What do you do when you can't divorce your wife because the Catholic Church won't let you? Henry VIII: Make a new religion. *Improvise. Adapt. Overcome.*
Only that wasn't the actual reason why Henry broke away from the RCC. The reason was that Henry didn't like how the Church demanded that the people's fealty be to the Pope, not the Crown.
henry VIII was a psychopathic bastard a real tyrant who thought he had the right to do to horrible things to just about anybody because he thought he was here by divine rule a truly horrible man just be glad you where not around when he was and yes he did invent a made up religion because he could not divorce his first wife or get her head cut off a real vile tyrant
Vlad the Impaler wasn't insane. He was extraordinary cruel, that's true, but his cruelty did serve a purpose. This man had to fight off the Ottoman Empire singlehandedly. (which was basically in it's prime at the time)
@@paulmunro3175 Indeed. I remember reading somewhere that Sun Tzu wrote a passage in the art of war that said that "winning and losing are a state of mind". Probably meaning that, in his mind, psychological warfare is at least just as important as the actual battles. Vlad had to somehow convince the Ottomans that he was a man to be reckoned with, despite being significantly outnumbered.
All the Catholic kingdoms abandoned him and he stood alone. He had to do something. If more people would read real history they would understand that the real Vlad was not a toy that pops out of a box of Rice Crispies.
@@paulmunro3175 He could.ve found another way to protect it but he wanted to take the cruelest option. How can you justify him? He could've tried to start rebellions in ottoman lands (by using Bulgarians or serbians) or ally with Persia or something.
Hindsight is easy and perfect. The threat of imminent death colors behavior. I was not there, but for someone to perform as he did, he must certainly have been in an extreme position. It would have been much easier to kill and burn the enemy. This was a warning period.
@@TophatBoar though he was away at the time of the fire it wouldn't surprise me if he ordered someone to do it I have also heard that he used to had his guards block the exits to halls where he was preforming so people wouldn't leave as he was that bad
I assume that in those days if you had more than 10 teeth left by the age of 30 and not much other traces of deseases, infections and injuries, i guess you were considered handsome? :))
As soon as I saw this I expected to see Qin Shi Huang and Vlad the Impaler and I was surprised only one was on there. Qin Shi Huang was crazy and died by mercury poisoning because he thought it would make him immortal
Qin Shi Huang wasn't crazy, he was just afraid of death. He ended the Warring Kingdoms period and unified China to become its first emperor. He doesn't deserve to be on this list.
I have to disagree with Vlad being named insane. It has been widely proven that his use of shocking brutality was a tactic to terrify his enemies and protect his woefully small country from takeover. He didn't have enough soldiers to keep it safe, but he cultivated a gruesome reputation and managed. He was a brilliant tactician who was backing into a corner, no mad. Don't get me wrong, I love your lists, but you asked if we agreed.
Except he was brutal to more than just his enemies alone. He was known for cruelly slaughtering thousands of innocent people as well for the pettiest of reasons. Once he even ordered a priest's execution for telling the truth when Vlad asked him what would happen to him after he died.
@@Compucles It was the middle ages. Alot of rulers murdered many innocent people. The thing is his scare tactics worked and protected Wallachia. It is why he is regarded as more of a folk hero in Romania than a very evil man.
eddfan999 Why would you laugh at someone’s mental illness? Why would you laugh about someone suffering from such a life-ruining delusion? Society treats people like me like the world would be a better place without me in it and you are part of the problem.
@@arcadia21125 You and Sadie M. To believe ones self made of glass is both humorous and a shame. If one can't see the ridiculousness of it, then the issue is on their end.
Vlad actually protected Europe. the Ottomans had intended to invade Europe before his rebellion. Though his sanity may well have been fully in tact. It may seem outrageous to think that a sane person would commit an atrocity, but it is important to understand that this was a time when there were no rules of engagement. Vlad and his men were vastly outnumbered, and would've likely lost the war if it weren't for their dread tactics.
+Florin Eugen. But people only see he vicious treatment of enemies and assume he was an insane monster who just tortured for fun. He was a brilliant man and I don't blame him for being vicious.
+Scavenger No. It's simply looking at the time when this all took place, and what was acceptable and what was not. It's also being skeptical of some accounts of his actions and "cruelty" by looking at the author. If most of the accounts of his cruelty are from his enemies, then it is perfectly reasonable to call them into question. That is happening increasingly nowadays - evident in scholars revisiting figures such as Richard III. His enemies wrote him as being physically deformed, and vicious. It was widely accepted and rarely questioned for centuries. Now that they've found his body, which has no sign as being as deformed as put forth initially - it calls much into question. Most things in history are not as correct as our history books put forth - and that's because it depends on who gets to write down history. The victors? Or the defeated?
I'm seriously laughing picturing how the Klepto King stole Churchill's watch? What were they sitting down together and with quick snap of the wrist and goes "yoink!" XD
Does anyone has any proof of that story? I believe all the English newspapers that spoke about that visit was criticizing churchill as he looked too little comparing to his hosts king farouk. That all I heard about that visit
Khan was actuaaly quite good. His empire actually had freedom of religion, and allowed people to largely govern themselves once conquered, with the added benefit of having the mongolian army defending you.
+Magma Mage Yes, you're right. Genghis Khan was by no evil considering the new evidence of science. He was strict, but how the heck you are to rule a nation of nomads? Genghis formed modern administration to which the nowadays Mongol adminstration profit. @Kyle S. no he didn't. It was his forefollower. You may refer to Tamerlan, but he didn't either.
I can see why they would put Vlad on this list. But I would have to disagree with it. Vlad was trying to stop islam {ie, ottoman empire} from taking over. Not to mention, he learned these very tactics from the muslims who kept him and his family captive. I have to agree with the Romanian people, if not for Vlad, that country would have turned islamic centuries ago...
@@Justin.Martyr ~ I don't agree with him on the list. But, things being as they are today, I wasn't surprised to see it. I think Vlad is a hero myself...
+Kelvin Kuang dude, he might not been insane but a man that killed his pregnant wife after stamping on her belly, then found a boy whom looked like her, castrated him, made him wear women's cloths and grow out his hair, as well as acting as his deceased wife..including sex..I'd say, I'm shocked that he's not number one on the list..
no..no, Nero was pretty bad..but I'm pretty sure that Caligula did that..that, and he build a giant golden statue that was taken down by the following emperor because Romans wanted every evidence of him gone. Also, wasn't he the one whom had a war with Poseidon.. that one could have been Nero though..
"Insane" should mean one who is both irrational and politically incompetent, with few redeeming features. In that sense Vlad Tepes was cruel and extremely violent, but was a competent ruler who was simply overmatched militarily by a much stronger Ottoman Empire. Sultan Ibrahim fills the bill better.
+Dinga Tudor Most (If not all) the watchers of this video likely are history-lovers, not TV shows lovers....... So I suppose almost nobody here can relate
Vlad Dracula? I... don't think he qualifies as "insane". True, he did impale tens of thousands of people (supposedly), but they were his enemies and people who broke the law. As a result, the forces of the Ottomans turned back, and practically nobody commited crimes in his land.
he was but Simba managed to actually beat Scar, when Mufasa could not...fair enough he got thrown off a cliff but come on, he was a huge male lion - he didn't have to climb up the cliff, he just had to roar and the wildebeest would have avoided him lol
Interesting bits about Caligula's behavior: 1- He started his rule as actually a good and competent emperor. However, he fell I'll early on in his rule, nearly dying from this sickness and the Roman people desperately and very publicly prayed for his healing since he was popular at the time. His health recovered and initially there was much rejoicing among the people. It soon became clear that only his physical health had recovered, since it was after this illness that all the infamous violent craziness started. Some historians suspect whatever made him sick cause irreversible brain damage. 2- His given name was actually Gaius Julius Caesar Germanicus, after his predecessor Julius Caesar, but he spent his childhood following his father on military campaigns during which he was given his child-sized legionaries uniform right down to the boots (Latin: caligae) earning him the nickname "Caligula" among the troops, which pretty much translates to "Little Boots" or "Bootsie". If even after ascending to the Imperial throne of what might as have been the entire world as far as most people knew everyone still insisted on calling me "Bootsie" I would probably lose my marbles after a while too.
Wait if you came from the year 2022 where Kanye is an insane ruler, don't you have the power to stop him considering you can time travel. Hell...why should we worry. Save us future time travelling wizard from Kanye before you use up all your plutonium.
You left out one of the craziest aspects of Charles VI: he spent a great deal of time believing he was made of glass and would break if anyone touched him!
5:15 - correction: it was her father Fernando II of Aragon who had Juana of Castile confined to a convent. Her son Carlos I of Spain did keep his mother in the convent, yes, especially after the Revolt of the Comuneros, but throughout the years, he tried to give her some attention - he sometimes visited her with his wife Isabel and he gave their children permission to visit their grandmother when they were old enough. At one point, Juana received frequent visits from her grandson Felipe II.
+Alin Bodor Amen to that. A lot of people don't understand the necessity of the acts he commited... but the was successful despite overwhelming odds stacked against him. He managed to hold of an entire empire, through any means necessary. Good to see that some people don't fall for bullshit ;)
+zeezhz We still dont know everything about him, but from what we know we the romanians see him as a hero who stood again 2 empires and again the local warlords (boieri) and for what de build under his rulership.
Maria I of Portugal, yes. She imagined several times while she was looking at a mirror her father (Joseph I) burning in hell and claiming revenge. Many people believe that this happened because of her connection to the church. But, the king Afonso VI was madder than her.
Just about every story we've ever heard of Nero isn't true. All eyewitness accounts of Nero during the great fire suggest that he was working hard to coordinate the disaster relief, add to the fact that fiddles didn't exist during his lifetime! It's obvious who wrote the history of Rome since Nero was only known to have been hated in his lifetime by senators and patricians. (And at the same time, beloved by slaves, plebeians, and patrons of the arts.) Edit: Vlad The Impaler was brutal, but I wouldn't consider him insane.
@@yelyharmony2047 Nero-era Christians were pretty much the same thing as $cientoligists in modern America, except that they were a cult of poor people. The public perception of both religions was about the same.
@@yelyharmony2047 It wasn't? Then I trust you can provide a third party source (or sources) that refutes Nero era Christians being from the lower class and considered strange by their contemporaries. To say "Christians were just Christians" is you once again not contextualizing Nero-era Christians. About the only beliefs Nero-era Christians had that survived to modern times was a monotheist religion inspired by Judaism.
She wasn't insane though. She had a political imperative for doing what she did. It backfired at her though. She became extremely unpopular after trying to reinstill Catholicism
Juana wasn't actually crazy. It was just a rumor spread by her son to get her declared unfit to rule so that he could rule instead. Also, you missed the best parts of Caligula's and Charles VI of France's craziness. Caligula marries his own sister (which wasn't uncommon, but still gross) and then when she got pregnant, he cut the baby out of her, killing both her and her child. Charles VI is believed to have been schizophrenic. He would strip and run around the castle buck-naked, howling like a wolf. Another time, he became convinced that he was made of glass, and refused to allow anyone to touch him. Also, another person who should have been on here instead of Juana of Castile was Henry the 6th of England. I can't remember exactly what he did, but I do know that he inherited the schizophrenia from his grandfather, Charles VI of France.
+EPL What, a self talk? Let me put it in the right place: Nero was of no religious believes, his rulership was the most secular in the Roman Empire. And no, he didn't burn the Christian quarter, the whole village was built with wood. Fires were common, not a solitary event. The putrefaction gas from the sewers floating on the surface did the rest. His calculations were: more fires - less people - lesser tax incomes. Bad thing, huh? He had a plan to remove the old wooden buildings replacing them with stone houses. By the way: he loved Christianity. He loved this "wtf, only one god to appreciate, and they do it fervently? Wow. Their god must be a lone wolf, but this is amazing!" Sources say that Nero was at the meetings, surely unrecognized, but there is many evidence. He was by no way a ruler. He was an artist, a prevented, disoriented, deprivated man who was treated in the role of a leader. His father killed all of his favorite things in his childhood. It's some sort of "Rosebud", if you know what I mean. He was the man on whom the term "lone wolf" was the right choice. Some say he was the most intelligent Emperor in the whole Roman History. I agree.
+metalpit1000 Yeah he hated Christians with a vengeance blamed them for the burning of Rome when he st it on fire himself yup he's he's burning right about now in hell
1. Ivan was not insane he was a ruthless but intelligent ruler, and defended his power brutally. 2. Henry VIII was not insane and created a church mainly to anex roman church terretories. He too was an intelligent ruler with power politics 3. Nero is one of the best emporers Rome ever had. Extreamly popular to the people and rebuild Rome after it was destroyed by a fire that he DID NOT witness. His mother and wife were both belonging to a high nobility faction who later followed on the Roman throne as the Flavian dynasty. He was also a great sponsor of the arts. 4. Vlad the Impaler, okay that one was brutal but not insane. He used fear as a weapon of warfrare and prevented a far larger army from invading his country.
C104...One day I was watching a show called Jepordy with Alex Trebek. He asked a question that said...What Tsar fought a war against Poland and Sweden and the nobility of his own country. The answer was Ivan 4, or the terrible. Although I have studied the Romanov dynasty extensively I had not studied anything earlier than that. But when he said in the Question, against his own nobility it peaked my interest. Could this possibly be another case that they vilify people who go against the wealthy,the ones who write the history books. I've seen many cases where brutal dictators were glorified and people who have fought against the globalist bankers villified. And sure enough, this is what I found. One of the main reasons he ended up fighting both Poland and Sweden was because the the majority of the common men wanted to become a part of Russia and be ruled by Ivan. Why? Because he would not allow slavery. This is why he fought against his own nobility. It wasn't until Ivan and the ones who were still from the Rurik Dynasty were quickly dispatched that the Nobles placed a 16 year old puppet on the thrown that they could completely control that they got their surfs {slaves} Michael 1 was the first Romanov Tsar.Although it was the second Tsar Alexi 1` who decreed that 80% of peasants would become surfs, and only Nobles and Boyars {Elite Nobles} could own them. Not one Romanov Tsar Or Empress ever owned or profited from a surf. But one of the main critisizms of the Romanovs when Russia was overthrown was the fact of the ones who overthrew them were the only ones allowed to own them. When they always bring up how he murdered his own son. It was an accident resulting from an arguement that his wife was walking around the house dressed like a fluzzy. He smacked him once in the wrong place and killed him. It devestated him. On the other hand, a man our Zio written history books call Peter the GREAT, had his son hunted down in another country, imprisoned,tortured and murdered and never lost a wink of sleep. Now the part were they say he was paranoid and he had this secret police force. Well if your going against the rich and powerful, you better have something if you want to stay alive. On the other hand, Both Peter the GREAT and Catherine the GREAT had secret forces far more brutal who would go after anyone who critisized their policies, which were actually being dictated by the nobles. By far, if you knew the truth, the most evil dictator ever was Napoleon Bonaparte. But he was the bankers warrior who many considerd to be the first Zionist, so their won't be anything critical of him.
@WD Vinco he executed a religious cult that spread discord and may or may not actually have started the fire Also where do you get the idea that Nero was in Rome at the time? We now this to be a later fabrication and contemporary sources agree he was in his countryside villa. You watched the stupid movie didnt you?
People tend to overlook the good things people do. People tend to hate on Emperor Domitian for his failure in Dacia, but he did repair the Roman Economy by revaluing the currency.
People and mostly Christians just want him to be that insane person. He was not even in Rome when the city burned. there is historical prove to that. And he had reasons for killing his mother...
chrisrose I’m going to research that mother, part. You’re likely correct, my mind just does a “reset”, every time I read your comment because it’s so casual. The cadence of sounding so factual and then “he had reasons for killing his mother “, refuses to compute.
history is written by the victors sir, All this non-sense has been spoken about me, most of it was written 70's years after i died by somebody that despised me! it would be like if some anti-fa member wrote a biography about Pinochet today and keep this version for generations to come...
He couldn't careless about the old palace for a start, As for personally leading the fire-fighting effort, a good scheme in order to rid buildings standing in the vicinity of where he wants a new palace built & to make an excuse to kill christians in a horrifying manner. He was anti-christian. He's psycho like Caligula. Nero is regarded as the worst Roman emperor ever.He's another psycho, like Caligula, both will execute anyone who even so much as fart in his presence.
Vlad was a national hero. Romanians must be proud he stood up for Europe. He kicked out othomans. They were the insane and cruel. Greetings from Greece
There's a difference between fighting back and what Vlad did :) he went way too far. I wouldn't ever call him a hero. When the Ottomans conquerd Constantinople, Mehmed even let his own prisoners go (I'm not 100% sure, but I think they where Greeks caught in battle) and let them live in the city and help populate it. He put a more reasonable tax- previously, the rich Romans taxed there citizens unreasonably. Mehmed set it to a reasonable amount- in a way he treated the Greeks better than than the Greek elite treated them! Btw of course, some Ottoman Generals and stuff where bad, but in the general it was a good country, especially for the time, when the Spainish where brutaly opressing South and Central America and slavery was rife. Anyway, have a good day:)
In my personal opinion, Vlad III was genius, using psychological warfare and defeating the Hungarians, he was a hero in Romania. I don't think he was insane, but the abuse that he endured in captivity after his father gave him up to the sultan as a tax payment (the sexual and physical abuse) he probably was just a bit off kilter. Not necessarily insane.
I wouldn't say Vlad would be number one. there are worse on here. I guess it's mainly a matter of opinion. he's considered a hero of the Romanian people. he was a good leader to them. ..yeah he was a bit cray cray but it was mainly aimed at his enemies. and by the way, it's pronounced Val-la-kia. Wallacha.
7:36 “You’ll be back, time will tell You’ll remember that I served you well Oceans rise, empires fall We have seen each other through it all And when push comes to shove I will send a fully armed battalion to remind you of my love!”
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Because you could argue he wasn't insane. Highly ruthless and brutal of course he was a horrible person but remember back then they (wrongly) viewed Africans as subhuman and as such didnt treat them as anything but animals. Again I don't agree with what he did but he wasn't insane by any means
And I wouldn't say Henry VIII was insane either. He was classed as a great king untill he received his wound from Jousting. As it turned into basically an untreated ulcer he was basically driven mad due to the pain. And apparently he lived every day for the rest of his life in complete agony so no wonder his decisions were out of it. He couldn't concentrate on logical thinking.
Yeah, he was actually very generous and rewarding to his people...as long they did what he wanted. Insane isn't the right way to label him. I'd say he was driven by ego, paranoia, narcissism and heavily influenced by ambitious advisors whispering into his ears to advance their personal agendas. He may have been a bit naive. His victims were always the ones manipulating him. Killing his first wife would have solved everything quickly as far as legitimizing Anne as the new queen. So it goes to show that he wasn't entirely a bad person, just really damn self centered and hell bent on producing sons.
When he was younger apparently he was alot different. He fell off of a horse, and I guess after that he wasn't the same. He looked drastically different in his coronation portrait in 1509 than at the end of his reign in later portraits.
adding Vlad Dracul in this top is so wrong.Yes he was ruthless and cruel with our enemies ,especially with the ottomans.But he was a great leader and a defender of Christianity.He was also a man of his time and alone against the might of the Ottoman Empire(the most powerful at that time).Thanks to him(and other romanians and hungarians) you now speak your native tongue if you are european and not turkish.
he was mad genius...imapling people so that the wood wouldnt touch vital organs making the victim die from bleeding amd dehydration isnt realy considered genius...its sick
+MrYatta831 Do you know what oral history is? It is saying stories. When you tell something to your friend, you may exaggerate the details. This could have a happened with Vlad over 6 hundred years.
Don't think that Vlad was insane (not even a "bad" man"), but a man of his time, like Isabel of Aragon or Henry VIII. Caligula and Nero were creary crazy, some other were just bad people (a third category most common on rulers like Nixon and Tratcher)
Nero's "fiddling" was often thought to have been a metaphor for playing a lyre, but the thought of Nero playing any musical instrument during the great fire was one of history's biggest misconceptions.
I thought it was well known that this wasn't true? He wasn't in Rome, his palace within Rome was burnt, and he didn't even build the Domus Aurea where the fire took place. I believe there is also accounts of him trying to help stop it and provide aid to those who lost their homes. ( Don't quote me on this one- I cannot recall where I read it)
5:45 nero did not play his fiddle as rome burnt down. Fiddle's didn't come into creation till the 1600's, and Nero wasn't even in Rome at the time of the fire. He was on holiday in greece. He got back to rome after he got the news. By then most of rome had burnt down
Some were mad, but many were wicked, corrupt, and vainglorious. Caracalla should also be on this list: he reportedly executed his own brother and wife - both of whom he pathologically hated - and all of their friends.
Queen Elizabeth II is also distantly related to Tom Hanks. The two are 24th cousins, as Hanks is a descendant of King John of England. However, Queen Elizabeth's supposed relationship to Vlad the Impaler is somewhat dubious considering that the last surviving member of the Draculesti family, Alexandru Coconul, died with no heirs in 1632 which means that there are no direct descendants of Vlad the Impaler.
Hold up 1st nero was after his death disgraced by his opponents 2nd he may have been crazybut he only waged war when peace was no option 3rd okay torture by music isn't bad but starting the construction of the biggest canal in Greece the bad outeighs the good here
6:53 Caligula never killed any family members. The only sort of relative that he killed was Tiberius’s grandson who was the Heir to the throne who he adopted but forced him to commit suicide after attempting to poison Caligula. His whole family apart from his sisters were killed by the former emperor Tiberius. Germanicus who was Caligula’s father was the rightful heir to the throne once Tiberius passed. Tiberius assassinated germanicus and named his son the heir, only for his son to die a decade later, Tiberius names Caligula and his grandson co- emperors. Once Caligula consolidated his power he quickly tracked down his sisters and brought them out of exile to live with them again. Unfortunately for Caligula they would plot against him after he repeatedly attempted to have children with all 3 of his sisters after his wife’s and mistresses failed to conceive any child. Caligula only ever killed his adopted son for treason and plotting. His family was murdered by Tiberius at a young age. And Caligula spent his childhood confined to house arrest where at any moment he may die. If that isn’t enough to make you rightly mad. I don’t know what is.
Well there were things that are true, yet one of my pet peeves happens to be historical myths. Nero never played his fiddle while Rome was burning, that is a major myth. Instead, historians say he might have started the fire but indeed was for once in his life very helpful to his people. Other than that, I would put Nero ahead of Caligula. He would sometimes dress himself in animal hide and attack people who were tied to stakes, and he also once castrated a boy named Sporus and then married him afterward. Put him ahead of Vlad too, what I said was only a few psychotic things he did. He committed a countless number of crimes that are proof of his insanity.
That was a good list. Of course, there were so many insane rulers, but you definitely picked a good bag of nuts. We could add Stalin, Elizabeth Bathelroy, and other notables, but it is all a matter of personal interpretation.
Unless I'm mistaken, that isn't how you write "The Third" in Roman Numerals. Maybe there is some alternate format I'm unaware of, but if not, it should've been written "III."
Watchmojo: *ranks Henry the 8th lower than a 14 year old kid whose addicted to partying and being wild even though Henry killed two wives bc they didn’t have boys* Henry: am I a joke to you?
I wanna clarify something. George III is not on here because of American propaganda saying he was a tyrant (though the Americans really blew the whole thing out of proportion in my opinion), he had a hereditary disease that made him mentally unstable to the point that his son the Prince of Wales (later George IV) had to perform the duties of King during his last ten years in power. It was so bad that they never told George III that America declared war on Britain in 1812. As far as he was concerned, Britain was only fighting Napoleon
@@yurimikhail6907I doubt it but maybe. Even though Napoleon abdicated in April 1814 and the war of 1812 ended on Christmas 1814, there was a lot going on in Europe that would need attention. There was the Vienna Congress and Britain and the rest of Europe was negotiating many other treaties as well. Also there was the growing fear in Britain during Napoleon's first exile at Elba that he could easily escape and return to France, which he did in March 1815 that lead to the hundred days and the Battle of Waterloo. It was that fear that lead to the war of 1812 ending when it did and with so many questions and disputes between the US and Britain going unanswered and unsolved. Wellington made it clear to Parliament and to the Monarchy that the war in America must end so that Britain could focus it military strength and resources entirely on Europe in case Napoleon returned to France.
I wouldn't call his treatment of dishonest merchants "immoral." They got the same punishment as any other criminal, and often right on top of any other sort of criminal.
to be far a lot of rulers at the time would be considered Evil by modern standards. And a lot of the story about Vlad Dracula may or may not be propaganda. Still the title "The Impaler" was not something that was arbitrarily assigned to him. So he was definitely a cruel person.
Christian French He impaled turkish soldiers to demoralize the invading otoman army (and maybe to get a little revenge) and the criminals of the land . You should watch the Romanian movie Vlad Tepes (it is on youtube) in witch you see our perspective of him. "The impaler" is actualy not the correct translation of his name, Vlad Tepes means something more like Vlad of the impaling stick, "tepes" meaning the impaling stick.
Queen Mary I (aka Bloody Mary) Had a disagreement with three bishops and ordered them to be excommunicated and the executed. (Inspired the children’s song “three blind mice”)
What do you do when you can't divorce your wife because the Catholic Church won't let you?
Henry VIII: Make a new religion.
*Improvise. Adapt. Overcome.*
Only that wasn't the actual reason why Henry broke away from the RCC. The reason was that Henry didn't like how the Church demanded that the people's fealty be to the Pope, not the Crown.
henry VIII was a psychopathic bastard a real tyrant who thought he had the right to do to horrible things to just about anybody because he thought he was here by divine rule a truly horrible man just be glad you where not around when he was and yes he did invent a made up religion because he could not divorce his first wife or get her head cut off a real vile tyrant
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@adam brown His Defence of the Seven Sacraments was a theological treatise - how is that relevant, when then the split was political?
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I had an insane ruler once, it went up to 32 cm. crazy
Thank you. You made my day lmao
Badummtsssss... XD
Nice one ;)
Crazy indeed!
+Terry Tibbs Your comment and profile pic go so well together that I snorted milk out of my nose, and I wasn't even drinking milk.
this guy... lol
Vlad the Impaler wasn't insane. He was extraordinary cruel, that's true, but his cruelty did serve a purpose.
This man had to fight off the Ottoman Empire singlehandedly. (which was basically in it's prime at the time)
Serious psychological warfare the like the world has never seen.
@@paulmunro3175 Indeed. I remember reading somewhere that Sun Tzu wrote a passage in the art of war that said that "winning and losing are a state of mind". Probably meaning that, in his mind, psychological warfare is at least just as important as the actual battles.
Vlad had to somehow convince the Ottomans that he was a man to be reckoned with, despite being significantly outnumbered.
All the Catholic kingdoms abandoned him and he stood alone. He had to do something. If more people would read real history they would understand that the real Vlad was not a toy that pops out of a box of Rice Crispies.
@@paulmunro3175 He could.ve found another way to protect it but he wanted to take the cruelest option. How can you justify him? He could've tried to start rebellions in ottoman lands (by using Bulgarians or serbians) or ally with Persia or something.
Hindsight is easy and perfect. The threat of imminent death colors behavior. I was not there, but for someone to perform as he did, he must certainly have been in an extreme position. It would have been much easier to kill and burn the enemy. This was a warning period.
no point in showing the honorable mentions without explaining why they are there in the first place....
good point
Clown Babies Seriously right? I’ve never even hear of half of those people in that list.
its for the history buffs!
Agreed. Never heard of most of them so no idea why they’re considered nuts…
Yeah
Senate: You want a fire?
Nero: Yes
Senate How big should the fire be ?
Nero: *Y E S*
Pretty sure the fact that this was debunked, Nero never did that
*SI PAPI!*
@@TophatBoar though he was away at the time of the fire it wouldn't surprise me if he ordered someone to do it
I have also heard that he used to had his guards block the exits to halls where he was preforming so people wouldn't leave as he was that bad
should do more history ones cause this I great
I agree
+jens auerbach I agree,except for the rap beat or whatever,it's distracting.
COYG
They should do top 10 best rulers/dictators. I really want to see my man Nobonaga oda shown to everyone
Alex Mansfield he was a crazy guy
4:59 "The Handsome"?
Not so sure about that...
Looks like lord farquad from shrek
@@nra3zehuti781 stop
I assume that in those days if you had more than 10 teeth left by the age of 30 and not much other traces of deseases, infections and injuries, i guess you were considered handsome? :))
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@mr kongo googled his name, wow I feel bad for him.
As soon as I saw this I expected to see Qin Shi Huang and Vlad the Impaler and I was surprised only one was on there. Qin Shi Huang was crazy and died by mercury poisoning because he thought it would make him immortal
This is late but if someone looked into his eyes they would be killed not even mentioning what he made for his “afterlife”
Qin Shi Huang wasn't crazy, he was just afraid of death. He ended the Warring Kingdoms period and unified China to become its first emperor. He doesn't deserve to be on this list.
Abe Buckingham exactly the man did what no one else could unify China
I have to disagree with Vlad being named insane. It has been widely proven that his use of shocking brutality was a tactic to terrify his enemies and protect his woefully small country from takeover. He didn't have enough soldiers to keep it safe, but he cultivated a gruesome reputation and managed. He was a brilliant tactician who was backing into a corner, no mad. Don't get me wrong, I love your lists, but you asked if we agreed.
Except he was brutal to more than just his enemies alone. He was known for cruelly slaughtering thousands of innocent people as well for the pettiest of reasons. Once he even ordered a priest's execution for telling the truth when Vlad asked him what would happen to him after he died.
I mean vlad did what he had to do
True that's a fact.
He dipped his bread in the blood of his enemies he had impaled
@@Compucles It was the middle ages. Alot of rulers murdered many innocent people. The thing is his scare tactics worked and protected Wallachia. It is why he is regarded as more of a folk hero in Romania than a very evil man.
You left out the most interesting bit of Charles' madness: he thought he was made of glass and feared he would break if touched.
Lol
eddfan999 Why would you laugh at someone’s mental illness? Why would you laugh about someone suffering from such a life-ruining delusion? Society treats people like me like the world would be a better place without me in it and you are part of the problem.
@@sadem1045 What if you broke when someone touched you? Huh?
@@sadem1045 this list is making light of their mental illness you fucking idiot. Are you watching?
@@arcadia21125 You and Sadie M. To believe ones self made of glass is both humorous and a shame. If one can't see the ridiculousness of it, then the issue is on their end.
Vlad actually protected Europe. the Ottomans had intended to invade Europe before his rebellion. Though his sanity may well have been fully in tact. It may seem outrageous to think that a sane person would commit an atrocity, but it is important to understand that this was a time when there were no rules of engagement. Vlad and his men were vastly outnumbered, and would've likely lost the war if it weren't for their dread tactics.
you're goddamn right,for us he's a national hero
+Florin Eugen. But people only see he vicious treatment of enemies and assume he was an insane monster who just tortured for fun. He was a brilliant man and I don't blame him for being vicious.
It would seem you all love to kiss psychopath ass.
He is evil he murdered children and women
+Scavenger No. It's simply looking at the time when this all took place, and what was acceptable and what was not.
It's also being skeptical of some accounts of his actions and "cruelty" by looking at the author. If most of the accounts of his cruelty are from his enemies, then it is perfectly reasonable to call them into question. That is happening increasingly nowadays - evident in scholars revisiting figures such as Richard III. His enemies wrote him as being physically deformed, and vicious. It was widely accepted and rarely questioned for centuries. Now that they've found his body, which has no sign as being as deformed as put forth initially - it calls much into question. Most things in history are not as correct as our history books put forth - and that's because it depends on who gets to write down history. The victors? Or the defeated?
Henry VIII actually married Katherine Howard when she was 16 and he was 49 (I think). She got beheaded at 19.
Eww
So you’re saying he had 3 decent years.
Six The Musical intensifies
Kaitln White lol
@@kaitlnwhite6809
Divorced
Beheaded
Died
Divorced
Beheaded
Survived
I'm seriously laughing picturing how the Klepto King stole Churchill's watch? What were they sitting down together and with quick snap of the wrist and goes "yoink!" XD
Emily Strawberry XD true
Lieutenant Yoshi yOiNk!
Pretty much. He had professional pickpockets teach him their tricks.
Does anyone has any proof of that story?
I believe all the English newspapers that spoke about that visit was criticizing churchill as he looked too little comparing to his hosts king farouk.
That all I heard about that visit
Lmfao
You forgot King Aerys Targaryen II
M Rodriguez Oh stahp
he wasn't real😎
and ramsay bolton?
cersei and joffrey lannister
ravi indra ramsay wasn't a ruler
Let us not forget:
Genghis Khan (Mongolia)
Qin Shi Huangdi (China)
Empress Dowager Cixi (China)
Khan was actuaaly quite good. His empire actually had freedom of religion, and allowed people to largely govern themselves once conquered, with the added benefit of having the mongolian army defending you.
+Magma Mage Yes, you're right. Genghis Khan was by no evil considering the new evidence of science. He was strict, but how the heck you are to rule a nation of nomads?
Genghis formed modern administration to which the nowadays Mongol adminstration profit.
@Kyle S. no he didn't. It was his forefollower.
You may refer to Tamerlan, but he didn't either.
this video was about monarchs...
metalpit1000 Which all of them were.
ShunerRen VEVO
yep!
I think Caligula and Vlad should've been switched.Caligula was crazier. Vlad is still looked upon as a national hero in Romania .
Well he is. He only lrotrected our country. The rumors are propraganda.
I can see why they would put Vlad on this list. But I would have to disagree with it. Vlad was trying to stop islam {ie, ottoman empire} from taking over.
Not to mention, he learned these very tactics from the muslims who kept him and his family captive.
I have to agree with the Romanian people, if not for Vlad, that country would have turned islamic centuries ago...
He was killing the enemy and trying to keep them from coming back again.
@@Deborahtunes *I Disagree with your First Sentence!!!!*
@@Justin.Martyr ~ I don't agree with him on the list. But, things being as they are today, I wasn't surprised to see it. I think Vlad is a hero myself...
Leopold II of Belgium did very bad things in Congo
1 miljoen deads not 10 miljons
and then some .... lunatic ... millions died . no media sad but true ..!
I agree.
No Shit Sherlock
Godzilla Facts....
"we're excluding democratically elected officials"
otherwise all of congress would fill the list.
+ingmaster5 ooooooh bern
+ingmaster5 and us presidents
+jhfridhem burn*
+Ezra Daßer Right because Obama would be number 1
***** independent. neither side is completely right or wrong.
Nothing mad about Vlad the Impaler. He was a scary dude in vicious times.
Yeah, and Ivan and Caligula are more insane than Vlad
Just about everything Vlad did. H learned from the Ottomans.
@@markdelgado2480 Yet he used their own weapons against them.
Sometimes you don't need hero in a world of monsters..... Sometimes you just need a bigger monster.
Emre Turkoglu that’s fucking disgusting that you would say that
Add anyone who claims to be, "the chosen one."
Surely you aren't speaking of Dear Leader tRump.
Basically any recent north Korean ruler
Depends a lot alexander the great thought he descended from gods
@@w.d.kimzey2974 couldnt be trump is against child sacrifice aka abortion.
No his clearly talking about Mourinho
no Mary Tudor? and lets be real.. Caligula wasn't nearly as bad as Tiberius
+Kat2323 I guess its because we recently found out Caligula=/=Insane.But that does mean his let off THAT easily.....
+Kelvin Kuang dude, he might not been insane but a man that killed his pregnant wife after stamping on her belly, then found a boy whom looked like her, castrated him, made him wear women's cloths and grow out his hair, as well as acting as his deceased wife..including sex..I'd say, I'm shocked that he's not number one on the list..
+Kat2323 Mary Tudor was far saner than her father and far less despotic than her sister.
+Kpaui You mixed him up with Nero who is on the list, for fiddling as Rome burned (which no serious historian has claimed he did for almost a century)
no..no, Nero was pretty bad..but I'm pretty sure that Caligula did that..that, and he build a giant golden statue that was taken down by the following emperor because Romans wanted every evidence of him gone. Also, wasn't he the one whom had a war with Poseidon.. that one could have been Nero though..
"Insane" should mean one who is both irrational and politically incompetent, with few redeeming features.
In that sense Vlad Tepes was cruel and extremely violent, but was a competent ruler who was simply overmatched militarily by a much stronger Ottoman Empire.
Sultan Ibrahim fills the bill better.
Oml hitlers speach and hand gestures had me dying 😂😂😂
Kawaii Kitty I rewound it a few times to laugh... this ass knew he was extra lol
Kawaii Kitty not the first person to die by Hitler
Kawaii Kitty so did Germany and the deported people to thw concentration camps
Kawaii Dia ;3 seriously lmfaooo crazy and dramatic af
Henry VIII’s calf’s can achieve world peace.
Oversimplified speaks *facts.*
Where's King Joffrey?
+Emre Saladin may the true king live long
He's not a real King
+Aquila Arctic wow really? I don't think anyone knew this
+Dinga Tudor Most (If not all) the watchers of this video likely are history-lovers, not TV shows lovers....... So I suppose almost nobody here can relate
tommen is worst
Vlad Dracula? I... don't think he qualifies as "insane". True, he did impale tens of thousands of people (supposedly), but they were his enemies and people who broke the law. As a result, the forces of the Ottomans turned back, and practically nobody commited crimes in his land.
+catxborsuq1 Correct!
As well drinking his enemies blood?
+catxborsuq1 He impaled tens of thousands of people and you dont think he was insane, Jesus Christ, I hope I never meet you.
caniballism isnt insane? serial killer spotted
caniballism isnt insane? serial killer spotted
Let's all agree Mufasa was the best ruler.
he was but Simba managed to actually beat Scar, when Mufasa could not...fair enough he got thrown off a cliff but come on, he was a huge male lion - he didn't have to climb up the cliff, he just had to roar and the wildebeest would have avoided him lol
Flameheart of Thunderclan Vlad Țepeș would not agree with you
He literally ate his subjects and was stupid enough to let his brother live even though he was clearly after his throne
No, it was simba.
+Rachael Philip how
Interesting bits about Caligula's behavior:
1- He started his rule as actually a good and competent emperor. However, he fell I'll early on in his rule, nearly dying from this sickness and the Roman people desperately and very publicly prayed for his healing since he was popular at the time. His health recovered and initially there was much rejoicing among the people. It soon became clear that only his physical health had recovered, since it was after this illness that all the infamous violent craziness started. Some historians suspect whatever made him sick cause irreversible brain damage.
2- His given name was actually Gaius Julius Caesar Germanicus, after his predecessor Julius Caesar, but he spent his childhood following his father on military campaigns during which he was given his child-sized legionaries uniform right down to the boots (Latin: caligae) earning him the nickname "Caligula" among the troops, which pretty much translates to "Little Boots" or "Bootsie". If even after ascending to the Imperial throne of what might as have been the entire world as far as most people knew everyone still insisted on calling me "Bootsie" I would probably lose my marbles after a while too.
I love how this list went from "killed two lions" to Ivan the Terrible :')
I am from the year 2022 and I insist that you add Kanye West to the list
+TheMDXtreme I'm from 2017 and insist they add Trump
Hey you watch, watch mojo tell dashie games I said high
+TheMDXtreme Has he succeeded in deposing president Trump? The world truly is doomed.
Wait if you came from the year 2022 where Kanye is an insane ruler, don't you have the power to stop him considering you can time travel. Hell...why should we worry. Save us future time travelling wizard from Kanye before you use up all your plutonium.
Kanye west becomes a leader.. aww hell no
You left out one of the craziest aspects of Charles VI: he spent a great deal of time believing he was made of glass and would break if anyone touched him!
Caligula's sister was Nero's mother.
Aggrippina was infamous in her own right.
Where's Darth Vader? This list sucks!
+Toornap Tarraa darth vader was not insane, but misguided
trilljacker654 I changed my mind. Palpatine is worse!
+Toornap Tarraa He's not real.
Stephen Mc Devitt Sherlock Holmes, everyone.
+Toornap Tarraa 😂😂😂
5:15 - correction: it was her father Fernando II of Aragon who had Juana of Castile confined to a convent. Her son Carlos I of Spain did keep his mother in the convent, yes, especially after the Revolt of the Comuneros, but throughout the years, he tried to give her some attention - he sometimes visited her with his wife Isabel and he gave their children permission to visit their grandmother when they were old enough. At one point, Juana received frequent visits from her grandson Felipe II.
I’m a bit like Joanna well not exactly like her but one time I screamed in the middle of the street because a fly won’t leave me alone
Vlad was no insane he just defended his people and his land as he saw fit. Fear was and still is a great weapon.
+Alin Bodor Amen to that. A lot of people don't understand the necessity of the acts he commited... but the was successful despite overwhelming odds stacked against him. He managed to hold of an entire empire, through any means necessary. Good to see that some people don't fall for bullshit ;)
Glad to know others know the truth :)
+zeezhz We still dont know everything about him, but from what we know we the romanians see him as a hero who stood again 2 empires and again the local warlords (boieri) and for what de build under his rulership.
very true, he would have gotten wrecked by the Persians yet he scared them away which is really saying something lol
+Brian Cramer ottoman I mean lol
Sirloin is so-called because Henry VIII enjoyed a loin steak so much, he had it knighted.
It's funny, but not really true.
Maria I of Portugal, yes. She imagined several times while she was looking at a mirror her father (Joseph I) burning in hell and claiming revenge. Many people believe that this happened because of her connection to the church. But, the king Afonso VI was madder than her.
Just about every story we've ever heard of Nero isn't true. All eyewitness accounts of Nero during the great fire suggest that he was working hard to coordinate the disaster relief, add to the fact that fiddles didn't exist during his lifetime! It's obvious who wrote the history of Rome since Nero was only known to have been hated in his lifetime by senators and patricians. (And at the same time, beloved by slaves, plebeians, and patrons of the arts.)
Edit: Vlad The Impaler was brutal, but I wouldn't consider him insane.
GOFLuvr well instead of helping the people who were affected by the fire Nero built the Domus Aurea(palace) on the burnt soil...
Nero blamed the christians and persecuted and killed a lot of them...That's a fact...Does that sound nice or good to you?
@@yelyharmony2047 Nero-era Christians were pretty much the same thing as $cientoligists in modern America, except that they were a cult of poor people. The public perception of both religions was about the same.
@@GOFLuvr no...it wasn't...and they weren't...Christians were just christians...being murdered just because
@@yelyharmony2047 It wasn't? Then I trust you can provide a third party source (or sources) that refutes Nero era Christians being from the lower class and considered strange by their contemporaries.
To say "Christians were just Christians" is you once again not contextualizing Nero-era Christians. About the only beliefs Nero-era Christians had that survived to modern times was a monotheist religion inspired by Judaism.
no Bloody Mary??? I would though she was crazier than Henry
I know right, she burned thousands of people alive
She wasn't insane though. She had a political imperative for doing what she did. It backfired at her though. She became extremely unpopular after trying to reinstill Catholicism
+Nicholas Handfield I guess you're right, but she definitely lost it along the way. Good thing is Elizabeth I followed \m/
+Ferisalgue Thank you! xD
+Ferisalgue it her is to why we English are now a protestant country now, no one wants a catholic ruler here
0:40 me and my classmates when the teacher announces there's no homework
Juana wasn't actually crazy. It was just a rumor spread by her son to get her declared unfit to rule so that he could rule instead. Also, you missed the best parts of Caligula's and Charles VI of France's craziness. Caligula marries his own sister (which wasn't uncommon, but still gross) and then when she got pregnant, he cut the baby out of her, killing both her and her child. Charles VI is believed to have been schizophrenic. He would strip and run around the castle buck-naked, howling like a wolf. Another time, he became convinced that he was made of glass, and refused to allow anyone to touch him. Also, another person who should have been on here instead of Juana of Castile was Henry the 6th of England. I can't remember exactly what he did, but I do know that he inherited the schizophrenia from his grandfather, Charles VI of France.
Nero better be on this list. That dude was fucked up.
Okay good.
+EPL What, a self talk?
Let me put it in the right place: Nero was of no religious believes, his rulership was the most secular in the Roman Empire. And no, he didn't burn the Christian quarter, the whole village was built with wood. Fires were common, not a solitary event. The putrefaction gas from the sewers floating on the surface did the rest.
His calculations were: more fires - less people - lesser tax incomes. Bad thing, huh?
He had a plan to remove the old wooden buildings replacing them with stone houses.
By the way: he loved Christianity. He loved this "wtf, only one god to appreciate, and they do it fervently? Wow. Their god must be a lone wolf, but this is amazing!" Sources say that Nero was at the meetings, surely unrecognized, but there is many evidence.
He was by no way a ruler. He was an artist, a prevented, disoriented, deprivated man who was treated in the role of a leader. His father killed all of his favorite things in his childhood. It's some sort of "Rosebud", if you know what I mean. He was the man on whom the term "lone wolf" was the right choice.
Some say he was the most intelligent Emperor in the whole Roman History. I agree.
+metalpit1000 Whatever you say
he was number 3 defiantly evil
+metalpit1000 Yeah he hated Christians with a vengeance blamed them for the burning of Rome when he st it on fire himself yup he's he's burning right about now in hell
1. Ivan was not insane he was a ruthless but intelligent ruler, and defended his power brutally.
2. Henry VIII was not insane and created a church mainly to anex roman church terretories. He too was an intelligent ruler with power politics
3. Nero is one of the best emporers Rome ever had. Extreamly popular to the people and rebuild Rome after it was destroyed by a fire that he DID NOT witness. His mother and wife were both belonging to a high nobility faction who later followed on the Roman throne as the Flavian dynasty. He was also a great sponsor of the arts.
4. Vlad the Impaler, okay that one was brutal but not insane. He used fear as a weapon of warfrare and prevented a far larger army from invading his country.
Astounding, how great people are often misunderstood
C104...One day I was watching a show called Jepordy with Alex Trebek. He asked a question that said...What Tsar fought a war against Poland and Sweden and the nobility of his own country. The answer was Ivan 4, or the terrible. Although I have studied the Romanov dynasty extensively I had not studied anything earlier than that. But when he said in the Question, against his own nobility it peaked my interest. Could this possibly be another case that they vilify people who go against the wealthy,the ones who write the history books. I've seen many cases where brutal dictators were glorified and people who have fought against the globalist bankers villified. And sure enough, this is what I found. One of the main reasons he ended up fighting both Poland and Sweden was because the the majority of the common men wanted to become a part of Russia and be ruled by Ivan. Why? Because he would not allow slavery. This is why he fought against his own nobility. It wasn't until Ivan and the ones who were still from the Rurik Dynasty were quickly dispatched that the Nobles placed a 16 year old puppet on the thrown that they could completely control that they got their surfs {slaves} Michael 1 was the first Romanov Tsar.Although it was the second Tsar Alexi 1` who decreed that 80% of peasants would become surfs, and only Nobles and Boyars {Elite Nobles} could own them. Not one Romanov Tsar Or Empress ever owned or profited from a surf. But one of the main critisizms of the Romanovs when Russia was overthrown was the fact of the ones who overthrew them were the only ones allowed to own them.
When they always bring up how he murdered his own son. It was an accident resulting from an arguement that his wife was walking around the house dressed like a fluzzy. He smacked him once in the wrong place and killed him. It devestated him. On the other hand, a man our Zio written history books call Peter the GREAT, had his son hunted down in another country, imprisoned,tortured and murdered and never lost a wink of sleep.
Now the part were they say he was paranoid and he had this secret police force. Well if your going against the rich and powerful, you better have something if you want to stay alive. On the other hand, Both Peter the GREAT and Catherine the GREAT had secret forces far more brutal who would go after anyone who critisized their policies, which were actually being dictated by the nobles.
By far, if you knew the truth, the most evil dictator ever was Napoleon Bonaparte. But he was the bankers warrior who many considerd to be the first Zionist, so their won't be anything critical of him.
@WD Vinco he executed a religious cult that spread discord and may or may not actually have started the fire
Also where do you get the idea that Nero was in Rome at the time? We now this to be a later fabrication and contemporary sources agree he was in his countryside villa. You watched the stupid movie didnt you?
6:30 the delivery 😫
"The delicious debauchery....."
@6:37 Nero: "The delicious debauchery."
Hedonism Bot: "I trust the orgy pit has been scraped and buttered?" :P
Oh damn, that second picture of Ivan the terrible is just creepy.
Gonna have nightmares about that tonight lmao
He is so scary.
Question: If Nero burned Rome as so many claim, WHY did he personally lead the firefighting efforts? Why open his own palace to the refugees?
People tend to overlook the good things people do. People tend to hate on Emperor Domitian for his failure in Dacia, but he did repair the Roman Economy by revaluing the currency.
People and mostly Christians just want him to be that insane person. He was not even in Rome when the city burned. there is historical prove to that. And he had reasons for killing his mother...
chrisrose I’m going to research that mother, part. You’re likely correct, my mind just does a “reset”, every time I read your comment because it’s so casual. The cadence of sounding so factual and then “he had reasons for killing his mother “, refuses to compute.
history is written by the victors sir, All this non-sense has been spoken about me, most of it was written 70's years after i died by somebody that despised me! it would be like if some anti-fa member wrote a biography about Pinochet today and keep this version for generations to come...
He couldn't careless about the old palace for a start, As for personally leading the fire-fighting effort, a good scheme in order to rid buildings standing in the vicinity of where he wants a new palace built & to make an excuse to kill christians in a horrifying manner. He was anti-christian. He's psycho like Caligula. Nero is regarded as the worst Roman emperor ever.He's another psycho, like Caligula, both will execute anyone who even so much as fart in his presence.
Vlad was a national hero. Romanians must be proud he stood up for Europe. He kicked out othomans. They were the insane and cruel.
Greetings from Greece
There's a difference between fighting back and what Vlad did :) he went way too far. I wouldn't ever call him a hero. When the Ottomans conquerd Constantinople, Mehmed even let his own prisoners go (I'm not 100% sure, but I think they where Greeks caught in battle) and let them live in the city and help populate it. He put a more reasonable tax- previously, the rich Romans taxed there citizens unreasonably. Mehmed set it to a reasonable amount- in a way he treated the Greeks better than than the Greek elite treated them! Btw of course, some Ottoman Generals and stuff where bad, but in the general it was a good country, especially for the time, when the Spainish where brutaly opressing South and Central America and slavery was rife. Anyway, have a good day:)
Greece without ottomans don't even have an economy, look att your nation. Turks would save you today big time.
ottomans enslaved you and fucked your women 😂😂
In my personal opinion, Vlad III was genius, using psychological warfare and defeating the Hungarians, he was a hero in Romania. I don't think he was insane, but the abuse that he endured in captivity after his father gave him up to the sultan as a tax payment (the sexual and physical abuse) he probably was just a bit off kilter. Not necessarily insane.
0:39-0:44 is one of my fav moments (just look at the way Hitler moves his arms... PSYCHO...!)
Honestly he was a great public speaker, it was just stupid stuff that he was saying
Ewan McInerney wasn’t he high while speaking though?
@@danielgray142 nah you’re just brainwashed
I wouldn't say Vlad would be number one. there are worse on here. I guess it's mainly a matter of opinion. he's considered a hero of the Romanian people. he was a good leader to them. ..yeah he was a bit cray cray but it was mainly aimed at his enemies. and by the way, it's pronounced Val-la-kia. Wallacha.
+bloodrebel1 He is one of the greatest Romanian kings!
Pot sa o pronunte aproape in orice fel vor,a fost denumita in multe feluri,Vlahia,Valahia,Valachia etc
enlighted Jedi he was a prince love. Of Wallachia only. Still quite the guy.
Ciprian Mogosanu bless you
bloodrebel1
I meant among all three countries!
7:36 “You’ll be back, time will tell You’ll remember that I served you well Oceans rise, empires fall We have seen each other through it all And when push comes to shove I will send a fully armed battalion to remind you of my love!”
Da da da da da da dada dayada da da dayada
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+Scrotie McBoogerball
agreed.
Thanks for deleting my comment Watchmojo. I guess you don't value truth very much.
I'm surprised you wasted an opportunity to put hitler or the nazis as the craziest/most evil of all time like in all the other videos
+Scrotie McBoogerball ... God that's a great handle you got there. Also, if I may add to your observation...
Watchmojo should do a "Top 10 click-bait sites that don't deliver due to poor research and pandering". There's one list they just need to put their name on 10 times, so it wouldn't take any more effort than they expend on any of their other lists.
Easy-peezy-quick & sleazy...
Henry VII had syphilis, not insanity.
and a king that killed 16 millions of congoleses isnt mentioned?
Leopold II of Belgium
@@EvarlastingTalk wow. I would love to read in this. Any book suggested?
Because you could argue he wasn't insane. Highly ruthless and brutal of course he was a horrible person but remember back then they (wrongly) viewed Africans as subhuman and as such didnt treat them as anything but animals. Again I don't agree with what he did but he wasn't insane by any means
Humanity in crisis - i forgot who wrote it but it's a shocking book about how awful the English really are
chandler gensel that comment was the oxymoron of the year. Congrats.
And I wouldn't say Henry VIII was insane either. He was classed as a great king untill he received his wound from Jousting. As it turned into basically an untreated ulcer he was basically driven mad due to the pain. And apparently he lived every day for the rest of his life in complete agony so no wonder his decisions were out of it. He couldn't concentrate on logical thinking.
Yeah, he was actually very generous and rewarding to his people...as long they did what he wanted. Insane isn't the right way to label him. I'd say he was driven by ego, paranoia, narcissism and heavily influenced by ambitious advisors whispering into his ears to advance their personal agendas. He may have been a bit naive. His victims were always the ones manipulating him. Killing his first wife would have solved everything quickly as far as legitimizing Anne as the new queen. So it goes to show that he wasn't entirely a bad person, just really damn self centered and hell bent on producing sons.
When he was younger apparently he was alot different. He fell off of a horse, and I guess after that he wasn't the same. He looked drastically different in his coronation portrait in 1509 than at the end of his reign in later portraits.
It doesn't matter what makes you insane, just if they were or not
Mustafa I: running around the palace searching for his dead nephew Osman II, convinced he is still alive. Also wanted to enter the palace with a ship.
adding Vlad Dracul in this top is so wrong.Yes he was ruthless and cruel with our enemies ,especially with the ottomans.But he was a great leader and a defender of Christianity.He was also a man of his time and alone against the might of the Ottoman Empire(the most powerful at that time).Thanks to him(and other romanians and hungarians) you now speak your native tongue if you are european and not turkish.
Nu conteaza because 600 years of rule in Bulgaria made Bulgarians speak Turkish...
Even Croats had a bigger share.
Vlad Dracul and Vlad the Impaler are different, for Vlad Dracul was the father of Vlad Dracula. Dracula means "son of the Dragon/Dracul".
Dracula was not a fucking defender of Christianity he hated all religions especially Christians
Nu conteaza it just means he was insane, and he was. The list didnt say he was bad
@@playstationsteve dude don't give opinions if u are american
#10 He ate a ton of oysters and shot TWO lions! OH THE HORROR!!! THE INSANITY!!
PvtGermanWagz Me af. All of these nuts in history and this is the best they could do. 😂😂
The display of Caligula in this feature ,combined with other historical mistakes is shockingly inadequat
Vlad the impaler was'int a mad man, he was a genuis. He stop 100,000 men with his mere 20,000 man levy force by physiological game. He was a genius.
can't argue with the logic
+Aaron Packer He was a very good leader!
he was mad genius...imapling people so that the wood wouldnt touch vital organs making the victim die from bleeding amd dehydration isnt realy considered genius...its sick
+MrYatta831 Do you know what oral history is? It is saying stories. When you tell something to your friend, you may exaggerate the details. This could have a happened with Vlad over 6 hundred years.
+MrYatta831 By middle age standard, torture and death punishment was something normal back then. Every monarchy did it.
Don't think that Vlad was insane (not even a "bad" man"), but a man of his time, like Isabel of Aragon or Henry VIII.
Caligula and Nero were creary crazy, some other were just bad people (a third category most common on rulers like Nixon and Tratcher)
But Nero wasn't even close to Rome and fiddles weren't invented yet.
+Sean Bateson cithara*, there's no solid evidence that he played one during the great fire.
Any small bowed string instrument can be called a fiddle.
Nero's "fiddling" was often thought to have been a metaphor for playing a lyre, but the thought of Nero playing any musical instrument during the great fire was one of history's biggest misconceptions.
it's actually believed now that he helped to fight the fire.
I thought it was well known that this wasn't true? He wasn't in Rome,
his palace within Rome was burnt, and he didn't even build the Domus Aurea where the fire took place. I believe there is also accounts of him trying to help stop it and provide aid to those who lost their homes. ( Don't quote me on this one- I cannot recall where I read it)
5:45 nero did not play his fiddle as rome burnt down. Fiddle's didn't come into creation till the 1600's, and Nero wasn't even in Rome at the time of the fire. He was on holiday in greece. He got back to rome after he got the news. By then most of rome had burnt down
Some were mad, but many were wicked, corrupt, and vainglorious.
Caracalla should also be on this list: he reportedly executed his own brother and wife - both of whom he pathologically hated - and all of their friends.
Vlad was protecting his people and being cruel to the enemies. That to me sounds like a normal leader. (Except the impaling)
Nero couldn't have played the fiddle well Rome Burned as the fiddle was not invented til the 1600s around 1500 years after Nero died
“Bombed at acting”
Nero: You are tearing me apart Lisa!
Emperor Zhengde actually very effective ruler when he grew older. But he died very young at age 29
Let's also not forget the Queen of England is a descendant of Vlad the Impaler!
Queen Elizabeth II is also distantly related to Tom Hanks. The two are 24th cousins, as Hanks is a descendant of King John of England.
However, Queen Elizabeth's supposed relationship to Vlad the Impaler is somewhat dubious considering that the last surviving member of the Draculesti family, Alexandru Coconul, died with no heirs in 1632 which means that there are no direct descendants of Vlad the Impaler.
FGO players be like: That could be my waifu.
Worth the salt
pAdORu pAdORu
2:23 the narrator sounds so happy while saying "..by smacking his head with a scepter" hahahahahaha
"Hey, let's have a 40 year discussion of violence in my country, Russia!" said Ivan trying not to be terrible.
Hold up 1st nero was after his death disgraced by his opponents
2nd he may have been crazybut he only waged war when peace was no option
3rd okay torture by music isn't bad but starting the construction of the biggest canal in Greece the bad outeighs the good here
This is why I read Trials of Apollo
Me too bro
6:53 Caligula never killed any family members. The only sort of relative that he killed was Tiberius’s grandson who was the Heir to the throne who he adopted but forced him to commit suicide after attempting to poison Caligula. His whole family apart from his sisters were killed by the former emperor Tiberius. Germanicus who was Caligula’s father was the rightful heir to the throne once Tiberius passed. Tiberius assassinated germanicus and named his son the heir, only for his son to die a decade later, Tiberius names Caligula and his grandson co- emperors. Once Caligula consolidated his power he quickly tracked down his sisters and brought them out of exile to live with them again. Unfortunately for Caligula they would plot against him after he repeatedly attempted to have children with all 3 of his sisters after his wife’s and mistresses failed to conceive any child. Caligula only ever killed his adopted son for treason and plotting. His family was murdered by Tiberius at a young age. And Caligula spent his childhood confined to house arrest where at any moment he may die. If that isn’t enough to make you rightly mad. I don’t know what is.
Watched the first 35 seconds. Discovered that a current leader of the Free World would not be included. Left comment and clicked out.
Well there were things that are true, yet one of my pet peeves happens to be historical myths. Nero never played his fiddle while Rome was burning, that is a major myth. Instead, historians say he might have started the fire but indeed was for once in his life very helpful to his people.
Other than that, I would put Nero ahead of Caligula. He would sometimes dress himself in animal hide and attack people who were tied to stakes, and he also once castrated a boy named Sporus and then married him afterward. Put him ahead of Vlad too, what I said was only a few psychotic things he did. He committed a countless number of crimes that are proof of his insanity.
1:05 look at the older lady standing next what im guessing is his wife she honestly looks scared of him
That was a good list. Of course, there were so many insane rulers, but you definitely picked a good bag of nuts. We could add Stalin, Elizabeth Bathelroy, and other notables, but it is all a matter of personal interpretation.
The thumbnail looked like Big Show in a Patriot officer coat.
Joanna wasn’t insane, she was horribly mistreated. Lindsay Holliday has a great video about her.
What happens when you dip into the family tree too often, resulting in phychos
5:40 Nero played the harp ( lier ) and blamed Catholics ( Christians) .
I'm not that bad...
Vlad Tepes 😂
Stalin was a good leader because he knew food was overrated
lol, he protected all those ~20 millions prematurely killed :V.
So true man, I am never going near food ever again, I convert to communism.
**Claps**
Now so many people are fat
Food is like soooo yesterday
I swear to God there's so much Vlad-Love here that I don't feel lonely...😁😁😁
hold up
The shot at 6:03 is Raymond Burr, but he's playing Herod, not Nero.
Not sure but I think another king was forgotten - Pyotr IIV of Russia, the (estranged) husband of Catherine the great
He wasn't insane, just not really bright and weak
Unless I'm mistaken, that isn't how you write "The Third" in Roman Numerals. Maybe there is some alternate format I'm unaware of, but if not, it should've been written "III."
Watchmojo: *ranks Henry the 8th lower than a 14 year old kid whose addicted to partying and being wild even though Henry killed two wives bc they didn’t have boys*
Henry: am I a joke to you?
#10 was super underwhelming and probably coulda been replaced with someone else
I wanna clarify something. George III is not on here because of American propaganda saying he was a tyrant (though the Americans really blew the whole thing out of proportion in my opinion), he had a hereditary disease that made him mentally unstable to the point that his son the Prince of Wales (later George IV) had to perform the duties of King during his last ten years in power. It was so bad that they never told George III that America declared war on Britain in 1812. As far as he was concerned, Britain was only fighting Napoleon
Did they ever tell him they were at war with America after the whole Napoleon thing ending in Europe?
@@yurimikhail6907I doubt it but maybe. Even though Napoleon abdicated in April 1814 and the war of 1812 ended on Christmas 1814, there was a lot going on in Europe that would need attention. There was the Vienna Congress and Britain and the rest of Europe was negotiating many other treaties as well. Also there was the growing fear in Britain during Napoleon's first exile at Elba that he could easily escape and return to France, which he did in March 1815 that lead to the hundred days and the Battle of Waterloo. It was that fear that lead to the war of 1812 ending when it did and with so many questions and disputes between the US and Britain going unanswered and unsolved. Wellington made it clear to Parliament and to the Monarchy that the war in America must end so that Britain could focus it military strength and resources entirely on Europe in case Napoleon returned to France.
I will admit that our dear Vlad had it rough and that may have twisted him .... But he was not a bad guy !!
I wouldn't call his treatment of dishonest merchants "immoral." They got the same punishment as any other criminal, and often right on top of any other sort of criminal.
No.
He was an early Republican
to be far a lot of rulers at the time would be considered Evil by modern standards. And a lot of the story about Vlad Dracula may or may not be propaganda. Still the title "The Impaler" was not something that was arbitrarily assigned to him. So he was definitely a cruel person.
Christian French He impaled turkish soldiers to demoralize the invading otoman army (and maybe to get a little revenge) and the criminals of the land .
You should watch the Romanian movie Vlad Tepes (it is on youtube) in witch you see our perspective of him.
"The impaler" is actualy not the correct translation of his name, Vlad Tepes means something more like Vlad of the impaling stick, "tepes" meaning the impaling stick.
nu este alt corespondent pentru tepes in engleza decat the impaler cat despre video cred ca e total eronat
Vlad wasn't insane! Really! Id call him passionate😂
Fun fact: Ivan was 1/4 Mongol
Winston Churchill looks at that guy and is like ( how bloody dare you steal my glorious old perfect not surrendering golden shiny watch)
"King Philip the Handsome" is such a read
Lol people back then were a lot more tolerant... imagine if those kings tried pulling that shit today?
Alejo Gonzalez Pedrana “we will always have kings they just might not be called that anymore”
- napoleon
It wasn't tolerance it was the so called 'divine right to rule'
Ann Boleyn even wanted to escape but that's how it works. Maybe if she did, she would live longer
What about mad king of seven kingdoms?
Or The mad king og Denmark🤴
Queen Mary I (aka Bloody Mary)
Had a disagreement with three bishops and ordered them to be excommunicated and the executed.
(Inspired the children’s song “three blind mice”)