Most Brutal Queens in History 

Yeah I think it's unfair to include her here. Especially taking into account the fact that she was only 16 when she assumed the throne. I'll only speak for myself but I can't imagine 16 year old me would have been a good ruler either..

@Nooby mcpe you know that alone could have started a war with Austria? She wasn’t a French born Princess and because of that France was required to send her and her children home (well the girls anyway). Their killing her instead was an act of war against the Royal family of Austria. If her brother had wanted to push the subject he could have taken troops into France over her @ss@ination. I’ve always wondered why he didn’t do it. Did he think Austria would lose? Or maybe they’d win but with too many casualties, so to him it wasn’t worth it? I wonder if Maria-Teresa kicked his a$$ for it? Bet ‘mama’ never let him hear the end of it for that one lol 😹.

@@M.Campbell-Sherwood actually Prussia and Austria did invade France during the state of the constitutional monarchy and this was because Marie-Antoinette and Louis the 16th when situations were bad for them, sent a letter to manyi European world leaders for help but by the time the letters were reached, said European leaders, a compromise was already made for a constitutional monarchy and for a while there it seems like the revolution is done down before the letters of never mind we’re received Austria and Prussia already started planning to invade France to reinstate a absolute monarchy, but when they did it, the letters of never mind they found it unacceptable that they were OK with the constitutional monarchy so immediately invaded to try to restore the absolute dismayed, the French people angry more angry than they were before and if you really think about it, the first republic and the French revolutionaries were such a propaganda machine that is crazy to think about the fact that the leaders of the rebellion knew the truth about the French government, but were lying. The truth was the king in the queen, did not pass laws without the approval of the clergy and nobility. Actually, they couldn’t do most things without their permission, there is mini historical accounts of the French royal parliament having votes that would’ve been beneficial for the people, but on beneficial to the nobility and clergy and royalty where is the majority of the Royals and what I mean by that was the king and one very close, and the peasants now the clergy, the Royals, who voted otherwise and the nobility would have their votes be more powerful and well they would win and actually mini leaders of the French revolution were high enough class to be taught this and know about how it is working they were power-hungry people CNN cl cl cl cl cl cl cl

Ferdinand and Isabella I did not rule Spain. Spain was a personal union of Castile and Aragon. The unification happened with the first Bourbon King Phillips V. So Charles V was not king of Spain but of Aragon and Castile and Leon and later the Habsburgse also became King of Navarre and Portugal. It was Charles V who locked his mother away while trying to keep his grandad Ferdinand at bay who was still King of Aragon but wanted power over Castile.

@@JelleSophie interesting, the chocolate lied to me... Jk. I didn't know this. But yes, all the stories here have been seriously overdramatized being shown as pretty white or black matters. The one out of all of them that I knew was Olga's and while the slaughter of the emissaries and later the high lord's was somewhat spot on the attack on the town was a smart way to avoid a prolonged siege. She was at war and to say she had killed thousands prior makes it sound she attacked to seek revenge which by the events of the time it became a defensive counteroffensive for an oxymoron that that is. In other words, sure, you should read about the individuals in the video, but let's not keep to heart what they say otherwise we'll have limited sight.

Yes, and she actually never said let them eat cake that was actually the wife of Louis the 14tH

ignorance breeds evil

Plus, the French Revolution was never about the poor people taking over from the rich. It was about abolishing the class system that was in place in France at the time, which often had wealthy people be lower tier citizens than knights and other freeloaders.

Correct! Marie Antoinette WASN'T cruel, evil, or corrupt at all!! She was a product of her position, and acted like the rest of the nobility at Versailles. She was also spoiled by her indulgent husband, (King Louis 16th). There's been historical accounts of some very charitable deeds that she did as well. And that she was usually very kind to people, especially servants.

Exactly. She definitely wasn't a good Queen, but she wasn't evil or cruel.

Hearing the word "Risperdal" makes me feel so lucky to get off the drug. It was preventing me from thinking, from organising my resources.

I’ve visited the castle where she spent most of her time in Slovakia and many educated people think that it’s pretty much made up stories or at least really overexaggerated. I don’t think that she was innocent but I don’t believe that she actually killed so many young women… it sounds terrible but noble people back then used to do horrible things and no one questioned them. So many people were burned at the stake.. just because some powerful people accused them of doing something supernatural when they were mostly people who just had some sort of power(but more like political influence, status, knowledge..idk, it was crazy for sure😅). One of my close friend is fascinated by Elizabeth Bathory and she read every possible book&studied as much stuff as she could… and she thinks that Elizabeth was innocent.. or at least didn’t do majority of the things that she was accused of.

@@MSeliskaZ i always thought the same. The whole blood bathing/drinking seems toо unrealistic to me, like a fantasy movie. I suspect someone made this legend up & it went viral

She even worked as a basis for Elizabeth Bartley, the main villain of Castlevania Bloodlines.

New findings... She was probably innocent. The evidences against her are very pore. The people who were against her took her castles and money after she was arrested.

It also somewhat came from her saying to let the people have the brioche after the palace ran out of bread to give the people

@@fabulouschild2005That makes more sense, Antoinette was really into charity and personally helped poor families and handed out food. She was certainly aware of the country’s hardships and did much to help, unfortunately since she wasn’t French the revolutionaries hated her and the king was too much of a wimp to stand up to the other aristocrats and properly fix the problems that would have prevented the revolution.

Her husband was also not as bad as his predecessors. He tried to raise taxes on the nobility (who basically didn't pay any taxes) to help the country but they all refused. They were out of touch but not bad people; more the scapegoats.

Her husband was a traitor when his people were out to get him he attempted to flee the country and go to Marie’s country and get an army of fight his people

​@@iceescape both of them deserved better and they were young they were not ready to be king and queen

So essentially, they both got thrown as stand-ins with barely to no knowledge of running a country? Jesus. How horrible it must have been back then

@jehoiakimelidoronila5450 Not only that, but Marie was from Austria. One of the countries France hated most. It would have been like having the 1st Lady of the US be a Russian during the Cold War. She and her husband were completely set up for failure. Especially when you learn it was the King before who bankrupted the country.

More her daughter paid for her mothers sins which is sad

@@billyjean8057 more like a terrible coincidence for her daughter

True

Karma. I believe in karma. You treat someone poorly you get what you deserve thrown back at you.

Do you know Valide Sultan? Greatest queen!

To be fair they had murdered her husband and child before that. Not saying it was justified but also not unprovoked.

@@KS-PNW her child was not murdered, he survived

i mean, the total and utter annihilation of not only the citizens, but the town itself, was an effective way to end a siege.... so yeah. kept her word!

@@KS-PNW her husband had collected taxes once and then returned to collect them for the second time.

@@lizap8686 the taxes paid by that tribe was less so he went back to collect more with a small force and got murdered

Go to your room!

I almost lose it when me 2year old son bumps his head... brutal

Thank you for saying that very little people actually really studied about it most people just believe what they say about Marie Antoinette, but she was actually a very good woman and she tried to save the people friends, but she did not have the power to and then in that situation, people would think her husband was the bad guy but if you even do even further researching her husband Couldn’t do anything either cause all the power relied on a parliamentary system they had with the peasants, nobility, Porgy, and the Royals, the Royals, having the highest vote, and the peasants, having the lowest meaning that for most of the votes, the Royals and the peasants would be over, turned by the clergy and nobility, which everybody of those rankings were forced to attend

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Poor Flashman 😥

Genghis kahn: pathetic

@@chiraqclips3568 Lol ironic since he's a male

@@aleksandarvil5718 Fr

Yes and Joanna was not really Mad she was mistreated by her father and husband and driven craz yor just put falsely away

She was still a bad person.

@@roguejester4986 Agree! I am so happy Kristina had a good future as a queen I love her way saying she didn’t need a man

@@yourbiologicalmom7608 Her father did well.

@@roguejester4986 yeah ikr!

these conversations only start or get talked about if things are exaggerated , on my channel I do that but I would never fabricate a story, would you lie to get comments?

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The researchers for this page are kind of out of touch.

Fun fact she shouldn't be on this list, and it's beyond laughable at how confident all of you are when talking about marie antoinette, she never said let them eat cake, the phrase is taken from a book about a similar princess written by Rousseau, and she wasn't even top 5 biggest spenders at Versailles during her lifetime let alone its whole history..she's not to blame for her country's poverty, the blame for that goes to Louis XIV and Louis XV

And she's also a scapegoat for all the royals that switched teams and a scapegoat for the revolutionaries who wanted to blame someone thus made stuff up on her

You need to do better research lol. She was lucky to be born privileged and education wasn’t her strong suit, so she was completely ignorant of all matters outside of her own court. Not saying that’s right since she did eventually assume the throne, but she was certainly NOT evil - just painfully ignorant of the plight of the French people. She was not even a native of France originally, so she was truly removed from their struggles as a country.

Forget mistranslation. There's no solid evidence that she ever said it period.

WHOLE different meaning 😳🫠😬

Hmm sounds like a double standard. Isabella I not only felt pressure from Rome but there was intense antisemitism within Castile that threatened her rule if she didn’t placate Christians. There were also many rebellions in Granada post-conquest. Isabella did what she thought was best for her rule, as did Elizabeth.

Same with Mary I.

She wasn’t aware of the situation happening in France.

I think it's worth remembering she was only 16 when she took the throne. How many of us can say we'd have made a good ruler at that age? I sure wouldn't have lol

Well, the French were not happy about the famine.

Your so right completely agree, she was partially responsible for the people not having income or food, but she was not brutal

Yasssss!!!

Been notice how the majority of them are nucking futs

Yeah I am a little boree of hearing of hearing the history of kings tho.

@@Osama_Zyn_Laden I think that's just royals

@@Osama_Zyn_Laden nucking futs

Thank you! I thought I was the only person who knew this lol.

I read Elizabeth could have killed up to 70k.

@@tsarina24honolulu87 yeah, it's likely to convert an unwilling population to another religion does take a lot of of persuasion.

She doesn't deserve first place in this list.

OverSimplified!French Revolution 1789

One of their best jokes!

No. She's FICTIONAL.

Agreed!! 😂

she's fictional

the actress who played her was so good at the role that in an interview she said that sometimes random people will come up to her and tell her how much they hate her😂😂

right lol

She shouldn't even be on this list, most of the things they said are inaccurate and out of context, since most of it was made up by revolutionaries who are known for using a lot of propaganda

Yup. Even if she did say it, she wouldn't have been referring to cake in the modern sense, at the time it refered to fancy bread. So it basically would have meant "let them have the good stuff if they need it." Probably never happened period though.

@@KS-PNW Aka Brioches

Interesting. I hadn't heard that before. I've since read some info to that effect. 🤔 Thanks.

I was totally scanning the comments specifically to see if someone would mention this 😂

Ummmmmmm.. She was confined to her home; imprisoned in Castle of Csejte. Sooo idk where you got your information from, but it was only 50% correct.

But just to be as historically correct as possible here let's be clear. She was in fact convicted, however some believe there was no concrete evidence. So since there was no concrete evidence, some say you can't prove her guilt beyond reasonable doubt. I say that's debatable. Idk about back then, but I can say today with 100% confidence that there is in fact judicial precedent that supports a guilty verdict.

Elizabeth Bathory Wasn't Queen At All !!! She WAS Upper Hungarian Aristocracy !

Interesting take comparing fictional Queens, but unfortunately in most fiction the villans are cartoonishly exagerated as opposed to the nuances of real people, although Cersei was inspired primarily by a real person Margaret of Anjou, who was Queen Consort to King Henry VI of England.

Marie was not read y be Queen she was 14 she did care fr the poor but there was only so much she could do her trial was stacked against her by men just like Anne Boleyn

Most married royals were not born in the country. The British monarchy have a lot of German blood, for example.

@@aprilgosa5779 she got married when she was 14, she was 16 when she became queen. Just fyi.

Marie Antoinette had been told she was going to be married since her 13th birthday she had months of preparation

@@eoinmoodie1484 you do realize a few months of education at the age of 13 is not going to prepare someone enough to help RULE A COUNTRY???

That would've been way better 👑👸

Fun fact: Katheryn's mother was the sister of Anne's father. They were cousins...

I don’t think she’s evil why would Queen Elizabeth be evil at the age of 93?👵😈

She was canonized by two religions (Orthodox and Roman Catholic) largely because she tried to spread Christianity to Ukraine. But she was also a mass murderer of the highest order. Kinda interesting.

Na u don't

Agreed! I personally believe there was also a weird politically correct reason to make sure that Mary was shown as the "most evil" here. This channel makes me really uncomfortable sometimes, gets to feeling a bit propagandaish

And also describing Maria I of Portugal as a brutal queen is inaccurate! Where do they get the sources?!

It's actually debatable how accurate the horror stories about her are.

She had one of her husbands beheaded for being unfaithful.

Didn't she also have one of her daughters killed, & blame it on a rival...?

@@OcarinaSapphr- She had a rival beheaded for allegedly murdering one of her children. She was very beheading-happy.

I thought the same thing. Hahahaha

Yikes that really didn’t age well 😂 or did she 🤔

The part about Maria Eleonora is also completely false. I've made a video about Vasa queens, third part is mostly about her, if you would like the hear her real story :)

wait what?!?!

Broooo no wayyy your related to a queen?!?!?

@@gleianalbiso2388 Broooooo I forgot I made this comment I was such an idiot back then, but yeah, surprisingly

But ripping someone's eyes out is not very nice, much less your own son.

​@@Goodiesfanfultrying to overthrow your mom is not very nice

That's one interpretation. There's actually no evidence that she said it period. The earliest claim that attributes that line to her comes from a document written 40+ years after her death.

FROM Ferdinand II of Aragon/V of Castile and Isabella I of Castile ( The Catholic Monarchs of Unified Spain !!! )

She was silly, but not evil, AFAIK.

Well ur name explains a lot

If the infographics show teaches you more than your history class you should drop

@@chiraqclips3568 how do i graduate then bru

Idk about these comments but school helped me more than a random RU-vid channel 💀

Y'all know this is a joke right?

Correct