The Almost Forgotten
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The Almost Forgotten
The podcast focuses on the lives and times of great historical figures that have mostly fallen through the cracks of our collective memories. We may have heard of these people, but they don't get the attention that some do. Here, they get their due. http://almostforgotten.squarespace.com on Twitter:...
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Episode 9.10 - Turenne
Turenne was a major figure in France during the golden age of the Ancien Regime. Napoleon said his “audacity grew with years and experience” as some o...
Episode 9.9 - Hohenstaufen Pt 3 - Frederick II
Frederick II was the grandson of Barbarossa and of Roger the Great of Sicily. He inherited kingdoms from both lineages, and then lost and regained the...
Episode 9.8 - Hohenstaufen Pt 2 - Henry and Philip
Frederick Barbarossa was succeeded by his sons, Henry and Philip. Both were capable rulers who looked to follow in their father’s footsteps and expand...
Episode 9.7 - Hohenstaufen Pt 1 - Frederick Barbarossa
Frederick Barbarossa was Holy Roman Emperor in the 12th century. He forced his way into the imperial office, and then forced the office back into rele...
Episode 9.6 - Yuknoom the Great
Yuknoom led the powerful Maya kingdom ruled by Snake Dynasty. He installed vassal kings in neighboring cities and succeeded in dividing the royal line...
Episode 9.5 - Harsha
Harsha took over a growing kingdom in eastern Punjab, during a time of divided polities after the collapse of the huge Gupta Empire. He expanded his l...
Episode 9.4 - Kanishka
Kanishka led the Kushan Empire at its height, connecting China and India to lands west in the early era of the Silk Road. Kanishka was a strong leader...
Episode 9.3 - Mithridates I of Parthia
Mithridates took charge of a relatively small kingdom that nominally held lands south and east of the Caspian sea. By the end of his reign, he had tur...
Episode 9.2 - Bardylis
Bardylis united the tribes of Illyria in the late 5th and early 4th century BC, created a powerful kingdom that held sway over Macedon and threatened...
Episode 9.1 - Argishti of Urartu
Argishti ruled the ancient kingdom of Urartu, located in today's Armenia and Eastern Turkey. During Argishti's reign in the 8th century BC, Urartu hel...
Episode 8.9 - Gaspar Yanga
Gaspar Yanga was possibly born as royalty, although no one is sure, but when he died he was certainly considered by many to be a king. Captured in Afr...
Episode 8.8 - Abbas the Great
Abbas the Great, the shah of the Safavid empire, was great military leader, reformer, and diplomat. He took a shrinking, disintegrating Persian empire...
Episode 8.7 - Ram Khamhaeng
Ram Khamhaeng was the king of Sukhothai, and he ruled on of the first truly Tai-led kingdoms that was able to unite the surrounding states into someth...
Episode 8.6 - Somerled
Somerled was a Norse-Gael like born in what is today western Scotland, on the lands bordering the Irish Sea and the North Channel. He became King of t...
Episode 8.5 - Tamar the Great
Tamar the Great built on the legacy of her great grandfather David the Builder. Under her rule, Georgia grew to its largest geographic extent, held of...
Episode 8.4 - David the Builder
David became king of Georgia after it had been devastated by years of Turkish pillaging. He pushed the invaders out and restored the fortunes of his r...
Episode 8.3 - Dinh Bo Linh
One of several Viet leaders who helped his land on the road to sovereignty, Dinh Bo Linh united the land of An Nam, a Chinese protectorate that had ga...
Episode 8.2 - Goujian
Goujian was the king of Yue at the end of Ancient China’s Spring and Autumn Period. He was defeated by the state of Wu and taken captive, where he ser...
Episode 8.1 - Gungunum
In the 20th century BC, Gungunum made himself king of the Sumerian city of Larsa. He brought Larsa from an inconsequential minor city to the dominant...
Episode 7.10 - Jacob Kettler
Jacob Kettler was the Baltic German Duke of Courland and Semigallia, part of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the 17th century. Kettler decided t...
Episode 7.9 - Matthias Corvinus
Matthias Corvinus became King of Hungary as it was beginning to deal with the Ottoman threat. He united the fractured kingdom, bringing powerful magna...
Episode 7.8 - Margaret I of Denmark
Margaret lived in the late 14th and early 15th centuries, and was the daughter of the King of Denmark. Despite obstacles, and general opposition to ru...
Episode 7.7 - Alauddin Khalji
Alauddin Khalji became the Sultan of Delhi, and greatly expanded the kingdom. He fended off multiple Mongol invasions, and he in turn invaded most of...
Episode 7.6 - Baibars
Baibars was the Sultan of Egypt and Syria in the 13th century. Born on the Eurasian Steppe, he was enslaved as a teen, and became a slave soldier. He...
Episode 7.5 - Liutprand
The Lombards made their way into Italy in the 6th century, and were the bridge between the rule there of Roman Empires, both Western and Eastern, and...
Episode 7.4 - Songsten Gampo
Songsten Gampo was the king of a small state in southern Tibet, which had only just begun to expand beyond its perhaps centuries-old domain. From this...
Episode 7.3 - Dion of Syracuse
Dion was born in Syracuse and became a trusted advisor to the city’s tyrant. But Dion’s relationship with the next tyrant was no so hot, and after fal...
Episode 7.2 - Leukon
Leukon was the tyrant, then king, of the Cimmerian Bosporus, a territory on the Crimean Peninsula, at the very edge of the Greek world. He took the te...
Episode 7.1 - Shutruk Nakhunte
Shutruk-Nakhunte was the most powerful king of Elam. He took this often times disunited culture, and created an empire out of it. Elam existed for tho...
Episode 6.6 - Burgundy Pt 6 - Mary and the Rest
Burgundy is in turmoil after the death of Charles. His daughter Mary is his heir, but France, as well as the Netherlands, aren’t going to allow her to...
Episode 6.5 - Burgundy Pt 5 - Charles the Bold
Charles inherited a truly powerful state in Europe upon the death of his father. He was learned and brave, a strong military commander, and looked lik...
Episode 6.4 - Burgundy Pt 4 - Philip the Good
Philip the Good became the new Duke of Burgundy after his father’s murder. He worked to expand Burgundy’s power, and ruled during its height in a way...
Episode 6.3 - Burgundy Pt 3 - John the Fearless
With Philip the Bold’s death, his strategy of adding more territories to his heir is fulfilled, and John the Fearless inherits what is becoming a Burg...
Episode 6.2 - Burgundy Pt 2 - Philip the Bold
The history of the Duchy of Burgundy continues with the first Valois Duke, Philip the Bold. Philip was a gifted statesman who help grow the duchy into...
Episode 6.1 - Burgundy Pt 1 - Origins
Burgundy is a region in eastern France, which had once been an independent Germanic Kingdom. It became a Duchy of France before entering a Golden Ag...
Episode 5.10 - Nzinga
Nzinga was queen of an African kingdom in today’s Angola. She fought with, and at times allied with, the various colonial and indigenous powers in the...
Episode 5.9 - Bayinnaung
Bayinnaung was a prince and leading general of a small Burmese kingdom. He helped lead it to become a large empire, only to watch it dissolve when his...
Episode 5.8 - The Hussite Wars pt 3 - Prokop and the End
Jan Zizka was dead, but the Hussite cause was not. They continued to fight the Holy Roman Empire and the Catholic Church. They found a new leader in P...
Episode 5.7 - The Hussite Wars Part 2 - Jan Zizka
The Hussites, now fighting both the Catholic Church and the Holy Roman Empire, find the leader they need to survive against impossible odds in Jan Ziz...
Episode 5.6 - The Hussite Wars Part 1
The Hussite Wars started in 1419 with the first defenestration of Prague. Here we discuss the road to the war, including the situation in Bohemia, and...