Incredible facts
5. Justin II, the Byzantine Emperor, loved to bite people on the head and constantly heard voices
When the Roman Empire "tired" of its old name, then Byzantium was born. Justin II became the sixth emperor to ascended the throne after "rebranding".
Today, scientists, based on this fact, say that, apparently, in those days almost any person could become emperor, because Justin II, by modern standards was a standard client of a psychiatric hospital.
History textbooks talk about Justin as not a very good ruler, because he, to his shame and disgrace, gave a huge part of Italy to the Persians. But the ancient historian John of Ephesus talks about other juicy details of the emperor’s life.
Rulers of Byzantium
For example, he tells how the ruler, with loud screams, hid under his bed from voices that constantly sounded in his head. Moreover, it was possible to lure Justin out of there only by stopping the organ music, which was played in such cases in the palace.
It is known that in those days no methods of treating mental disorders were practiced. Therefore, when Justin had another attack, it was extremely unsafe to be anywhere nearby.
As the emperor’s contemporaries noted, attempts to pacify the raging ruler sometimes ended in failure, because Justin used his teeth, most often biting people on the head.
In the end, a trick was invented to pacify the violent emperor. His servants built a throne on wheels and rolled the unfortunate man around the palace at high speed. Besides the fact that Justin’s joy knew no bounds, it also distracted him from dangerous undertakings.
Thus, the man was clearly suffering from mental illness. He was incurable, he could send any person to jail at any moment, and at the same time, he could not be removed from the throne.
Were the world's best leaders mentally ill?As a result, his madness was somehow contained by several servants. It was rumored that he once even ate his two minions, and no one could do anything.
Rulers of France
4. French King Charles VI believed he was actually a wolf and made of glass
Charles VI was called "The Mad" and he ruled France for 44 years, ascending the throne at the age of 12 in 1380. The entire period of his reign occurred during the country's Hundred Years' War with England.
Agree that if your state was drawn into such a serious armed conflict called the “Hundred Years’ War”, The last thing you want to see at the helm is a person whose nickname sounds like “Mad.”
And we are not talking about his insane rage in battle. Charles showed the first sign of madness at the age of 24, when in 1392 he and a group of knights went in search of a fugitive.
Then, in the forest, he suddenly attacked his people, killing several of them. They managed to calm him down, and They chalked it all up to overvoltage.
Who do people trust?Subsequently, Karl began to forget the names of people close to him, including his own. Moreover, he often even forgot that he was a king. At such moments, he rushed around the palace, telling everyone that he was a wolf and showing how he could howl like a wolf.
He also got very worried when someone touched him because he thought that made of glass and may break. As a result of his madness, the powerful French monarchy began to weaken, and a civil war broke out between the king's brothers.
These events took place against the backdrop of an external armed conflict, which finally freed the hands of French opponents, such as England, which began to openly act with impunity.
As a result, by the end of the reign of Charles Most of France was at the mercy of other states. He might have decided to go to war with them, but someone could have touched him...
King of Denmark
3. King Christian VII of Denmark suffered from a morbid addiction to masturbation.
In 1766, a new king ascended to the Danish throne, ignoring the fact that absolutely everyone knew that the future ruler had mental disorders.
This was probably due to the fact that Christian often allowed himself to throw food at guests at dinner, but then almost every rich man had his own quirks. In general, the period of his reign was not associated with any excesses until until he began to actively masturbate.
When the ruler became seriously interested in this activity, he stopped letting go of his reproductive organ even while performing official duties.
His doctors began to worry that the habit could be accompanied by dangerous consequences for Christian’s health. (infertility and slow growth).
Only in the presence of dignitaries did the king refrain from his favorite habit, but at the same time, when they bowed to him, Christian loved to jump over their bodies, and often during a conversation he slapped them in the face for no reason at all.
Followers vs. LeadersA few years later, Christian was almost completely out of his mind. This allowed his personal physician Johann Streunsee to become the de facto new ruler. He first became the queen's lover, and then persuaded the king to give him control of the executive branch.
Apparently Christian was too busy to even notice the loss of his wife.
Emperors of China
2. Imaginator - Emperor Zhengde of China
At the beginning of the 16th century, Emperor Zhengde was in power in China, who took the throne at the age of 14. His contemporaries claim that the emperor remained a 14-year-old boy for the next decade, that is, most of his reign.
Eg, The ruler was very fond of playing different games. For one of them, he specially built an entire urban area on his lands. And all for playing store owner. The subordinates were confused, but were forced to play along with him.
He also liked to play as a general who controls sabotage groups fleeing from the enemy. At the same time, he dressed all his people in silk.
He even invented for himself alter ego and “commanded” him during sabotage campaigns, which could not but irritate those around him, who were forced to address the emperor as another person.
6 tyrants and their unusual hobbiesThe end of Zhengde’s life turned out to be quite predictable: after drinking too much alcohol while fishing, he fell out of his boat and drowned.
Rulers of Egypt
1. Egyptian King Farouk loved to pick people's pockets
Farouk was the last king of Egypt, and he, like most government leaders during World War II, "slightly out of my mind."
As a result, this fact forced the Egyptian people to abandon the monarchy. In the very first years of his reign, Farouk became famous for his love of gambling and wild parties.
Symptoms of mental disorders that others mistake for whimsAfter some time, citizens began to call him "belly with head", because he began to weigh more than 130 kg, because according to his sister, the king could drink more than 30 bottles of soda and eat several large cans of caviar in one day.
However, if it were only gluttony, then Farouk would not be on this list. A more amazing feature of a rich man was kleptomania.
Farouk once stole Winston Churchill's watch, claiming that he had simply found it. Another time, the ruler saw lions attacking him in a dream. On this occasion, he went to the Cairo Zoo, where shot all the lions right in their cages.
It’s not surprising, it’s a completely normal reaction to bad sleep, especially when you’re not doing well in your head.
The climax of his madness was the fact that Farouk was the only world leader who reacted positively to Hitler's invasion of his country. He even sent a telegram of gratitude to the Fuhrer when the Nazi army was ready to invade Egypt.
Farouk was not happy with the British occupation, and it seemed to him that it was better to change it to the German one. By all accounts, it is clear that Farouk was not the people's favorite. People naturally sympathized with the British and were anti-fascist.
In the middle of the 20th century, in 1952, Farouk was overthrown, and in his treasury were found tons of coins, equipment for magic tricks and the world's largest collection of pornographic materials.
(1368-1422)
In his youth, the king suffered from a fever, and from then on he had outbursts of anger. While hunting in the forest of Le Mans, the king attacked his page and those unlucky enough to be nearby, and killed several people. True, having come to his senses, Karl bowed for a long time in front of the families of the murdered and awarded them generous pensions. The attacks became more frequent after a costume ball, to which the king and his retinue appeared in savage costumes, wrapped in burlap. One of the “savages” caught fire from a torch and set fire to his comrades in the sackcloth. The sight of burning people plunged Karl into extreme excitement (and this is understandable) and the attacks became more frequent. Sometimes Charles seemed like a completely ordinary medieval king, and sometimes he began to rush at people, destroy everything around him and claim that he was made of glass, and therefore he urgently needed armor so as not to break. The only one who had power over him at such moments was Odette de Chamdiver. The girl entertained Charles with a card game and, apparently, not only that, since she gave birth to a daughter from the king.
(1615-1648)
Before his death, Ibrahim's elder brother, Sultan Murad IV, ordered the death of his younger brother, sensing that he should not be trusted with power. But no one dared to carry out the orders, and the years of Ibrahim’s daring reign began. The Sultan was distinguished by cruelty even by Eastern standards, and legends were made about his intemperance in the harem. One of them says that Ibrahim once ordered 300 concubines to be drowned in the waters of the Bosphorus. Having unleashed a devastating war with Venice for Crete, Ibrahim finally fell in the eyes of the courtiers, and they made a strong-willed decision to strangle the Sultan.
3. Christian VII, King of Denmark and Norway
(1749-1808)
Most of all, the young king loved to visit Copenhagen brothels at night in the company of his beloved girl, who, unfortunately, also turned out to be a girl of easy virtue. (In general, Christian behaved like any modern person at a bachelor party). With age, the king's symptoms of schizophrenia worsened. First, the board passed into the hands of his wife and personal physician, the German Dr. Struensee. After a coup d'etat, during which the king was divorced from the queen, and Struensee's hands and head were cut off, Christian was excommunicated from power. He sat in his rooms for weeks, drew strange pictures and wrote “I had to save them both” - meaning his wife and Struensee, whom, in general, he treated well.
Friedrich's mysterious drawings with the inscriptions "I had to save them both"
4. Frederick II the Great, King of Prussia
(1712-1786)
In addition, the brilliant warrior Friedrich was remembered by his contemporaries for always sleeping with two revolvers loaded with salt and somehow shooting a servant in the eye. When Frederick was dying, a priest came to him and began to read from the book of Job: “naked I came from my mother’s womb, naked I will return.” Weak Friedrich said firmly: “Not naked. I'll be in shape."
Of course, the list is subjective, and many crazy and simply strange emperors, kings, princes and kings were not included in the review. If you would like to see any of the missed "celebrities" in one of the subsequent posts, just write about it in the comments and we will fulfill the "request" shortly. In addition, if you yourself can tell other readers something, write in the comments, many, including myself, will be grateful to you for this.
George III
King George III ruled Great Britain and Ireland for about 59 years. His reign was marred by constant riots, war with France, and unsuccessful relations with England's colonies in North America. Despite the fact that this king had the largest number of children in almost the entire history of England, his brain, unlike his body, was sick. Beginning in 1789, the king began to suffer from attacks of prophyria, during which he became completely insane.
Modern historians believe that his madness and blindness, which overtook the king in the last years of his life, were caused by nothing more than arsenic poisoning. It looks like someone was constantly poisoning the monarch by constantly mixing arsenic into the king's food and drink. Despite all his illnesses, the king died at the age of 82.
Juana I the Mad
Yes, it was not in vain that the Queen of Castile received such a nickname, although in childhood and adolescence, it would seem that nothing said anything about future problems with her “head”. Juana of Castile became such after the death of a number of relatives (natural deaths), thanks to which she became queen. Her husband, Phillip I, who was also called the Handsome, died suddenly just a year after Juana became queen.
After the death of her husband, the queen fell into a state of insanity, in fact, she went crazy. Can a normal person transport a coffin with the body of a spouse all over the country without allowing it to be buried, and periodically open the coffin to admire his beloved?
In general, after all this, her relatives hastily took the reins of power into their own hands. Philip was buried, Juana, by order of his father, was sent to Tordesillas Castle. She remained there until 1555, despite being considered queen until her death in 1555. She died at the age of 73.
Carlos II - Spain
This king was extremely ugly from childhood, one might even say ugly. The thing is that his inbreeding coefficient was about 25%, that is, he was born after a series of incestuous relationships between Spanish rulers.
The boy was not only ugly, but also weak in mind, which, in principle, is explained not only by the fact that the genetic apparatus of Carlos II was disfigured beyond recognition, but also by the fact that his parents protected him for a very long time from education and in general from mental stress, fearing for his safety. his health.
The period of his reign marked itself with a weakening of the role of Spain in Europe, which suddenly became a second-rate country from a brilliant power.
Charles VI, France
This king did not become insane immediately, but somehow gradually, the mental disorder became especially noticeable in April 1392, when the king first suffered “a fever accompanied by a prolonged fever.” After this he became very irritable and lost his temper at any harsh sound.
Within a few months, the king went on a military campaign, gathering a significant army. However, immediately after leaving the city, it seemed to him that some ragamuffin began to run after him, shouting “Stop, king! You have been betrayed.” Immediately the king rushed at his page, killing him, then chased after his brother. Not having caught up with him, he began to rush at his own knights until his horse was knocked down and the king fell into a coma.
Three days later he came to his senses and immediately appointed pensions for the widows and children of those killed. After this, the king renounces power, giving the reins to his uncles.
After this, the king had several more attacks, after which he fell into complete madness with periodic bouts of enlightenment. Either it seemed to the king that he was made of glass and might break, then he refused to wash or shave for five months, then he threw his fists at everyone who happened to be nearby.
Now there are two versions of the essence and cause of the king’s illness - one speaks of possible poisoning, the second - of manic-depressive psychosis.
Afonso VI
This king became very ill at the age of three, as a result of which the left half of his body was partially paralyzed and his mind became clouded. For example, when his older brothers died, the future king exclaimed: “Hurray! Now I will be the king of Portugal!” Already in adulthood, Afonso VI behaved in the same way as in his youth: he traveled around the city with young people and drank in taverns.
He did not want to study or rule the country. In general, the king did what he wanted until his own mother opposed such “rule.” For several years, mother and son fought until the mother won, and Afonso’s younger brother, Pedro, became king. In November 1667, Afonso was forced to abdicate.
In the history of mankind, there are rarely rulers who really did a lot for their people. Most often, we see “dummy people” who had a fun life without thinking about the problems of their country. True, there were also those who terrified their subjects with their abnormality. To be honest, such deviations were often caused by incest, which was very popular among aristocrats and royals of those times...
Queen Mary I of Portugal
Queen Maria was noticed more than once in some strange behavior even before the day when her uncle and at the same time husband, King Pedro III, died. This event brought the Queen of Portugal and, briefly, Brazil significantly closer to a state of insanity at the state level. The death of children only increased the speed of the descent into madness.
After 1799, Maria was declared unfit to govern the country. In the palace chambers, her religious fanaticism and melancholy turned into demons sending visions. For example, the queen said that she saw the blackened corpse of her father, at which the devils were mocking.
Wailings and screams were periodically heard from the royal bedchambers. The crazy majesty appeared to the eyes of visitors in the clothes of a son or daughter. Maria the Mad died in Rio de Janeiro in 1816.
King Charles VI of France
By a twist of fate (or genetics), King Charles the Mad's father was named Charles V the Wise. The first symptoms of “something wrong” in the young monarch appeared at the age of 24, when he had an incomprehensible feverish attack, during which the king showed gestures “inappropriate for his status.”
King Charles' medical history includes several manic episodes. In 1392, he suddenly killed four of his own knight guards after the king's page dropped his spear.
After the autocratic massacre, the monarch fell into oblivion and lay in a coma for two days. But he didn’t die, he simply stepped away from government affairs. It seemed to Karl that his bones were made of glass, so he ordered himself to be dressed in iron armor so as not to break.
In just over thirty years of madness, attacks of madness struck the unfortunate monarch fifty times. It is usually said that Charles VI suffered from hereditary schizophrenia.
Otto, King of Bavaria
Otto's older brother was also crazy, and also ruled Bavaria. Ludwig II is remembered in history for financing Wagner and building beautiful castles, including Neuschwanstein, which became the last refuge of the unsociable Majesty. Brother of the romantic Ludwig, Otto ascended the throne already clearly mentally ill; the first attack of a hereditary disease occurred at the age of 15.
Even before Otto’s accession to the Bavarian throne, in honor of his and his brother Ludwig’s sorrowful minds, psychiatry and neurology received special development in the country, since mental illness became problems of national importance.
Otto the First, who was crowned at the age of 38, did not decide a single state matter; the regents ruled for him. In 1913, when the king was 65 years old (of which he spent 40 years in isolation), Otto was officially dethroned. They said that the king did not recognize anyone, but he talked to empty space, smoked a lot and drank beer, broke windows and dishes, and also could not stand closed doors.
Otto died three years later from a volvulus caused by a painfully unhealthy diet. After another two years, the Bavarian monarchy ceased to exist.
King Eric XIV of Sweden
King Eric's mental illness consumed his entire life and destroyed the lives of many people during the short, 9-year reign of the crazy monarch. It was, for example, quite common to order the execution for treason of someone who looked the wrong way, laughed or smiled at the wrong time. Eric once imprisoned and later killed an entire family for being too powerful.
After the brutal executions, the king of Sweden, the Goths and the Wends went for a silent walk in the forest for three days. There was a period when Eric thought that he himself was his brother. My brother liked the idea and in 1568 he overthrew the crazy ruler, imprisoning him in a castle-prison and providing him with security, which had to be strengthened when Eric, not resigned to his fate, began to try to negotiate something with his paranoid colleague - the Moscow Tsar Ivan the Terrible .
Eric died not from his own madness, but by order. He was poisoned with pea soup containing arsenic. It was fashionable then.
Tsar Fedor
Theodore I Ioannovich was the son of an imaginary friend of King Eric - Ivan the Terrible, who suffered from mental pathology. Fedenka “Blessed” from a young age was too simple and superstitious for a royal position, and was clearly in poor health throughout his entire body, so the state was ruled throughout the 15 years of Feodor’s reign by a certain Boris Godunov, a court boyar and brother of Queen Irina.
The pious, weak-minded monarch did not harm anyone. More than anything else, he loved to ring bells. It used to be that he would leave the Kremlin and walk around Moscow monasteries, then listen, then call himself. And more than anything in the world, Theodore Ioannovich wanted to exchange the kingdom for monasticism.
Emperor of Austria, King of Hungary Ferdinand I
The Czechs who loved their monarch added the title “Kind” to his name. Ferdinand was born with a huge head due to the fact that his parents, like normal Habsburgs, were close relatives.
Due to hydrocephalus, which at the turn of the 17th and 18th centuries could not be treated, the crown prince and then the emperor suffered from a bunch of diseases - epilepsy, for example. He was soft-spoken, didn’t understand anything about business, and was, in general, a fool.
They say that almost the only will of Emperor Ferdinand was the statement “I am the emperor, and I want dumplings.” The rest was handled by regents, for example Metternich. At the same time, His Majesty kept a quite prudently filled diary, that is, he was not completely backward - just an unfortunate victim of monarchical incest.
After the revolution of 1848, Ferdinand I abdicated the throne in favor of his nephew Franz Joseph. The emperor spent the rest of his life in the fresh air, engaged in agriculture on his estates.
Alexandra Amalia, Princess of Bavaria
The beautiful Princess Alexandra of Bavaria was born in 1826, and when she was little, she swallowed a glass piano, this is in her words.
Subsequently, the princess discovered a whole set of mental oddities. For example, Alexandra Amalia was obsessed with cleanliness and wore only white clothes.
The heiress declared to her father, King Ludwig, that she had no intention of getting married, and became the abbess of a religious society. At the age of 26, the princess began writing books, mainly for children, and distributed the royalties to orphanages. She continued to write until her death at the age of 49.
Maria Eleonora of Brandenburg
Princess Maria Eleonora of Brandenburg was Queen of Sweden by marriage from 1620 to 1632.
The wife of Gustav Adolf was distinguished by low intelligence and high wastefulness; Maria Eleonora was not allowed to participate in state affairs. For a long time she was unable to give birth to an heir to the Swedish monarch.
After several miscarriages and stillbirths, a daughter, Christina, was born instead of a son, whom the mother immediately hated and then tried to kill several times, allegedly accidentally dropping the child on the floor or stairs.
Two years later, in 1628, King Gustav, who was pleased with his daughter, was killed in the war. There were rumors that Maria Eleonora carried the coffin with his body with her for a long time, for a whole year and a half, not allowing him to bury the body in a Christian manner. When Christina became Queen of Sweden, Mary was stripped of all her powers.
And the relationship with my daughter improved over time. The daughter turned out to be very talented, learned 7 languages, was called the 10th muse, did not want to get married, but loved to fight wars.
George III
King George III ruled Great Britain and Ireland for about 59 years. His reign was marred by constant riots, war with France, and unsuccessful relations with England's colonies in North America.
Despite the fact that this king had the largest number of children in almost the entire history of England, his brain, unlike his body, was sick. Beginning in 1789, the king began to suffer from attacks of prophyria, during which he became completely insane.
Modern historians believe that his madness and blindness, which overtook the king in the last years of his life, were caused by nothing more than arsenic poisoning. It looks like someone was constantly poisoning the monarch by constantly mixing arsenic into the king's food and drink. Despite all his illnesses, the king died at the age of 82.
Juana I the Mad
Yes, it was not in vain that the Queen of Castile received such a nickname, although in childhood and adolescence, it would seem that nothing said anything about future problems with her “head”.
Juana of Castile became such after the death of a number of relatives (natural deaths), thanks to which she became queen. Her husband, Phillip I, who was also called the Handsome, died suddenly just a year after Juana became queen.
After the death of her husband, the queen fell into a state of derangement - in fact, she went crazy. Can a normal person transport a coffin with the body of a spouse all over the country without allowing it to be buried, and periodically open the coffin to admire his beloved?
In general, after all this, her relatives hastily took the reins of power into their own hands. Philip was buried, Juana, by order of his father, was sent to Tordesillas Castle. She remained there until 1555, despite being considered queen until her death in 1555. She died at the age of 73.
Carlos II, Spain
This king was extremely ugly from childhood, one might even say ugly. The thing is that his inbreeding coefficient was about 25%, that is, he was born after a series of incestuous relationships between Spanish rulers.
The boy was not only ugly, but also weak in mind, which, in principle, is explained not only by the fact that the genetic apparatus of Carlos II was disfigured beyond recognition, but also by the fact that his parents protected him for a very long time from education and in general from mental stress, fearing for his safety. his health.
The period of his reign marked itself with a weakening of the role of Spain in Europe, which suddenly became a second-rate country from a brilliant power.
Afonso VI
This king became very ill at the age of three, leaving the left half of his body partially paralyzed and his mind clouded.
For example, when his older brothers died, the future king exclaimed: “Hurray! Now I will be the king of Portugal!” Already in adulthood, Afonso VI behaved in the same way as in his youth: he traveled around the city with young people and drank in taverns.
He did not want to study or rule the country. In general, the king did what he wanted until his own mother opposed such “rule.”
For several years, mother and son fought until the mother won, and Afonso’s younger brother, Pedro, became king.
In November 1667, Afonso was forced to abdicate.
History, as we know, repeats itself. And people in power with enviable regularity find themselves “out of their minds”
Translation for – Seva Bardin
History, as we know, repeats itself. And with enviable regularity, people who are “out of their minds” find themselves in power. We present to you the craziest rulers in history - from King George to Caligula.
Emperor JustinII
The Byzantine Emperor Justin (reigned 565 to 576) began to go mad towards the end of his reign. He had to be carried around the palace in a wheelchair, while he attacked the servants and, according to rumors, even ate several of them.
Ibrahim, ruler of the Ottoman Empire
It is known that the Ottoman Sultan was obsessed with corpulent ladies, and ordered to look for the largest ones that could be found. He ordered 280 of his concubines to be drowned in the ocean when he learned that they had slept with other men. In addition, he used to feed coins to the fish in the pond near the palace.
Charles VI the Mad, King of France
Before he lost his mind, he was known as Charles the Beloved, and only later became Charles the Mad. Charles once executed his knights just because one of them dropped his spear. The king also refused to bathe and for a long time considered himself made of glass.
Eric XIV of Sweden
Known for his paranoia, he could execute people simply because they laughed in his presence. For some time he considered himself his own brother. In the end, he was poisoned.
Princess Alexandra Amalia of Bavaria
For some reason she was convinced that she had swallowed a glass piano as a child. She also had an obsession with cleanliness and only wore white.
Ferdinand I, Emperor of Austria
Conceived as a result of incest, the emperor suffered from epilepsy, encephalitis, and spoke little. It is said that his favorite words were “I am the Emperor, and I want pudding!”
Zhu Houzhao (Zhengde), Chinese Emperor
The Chinese emperor of the early 16th century was known for holding make-believe games in his garden, in which he forced all his courtiers to participate.
Farouk I, King of Egypt
The last reigning king of Egypt, Farouk, began to be called “the belly with the head” when his weight exceeded 136 kg. However, what was truly strange was his kleptomania. Once he even stole Winston Churchill's watch. But most of all, he became famous for the fact that he once shot all the lions in the zoo because of his nightmares.
Friedrich WilhelmI, King of Prussia
Known for his affection for the military, Frederick was obsessed with the idea of creating the largest military formation in history. By “largest” is meant a formation “consisting of people of unusually tall stature.” There is evidence that he even forced tall men and women to have relationships in order to get tall offspring.
Qin Shihuang Di, Chinese Emperor
This ruler was so afraid of assassination that he never slept in the same place twice. And he was afraid not only of people, but also, apparently, of giant sea monsters.
Juana I, Queen of Spain
Queen Juana, also known as Juana the Mad, was very afraid of her husband's betrayal. So much so that even after his death she did not allow any woman, including nuns, to get close to his corpse.
Ludwig II of Bavaria
He was extremely shy and showed little interest in government. Instead, he preferred to build fairytale castles.
IvanIV
Known as Ivan the Terrible, he suffered severe shock at an early age due to the loss of his parents and humiliation at the hands of the authorities. At the age of 14, the Tsar came to power in Russia, after which he fed Rada to a pack of dogs. He did not stop there, and continued to kill and torture many others.
Maria Eleonora of Brandenburg
The queen wanted a son so desperately that she went crazy when she finally gave birth to a daughter. And although the king was happy with the birth of his daughter, Maria tried to kill her many times. My daughter miraculously managed to survive.
Feodor I Ioannovich, Russian Tsar
Also known as Theodore the Beller. After the death of his two-year-old daughter, he began to wander throughout Russia, ringing every church bell that came his way.
MariaI, Queen of Portugal
After the death of her husband, son and daughter, Maria lost her mind. She could scream late into the night and loved to wear baby clothes.
Otto I (King of Bavaria)
This monarch was supposed to succeed his useless brother Ludwig II on the throne, but turned out to be even worse, because he suffered from a stutter and broke everything wherever he went. Recent theories claim that rumors of the brothers' insanity were greatly exaggerated to make it easier to overthrow them from the throne.
ChristianVII, King of Denmark
Although Christian was officially the king, in reality the country was ruled by his advisers. He was mentally ill, paranoid, self-mutilating, and extremely promiscuous with women.
CharlesII, King of Spain
Born from horrific incest, Carlos II suffered from such severe deformity from birth that he could not even close his mouth to chew. Although he was supposed to be king, his mother had to rule in his place. All his life he believed that he was bewitched.
AfonsVI, King of Portugal
Due to an illness suffered in his youth, this monarch was left partially paralyzed on his left side. When he grew up, he became famous as the crazy glutton king of Portugal and, like many other kings on this list, ended up in captivity. There were rumors that there was a pothole left in the place where he had been stomping for a long time.
Charles IX, King of France
He was called the Snotty King. He was prone to fits of rage and sadism, although he was known as a mama's boy.
Henry VI, King of England
This ruler suffered from such severe bipolar disorder that his wife had to take over the reins. Heinrich often fell into prolonged nervous disorders and completely ceased to be aware of what was happening around him.
George III, King of Great Britain
George probably owes his fame as one of the craziest rulers in history to the films that were made about him. Like Charles IX, he too was imprisoned, and his only legacy, other than mental illness, was the loss of the American colonies.
Caligula, Roman Emperor
Undoubtedly, the most insane ruler of all times. It is said that he once ordered the execution of an entire family. He started with the husband and wife and then moved on to the children until he got to the youngest, a 12-year-old girl. The poor girl was crying, and the indignant crowd begged for her life, because she was a virgin. With a smile, he ordered the executioner to rape her and then kill her.