228 Episodes

  1. Ep. 63 - Recovery - Barbarossa rebuilds his reign after defeats in Italy and at home

    Published: 6/9/2022

  2. Ep. 62 - The Fall of Henry the Lion

    Published: 6/2/2022

  3. Ep. 61 - The Peace of Venice - The Reconciliation between Barbarossa and Pope Alexander III

    Published: 5/26/2022

  4. Ep. 60 - Legnano - Barbarossa's final Battle in Italy

    Published: 5/19/2022

  5. Ep. 59 - The City of Straw - Barbarossa's failed siege of Alessandria

    Published: 5/12/2022

  6. Ep. 58 - The Lombard League

    Published: 5/5/2022

  7. Ep. 57 - The Hand of God - The siege of Rome in 1167 that changes everything

    Published: 4/28/2022

  8. Ep. 56 - The Siege of Crema - and then Barbarossa razes Milan to the ground

    Published: 4/21/2022

  9. Ep. 55 - The Laws of Roncaglia - Barbarossa brings back Roman Law

    Published: 4/14/2022

  10. Ep. 54 - A Bohemian Bluff - Barbarossa conquers Milan for the first time

    Published: 4/7/2022

  11. Ep. 53 - Sacrum Imperium - The moment when the Empire becomes Holy and Roman

    Published: 3/31/2022

  12. Ep. 52 - The Honour of the Empire - Bringing the broken Empire back together

    Published: 3/24/2022

  13. Ep. 51 - The Barbarossa - Who was the Emperor Frederick I Barbarossa?

    Published: 3/17/2022

  14. Ep. 50 - Barbarossa Begins - A Stolen Election?

    Published: 3/10/2022

  15. Ep. 49 - Konrad's Catastrophe - The Disaster that is the Second Crusade

    Published: 3/3/2022

  16. Ep. 48 - Konrad's Conundrum - Imperial Coronation or Crusade?

    Published: 2/24/2022

  17. Ep. 47 - Konrad's Coup - The Hohenstaufen Konrad III snatches the crown from the Welf

    Published: 2/17/2022

  18. Ep. 46 - A Topsy Turvy World - Lothar III and the schism between Anaclet II Innocent II

    Published: 2/10/2022

  19. Ep. 45 - Triple Division - The role of Bernard of Clairvaux

    Published: 2/3/2022

  20. Ep. 44 - A Saxon Emperor - Lothar III takes the crown and ends in a civil war with the Hohenstaufen

    Published: 1/28/2022

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A narrative history of the German people from the Middle Ages to Reunification in 1991. Episodes are 25-35 min long and drop on Thursday mornings. "A great many things keep happening, some good, some bad". Gregory of Tours (539-594) HotGPod is now entering its 9th season. So far we have covered: Ottonian Emperors (# 1- 21) - Henry the Fowler (#1) - Otto I (#2-8) - Otto II (#9-11) - Otto II (#11-14) - Henry II (#15-17) - Germany in 1000 (#18-21) Salian Emperors(#22-42) - Konrad II (#22- 25) - Henry III (#26-29) - Henry IV/Canossa (#30-39) - Henry V (#40-42) - Concordat of Worms (#42) Early Hohenstaufen (#43-69) - Lothar III (#43-46) - Konrad III (#47-49) - Frederick Barbarossa (#50-69) Late Hohenstaufen (#70-94) - Henry VI (#70-72) - Philipp of Swabia (#73-74) - Otto IV (#74-75) - Frederick II (#75-90) - Epilogue (#91-94) Eastern Expansion (#95-108) The Hanseatic League (#109-127) The Teutonic Knights (#128-137) The Interregnum and the early Habsburgs (#138 ff - Rudolf von Habsburg (#139-141) - Adolf von Nassau (#142) - Albrecht von Habsburg (#143) - Heinrich VII (#144-148) - Ludwig the Bavarian (#149-153) - Karl IV (#154-163) The Reformation before the Reformation - Wenceslaus the Lazy (#165) - The Western Schism (#166/167) - The Ottomans (#168) - Sigismund (#169-#184 The Empire in the 15th Century - Mainz & Hessen #186 - Printing #187-#188 - Universities #190 - Wittelsbachs #189, #196-#199 - Baden, Wuerrtemberg, Augsburg, Fugger (#191-195) - Maps & Arms (#201-#202) The Fall and Rise of the House of Habsburg - Early habsburgs (#203-#207) - Albrecht II (#208) -Freidrich III (#209-