30/05/2024
The Whitewashing of prominent Ancient Greek figures..
You can delve into 90% of melanated people groups, or civilisations and youâll see the whitewashing of their artifacts.
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The Whitewashing of prominent Ancient Greek figures..
You can delve into 90% of melanated people groups, or civilisations and youâll see the whitewashing of their artifacts.
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âKing Henry had become enamored of Anne Boleyn in the mid-1520s, when she returned from serving in the French court and became a lady-in-waiting to his first wife, Catherine of Aragon.â
âAs Catherine had failed to produce a male heir, Henry transferred his hopes for the future continuation of his royal line to Anne, and set about getting a divorce or annulment so he could marry her.â
âAt Queen Anneâs coronation in June 1533, she was nearly six months pregnant, and in September she gave birth to a girl, Elizabeth, rather than the much-longed-for male heir. She later had two stillborn children, and suffered a miscarriage in January 1536; the fetus appeared to be male.â
âBy that time, Anneâs relationship with Henry had soured, and he had his eye on her lady-in-waiting, the demure Jane Seymour.â
âAfter Anneâs latest miscarriage, and the death of Catherine that same month, rumors began flying that Henry wanted to get rid of Anne so he could marry Jane.â
âHenry had apparently convinced himself that Anne had seduced him by witchcraft, and also told Cromwell (Anneâs former ally, now her rival for power in Henryâs court) that he wanted to take steps towards repairing relations with Emperor CharlesâŠâ
âAs for Anne, most historians agree she was almost certainly not guilty of the charges against her. She never admitted to any wrongdoing, the evidence against her was weak and it seems highly unlikely she would have endangered her position by adultery or conspiring to harm the king, whose favor she depended upon so greatly.â
âStill, Anne and Rochford were found guilty as charged, and Norfolk pronounced the sentence: Both were to be burnt or executed according to the kingâs wishes.â
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More examples of whitewashing- Part VâŠ
Now that the real aspects of history is starting to be unveiled, those who are ignorant, are accusing those bringing out this information of âblackwashing.â
These type of buzzwords are going to become more prevalent as more truth is revealed as a coping mechanism.
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During the late 18th century a painting entitled âThe Incas Kings listâ was made which gave an accurate illustration of various Inca emperors with subsequent Spanish kings taking on the role of an Inca emperor upon Spanish conquest, showing them to be of a melanated hue.
Various imitations (of the Incas kings list) thereafter have shown them to be of a lighter/pale hue, thus indicating a deliberate attempt at manipulating the appearance of the monarchy.
The Spanish monarchy, specifically the king, was melanated all throughout the Middle Ages up until the early 19th century.
Due to greed and a lust for more power and expansion, this same black Spanish monarchy, Charles V to be specific, authorised the conquest of of the Inca empire.
A lot of the more prominent Spanish Conquistadors where Caucasian; Hernan Cortes, Francisco Pizzaro, De Almago
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The deculturation of the Gypsies;
Ancient and Modern Britons Vol 1, published in 1884;
âIt is not so very long ago that the conventional âgypsyâ was of almost black complexion. The followers of John the Faw, in the old ballad, are spoken of as âthe black crew,â and as âblack, but very bonny.â
âThe rhyme with which Scotch mothers used to awe their children spoke of â the black Tinkler.â And in 1681, the Indians of New England, or âMoorsâ as they were also styled by the settlers, were pronounced by William Penn to be âas black as gypsies.â
âNow, at that period, or not much earlier, those British gypsies used to âtravel about the country in companies of nearly a hundred persons each.â (At earlier dates, in companies of thousands, but we need not look so far back at present.) These companies have dwindled down to tens and fives and units.â
âWhat has become of the people? Jasper Petulengroâs answer to Mr. Borrow is, in some sense an answer to this question. When he is asked whether his people will always keep their individuality, he replies;
âCanât say, brother; nothing lasts for ever. Romany chies (women) are Romany chies still, though not exactly what they were sixty years ago⊠I tell you what, brother, if ever gypsyism breaks up, it will be owing to our chies having been bitten by that mad puppy they call gentility.â
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The image of Manuel I Komnenos is a manuscript miniature of him located at the Vatican Library in Rome, Italy, which dates back to the 12th century.
âAs with the accession of his father, Manuelâs was contested. He was the youngest son of John II, and was with his father when he died in Cilicia in 1143. Even though his older brother Isaakios was still alive, and in the capital, Manuelâs supporters gained control of the palace and he was able to enter Constantinople and be crowned emperor.â
âHis foreign policy was the most wide-ranging of the Komnenoi. In the Balkans he fought wars against the Serbs and Hungarians early in his reign, but, following his alliance with Bela III of Hungary, Manuel became overlord of Serbia, Bosnia, and Croatia, while gaining considerable influence in Hungary itself.â
âIn the East Manuel extended Byzantiumâs boundaries by annexing much of Cilicia, buying the County of Edessa, and forcing the submission of Antioch. He was also involved in ambitious plans to conquer Egypt.â
âThe new heights to which Manuel carried Byzantine prestige amongst the crusader states can be seen in the ceremony of his triumphal entry into Antioch in 1159. Manuel made a ceremonial entry into the city on horseback while the Prince of Antioch and King of Jerusalem walked behind him on footâŠâ
âFrom a social perspective, Manuelâs reign witnessed growth of Western influence at the Byzantine court and in life in general. Manuelâs second wife was a princess of Antioch, and the emperor himself took part in jousting contests organised in the hippodrome in Constantinople.â
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âNapoleon Bonaparte, was a French military leader and emperor who conquered much of Europe in the early 19th century. Born on the island of Corsica, Napoleon rapidly rose through the ranks of the military during the French Revolution (1789-1799).â
âAfter seizing political power in France in a 1799 coup dâĂ©tat, he crowned himself emperor in 1804. Shrewd, ambitious and a skilled military strategist, Napoleon successfully waged war against various coalitions of European nations and expanded his empire.â
âHowever, after a disastrous French invasion of Russia in 1812, Napoleon abdicated the throne two years later and was exiled to the island of Elba. In 1815, he briefly returned to power in his Hundred Days campaign. After a crushing defeat at the Battle of Waterloo, he abdicated once again and was exiled to the remote island of Saint Helena, where he died at 51.â
Napoleon Bonaparte was the direct descendant of a black man called Francesco Bonaparte, who was nicknamed âThe Moor.â
âAccording to studies by G. Lucotte and his coauthors based on DNA research since
2011, Napoleon Bonaparte belonged to Y-DNA (direct male ancestry) haplogroup E1b1b1c1* (E-M34*).â
âThis 15000-year-old haplogroup has its highest concentration in Ethiopia and in the Near East (Jordan, Yemen). According to the authors of the study, âProbably NapolĂ©on also knew his remote oriental patrilineal origins, because Francesco Buonaparte (the Giovanni son), who was a mercenary under the orders of the Genoa Republic in Ajaccio in 1490, was nicknamed The Maure of Sarzane.â
The Women Bonaparte Vol 1, by Williams H. Noel, published in 1825;
âFrancesco, who is styled in official documents
âthe Moor of Sarzanaâ or â Francesco Bonaparte, called the Moorâ either on account of an unusually swarthy complexion, or because he had served under Ludovico the Moor Duke of Milan, resolved to settle in Corsica..â
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âBertrand du Guesclin was a national French hero, an outstanding military leader during the early part of the Hundred Yearsâ War (1337â1453). After attaining the highest military position as constable of France in 1370, he brilliantly used the strategy of avoiding set battles with the English until the French had sufficient advantage to defeat them soundly.â
âAfter fighting a duel with Sir Thomas Canterbury at the successful defense of the city of Rennes against an English siege in 1356â57, du Guesclin was awarded a pension by the Dauphin (the future king Charles V) in December 1357.â
âAppointed captain of Pontorson, he remained in the service of the French royal house of Valois. He fought in many battles (1359â63), being twice taken prisoner, and won a major victory at Cocherel in May 1364, defeating the troops of Charles II the Bad, king of Navarre, and taking prisoner Jean de Grailly, captal de Buch, an ally of the EnglishâŠâ
âBy 1373 he had given the French several major victories. He spent his remaining years on smaller expeditions against scattered English forces and mercenary bands and died besieging an enemy fortress.â
As constable, he was a lieutenant (second in command) to King Charles V of France (1364-1380) & the highest ranking member of the French nobility.
Du Guesclin was given the epithet of âThe Black Dog of BrocĂ©liande.â Reasoning for it, not ascertained based off my research.
A continuation of the excerpt describing Du Guesclin;
âHis limbs were vigorous and well-proportioned, and his countenance was warlike. He is represented as having been exceedingly ugly, so that, as the French historians very Frenchly observe, he never was agreeable to the ladies even in his youth.â
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The Danes earned their name âVikingâ on account of their piracy and sea raiding voyages.
Ancient and Modern Britons, a retrospect, by David MacRitchie, published in 1884;
âThe cruelty of the Danes is painted in the strongest colours by our most ancient historians, who lived near this time.â
âThe cruel Guthrum,â says one of these historians, âarrived in England, A.D. 878, at the head of an army of pagan Danes, as cruel as himself, who, like inhuman savages, destroyed all before them with fire and sword, involving cities, towns and villages, with their inhabitants, in devouring flame, and cutting those in pieces with their battle-axes who attempted to escape from their burning houses..â
âAll the towns through which they passed exhibited the most deplorable scenes of misery and desolation, old men lying with their throats cut, the streets covered with the bodies of young men and children, without heads and arms, and of matrons and virgins, who had first been publicly dishonoured, and then put to death.â
âIt is said to have been the common practice among these barbarous pagans to tear the infants of the English from the breasts of their mothers, toss them up into the air, and catch them on the point of their spears as they were falling down.â
âThe horrid operation of scalping, peculiar to the North American savages, was occasionally performed by these nations on their enemies..â
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âHe was born in the 4th century and lived until his death in the Byzantine Empire. Forced by Julian the Apostate to serve as a warrior against Christianity, he was imprisoned after being caught helping people in need or defending Christians, and awaited there his death penalty. However, John the Warrior was released after the death of the emperor during a war.â
âDuring the reign of Roman emperor Julian the Apostate in the last era of persecution towards Christians in the Roman Empire, John the Warrior served as a soldier in the army, and was forced by Julian to participate on Christian persecutions.â
âHowever, as a Christian he warned other against attacks or possible imprisonments, and he sometimes visited prisoners. John was not only good towards Christians, but also towards the poor and people in need. He visited invalids and comforted the suffering.â
âWhen Julian saw John supporting the Christians, he imprisoned him, where the warrior awaited his death penalty. However, in 363 AD Julian died during the Battle of Samarra, and subsequently John was released from the prison. The exact date of death is unknown, but it is known that he died of very old age.â
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King Louis XIV throughout his lifetime had many mistresses with whom he bore children with; those children were thus rendered illegitimate, or unrecognised by the King, Louise Marie Therese being among those who was unrecognised.
Based off how Louis XIVâ daughter is being illustrated in the painting, it would appear that Louis XIV would at the very least have to be a man of mixed race in order to produce a dark complexioned daughter.
Louis XIV was first cousins with King Charles II of England (1660-1685), who was widely infamous for being a very dark skinned black man during his lifetime.
Louisâ physical appearance was also likened to Sir Ewen Cameron, a 17th century Scottish clan chief, who was given the nickname âBlack Evanâ on account of his dark complexion. According to a contemporary, the only distinction was Cameronâs larger size and darker complexion.
The Age of Louis XIV, by Voltaire, published in 1780;
âThe opinion she had of her birth, gave her an air of pride, of which the Superiors of the Convent complained: Madame de Maintenon, in a journey to Fontainbleau, went to the Convent of Moret; and, willing to inspire this Nun with more humility, endeavoured to banish the idea chat nourished her pride.â
âMadam, (said the Nun to her) the trouble which a lady of your rank takes to come on purpose to tell me that I am not the Kingâs daughter, full convinces me that I am.â This anecdote the Nuns of Moret remember to this day.â
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âThe son of Ivan IV the Terrible and his first wife, Anastasiya Romanovna Zakharina-Yureva, Fyodor succeeded his father on March 19, 1584.â
âBeing both physically weak and feebleminded, however, he took no part in government affairs, which were dominated by his wifeâs brother, Boris Godunov.â
âGodunov was, therefore, responsible for the major achievements of Fyodorâs reignâthe elevation of the metropolitan see of Russia to a patriarchate (1589), the recovery in 1595 of lands near the Gulf of Finland that had been lost to Sweden in 1583, and the strengthening of Russiaâs control over western Siberia and territory in the Caucasus.â
âWhen Fyodor died childless in 1598, the Rurik dynasty became extinct and the throne of Russia was transferred, by vote of a zemsky sobor (âassembly of the landâ), to Godunov.â
Milestones in Russian history, by Seth Ronald, published in 1968;
âGiles Fletcher, an Englishman living at the time, wrote of Feodor in his book The Russe Commonwealth..â
âThe Emperor that now is called Theodore Ivanovich is for his person of a mean stature, somewhat low and gross, of a sallow Complexion and inclining to the dropsy, hawknosed, unsteady in his pace, by reason of some weakness of his limbs, heavy and inactive, yet commonly smiling almost to laughter.â
âFor quality otherwise, simple and slow-witted, but very gentle, and of an easy nature, quiet, merciful, of no martial disposition, nor greatly apt for matters of policy, very superstitious and infinite that way.â
âBesides his own private devotions at home, he goeth every week commonly on pilgrimage to some monastery or other that is nearest at hand.â
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âLucius Septimius Severus was born in 145 AD in Leptis Magna, Libya; he was the first African-born (of Phoenician origin) Roman emperor. He came to Rome shortly after turning 18 and Marcus Aurelius made him a senator.â
âNews of the deaths of Commodus and Pertinax reached Severus while he was in Upper Pannonia.
The Danube troops hailed him as imperator and he headed for Rome.â
âThe Senate realized that his accession was inevitable and hailed him as Caesar. Severus then executed or expelled all those of the Praetorian Guard for taking part in the murder of Pertinax.â
âSeverus had to deal with uprisings and civil war on all sides of the empire; he consolidated his power, but began ailing as he aged.â
âHe chose his son Caracalla as successor and married him to the daughter of the leader of the Praetorian Guards.â
âSeverus died at York, while attempting to conquer territory north of Hadrianâs Wall. His sons, with whom he was on the campaign, abandoned the project and took his cremated ashes back to Rome.â
âHe was soon deified and fondly remembered as a successful consolidator of Roman power.â
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âCharles VI was Holy Roman Emperor and ruler of the Austrian Habsburg Monarchy from 1711 until his death, succeeding his elder brother, Joseph I. He unsuccessfully claimed the throne of Spain following the death of his relative, Charles II.â
âIn 1708, he married Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-WolfenbĂŒttel, by whom he had his four children: Leopold Johann, Maria Theresa, Maria Anna, and Maria Amalia.â
âFour years before the birth of Maria Theresa, faced with his lack of male heirs, Charles provided for a male-line succession failure with the Pragmatic Sanction of 1713.â
âThe Emperor favoured his own daughters over those of his elder brother and predecessor, Joseph I, in the succession, ignoring the decree he had signed during the reign of his father, Leopold I. Charles sought the other European powersâ approval. They demanded significant terms, among which were that Austria close the Ostend Company.â
âIn total, Great Britain, France, Saxony-Poland, the Dutch Republic, Spain, Venice, States of the Church, Prussia, Russia, Denmark, Savoy-Sardinia, Bavaria, and the Diet of the Holy Roman Empire recognised the sanction. France, Spain, Saxony-Poland, Bavaria and Prussia later reneged.â
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The highlighted portion of the text is a direct quote from Laure Junot, Duchess of dâabrantes and French writer who witnessed the appearance of the Portuguese during the early 19th century.
The non highlighted portion of the text is the authorâs perspective as to why the Portuguese inhabitants of that time had a strong negroid appearance.
Although some of the negroid strain in Portugal came from the Moorish inhabitants (who subscribed to Islam) and negroes being imported from Africa as slaves, it also came from the indigenous negroid population of Portugal who were there before the Muslim moorish inhabitants and negroes from Africa.
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The Gypsies were among some of the darkest people groups across medieval Europe.
A continuation of the excerpt regarding the gypsies;
âIn short, they were the poorest miserable creatures that had ever been seen in France; and notwithstanding their poverty, there were among them women, who, by looking into peopleâs hands, told their fortunes; and, what was worse, they picked peopleâs pockets of their money.â
âIt is probable, from these and other accounts, that the gipsies had spread themselves over all the countries of the continent before the middle of the fifteenth century; they did not, however, arrive in Great Britain till the beginning of the sixteenth.â
âWherever they went they appear to have told the same story regarding their origin and purposes, and so to have procured a degree of toleration which they could not have experienced in any other character than that of religious pilgrims.â
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Queen Charlotte Sophia was ridiculed by some of her contemporaries for her negroid appearance. Her phenotype didnât align with the standards which were perpetrated at the time, that being a Roman (aquiline) nose and thin lips.
One of her contemporaries made mention of her nose and mouth being too wide, while another one of her contemporaries reputed her to be ugly in appearance.
She was the longest reigning Queen consort in Englandâs history, reigning a total of 57 years.
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Please keep in mind that only a portion of the Danes were referred to as Fingal, a Gaelic (Irish) term for âfair strangerâ, or âforeign tribe.â The rest were referred to as Dubh Ghenti, a Gaelic term for âblack gentile.â
The author of the book attempts to assert that the Daneâs referred to as âBlack Gentilesâ by the Gaels was in reference to their black outfit, which shows the bias of some of these authors, hence why we have to take certain things they write with a grain of salt.
He was however at least able to acknowledge that the Celts, ie those who settled the British isles were black, which is also supported by the archeology.
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So much of the scholarly works from the 19th and 20th century points to a large component of the Danes/Vikings being black; the archeology points to this too.
The modern day perception of a Viking is someone with pale-skin, blue eyes and blonde hair. Though you had a component of the Vikings who appeared this way physically, they wasnât the majority, nor were they of the nobility.
The Scandinavian Kings being illustrated;
Magnus Olavsson, King of Norway (1093-1103)
Ince the Elder, King of Sweden (1080-1104)
Erik Ejegod King of Denmark (1095-1103)
The bust of King Philip II is currently housed at the Metropolitan museum of Art, in New York, United States.
The Philippines, a country in Southeast Asia, takes its name from King Phillip II after the Spanish conquered the island during the 16th century.
Many couldnât fathom the idea that, a country in Southeast Asia, was named after a black man, but thatâs the reality.
âPrince of Orange (or Princess of Orange if the holder is female) is a title associated with the sovereign Principality of Orange, in what is now southern France and subsequently held by the stadtholders of, and then the heirs apparent of, the Netherlands.â
A few families were known to have this ruddy-brown appearance. A few members of the House of Stuart/Stewart, who inherited the English, Scottish and Irish throne for over a century, a branch of the Douglas clan (noble house of the Scottish lowlands) of Scotland during the Middle Ages, who were known as the âRed Douglasses.â
Donât let mainstream academia fool you into thinking that someone being referred to as a black man during that period isnât what it actually means.
When in annals of history has a white man been referred to as black man?
âThe grandson of Frederick I Barbarossa, he became king of Sicily at age three but did not gain control over the strife-ridden country until 1212.â
âHe defeated his rival Otto IV in 1214, and though the planned union of Sicily and Germany alarmed the pope (1220), he negotiated a compromise and was crowned emperor.â
âA delay in departing for the Sixth Crusade brought excommunication (1227), later revoked. By 1229 Frederick was king of Jerusalem. The pope however condemned the treaty and directed a papal army to invade Fredrickâs regency.â
âOn his return he quelled a rebellion in Germany led by his son Henry, who had allied with the Lombard League. Seeing Frederick as a growing threat to papal authority, Gregory IX excommunicated him again in 1239; the emperor responded by invading the Papal States.â
âHe was tagged as Antichrist by Pope Gregory IX. Frederick II was a great patron of arts and science. He was a polyglot who could speak Sicilian, Greek, Latin, Arabic, French and German.â
âSoon after his death, his dynasty crumbled and his heir line died out bringing an end to the House of Hohenstaufen.â
âHe tried and failed (1245) to negotiate peace with Innocent IV, and his struggle with the papacy continued. By the time of his death Frederick had lost much of central Italy, and his support in Germany was uncertain.â
Frederick II was married four different times throughout his reign and had many mistresses/concubines, having over 15 legitimate & illegitimate children throughout all these unions.
âFrederickâs reign, as was true for most medieval rulers, was one of perpetual conflict on several fronts. Among his goals were: reestablishing imperial authority in Italy, fending off the growth of Byzantine power in the Mediterranean and southern Italy, maintaining the supremacy of the empire over the pope, and consolidating his rule in Germany. Only in the last of these endeavors was he to be successful to any great extent.â
âFrederick invaded Italy in 1154 and was crowned emperor at Rome in 1155. His beard led the Italians to give him the nickname Barbarossa (Red Beard).â
âThe efforts in Italy were, in the long run, unsuccessful. Times had changed since Charlemagne had founded the empire in 800. The pope was playing a much stronger role in European affairs, and a number of powerful city-states had grown up in northern Italy.â
âSeveral of the city-states formed a group called the Lombard League to oppose Frederick. The Leagueâs army defeated him at the battle of Legnano in 1176.â
âThe cities then became almost completely independent. His contest with the papacy failed as miserably: in 1177 he was forced to humble himself before Pope Alexander III.â
âIn Germany the emperor was more successful. He consolidated his power over the nobles and princes by building up a stable administration of imperial territory between the areas controlled by them. These lands were ruled by imperial ministerials who were personally responsible to Frederick.â
âIn 1189 he called for a Third Crusade to free Jerusalem from the Muslims. On the trek through Asia Minor with his army, he drowned in the Saleph River in 1190.â
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