Tag: Pandolfo Ironhead

• Recap 02 – episodes 014 – 027

  In this recap episode we look back over the period from the fall of the Lombard kingdom at the hands of Charlemagne in 774 to the year 1000.

  A History of Italy

  August 27, 2018

  Alberic, Apulia, Arab, Benevento, Charlemagne, Emirate, History, Italy, John Xii, Leo III, Liguria, Marozia, Otto I, Otto II, Otto III, Pandolfo Ironhead, Podcast, Pope, Rome, Salerno, Sicily, Spoleto, Theophanu, Theophylact, Tuscany, Venice

• 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

• 025 – Ottonian Italy

  966 – 973 Otto I of Germany continues to consolidate his hold over Italy, attempting to go all the way south and dislodge the remaining Byzantine presence, meanwhile setting up his son with a Byzantine princess, Theophanu.

  A History of Italy

  August 4, 2018

  Arab, Benevento, Byzantine, Capua, Otto I, Otto II, Pandolfo Ironhead, Podcast, Rome, Salerno, Spoleto, Theophanu