Worst rulers
Scaryduck is doing a Worst People Ever poll, so I have decided to look into a specific subset of worst people, of interest to me: the Worst Rulers Ever. Yes, the most ill-advised people ever to sit on a throne.
There have been a fair few dodgy popes, but John XII has to be up there, running a brothel on Church property: here
Being Roman Emperor wasn't enough for young Elegabalus. But he didn't want to be a singer, or a poet, or even a shepherd, like some overburdened potentates. No, he wanted to be a transvestite prostitute.
The Ottomans were generally an oasis of sanity in the medieval world, but the habit of imprisoning heirs to throne fractured a few psyches, particularly Mustafa the Mad here.
You knew where you were with Charles the Mad!
Bringing us right up to date, and keeping up the side for genocidal post-colonial Africans, we have self-proclaimed King of Scotland Idi Amin and, of course Robert 'White men made AIDS and my palace is haunted' Mugabe.
More mad rulers here and here.
There have been a fair few dodgy popes, but John XII has to be up there, running a brothel on Church property: here
Being Roman Emperor wasn't enough for young Elegabalus. But he didn't want to be a singer, or a poet, or even a shepherd, like some overburdened potentates. No, he wanted to be a transvestite prostitute.
The Ottomans were generally an oasis of sanity in the medieval world, but the habit of imprisoning heirs to throne fractured a few psyches, particularly Mustafa the Mad here.
You knew where you were with Charles the Mad!
Bringing us right up to date, and keeping up the side for genocidal post-colonial Africans, we have self-proclaimed King of Scotland Idi Amin and, of course Robert 'White men made AIDS and my palace is haunted' Mugabe.
More mad rulers here and here.
posted by The Moai at 4:27 AM
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