Ep. 4 - A Foe Wherever You Go - King Otto I settles into being a medieval ruler

History of the Germans - A podcast by Dirk Hoffmann-Becking - Thursdays

After the civil war Otto gets to reorganise the kingdom and focuses on foreign policy. There is conflict on all borders, with the Slavs, the Bohemians, the Hungarians, and the French. The most interesting story plays out in Italy where we find a beautiful young heiress with the key to a kingdom languishing in a jail....

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