Episode 218 – Of Hedgehogs and Herons
By 1477 the rules of war that had been enshrined in the laws of chivalry are gone. The contest between the French and the Habsburgs over the inheritance of the Grand Dukes of the West gives us a foretaste of the things to come.
Episode 216 – The Youth of Emperor Maximilian I
The Delights and Horrors of the Childhood of the Last Knight
Episode 215 – The Bold in the Cold
In just three years, between 1473 and 1477, Charles the Bold fritters away the mythical wealth of the Burgundian Dukes…
Episode 214 – The Siege that Woke up an Empire
The siege of Neuss and the trial of Peter von Hagenbach changed the way the Holy Roman Empire worked – and internatioonal law
Episode 213 – Duping The Duke of Burgundy
In the 1460s the emperor Friedrich III does something unexpected – he does something, an engagement to the daughter of Charles the Bold, duke of Burgundy that will change European history.