Charles did little ruling or any of anything. He was a living vegetable due to centuries of Habsburg inbreeding. It was incredible that he lived to almost 40.
And outlived at least two presumably healthy young foreign prince/heirs designate every relevant power in Europe had OK'ed. They were working on #3 when he mercifully expired. Caused a war which had the effect of raising England, formerly a French lapdog in foreign affairs under the later Stuarts, to the rank of great power and giving a push for Prussia's not that much later ascension.
When Charles was two days old, the Venetian ambassador wrote home that there would be a succession problem down the road, the infant not having "the necessities". The Venetians were never blind to that sort of thing.
People always talk about Charles II being so inbred but they normally never mention that he had a full blooded older sister with the exact same genetics but who never had the mental or physical deformities that Charles II did. Although she did die young at age 21 after having 4 children (three died in infancy) and 2 miscarriages, it is amazing to think what might have happened if she and her brother had their situations switched. If she had been born deformed and mentally handicapped and he born good looking, mentally able, and capable of having children.
Yes, even with full siblings, they are never genetically identical, unless they are identical twins. They way I have described it is that with siblings, it's like you are dealing from the same deck of cards. The cards aren't exactly the same, but there are similarities.
"Wot? the French king's grandson gets the Spanish throne? Over our dead bodies". "Well, over our soldiers and sailors dead bodies anyhow". Near enough to the same thing.
The french queen Marie Therese of Austria was the sister of Charles II of Spain. Charles II of Spain was married to Marie Louise d'Orleans, niece of Louis XIX and daughter of Henriette Stuart of England. All of them were cousins.
They didn't really know how bad inbreeding was. It seems really obvious to us know but back then they probably thought it was a curse on their children or something.
Genetics was not discovered during their entire reign. It seems intuitive to us, but that’s because we’ve grown up in a society with this key aspect of science known. You have to remember that the idea of germs and bacteria, cleanliness, these all did not really exist. There were open room surgeries done during civil war with no anesthetic for patient nor any thorough cleaning of doctors tools (would use same saw they just amputed last patient with on next one)
@parallelarc3837 I know everything you commented, im ver knowledgeable in genetics. I was just stating that after a few generations, someone would let them know, "Hey, you might want to slow down on the inbreeding."
@@surimoon17l16 why would you think someone would recognize on their own something that took an amazing scientific mind his career to figure out? Genetics isn’t simple. Most of the issues with inbreeding don’t come up until it is already in effect. 2 normal parents, who are closely related, have a kid with issues. Why would they think that it had to do with parents? Now for the Hapsburg, it was so profound and multigenerational that people would see the parents being inbred to start with having inbred kids. That’s not that hard to figure out, but that also is not really the part of genetics that was important for us to understand. That’s like understanding that having a really big father means you can have really big sons…but that’s not genetics because it doesn’t describe in any way why a large father would have a runt of a son; it’s only a superficial understanding of it. But to answer your more immediate thought, the people who worked with the Hapsburg DID know that they were inbred and not of a good stock. The problem was that power was passed down by blood, and the inbred Hapsburg had one of the strongest dynasties seen in Europe. So in all likelihood everyone knew they were inbred and of a bad stock, and could do nothing about it because they were royalty. But even their understanding of being inbred was muted; they only saw it at surface level. They had no idea that 2 cousins having children increases the likelihood of birth defects by orders of magnitude.
These are excellent videos. I'd very much appreciate one about Acadia (Les Acadie), the French settlements and areas now known as Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, Canada, before suffering The Great Expulsion.. Thank you very much! :D
Curiously the succesor Felipe v made Spain in his reign a more prosperous and even prestigious country; he unified the Spanish Treasury into one for the entire state ; the laws ; and modernized his instruments and his empire has reached its maximum extension in comtious time when he incorporated the inmense Louisiana already whith his son Carlos lll.
Wow, it's so confusing and sad. Keeping things in the family may not be the best. And the needed to stop spending money. Yes, more you guys are the best.
Barely? That one couldn’t manage feeding himself nevermind ruling. He was kept indoors and cared for the same way he had been as an infant. Others ran the government. Marie Antoinette has the Hapsburg jaw as well. Her portraits were kindly painted.
How did the Catholic Chuch allow this? The Bible explicitly bans marriage from the 3rd or 4th cousin onward and the Catholics took this commandment to the point of breaking up cousin marriages in Europe, something that GREATLY affected Europe’s demographics. So why would they allow this?
I just love how you put a very funny spin on history. It's great. I'm a history buff and I believe everyone should watch this they will actually learn history. They should be a program in schools. The kids would learn to love history. 😂❤
Very much true, cuz the vast majority wouldn't like to learn history cuz most teachers are the wrong ppl for the job, and the way they teach ain't interesting in the slightest. Whereas ppl like him and some others ...
For that matter, Heian-era Japanese emperors were pretty inbred in a weird way. They had multiple wives, but to limit the power of the Fujiwara clan, only a child the emperor had with a half-sister could be Emperor. The half-sister of choice’s mum would of course be a Fujiwara.
I wonder what people will think about us in 400 years? Have a better chance of watching it happen.... considering all isn't lost like other points in history
Not sure how we are going to be judged...probably very poorly lol! One thing is for sure, you could take one of us living right now and put us in a time machine set for 400 years in the future and almost guarantee any history book we cracked open wouldn't make any sense and we would have to correct them on many points. Just as history to us has been altered from 400 years in our past. I bet they would still revere The Beatles in the future!
You say the Habsburg tradition came "full circle" which is a great double entendre because it just so happens that Charles II's family tree is a circle
Thanks for filing in one of the puzzles of my fathers lineage ,I decent from the Spanish old European royal bloodlines that ended with these guys as my other ancestor was getting his ass woopped in the u.s with my apaches fam 😅
Oh! So Jay Leno is a Habsburg! That face makes so much sense now. P.S. Reese Witherspoon might be bred from "one done behind the wood shed"... she's got a little bit of that dish-faced, crescent-moon-long-chin, broad & square-high-forehead kind of thing happening with her face, too. Anybody ever notice that her high forehead actually is so square, the two prominences look as if she could grow horns out of them? Once you see it, you cannot unsee it. Her prominently squared forehead always reminds me of Hellboy. And Aggie jokes.
All that supposed power and who were they defaulting on their loans from exactly? Umm Hmm.. I ain’t even gonna say it, I might get my account suspended or done away with all together..
Nothing wrong with marrying your cousins. I understand brothers and sisters but it’s still very common for cousins to marry. My aunt and her cousin got married and have had 3 kids and they all went to college and graduated
If first cousins marry it’s still inbreeding as there would be the same grandparents on both sides. If the grandparents have any genetic abnormalities the chance of these being inherited by children of the cousins is vastly increased. With a user name Targaryen I’m not surprised you’re pro-inbreeding!
Charles did little ruling or any of anything. He was a living vegetable due to centuries of Habsburg inbreeding. It was incredible that he lived to almost 40.
I feel truly sorry for him.
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I can’t even imagine how unpleasant his life must have been, likely in constant discomfort and such.
And outlived at least two presumably healthy young foreign prince/heirs designate every relevant power in Europe had OK'ed. They were working on #3 when he mercifully expired. Caused a war which had the effect of raising England, formerly a French lapdog in foreign affairs under the later Stuarts, to the rank of great power and giving a push for Prussia's not that much later ascension.
They say those royal portraits were idealized. I wonder what he really looked like, then, since he looks like a mutant in his portraits.
If the portraits of royals where mostly flattering I can’t begin to imagine what he really looked like!😢
😅And they show these images all over the world...cringy.
There's pictures of a recreation of his face based on his skull available online. It's horrifying
They are the original influencers
I absolutely love the narrator's voice and how he sounds like he's talking to a friend instead of reading a script. I love learning this way!!
Especially when garbage robot voiced narrators have become the norm on RUclips
Is it just me or does his face not match his voice? He looks like the dog whisperer but sounds like an intelligent person
When Charles was two days old, the Venetian ambassador wrote home that there would be a succession problem down the road, the infant not having "the necessities". The Venetians were never blind to that sort of thing.
Saw what you did there "Venetian blinds".😆
People always talk about Charles II being so inbred but they normally never mention that he had a full blooded older sister with the exact same genetics but who never had the mental or physical deformities that Charles II did. Although she did die young at age 21 after having 4 children (three died in infancy) and 2 miscarriages, it is amazing to think what might have happened if she and her brother had their situations switched. If she had been born deformed and mentally handicapped and he born good looking, mentally able, and capable of having children.
Wow, I never knew that!
You ask what would happen. My educated guess is more inbreeding
Might not have been the same genetics? Could have easily been the milkman.
Yes, even with full siblings, they are never genetically identical, unless they are identical twins. They way I have described it is that with siblings, it's like you are dealing from the same deck of cards. The cards aren't exactly the same, but there are similarities.
Funny thing how genetics works. Some things can skip generations, others, EVERYONE gets the same trait
"Wot? the French king's grandson gets the Spanish throne? Over our dead bodies". "Well, over our soldiers and sailors dead bodies anyhow". Near enough to the same thing.
The french queen Marie Therese of Austria was the sister of Charles II of Spain. Charles II of Spain was married to Marie Louise d'Orleans, niece of Louis XIX and daughter of Henriette Stuart of England.
All of them were cousins.
If history had been this interesting in school, I would have paid attention.
I always felt sorry for Charles the 2nd weren't he's fault.
I've read this about 10 times and it makes less sense the more I do.
This is my comfort channel while learning as well it's a win win ❤
Yes, these history channels are awesome. And this narrator is superb
I'm confused about how no one told them .Hey, if you keep having babies by each other, it's going to get worse.
They didn't really know how bad inbreeding was. It seems really obvious to us know but back then they probably thought it was a curse on their children or something.
@@elirhoades9418 I think I read that famers knew
Genetics was not discovered during their entire reign. It seems intuitive to us, but that’s because we’ve grown up in a society with this key aspect of science known.
You have to remember that the idea of germs and bacteria, cleanliness, these all did not really exist. There were open room surgeries done during civil war with no anesthetic for patient nor any thorough cleaning of doctors tools (would use same saw they just amputed last patient with on next one)
@parallelarc3837 I know everything you commented, im ver knowledgeable in genetics. I was just stating that after a few generations, someone would let them know, "Hey, you might want to slow down on the inbreeding."
@@surimoon17l16 why would you think someone would recognize on their own something that took an amazing scientific mind his career to figure out?
Genetics isn’t simple. Most of the issues with inbreeding don’t come up until it is already in effect. 2 normal parents, who are closely related, have a kid with issues.
Why would they think that it had to do with parents? Now for the Hapsburg, it was so profound and multigenerational that people would see the parents being inbred to start with having inbred kids. That’s not that hard to figure out, but that also is not really the part of genetics that was important for us to understand. That’s like understanding that having a really big father means you can have really big sons…but that’s not genetics because it doesn’t describe in any way why a large father would have a runt of a son; it’s only a superficial understanding of it.
But to answer your more immediate thought, the people who worked with the Hapsburg DID know that they were inbred and not of a good stock. The problem was that power was passed down by blood, and the inbred Hapsburg had one of the strongest dynasties seen in Europe. So in all likelihood everyone knew they were inbred and of a bad stock, and could do nothing about it because they were royalty. But even their understanding of being inbred was muted; they only saw it at surface level. They had no idea that 2 cousins having children increases the likelihood of birth defects by orders of magnitude.
Was Never into history in school, so I love these channels that make it much easier and fun to learn!
PLEASE tell us more about Charles 2nd’s mother! I have seen many Hapsberg videos, but never about the regency/governing by Mariana of Austria. 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽
These are excellent videos. I'd very much appreciate one about Acadia (Les Acadie), the French settlements and areas now known as Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, Canada, before suffering The Great Expulsion..
Thank you very much! :D
By trying to be a strong blue blood family they done the opposite and made the family tree weak. They didn't know any better at that time.
Curiously the succesor Felipe v made Spain in his reign a more prosperous and even prestigious country; he unified the Spanish Treasury into one for the entire state ; the laws ; and modernized his instruments and his empire has reached its maximum extension in comtious time when he incorporated the inmense Louisiana already whith his son Carlos lll.
I love how informational your videos are. You make learning about history fun and interesting. Keep up the great work
"Mummy says it's a strong chin for a strong boy!"
When the family tree ends in a rope
Wow, it's so confusing and sad. Keeping things in the family may not be the best. And the needed to stop spending money. Yes, more you guys are the best.
That's a bit of an understatement, keeping it "in the family" always goes wrong eventually!
really learned alot and yes please make more
Barely? That one couldn’t manage feeding himself nevermind ruling. He was kept indoors and cared for the same way he had been as an infant. Others ran the government. Marie Antoinette has the Hapsburg jaw as well. Her portraits were kindly painted.
I ran 🏃🏾♀️ as soon as this popped up in my notifications 👏🏽 This one is going to be good 😅
I love channels like this. The narrator is AWESOME.
How did the Catholic Chuch allow this? The Bible explicitly bans marriage from the 3rd or 4th cousin onward and the Catholics took this commandment to the point of breaking up cousin marriages in Europe, something that GREATLY affected Europe’s demographics. So why would they allow this?
Great question!
i read somewhere that since they were royals, exceptions were granted to them
Lmao this is the most savage title
There was some Chales II (UK) pics thrown in there lol
Yes,I was thinking,that's the wrong king you got pictures of added in!
Lmao this is gunna be a good one I bet
Lmao this gunna be a good one I bet
Lmao this gunna be a good one I bet
Lmao this gunna be a good one I bet
Great video!❤️❤️❤️
Always loved this story....I LUUUURVE history ❤️
That poor woman was forced into marriage with that abomination
Jamie Oliver might want to look into his family history. 😂
Why what about jamie?
I just love how you put a very funny spin on history. It's great. I'm a history buff and I believe everyone should watch this they will actually learn history. They should be a program in schools. The kids would learn to love history. 😂❤
Very much true, cuz the vast majority wouldn't like to learn history cuz most teachers are the wrong ppl for the job, and the way they teach ain't interesting in the slightest. Whereas ppl like him and some others ...
favorite channel
This is the best video I have seen on this topic. Awesome job!
poor guy.never got a chance to really live
Hapsberg Jaw.
Wait, didn’t Egyptians inbreed? Wby didn’t they come out heavily deformed
Like that? I know king tut did but he’s only 1 that i know of
They would have multiple wives for conceiving the throne was for family but they didn't inbreed because they knew the risks
For that matter, Heian-era Japanese emperors were pretty inbred in a weird way. They had multiple wives, but to limit the power of the Fujiwara clan, only a child the emperor had with a half-sister could be Emperor. The half-sister of choice’s mum would of course be a Fujiwara.
Man looking like "Might destory Spain later, idk." In the thumbnail.
I wonder what people will think about us in 400 years? Have a better chance of watching it happen.... considering all isn't lost like other points in history
Not sure how we are going to be judged...probably very poorly lol! One thing is for sure, you could take one of us living right now and put us in a time machine set for 400 years in the future and almost guarantee any history book we cracked open wouldn't make any sense and we would have to correct them on many points. Just as history to us has been altered from 400 years in our past. I bet they would still revere The Beatles in the future!
Can't be as bad as this 😂😂 but still, close 😂
You say the Habsburg tradition came "full circle" which is a great double entendre because it just so happens that Charles II's family tree is a circle
Mmm sounds similar to our political parties ruling the US.
They’re all owned by the same tech moguls-
Thanks👍🏼
"Crowned," not "coronated!!"
More please
Yes more vids like this
👍⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐These are excellent videos!!
Legend has it his chin had it's own address.
When people say everyone on earth came from 2 people.....
The Hapsburg jaw enters the chat
Am I the only one who sees a whole lot of the
‘Hapsburg Chin’ in the face of the Gentlelady from Georgia Ms Marjorie Tayler Green? (😱)
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Not sure, but she sure shares his mental defects.
He could barely rule his jaw.
His oil painting ended up being a water color.
sad to hear about my ancestors and relatives and their disabilities in the past
Ruling would be difficult if you were barely able to chew your food or walk. It wasn’t his fault though, poor guy.
Thanks for filing in one of the puzzles of my fathers lineage ,I decent from the Spanish old European royal bloodlines that ended with these guys as my other ancestor was getting his ass woopped in the u.s with my apaches fam 😅
Hard to imagine Spain was bankrupt despite all those galleons filled with gold from the New World
FON-TEN-BLOW
I am unable to understand how he could do anything. Just my opinion.
God Bless Everyone Thank you very much.
Those "painting" were extremely kind.
Omg the royals are so gross 🤮. The idea of keeping it in the family 🤢.
Nothing like the TV show, All in the Family.
No colonial power had as much as Spain and crashed so hard when it was over… even to this day
Talk about sick. You can still see people with these defects walking about today.
Explains Spain in general lol 😂
Unc make the title like they owe him $5
Nathalie Nunn might be a descendant. Her face shape , jaw line and chin definitely looks like them
That Gargoyle, tho...
@@ChA0s_AgeNt😂😂 aww man I bet
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See? Doris knows what's up.
you can see how Keith from try guys is related just seeing that mouth
Lord Farquadd
I couldn't imagine being born that way
Amazing how history repeats itself. We have one in the white house
His second wife is also related to him
So strange how monarchies from all across time have thought inbreeding was superior 😅
Look like Mark Zuckerberg 😮
Sad story of charles2 😢😢😢
Aaahhh yes, the infamous Habsburg chin. Yikes.
Fun fact all royal european families are related so none them had the same ancestry of the people they ruled
Wow talk about an insulting title 😂😂 Charles rolling in his grave rn
Tell me this isn't a warning for our present age
Kinda resembles Zuckerberg 😂
They dissing homeboy cold.
Oh! So Jay Leno is a Habsburg! That face makes so much sense now.
P.S. Reese Witherspoon might be bred from "one done behind the wood shed"... she's got a little bit of that dish-faced, crescent-moon-long-chin, broad & square-high-forehead kind of thing happening with her face, too. Anybody ever notice that her high forehead actually is so square, the two prominences look as if she could grow horns out of them? Once you see it, you cannot unsee it. Her prominently squared forehead always reminds me of Hellboy. And Aggie jokes.
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😊
What a documentary. Thanks, to the whole team.....Habsburgs!!
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Never consummated, Never! 🤪
At least he would have been great at putting pillow cases on
Hahahah, that got me good
He would look totally normal if he were in Kentucky
Lol😅😅
Nah ky has some class that would be sweet home alabama
I would rather wear dirty animal pelts then what the European royalty wore back in the day
Dang I’ve never been this early to a video
Dang no one cares.
@@phantasma9391 Edgyyyyy
Jay Leno is a Hapsburg?
No, he is of, Scottish, and Italian descent.
Maybe someone should measure his chin. If it's a certain measurement, he may qualify to be one
It looks like mark zuckerberg.
Dang, thought for sure this one was gonna be about Ilhan Omar 😂😵
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Next vid: the rampant hemophilia in the European royality due to the royal-to-royal inbreeding...
Oh how Charles 2 seems just like joe biden
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Guess Chas. got good DNA to survive those various diseases. Didn’t couples use consanguinity to get marriages annulled?
Not back then.
Looks arsineal hall
Kinda looks like bad bunny
Why's this channel ripping off weird history or is it me ?
All that supposed power and who were they defaulting on their loans from exactly? Umm Hmm.. I ain’t even gonna say it, I might get my account suspended or done away with all together..
How come they look like Mark Zuckerberg?
Sounds like Joe Biden 🤣🤣🤣
Nothing wrong with marrying your cousins. I understand brothers and sisters but it’s still very common for cousins to marry. My aunt and her cousin got married and have had 3 kids and they all went to college and graduated
First cousins can have deformed and mentally challenged children..they do it in India and the Middle East.
Sweet home alabama
If first cousins marry it’s still inbreeding as there would be the same grandparents on both sides. If the grandparents have any genetic abnormalities the chance of these being inherited by children of the cousins is vastly increased. With a user name Targaryen I’m not surprised you’re pro-inbreeding!
Lmao that doesnt make it okay
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