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    Season Three, Episode Nine: The Spanish March
    Ben
    • Mar 16
    • 22 min

    Season Three, Episode Nine: The Spanish March

    The Song of Roland tells of Charlemagne's ill-fated return from Spain. Besides this central theme, was anything else in the Song accurate?
    Season Three, Episode Eight: Baptism or Death
    Ben
    • Mar 6
    • 20 min

    Season Three, Episode Eight: Baptism or Death

    We’re going to take a look at Widukind, a great medieval resistance leader. Because, news flash, lots of people did not like Charlemagne...
    Season Three, Episode Seven: The Fire of Paganism
    Ben
    • Feb 13
    • 20 min

    Season Three, Episode Seven: The Fire of Paganism

    The Franks and Saxons were no strangers to battle. However, this struggle went into high gear for 30 years during the reign of Charlemagne.
    Season Three, Episode Six: The Iron Crown
    Ben
    • Jan 28
    • 24 min

    Season Three, Episode Six: The Iron Crown

    This week we’re going to take a look at how, for the third time in less than two decades, the Franks and the Lombards came to blows...
    Season Three, Episode Five: Little Brother
    Ben
    • Jan 23
    • 21 min

    Season Three, Episode Five: Little Brother

    Take a look at what exactly happened between Charles and his brother Carloman from 768-771, and find out how one ended up dead...
    Season Three, Episode Four: The Best Laid Plans
    Ben
    • Jan 12
    • 18 min

    Season Three, Episode Four: The Best Laid Plans

    Take a look at the first few years of Charles and Carloman’s reign as seen through the eyes of their mother, Queen Bertrada...
    Season Three, Episode Three: Pépin the Underrated
    Ben
    • Jan 2
    • 20 min

    Season Three, Episode Three: Pépin the Underrated

    Gaining power is difficult, but holding everything together once you’ve arrived... well, therein lies the real challenge.
    Season Three, Episode Two: The Donation
    Ben
    • Dec 22, 2021
    • 19 min

    Season Three, Episode Two: The Donation

    Frankish Kings emulated Constantine... was this used against them? Find out how the Donation of Pépin may have been based on a fraud!
    Season Three, Episode One: The New King of the Mountain
    Ben
    • Dec 12, 2021
    • 22 min

    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...
    Season Two, Episode 17: The Hammer
    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...
    Season Two, Episode 16: Echoes of the Past
    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...
    Season Two, Episode 15: The Prince Who Was Promised
    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?
    Season Two, Episode 14: Knife's Edge
    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...
    Season Two, Episode 13: The Return of the King
    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...
    Season Two, Episode 12: Four Kings
    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...
    Season Two, Episode 11: Coup d’État, Part Three
    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...
    Season Two, Episode 10: Coup d’État, Part Two
    Ben
    • Mar 15, 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..."
    Season Two, Episode 9: Coup d’État, Part One
    Ben
    • Mar 1, 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...
    Season 2, Episode 8: From a Slave to a Queen
    Ben
    • Feb 15, 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...
    Season 2, Episode 7: The First "Rois Fainéants"
    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..."
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