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Episode 238 - The Habsburg Empire at its Zenith
Episode 237 - From the Treaty of Madrid to the Sack of Rome (1527)
Episode 236 - Emperor Charles V (1520-1555) - The Battle of Pavia
Episode 235 - The Youth and Election of the Emperor Charles V (1520-1555)
Episode 234 - The Charisma of Emperor Maximilian (1493-1519)
Episode 233 - Last Days and Legacy
Episode 232 - From Mehmet the Conqueror to Selim the Grim (1444-1520)
Episode 231 – Marrying Bohemia and Hungary
Episode 230 – The League of Cambrai
Episode 229 – How the Habsburgs gained Spain
Episode 228 – The Princes and the Emperor
Episode 227 – Landsknechte vs. Swiss Mercenaries
Episode 226 – A Grand Plan for a Great War
Episode 225 – The Ewige Landfrieden (Public Peace) of 1495
Episode 224 – The Reichstag of the Holy Roman Empire
Episode 223 – A Diet of Worms (1495 Edition)
Episode 222 –Italian Wars and Spanish Marriages
Episode 221 –Taking Back Control
Episode 220 – The Burgundian Experience(s)
Episode 102 - The Great Divide
Episode 101 - Gottschalk & Adalbert
Episode 100 - The Saxon War (Take II)
Episode 99 - Follow the Money
Episode 98 - The Rift
Episode 97 - Rebellion
Episode 96 - Meet the Neighbours
Episode 95 - Callous Kings and Murderous Margraves
Episode 93 - Frederick II's Afterlife
Episode 92 - Papal Epilogue
Episode 91 - Hohenstaufen Epilogue
Episode 90 - Things Are Falling Apart
Episode 89 - Holy War
Episode 88 - A Road to Peace
Episode 87 - The Beast out of the Sea
Episode 86 - Oops, we did it Again
Episode 85 - Cortenuova
Episode 84 - The Art of Hunting with Birds
Episode 83 - The Court of Frederick II
Episode 82 - The Constitution of the Realm
Episode 81 - The King in Brackets
Episode 80 - A different kind of Emperor
Episode 79 - Return to Sicily
Episode 78 - A Crusade without Crusaders
Episode 77 - A Nail in the Coffin
Episode 76 - Urchin to Emperor
Episode 75 - Wet Pants and Other Miracles
Episode 74 - The War that broke the Empire
Episode 73 - One Pope, Three Emperors
Episode 72 - Clouds on the Horizon
Episode 71 - To Catch a King
Episode 70 - From Father to Son
Episode 67 Germany in the Year 1200 - The Peasants
Episode 66 - The Myths of Barbarossa
Episode 65 - The Third Crusade
Episode 64 - The Heirs of Troy
Episode 63 - Recovery
Episode 62 - The Fall of Henry the Lion
Episode 61 - The Peace of Venice
Episode 60 - Legnano
Episode 59 - The City of Straw
Episode 58 - The Lombard League
Episode 57 – The Siege of Rome 1167
Episode 56 – The Siege of Crema
Episode 55 – The Laws of Roncaglia
Episode 54 – A Bohemian bluff
Episode 53 - Sacrum Imperium
Episode 52 - The Honour of The Empire
Episode 51 - The Barbarossa
Episode 50 - Barbarossa begins
Episode 49 - The Second crusade
Episode 48 - Conrad's Conundrum
Episode 47 - Conrad's Coup
Episode 46 - A Topsy Turvy World
Episode 45 - Triple Division
Episode 44 - A Saxon Emperor
Episode 43 - All Change All Change
Episode 42 - A World Revolution?
Episode 37 - The two Grooms
Episode 35 - To Rome! to Rome! - Henry IV takes Revenge on pope gregory VII
Episode 28 - Three Popes with One Stone
Episode 27 - Peace in Our Time
Episode 26 - Henry III Comin' in Smoothly
Episode 25 - Speyer Cathedral
Episode 24 - Konrad II's Acquisition of Burgundy
Episode 23 – Duke Ernst Rebel and Legend
Episode 22 - Konrad II Who would have thought
Episode 20 – A Blank Canvas
Episode 19 – Henry II, the House of God
Episode 18 – Henry II goes Forth!
Episode 17 – The (not yet holy) emperor Henry II
Episode 16 – Germany in the Year 1000 (Part 2)
Episode 15 – Germany in the Year 1000 (Part 1)
Episode 14 – Otto III The End of a Dream
Episode 13: Otto III – The Wonder of the World
Episode 12 – The Regency of Theophanu and Adelheid
Episode 11 – Woe to the Land that is Governed by a child…
Episode 10 – The Misfortunes one can endure…
Episode 9 – A Matter of Habit
Episode 8 – An Imperial Bride
Episode 7 – A New Caesar
Episode 6: The Battle on the Lechfeld
Where To Go in Germany ? (Part 2)
SOLD OUT! History of the Germans Tour
Where To Go in Germany? (Part 1)
Episode 219 – The Fall of Ghent
Episode 218 – Of Hedgehogs and Herons
Episode 217 – When Mary Met Maxi
Episode 216 – The Youth of Emperor Maximilian I
Episode 215 – The Bold in the Cold
Episode 214 – The Siege that Woke up an Empire
Episode 213 – Duping The Duke of Burgundy
Episode 212 – The Library of the Raven King
Episode 211 – Hitting Rock Bottom
Episode 210 – Ladislaus Postumus
Episode 209 – The first Habsburg Emperor
Episode 208 – Boy Meets Girl, Boy Becomes King
Episode 207 – Of Land and Lip
Episode 206 – Division, Destruction and Degradation
Episode 205 – Sempach, Death of a Duke, Birth of a Nation
Episode 204 – Rudolf IV - Forger and Founder
Episode 203 – From Rudolf I to Albrecht the Wise (1273-1358)
Episode 202 – Arms and Armour
Episode 201 – Mapping the world
Episode 200 – Divide and Lose
Episode 199 – How Holland Was Lost to the Holy Roman Empire (Part 2)
Episode 198 – How Holland Was Lost to the Holy Roman Empire (Part 1)
Episode 197 – The Landshuter Hochzeit – Love and War in Bavaria (Part 2)
Episode 196 – Agnes Bernauer - Love and War in Bavaria (Part 1)
Episode 195– Engraving the German Renaissance
Episode 194– The Fuggers of Augsburg
Episode 193– The Trades and Tribulations of the Free Imperial Cities
Episode 192 – Duchy of Württemberg, or Turning Wine into Winning
Episode 191 – The Margraviate of Baden
Episode 190 – A (very) brief History of the German Universities
Episode 189 – The Count Palatine on the Rhine
Episode 188 – What Has Printing Ever Done For Us?
Episode 187 – Johannes Gutenberg's Pressing Matters
Episode 186 – Origin Stories
The Empire in the 15th Century - Season Opener
Episode 184 – A German Messalina? Barbara of Celje
Episode 183 – The Aftermath of a Revolution
Episode 182 – The Return of the King
Episode 181 – Zizka’s Drum
Episode 180 – Nude Dissenters and Blind Innovators
Episode 179 – Meanwhile in the Empire
Episode 178 - No Hill to Die On
Episode 177 – The Day after the End of Days
Episode 176 - A Great Idiot of History?
Episode 175 – Death and Defenestration
Episode 174 – The Trial of Jan Hus
Episode 173 – Ending the Schism
Episode 172 – A World Event
Episode 171 – Cleaning House
Episode 170 – Jan Hus, Reformer and Rebel?
Episode 169 – Sigismund, not yet Emperor
Episode 168 - From Osman to Nicopolis:
Episode 166/167 – The Great Western Schism - Parts 1 and 2
Episode 165 – Wenceslaus the Lazy and Ruprecht of the Empty Pocket
Episode 164 – Council of Constance and Hussite Revolt (1378-1437)
Episode 163 – Succession and Legacy
Episode 162 – Schisms and Deals
Episode 161 – A Luxemburg Empire
Episode 160 – The Golden Bull of 1356
Episode 159 – The Rise to Imperial Power
Episode 158 – Prague - A new Rome
Episode 157 – The Black Death and other Calamities
Episode 156 – What Price a Crown
Episode 155– The Youth of Emperor Karl IV
Episode 154– The Blind King John of Bohemia
Episode 153– The Rise of Nürnberg
Episode 152 – The (not so) Ugly Duchess
Episode 151 – Kurverein zu Rhens
Episode 150 – The Last Chivalric Battles
Episode 149 – The Real Ludwig of Bavaria
Episode 148 – Imperial Swansong
Episode 147 – Brescia or Bust
Episode 146 – The Return of the King
Episode 145 – How to make Friends and Influence People
Episode 144 – The Rise of the House of Luxemburg
Episode 143 – The Murder of a King
Episode 142 – Adolf von Nassau
Episode 141 – Rudolf von Habsburg: Semper Augustus
Episode 140 – Rudolf von Habsburg and the Golden King Ottokar II of Bohemia
Episode 139 - The End of the Interregnum
The Holy Roman empire from 919 - 1250
Episode 137– Conversion
Episode 136– 13 Years of War
Episode 135– After Tannenberg
Episode 134– Tannenberg / Grunwald / Zalgiris
Episode 133– The Order of the Order
Episode 132– The Battle on the Ice
Episode 131 – The Conquest of Prussia (Part II)
EPISODE 130 – The Conquest of Prussia (Part I)
EPISODE 129 – Hermann von Salza
EPISODE 128 – A Chivalric Order
Episode 127 – Art and Culture of the Hanse
Episode 126 – A Brief History of Bremen
Episode 5 - The Father, the Son and the Uncle
episode 4 - A Foe Wherever You Go
Episode 125 - The Rise of Hamburg
Episode 124– Decline & Fall (Part 2)
Episode 123– Decline & Fall (Part 1)
Episode 122– Calamitous Victories
Episode 121– A Constitutional Crisis
Episode 120– Money, Money, Money
Episode 119– What was the Hansa
Episode 118– Pirates
Episode 117– Embargoes
Episode 116– War with Denmark (Part 2)
Episode 115– War with Denmark (Part 1)
Episode 114– The London Steelyard
Episode 113– Bergen & Bruges
Episode 112– Grain & Beer
Episode 111– Hewing & Herring
Episode 110– The Livonian Cities
Episode 109– Gotlandfahrer
Episode 108– from Saxony to Saxonies
Episode 107– The House of Wettin
Episode 106 – Making a Mark in Brandenburg
Episode 105 – The Foundation of Lübeck
EPISODE 104 – The Making of Holstein
Episode 103 – All the Duke's Men
#4 Capo Colonna July 13/14, 982
#3 Battle on the Lechfeld, August 10, 955
#2 Rescuing Adelheid (950-952 AD)
#1 Battle of Andernach, October 2nd, 939
Treasures of Medieval Rome
Plaque from a Reliquary Shrine 1160–80
Aquamanile
Peace of Karlowitz Jan 26th, 1699
Sophie von Hatzfeld - The Red Countess (1805-1881
Felix Hoffmann, Chemist
Sebastian Münster (1488-1552)
Max Pechstein Born OTD 31/12/1881
Schedelsche Weltchronik
Schmalkaldic League
Schloss Weibertreu - The Castle of Wifely Loyalty
OTD in 1046 The Council of Sutri deposes three Popes
The End of the Battle of Verdun
Prussia occupies Silesia OTD in 1740
Episode 41 - the Concordat of Worms
Arthur Berson (1859-1942) Meteorologist, Extreme Balloonist
Episode 40 - Henry V Has a cunning Plan
Episode 39 -The Final Betrayal
Episode 38 - The First Crusade
Episode 36 - Henry IV is Coming Home
Episode 34 - Gaining the Upper Hand
The most untimely death of the bishop of Utrecht
Episode 33 - Canossa Finally
How King (future Emperor ) Henry IV (1056-1105) turned a disagreement over the archbishop of Milan into a major crisis
How an uprising in Milan leads to the excommunication of the King Henry IV.
Pope Gregory VII (Hildebrand), 1020-1085
Episode 32 – Not Pope but False Monk
Otto von Northeim (1020-1083)
The Harzburg (1065-1075)
Episode 31 - The (second) Saxon War
Godfrey the Bearded (997-1069)
Anno of Cologne (1010-1075)
Agnes of Poitou (1025-1077)
Episode 30 – The Three Roads to Canossa
Hohentwiel
Karl Joseph Wirth
Rüdiger Manesse and his Codex
Election of Emperor Konrad II
A Bavarian Robin Hood
The Grave of Eadgith
The Counts of Flanders
Ulrich von Hutten
Normbrunnenflasche
The Neckaprivileg for Heilbronn
Episode 29 – The Medieval Empire at its Zenith
Battle of Civitate
Constitution of Baden from 1818
The Peace of God in France
Friedrich Ludwig Dülon
Berlin Wall
FIrst state to introduce Compulsory Schooling in 1592
David Roentgen, cabinetmaker to the kings
Battle of Adrianople August 9th, 378
Battle of Ménfő June 5th, 1044
Sir Godfrey Kneller - Painter
The Death of Thankmar
The Winter campaign of 1033
Episode 3 - A Series of Fortunate Events
Episode 2 - A Dog's breakfast
Episode 1 - A New Beginning
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