Yeah I think it's unfair to include her here. Especially taking into account the fact that she was only 16 when she assumed the throne. I'll only speak for myself but I can't imagine 16 year old me would have been a good ruler either..
@Nooby mcpe you know that alone could have started a war with Austria? She wasn’t a French born Princess and because of that France was required to send her and her children home (well the girls anyway). Their killing her instead was an act of war against the Royal family of Austria. If her brother had wanted to push the subject he could have taken troops into France over her @ss@ination. I’ve always wondered why he didn’t do it. Did he think Austria would lose? Or maybe they’d win but with too many casualties, so to him it wasn’t worth it? I wonder if Maria-Teresa kicked his a$$ for it? Bet ‘mama’ never let him hear the end of it for that one lol 😹.
@@M.Campbell-Sherwood actually Prussia and Austria did invade France during the state of the constitutional monarchy and this was because Marie-Antoinette and Louis the 16th when situations were bad for them, sent a letter to manyi European world leaders for help but by the time the letters were reached, said European leaders, a compromise was already made for a constitutional monarchy and for a while there it seems like the revolution is done down before the letters of never mind we’re received Austria and Prussia already started planning to invade France to reinstate a absolute monarchy, but when they did it, the letters of never mind they found it unacceptable that they were OK with the constitutional monarchy so immediately invaded to try to restore the absolute dismayed, the French people angry more angry than they were before and if you really think about it, the first republic and the French revolutionaries were such a propaganda machine that is crazy to think about the fact that the leaders of the rebellion knew the truth about the French government, but were lying. The truth was the king in the queen, did not pass laws without the approval of the clergy and nobility. Actually, they couldn’t do most things without their permission, there is mini historical accounts of the French royal parliament having votes that would’ve been beneficial for the people, but on beneficial to the nobility and clergy and royalty where is the majority of the Royals and what I mean by that was the king and one very close, and the peasants now the clergy, the Royals, who voted otherwise and the nobility would have their votes be more powerful and well they would win and actually mini leaders of the French revolution were high enough class to be taught this and know about how it is working they were power-hungry people CNN cl cl cl cl cl cl cl
Ferdinand and Isabella I did not rule Spain. Spain was a personal union of Castile and Aragon. The unification happened with the first Bourbon King Phillips V. So Charles V was not king of Spain but of Aragon and Castile and Leon and later the Habsburgse also became King of Navarre and Portugal. It was Charles V who locked his mother away while trying to keep his grandad Ferdinand at bay who was still King of Aragon but wanted power over Castile.
@@JelleSophie interesting, the chocolate lied to me... Jk. I didn't know this. But yes, all the stories here have been seriously overdramatized being shown as pretty white or black matters. The one out of all of them that I knew was Olga's and while the slaughter of the emissaries and later the high lord's was somewhat spot on the attack on the town was a smart way to avoid a prolonged siege. She was at war and to say she had killed thousands prior makes it sound she attacked to seek revenge which by the events of the time it became a defensive counteroffensive for an oxymoron that that is. In other words, sure, you should read about the individuals in the video, but let's not keep to heart what they say otherwise we'll have limited sight.
Marie was actually discredited for let them eat cake. That quote was actually about a previous Duchess when Marie herself was only 14. Marie was basically used as a scapegoat after her husband was killed.
@@fabulouschild2005That makes more sense, Antoinette was really into charity and personally helped poor families and handed out food. She was certainly aware of the country’s hardships and did much to help, unfortunately since she wasn’t French the revolutionaries hated her and the king was too much of a wimp to stand up to the other aristocrats and properly fix the problems that would have prevented the revolution.
Marie Antoinette was not just a scapegoat. She moved to France to be married at 14, but she wasn't a child when the revolution was going on. She was a conservative who spoke out against progress and actively worked to sabotage the revolution.
Plus, the French Revolution was never about the poor people taking over from the rich. It was about abolishing the class system that was in place in France at the time, which often had wealthy people be lower tier citizens than knights and other freeloaders.
Correct! Marie Antoinette WASN'T cruel, evil, or corrupt at all!! She was a product of her position, and acted like the rest of the nobility at Versailles. She was also spoiled by her indulgent husband, (King Louis 16th). There's been historical accounts of some very charitable deeds that she did as well. And that she was usually very kind to people, especially servants.
Bathory is one of the more terrifying cases of someone who was considered as a vampire. She's even referred to as Lady Dracula. Today, she likely would've been arrested, tried as a murderer, found not guilty by reason of insanity, committed to a mental institution for life, and spent the rest of her days hopped up on Risperdal in a padded room wearing a straight jacket.
I’ve visited the castle where she spent most of her time in Slovakia and many educated people think that it’s pretty much made up stories or at least really overexaggerated. I don’t think that she was innocent but I don’t believe that she actually killed so many young women… it sounds terrible but noble people back then used to do horrible things and no one questioned them. So many people were burned at the stake.. just because some powerful people accused them of doing something supernatural when they were mostly people who just had some sort of power(but more like political influence, status, knowledge..idk, it was crazy for sure😅). One of my close friend is fascinated by Elizabeth Bathory and she read every possible book&studied as much stuff as she could… and she thinks that Elizabeth was innocent.. or at least didn’t do majority of the things that she was accused of.
@@MSeliskaZ i always thought the same. The whole blood bathing/drinking seems toо unrealistic to me, like a fantasy movie. I suspect someone made this legend up & it went viral
New findings... She was probably innocent. The evidences against her are very pore. The people who were against her took her castles and money after she was arrested.
I feel quite sorry for Marie Antoinette as she couldn’t really control what her husband did, she was just there to produce babies and was a pretty sheltered privileged woman
Her husband was also not as bad as his predecessors. He tried to raise taxes on the nobility (who basically didn't pay any taxes) to help the country but they all refused. They were out of touch but not bad people; more the scapegoats.
Her husband was a traitor when his people were out to get him he attempted to flee the country and go to Marie’s country and get an army of fight his people
@jehoiakimelidoronila5450 Not only that, but Marie was from Austria. One of the countries France hated most. It would have been like having the 1st Lady of the US be a Russian during the Cold War. She and her husband were completely set up for failure. Especially when you learn it was the King before who bankrupted the country.
Marie Antoinette wasn’t as bad as her story is typically told. She was a young Queen who was ignorant of the issues around her but when she became aware of reality she wanted to help. Their hatred of Austria and the French aristocracy was projected onto her.
Olga of Kyiv, she told the town she would end the seige if they gave her a bunch of birds from in town, mostly pigeons and sparrows, then attached the burning paper to them right before night so they would go back to their nests which were usually in the eaves of building to maximize damage. Absolute genius
i mean, the total and utter annihilation of not only the citizens, but the town itself, was an effective way to end a siege.... so yeah. kept her word!
Maria Antonia was not a cruel Queen! She tried desperately to help France when it finally dawned on her what was going on but they let their own hatred of Austria cloud their judgement!
Thank you for saying that very little people actually really studied about it most people just believe what they say about Marie Antoinette, but she was actually a very good woman and she tried to save the people friends, but she did not have the power to and then in that situation, people would think her husband was the bad guy but if you even do even further researching her husband Couldn’t do anything either cause all the power relied on a parliamentary system they had with the peasants, nobility, Porgy, and the Royals, the Royals, having the highest vote, and the peasants, having the lowest meaning that for most of the votes, the Royals and the peasants would be over, turned by the clergy and nobility, which everybody of those rankings were forced to attend
Little Detail that I kinda like: Three of the Queens mentioned here are related. Isabella of Castille was the mother of Juana la Loca and Catherine of Aragon, who gave birth to Mary 1 of England!
I had a teacher in high school who told us that “let them eat cake” wasn’t referring to a dessert cake but was referring to the burnt “caked” on bits that stuck to the bread ovens.
At 7:22 "Let them eat cake".... At the time and in that place, there was a lesser and lower form of bread. It was translated as cake.... She was saying if you can't afford expensive bread eat cheap bread. She wasn't out of touch, she didn't care!!
Fun fact she shouldn't be on this list, and it's beyond laughable at how confident all of you are when talking about marie antoinette, she never said let them eat cake, the phrase is taken from a book about a similar princess written by Rousseau, and she wasn't even top 5 biggest spenders at Versailles during her lifetime let alone its whole history..she's not to blame for her country's poverty, the blame for that goes to Louis XIV and Louis XV
And she's also a scapegoat for all the royals that switched teams and a scapegoat for the revolutionaries who wanted to blame someone thus made stuff up on her
You need to do better research lol. She was lucky to be born privileged and education wasn’t her strong suit, so she was completely ignorant of all matters outside of her own court. Not saying that’s right since she did eventually assume the throne, but she was certainly NOT evil - just painfully ignorant of the plight of the French people. She was not even a native of France originally, so she was truly removed from their struggles as a country.
I honestly feel so sorry for Maria Eleonora. A lot of the information about her mental state and behaviour is actually exaggerated or occasionally even fabricated and I don’t believe she was insane at all. Specifically I think she had BPD and was bipolar too and the loss of her husband scarred her for life, but her letters show that she was actually a very loving mother. As for Kristina, she was only hairy at birth, it’s called lanugo, plus she was actually mistaken for a boy at first, at least according to the story she was told growing up that she repeated in her autobiography.
these conversations only start or get talked about if things are exaggerated , on my channel I do that but I would never fabricate a story, would you lie to get comments?
As to Elisabeth I, she actually was religiously quite tolerant at first. Only after countless coups and assassination attempts to overthrow her, she came to the conclusion that she must do something against them. but not normal people just anywhere. Her halfsister Mary, however, was bloodthirsty and really did enjoy burning people at the stake. And Isabela I did actually mostly start the Spanish inquisition, making her confessor the first great inquisitor of spain; the infamous Torquemada
Hmm sounds like a double standard. Isabella I not only felt pressure from Rome but there was intense antisemitism within Castile that threatened her rule if she didn’t placate Christians. There were also many rebellions in Granada post-conquest. Isabella did what she thought was best for her rule, as did Elizabeth.
Because of Empress Irene, Charles the Great was crowned Emperor because the Imperial throne was vacant. Woman couldn’t rule in their own name was believed.
Mary I was less brutal than her sister Elizabeth I or Henry VIII. 300 Protestants is a lot, but Henry VIII killed at least 40,000 people. These numbers are huge when you consider the population was only 3-4 million people. Elizabeth I had killed tens of thousands of people too, and ran a police state
Juana la Loca was actually Queen of Castile-Leon until her death in 1555 as well as Queen of Aragon from 1516 until her death. The only reason why she did not rule was because she was locked by her father and then by her son who was co-ruler by her side just that only he rule due to her confinement. And Isabella I did not rule until 1474 when her half-brother Henry IV died. 1451 was the year of her birth.
She shouldn't even be on this list, most of the things they said are inaccurate and out of context, since most of it was made up by revolutionaries who are known for using a lot of propaganda
Yup. Even if she did say it, she wouldn't have been referring to cake in the modern sense, at the time it refered to fancy bread. So it basically would have meant "let them have the good stuff if they need it." Probably never happened period though.
I think it's worth remembering she was only 16 when she took the throne. How many of us can say we'd have made a good ruler at that age? I sure wouldn't have lol
the actress who played her was so good at the role that in an interview she said that sometimes random people will come up to her and tell her how much they hate her😂😂
If Marie Antoinette was evil because she was a noble and privileged woman, so were every other queen in history. She doesn't belong on this list. And no, she never said "let them eat cake", it's actually Louis XVI's aunt Madame Victoire who said "let them eat pâté crust"...
I don't know guys. About Juana the mad (la loca), it was well documented that she wasn't fit for duty, since she became the heir apparent, her father tried to introduce her to the "kingdoms' affairs" with no avail. Even suggesting in his chronicles that Joan had something more than lack of interest. Her husband Philip and the Flemish court also documented the mental issues of Joan, as well as his sons... Now on Isabella there are a lot of mistakes there... most of this legend of an evil Isabella's character was not documented on her time, so that note should be included.
But just to be as historically correct as possible here let's be clear. She was in fact convicted, however some believe there was no concrete evidence. So since there was no concrete evidence, some say you can't prove her guilt beyond reasonable doubt. I say that's debatable. Idk about back then, but I can say today with 100% confidence that there is in fact judicial precedent that supports a guilty verdict.
From what I was taught about Marie Antoinette is that after she was taken from her mother and sisters to wed the prince she was never taught how to be a proper Queen because she was not born in France so she knew nothing about how to work with funds or what to do for the people. But like I said this is what I was taught:)
Marie was not read y be Queen she was 14 she did care fr the poor but there was only so much she could do her trial was stacked against her by men just like Anne Boleyn
Interesting take comparing fictional Queens, but unfortunately in most fiction the villans are cartoonishly exagerated as opposed to the nuances of real people, although Cersei was inspired primarily by a real person Margaret of Anjou, who was Queen Consort to King Henry VI of England.
Marie Antoinette doesn't deserve to be on this list. She wasn't evil, she was sheltered and honestly didn't know anything that the French people were suffering from.
I love the infographics show but this video is extremely inaccurate and misleading. I a student of history and have been studying history (specifically the Tudor period and the wars of the roses) for YEARS. The lies that you repeated about Mary I in this video (and the one you made specifically about her) have no historical basis, especially the claim that that she had pregnant people burnt. First of all, Mary herself said that she wouldn't prosecute protestants that were loyal and respectful to her and who practiced their faith in private. Of course, some of the people killed were innocent, but that wasn't by MARY'S hand. That was the fault of the bishops and clergy who were responsible for law enforcement. They went to far a lot of the time and often did things without the Queen's permission. Secondly, Mary NEVER had pregnant people killed. It was against the law at the time, even for monarchs, and Mary was the last person who would do that as a very motherly person herself who was desperate for a child of her own. The claims that she had pregnant people killed were made up by an extremely misogynist protestant a long time after her death. There is no evidence to suggest that what he claimed about her reign were true, and many historians nowadays agree that he was just trying to scaremonger about female leaders and Catholics. As a historian myself, I find the fact that a channel which is very popular and one which many people look to for facts and information is spreading these lies to this day very annoying and disappointing. Do better!
Agreed! I personally believe there was also a weird politically correct reason to make sure that Mary was shown as the "most evil" here. This channel makes me really uncomfortable sometimes, gets to feeling a bit propagandaish
14:34 I love Isabelle the first. As a Bolivian 🇧🇴I'm ashamed of the bad reputation mediocre people gave her. She always looked after the indigenous people from Latin America
Here's a tale of Wu ZeTian: after securing power, the Royal prince (her son) and Wu family (her brothers) started going GoT. To put an end to this, two male concubines were made into her minsters, and had them trolled her families to peace before she execute the playboys, real Queen's gambit.
Please make an infographic show about the history of battle of yultong. Where there are 1000 Filipinos vs 40000 chinese. That would be interesting to watch
Marie Antoinette was naïve and sheltered, not cruel. She loved children and apologized to her executioner when she accidentally stepped on his foot on the scaffold. She was a scapegoat, not a monster.
Bathory never drank the blood, she bathed in it, and she didn't take the girls by force, she lured them in by teeling their parents she will teach them good manners. Also the girls had to be virgins and later on she moved to noble girls, because she was kinda out of virgins. Thats why she was caught. Moreover, she didn't spend her life sentence in luxury, she was locked in an empty tower from the castle where a wall has been built to lock her in, no windows no doors. And she died from starvation.
She was canonized by two religions (Orthodox and Roman Catholic) largely because she tried to spread Christianity to Ukraine. But she was also a mass murderer of the highest order. Kinda interesting.
Wu Zetian was married off at age 13 and once her first husband died she married his son. She lived a sheltered life and was actually known as a fairly good empress. Just maybe not the best mother….
That's one interpretation. There's actually no evidence that she said it period. The earliest claim that attributes that line to her comes from a document written 40+ years after her death.
Juana la Loca, was not a very bad Queen, but she was influenced by the death 💀 of her so-called husband Felipe el Guapo, who had many numerous occasions to be with other women, and who was about as faithful as the poor rabbits ,but she really loved him, and when he died from drinking some cold h2o,, she followed his funeral entourage to his burial 🪦 site, and, this, I do believe, caused her to become mentally unstable, and thus she was known as a neurotic, poor Juana!😢
If "evil queen" is decided by what happened under the reign of the monarch then Queen Elizabeth should be on this list. It's a gross whitewash of history to ignore the 3 million Indians that Winston Churchill starved while he was prime minister, and the concentration camps in Kenya and India under her reign which she directly profited from and still owns ill-gotten land.
I blame the Rap Music. The ticking of the hihat constantly triggers the brain with instant reactions to uneeded strife with a feeling to ACT SUDDENLY. The thud and vibration of the Bass messes with the timing of the Heart and Lungs causing undo stress and Anxiety. You will feel anger and uncertainty while listening and feel trapped by even your alley or vehicle. Your home becomes a prison with the music inside of your body making you want to get high and violent.
I would say out of touch rich people oblivious to the suffering of common people has been a common occurrence throughout human history and does not deserve a spot on a list next to despotic nobles
You are wrong about Marie Antoinette. She was foolish, but she and her husband inherited a bad situation and things were already beyond repair. She actually tried , trying to make cheeper clothes and jewelry fashionable to keep expenses down but she failed.
Ok. I use to trust this show a lot. Now I don’t since it’s been proven time and time again Marie never said “let them eat cake”. It was falsely attributed to her.
Isabel de Castilla, along with her husband Fernandino de Aragón, believed XPO ,Christoforo Columbus, and she sold many of her jewels 💎 in order to help finance the journey from ESPAÑA 🇪🇸 to the supposed new world 🌍 , and Columbus did complete 4 voyages of discovery to the new world 🌍, however on his ultimate voyage, he became a very old man, and lost much of his savings, and he, I believe, died in poverty 😢
These stories of powerful women are both fascinating and chilling. It's a stark reminder of the darkness that can lurk behind positions of authority throughout history
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" Marie Antoinette", I think was less cruel, brutal and more oblivious to the outside world. Overly Privileged certainly, evil not so much.
Yeah I think it's unfair to include her here. Especially taking into account the fact that she was only 16 when she assumed the throne.
I'll only speak for myself but I can't imagine 16 year old me would have been a good ruler either..
@Nooby mcpe you know that alone could have started a war with Austria? She wasn’t a French born Princess and because of that France was required to send her and her children home (well the girls anyway). Their killing her instead was an act of war against the Royal family of Austria. If her brother had wanted to push the subject he could have taken troops into France over her @ss@ination. I’ve always wondered why he didn’t do it. Did he think Austria would lose? Or maybe they’d win but with too many casualties, so to him it wasn’t worth it? I wonder if Maria-Teresa kicked his a$$ for it? Bet ‘mama’ never let him hear the end of it for that one lol 😹.
@@M.Campbell-Sherwood actually Prussia and Austria did invade France during the state of the constitutional monarchy and this was because Marie-Antoinette and Louis the 16th when situations were bad for them, sent a letter to manyi European world leaders for help but by the time the letters were reached, said European leaders, a compromise was already made for a constitutional monarchy and for a while there it seems like the revolution is done down before the letters of never mind we’re received Austria and Prussia already started planning to invade France to reinstate a absolute monarchy, but when they did it, the letters of never mind they found it unacceptable that they were OK with the constitutional monarchy so immediately invaded to try to restore the absolute dismayed, the French people angry more angry than they were before and if you really think about it, the first republic and the French revolutionaries were such a propaganda machine that is crazy to think about the fact that the leaders of the rebellion knew the truth about the French government, but were lying. The truth was the king in the queen, did not pass laws without the approval of the clergy and nobility. Actually, they couldn’t do most things without their permission, there is mini historical accounts of the French royal parliament having votes that would’ve been beneficial for the people, but on beneficial to the nobility and clergy and royalty where is the majority of the Royals and what I mean by that was the king and one very close, and the peasants now the clergy, the Royals, who voted otherwise and the nobility would have their votes be more powerful and well they would win and actually mini leaders of the French revolution were high enough class to be taught this and know about how it is working they were power-hungry people CNN cl cl cl cl cl cl cl
Ferdinand and Isabella I did not rule Spain. Spain was a personal union of Castile and Aragon. The unification happened with the first Bourbon King Phillips V. So Charles V was not king of Spain but of Aragon and Castile and Leon and later the Habsburgse also became King of Navarre and Portugal. It was Charles V who locked his mother away while trying to keep his grandad Ferdinand at bay who was still King of Aragon but wanted power over Castile.
@@JelleSophie interesting, the chocolate lied to me... Jk. I didn't know this. But yes, all the stories here have been seriously overdramatized being shown as pretty white or black matters.
The one out of all of them that I knew was Olga's and while the slaughter of the emissaries and later the high lord's was somewhat spot on the attack on the town was a smart way to avoid a prolonged siege. She was at war and to say she had killed thousands prior makes it sound she attacked to seek revenge which by the events of the time it became a defensive counteroffensive for an oxymoron that that is.
In other words, sure, you should read about the individuals in the video, but let's not keep to heart what they say otherwise we'll have limited sight.
Marie was actually discredited for let them eat cake.
That quote was actually about a previous Duchess when Marie herself was only 14. Marie was basically used as a scapegoat after her husband was killed.
It also somewhat came from her saying to let the people have the brioche after the palace ran out of bread to give the people
@@fabulouschild2005That makes more sense, Antoinette was really into charity and personally helped poor families and handed out food. She was certainly aware of the country’s hardships and did much to help, unfortunately since she wasn’t French the revolutionaries hated her and the king was too much of a wimp to stand up to the other aristocrats and properly fix the problems that would have prevented the revolution.
i literally came here to say this, thank you!
Marie Antoinette was not just a scapegoat. She moved to France to be married at 14, but she wasn't a child when the revolution was going on. She was a conservative who spoke out against progress and actively worked to sabotage the revolution.
I don't think Marie Antoinette should be considered brutal or cruel, she's just being ignorant and unaware.
Yes, and she actually never said let them eat cake that was actually the wife of Louis the 14tH
ignorance breeds evil
Plus, the French Revolution was never about the poor people taking over from the rich. It was about abolishing the class system that was in place in France at the time, which often had wealthy people be lower tier citizens than knights and other freeloaders.
Correct! Marie Antoinette WASN'T cruel, evil, or corrupt at all!! She was a product of her position, and acted like the rest of the nobility at Versailles. She was also spoiled by her indulgent husband, (King Louis 16th). There's been historical accounts of some very charitable deeds that she did as well. And that she was usually very kind to people, especially servants.
Exactly. She definitely wasn't a good Queen, but she wasn't evil or cruel.
Bathory is one of the more terrifying cases of someone who was considered as a vampire. She's even referred to as Lady Dracula. Today, she likely would've been arrested, tried as a murderer, found not guilty by reason of insanity, committed to a mental institution for life, and spent the rest of her days hopped up on Risperdal in a padded room wearing a straight jacket.
Hearing the word "Risperdal" makes me feel so lucky to get off the drug. It was preventing me from thinking, from organising my resources.
I’ve visited the castle where she spent most of her time in Slovakia and many educated people think that it’s pretty much made up stories or at least really overexaggerated. I don’t think that she was innocent but I don’t believe that she actually killed so many young women… it sounds terrible but noble people back then used to do horrible things and no one questioned them.
So many people were burned at the stake.. just because some powerful people accused them of doing something supernatural when they were mostly people who just had some sort of power(but more like political influence, status, knowledge..idk, it was crazy for sure😅).
One of my close friend is fascinated by Elizabeth Bathory and she read every possible book&studied as much stuff as she could… and she thinks that Elizabeth was innocent.. or at least didn’t do majority of the things that she was accused of.
@@MSeliskaZ i always thought the same. The whole blood bathing/drinking seems toо unrealistic to me, like a fantasy movie. I suspect someone made this legend up & it went viral
She even worked as a basis for Elizabeth Bartley, the main villain of Castlevania Bloodlines.
New findings... She was probably innocent. The evidences against her are very pore. The people who were against her took her castles and money after she was arrested.
I feel quite sorry for Marie Antoinette as she couldn’t really control what her husband did, she was just there to produce babies and was a pretty sheltered privileged woman
Her husband was also not as bad as his predecessors. He tried to raise taxes on the nobility (who basically didn't pay any taxes) to help the country but they all refused. They were out of touch but not bad people; more the scapegoats.
Her husband was a traitor when his people were out to get him he attempted to flee the country and go to Marie’s country and get an army of fight his people
@@iceescape both of them deserved better
and they were young
they were not ready to be king and queen
So essentially, they both got thrown as stand-ins with barely to no knowledge of running a country? Jesus. How horrible it must have been back then
@jehoiakimelidoronila5450 Not only that, but Marie was from Austria. One of the countries France hated most. It would have been like having the 1st Lady of the US be a Russian during the Cold War. She and her husband were completely set up for failure. Especially when you learn it was the King before who bankrupted the country.
Marie Antoinette wasn’t as bad as her story is typically told. She was a young Queen who was ignorant of the issues around her but when she became aware of reality she wanted to help. Their hatred of Austria and the French aristocracy was projected onto her.
ur honor you weren’t even there
That Queen who laughed at other's physical deformities and dwarfism really got her KARMA
More her daughter paid for her mothers sins which is sad
@@billyjean8057 more like a terrible coincidence for her daughter
True
Karma. I believe in karma. You treat someone poorly you get what you deserve thrown back at you.
Do you know Valide Sultan? Greatest queen!
Olga of Kyiv, she told the town she would end the seige if they gave her a bunch of birds from in town, mostly pigeons and sparrows, then attached the burning paper to them right before night so they would go back to their nests which were usually in the eaves of building to maximize damage. Absolute genius
To be fair they had murdered her husband and child before that. Not saying it was justified but also not unprovoked.
@@KS-PNW her child was not murdered, he survived
i mean, the total and utter annihilation of not only the citizens, but the town itself, was an effective way to end a siege.... so yeah. kept her word!
@@KS-PNW her husband had collected taxes once and then returned to collect them for the second time.
@@lizap8686 the taxes paid by that tribe was less so he went back to collect more with a small force and got murdered
" A mother watching her son's eyes be ripped out is what we call a tad brutal "
Go to your room!
I almost lose it when me 2year old son bumps his head... brutal
It could be worse. A lot worse.
Maria Antonia was not a cruel Queen! She tried desperately to help France when it finally dawned on her what was going on but they let their own hatred of Austria cloud their judgement!
Thank you for saying that very little people actually really studied about it most people just believe what they say about Marie Antoinette, but she was actually a very good woman and she tried to save the people friends, but she did not have the power to and then in that situation, people would think her husband was the bad guy but if you even do even further researching her husband Couldn’t do anything either cause all the power relied on a parliamentary system they had with the peasants, nobility, Porgy, and the Royals, the Royals, having the highest vote, and the peasants, having the lowest meaning that for most of the votes, the Royals and the peasants would be over, turned by the clergy and nobility, which everybody of those rankings were forced to attend
Little Detail that I kinda like:
Three of the Queens mentioned here are related. Isabella of Castille was the mother of Juana la Loca and Catherine of Aragon, who gave birth to Mary 1 of England!
Runs in the family I suppose
Bloody Mary lol
Irene: it feels good torturing people
Ranavolona: *Am I a joke to you?*
Chinese Empress Wu Zetian : *AMATEURS !!!*
Poor Flashman 😥
Genghis kahn: pathetic
@@chiraqclips3568 Lol ironic since he's a male
@@aleksandarvil5718 Fr
Joanna the mad was the older sister of Catherine of Aragon. Catherine was the first wife of Henry VIII and mother of Mary I.
Yes and Joanna was not really Mad she was mistreated by her father and husband and driven craz yor just put falsely away
I had a teacher in high school who told us that “let them eat cake” wasn’t referring to a dessert cake but was referring to the burnt “caked” on bits that stuck to the bread ovens.
At 7:22
"Let them eat cake"....
At the time and in that place, there was a lesser and lower form of bread. It was translated as cake.... She was saying if you can't afford expensive bread eat cheap bread. She wasn't out of touch, she didn't care!!
The researchers for this page are kind of out of touch.
Fun fact she shouldn't be on this list, and it's beyond laughable at how confident all of you are when talking about marie antoinette, she never said let them eat cake, the phrase is taken from a book about a similar princess written by Rousseau, and she wasn't even top 5 biggest spenders at Versailles during her lifetime let alone its whole history..she's not to blame for her country's poverty, the blame for that goes to Louis XIV and Louis XV
And she's also a scapegoat for all the royals that switched teams and a scapegoat for the revolutionaries who wanted to blame someone thus made stuff up on her
You need to do better research lol. She was lucky to be born privileged and education wasn’t her strong suit, so she was completely ignorant of all matters outside of her own court. Not saying that’s right since she did eventually assume the throne, but she was certainly NOT evil - just painfully ignorant of the plight of the French people. She was not even a native of France originally, so she was truly removed from their struggles as a country.
Forget mistranslation. There's no solid evidence that she ever said it period.
I honestly feel so sorry for Maria Eleonora. A lot of the information about her mental state and behaviour is actually exaggerated or occasionally even fabricated and I don’t believe she was insane at all. Specifically I think she had BPD and was bipolar too and the loss of her husband scarred her for life, but her letters show that she was actually a very loving mother. As for Kristina, she was only hairy at birth, it’s called lanugo, plus she was actually mistaken for a boy at first, at least according to the story she was told growing up that she repeated in her autobiography.
She was still a bad person.
@@roguejester4986 Agree! I am so happy Kristina had a good future as a queen I love her way saying she didn’t need a man
@@yourbiologicalmom7608 Her father did well.
@@roguejester4986 yeah ikr!
these conversations only start or get talked about if things are exaggerated , on my channel I do that but I would never fabricate a story, would you lie to get comments?
As to Elisabeth I, she actually was religiously quite tolerant at first. Only after countless coups and assassination attempts to overthrow her, she came to the conclusion that she must do something against them. but not normal people just anywhere. Her halfsister Mary, however, was bloodthirsty and really did enjoy burning people at the stake.
And Isabela I did actually mostly start the Spanish inquisition, making her confessor the first great inquisitor of spain; the infamous Torquemada
Hmm sounds like a double standard. Isabella I not only felt pressure from Rome but there was intense antisemitism within Castile that threatened her rule if she didn’t placate Christians. There were also many rebellions in Granada post-conquest. Isabella did what she thought was best for her rule, as did Elizabeth.
Same with Mary I.
Because of Empress Irene, Charles the Great was crowned Emperor because the Imperial throne was vacant. Woman couldn’t rule in their own name was believed.
Mary I was less brutal than her sister Elizabeth I or Henry VIII. 300 Protestants is a lot, but Henry VIII killed at least 40,000 people. These numbers are huge when you consider the population was only 3-4 million people. Elizabeth I had killed tens of thousands of people too, and ran a police state
Thank you! I thought I was the only person who knew this lol.
I read Elizabeth could have killed up to 70k.
@@tsarina24honolulu87 yeah, it's likely to convert an unwilling population to another religion does take a lot of of persuasion.
She doesn't deserve first place in this list.
They take slaaaay queennnn to a whole different level
WHOLE different meaning 😳🫠😬
I'm glad I found your comment😂
I like how Queens immediately became so mainstream
Yasssss!!!
Been notice how the majority of them are nucking futs
Yeah I am a little boree of hearing of hearing the history of kings tho.
@@Osama_Zyn_Laden I think that's just royals
@@Osama_Zyn_Laden nucking futs
Juana la Loca was actually Queen of Castile-Leon until her death in 1555 as well as Queen of Aragon from 1516 until her death. The only reason why she did not rule was because she was locked by her father and then by her son who was co-ruler by her side just that only he rule due to her confinement. And Isabella I did not rule until 1474 when her half-brother Henry IV died. 1451 was the year of her birth.
I've heard of most of these Queen's before. But not all. Wow. Many of them were just so messed up.
7:13 This is mostly likely apocryphal as It's very unlikely Antoinette said that and it was attributed to her until half a century later
She shouldn't even be on this list, most of the things they said are inaccurate and out of context, since most of it was made up by revolutionaries who are known for using a lot of propaganda
Yup.
Even if she did say it, she wouldn't have been referring to cake in the modern sense, at the time it refered to fancy bread. So it basically would have meant "let them have the good stuff if they need it."
Probably never happened period though.
@@KS-PNW Aka Brioches
Marie Antoinette didn't even sound brutal at all, just someone who took advantage of her privileged live during a time of famine.
She wasn’t aware of the situation happening in France.
I think it's worth remembering she was only 16 when she took the throne.
How many of us can say we'd have made a good ruler at that age? I sure wouldn't have lol
Well, the French were not happy about the famine.
Your so right completely agree, she was partially responsible for the people not having income or food, but she was not brutal
Infographics always have such interesting videos! Writing for them would literally be a DREAM!
I know she’s fictional, but Cersei deserves an honorable mention. 😂
No. She's FICTIONAL.
Agreed!! 😂
she's fictional
the actress who played her was so good at the role that in an interview she said that sometimes random people will come up to her and tell her how much they hate her😂😂
right lol
Everyone knows Freddie Mercury is THE most brutal queen.
FAX
If Marie Antoinette was evil because she was a noble and privileged woman, so were every other queen in history. She doesn't belong on this list. And no, she never said "let them eat cake", it's actually Louis XVI's aunt Madame Victoire who said "let them eat pâté crust"...
I don't know guys. About Juana the mad (la loca), it was well documented that she wasn't fit for duty, since she became the heir apparent, her father tried to introduce her to the "kingdoms' affairs" with no avail. Even suggesting in his chronicles that Joan had something more than lack of interest. Her husband Philip and the Flemish court also documented the mental issues of Joan, as well as his sons...
Now on Isabella there are a lot of mistakes there... most of this legend of an evil Isabella's character was not documented on her time, so that note should be included.
7:14- "Then let them eat Taco Bell's Crunch Wrap Supreme."
"Wow... they're not THAT desperate!"
OverSimplified!French Revolution 1789
One of their best jokes!
"It's all your fault, bigfoot." I love this channel 😂
Actually we don’t know if Elizabeth Bathory was framed or not and she actually wasn’t kept in a luxurious castle she was kept in her own dungeons
Interesting. I hadn't heard that before. I've since read some info to that effect. 🤔
Thanks.
I was totally scanning the comments specifically to see if someone would mention this 😂
Ummmmmmm.. She was confined to her home; imprisoned in Castle of Csejte. Sooo idk where you got your information from, but it was only 50% correct.
But just to be as historically correct as possible here let's be clear. She was in fact convicted, however some believe there was no concrete evidence. So since there was no concrete evidence, some say you can't prove her guilt beyond reasonable doubt. I say that's debatable. Idk about back then, but I can say today with 100% confidence that there is in fact judicial precedent that supports a guilty verdict.
Elizabeth Bathory Wasn't Queen At All !!! She WAS Upper Hungarian Aristocracy !
After watching many videos on this channel, every new video gives me a feeling: "I've heard this before", but it's still interesting, so great job
From what I was taught about Marie Antoinette is that after she was taken from her mother and sisters to wed the prince she was never taught how to be a proper Queen because she was not born in France so she knew nothing about how to work with funds or what to do for the people. But like I said this is what I was taught:)
Marie was not read y be Queen she was 14 she did care fr the poor but there was only so much she could do her trial was stacked against her by men just like Anne Boleyn
Most married royals were not born in the country. The British monarchy have a lot of German blood, for example.
@@aprilgosa5779 she got married when she was 14, she was 16 when she became queen. Just fyi.
Marie Antoinette had been told she was going to be married since her 13th birthday she had months of preparation
@@eoinmoodie1484 you do realize a few months of education at the age of 13 is not going to prepare someone enough to help RULE A COUNTRY???
Isabel of Castile was also the mother or Catherine of Aragon, the first wife of King Henry Vlll.
They should do one for fictional queens. Cersei 😅
Interesting take comparing fictional Queens, but unfortunately in most fiction the villans are cartoonishly exagerated as opposed to the nuances of real people, although Cersei was inspired primarily by a real person Margaret of Anjou, who was Queen Consort to King Henry VI of England.
@@serpaolo7413 Queen Grimhilde is probably the evilest queen in fiction
Marie Antoinette doesn't deserve to be on this list. She wasn't evil, she was sheltered and honestly didn't know anything that the French people were suffering from.
This narrator is easily top 10 of all You Tube narrators!
Imagine if Anne Boleyn and Catherine Howard got a divorce and they were never executed both still alive during Mary’s reign
That would've been way better 👑👸
Fun fact: Katheryn's mother was the sister of Anne's father. They were cousins...
I love the infographics show but this video is extremely inaccurate and misleading. I a student of history and have been studying history (specifically the Tudor period and the wars of the roses) for YEARS. The lies that you repeated about Mary I in this video (and the one you made specifically about her) have no historical basis, especially the claim that that she had pregnant people burnt. First of all, Mary herself said that she wouldn't prosecute protestants that were loyal and respectful to her and who practiced their faith in private. Of course, some of the people killed were innocent, but that wasn't by MARY'S hand. That was the fault of the bishops and clergy who were responsible for law enforcement. They went to far a lot of the time and often did things without the Queen's permission. Secondly, Mary NEVER had pregnant people killed. It was against the law at the time, even for monarchs, and Mary was the last person who would do that as a very motherly person herself who was desperate for a child of her own. The claims that she had pregnant people killed were made up by an extremely misogynist protestant a long time after her death. There is no evidence to suggest that what he claimed about her reign were true, and many historians nowadays agree that he was just trying to scaremonger about female leaders and Catholics. As a historian myself, I find the fact that a channel which is very popular and one which many people look to for facts and information is spreading these lies to this day very annoying and disappointing. Do better!
Agreed! I personally believe there was also a weird politically correct reason to make sure that Mary was shown as the "most evil" here. This channel makes me really uncomfortable sometimes, gets to feeling a bit propagandaish
And also describing Maria I of Portugal as a brutal queen is inaccurate! Where do they get the sources?!
12:08 Disturban History has a whole video of Ranavalona; worth a watch.
This should be titled 'Historic Legends About Queens Presented as Fact'.
14:34 I love Isabelle the first. As a Bolivian 🇧🇴I'm ashamed of the bad reputation mediocre people gave her. She always looked after the indigenous people from Latin America
Here's a tale of Wu ZeTian: after securing power, the Royal prince (her son) and Wu family (her brothers) started going GoT.
To put an end to this, two male concubines were made into her minsters, and had them trolled her families to peace before she execute the playboys, real Queen's gambit.
She had one of her husbands beheaded for being unfaithful.
Didn't she also have one of her daughters killed, & blame it on a rival...?
@@OcarinaSapphr- She had a rival beheaded for allegedly murdering one of her children. She was very beheading-happy.
"I have to be seen to be believed." - Queen Elizabeth II
I don’t think she’s evil why would Queen Elizabeth be evil at the age of 93?👵😈
Please make an infographic show about the history of battle of yultong. Where there are 1000 Filipinos vs 40000 chinese. That would be interesting to watch
Marie Antoinette was naïve and sheltered, not cruel. She loved children and apologized to her executioner when she accidentally stepped on his foot on the scaffold. She was a scapegoat, not a monster.
Perfect upload for my September 2022 birthday month!
Thanks
Mary Antionette wasn't evil. Oblivious and privileged absolutely but not evil.
I was watching and suddenly I hear "Marie Antoinette" and I was like, "Wait a second, I'm related to her!"
wait what?!?!
Broooo no wayyy your related to a queen?!?!?
@@gleianalbiso2388 Broooooo I forgot I made this comment I was such an idiot back then, but yeah, surprisingly
Irene doesn’t seem so bad. Ripping his eyes out is understandable given she forgave his first insurrection.
But ripping someone's eyes out is not very nice, much less your own son.
@@Goodiesfanfultrying to overthrow your mom is not very nice
Bathory never drank the blood, she bathed in it, and she didn't take the girls by force, she lured them in by teeling their parents she will teach them good manners. Also the girls had to be virgins and later on she moved to noble girls, because she was kinda out of virgins. Thats why she was caught. Moreover, she didn't spend her life sentence in luxury, she was locked in an empty tower from the castle where a wall has been built to lock her in, no windows no doors. And she died from starvation.
Olga of Kyiv is like a WH40k saint.
She was canonized by two religions (Orthodox and Roman Catholic) largely because she tried to spread Christianity to Ukraine. But she was also a mass murderer of the highest order. Kinda interesting.
Everything I learned about history comes from infographics. Great job guys well done👏👏👏😄😄!!
To be fair Queen Olga converted after that event and Chilled out a lot afterwards
Who is in charge of this show…by far the best in youtube
Teaches me more than my history classes
Well ur name explains a lot
If the infographics show teaches you more than your history class you should drop
@@chiraqclips3568 how do i graduate then bru
Idk about these comments but school helped me more than a random RUclips channel 💀
Y'all know this is a joke right?
This is one of the best channels on here🤞🤞💯
"It's all your fault, bigfoot". Sad, but LOL
Love this channel 😍
Na u don't
Wu Zetian was married off at age 13 and once her first husband died she married his son. She lived a sheltered life and was actually known as a fairly good empress. Just maybe not the best mother….
What a good time to post video about queens 🤣
I thought the same thing. Hahahaha
Yikes that really didn’t age well 😂 or did she 🤔
Yes the queen of Madagascar is often times called the female Caligula.
16:46 sounds about right. Being a Saint definitely doesn't mean you were a good person, even to this day.
Spot on gheeza
R.I.P Queen Elizabeth the ii.🙏
So, Juana La Loca was Catherine of Aragon's sister?
Didn't know that!
FROM Ferdinand II of Aragon/V of Castile and Isabella I of Castile ( The Catholic Monarchs of Unified Spain !!! )
The infographics show makes my brain grow everyday. 🤓
"She was later taken to Brazil, but things didn't get any better there." I wonder why? LOL
Thank you very much for this video
If I’m not mistaken, if it was ever said, “let them eat cake” referred to the baked on soot in the fireplaces.
That's one interpretation.
There's actually no evidence that she said it period. The earliest claim that attributes that line to her comes from a document written 40+ years after her death.
"Hello this is the Queen of England,Elizabeth II.Charles has sent me to a deserted island and I have no way to get back,cashapp me 500 bucks"
The inclusion of Marie Antoinette here is totally unfair. She did not make policies.
She was silly, but not evil, AFAIK.
7:13 Maria Antoinette Never Actually SAID That Quote !!!
I knew Bathory was going to make the list some how and rightfully so. Yes infamous AF🙌🏽
It's actually debatable how accurate the horror stories about her are.
Juana la Loca, was not a very bad Queen, but she was influenced by the death 💀 of her so-called husband Felipe el Guapo, who had many numerous occasions to be with other women, and who was about as faithful as the poor rabbits ,but she really loved him, and when he died from drinking some cold h2o,, she followed his funeral entourage to his burial 🪦 site, and, this, I do believe, caused her to become mentally unstable, and thus she was known as a neurotic, poor Juana!😢
If "evil queen" is decided by what happened under the reign of the monarch then Queen Elizabeth should be on this list. It's a gross whitewash of history to ignore the 3 million Indians that Winston Churchill starved while he was prime minister, and the concentration camps in Kenya and India under her reign which she directly profited from and still owns ill-gotten land.
I blame the Rap Music. The ticking of the hihat constantly triggers the brain with instant reactions to uneeded strife with a feeling to ACT SUDDENLY. The thud and vibration of the Bass messes with the timing of the Heart and Lungs causing undo stress and Anxiety. You will feel anger and uncertainty while listening and feel trapped by even your alley or vehicle. Your home becomes a prison with the music inside of your body making you want to get high and violent.
Correct
It's so sad that she did that to her own son 😪😔
I love the cartoony animations, make it looks so cute and sad at the same time LOL ♥
Boris Johnson said that if Putin was a woman he wouldn't invade Ukraine but Catherine The Great would cringe at that statement.
I would say out of touch rich people oblivious to the suffering of common people has been a common occurrence throughout human history and does not deserve a spot on a list next to despotic nobles
It was awesome video. But could you also create a video about the best queens? I would like to see that.
She did not say that about cake a male said it not Marie . Marie did try to help people less fotunate than her
Who else laughed at the idea of a queen that gouged out eyes has the name Irene. Kind of Eye-ronic. LOL
What about the queen of hearts from Alice in Wonderland? OFF WITH YER HEAD!!! Queen Ursula from Little Mermaid.
I think it's because they're just doing real kings
Well we are not talking about Disney evil and cruel Queens qe are talking about real life queens
Isabella of Castille was Catherine of Aragon's mother Catherine was so beloved its weird her mother was like that
You are wrong about Marie Antoinette. She was foolish, but she and her husband inherited a bad situation and things were already beyond repair. She actually tried , trying to make cheeper clothes and jewelry fashionable to keep expenses down but she failed.
Interesting timing on posting this video XD
WOW LOVE IT!
Ok. I use to trust this show a lot. Now I don’t since it’s been proven time and time again Marie never said “let them eat cake”. It was falsely attributed to her.
I think there is also evidence that Elizabeth Báthory was not a monster and it was her enemies who made false accusations against her.
7:20 He himself mentioned it that historians never really said that
Isabel de Castilla, along with her husband Fernandino de Aragón, believed XPO ,Christoforo Columbus, and she sold many of her jewels 💎 in order to help finance the journey from ESPAÑA 🇪🇸 to the supposed new world 🌍 , and Columbus did complete 4 voyages of discovery to the new world 🌍, however on his ultimate voyage, he became a very old man, and lost much of his savings, and he, I believe, died in poverty 😢
These stories of powerful women are both fascinating and chilling. It's a stark reminder of the darkness that can lurk behind positions of authority throughout history
YEAH INFO! YEAH HISTORY!
14:40 *NOBODY EXPECTS THE SPANISH INQUISITION !!!*
"It's all your fault Bigfoot!" 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Me *simply hears the name Gustavus Adolphus* begins humming the chorus to Lion from the North
Got a current discord link??
Is there any possible way to work for this channel?