Fuck game of thrones... we need to teach our generation the real history of the middle ages. There is so many great leaders, kings, and warriors who are so interesting.
Pic related is CHARLES MARTEL who in the summer of 732 drove out the invading Muslims in the battle of tours. Without him, western civilization as we know it would not exist.
BTFO out of saladin and never lost a battle against the saracens
Ayden Wood
>Who is your favorite hero from the middle ages? strongbow
Cameron Jones
wow Anglos do respect the French
Aaron Jenkins
Franks were bad ass before they were forever destroyed by (((postmodernism)))
Isaac Carter
French fries were in peak of power during the middle ages, God was with you.
Leo Martinez
Bohemond, the guy who conquered Antioch and Jerusalem.
Alexios Kommenos for his manouvering against the Turks.
Belasaurius.
One of the Visogoth kings, can't remember his name. Ended up a King in Africa and Spain. Died at 80 years old. Broke Roman power in Carthage.
Harold Hardrada. Varagian guard. The Last Viking. Died fighting for the throne of England.
Phillip the Just of France. Broke the Templars and established the royal power in the Ile de France.
Ian Davis
>(((postmodernism))) More like (((French))) Revolution
Brandon Martinez
Mehmed the Conqueror
Gabriel Hall
Guillaume le Conquérant.
Lincoln Martin
I am made of gold which means I am very powerful t. otto 'the great'
Kevin Carter
This. Everyone talk about the (((revolution))) as a great thing! It wasn't! It marked the end of Europe.
Easton Thomas
You must respect successful adverseries. He was fluent in Latin, drowned his own brother in a bathtub and had his favourite most beautiful concubine beheaded in front of his troops to show women had no power over him.
The cannon maker he used to bring down the walls was a Hungarian craftsman by the name of Orban. The Basilius in Constantiople refused to pay for the huge cost of the artillery
Jaxson Rivera
Santiago Matamoros El Cid Campeador Rex Pelagius Charlemagne Constantine XI (if it even counts as middle ages) >Visigoth king Alaric I perhaps? He's pretty cool too
Andrew Peterson
>If only you just listened
Jaxon Reyes
King Arthur. He was fucking real and he's buried near me.
Alexander Lee
bump for this thread, hope it doesn't die :(
Nathan Bell
Averroes
Without the knowledge of this Moorish scholar, Europe would have never got to the 'age of enlightenment' and we would pretty much still live in the dark ages.
>Ironic how the principles of our Western "free" society is based on teachings of a Muslim, kek
Grayson Ramirez
Have a bump.
Xavier Collins
"French" fries are Belgian, not French.
Robert Robinson
WE
Jace Myers
>And in his days [Yaqub al-Mansur], Abu al-Walid Ibn Rushd faced his severe ordeal and there were two causes for this; one is known and the other is secret. The secret cause, which was the major reason, is that Abu al-Walid—may God have mercy on his soul—when summarizing, commenting and expending upon Aristotle's book "History of Animals" wrote: "And I saw the Giraffe at the garden of the king of the Berbers". >And that is the same way he would mention another king of some other people or land, as it is frequently done by writers, but he omitted that those working for the service of the king should glorify him and observe the usual protocol. This was why they held a grudge against him but initially, they did not show it and in reality, Abu al-Walid wrote that inadvertently ... Then a number of his enemies in Cordoba, who were jealous of him and were competing with him both in knowledge and nobility, went to Yaqub al-Mansur with excerpts of Abu Walid's work on some old philosophers which were in his own handwriting. They took one phrase out of context that said: "and it was shown that Venus is one of the Gods" and presented it to the king who then summoned the chiefs and noblemen of Córdoba and said to Abu al-Walid in front of them "Is this your handwriting?". Abu al-Walid then denied and the king said "May God curse the one who wrote this" and ordered that Abu al-Walid be exiled and all the philosophy books to be gathered and burned ... And I saw, when I was in Fes, these books being carried on horses in great quantities and burned[22] >—Abdelwahid al-Marrakushi, "The Pleasant Book in Summarizing the History of the Maghreb", (1224)
>when I was in Fes, these books being carried on horses in great quantities and burned[22]
He was such a good muslim
HAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Eli Allen
King John of England. Despite popular culture opinions where he's the bad guy vs Robin Hood, it was only because of him that the ransom for his brother Richard the Lionhearted was even raised and got him out of trouble with the Holy Roman Emperor. On top of that if it hadn't been for King John- the Angevin Empire would never have formed nor would any Common Law been established.
Jason Green
1. There's no such thing as "Belgian", you mean Flemish. 2. That's a lie based on a single journalists claim without any form of citation referring to a time where the peasantry supposedly had potatoes before they were introduced to the region and were somehow rich enough to buy copious amounts of expensive olive oil.
French fries are called French fries because they're French. The French narrative is that they were invented arount Pont Neuf on the eve of the French Revolution. This is about a decade after Parmentier introduced the potato to France, aiming at both the upper and lower classes and therefore designing multiple dishes centered around the potato (including Hachis Parmentier). We actually have multiple citations from the era backing this thesis up, including Franklin (who was US ambassador in Paris for a while) requesting a dish that sounds suspiciously like French fries from his French chef.
Is Flanders truly so pathetic that they have to steal history from their betters to pretend they're even halfway equal to the Dutch?
Benjamin Bennett
Urban ii back when popes had balls.
Ian Lewis
Justin Castreau
Austin Morris
>On top of that if it hadn't been for King John- the Angevin Empire would never have formed Except the Angevin Empire was disbanded under his rule, nigger. It was formed when duke Henry of Normandy (later Henry II of England) married Eleonore of Aquitaine. On top of that, it's true that Common Law would not exist without John, but that only came into being because so many barons rose up against John to the point of declaring Louis the Lion their king. Common Law exists because John was a bit shit.
Nathan Robinson
tl;dr
Logan Phillips
No one asked you something Kees. Go eat some frikandellen from the wall.
Ian Watson
Facts don't come and go as you please, Bart de Wever.
Aaron Foster
>Thinking the 'age of enlightenment' was a good thing
Hudson Smith
...
Jason Thomas
>Fries >Belgian >Fact
Now fuck off
Hudson Moore
It was
Elijah Jenkins
Let me name one for each century
VI Century - Belisarius VII Century - Gregorius Magnus VIII Century - Charles Martel IX Century - Charlemagne X Century - Harald of Norway XI Century - Rodrigo 'El Cid' Diaz & Alexios Komnenos XII Century - William Marshall XIII Century - Federic Roger the II of Italy & Giovanni da Procida XIV Century - Gian Galeazzo Visconti XV Century (first half) - Filippo Brunelleschi & Cosimo De Medici
Jaxson Lee
Philip II "Augustus" of France >dismantled the Angevin Empire and BTFO the Plantagenets >destroyed the coalition of Flanders, England and the HRE at Bouvines >under his rule, France expanded into Occitanie during the Albigensian Crusade >solidified France as the most eminent power in Europe for centuries
Sebastian Wright
Fuck off Christcucks.
Tyler Carter
he was a cuck and a queer.
Xavier Morales
Just read the tiny phrase, i selectioned it especially for you, Ahmed
Jackson Green
Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba El Cid John III Sobieski Bohemond I of Antioch
Michael Lewis
Definitely Charles "The Hammer" Martel
Adam Ross
Fuck off Pagancucks
Austin Rivera
that's Cesare Borgia,not Gonzalo de Cordoba pic related is
>When King Richard the Lionheart was crowned, Jewish dignitaries who brought him gifts were stripped, whipped and banished from the court. This snowballed into a large-scale pogrom.
If you actually read real history (not the shit they teach in school) you will notice that jews were despised in almost every nation / kingdom. Of course they dindu nuffin wrong, those white goys just had the "anti-semitism" disease. Yes, they hated jews for no reason!