Here are the first 4 lines of the Dutch National Anthem, in English: William of Nassau am I, of German descent; True to the fatherland I remain until death. Prince of Orange am I, free and fearless, To the King of Spain I have always given honour. (In Dutch) Wilhelmus van Nassouwe ben ik van Duitsen bloed; Den vaderland getrouwe blijf ik tot in den dood. Een Prinse van Oranje ben ik, vrij onverveerd, Den Koning van Hispanje heb ik altijd geëerd.
1:57 This was when Protestantism became more popular in Europe, and the Dutch and the British have always had a reputation of being anti-catholic. In fact, this whole debacle is what eventually led to the independence of Belgium and Ireland.
The Kaiser’s descendants still exit. Very complicated topic, lot of why Germans married into European royal houses was religion, Germany was largely Protestant as were the Scandinavian and England (after Henry VIII. Boils down to religion I think for large part of it. Spain and France, Austria remained Catholic didn’t seek brides/grooms from Protestant countries.
The danish royal family is of the house of Glücksburg (or Schleswig-Holstein- Sønderborg- Glücksburg) witch is a cadet branch of the house of Oldenburg. As is the royal house of Norway (a danish Prince was elected to be king of norway in 1905). And the former royal house of Greece was too. (A son of Christian IX of Denmark, was chosen to become the king of greece). The last king of Greece (who died not long ago) was married to Queen Anne-Marie, the youngest sister of the present Danish Queen Margrethe II. Even the Royal house of Britain is (if we go by male line) Glücksburg as well because King Charles III's father was born a prince of Greece and Denmark. But the Royal house will remain as Windsor. And even the late Prince Richard, 6th Prince of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg was married to the danish queen's younger sister Princess Benedikte.
Thy stilll exist but are privat person and have only a few castles and even then it not even full belomg to them Amd alsomthere is still King Markus of Bavaria
Check out photos of cousins Charles V of England and Tzar Nicholas II. They look almost like twins. During the Victorian era, even relatively poor German nobles were sought after for their titles to give luster to marriages throughout Europe. Nearly all royal families are related. I learned this researching family trees.
There has never been a "Charles V of England" (Charles the Fifth)! The current king of England is Charles III (Charles the Third)! You meant King George V of England, who looked identical to his first cousin.
Ha ha ha it’s hilarious that you’re clueless the entire video. The the entire important thing is that a lot of the European families and dynasties that ruled a lot of kingdoms were originally German.
thats only half of the reasons. the other half is that after the Roman Empire collided more and more with Germanic tribes and the Western part crashed finally, in most parts of Europe Germanic tribe dynasties established all kind of microstates, kingdoms and empires. Also THOSE dynasties (at first by using rather Germanic laws than Roman laws for many things - thats why Karl der Grosse (wrongly named 'Charlemagne) split up the Frankish Empire between his three sons (West became France, the center kind of Belelux, the Eastern part the Holy Roman Empire/Germany) . This tribal law made actually not much sense (in difference to let every son found a new tribal family), because over the generations it just would fracture/split an Empire into more and more peaces. Thats one reason why this habit became later outdated but the point is, you had already righ from the start mostly Germanic (not just 'German') dynasties which were in one way or another cultural closer connected. The dynasties later which run with the label of France, England, Spain, Austria, Prussia etc. represent often just a later evolution/diversification ...
