Episode 78 – A Crusade without Crusaders

Frederick II sets off on crusade as an excommunicate. he has a year to regain Jerusalem, otherwise all will be lost
EPISODE 129 – Hermann von Salza

Without Hermann von Salza, its fourth grand master, the Teutonic knights may well have vanished into the Orcus of history like so many orders
EPISODE 128 – A Chivalric Order

The Order of St. Mary of the House of the Germans in Jerusalem traces its beginnings to the fundamental contradiction at the heart of chivalry…