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. 173: Council of Constance (1414-1418) - The End of the Schism

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Ep. 172: Council of Constance (1414-1418) - A Gathering of the (Christian) World

Ep. 172: Council of Constance (1414-1418) - A Gathering of the (Christian) World

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Ep. 171: Council of Constance (1414-1418) - Removing surplus Popes

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Ep. 170: Jan Hus (1369-1415), Reformer and Rebel?

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Ep. 169: Sigismund (1410-1433) - The Not Yet Emperor

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Ep. 168: Ottoman Empire (1280-1396) - From Osman to Nicopolis

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Ep. 167: The Great Western Schism (1378-1417) - The Impact of the Schism

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When the Great Western Schism was finally resolved at Pisa and Constance, Christendom rejoiced.Or so we have been told. But was it really such a devastating, catastrophic event that left the papacy mo...

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

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