

Very interesting. I think, to the last question you asked, is she tried to her utmost, to be all.

[@danielbarcenas4175]

This is who that STARZ show is based on? The serpent queen?

[@cynthiatowers1038]

Yes

[@CountessKitten]

Yes

[@peterpaul9644]

I love the tv show based on her life. Wish it was at least somewhat historically accurate, but it definitely made me even more interested in her life. She was a bad b*tch, so sharp and hard working. Even after her direct line collapsing, she kept the work.

[@gregmiller9710]

i won a bronze of her with the reverse of the broken lance....great show!

[@rebekahlafever333]

❤Thank you❤

[@A.Candido-j1e]

... An amaZing. Queen HM was born on 13. 4. NosTradamus was her Seer

[@BabarazziPhotos]

Well done documentary! Personally I go with she was a strong woman that was politically savvy and made sure her kids got the best! In history, anytime you see a woman in power they have to find a way to discredit her. During this time they would have called any woman a witch or a snake because she did not know her "place" in society. 🤦‍♀️

[@E.S-d7u]

Excellent piece - but the completely wrong prononciation of "Medici" (there is no stress on the i...) really hurt my ears.

[@juanfervalencia]

outstanding

[@martijnkeisers5900]

Medici is pronounced completely wrong 😢

[@emilieseitl9662]

These robotic AI voices ,without pause and intonation make interesting material very tiring to listen to,

[@thatsclassicher1149]

word for word from wikipedia

[@kirstencampbell2593]

What I know is that she wouldn't let Mary Rose Tudor be queen because a stubborn 13 year old girl refuses to wear black after her hubby died. This is where queen Victoria got the obsession of black from. The forever morning queens.

[@cadderley100]

Why is Anne Boleyn now considered to be a black queen, according to Google Search Results?

[@susanmercurio1060]

Well, if Henry was philandering with his mistresses, Catherine could hardly conceive. Apparently, Henry finally did his job.

[@loum73]

14? So fkng tragic.

[@nphipps9406]

it was all about politics especially being a woman, it was no better with the other queens, however, Catherine was a good enough mother

[@sweetlikechocolate437]

Was the Vasey Massacre the same as The Bathalomew's Day Massacre?

[@marnieanderson720]

How exactly was Catherine related to Pope Clement? Like through which of her parents ? Can someone break it down person to person for me?

[@marnieanderson720]

@@Mikaela39989 yes but how? through what family members were they related through?

[@marnieanderson720]

@@Mikaela39989 arrgh I'm trying to write this down to see the connection but it's still not making sense to me cause Giuliano de Medici and Lorenzo (catherine's father) don't share a father

[@marnieanderson720]

@@Mikaela39989 Thank you for so much for your help - I just wanted to see what degree they were related. Catherine's father is Pope Clement's 1st cousin once removed and Catherine is Urbino's child so that would make them 1st cousins twice removed. (if we forget about Pope Clement's illegitimacy.)

[@Patrick3183]

Fix the title of the video.

[@AnnaAnna-uc2ff]

What's wrong with it?

[@atgay2640]

@@AnnaAnna-uc2ff”black”….

[@loum73]

How many is a few days...

[@valeriemacphail9180]

MEDici NOT medICI

[@chuckw8391]

😮thank you, I didn’t know that. But I’m ethnically Swedish , lol.

[@valeriemacphail9180]

@@chuckw8391 Think "medicine/ medical' etc. It originates from Latin which was the language of the educated class throughout Europe.

[@valeriemacphail9180]

@@chuckw8391 Medical/medicine/Medici/= same root

[@MummaCourtney84]

Stolen from People profiles

[@cynthiatowers1038]

I knew I recognized that voice.

[@MummaCourtney84]

@@cynthiatowers1038 me too.. 5 seconds in I was like oh I know that voice lol

[@tburrrg2502]

It’s not stolen, they literally just posted on their KZbin that they are in a partnership and are excited that they are having their videos play on this channel.

[@Chipoo88]

They’ve joined forces

[@PeopleProfiles]

We've licensed a number of videos to these guys. It's all above board.

[@bgthtr6404]

My French Huguenot ancestor Jean Bricquet barely escaped with his life. He came to America and Angelesized his name from Jean Bricquet to John Brickey of Townsend, TN, the Great Smokies. Catherine Medici and her son are frying in hell TODAY!

[@anitawallace265]

To Countess:No I don't troll. Believe me as You READ what I stated.

[@leah8526]

Of course she was an Aries 😅

[@jamieschlaeppi2672]

😂❤

[@A.Candido-j1e]

. . . We are no SainTs we made few Tiny misTakes in our life ... ... ForTunaTely Saints make no Mistake

[@TheJennick13]

This is from People Profiles...wtheck?

[@susanmercurio1060]

Sad that Diane de Poitiers couldn't be with her lover at his death

[@CountessKitten]

Do what? Lmfao. No. Not at all. That moment was his wife's and his wife's alone! Are you a mistress? Why the sympathy for the other woman? She tortured Catherine through their entire marriage.

[@Glo1776]

Lol you mean the woman who was 35 when she “seduced” a 15 yr old boy that she had known since he was 7? That one? Because the only one who actually loved him was by his side.

[@algini12]

Mistresses never are.

[@loum73]

Possibly? From syphilis?

[@shelleygibbons1065]

Ahe really was a queen

[@cabdaly]

joseph cornell: medici ping pong!

[@MarianneHyatt]

Oh my this filled in a few gaps in my knowledge of the late, great Kate. I think she’s equal parts evil and yet devoted Queen Mum (Did she originate that title?). I was struck by her harsh treatment of Mary Q of Scots - with letters to her biological daughters referring to the latter as ‘The Prince’, but I auppose she was just as rough on her own daughter. Defo an overbearing mother who preferred her sons

[@mariesteenkamp5305]

she never punished the murderers,which is suspicious..

[@A.Candido-j1e]

... Well we know our AncesTry ... GeneTik

[@Phantom369-q8x]

ottomans are not Turk indeed i think.....

[@goodvibes5220]

What a shame - an entire video about a Medici lady - yet unable to pronounce the Medici name correctly! I cringed every time he said Me-DI-ci instead of ME-di-ci and couldn’t watch it anymore after 5 minutes. Just too much and actually making me doubt the content 😌

[@TracyD2]

So much for good vibes.

[@loum73]

Exploited.. Bye Diane!

[@gundarvarr1024]

The real EVIL QUEEN

[@prettypurple7175]

1519/////

[@yanafelani]

AWFUL DICTATION

[@spinstersuccess6941]

😊

[@Schwarzkald]

After 10yrs she got pregnant that is suspicious. She most likely got pregnant by the bed chamberlain😂

[@CountessKitten]

No.

[@janebowdoe3878]

There was some wrong with Henry's penis. Diane didn't want a much better looking princess replacing Catherine so they work together. Diane would start with Henry and then send him to Catherine.

[@dutchessofyork1002]

Medici are swarthy brown complexion aka moor black skin my direct blood ancestor and Marie Medici is also swarthy aka black Queen

[@FieldMarshalRommel23]

We wuz kangz?

[@bobdavis1333]

Excellent

[@BalticBorn]

I did not think it was possible to have such a fascinating time in history presented in such a comatose way 🥱 this is just dreary