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5 Greatest Monarch of all Time

Symenon
19-09-2006, 03:58
Who do you think is (or was) the 5 greates monarchs of all time?

My list of Greatest Monarchs are...

Queen Elizabeth I of England
Empress Catherine II of Russia
King Louis XIV of France
Pharaoh Ramesses II of Egypt
William I (the Silent) of the Netherlands
Infinite Revolution
19-09-2006, 03:59
pish
Druidville
19-09-2006, 04:25
I'm working on how you put Catherine and not Peter the Great on there. Temporary insanity? She can't hold a candle to Old Pete.

Oh, and the best King of France was Richelieu. :D
Crossman
19-09-2006, 04:29
Worst Monarch: King George II of America
Druidville
19-09-2006, 04:43
Worst Monarch: King George II of America

*sigh* Politics. If you want to go that route, I'd say King William, King Lyndon, King Richard, and King John were all dense. And let's not get into Post Civil War presidents...
Greill
19-09-2006, 04:45
*sigh* Politics. If you want to go that route, I'd say King William, King Lyndon, King Richard, and King John were all dense. And let's not get into Post Civil War presidents...

Don't forget King Herbert and King Frederick.
Ravea
19-09-2006, 04:49
My vote goes to Saladin.

Baldwin the Leper comes in close second. Too bad he was a leper and didn't live longer.

Barbarossa would have been great too, if he hadn't have died so suddenly.
Dobbsworld
19-09-2006, 04:58
Ahmenhotep IV (Akhnaton).
Herreng
19-09-2006, 05:00
Didn't Barbarossa drown because he didn't take his armor off before jumping in to a river?
Herreng
19-09-2006, 05:01
Akhenaton? You may as well include Nero. Akhenaton made everybody unhappy, and created for us that most hateful of ideas: monotheism!
Ravea
19-09-2006, 05:03
Didn't Barbarossa drown because he didn't take his armor off before jumping in to a river?

Bingo.

He also managed to unite Germany for a very short time. Too bad he couldn't stick around.
The Potato Factory
19-09-2006, 05:06
Frederick II of Prussia, Peter III of Russia, Louis XIV of France, Charles Martel of Francia, John III of Poland.
The Atlantian islands
19-09-2006, 05:08
King David and Frederick The Great.
Aryavartha
19-09-2006, 05:45
Eurocentricism much ?
Dobbsworld
19-09-2006, 05:49
Akhenaton? You may as well include Nero. Akhenaton made everybody unhappy, and created for us that most hateful of ideas: monotheism!

Well, I thought he was fantastic. And Egypt needed shaking up, anyway.
Anti-Social Darwinism
19-09-2006, 05:56
Who do you think is (or was) the 5 greates monarchs of all time?

My list of Greatest Monarchs are...

Queen Elizabeth I of England
Empress Catherine II of Russia
King Louis XIV of France
Pharaoh Ramesses II of Egypt
William I (the Silent) of the Netherlands



Queen Elizabeth I
Empress Catherine II
Hatshepsut
Cleopatra
Hsu Tse of China (the Empress Dowager)
Lord of Hosts
19-09-2006, 05:57
In chronological order:

1) Ahmenhotep IV (Akhnaton)
3) Judge Samson
2) King David
3) High Priest Simon the Just
4) Judah the Maccabee