Does Queen Elizabeth have any Black, Jewish, or Muslim Ancestors?
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This is good @usefulcharts but you are overlooking that the word Muslim often obfuscates that the people were Moors or Black Africans. Sancha of Leon was almost certainly someone would be considered Black. And if you look at old portraits of her children like Urraca or Alphonso V many of them are of dark complexion. Also there was a heavy presence of Moors in Portugal and many of the Kings of this era have African features in older portraits. These Moors also founded aristocratic families in Iberia, France and Germany btw. So of course Elizabeth has Black ancestry, so do I and you too. As you said if you go back far enough we are all connected.
In the last video about this topic on Queen Elizabeth, you described princess _Zaida_ as a "wife or mistress" and now in this video you describe her again as "wife or lover". In both instances you're substituting _concubine_ with something else. Seems deliberately misleading. At the very least you should be describing her as "wife, lover or concubine" to cover all three bases.
You're either a bear faced (paid) liar, or completely incompetent. Prince Charles, admitted, he was a descendant of Vladd The Impaler (known today as Dracula), and he admitted this on camera. (you can find it easily) Also, Elizabeth's line, was historically recorded as being invited (from Germany) by Zionism leaders, to be the new rulers of Britain. It was started by George the 1st. And they are known, to have changed their name from Hanoverian to Windsor, overnight. They are clearly jews, and your other assertion, that the Europeans are NOT the Lost Tribes of Israel, is as easily ripped apart. The Lost Tribes ARE, unequivocally, the white Europeans. Shame on you.
Um where can I view the chart
very stupid video.
I loved the “nobody expected the Spanish Inquisition” comment. Thank you for another excellent, interesting video.
Their chief weapon was fear, and surprise. And ruthless efficiency . . . and an almost fanatical devotion to the Pope. And the soft cushions.
@@patricktilton5377 and THE COMFY CHAIR
The great thing is, everybody expected the Spanish Inquisition, they always had to give a month’s notice … in writing!
I didn't expect it.
I came here to say this
Love this format. Even without CKIII specifically... the idea of comparing real life to a video game is such a great educational tool.
Although it *does* require assuming knowledge of the relevant game(s), so won’t be quite so useful for people like me who don’t play them. 🤷♂️
Hard to really consider a video game as educational. Using historical figures does not convey educational value. By that standard, so is Mel Brooks’ History of the World etc.
@@miguelservetus9534 Wrong by so many counts... I've already typed and edited and deleted so many tries, but realize there's no sense in beginning an internet debate. Let's be poetic: all learning is games. Buuuuut, even if it weren't true (which it is), at least interesting games accurately portraying history (in some sense; any historian will say that its an imperfect art) will SPARK interest in that period of history.
@@miguelservetus9534 Video games can be extremely educational. Sure, they are no substitute for a university education but they can get young people interested in history and are often a springboard for more learning.
If only their paradox business practices weren't so shit.
One of Queen Elizabeth II’s ancestors Patrick de Chadworth was a descendant of Layla ibm Malik who was born in Mecca Saudi Arabia.
Patrick the Chad Worth, What a name.
@@Oneiroi0 i believe it was actually de chaworth not chadworth
My grandfather used to joke "Don't shake your family tree too much, you may not know what will fall out..." This is great. Two things I took to heart. We all have these wonderful stories, just that records have not been kept. I am not much of a religious man, but I do hope there is a heaven because I would like to know my whole story. I also enjoyed the comment during midivil times race seemed to be based more on culture that skin color. That is a lesson we could use here in the United States right now.
I would argue race relations were better in some parts of Medieval Europe than they are today anywhere in the world.
I mean, that doesn't mean people were _nicer_ back then. It just means they hated each other based on ethnicity, not race.
The biggest split in race relations came with the crusades. That’s what’s caused the modern day trouble in the Middle East. Funny thing is, the crusades were nit started because of religion, they were started because a certain pope had huge money troubles. To deflect from his problem being made he came up with a ‘great idea’. Let’s all go on a crusade. Save Jerusalem etc etc. all forget his money troubles. He made and caused one heck of a mess. 👵👵👵👵🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺
this was not reality. it is only an opinion that race seemed to be based more on culture that skin color. i think its just a projection of historians' modern sensibilities on the past. since there is nothing to support reaching that conclusion as people back then were much less exposed to different races than they are now. you have to had lived in both times to make this comparison.
Yeah they really didnt mind race that much but they really minded culture. For example there was a muslim writer who traveled to early russia and studied the rus. He made the usual remarks of white skin and blonde hair etc. But he focused his writing on the cusstums of the rus and he was mainly disqusted by how dirty they were because he was muslim. The point is that humans always find ways to separate themselves and the fact that we constantly change how we separate each other means we really arent that different after all
I found your channel as a suggestion next to a CK3 video by One Proud Bavarian. It was a wonderful find, and I'm thrilled that you were able to do a sponsored video with Paradox. Your charts and videos have greatly improved my understanding of the history and my enjoyment of the game, and seeing CK3 assets throughout the video was highly amusing and extremely entertaining.
The throne of Spain wasn’t united during the marriage of Ferdinand and Isabella. They ruled their territories separate. Spain didn’t unite until the reign of their grandson Charles I in 1516.
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0:52 it is a mistake, Iberia we still know as Iberia. "Spain" and "Portugal" are names of states that function on the land called Iberia.
Please do about queen Esther did really existed? Please 🙏🙏🙏
*Nobody* expects the Spanish Inquisition! Our chief weapon is surprise, surprise and fear, fear and surprise. Our *two* weapons are fear and surprise, and ruthless efficiency. Our *three* weapons are fear and surprise and ruthless efficiency and an almost fanatical dedication to the pope.
This is a very interesting video, but I’m a bit skeptical about Mór Afonso. In Portugal, we use “Mouro” as a synonym for Muslim like the expression “Saracen”. Yes, it tends to refer to North Africa (Mauritania) but that’s because it was important to distinguish Arab Muslims from non-Arab Muslims in Al-Andalus. And since most non-Arab Muslims were Amazigh/Berbers their name of Mouros became widely used. But using Berbers to claim subsaharan ascendency seems like a stretch. Also, Mór Afonso could simply be a Mozarab, which were “native” Iberians who lived under Muslim occupation, so were sometimes called “Mouros” like their overlords.
O pai de Madragana era um muladi, segundo os registros que temos hoje, e muladi refere-se a um cristão que apostatou ao islamismo ou um árabe nascido de pai muçulmano e mãe cristã. No entanto, vários cronistas e pessoas da época diziam que essa linhagem dela era de cor mais escura (por isso, a Rainha Charlotte era dita que era mais escura, mas talvez fosse o fato de que os povos germânicos são mais alvos do que os ibéricos? Quem sabe). Foi a partir do reinado de Dom João V que começaram a publicar textos negando que ela sequer era uma Moura. Meu palpite é que nunca saberemos, mas o mais provável é que ela fosse de raça mista (pois o pai dela era um muladi).
Correct I'm a black Muslim and the blacka moors were enslaved Africans who helped the Arabs.
i've read 5 reliable sources that say she was mozarab (Iberian Christian) and only one reliable source that says she was moor ( Muslim inhabitant of the Maghreb).
Exactly!
Avante Lusitania : Mor Afonso was an Israelite !!!! Mor is a Hebrew female name !!! Was the grand-daughter of Chief-Rabbi Yahia Ben YAHI III , First Chief-Rabbi of Portugal and Tax-Collector, Entrusted by Dom Afonso Henriques, First King of Portugal. Also called the Templar King.
Regarding Moors, from North Africa, some may be dark skinned while others have light skin. Think of the people from Morocco, as an example, when "Moor" comes to mind. Anyway, the point is that there is a big difference between a Moor and a "Black" African (e.g., Nubians).
Completely incorrect the moors referred to different groups between North Africa and West Africa.They were not a uniformed ethnic group only differentiated by skin tone only.There were many Black African moors who went into spain I could fo way deeper into this matter but time constraints wont allow me.
*Moops
BM : The Moors came from North Africa. White North African people are descendants of Vikings ... Kabyle region, North of Algeria was invaded by Vikings during the Middle Age. Many Kabyles possess blue or green eyes. I knew some of them. Check google also Also during the end of Antiquity, North Africa was invaded by Romans, an other White ethnicity. Also, North African Israelite women were raped by Roman soldiers as well. In the Antiquity, North Africa was part of the Roman empire, just like all Europe.
There were plenty black africans in Morocco. Timbuktu was conquered at some point
Sudanese people can be quite light, to start off with, I even know Black Sudanese people who were lighter than Middle Eastern people. Secondly, Morocco is in North Africa and there are many Black North Africans so most Moroccans have recent (at least great-grandparent) Black ancestors from North-West Africa like Mauritania
Only just started this video and I’m super excited to see Matt finally check out Crusader Kings!
Moor has always meant the same in the Iberian Peninsula, people that came from Mauretania aka Northwestern Africa, mostly Morocco. Them or their ancestors. They were, obviously, majority Muslim. But I've met enough Moroccans to testify that they are not black. Not everyone on the continent of Africa is black. Does this means Madragana was black? Probably no, she was probably Berber. Does this also mean she doesn't have black ancestors? No, she probably does, but probably not Madragana.
regardless. i've read 5 reliable sources that say she was mozarab (Iberian Christian) and only one reliable source that says she was moor ( Muslim inhabitant of the Maghreb).
t depends what your definition for black is, just because you say you aren't black doesn't mean you aren't, it depends on the definition being used
@@dtmt502 "iT dEpEnDs On ThE dEfInItIoN" No it doesn't, "black" has always referred to sub-saharan Africans. There is no ambiguity to it
@@cv4809 not it hasn't America's social structure has little relevance to the rest of the world
@@cv4809 typical american definition,blck doest mean sub saharan africanz..black comes in many shades ,some with moors ,who told you all sub saharan africans are dark sikinned ,
Martim Afonso de Sousa, a colonial governor of Brazil and whose descendents make up a wide branch of the Sousa family in Brazil, traces back it's family tree to Martim Chichorro too.
True. My maternal great-grandmother and grandfather have pride to claim their descent traced back to medieval Spanish royalty, I did have blue blood through both parental and long lines from my grandpa's maternal grandma.
How do you know that
@@thallesgimenezmello2733 why are you people so obsessed with DNA? *Literally* almost all of the world population has "royal" descendants. And how are you guys even so certain of who your ancient ancestors were? We common people don't even have enough records to know that. It's fun to imagine, I love to imagine who my ancestors were but being obsessed with having a certain type of ancestry is lowkey creepy. No one is superior because of their blood! :)
@@adifferentkindofhuman3786 You can do your family tree on FamilySearch. FamilySearch is easiest way to discover how your ancestry. Good afternoon. 🙂
@@thallesgimenezmello2733 don't be silly man
First of all: nice clip! It once again shows us that most of these noble bloodlines are intertwined to a significant degree. Secondly I would like to add a few other similar ancestral claims, one also has its origins on the Iberian peninsula. In his standard work on Iberian ancestry named "Nobiliário de Famílias de Portugal" the famous Portuguese genealogist Manuel José da Costa Felgueiras Gaio states that the origin of the House of Maia partially lays within the dynasty of the Umayyads. The founding father of the Da Maia-dynasty is Lovesendo Ramirez, according to Felgueiras Gaio he was married to Zaira bint Zaydan, the daughter of Zaydan (or Zedao) ibn Zayd and a woman named Areguna Fromaríquez. This Zaydan is then mentioned as the grandson of Abdullah ibn Muhammad al-Umawi, the Emir of Córdoba. Lovesendo Ramirez himself was a supposed bastard son of King Ramiro II of Léon from the old Asturias-Léon dynasty by a woman named Ortega; the latter being either a daughter of a Moorish person named Sa'd abu Sa'dun ibn Ishaq or by an Iberian named Rodrigo Romães (though I don't think Felgueiras Gaio has mentioned those). An even more exotic claim is made about the first House of Bragança (not the later royal house but the one ruling the lordship), the founder of that house is decribed to have been a Britonic knight that married an Armenian pilgrim princess from the house of Arçruni (with roots into the old Turkic world and the Roman Empire); about the forementioned Asturias-Léon dynasty a similar claim is made (through the Armenian Mamikonian family). Mind you: there is an exilarchic ancestral trail that leads through the Caucasus as well, by means of the House of Mihrani and the Mihranid royal dynasty of Khartli in present day Georgia. A third similar claim is made about a branch of the Byzantine Skleros-clan; one of their scions was a magister named Romanos Skleros (latinized to Romanus Sclerus), a son of the Byzantine throne pretender Bardas Skleros; Romanos is thought to have married the daughter of the Hamdanid ruler Fadl Allah Abu Taghlib ibn al-Hassan (an Emir of Mosul), with supposed Abassid rooting.
Wow. Interesting. And bravo for the knowledge and the share of it :)
Thank you for charting my family line 😉
Btw, the term "moor" was also given to Iberian Muslims, who were the majority of the Muslims in medieval Iberia, so if the only thing known about Madragana is that she was a moor, that doesn't say almost anything.
The moors also descended from White Spanish people and North Africans, and North Africans aren't Black in general but still intermingle with Black Africans across the Sahel so the Moors likely had recent Black ancestors, so they're probably 10-20% Black which is higher than White Spanish people
yeah moor doesn't mean black, the misconception came from Shakespeare descriptions and we don't know if the one Shakespeare describe was really black or just brown north African coz at that time I think seeing black person wasn't common in England.
@@jasonhaven7170 The moors could be descendants of both but they could be just Iberians that converted as well.
@@jasonhaven7170 It's not as likely as you think because the modern North Africans have more subsaharan DNA because of the transsaharan slave trade
@@Jgab602 All North Africans throughout history have had high levels of sub-Saharan heritage because of their location, and the Sahara is a trade zone
Thanks for another thoughtful presentation. I really enjoy this channel. Keep up the fantastic work. 💞
I love that you answer questions that I didn't know I wanted to ask.
Interesting insights and discussions👍 Forsure there are. People are connecting to each other via extensive family
the Queen Charlotte theory is crazy, genetically it doesnt make sense, but also there are over a dozen portraits of her throughout her life and she doesnt look the slightest bit mixed in any of them. For comparison the Dumas and Puschkin families are great reference to see how mixed people were depicted in european art.
"the Queen Charlotte theory is crazy, genetically it doesnt make sense" - what theory? Matt emphasized that given the number of generations between Charlotte and her (likely) Moor ancestors that Charlotte would have inherited little DNA from her Moor ancestress.
I’d honestly never once heard anything about Queen Charlotte being black or visibly mixed race until Bridgerton came out.
@@kate_cooper really? I first heard about it when Prince Harry married Megan Markel.
Idk about theories but you can absolutely see African features in portraits. Low key she kind of (not in a disrespectful way at all) gives me Albino vibes. Fair skinned for sure but prominent traditionally African features. Quite frankly you look at Archie and though he looks white at first glance due to the 75% European inheritance his small features and hair texture tip you off a little. It’s not obviously noticeable at first glance for Queen C or Archie but as a person of color I can always tell when someone is “passing” or deceptively looks white.
@@TheDanEdwards i've read 5 reliable sources that say Madragana was mozarab (Iberian Christian) and only one reliable source that says she was moor (Muslim inhabitant of the Maghreb).
If one goes back 10 generations, there is less than 0.1% of that person's ancestor's dna.. So they don't have that dna after 8-10 generations of that ancestor, unless they keep on marrying within their small ancestral community..
What happens is that we lose some ancestors from our DNA, and keep others. We inherit blocks of chromosomes (for the autosomes - the Y chromosome is inherited mostly intact from one line) from certain ancestors, and nothing from others. That can happen as near to you as a 5th or 6th great grandparent. Of the 1024 possible pedigree ancestors (at your 10th generation), assuming no pedigree collapse, you like inherited DNA from around 700 or 800 of them. Go back another 10 generations, to the 20th level of ancestor, and of the million pedigree entries at that level you inherited DNA from less than 2000 of them, perhaps only 1500 of them.
Aka incest.... 🤢🤮
Iain Moncreiffe wrote a book called HRH just about 40 years ago which was published just before Princess Dianna gave birth to Prince William that discussed William's genealogy extensively. Included in the book was a connection between the Windsor's and Vlad Dracula but more to the point of this video, it described a connection to Mohamed. I no longer have a copy and it is hard to find but he seems to have been a genealogist of some note and wrote a number of books on the topic. I do not recall the exact line that he traced or the sources he cited but I think if one were to obtain a copy it would be an interesting book to read on the topic. As a distant cousin of the Windsor's I enjoy seeing videos describing their ancestry.
I am a 6th generation relative from queen Elizabeth, I find it extremely interesting too!
Bruh, that means you have a small, but significant claim to the throne...
@@therealdarklizzy yes! I am also a descendant from aboriginal royalty too;
@@odetteroyalehigh1432 'aboriginal royalty '...i had no idea of this
Hey i think you made a mistake,Sancho the son of emperor Alphonso didn't have any kids so that's wrong,rather it is a daughter sancha who is the one who has children.
Good catch. The important thing is that Sancha was also a child of Zaida.
Yeah,if sancho had any descendants,the throne would probably go to them rather than urraca 😂
@@UsefulCharts In the last video about this topic on Queen Elizabeth, you described princess _Zaida_ as a "wife or mistress" and now in this video you describe her again as "wife or lover". In both instances you're substituting _concubine_ with something else. At the very least you should be describing her as "wife, lover or concubine" to cover all three bases. Anything else would be deliberately misleading or selective.
It is uncertain if Sancha’s mother Isabel and Zaida (later named Isabel) were the same person.
I literally love to watch your videos as I play CK3 and now this! Perfect!
A lot of information thanks for the breakdown 👍🏻
Interesting idea and great video. Maybe a future video on the recorded Genghisid descent in European royals could also be interesting.
or the Indo Iranian ancestry of Genghis Khan
As far as I know there are (or was) some russian nobile families that have proven descendence from Genghis Khan, so probably there we should start search.
Matt, thank you for another excellent video! When it comes down to it we all belong to the same family regardless of our creeds, race, religion, or ethnicity. And, yes, as others have commented, using CKIII in your videos is genius.
no. some of us have admixtures from 1 or more of at least 4 different archaic humans that no longer exist.
@@zombieat ? Lol
@ivanooze oh oke i see. Didn't really knew that.
@ivanooze but we're all majority the same. Admixture is just that, admixture, it's not our genetic base. We are all the same race lol. Any other claim is identity politics bullshit. We're Homo Sapiens, each of us, at the core.
Yeah....ok, lol.
I love your channel! Brilliant approach. ❤
As you know, the whole thing with Queen Charlotte is not because of her ancestor Madragana, but simply because of her pug nose "frizzy" hair in paintings and what modern people perceive as her "African looks" That's it. That's how this whole thing started.
Mike Ross : Dona Isabel "Zaida" was a White Spanish noble Christian who was abducted from Christian Spain by Amazigh Muslims into the small Muslim emirate of Grenada, She was captured as prostitute for the Emir Boabdil the Poet / anti-war guy ! Later on, she was seduced and decided to convert to Islam by HER choice, to become an Emira (Queen) and took the Muslim name Zaida. They had together one son and one daughter. In 1492, when Emir Boabdil (he is direct descendant of Saeed ibn Ubada inn Dulaym, chief leader of the saeeda tribe and a companon of Prophet Muhammad of Islam) lost the war against Dona Isabel of Castilla and Don Fernando of Aragon, the Catholic Queen and King of Spain, Dona Isabel "Zaida" and her two Muslim mixed kids, begged Dom Fernando to accept them in Spain and not expelling her . Request accepted. Dona Isabel came back to Christianity and her two Muslims mixed kids were baptised Christians. Dona Isabel of Castilla, Queen of Spain is a great-granddaughter of Portuguese Israelite woman daughter of a shoemaker, from North Portugal. (Don Fernando of Aragon, King of Spain is a great-grandson of Chief-Rabbi Gedalia BenZaken, Portuguese Chief-Rabbi of Portugal) Later on, Don Fernando of Aragon, King of Spain Unified, Took Dona Isabel's daughter, mixed girl as his mistress and had a baby with her. A son who became a Don, Knight in the Kingdom and his noble leanage pass on generation to generation...
@@invisibleface6479 Only Talking about Queen Charlotte who was born as a princess of Mecklinburg-Strelitz in Germany hundreds of years after Zaida and Madragana, and how modern people like to claim she' must have been "African" because of how her nose and hair. look in painted portraits. It's ridiculous and I can't believe she was even mentioned seriously in this video.
@@mikeross641 : Sorry i got it wrong about hair😅 English is not my Native language... I got something else ! And you're not nice at all🙄
@@invisibleface6479 Plenty of Europeans with frizzy hair.
@@baneofbanes : Not in North Europe
Really cool to think about how, Royals are just so privileged they could track this stuff back 100s of years. Its cool that we all share common links, and also cool that we developed such wildly different cultures to shape those links.
Today with DNA and hereditary companies even the average person can more easily trace ancestry. I have one branch that goes back to thr 9th century.
@@beareeves4923 i used the most remarkable wikioedia and tracmed back from 1300 ancestror to a 60 ac god I love Wikipedia
How do they become Royals?🤔
I absolutely adore CK3 (and my main file is actually currently kings of Aragon/Valencia), so I am very excited for the Fate of Iberia!
I just recently read that the name “Andalus” comes from the tribe “Vandal”.
If I remember correctly, was it the Arabic pronunciation of the word Vandal?
Which is interesting, since the Vandals hadn't been around 150 years by the time of the conquest of Iberia.
@@muhammaddaffaarvianda5050 nope Vandals in Arabic are called Wendell (وندال)
Could be "Atlantis"
@@angusyang5917 Unless I am wrong, which is quite possible, the Muslims who conquered Andalusia were Moors not Arabs, and they conquered it from Visigoths not Vandals. So the sound-change from Vandal to Andalus was probably well underway by the time of the Muslim conquest; and the languages involved could have included Gothic and Berber, in addition to Latin and Wendish and Arabic. TL;DR summary: we probably don’t know how it happened.
Great video - very interesting, and solid pronunciations ;)
You failed to take into account the timeline of the birth of Zaida's children. When she met Alfonso VI in Toledo around 1080, she was pregnant with his daughter to her Hashemite Muslim husband who died defending Córdoba from the Almoravids. She gave birth to Isabel. Later, she also gave birth to Sancho, whom Alfonso made the heir to the throne. Sancho died young in the Battle of Uclés. Notice the date of that battle and the date of births of Elvira and Sancha. The Sancha mentioned here is the ancestress of María de Padilla. She and Elvira were daughters of Isabel who was born in 1080. 1103 if I'm not mistaken, was Elvira's date of birth. The battle of Uclés occured sometime in 1107 or 1108, Sancho dying at age 18.
Except Zaida was never married to Hashimite to begin with but to Abbadid prince of Banu Lakhm tribe ...... Abbadids were Arabs and never claimed descent to Hashimites
I think the best future videos will be the dynastic histories of ducal houses (wittelsbach, savoy etc)
Waiting for more Videos narrated by Matt on Ancient History ☺️
Great quality questions 👏 I always wondered how they those were made
I think Jewish history since 1st Century AD is relatively unknown, a video on that would be interesting, I think! Great work!
Look up Sam Aronow on KZhead, his channel focuses on Jewish history and he did a video with this channel too.
There are literally thousands of Jewish history books from the last 2000 years 🙄
@@Shanablueray yea, he can start with the Talmud and Mishnah. We jews have been very diligent about passing down our stories and history.
There are many jewish genealogists and historians. I own a few books about it. Look up Berel Wein
You should do a family tree on the Fairbanks house succession. And the long recorded history of the Medecalf/Metcalf/Metcalfe family
I'd assume that Laurie Metcalf, the actress, is a descendant of Medecalf/Metcalf/Metcalfe family.
@@francishollingshead2134 Who?
She's the actress who plays Aunt Jackie on Roseanne and now the Conners
@@thebandit0256 Never heard of any of this crap
Yes. The Hashemite King of Jordan. Many of the Royal families of Europe are related to him. Yiri Louda and Michael Maclagan. "Lines of Succession, History of the Royal Familes of Europe". It is a great illustrated book with the genealogical trees from the birth of Heraldry.
Europians are Japhetites.
So, it means that I'm related somehow to Queen Elisabeth as well. Lots of these caracters are present in my Family Tree, according to The Family Search site. Whatever, how knows?
I believe that there's another way that Elizabeth descends from Peter of Castile and Maria de Padilla: through their daughter Constance, who was the grandmother of John II of Castle. John was the great-grandfather of Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand I, and I believe that George III of England was the 6th great-grandson of Ferdinand.
Moors could never black, at least in thsi case. We have to think why this term was given to her and in the people of gave it: in Portugal, a Moor is, as well said in the video, a muslim from northwest africa, which isn't naturally a place with people that we today call "black". If she was black like the concept we use nowadays, she would have to be form sub-saharan africa, in a case where old portuguese would probably use the greek term "ethiopian", rather than "moor"
I think a moor could refer to both arab berbers and black north africans.
Umm no. It is recorded that “black” Muslims were also referred to as moors. Ethiopians meant something different during that time…
Your voice is both soothing, yet professional. Excellent combination for FM easy listening.
I believe that your using the word "black" to describe a distant ancestor of Queen Elizabeth II is misleading. Moors at that time were NOT the same as "black sub-saharan" peoples, which are what are currently called Africans.
That is what he said.
You do realise Moors did include Black Africans from West Africa?
There is the strange idea that the only "black" Africans lived in so called "Sub Saharan Africa" and that the Sahara was some kinda impenetrable barrier that stopped these "Sub Saharan Africans" from ever venturing north of the Sahel, when it is clearly known that people traversed and lived in the Sahara for millennia and that many peoples who we would consider as "black" today lived in "North Africa" also for millennia.
You're all kinds of wrong, first of all every human being on Earth is descended from Black Africans ok? And the people of North Africa were too. Only after Arab and European invasions of lighter hues humans did this confusion about who is Black start.
@@curtisthomas2670 Not impenetrable, obviously. That being said, the further north you go (i.e. North Africa), the more light-skinned people get, and the further south you go (i.e. Sub-Saharan Africa), the more dark-skinned people get, with a transition area around the Sahel. There are obviously minority groups on both sides due to migrations, but we're talking about majority groups, here. The Moors living in Iberia mostly originated from North Africa, and thus the majority of them would have more closely resembled today's Maghrebi populations than Sub-Saharan ones. This is evident when you look at contemporary depictions of the Moors: they were generally depicted as fairly light-skinned, at least in comparison to more dark-skinned people originating from further south in Africa, which is what most western people nowadays (and not just Americans) associate with the word "black".
Fantastic video keep it up your doing amazing job
I’m loving this video Matt. Was just wondering with the new Lord of the Rings series releasing in September, could you do a video of the Kings of Gondor and the houses of elves located in middle earth similar to the video you made a few years back ago about the Houses in Game of Thrones?
I enjoy your content… This felt like an infomercial for the game expansion pack
I loved the demo and loved the thumbnail pics you put on the tree
Your videos are amazing and very well made
I know it's quite popular to say that the Andalusia Muslim states were tolerant. Recent historiography has begun to challenge this. For example, there were repeated pogroms against the Jewish population. Beyond this, they were only tolerant in comparison to the massively intolerant Kingdom of Spain.
Jews were allowed to rise to positions of great prominence under the Muslims in comparison to when they were under the Christians, and in general were allowed more privileges and the ability to rise through society on merit. Still, Jews were nowhere near seen as equals to Muslims, would have to pay a tax/fine to live in Muslim lands, a 'dhimmi', and weren't allowed to ride horses, so they couldn't be 'head and shoulders' above their Muslim countrymen etc. Also, there were always these types of riots/pogroms, depending upon the ruler, whether there were socio-economic issues, like widespread disease, starvation or poverty. As you say though, compare it to Jews under Christianity, there generally is no comparison.
still more tolerant than the Christian kingdoms in the region
@@dtmt502 who said they weren't?
They where still treated better in Iberia than pretty much anywhere else in Europe at the time.
@@dtmt502 eh not really there. The Iberian Christians didn’t really go around expelling the religious minorities until the 1500’s.
this was a 17 minute long ad and i watched almost every second of it, great work lol
I have traced one branch of my ancestry back to about 1650. They all lived within a few blocks of the same city, had a different/temporary trade in every record and moved a lot from dwelling to dwelling. On one of the records, the adress states "the front of 12VI, which, after visiting the house, I realise meant half of the top section of the attic. And records stop, presumably because prior to that time, the local church was not too concerned with poor souls. Not enough to write their names down in precious log books. It is both a treasure to have these records of historical people, but also a blunt reminder that I am happy to live in the present time.
The use of CK3 is such a good idea and would love more videos with this concept
I love how North African means sub Saharan African now. It’s truly revisionist history
Very interesting article, lots of research went into this.
amazing, I am a big fan of your channel and Crusader king : )
You're pronouncing "Al-Andalus" as if it were spelled "Al-Andulas," which is somewhat distracting. It's pronounced quite phonetically, roughly "ahl ahn-dah-LOOS." "Chichorro" does not have a 'k' sound in it. chee-CHOH-ro, even if you don't roll the 'r.'
I love CK3! This is one of the best targeted and best exectued sponsored videos I have ever seen on KZhead. I definitely wouldn't mind if you worked with them again in the future. The maps and the portraits add a lot to the story! Well done!
I also descend from all three of those people. Thank you for the knowledge 🙏
'Everyone is a desendant of Royalty. So, I wonder where the current set up was err set up? Another fascinating clip. Thank you. CJ
Can you please make a video about the kings of Georgia Armenia and Balkan Countries?
"Muslim" is a religion, not an ethnicity. It would be like asking if you have any Baptist ancestors.
Zaida came from a Muslim family though
@@maganhassan2627 True, but it seems like this guy is implying that because her ancestor was Muslim, that makes her partly Muslim. Hell a person can be a member of a religion then not a member. I grew up Mormon, but I'm no longer Mormon. I am not even partly Mormon. Though I think the Church might still have my record, you could argue I still belong to the Church, but I would counterargue that no church owns it's members like that.
@@erictaylor5462 true, muslim is religion, im muslim but im not arabs.
@@erictaylor5462 Muslim mostly ancestor
@@ulasctak5278 And how does Muslim ancestry effect you? It doesn't, because "Muslim" is a religion, not an ethnicity.
Madragana was not a Moor but rather a descendant of Mozarabs, the Christians of Al-Andalus. Her father was the Qadi in Faro at the time it was the last part of the Kingdom of the Algarve to be taken from Muslim hands. Afonso III of Portugal ended the Reconquista in Portugal by taking Faro in 1249. It is not sensible to maintain that the man who completed the Reconquista in Portugal for Iberian Christians then immediately took a Moorish Muslim as his lover! Note that she was christened as a Roman Catholic only once some time had passed after she became the mistress of Afonso III: "She was christened in time, receiving her new name as Maior Afonso, or Mor Afonso, Mor being short for Maior, a common female name in medieval Portuguese." So, when Afonso III took her as his mistress, she was still following the religion she and her father had practiced her whole life before Afonso III took their home city of Faro. This is why scholars understand that her christening when she was the mistress of Afonso III was "most probably because she had been previously christened according to the Mozarabic Rite, the re-christening being done in the Roman Rite." "Aloandro Ben Bekar or Ben Bakr (also known as Aldroando Gil), was the Mozarab (Iberian Christian living under Muslim domination) Governor of Faro, in Portugal. He was the son of Bakr Ben Yahia and grandson of Yahia Ben Bakr, who is believed to be a descendant (possibly a grandson) of high royal official of Jewish aristocratic descent Yahia Ben Yahi III."
Fascinating, Thank you so much. Xxxx
So basically, if you go some time back in time, everyone is ancestor of everybody.
Every homicide is a fatricide
Not quite. The farther you go back in time, the more likely it becomes that someone who reproduced and whose line survives to the present is your direct ancestor. Not everyone reproduced, however, and not all lines have survived to the present. But all human beings are indeed kin to one another, and all living human beings have multiple ancestors in common.
You went over one main point quickly. If you find a record before 1400 it is very likely that that person is connected to royalty. Most people without records had nothing to record. Those people who did own something most probably had a connection. My ancestor lines that do not dead-end mostly go back to royalty as probably most other people's charts.
Your videos are very informative
You have inspired me to extend my own genealogy to include the Exilarchs. Thanks! 😅
In my previous comment I forgot to add something. The ancestral claims that I pointed out in that comment are about connections from the medieval era, but there is one that is relatively recent and quite suprising in my humble opinion. It doesn't directly relate to Queen Elizabeth II of Great-Britain or the 'medieval ancestral nobility complex' but it does in fact has to do with the British royal family, to be precise: the family of late Prince Philip Mounbatten, Duke of Edinburgh & Deity of Tanna Island. A cousin, in the second degree or so, of Prince Philip was Marquess David Mountbatten of Milford Haven (he lived from 1919 to 1970). Marquess David's mother was Countess Nadejda Mihailovna of Torby, descending from the Romanov dynasty; that is quite interesting in itself but that's not what this comment is about: Countess Nadejda was the grandchild of a Russian woman with the name Natalia Alexandrovna Pushkina, indeed the daughter of the famous Russian poet and novelist Alexander Pushkin. In his turn Pushkin was the descendant of a Russian major-general who was named Abram Petrovich Hannibal. 'Russian' as a qualification basically refers to the fact that Hannibal was an officer in the Russian Imperial army but it is a well known fact that he was African, described to have originated from Eritrea but later research has shown that Abram Hannibal was probably from the area around Lake Chad in Central Africa. My guess is that Abram was shipped from Eritrea by the Ottomans prior to his arrival in Russia, it is known that he was more-or-less enslaved by the army of Sultan Ahmed III. The point in the aforementioned is that there is indeed a fully proven and fairly recent ancestral link between the British royal family, be it in a wider sense, and Africa.
Interesting, and his wife Edwina was Jewish.
@@astroflyinsights To whom are you referring?
@@markmetalen37 Mountbatten
@@astroflyinsightsThat must have been the uncle of Marquess David, namely Earl Louis Mountbatten of Burma. I didn't mention him in my initial comment but he was indeed married to Edwina Ashley, she seems to have had a Jewish great-grandmother because 'The Peerage' mentions a certain Amalia Rosenheim as her ancestor ('Rosenheim' probably is an Ashkenazi family name). I don't know to what extent this would have made Edwina Jewish, a matter of definition I suppose; it's not in a direct female line so the strict Jewish definition does not apply but not everyone adheres that viewpoint ofcourse.
@@markmetalen37 oh thank you for clarifying.
here we go again next 100 years if netflix still exist “I don't care what they tell you in school, Queen Elizabeth was Black.”
Regarding Madragana, wiki says the term moor can Also refer to Morazab, which is a modern term for Christianized Iberian Jews. So she could cover 2 of the 3. OTOH, although not a direct ancestor of Elizabeth, I've read sources that hint that an ancestor of Charles II through Marie de Medici had black blood. It's something you might be able to check out. BC Charles II through one of his mistresses is an ancestor of the late Princess Diana and therefore Princes William and Harry.
Excellent use of Crusader Kings III there. Bravo.
CK3 + Useful Charts? Nice combination and a very "adequate" sponsor.
You made Andalus sound like scandalous and I can't unhear it.
Fascinating video! I love your channel!
Fascinating...thank you !
En el contexto Hispano "moro" siempre ha hecho más referencia a los musulmanes (marroquíes, principalmente), que a personas negras. Ejemplo de ello es la expulsión de los moros por parte de los reyes católicos al final de la reconquista, así que me parece muy dudosa la segunda opción, aunque no para descartarla.
Es que están usando la definición Americana de "Negro" o "People of Color", técnicamente los moros son un subgrupo de la raza caucásica.
@@joaquinescotoaleman4320Moros caucásicos? Eres muy divertido, faltaría que digas que son predominantemente indo europeos.
Moors (in Berber: ⵉⵎⵓⵔⵉⵢⵏ - Imuriyen)[ref. necessary] refers to the medieval Muslim and Arab-Berber inhabitants of Iberia, Sicily, Malta and the Maghreb and originally during antiquity the Berber populations of North Africa, especially the Maghreb. The Moors were not clearly distinguished from the Numidians until the Romans became aware of the existence of Berber kingdoms in the far west. Maures (en berbère : ⵉⵎⵓⵔⵉⵢⵏ - Imuriyen)[réf. nécessaire] désigne les habitants musulmans et arabo-berbères médiévaux d'Ibérie, de Sicile, de Malte et du Maghreb et à l'origine durant l'Antiquité les populations berbères d'Afrique du Nord, tout particulièrement du Maghreb. Les Maures ne furent clairement distingués des Numides que lorsque les Romains eurent connaissance de l'existence de royaumes berbères à l'extrême-ouest.
Apt video for Jubilee Week in the UK, all the better with a sponsor interested in a related bit of royal history!
I love that you used CK3 in your video!
Matt, how many of QE2's ancestors from the last 1000 years do we know about? The number of ancestors you have double for every generation you go back in history. Assuming 3 generations per century, in 1000 years, you have something like 30 generations and over 2 billion ancestors (2^31 - 2). I'm pretty sure we _don't_ know every one of them. What's the size of the subset we're working with?
Good question. There's probably a way to get an estimate using geni.com but I'm not sure how to do it.
No, such a common mistake. Actually, most family trees share a same parent multiple times. See "pedigree collapse". This happens not only at the Habsburgs, but also in every small village.
@@Just-A-Little-Magic Mathematically, you create different models under different assumptions. The 2B number is one extreme, where the assumption is that couples don't have common ancestors. At the other extreme, you have a family ladder, like the ancient Egyptian royalty. Per generation, you just _add_ 2 ancestors instead of doubling. Obviously, in real life-as you've correctly pointed out-people do marry their siblings and cousins. And every time this happens, the tree shrinks in size-the two branches at the common ancestor merge into one. Again, by making assumptions about how frequently this happens in a given population sample, you can estimate the size of the family tree. Nevertheless, calculating the extremes is useful for several reasons: places bounds on the actual values; can be used for sanity checks; plan for the worst-case scenario if you're building a genealogy or ancestry database etc. Now I didn't explain all this in my original comment, so you thought I made a mistake, for which I apologize. It wasn't my main point; I was just providing some context for my question, which is still the same: In the period of interest, how many ancestors did QE2 have, and of those, how many do we have details of? Obviously we know of many more than Matt has shown in his chart. But we don't know all of them. I didn't say it's 2B-but yeah, I should've explained that number better. In this video, for all 3 questions, Matt found ancestors matching the required criteria. However, if he hadn't-if the answer was "no" to any question-then the numbers I asked for would become important in order to estimate the uncertainty / confidence of the "no" answer. For example, suppose you were to ask _"Are there any Indigenous American or Polynesian ancestors in the family tree?"_ Now in Matt's limited database, there aren't any. But how sure can we be that there aren't any at all?
@@nHans Since we know for a fact that queen Elisabeth had no Indigenous American or Polynesian ancestors since the discovery of America in 1492, you would have to go back thousands of years to find the most recend common ancestor. This is more in the realm of DNA testing than geneology.
To me as a Hispanic it came as a surprise that in the anglosphere people think moore = black, it simply not the case. Moore or "Morisco" as we know it, where basically what one would see as an hindu, a roma or an saudi. They where arabs from multiple cultures that had darker completion. They could have black in their ancestry but it is an already mixed "ethnicity" just as the three examples I gave. So I would not say they are black, as a sub saharan african more like hindu or saudi people.
Moor was a blanket term for anyone with darker skin than a European and also happened to be Muslim/African. So while is doesn't mean Moor's were only Sub-Saharan African, there definitely were Sub-Saharan Moors. You have to remember that there are lot of Dark Skin Africans in Northern Africa, even to this day, Northern Africa was populated by black people far before people from the middle east ventured across the Sahara.
No moors where simply Muslims. there were plenty of black moors from east and west Africa in Europe during that time as wells.
@@rai2423 Exactly, there wasn't this entire race denomination prior to colonization. If you were Muslim and from Africa, you were a Moor. The Mali Empire which was a large and wealthy Muslim empire that spanned most of West Africa and parts of North Africa had major influence in Europe and would have been classified as a Moor's to Europeans. For example, the alleged richest human to ever exist, Mansa Musa, the King of the Mali Empire was considered a Moor to Europeans.
@@razatiger22 Well skin colour was definitely a factor back then BUT religion played a more important role in during Mediaeval Islamic times. People are using modern racial ideology to make sense of an ancient term.
Brilliant as always!
Always love your videos sir, but adding a sponsorship disclaimer would have been appreciated
Zaida never converted to christianity and never married alfonso Vl.
Moor in Spanish (Moro) usually almost always meant north African and middle eastern Arabs. In England and Germany on the other hand in medieval times African = black so Moor= black
The english Moor hast two meanings in german: Mauren (Arabs living in al andalus) and Mohren(Black african)
@@juliar1225 they were synonymous in German till I'd say 20th century maybe already 19th But the entire medieval and early modern period they were seen as the same thing
They also referred to other African Muslim kingdoms as moors so that is where it becomes confusing. You have to remember that the dominant religion in Africa, at the time was Islam.
@@rai2423 are you talking about Spanish or Germans. Because subsaharians even if Muslim were simply called negros aka black. Even the Moroccans didn't treat blacks even if Muslim as brothers in faith. The only non North Africans or Middle Eastern people to have been called moros are the Muslims of the Philippines
@@bnb6868 That is simply not true. The Spaniards and North African Muslims referred to the Muslim in the Horn of Africa as Moors as well, specifically Red Sea Moors. The North Africans referred to modern day Somalia as Beled Al Barbar and considered them to be similar to themselves in culture. You are woefully ignorant in your statements.
could you do a tree from areas like the ukraine, beacause ive been interested in my family but have no idea how to trace it so far back 😅 i've tried going back on our tree (ancestry) but it gets really hard becasue there is no birth/death date and a fairly common name for time and place, any tips on fining the family that is hard to track?
Since the region which forms modern Ukraine was split up and passed around between various rulers (Polish, Lithuanian, Russian, etc) for 500+ years, you’re not going to find many good resources that focus on it specifically. That information is scattered all over the place.
@@SirBenjiful oof- is there a way to find where because I actually know whatparts my family(sides) are from
the only Ukrainian records that may exist are from churches but those are likely few and far between due to the countless wars
@@fritz404 I also need to ask family how the found a lot of ancestry (the person who immigrated's father)
Lots of Black history in Russia/ Uk
Love your videos. Just one small thing, The pronunciation of El Andalus could have been polished a bit.
Andalusia is an accepted term as well.
@@varalderfreyr8438 Of you’re talking about the modern Spanish region sure.
Let me say how silly it is to assume Madragana was black. It shouldn’t have been done here. Because for one, the name Mor in Mor Afonso was short for Maior and was a common female Portuguese name meaning “bigger” and did not denote being moorish. But putting that aside, all Muslims in Iberia were called moors, no matter if they were Arab, Berber, black or Iberian convert or descended from them. That includes the non-black Muslims in the chart in the video such as Zaida, Abu Nasir and Al-Mu’tamid, not just Madragana. Also, a great many historians believe she was mozárabe (christian of European Iberian descent living in muslim areas of Iberia). But going back to the moorish thing, if we look at illustrations of moors in Iberia from the time of the moorish rule in Iberia such as in Afonso X’s “Book of Games” from the 1200’s, which was created during the time period of Madragana, we can see large crowds of moors in the illustrations and the vast majority of moors are not black with only a tiny minority being black. Just to clear up the moorish thing. I have a video on my channel about the Moors featuring those historic collections. So based on likelyhood, it’s likely that Madragana was not black. Some historians also claim she was part Jewish too so then there is that too. It’s then unlikely that Queen Charlotte and thus Queen Elizabeth and the modern British royal family descend from a black ancestor. There is just no evidence of it to make such a claim. And such claims on her appearance because of a single painting that was misjudged is just completely ridiculous (all other paintings of her look completely European and there was never any mention of a strange appearance as such during her lifetime). And for certain film or television appearances for her to be of a full, half or partial Sub-Saharan African type is just utter madness because Madragana (who was mostly likely not at all black) was 15 generations before Queen Charlotte and at that rate she wouldn’t have any significant ancestry from Madragana (likely she had none at all or less than a tenth of a percent) to create such as an alleged phenotype. People who make these claims often have agendas. So there you go.
@@user-mu1ig3wn5s Yes, I agree. It’s due to American Afrocentrism started by black Americans of West African descent that make claims on so many peoples cultures that don’t belong to them (as a ploy to have a history beyond slavery) and it migrated from the USA to Britain because of the cultural exchange in the two nations. The white Americans and the white British have become too politically correct to whereas half of them have become brainwashed to believe it and the other half have become so frightened to be branded as racists if they disagree (branded by anti-white real racists living in their nations) which can cause the loss of employment and financial ruin and the like, so these false claims are allowed to flourish in the USA and Britain and even other nations related to them like Canada, Australia and New Zealand. That’s only one part of it. There is a historic part of it that included much of Europe as when the moorish invaded Iberia and ruled in Iberia, although most moorish were non-black the small minority of blacks among them caught the imagination of Europeans outside of Iberia and many historic Europeans created a stereotype of black moors (but not exclusively black). This contributed to the historic belief in Europe that when coupled with the political correctness I spoke of earlier, makes for this unpleasant Afrocentric western claim on moorish history.
Everyone is related to each other in some way, the average relation is 50th cousin. Of course, people in the same geographic region are more related to each other than others, but everyone in the UK has a Middle Eastern, South Asian and East Asian ancestor, in some way. And of course, everyone on the planet is Black African or has a Black African ancestor, even if it was thousands of years ago.
How would someone in the UK have a south or east Asian ancestor?????
@@slurpeecloud999 Firstly, there's a lot of Asian people in the UK. Secondly, the UK has had South Asian people in it, very few to start off with, since the 1700s. Thirdly, ethnically English people are descendants of Indo-Europeans so it's likely some people who lived in India thousands of years ago had descendants who moved to Europe
@@jasonhaven7170 Indo Europeans did not originate in India.
@@slurpeecloud999 they didn't, they lived in Asian steppes(Kazakhstan) near turkic tribes there's a great chance that some of them intermixed with others
@@slurpeecloud999 Doesn't matter, fact is, plenty of White Brits have recent non-White ancestors
I know this is an older video but YT just recommended it to me because I like the channel. Also just started playing CK3 so this was a double win haha.
I love the fact you are using CK3 portraits
Didn't expect this video to be about Portugal & Spain (sort of) Greetings from Portugal 🇵🇹 😄
Very informative and interesting. However, your pronunciation of names and places leaves a lot to be desired!
Fascinating again. Your end music is very appropriate for this one. Sounds a bit Medieval and/or Middle Eastern...! Maybe from Spain or North Africa too.
Anyone here after the news last Thursday?
Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!
I certainly didn't expect the Spanje inquisition in this video, nor the funny remark he made. 😂
Yup, and that was something completely different! 🐍
Well, at least this section of the Queen's pedigree looks a bit more interesting (as in "exotic") to me than all those branches from now obscure German states/territories (in many of which my own ancestors were lowly nobodies). Just a question: Around minute 4/5, one of Ferdinand the Great's sons/Alfonso VI's brothers, García II, is titled "Kind of Galacia" 1065-1072. Is "Galacia" maybe a typo for Galicia (with an "I")?
Yes it’s a typo. There’s Galatia in ancient Turkey, and then Galicia in western Spain and another Galicia in Eastern Europe which was a kingdom in the Middle Ages.
Queen Urraca OMG I LOVE THAT YOU MENTIONED HER!!!
I think I’ve worked out Charles iii to Ferdinand ii, correct me if I’m wrong (this is just from my own research on my tree). Is it through the Beaufort line to John of gaunt and his line to Eleanor of Castile, her father being Ferdinand iii?