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Ep. 203: Early Habsburgs – From Rudolf I to Albrecht the Wise
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The Habsburg dynasty, originating from Radobot’s castle in 11th-century Switzerland, rose from obscurity to European prominence. In 1273 Rudolf of Ha…
1 year, 1 month ago
Trailer for The Early Habsburgs - Their Fall and Rise
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The House of Habsburg once ruled Spain, Benelux, Austria, Hungary, Czechia, most of Italy, at times Portugal and all of Latin America, the Philippine…
1 year, 2 months ago
The Fall and Rise of the House of Habsburg - Trailer
Episode 203
"Let others wage war: you, happy Austria, marry’. Is that really it? Did this family acquire an empire where the sun never sets through just luck and…
1 year, 2 months ago
Ep. 202: Arms and Armour
Episode 202
In 1550 Spanish court records show that the Augsburg armorer Kolman Helmschmied was paid an advance of 2,000 ducats for a full armour for king Philip…
1 year, 2 months ago
Ep. 201: Mapping the World, or how Germans invented America
Episode 201
When you enter the great hall of the Thomas Jefferson building at the Library of Congress in Washington, the first exhibit you will be facing is thei…
1 year, 3 months ago
Ep. 200: Divide and Lose, the Division of Saxony - Leipziger Teilung in 1485
Episode 200
When two brothers, Ernst and Albrecht of Saxony divided up their enormous inheritance that comprised Thuringia, Meissen and the electorate of Sachsen…
1 year, 3 months ago
Ep. 199: How Holland was Lost to the Holy Roman Empire (Part 2 - the Economy)
Episode 199
So, why did Holland really leave the empire? Was it because the valiant and tragic countess Jacqueline was “hunted down from one land to the other, a…
1 year, 3 months ago
Ep. 198: How Holland was Lost to the Holy Roman Empire (Part 1 - the Politics)
Episode 198
Today begins a two part series about how the Low Countries, modern day Belgium, Netherlands and Luxemburg shifted out of the Holy Empire. These lands…
1 year, 3 months ago
Ep. 197: The Landshuter Hochzeit – Love and War in 15th Century Bavaria (Part 2)
Episode 197
On November 14th and 15th 1475 one of the grandest events in the history of the Holy Roman Empire took place, the Landshuter Hochzeit, the nuptials o…
1 year, 4 months ago
Ep. 196: Agnes Bernauer - Love and War in 15th Century Bavaria – (Part 1)
Episode 196
When I first recorded this episode, my nose was so bunged up, I could barely speak. So I cloned my voice and produced a whole episode using an Ai gen…
1 year, 4 months ago