Hello and welcome to the history of the Germans.

Episode 12, the Regency of Teofanou and Adelheid.

Just a bit of housekeeping first.

You may have noticed that this episode did not hit your inbox on the customary Thursday.

That's basically because I've just left my job and had to do

quite a bit of admin to bet everything down. It is quite remarkable how much time one can

waste with these things or how much time putting together this podcast actually consumes. In any event,

the next episode will come on a Thursday. I'll buy it that will be Thursday the 15th of April.

As Easter and the easing of lockdown means we can spend some more time with friends and family.

And I'm sorry to deprive you of podcast listening pleasure over the holidays, but let's take

your earphones out for a while and talk to your children, your parents, your grandparents,

your aunts, your uncles, your cousins twice removed, your grandparents, your aunts, your uncles,

your cousins twice removed, your friends, your acquaintances, your work colleagues, your gym bodies, your baristas. Oh, don't we miss it all. Back to the show. Last week, Little King

Otto III was rescued from the clutches of the kind of cousin twice removed you don't want to talk to,

Henry the Crollson. Members of the Odd Rescue cousin twice removed you don't want to talk to. Henry the Crawlson.

Members of the Odd Rescue Squad, namely his mother Teofano, his grandmother Ardell Hyde

and Archbishop Willeges of Mainz, now formed the Regency Council that will run the country

for the next 11 years.

Teofano will be in charge from 984 to 991 when she dies at only 40 years of age.

Adelaide will then take over for the remaining roughly four years when Otto the third gradually comes into his maturity and takes over control of the kingdom.

Saving the four-year-old king and gaining the regency over the kingdom was no mean feat, but it did not solve the fundamental

problems of the kingdom. If you have listened to all 12 episodes so far, you are now quite

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