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Season Three, Episode One: The New King of the Mountain
Pépin le Bref is now King Pépin I, having just overthrown the last Merovingian. The Pope is on the run from the Lombards. Worlds collide...
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Ben
- Jun 6, 2021
- 18 min
Season Two, Episode 17: The Hammer
A year in prison. A broken army. And now caught between two tribes. No problem, Charles Martel thought. I've got them right where I want...
Ben
- May 24, 2021
- 14 min
Season Two, Episode 16: Echoes of the Past
A powerful man, a young woman and an upset, long-suffering wife from the 7th century prove that midlife crises are timeless...
Ben
- May 17, 2021
- 16 min
Season Two, Episode 15: The Prince Who Was Promised
How do you justify the notion that certain people were chosen, either by God or by fate, to sit in judgement over all other people?
Ben
- May 9, 2021
- 14 min
Season Two, Episode 14: Knife's Edge
Victory rides on a knife’s edge. Oftentimes what appears to be a loss is actually the access point to a path not hitherto contemplated...
Ben
- Apr 25, 2021
- 21 min
Season Two, Episode 13: The Return of the King
Twenty years. A lot can change in the world in 20 years. A lot can change in a person. And that’s how long Dagobert II was locked away...
Ben
- Apr 11, 2021
- 23 min
Season Two, Episode 12: Four Kings
Leodegar knew he had been bested as he looked out of his window and saw the army below waiting for his capitulation...
Ben
- Mar 28, 2021
- 25 min
Season Two, Episode 11: Coup d’État, Part Three
This week we’re finishing the trilogy that began with a coup... and then kept getting worse. Meet Ebroin, the new Mayor of the Palace...
Ben
- Mar 14, 2021
- 22 min
Season Two, Episode 10: Coup d’État, Part Two
"The King may let you go to a monastery, or he may choose to end your life quickly. Those are your only real options..."
Ben
- Feb 28, 2021
- 22 min
Season Two, Episode 9: Coup d’État, Part One
The long hair marking Dagobert II as a Merovingian prince was gone, replaced instead by a tonsure that marked his as a monk...
Ben
- Feb 14, 2021
- 21 min
Season 2, Episode 8: From a Slave to a Queen
Bathilda was slender and had long, golden hair, but more than this, the girl walked with poise strikingly out of place in a slave market...
Ben
- Feb 1, 2021
- 5 min
Never Research Your Heroes
There's a saying that you should never meet your heroes. Well, as I recently found out, you should never research them either.
Ben
- Jan 31, 2021
- 23 min
Season 2, Episode 7: The First "Rois Fainéants"
“The Queen is dead, bishop, and our King is now an orphan. I rule the in his name, and that makes it my responsibility to tell him..."
Ben
- Jan 17, 2021
- 20 min
Season 2, Episode 6: Love, War and Politics
Samo sat alone before his campfire, considering the battle to take place and how best to prosecute his attack against the mighty Franks.
Ben
- Jan 1, 2021
- 25 min
Season 2, Episode 5: The Spare
Unlike his father, who had to rely on luck, illness and a homicidal mother for the throne, Dagobert had a more conventional ascension.
Ben
- Dec 20, 2020
- 20 min
Season 2, Episode 4: A Legacy of Decline
Chlothar II loved to hunt, and that's what he did while others ruled his Kingdom - right up to death. His reign led in a legacy of decline.
Ben
- Dec 6, 2020
- 26 min
Season 2, Episode 3: A Quiet Place
A Roman beheading. A stag hunt. A slighted guest. How these came together to make Paris' Basilica of St Denis the resting spot of royalty...
Ben
- Sep 4, 2020
- 20 min
Season 2, Episode 1: The Cost of Doing Business
People assume that being king was a glorious, entertaining, easy way of life.
Glorious? Absolutely. Entertaining? Sometimes. Easy? Never.
Ben
- Sep 4, 2020
- 2 min
Sources: Season 2, Episode 1: The Cost of Doing Business
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Ben
- Aug 25, 2020
- 14 min
Rabbit Hole #5: Saint Eligius - Saddles, Thrones and All the Wrong Words
Chlothar II needed a new place to sit, a throne befitting his station as the new King of the Franks. But where to find a good craftsman?