Criminally underrated /his/torical figures

>>1340344
Underrated in what sense? What did that incestuous, spoiled brat ever accomplish other than a failed military career and being son of a corrupt pope?

>>1340350
Being the source of modern jesus portraits?

How was he underrated? Machiavelli wrote a book about him. A book that's part of the canon in most countries.

>>1340354
Pretty shit accomplishment tbqh senpai. And I wouldn't really call Cesare underrated either. I mean there's that show "Borgia" which I'm sure he's featured in, he was a major character in an Assassin's Creed game, and I'm sure there are countless documentaries about his life and his family. I think Josef Pilsukski is a pretty good underrated figure, as far as the average person's knowledge of history goes.

>>1340381
>I think Josef Pilsukski is a pretty good underrated figure, as far as the average person's knowledge of history goes.
He's overrated. He didn't win the Battle of Warsaw, he had already given up hope and was preparing to retreat. That was Tadeusz Jordan-Rozwadowski who beat the Soviets. Pilsudski just destroyed his career and took credit for it.

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>helped lead his country to independence
>poet
>religious minority, promoted tolerance
>socialist who didn't fall for the USSR meme
>no coups

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>>1340414
>Pilsudski just destroyed his career and took credit for it.
Do you want to visit Brest, mate?

Ogedei. He created an empire where Genghis left destruction.

>>1340354
Take a look at some Jesus portraits that pre-date him you fucking faggot

>>1340344
Tallyrand
Saves France at the peace table in the aftermath of Napoleonic Wars

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>Modernizes France
>Rebuilds Paris
>Expands Fernch territory
>Expans French colonies
>Destroys the Congress of Vienna
>Establishes French influence among the Christians of the Ottoman Empire
>Created modern Italy

>Remembered as a tyrant because Victor Hugo threw a hissyfit

>>1341253
It can be argued Talleyrand was mostly a hypocrite. He did chum it up with the Russians because he didn't like Napoleon I for example.

>>1341628
>Created modern Italy
The frogs on this board are too fucking much.

Georges Danton

Otto von Habsburg, died in 2011 and helped kill communism in Europe, though I don't think he was ever able to go back to Austria.

>>1340344
All I know of him is the Borgias show. Italy is probably my weakest link in knowledge of European history. Maybe Portugal. Did he really knock up his sister?

[spoiler]I haven't finished the series, working on season 2[/spoiler]

>>1340344
>underrated
>Machiavelli writes one of the most popular books in Western literature that practically fellates him

>>1342251
>actually thinking there's any truth at all in anything written by Michael "JUST FUCK MY HISTORY UP" Hirst

>>1340344
Cesare, oh Cesare
A man of great depravity
Believed himself immortal
til he had a date with gravity

>>1340344
really he was overrated

only reason people know about him these days was because Machiavelli's book kept wanking him off.