Frances Greatest Leader? Charlemagne - HistoryMarche Reaction

A really fascinating look into Charlemagne who is arguably one of the greatest leaders of all time. Would you consider Charlemagne to be one of the fathers of Europe?

0:00 Introduction
1:11 Part 1 Reaction
19:32 Part 2 Reaction
36:03 Conclusion

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[jpbreeze]

Yeah, middle age/medieval nicknames are usually kinda weird. Either literal or esoteric. One of Charlemagne's descendants, a king of West Francia, was known as "Charles the Bald". The reason being is that it took a very long time for him to receive his crown. His brothers ended up calling him "bald" as a joke due to his lack of a crown, not because of a lack of hair. He was in fact very hairy.

[bakthihapuarachchi]

Fun fact:- there was a proposal to marry Emperor Charlamagne to Empress Irene, thus uniting the Holy Roman Empire and the Byzantine Empire

[Kristof]

Ladies and Gentelman, welcome back to the France country series! 😎

[fritoss]

In France child often think that Charglemagne created school

[xenotypos]

I really have a problem with some of those videos naming Charlemagne's empire the "Holy Roman Empire" (while it's usually named the Carolingian empire). It was the predecessor od the HRE, but it was different in every way. And it was really an empire, not the weird entity that Otto I will create later.
The term "holy" itself will start to be used centuries after Charlemagne, and the Holy Roman Empire was really centered on Germany. France was as much a successor to the Carolingian empire as the HRE was.

Regarding the pagan religions in Germany before they became Christians, it was a "early" version of the Nordic Mythology, but we don't know much about it. The equivalent of Odin was called Woden in some regions (the term "wednesday" comes from it), the goddess Freyja (friday comes from her) was probably still considered the same goddess as Frigg (it's two completely different godesses in the Nordic mythology), etc... different but close.

[JeanPaulMarat]

The reason he was called short is a mistranslation, it should’ve been Pepin the young or younger but it was mistranslated, anyways Pepin was a very good ruler but he was overshadowed by his father, Charles Martel and his son Charlemagne

[bessonnet]

Pepin the short (le bref, in French) was not a tall person.
His wife Bertrade of Laon was also called Berthe broad foot... They had king Grand sons called Pepin the hunchback, Louis the pious, Charles the young...

[andrelee]

Pepin the Short is more a mistranslation. It is more like "Pepin the Younger" since he was the youngest in his family yet was able to take the throne.

[flyingeagle]

34:09 far from an expert but the worst single thing about Charlamagne is the dumb system of inheretence he had in place... which you will probably learn about in one of these videos.
Charlamagne's interactions with the pope and the Byzantines likely were the final nail in the coffin that ended any real chance for the Roman empire to reunite, and he was deeply influential on Europe, but he is more of a European figure than a "french figure." It's probably best to think of this as late "pre-french" history.

[bakthihapuarachchi]

Biographics is a really good channel ngl though

[mcsroom]

Video i dont think ya realizing the technological differences at the time in the ''Byzantine'' empire and western Europe