No one: Litteraly every Dynasty: Hello i Come from a small town in Germany.

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Fun fact about house Habsburg and Wettin: They ruled the only two american monarchies (if you don't count Canada). Habsburgs briefly ruled Mexico when it became an empire and the Wettin branch, Braganza, ruled Brazil trough its imperial period, from 1822 to 1889.

House of Jagiellon ruled over vast territories of Central, Northern and Southern Europe incl. Kingdom of Poland, Kingdom of Bohemia, Kingdom of Hungary, Grand Duchy of Lithuania, Kingdom of Slavonia, Kingdom of Croatia, Kingdom of Rama, Kingdom of Dalmatia, Duchy of Silesia, Duchy of Ruthenia, Duchy of Luxembourg, etc. Jagiellonians and Habsbourgs were two main royal houses of Europe in XVI century. It seems weird not to list them

Every european here: eyy lets see if we're on the list

"The Region of Savoy is located in the northwest corner of Italy." French guy: "Excusez moi..."

One minor detail about the house of Oldenburg in Denmark: We currently have a queen, with her oldest son set to succeed her, so while the house of Oldenburg has ruled until preset it's actually coming to an end. The queens husband was Henri de Laborde de Monpezat. His house is NOT looked on favorably by historians, as it was created by imperial decree in 1860, and was apparently a family of commoners until then. Another fun exercise could be to take a noble and see how many times their family tree leads back to a common ancestor like one of the early french monarchs or h.r. emperors - and in how many layers said ancestor occurs. Given how much we talk about royal inbreeding, the result has to be a fairly scary picture ...

As a history buff, I enjoy your way of covering it. Very thorough and logical.

The interesting thing is that the houses were all more or less related to each other through several weddings. That means that all of Europe was ruled by a *large* family, through the colonies actually even the whole world. Especially the long periods of rule and the flexibility to maintain their rule despite countless wars, famines, epidemics and revolutions is extremely impressive. Many of these houses still exist today.

Some corrections (thanks to commenters): - House of Braganza is a branch of Aviz (which is a branch of Burgundy, which is a branch of Capet), therefore 194 years (1640-1834) should be added to the Capet's reign in Portugal - There were two other interludes in the Bourbon (Capet) reign in Spain: 1808-1813 and 1870-1873. - "King" Jadwiga was a Capetian so that's another 15 years for Capet in Poland. - House of Wittelsbach reigned in Greece from 1832-1862 - Queen Wilhelmina abdicated in 1948 (she lived until 1962)

This video is amazing! It's very informational and the map diagram showing their kingdoms was really well designed and you're familt trees are reakyy good

Also, I made the discovery that the House of Bragança is also a direct male line from the Capet dynasty. The founder of the House of Bragança was a son of the first Aviz King. So the Capet rule in Portugal was not until 1580, but all the way until 1853 (It died out after Maria II).

Have you noticed that the two most important dynasties, the House of Austria (Habsburg) and the House of France (Capet), basically ended up becoming Spanish dynasties? The Habsburgs did split into 2 branches: the senior branch established in Spain, and the junior branch, the Austrian, was founded by the Spanish born younger brother of Carlos V; and after the dynastic Bourbons (last Capetian branch) became extinct in France, the Spanish Bourbon branch became the head of the dynasty.

Slight correction on the note of lack of sons in the family of Isabel and Fernando: they did, in fact, have one son. His name was Juan. He died at age 19, but his life was politically significant: he and his sister Juana were both married to members of the children of Maximilian I: Juana to Philip the Handsome, Juan to Margaret: it was a master plan devised by Maximilian and Fernando. Juan died very very early during the marriage to Margaret. This created a danger that Philip would inherit the crowns of Spain, but there was hope that this wouldn't happen: Margaret did have a child but it was stillborn. The eldest daughter of Isabel and Fernando had a son by the king of Portugal. This baby, Miguel, was all that stood between Spain and Charles of Hapsburg. Miguel died at age 3. You can see his coffin in the cathedral of Granada, along with those of Isabel, Fernando, and their inheritors, Juana and Philip. By his death, Juan shaped a great deal of history. His life, therefore, counts, and it should not be said the Isabel and Fernando had no sons.

The Bourbons were the creators of the modern bureaucratic state in both France and Spain (and through their colonial empires, in much ofthe world). Especially in Spain, the difference from the Habsburgs was felt immediately as Philip V brought French advisers to centralize and standardize administration on the model of Louis XIV. Bourbon France was also the blueprint of a centralist regime for the Russian Empire, which combined this with its natural affinity for the Byzantine heritage.

I'm French and I appreciate the effort on the prononciation of "Capétien" Very good work, I love your videos

A little mistake: The House of Hohenzollern did not have its origins in the Rhineland, but in the allemannic Duchy of Swabia. Parts of this duchy border on the Rhine, but it is not counted as part of the actual Rhineland.

The whole house changing via the husband is cool and all, but the Hapsburg never had to worry, they just married into the same house

More correctly, one should have said that the house of Capet is a branch of the house of the Rupertines. It was Karl Glöckner who showed in his essay published in 1937 that Robert (House of the Robertines) came from the Rhine Franconian dynasty of the Rupertines and that his lineage can thus be traced back to the 7th century. The term "Rupertiner" refers to the leading name Rupert, also Chrodobertus or Robert, which runs through the family tree. Usually only the branch of the Rupertine family descending from Robert the Brave is called "Robertine". Hugo Capet came from the Robertine family. But otherwise a very nice video.

Well, the Spanish Hapsburgs had separate and individual titles as Kings of Castille, Mexico, Peru, etc...

Me seeing hapsburg on number two: wdym? Werent the hapsburgs strongest? Me hearing the name Capet on number 1: *ohhhhhhhhHHHHHHH* everything makes sense now

The rule of the Bourbon/Capetians in Spain was interrupted more than once, replaced by: - House Bonaparte 1808-1813 - Provisional Government of 1868-1871? - House of Savoy 1871-1873 - First Spanish Republic 1873-1874 - Second Spanish Republic 1931-1939 - Franco Dictatorship 1939 - 1975

I discovered your channel a couple days ago. I am very visually oriented and love charts and maps. I am of the house of Capet maternally and still own estate in eastern Belgium. Thanks for this breakdown.

CK2 also has #1 Capet and #2 Habsburg. Nice 😁

Habsburgs watching how they got second place: *angry chin noises*

Imagine knowing your family-tree till the dark age.

I completely agree with your top 3! Brilliant video!

Little correction that doesn't change much in your video : the house of Trastemara reigned over Aragon and Castile not until 1516, but 1555, when Juana la loca died (even though her son, Charles of Habsburg was co-king and had the actual power over Spain's government)

Plantagenet prince: «I will overthrow and maybe kill my brother/cousin the king in order to take his place.» Capet prince: «My brother/cousin the king will help me to become king of another country in order to expand our family's rule.»

I'm from the House of Nobodies of Nowhere.

Fantastic video! Didn’t know that Navarre lasted as independent kingdom for a while in the French territories after the main land was annexed by Ferdinand of Aragon. But apparently King Henry lV of France was originally King Henry the lll of Navarre!

This is such a great and useful video! Thank you sir!

Great video. One *minor* remark: queen Wilhelmina of Orange-Nassau didn't die in 1948; she abdicated in favor of her daughter Juliana.

useful charts: "when queen Elizabeth dies" Queen Elizabeth: you dare mock me mortal?

Hi. I’ve been following you for quite a long time, but it’s a shame that I saw this video only today. Thank you. What really draw my attention is most of those houses originated in around 980 -1030. Maybe you should create special video about those years?

Glad someone noticed the Oldenburgs. However often royal houses can fade in and out while being Nobles and yet still exert much power. This was certainly the case for Bavaria.

I live in Switzerland. Growing up in a village with a castle that belonged to Habsburg. 2 villages/cities next to my village have Habsburg castles as well. So I grew up thinking Habsburg were our royality :) And btw, I thought it is totally normal having a castle in your town, lol.

There's a little error in House Capet chart. House Capet reigned in Poland in 1370-1399 (29 years) not only 1370-1384. After King Louis of Hungary (r. 1370-1384) died, his daughter, Hedwig of Anjou reigned as a King of Poland in her own right in 1384-1399 (she used the title of King rather than the Queen, as in Poland the title of Queen was used only for female consorts). Also, House Capet still reigns in Luxembourg. So more points for House Capet! :P

The Habsburgs were direct male line descendants of the Etichonids whose first recorded member reigned as the first Duke of Alsace in the late 7th century, making the Habsburgs (including the Etichonids) older than the Capetians (including the Robertians).

Amazing vid. Thank you!!

I'm the Queen of my house, and that's enough for me.

The Wittelsbachs should also have Greece included in their titles, as Greece’s 1st monarch was a Wittelsbach called Otto :)

I’m kind of disappointed by the absence of the Jagiellonian dynasty. It ruled Poland and Lithuania for almost two hundred years and had a period when it also expanded into thrones of Bohemia and Hungary. You could also count the 70 year long rule of the Polish Vasas, so Sigismund III and his two sons as semi-Jagiellonians, as mother of Sigismund was a sister of the last Polish ruler of that dynasty. The Jagiellonians were relatively short-lived in comparison to other European dynasties, but had a massive impact on Central-Eastern Europe and reigned during the period of Poland’s greatest power, cultural and economic prosperity.

Brilliant video. Thoroughly entertaining

The capetians are still reining in Spain AND in Luxembourg ! The princes of Luxembourg are Bourbon-Parma even if they are not called by that name.

Edit - the fact that you reached the same conclusion is very amusing to me. As the CK2 house score screen says House Capet, descended from Robert the Strong who was a power figure during the reign of Charles the Bald. His descendants would be Kings of France in 1066. Although by 1322 the main line would die out, cadet branches still ruled in 1337 as Kings of France, Portugal, Naples, Hungary and Navarre. Cadet branches would also hold the Duchies of Brittany, Burgundy, Bourbon, Provence and Achaea. One further cadet branch would hold the dignity of Emperor as Latin Emperors of Constantinople. Truly the greatest dynasty of medieval Europe.

Loved this video and I was especially impressed to see that the Hohenzollern Sigmaringen house, which also ruled in my home country of Romania, made the list. However, I found it very interesting to see that actually the future royals of the UK will actually be taking forward the house of Denmark, but I did notice that you mentioned all the men that are close in line to succession, but not Charlotte, who is in front of her brother, Louis. I didn’t like that.

Thank you for this.

18:00 Interesting fact is that Habsburg also ruled Brazil, The yellow in our flag comes right from the Habsburg house, by the hands of Maria Leopoldina of Austria. She was empress of brazil, married to emperor Peter I of Brazil and king Peter IV of Portugal (Yes, he was emperor of brazil first and later king of portugal). So Habsburg house had a decedent ruling here for 50 years, by Peter II, their son (and the greatest public man we ever had here). To you guys know, the green and yellow of brazilian flag comes from Peter (house of bragança) and Leopoldina (Habsburg)

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Cograts for this Job, It Is a very original and beatiful video

very clear the way you comunicate. I know very little about these royal houses. I am trying to understand why so many kingdoms have been in Belgium where I work as a tour guide

Me here pretending I know more houses than the Habsburg one

the greatest European royal house: the Carolingians because everyone is descended from them

Clear and no goofy schtick. I appreciate it.

Bravo pour l"énorme travail 👏

I knew it! The Capetians are truly one of the most influential in Europe. The more I read several countries' royal houses, I've noticed more and more that these Kings can trace their roots to the Capetians. I was even surprised that they made it to Poland and Hungary. I kinda want to play CKIII now lol

Actually you forgot that Otto, a member of the house of Wittelsbach, was the first king of Greece from 1832 to 1862. Wittelbach was replaced by Oldenburg after this.

I would really love another similar video with noble houses 🙏

Im from Oldenburg and I didnt know we had such a powerful dynasty originating from here. Its a small town really

You covered the topic very well, and remained as objective as a subjective topic could be. I liked the slight change in format, to add variety. Great job! Looking forward to next week!

I think you forgot another place where Capetian House is still reigning: the Great Duchy of Luxembourg. It´s a soverign state and is ruled by Borbon_Parma (a Capetian cadet branch) since 1964, when Jean inherited the dukal thorne from his mother Charlotte.

For me, the Habsburg Dynasty, including Habsburg-Lorraine will always be number one. They started off as a county within the HRE, and yet, they were able to outright defeat the Mongol invasions. Had they lost the Battle of Vienna, the Mongols would have controlled most of Europe. They defeated the Turks, they ruled over half of the world under Charles V and the Spanish Habsburgs, they defeated Napoleon, they ruled the HRE the longest. They also ruled Austria, and later Austria-Hungary. Franz Joseph is the sixth longest-reigning monarch in history after K'nich Janaab Pakal, Johann II, Rama IX, Elizabeth II, and Louis XIV. This house still exists today, especially with Karl von Habsburg still holding some of his father's royal titles. Forever with the Habsburg Dynasty, Austria's fate remains united. It MUST be number one.

excellent video as always my guy! (and although i would have added other houses: such as Luxembourg, notables are Charles of the Luxembourg, HRE and Bohemia Sigismund of Hungary and HRE, his cousin Jobst of Brno and HRE. also not to forget the plantagenets and hohenstaufen) anyway, i really enjoy your work and appreciate the immense effort you put in these videos, much love!

Crusaders kings player: Ha!, i ruled all of that too.

If you're curious, the Wittelsbach ruler for 1 year in Bohemia was Frederick V of the Palatinate, also known as the Winter King because he reigned only one winter.

For the house of Capet, I think you should make an exception for the Burgundian dukes of Valois who became a major power for a few generations, and who laid the foundation for the Netherlands and Belgium!

Amazing video!!

I enjoyed this, I would like more of those tier doodahs too! Breaks the mould and are a bit fun

summary: all european thrones are in possession of german descendants

Great video!

Think you did a great job. !!

Les Capet en premier, ça fait du bien à l'ego merci bro

When I saw your thumbnail, Capet was the first house I thought of. Glad I’ve learned something watching all these videos 😂

I love your videos! In the interest of assisting, and I hope you do feel it's helpful rather than a nitpick: German pronunciation of Hohenzollern would be "HOH-en-TZOH-lərn," rather than "HO-hen-zah-lərn." The second H appends to the first syllable rather than the second, and O says O, not Ah. Okay, I'm going back to just listening and enjoying now. I wish history classes had been this interesting when I was a kid, and that these fun things you're teaching had been mentioned back then.

Great video most are related in one way or another. It's like 6 degrees of seperation.

Maybe he's talking at the end about the Julio-claudian dynasty of the roman empire

I'm from Saxony and also used to be in Thuringia where Gotha is and which I used to visit multiple times a year so that house is especially interesting to me. Even though my specific city wanted nothing to do with royalty or at least as little as possible compared to places like Dresden.

I am directly related to L.G. Von Nassau and Maria M Von Nassau - they are my great grandparents. Directly. Thanks for your wonderful video!

Nicely done. But I never heard about Capet before. Well structured German Families overview. Obviously not a Habsburg Fan. However.

When he said that someone from the house of Wettin sits on Europe's most important throne he must have been referring to Belgium, no doubt.

Fun fact : The house of Nassau's coat of arm is very similar from the one of the french region of "Franche-comté". The actual logo of Peugeot comes from this particular caot of arm.

One addition, if I may: On Dynasty #9, House of Wittelsbach of Bavaria, we also have King Otto of Greece, from 1832 to 1862. So, one more Wittelsbach crown in Greece for 30 years. What do you think sir? - (Thank you for your great channel)

18:27 In the House of Capet, regarding Portugal, you should also consider the period between 1640 and 1853 (House of Bragança), because John IV, first king of that dynasty, was a male-line descendant of John I (House of Avis, a junior branch of Capet), and all the monarchs until 1853 (when Peter V was crowned) were male-line descendants of John IV. So, some branch of the House of Capet reigned over Portugal, not for 441 years (1139-1580), but for 654 years, because we must add the 213 years of the House of Bragança, a junior branch of Capet.

I'm sad that the House of Jagiellon didn't make it to the list. Cool video nevertheless.

What about House Jagiellon, which lasted a few centuries and ruled over most of eastern Europe and a lot of the Balkans?

I always found it interesting that german nobles used their state or region in their names. I never knew the British did it as well.

For Wittelsbach you should add: - King of Bohemia (Frederic V. reason for 30 years war in Germany) - King of Greece (and the origin af the actual greece flagg). - Act of settlement in England , so every English Queen and King has to have Sophia of Palatine (Wittelsbach) as ancestor

So glad Savoy made it to the top 🇫🇷♥️🇮🇹 🏔

Gotta go with Capet seeing as various lines have reigned in thrones across Europe.

I have learned new things very ineteresting. Thanks a lot.From Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Excellent video.

In addition to the reasons you've given to put the house of Capet in number one, I'd say that the Capets ruled over Spain, Portugal and France during the pike of their colonial empires. Therefore, the Capets have ruled over a bigger variety of territories than the Hasburgs, also out of Europe.

Great video, thank you for taking the time to share the hours of research you've done with us lazy folk. :)

Me at number 3: Okay, only the Habsburgs and the Capet are left, I wonder which will be which. Strange the Anjou didn't make the list though. Me at number 1: Wtf they were ALSO Capet?!

When it comes to house of Capet, you have made a mistake on the list regarding Poland. It should be 1370-1382 (Louis the Hungarian) and 1573-1574 (Henri de Valois). Also someone mentioned in the comments that the daughter of Louis the Hungarian was also the King of Poland (not Queen), so her years should add up too :)

House of jagiellonian? They ruled poland,lithuania, bohemia and hungary

The way « Zweibrücken » was pronounced caught me off-guard

When I hear Wittelsbach I always think of Ludwig the second, the swan-king ^-^ His story and the story of the castle of Neuschwanstein, sad but at the same time very romantic made me really interested in his family and the history of Bavaria, now I still play the Duchy of Bavaria on Crusader King 3 x)

House of Este is underrated and I think should be on this list. (I am partially related to them, the story is complicated through).