Tag: Godfrey the hunchback

• 045 – Matilda of Tuscany, the iron countess of Canossa Part 1

  1046 – 1080 We look at the life of Matilda of Canossa, starting from the history of her family through her childhood, the humiliation of Canossa and to the start of the war against Holy Roman Emperor Henry IV.

  A History of Italy

  February 24, 2019

  Beatrice of Lorain, Bonifacio Attone, Florence, Godfrey the bearded, Godfrey the hunchback, Gregory VII, Henry IV, Matilda of Canossa, Podcast, Rome

• 039 – A sticky end and the humiliation of Canossa

  1076 – 1077 Godfrey the Hunchback meets a sticky end and the investiture controversy reaches a high point and slips towards war

  A History of Italy

  December 19, 2018

  Bianello, Canossa, Carpineti, Florence, Godfrey the hunchback, Gregory VII, Henry IV, Lucca, Mantua, Matilda of Canossa, Podcast, Rome, Rudolf of Swabia

• 038 – Gregory VII and marriage counselling

  1073 – 1076 We follow the marital problems of Matilde of Canossa and Godfrey the Hunchback of Lorain while pope Gregory VII rolled up his sleeves and get’s down to some serious posing and reforming.

  A History of Italy

  December 12, 2018

  Godfrey the bearded, Godfrey the hunchback, Gregory VII, Henry IV, Matilde of Canossa, Milan, Podcast, Rome, Worms

• 036 – Introducing a beard, a hunchback and Matilda

  1052 – 1061 Bonifacio Attone of Canossa dies leaving his wife Beatrice and stepdaughter to first look to the pope and then marry Godfrey the Bearded while in the backgrounds a couple of popes come and go and we also see a change of emperors.

  A History of Italy

  November 28, 2018

  Florence, Godfrey the bearded, Godfrey the hunchback, Henry III, Henry IV, Matilda of Canossa, Po, Podcast