Ep. 64: Frederick Barbarossa (1152-1190) - Consolidating Power - The Heirs of Troy

History of the Germans from the Middle Ages to Reunification

Dirk Hoffmann-Becking

Society & Culture, Education, History

4.9 • 551 Ratings

🗓️ 16 June 2022

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

This week we will discuss how Barbarossa attempts to rebuild a new ideological underpinning of his role and how that leads to renewed conflict with the popes. But then one of the most devastating events of the Middle Ages solves all his issues and presents him with an opportunity to turn the mythmaking up to 11. As always, this episode has a dedicated website with the transcript and maps, pictures and additional comments to read along. It is to be found at https://historyofthegermans.com/64-2/ The music for the show is Flute Sonata in E-flat major, H.545 by Carl Phillip Emmanuel Bach (or some claim it as BWV 1031 Johann Sebastian Bach) performed and arranged by Michel Rondeau under Common Creative Licence 3.0. As always: Homepage with maps, photos, transcripts and blog: www.historyofthegermans.com Facebook: @HOTGPod Twitter: @germanshistory Instagram: history_of_the_germans Reddit: u/historyofthegermans Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/Historyofthegermans

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the history of the Germans, episode 64, the heirs of Troy.
0:10.6	A small piece of housekeeping first.
0:12.6	Last week I erroneously suggested that Leonardo's Last Supper was in the Church of San Dambrogeo in Milan.
0:19.1	As it happens, it's not.
0:23.3	Leonardo's Last Supper is in the refectory of the Dominican convent of Santa Maria de la Grazie. When I last went to see it, I'd also
0:29.4	visited the Church of San Dambroggio nearby, and in my scrambled memory the two buildings became one.
0:35.4	Must be one of the seven signs of aging, most of which I've forgotten.
0:40.0	In case you've spent the last week wandering aimlessly around San Dambrojo looking for something
0:44.0	that was not there, I do apologize. And thank you, Trail of Tears on Reddit for pointing
0:50.0	this out. And now we go back all the way to the year 750 AD.
0:56.3	Pepin the short, mayor of the palace, sent an ambassador to Pope Zachary.
1:01.5	Pepin held all the power in the Merivindian realm, but he was not king.
1:07.2	The king was Chilric III.
1:10.1	Chilric was a Roy Farnon, a king who did not do anything, apart from being wheeled out once a year on an ox-cart.
1:18.6	The real rulers were the mayors of the palace.
1:21.6	And in 7.50, that was Pepin the short.
1:25.6	Other than his father, Charles Martel, Pepin found this lack of royal title unbearable.
1:30.7	He wanted to be king.
1:32.3	Really, really wanted to be king.
1:34.9	But to be king in the realm that the legendary Clovis had built, you had to be a descendant
1:39.7	of Clovis himself, and his grandfather, the legendary sea monster Merovec.
1:45.7	Peppin was no such thing, and could hence not be king under Merivindian rules.
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