Favorite European Monarchs

Thourghout all of Europe's history who is your favorite monarch. By this I mean King, Queen, Emperor, or Empress
For me its
-Augustus Caesar
-Trajan
-Marcus Aurelius
-Napoleon Bonaparte
-Frederick the Great
-Loius XIV

Louis XIV, bitch.

Gustavus Adolfus of Sweden
Franz I and II of Austria and the Holy Roman Empire
Friedrich Barbarossa of the Holy Roman Empire
Harold Hardrade of Norway
William the Conqueror of England
Vercingetorix of the Averni Gauls
Friedrich II the Great of Prussia
Wilhelm I of Prussia and Germany

Well you three just posted pretty much what I would post, so I guess I owe you a thank you.

You're welcome.

Marcus Aurelius, Queen Elizabeth I, Charlemagne.

In the words of a former member

"All monarchs suck because they are not elected by the people" (though obviously it was in a way more intelligent format then what I'm presenting)

Neither are the U.S. Presidents, but you don't see me complaining

Romans don't count, there before the European feudal system actually legitimized kings.

1. Sultan Suleiman The Magnificent
2.Napoleon Bonaparte
3. Oliver Cromwell
4. Louis XIV

Do Turkish sultans count?

Maria Thereasa
Matthias Corvinus
Otto Von Bismarck
Franz Joseph I.

Not that I like monarchs because they are unelected, but English king Henry VII (not VIII) did a great job. He set up the police force, ensured that everybody had the right to an independent trial, made no useless wars with the French, and died with more money than he started with. He would have got my vote... Oh wait.

I do not serve no king I serve the people!!!

You must go,your people need you!

Cromwell was a Dictator, not a Monarch. In fact, he'd probably execute anyone who called him a monarch, and then send a few Irish Catholics to the barren waste that was western Ireland at the time (Not that i'm bitter or anything)

1. Louis XIV...take a walk around Versailles. The man knew how to show power, and how to use it.
2. Henry IV...okay, he had a messy personal life, but he was one French king who generally tried his best to improve the lives of everyday Frenchmen and women. He was also highly unusual at the time for being enlightened when it came to religious tolerance and for improving infrastructure not just for the nobles, but for the peasants as well.
3. Elizabeth I...a great patron of the arts (Shakespeare, Marlowe, Jonson), a keeper of the peace, and made England an island of stability in a sea of chaos. Arguably a strong foundation to the modern British nation-state.
4. Charles IV...also a great patron of the arts and a man of foresight when it came to infrastructure. Prague is a lovely, functioning city today thanks in part to his investments.
5. Jan III Sobieski...helped rebuild the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth from the Swedish Deluge, expanded trade and political stability, and defeated the Ottoman armies outside of Vienna in 1683.

I don't really like any European monarchs, none of them realised what was important...Science!