Elizabeth I vs. Catherine de Medici: Great Rivalries in History

11 years and nothing then bam 10 kids. Who was she seeking advice from? Women of the night perhaps? What did she learn to do lol

I have to say, your French is getting better over the years that you have been entertaining and enlightening us, but the poor people of Le Havre today are bloodied and weeping from the butchering of the pronunciation of their city! Ever thought of getting a tutor to help you learn and master the pronunciations of cities and other places in Europe? Seriously, you do such good work..mastery of French, German and Italian locations (at a minimum) would add so much more to your storytelling. I don’t say this to insult you, but to encourage you to think about enhancing your channel with sounds that at least approximate these words. I am an American too, and know that we get terrible language learning over here. But as a French speaker, I know how much it adds to your legitimacy as a historian to learn those names and say them well. Think about it…

Jeez Louise!!!! They called Native Americans savages. Wow!!!

Throughout all of these wars, even today, I can't help but wonder how amazing this planet would be without the scourge of religion. The misogyny against women, the millions of deaths, and even the incestuous, tragic marriages of royals and their offspring has improved nothing. Humanity is STILL fighting for equality and peace all because MEN have created gods to "obey" and "laws of religion" they have chosen to interpret and twist to suit them when needed. It's all so infuriating and unbelievably heartbreaking.

I always find it absurd that many call Catherine de Medici was a commoner. Yes, her father was not of royal blood or aristocratic enough and his title of Duke of Urbino basically on loan to them and was returned to it’s legitimate own later. But many tend to forget than even if Catherine did not end up marrying Henry II, she would still be the sovereign Countess of Auvergne upon the death of her aunt Anne de La Tour d’Auvergne in 1524. In fact, Catherine de Medici became the sovereign Countess of Auvergne in 1524 at the age of 5 though control of the county was held by her uncle John Stewart, Duke of Albany and jure uroxis Count of Auvergne and Lauraguais. John Stewart died in 1536 and thus the control of the County of Auvergne should have passed to Catherine de Medici, but as she was already married to Henry, Duke of Orleans - the control and authority over the county was exercised by her current guardian, none other than King Francis I of France. Upon Catherine’s death, the County of Auvergne, Boulogne and Lauraguais merged with the French crown and thus in made the County the last French independent sovereign feudal state to be absorbed to the French crown.

This voice is more than horrible.

Seems to Ann didn’t have the reproductive problem, it was Henry that did

Of course Mary I executed less people than her father. Henry VIII reigned for 38 years. Mary reigned for 5 years....its an annoying non point.

Watch the Stars show.

"Some people say we're alike, some people day we've got the same(? Uh... Heirs?)

LETS WORK IT OUT IN THE REMIX 💚 🟩 "

I didn't realize how much the actresses (young and older) look so much like Catherine. Wow.

Why must you insert “both were notorious womanizers”? What relevance is that to the story that you are telling. Elizabeth didn’t care and neither did Catherine. This did not affect them in any way whatsoever!

Marie Antoinette and Queen Charlotte next???🙏🙏😫😫💕💕💐

This is a word for word remake of your Medici video from 4 years ago, spliced with Elizabeth content. Not complaining, but since I just watched the other one last week, i was having MAJOR deja vu 😂

Re the ad for women’s health pills - there is no such thing as “post-menopause,” the proper term is menopause, which is what a woman remains in until the day she dies. Therefore, the only thing post-menopause is being deceased and one wouldn’t need pills to help with that! Sorry, but if you’re trying to sell me pills to take after I’m gone, you have totally lost my respect.

Fun fact. Elizabeth I was known as 'The Cat' at court. Katarina d'Medici is 'The Serpent.'

Cat vs Viper = boss fight

I would say that Madam the Portier groomed the prince. She probably wanted the power and took advantage of a child/teenager. It's gross.

Now I'm more interested in a video about every French monarch like you did with the British monarch😊

Can you tell me the name of the lovely music on the background please

I was never too interested in the Royals’ lines but your videos are very captivating. 🤔👍

Religion Religion causes more problems than anything else🤬🤬

Catherine was able to toss her problem (Queen Mary of Scots) to Elizabeth. Aahahah one point to the serpent queen.

I knew it...
Samantha Morton also played Queen Mary of Scots in a Queen Elizabeth movie....I think the Golden Age

I have to wonder if Elizabeth’s refusal to produce an heir was a snub to her father and his destructive obsession with securing the Tudor dynasty. The line died with her, maybe she had the last laugh and it was revenge for her mother.

Medici hands down! She has way more against her than Elizabeth who had a team propping her up. catherine Medici was the ultimate underdog

Love that even when women were in charge the France v England rivalry continued.

*queen regent. Ree-jint ❤

My stupid ahh realizing this us the same royal story as 'Reign' technically. Makes you see everything different. Poor Frances.. the dirty auntie wasn't in the other series...😂😂😅😅

What an incredible closing line…
”…they (Queens Elizabeth & Catherine) both ended in much the same place, as dazzling exclamation points at the end of two great dynasties…”

Wonderful and interesting content. Very intriguing. The only thing, if you please, is that the pronunciation of Chenonceau should be like this: ʃɑto də ʃənɔ̃so in IPA. The last 'eau' in Chenonceau sounds identical to the eau in Château. Basically "ceau" = "so".

The most WOKE garbage on tv , east indians and blacks as members of the royal families , the constant swearing , it just seems so over produced and unrealistic in every sense of the word , really bad tv.

I enjoy this channel, but some of the pronunciations in this one are way off for English speakers: Le Havre, Huguenot, Chenonceau, etc.

I really enjoy your channel. Thank you for sharing your work.

This was enjoyable. May I suggest looking up the American version of foreign pronunciations, like that of Chenonceau, so that your information gathering isn’t lost?

It's fantastic that you cover history that relates to current tv shows.

Don’t know which was greatest but I do like the series a lot.

Scientifically speaking, the disease syphilis needs to be in the body for many years to kill. I don't understand how Catherine did not contract syphilis, but her father died from it. He would have been an active carrier of the disease before her birth, implying that her mother would have caught it too.

Hi Lindsay, I'm glad that you liked my book so much (Blood Fire and Gold) that it inspired you doing a video. I enjoyed that. Would you like to do a collaboration type video on the Serpent Queen? Estelle Paranque

I am so happy that I happened upon your channel! Good stuff❤

The Serpent had a better Pedegree, but the red queen had a better education.

I've always been really sad for Elizabeth, thinking she never wanted to be married, then the moment she thought she might want to, her people didn't want him to be her husband. ❤️ Gloriana has always been my favorite queen and if I could go back in time, I'd definitely go back to see Elizabeth at her court.

Obsessed with the show! I needed to know more.

most informative

I’m here after watching serpent queen….. I’ve already watched your videos of both woman separately so now I’m here for the riverly

Excellent video… hope to see more of this soon. Thanks 🙏🏻 so much for sharing.

I thght it was wild and embarrassing that they had to have sex in front of people