Who is your historical husbando, Anons?
Personally, I have a certain attraction and fondness for Basil II, 'the Bulgar-Slayer':
>expanded the Empire to its greatest territorial extent after the losses of the Muslim conquests
>subjugated the barbarian Bulgars
>put down the land-owning aristocracy and ensured the continuation of the Byzantine bureaucratic system while crushing the nobility's hopes of a more feudal arrangement
>was a prudent and competent administrator who left a surplus in the Imperial Treasury upon his death
>extended Greek influence far beyond the borders of the Eastern Roman Empire, as far away as Kievan Rus'
>was a stocky and burly DILF who was known for his distinctive beard
10/10, would kiss
>>1317721
Why is it that land-owning aristocracy fuck everything up from the Byzantine, to the HRE, to France (thank you based Robspierre), and almost England; if they didn't get their feefees pandered to with the house of lords?
>>1317935
And to Poland-Lithuania, who's aristocracy needed to be pandered to to defend their own clay, in a way that more or less doomed the nation to be impotent later on?
Another debate resolved
>>1317935
Entitlement.
>>1317721
Don Pelayo, Saviour of Christian Iberia
http://youtu.be/n-zXHT97xXM
Pelagius of Asturias is muh sexy spanish husbando desu
>just a small time Visigoth lord in northern Iberia
>Visigoth kingdom destroyed by Moorish invasion
>Pelayo is now a prisoner and his lands are under muslim control
>Munuza, the Moor governor of Asturias decides to rape Pelayo's sister and force her into his harem
>disgusting Arab subhumans raping Visigoth beauties is just taking it too far
>Pelayo finds out, escapes captivity and makes his way to the northern mountains
>finds a few Christians hiding in the mountains and convinces them to fight
>forms army of 300 good men
>Moors get word of this and send a giant army to stop him
>Asturians slaughter muslim army
>Moor general killed in battle
>Munuza tries to escape, but Pelayo finds him and avenges his sister
>forms kingdom of Asturias and starts the Reconquista
>his statue is also checking dubs
General William Tecumseh Sherman
>marched to the sea
>bitchin' beard
>hated war but loved getting drunk but also loved ending war
>loved the union
>hated slavery
>committed war crimes
>supreme regrets
>first modern general
>total war
>>1318161
>>1318209
In order for him to be a 'husbando', you have to like him in the physical sense, if you catch my meaning :3
That glorious hair and jaw.