Tag: John XIV

• 027 – Yet another Otto (III)

  983 – 1002 After the death of Otto II, we see how his young son was brought up to manhood under the regency of his mother Theophanu and his grandmother Adelaide of Italy and how he became an emperor with dreams of greatness, as well as how those dress clashed with reality

  A History of Italy

  August 19, 2018

  Adelaide, Boniface VII, Crescenzio II, Cresenzi, Germany, Gregorio Tuscolo, Gregory V, John XIV, John XV, John XVI, Marozia, Otto II, Otto III, Podcast, Ravenna, Rome, Soratte, Thophanu, Todi

• 026 – Another Otto (II)

  973 – 983 We take just a moment to mourn Otto I and then proceed to see how his son, Otto II, got on with his attempt to hold the Holy Roman Empire together and even try to expand to all of the Italian peninsula while dealing with the usual pope complications. 

  A History of Italy

  August 12, 2018

  Abu Qasim Ali, Benedict VI, Benedict VII, Boniface VII, Capo Colonna, Doge, John XIV, John XV, Landolfo IV, Otto II, Pandolfo Ironhead, Pietro IV, Podcast, Ravenna, Rome, Rossano, Saracen, Sicily, Stilo, Theophanu, Venice