Lothar III may almost be forgotten today, but he may well have been the last of the Holy Roman Emperors who had control over the realm β despite having acted as papal groom.
Episodes are min long and drop on Thursday mornings. Gregory of Tours Nobody expected these numbers of visitors for what was just 3, square meters of exhibition space.
At peak times there was barely a square meter per person. People fainted in the low and badly ventilated rooms. They sold , copies of the enormous four volume exhibition catalogue, one of which to my father who proudly displayed it in his office for 40 years and is now in a box en route over to mine. Whilst most other medieval German rulers are all but forgotten, interest in the Hohenstaufen never completely disappeared.
Why is that? They were by no means the most successful emperors, that crown has to go the Ottonians nor was their reign the most fateful, that was the reign of the later Salians. Frederick Barbarossa and his grandson Frederick II have been such fascinating personalities that almost any age could project their own perceptions and expectations onto them, from champion of national unity to modern man before his time.
Time to find out what really happened, who they really were. As always a great many things keep happening, some good, some bad. The music for the show is Flute Sonata in E-flat major, H. Homepage with maps, photos, transcripts and blog: www. Bluesky: hotgpod. Twitter: germanshistory. To make it easier for you to share the podcast, I have created separate playlists for some of the seasons that are set up as individual podcasts.
