Ep. 221:  Maximilian I (1493-1519) – Taking Back Austria and Tyrol

Ep. 221: Maximilian I (1493-1519) – Taking Back Austria and Tyrol

After 13 years of fighting in the Low Countries, Maximilian, the newly elected king of the Roman, returns home to a rammed full inbox. There is his cousin, the dissolute count Sigismund of Tyrol who is about to sell out the family fortune to the dukes of Bavaria. The king of Hungary is still occupying Vienna – and there is a new heiress out on the market, Anne of Brittanny.

Some of the issues he tackles together with his now seriously elderly father, the emperor Friedrich III, others are very much his own tasks. In the process Friedrich creates a structurally new political entity, the Swabian League, Maximilian builds a relationship with Jakob Fugger, the money man who will grease the cogs of the Habsburg empire, and once again they fight, one battle after another.

And despite tremendous success, this period from 1489 to 1493, ends with some epic humiliation, not in war, but in love. “No man on earth has ever been disgraced as I have been at the hands of the French” is how he summarised it.

Come along and watch as the plot thickens.

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.

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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. they have the exact same episodes as in the History of the Germans, but they may be a helpful device for those who want to concentrate on only one season.

So far I have:

The Ottonians

Salian Emperors and Investiture Controversy

Fredrick Barbarossa and Early Hohenstaufen

Frederick II Stupor Mundi

Saxony and Eastward Expansion

The Hanseatic League

The Teutonic Knights

The Holy Roman Empire 1250-1356

The Reformation before the Reformation

The Empire in the 15th century

The Fall and Rise of the Habsburgs

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Ep. 166: The Great Western Schism (1378-1417) - Popes and antipopes from Urban VI-John XXIII

Ep. 166: The Great Western Schism (1378-1417) - Popes and antipopes from Urban VI-John XXIII

If you are a longstanding listener to the History of the Germans, you will already know that sometime in the late 14th century the catholic church broke apart into 2 and then 3 different obediences, t...

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Ep. 165: Wenceslaus the Lazy (1378-1400) and Ruprecht of the Palatinate (1400-1410)

Ep. 165: Wenceslaus the Lazy (1378-1400) and Ruprecht of the Palatinate (1400-1410)

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Ep. 164: Council of Constance and Hussite Revolt  (1378-1437) - Season Opener

Ep. 164: Council of Constance and Hussite Revolt (1378-1437) - Season Opener

On 31st of October 1517 a hitherto unknown professor at the smallish university of Wittenberg published 95 theses. And by doing so, he unleashed a sequence of events that would fundamentally change th...

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Karl IV (1346-1378) - A Portrait of a Medieval Ruler - Interview with Vaclav Jurek

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Ep. 163: Karl IV (1346-1378) - Succession and Legacy

Ep. 163: Karl IV (1346-1378) - Succession and Legacy

This is the last episode of this season and it is time to say goodbye to Karl IV, Ludwig the Bavarian, Henry VII, Albrecht of Habsburg, Adolf von Nassau and Rudolf of Habsburg. These have been some ev...

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Ep. 162: Karl IV (1346-1378) -  Schisms and Deals

Ep. 162: Karl IV (1346-1378) - Schisms and Deals

For more than a hundred years the Holy Roman Empire was a mess of constant infighting between and within the great princely families. But by the 1360s the consistent policies and elaborate diplomacy o...

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Ep. 161: Karl IV (1346-1378) -  A Luxemburg Empire

Ep. 161: Karl IV (1346-1378) - A Luxemburg Empire

All is well in the empire. The Golden Bull had been debated, agreed, sealed and then celebrated at the great diet in Metz in 1357.The first time in decades that all the Prince Electors had come togeth...

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Ep. 160: Karl IV (1346-1378 - The Golden Bull of 1356

Ep. 160: Karl IV (1346-1378 - The Golden Bull of 1356

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