Top 10 Insane Rulers in History

these real-life figures were memorable because they were straight-up psychotic welcome to watchmojo.com and today we're counting down our picks for the top 10 insane rulers in history I have existed from the morning of the world and I shall exist until the last star falls from a night for this list we're ranking some of the most violent mentally unstable and outright selfish royal leaders in history we're excluding non-royal dictators such as Soviet leader Joseph Stalin and Nazi Fuhrer Adolf Hitler as well as democratically elected politicians vigilante are looking you know bonk advanced content und students special leave and will not find anything but don't forget to check out our other lists of the top ten conquerors and top 10 ruthless dictators if you're looking for that kind of thing number 10 Farouk the first of Egypt fruit the first may have the distinction of being the last royal leader of Egypt however his achievements were lackluster and his personal behavior was dislikable Farouk was a glutton reportedly eating 600 Easter's weekly so it should come as no surprise he eventually weighed close to 300 pounds while being fat isn't a crime stealing the watch off of Prime Minister Winston Churchill sure is Farooq's kleptomania pales in comparison to what he did when he had nightmares about lions though he went to his local zoo and shot two dead in their cage number 9 ivan the fourth of russia ivan the terrible' waged a 40 year war on his own country Russia thousands were slaughtered most commonly known as Ivan the Terrible it's probably not surprising that even Vasilyevich is regarded as Russia's greatest and most terrifying leader the Czar United muscovite Russia ruthlessly expanded Russia East to turn it into an empire and is considered the father of modern Russia this is an evil man indulging his err is his sadistic tendencies this aside Yvonne was terribly paranoid he famously established the secret police known as the apprecia Kant agonized and mass executed political dissidents they were like Devils they killed and so raped and they plundered everything in a fit of rage he caused his daughter-in-law Jelena to miscarry and killed his son Ivonne ivanovitch who was coming to his wife's defense by smacking his head with a scepter thereby losing his only sound heir number 8 ibrahim of the ottoman empire Ibrahim initially lived a life of captivity and barely avoided execution by his ruling brother Murad the fourth killed their four other brothers once more had died Ibrahim succeeded him and quickly became known for his physical and mental breakdowns posthumously earning him the nickname Ibrahim the mad Ibrahim obsessed over his harem often influenced by concubines and gave them excessive gifts like a palace disgusted at his ineffectiveness Ottoman elites killed the Sultan with his mother's consent so as you can imagine his legacy wasn't great after his death a myth circulated that he drowned 280 concubines because they may have slept with other men number seven Henry the eighth of England Henry the eighth wanted to annul his marriage to his first wife and the Catholic Church said no so by putting his foot down and stating the sovereign reigns supreme over the Church of England he basically founded the Anglican Church Henry married six times had numerous affairs and illegitimate children and executed two of his wives his second wife Anne Boleyn who was the mother of Elizabeth the first and his fifth wife Catherine Howard beyond his affinity for X or aside Henry had a tendency to overspend the economy was strong at his reins outset however he nearly bankrupted England by blowing state funds on excessive things such as thousands of needless tapestries and pistols number six Juhu Zhao of China known as the Zheng de Emperor Juhu Shou didn't want to rule Genki became Emperor at 14 and quickly took to a life of luxury and womanizing outside of Beijing gen D blue state funds on creating palaces for exotic zoos and then converting them into harems many women died there due to living conditions and the lack of food provided he notoriously made royal officials pretend to be market vendors while he imagined himself shopping like a commoner and he accidentally burned down his palace with gunpowder this guy was nuts number 5 Charles the 6th of France in the middle of the Hundred Years War Charles the six became king at the tender age of 11 and was a puppet of his manipulative uncles Charles I was to them at 21 determined to improve France he earned the nickname Charles the beloved by 1392 he began suffering bouts of insanity killing his own Knights running wildly into forests kicking Jews out of the kingdom and signing the Treaty of quoi which recognized English king henry v as his successor is it any wonder he was later dubbed Charles the mad number 4 Joanna of Castile Joanna married King Philip the handsome in 1506 while their marriage started passionately Philip had numerous Affairs causing her constant paranoia about her husband's infidelities just terrible once Philip died Johanna allegedly wouldn't let women come near his corpse including nuns her son Charles had his mother confined to a convent in tordesillas largely as a power play to consolidate his rule however Joanna's paranoia got the best of her and she believed the nuns conspired to murder her the queen of Castile and Aragon tragically died in confinement and earned the moniker Joanna the mad alberto la vida de tu nombre pero hamachi lebra's okay Mathias I made a plastic number three nero of the roman empire in the year 64 AD a fire raged through rome for five days legend suggests that nero simply played his fiddle as Rome burned ancient historians accused Nero of arson to make way for a palace though Christians were blamed and time enough flail unite against the Caesars but not in my time not a fan of Christianity it's rumoured Nero created Christian candles by dipping followers in oil and lighting them on fire he competed in the 67 Greek Olympics was injured in a chariot race and balm didactic but judges let him win and why not Nero Mass executed people including his mother and at least one of his wives we probably let him win - my head's splitting wide last night the music the delicious debauchery number 2 Caligula of the Roman Empire Caligula was sexually perverse and viciously cruel ha ha ha indiscriminately executing family and friends he overcompensated vied to be worshipped as a god and then built the largest boat as a personal floating palace after an Oracle alleged Caligula was as likely to become emperor as to ride a horse on the Bay of byyyee the emperor blue funds on a pontoon bridge for the bay and rode his horse in key tattoos across while sporting Alexander the Great's breastplate hail the most honorable Incitatus Hey ancient historians say he wanted to appoint inky tattoos as consul and later made him a priest Caligula was eventually assassinated before we unveil our number one pick here are some honorable mentions number one vlad the third of will a kia Vlad Dracula was a hostage of the Ottoman Empire as a teenager once in charge of the region of Romania known as will a Kia he vowed revenge he really was um a vicious extraordinarily cruel but extremely successful leader refusing tribute to an ottoman em boy under the premise that they declined to respectfully remove their hats Vlad had their turbans nailed to their heads these were the first of his eventual 100,000 victims Vlad's tactics became increasingly brutal as Ottoman armies found forests of their comrades skewered on wooden pikes earning him the moniker Vlad the Impaler his name and notoriety was such that it served its inspiration for Count Dracula i DRA and I bid you welcome mr. ha ha do you agree with our list it must be bad I don't know what else to do talk about them who do you think is the most insane ruler in history for more excellent top 10s published daily be sure to subscribe to watchmojo.com rome 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Length: 9min 34sec (574 seconds)

Published: Fri Oct 09 2015