Hello and welcome to the History of the Germans.

Episode 62, The Fall of Henry the Line.

This episode deals with, guess what, the fall of Henry the Line, from his position as Duke of Saxony and Bavaria.

The interesting bit is not so much whether it happened, well that is pretty much obvious,

but why it happened.

When I learned about it in school it was seen as the greatest moment in Barbarossa's career,

taking down the eternal rival of the Hohenstaufen family.

But today historians see it very differently. Follow along and make up your own mind.

Talking about following along, there is an episode website at

Historyof the Germans.com slash 62-2.

I still don't know why I have to put the dash 2 in, but it's there.

And on that website you can find the transcript, maps and images that makes

it easier to check places and names as you listen to the podcast. Before we start, just a

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Last week, we watched Barbarossa signing the Peace of Venice

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