His was a brutal age. We do historical figures a disservice when we judge them by our own standards.
True-which is why I point out the brutality of both sides in historical conflicts-it doesn’t make me think my Hispanic ancestors were nicer-but it does serve to show they were pretty much in the same class as Heart-ripping Native Americans, Spanish torturing/burning heretics, Italians-Borgias, anyone?-Brits with the persecution of the Scots, etc-you weren’t going to get anywhere back then by being nice-which is also why all the history-hating/denying statue smashing snowflakes are so ignorant and full of s***-they choose to ignore how far we have come and how we didn’t ride in on a unicorn...