Henry was my twelfth great grandfather also. I’m glad I seemed to have dodged that bullseye nose. 💀 I’m also indirectly related to Ivan the Terrible on my father’s side of the family. I like to think the good traits live on and the bad ones fall by the wayside. 🤷🏼♂️
You may be a distant relative of my spouse. There is royal blood in the family and one of his ancestors went to what is now Canada. Depending upon when they emigrated (I if my memory serves me correctly, it was in the mid-1600s), they were very likely Valois.
Thank you for this. Francis I is much more interesting and multifaceted than I imagined. I love the palaces and chateaux from that period---especially the Chateau Fontainebleau. I hate to diss Henry VIII but while pretty enough, his palaces look blocky in comparison to the more graceful, airy style of the various French palaces--he really could have done with a couple of French architects. It's easy to see why Anne Boleyn grew up to be so cultured and style-conscious. The French styles of the era were lovely (I have a weakness for French hoods and wore an updated version at my wedding years ago).
@@ucheokoroafor8273 Even though I have have English and German heritage, I am mostly insular and Continental Celt. I do agree that 500+ years ago--and even before--the French had the edge when it came to taste, culture, style and sophistication--and still do.
Francis, also had new fresh painters, like students under Titan. One is related in my genealogy. He was born in Florence in 1500 and died 1579. Some of his paintings are in Washington D.C., France, Italy, and Germany.
9:20 He had beautiful manners, was extremely well spoken chivalrous and always dressed in conspicuously gorgeous clothing although his facial features were unusual 💀
Henry VIII was the Lion of England and Francois I was the Lion of France. Two giant huge humanist Renaissance Kings ruling two kingdoms, forced to be enemies, but so similar in their great physical size, strength, love of music, art, architecture, and war.
Interestingly, Francis apparently held the edge when it comes to strength--during the meeting known as the Field of the Cloth-of-Gold--Francis beat Henry in a wrestling match. Needless to say, Henry was not happy about that lol
Hello, François the first measured 1.98m (77.95 inches) which, by the criteria of the time, made him a giant. He was also very "well-built" and very muscular, which is why people said: "Il porte beau" ("he wears handsome"). Louis XIV was 1.84m (72.44 inches), Louis XV was 1.75m (68.89 inches), Louis XVI was 1.91m (75.19 inches). In fact, on the whole, the kings of France were rather very tall compared to the average height of the contemporary people of their time.
It's a mistake to call him in English Francis, because Francis, the name, do exist in French, so call by is real name François! And also François in old french means French!
Interesting. Thanks for that, I had no idea. I had a French friend in high school and his name was Francois and everybody called him that nobody called him Francis. I didn't even think to. Separately, I'm North American and speak English only and can communicate in Spanish if necessary it's a pretty easy language to learn AND when Listening to the French people speak their language it's literally impossible for me to imagine being able to understand them one day
The mispronunciations--Papple for Payple, Capeeshun for Capayshun, etc.--are extremely annoying. The historical information may be mostly correct, but the inaccuracies are glaring and grate on the ear.
There are few absolutes in history, but one you see over and over is that it is rarely worth taking territory with military force against the will of the inhabitants.
It would be great story to listen to if only it had a narrator that could give it the flare it needed. We are talking about the king of France are we not? That deserves a narrator that can give it justice& can capture your listeners. Am I correct?.... Of course I am 🤗
42:56 Henry VIII, although he was a mercurial sort, sided with the HRE because his wife Katarina Aragona, was the 1st cousin of the Charles V...she wasn't going to let him get away with that kind of betrayal of family. An interesting side bar to all of this is that with the possible exception of Spain, all of these monarchs were of frankish origin
And in 1516,the first Habsburg ruler of Spain, Charles I, was coronated… although 9 yrs younger than Henry VIII, they were still contemporaries. Charles I became HRE in 1519…with much drama to follow. On another point mentioned, Ann Boleyn was in the “household” of Francis I 1st wife, Queen Claude, for most of her time in France.
All these rulers from the early and central decades of the XVI century were second and third to the biggest king of them all, the Holy Roman emperor Charles V and King of Spain Charles I. Francis was specially despicable, and he was humbled by Charles V after the Battle of Pavia, one of the biggest battle victories in the history of humankind.
@@SKILLIUSCAESAR Gonna try to explain you why easiest way I can. France and Spain at the time were the biggest enemies despite both were catholic monarchies they had a rivalry to be the first power. England was relegated to a 3rd power at the time (England became the first power in the XVIII century). Charles V and Francis were brothers in law, becasue Francis was married with Charles V eldest sister Eleanor of Austria. The rivalry began when Charles V and Francis contended to be proclaimed Holy Roman Emperor, until Charles won the election and was proclaimed emperor in 1521. The main goal for Charles V was regain the Burgundian State of his family, which was annexed by France in 1477 after the battle of Nancy. Another battlefield was in Italy, specially the Duchy of Milan and the Kingdom of Naples, both conquered by the spanish and german imperial army (the landsknechts). Naples was conquered by The Great Captain, Gonzalo Fernandez de Cordoba, in 1503, probably the greatest general in the history of Spain and a national hero (and one of the greatest ever), because it was him who turned Spain in the first power after defeating France in the battlefield on April 28 1503 in the Battle of Cerignola. The Battle of Pavia was a catastrophic defeat for France and for Francis I who was captured during the battle. What makes his behaviour despicable and a shame for France among other things is that when he was in captivity Charles was very indulgent with him in the negotiations for his liberation, Charles trusted him and them Francis violated the agreement and betrayed Charles, taking advantage to invade Milan again taking Charles by surprise. Charles regained Milan again later on, but that was pretty poorly and cowardly acting from Francis. And he acted like that once again few years later in another war which I don't remember because I read Charles biography few years ago and I don't remember everything. But summing up, Francis was in the shadow of Charles during his reign, so was France in the hands of such a pitiful king (not my words, even the french historians agree with it). France became first power surpassing Spain in the XVII century with the Bourbon dynasty (specially with Luis XIV), after the failed Valois dynasty.
Throughout the video, the narrator pronounces "papal" and "papacy" with a short A rather than a long A. I've looked this up to make sure, and the long A is correct.
i would remind you that there is really no such thing as received English spelling or pronunciation, merely the practise of the two universities of Oxford and Cambridge, and even those are persuasive, not binding . You cannot call someone wrong simply because they disagree with you.
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Leonardo da Vinci is buried in the chapel in Chateau de Amboise but a memorial is in the Basilica di Santa Croce in Florence. btw, Francois I is known as 'The Nose"
Perhaps it would be interesting to pronounce Italian names in Italian (or at least not in French when speaking English). "medichi" rather than "medisee", for instance.
Actually, this is how the French people pronounced the foreign names, by frenchified them. Catarina Medici was known if France as Catherine de Médicis. But those translations or modifications were not specific to France.
I admire Francis the 1st very much, but why did the narrator remark he was handsome " his handsome appearance and and charm". The King was also known as François au Grand Nez ('Francis of the Large Nose'), It is extremely important to be careful when describing an individual with comment that are untrue. It doesn't matter what a king looks like to us centuries ago, but he should not have said handsome.
I find it telling how the documentary deliberately avoids explaining why humanism sometimes had problems with the Church. It had nothing to do with humanism itself, the problem was that a small minority of philosophers would go too far from objective Truth and end up falling into pantheism and luciferianism. Luciferianism is the belief that man IS God. Some people would end up being enslaved by their passions from the constant nudes within art , etc. For some it ends up turning into smut. Before you know it, they become engaged in all types of deviancy and perversion. The final effect is the belief that man is the end all and be all of the universe, hence becoming worshipped as god = luciferianism. Then the philosophers who are falling into this extreme humanism, come up with erroneous ideas to justify their behavior. ..... kind of reminds one of the modern era...
Francis the 1st maybe was a good artist but wasn't a great king.. he made many mistakes inside and outside France, like helping Soliman and fighting against Charles V who wanted the union of Europe
Such nonsense about reformation literacy - just because translations were available and printing possible didn’t mean people could all of a sudden read. Most had no time or inclination.
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