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Ep. 78: Frederick II (1196-1250) - Sixth Crusade - A Crusade without Crusaders
Episode 78
This is a story I was looking forward to telling for quite some time. It has everything – crossed wires, stubbornness and vitriol as well as diplomac…
4 years ago
Ep. 77: Frederick II (1196-1250) - Becoming Emperor - A Nail in the Coffin
Episode 77
This week we take a look at the reign of Frederick II in Germany from 1212 to 1220. Most of what he did was putting a nail in an actual coffin whilst…
4 years ago
Ep. 76: Frederick II (1196-1250) - Becoming Emperor - From Urchin to Emperor
Episode 76
This week we will go back 20 years and pick up the other strain of our history of the Hohenstaufen. The last three episodes we focused on events in G…
4 years, 1 month ago
Ep. 75: Frederick II (1196-1250) - Becoming Emperor - Wet Pants and other Miracles
Episode 75
Otto IV, scion of one of the oldest and most aristocratic families in the world had achieved what so many of his ancestors have craved, ruling the em…
4 years, 1 month ago
Ep. 74: Otto IV (1198-1215) - The War that Broke the Empire
Episode 74
The kingdom is in turmoil. Two pretenders fight for supremacy. On the one side, Philipp of Swabia, son of the emperor Barbarossa, brother of Emperor …
4 years, 1 month ago
Ep. 73: Philipp of Swabia (1198-1208) - One Pope, Three Emperors
Episode 73
This week we will see the reverse of 1046 when there was one emperor choosing between three popes. Today, we have one Pope, given the choice between …
4 years, 1 month ago
Ep. 72: Henry VI (1189-1197) - Conquest of Sicily - Clouds on the Horizon
Episode 72
This week we will watch Henry VI’s attempts to make the papacy comfortable with the fact that their neighbour to the south is now the same as their n…
4 years, 1 month ago
Ep. 71: Henry VI (1189-1197) - Conquest of Sicily - To Catch a King
Episode 71
There is one story from the Middle Ages that most people know, the imprisonment and ransom of King Richard the Lionheart of England. The chivalric kn…
4 years, 2 months ago
Ep. 70: Henry VI (1189-1197) - Conquest of Sicily - From Father to Son
Episode 70
When Barbarossa drowns in the river Saleph in 1190 the crown transfers to his eldest surviving son, Henry, known to History as Henry VI.
This is the f…
4 years, 2 months ago
Ep. 69: Germany in 1200 Medieval Faith
Episode 69
Way back when, in Episode 30 we identified three drivers of the Investiture Controversy. These were: the conflict between the emperor and the princes…
4 years, 2 months ago