Was There Really a Female Pope? 

Notes: I'd appreciate it if you showed us Gregory I's wife and her link to Hugh. I found it interesting how the name Guy has evolved from pronunciation to not being a name anymore. As an Irishman, I find the fact that the name Hugh was once used by Italian kings very interesting. And finally, good point on how just because they were women, historians call them prostitutes. Reminds me of that deleted scene from Captain Marvel.

Interesting video idea (though a bit unusual): family tree of dog breeds!

@@rachelhansen2417 that would be awesome!

@@cormacmacsuibhne2867 Guy is still a name. I had to mention that as I was speaking to my friend Guy just before i watched this video! As for Hugh, it is a Germanic name. When the English conquered Ireland they 'Anglised' (that is Germanisised) the Celtic names. The Celtic name 'Aodh' was changed to 'Hugh'. My own name, Rory, was anglised to 'Roderick', which makes sense when you see the original Celtic spelling of 'Rudhraighe'.

sae (not see) culum obscu (not obscyu) rum

Ya, God send that mission to this poor woman...

😂😂

she was probably the regent

Propably what the artists thought, the pope in the pictures is the baby.

she is the wicked pope impluencer/ pope controller

Two thumbs up, way up for this suggestion.

Diana, Fergie and Camilla are all descended from Charles II. The Prince of Wales is not !

As a descendant, I can tell ya thats a really big order unless its extremely filtered to a few important lines

At that rate, why not make a chart of all descendants, legitimate or otherwise, of Charlemagne...

@@travismichaud6064 as a descendant of charlemagne, I completely do not agree and do not want my information leaked

Especially now that Biden/ Pelosi bring the cathaholics home to roost in our highest offices. ..

But it's not about what people initially think it is about

@@matthewcastleton2263 Well, the consequences would be 1) more views for the pilot episode; 2) disparity of critics' and audience's score on RottenTomatoes, and a whole lot of IMDB reviews in the style of "I've wasted 45 minutes. Boring!"

@@M-CH_ True

Pretty sure diane Sawyer covered this on 20/20

@@matthewcastleton2263 *_it's called clickbait_*

Fun fact: Benedict IX selling the papacy to his godfather is supposedly the origin of the word nepotism

Was checking to see which popes were most closely related and stumbled across her!

@@UsefulCharts is there any chance we could buy this chart? It's a very interesting story about Marozia

Can u do king David to Jesus

Isn't the pornocracy the most well known episode of papal shenanigans?

@@o.jbarlow6015 that to long

victor hoang we call that the papal defenestration

Maybe he was having a heart attack AND having sex WHILE he was being defenestrated! :O

Kaarli Makela thats big brain thinkin right there

Oversimplified gang

I'm making a poster in the Italian Renaissance later this year so you might get your wish.

@@UsefulCharts Wow, that would be sweet, she's one of my favourite female historic figure ever! A truly badass woman!

She sounds like an awesome formidable Women.. got to go learn about her..

I’ll truly serve this king :3

My liege, it would be an honour to serve

TheLoneGunman26 my kingdom already is a pornocracy, glad to see a fellow monarch come to the light!

I will serve you until the end of your regime

You run a corrupt government? Do you work for the US government?

Hmmm, if only there was a French history channel that could do a video on the Avignon popes :)

@UsefulCharts I wouldn't know such a channel ;)

Too bad the French crown tainted Avignon with three anti-popes.

@@NesRuA Nah, I think it’s awesome! Makes the city even greater

Oh, yeah, the Church totally did not enforce that rule: but it was still technically there.

Good name for a punk rock album

Oh you naughty man.

The Byzantine Papacy actually precedes the saeculum obscurum by ~300 years, it ended in the 750s, when the papacy broke with the Eastern Roman Empire and aligned itself w/ the Franks instead.

@@angusyang5917 Still a lot of Greek influence around however judging by the names of many of the key players -Theodora and Marozia's father was Theophylact of Tusculum a very Greek name. Also remember that most of Italy had been conquered by the Lombards except for Rome, Ravenna and the coastal areas that were still Byzantine. Although the Lombards had converted to Catholicism from arianism the Pope still did not trust them and he called in the Franks to protect the papacy from the Lombards.

I don't get it.

@@I_leave_mean_comments I think he is talking about how Jack Rackham was dubbing some videos for this channel for some time. Is it?

@Re Up I think you're answering under the wrong comment

Quite right. And let's not forget her sister Julia Maesa who became the de facto ruler of the Roman Empire after she managed to depose Macrinus in 218 (Macrinus had killed her nephew Caracalla in 217). Elagabalus (Emperor 218-222) was just a figurehead, his grandmother Julia Maesa and his mother Julia Soaemias (the daughter of Julia Maesa) were the real power behind the throne. Julia Soaemias was often present at Senate meetings and even had her own Women-Senate (!) After Elagabalus and Julia Soaemias were killed in 222, Julia Maesa did put yet another grandson, Severus Alexander (Emperor 222-235) on the throne and ruled on his behalf until her death in 225. After that, Severus Alexander's mother Julia Mamaea (also a daughter of Julia Maesa) became the de facto ruler of the Empire until she and her son were both killed in 235. So essentially, the Roman Empire was ruled by a female dynasty for about 17 years. Someone should make a movie or a TV-Show about this time ("Rome"-style of course).

To be fair, Alexander VI was very corrupt indeed but most of the accounts on him and his family have been hugely exaggerated.

@@unochepassava1403 nevertheless he was still one of the worst. I think him, John XII and Benedict IX are the most corrupt

Also, It shouldn't be "Divorced, beheaded, died; divorced, beheaded, survived", it should be "Annulled , beheaded, died; annulled, beheaded, survived"

@@Yannis1a The average person thinks divorced and annulled is the same thing.

@@Yannis1a Divorced fits the rhyme scheme better

Empress Palpatina! You are under arrest!

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Ok thanks

Sometime this year. So many I want to do.

Thunder Slayer Im descendent of King Philip II Of France

It's only used when there are two *rival* popes. Benedict retired so it's different.

@@UsefulCharts thanks for the answer 👍

Benedict XVI officially has the title of papa emeritus, i.e. "former pope". While he is not the first pope to resign the Papacy, I do think he is the first one to use that title, mostly because in the other cases, the resigning popes fled or were forced into obscurity. making their post-papal title irrelevant. Disagreements or confusion over who was the true pope has had some interesting consequences for the numbering. E.g., The list of popes named Felix goes from Felix I to Felix III because pope Felix II is now considered to be an anti-pope. This also means that pope Felix III is sometimes called Felix II, when someone tries to correct the numbering, which is confusing. It's not only anti-popes causing problems with the numbering though. There is Stephen, who was pope for two days before he died of a stroke. He was elected pope, but he was not consecrated as a bishop. So whether he is to be known as pope Stephen II or only as pope-elect Stephen, becomes a theological question on the nature of the Papacy. Today, the Church doesn't consider him to be a true pope. The most confusing, though, is the popes John. First off, pope John XVI is today considered to be an anti-pope, so his number should have been re-used, but this never happened. Due to a clerical error (pun intended), people thought that there had been two popes named John XIV, so they "corrected" this by skipping over a number, from 19 to 21, so there is no pope John XX. But today we know this to be false - there was only ever one John XIV. The last pope to have the name John was pope John XXIII, the 21st pope named John.

@@TurtleMarcus Oh Jeez! thanks for the info. I love the history of the papacy and the Church, so all the information is welcomed. Thanks again 👍

Probably could be used for several towns of the Wild West being founded, maintained (and entertained I guess) by actual s workers, leading the towns to be so prosperous and well managed that they earned the women their voting rights before any reclamations even begun! (Maybe memory failed me since I can't remember names of said areas, feel free to correct mistakes if any are present!)

Finished it last week.

When will you show it

@@willanaylor2306 Soon 😀

And considering her descendants are still kings of Spain and even hold the now empty title of King of Jerusalem this make this based

Did it ever occur to you that Theodora could have held a higher status from birth than her husband!? Queen Elizabeth II is higher than her husband the Duke of Edinburgh! This happens!

@@fredrika27 no , because UsefulCharts didn't give any evidence on this point to support his claim. he never explained why it's " likely"

Ohh boy. This would make the Byzantine video no longer special since that one still has the longest spam of 35 minutes.