The frontiers in all directions were calm. And, crucially, there were no contesting claims from any full or half-brothers. The people spontaneously hailed him emperor again at the funeral of his father. Otto II had been crowned German king as long ago as 961 and was made co-emperor in 967. In his last waking moments, Otto the Great could look at his succession plan and feel confident that his son would not have to face as much uncertainty as he did in the first 10 years of his reign. Last episode we buried emperor Otto the Great under a simple stone slab in the cathedral of Magdeburg. Hello and welcome to the History of the Germans: Episode 9 – A Matter of Habit. The Interregnum and the early Habsburgs (Ep. – Henry V and the Concordat of Worms (Ep. The Salier and the Investiture Controversy As Gregory of Tours (539-594) said: “A great many things keep happening, some good, some bad”. Episodes are 25-35 min long and drop on Thursday mornings. He gets ambushed by the king of France, loses the largest battle of the century in the South of Italy and in his last year the Slavs, having been brutally oppressed by his father’s generals rise up, burn cities and churches and regain their freedomThe podcast that does what it says on the tin: a narrative history of the German people that starts in the year 919 AD and hopes to get all the way to 1991. Episode 144 – The Rise of the House of LuxemburgĪs much as Otto the Great was lucky, Otto II was unlucky.Episode 141 – Rudolf von Habsburg Semper Augustus.Episode 140 – Rudolf von Habsburg and the Golden King Ottokar II of Bohemia.Episode 139 – The End of the Interregnum.
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