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Nov 1, 2026
Mark FrancisHOST
Elsewhere, a fairer note on William because this program tries to keep itself honest.
Mark FrancisHOST
His Duchy of Cornwall is selling the Bradninch estate in Devon and tenants, some of whom have farmed there for five generations, say they've been given six months to buy their homes or leave, with one describing the offer as the opportunity to go into generational debt.
Mark FrancisHOST
And another, a lifelong royalist, putting it more bluntly, Charles was fantastic.
Mark FrancisHOST
William could go to hell.
Adele PooleyNARRATOR
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Adele PooleyNARRATOR
The Peace of Bretigny this charles eldest son of john obtained by purchase the imperial fief of vienne of which the counts had always been called dauphin a title thenceforth borne by the heir-parent of the kingdom his father's captivity and the submission of paris left him master of the realm but he did little to defend it when edward the third again attacked it and in thirteen sixty he was forced to bow to the terms which the english king demanded as the price of peace The Peace of Bretigny permitted King John to ransom himself, but resigned to England the sovereignty over the Duchy of Aquitaine and left Calais and Pontieux in the hands of Edward III.
Adele PooleyNARRATOR
John died in 1364, before his ransom was paid, and his son mounted the throne as Charles V. Charles showed himself from this time a wary, able man, and did much to regain what had been lost by craftily watching his opportunity.
Adele PooleyNARRATOR
The war went on between the allies of each party, though the French and English kings professed to be at peace, and at the Battle of Cocherelle in 1364, Charles the Bad was defeated and forced to make peace with France.
Adele PooleyNARRATOR
On the other hand, the French party in Brittany, led by Charles de Blois, and the gallant Breton knight Bertrand du Guisclin, were routed the same year by the English party under Sir John Chandos.
Adele PooleyNARRATOR
Charles de Blois was killed, and the House of Montfort established in the Duchy.
Adele PooleyNARRATOR
These years of war had created a dreadful class of men, namely hired soldiers of all nations who under some noted leader sold their services to whatever prince might need them under the name of free companies, and when unemployed lived by plunder.
Adele PooleyNARRATOR
The peace had only let these riches loose on the peasants.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
Certain families were particularly important at this time.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
The Ascanian family ruled in the Mark of Brandenburg and the Duchy of Saxony.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
The House of Wittelsbach was also split into two branches.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
The elder possessed Upper Bavaria and the Palatinate.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
The younger ruled in Lower Bavaria.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
The Welfs held the Duchy of Brunswick.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
The Wetens, later possessors of Saxony, were now the lords of Meissen and Thuringia.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
Besides the Habsburgs themselves, there were two other families which were to become very prominent later on.
Aaron ManningGUEST
Robert is stuck in Normandy.
Aaron ManningGUEST
He's got control of the Duchy.
Aaron ManningGUEST
And all the Norman laws effectively have to kind of pick a side.
Aaron ManningGUEST
You know, a lot of them try to sit out, but most of the families have to work out.
Pete QuiñonesHOST
Samuel Julius, remount contractor under the elector Frederick Augustus of Saxony.
Pete QuiñonesHOST
The Model family, court purveyors and army contractors in the Duchy of Ansbach in the 17th and 18th century are well known.
Pete QuiñonesHOST
In short, as one writer of the time pithily expressed it, quote, all the contractors are Jews and all the Jews are contractors, end quote.
Pete QuiñonesHOST
Austria does not differ in this respect from Germany, France, and England.
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Pete QuiñonesHOST
Lefman Behrens of Hanover, J. Meyer of Hamburg, Baron Lehmann of Haberstadt, who advanced money for the election of the King of Poland, and others.
Pete QuiñonesHOST
Again, in Hanover, the barons were chief court purveyors and agents to the treasury.
Pete QuiñonesHOST
The models, the Frankles and the Nathans, acted in a similar capacity to the Duchy of Ansbach.
Pete QuiñonesHOST
In the Palatinate, we came across Lemte Moises and Michelle May, who in 1719 paid the debt of two and a half million golden, which the elector owed the emperor, And lastly, in the Margravat of Beirut, there were the Beresdorfs.
Pete QuiñonesHOST
Samuel Julius, remount contractor under the elector Frederick Augustus of Saxony.
Pete QuiñonesHOST
The Model family, court purveyors and army contractors in the Duchy of Ansbach in the 17th and 18th century are well known.
Pete QuiñonesHOST
In short, as one writer of the time pithily expressed it, "...all the contractors are Jews and all the Jews are contractors." Austria does not differ in this respect from Germany, France, and England.
Pete QuiñonesHOST
The wealthy Jews who, in the reign of Emperor Leopold, received permission to resettle in Vienna, 1670, the Oppenheimers, Wertheimers, Meyer Herschel, and the rest, were all army contractors.
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Pete QuiñonesHOST
Lefman Behrens of Hanover, J. Meyer of Hamburg, Baron Lehmann of Halberstadt, who advanced money for the election of the King of Poland, and others.
Pete QuiñonesHOST
Again, in Hanover, the barons were chief court purveyors and agents to the treasury.
Pete QuiñonesHOST
The models, the Frankles and the Nathans, acted in a similar capacity to the Duchy of Ansbach.
Pete QuiñonesHOST
In the Palatinate, We came across Lemte Moises and Michelle May, who in 1719 paid the debt of two and a half million golden, which the elector owed the emperor.
Chris HaslerHOST
Vienna would begin to rise in importance.
Chris HaslerHOST
The Eastern March was elevated to the status of Duchy in 1156 and Vienna was designated as the capital of the Duchy of Austria.
Chris HaslerHOST
Babenberg ruler Henry II shifted his residence from Klosterneuburg to Vienna, symbolic recognition of the status of the settlement.
Chris HaslerHOST
In 1221, Vienna was granted city status, allowing it to become a reliable and trustworthy place of regulated trade.
Chris HaslerHOST
It would be towards the end of the 13th century that the Babenberg Line died out and the wealthy Austrian territories would attract a lot of attention.
Chris HaslerHOST
King Rudolf I of Germany would meet King Ottokar II of Bohemia on the battlefield at Marchfeld in 1278.
Chris HaslerHOST
Rudolf's victory allowed his own dynasty, the Habsburgs, to seize the Duchy of Austria and the city of Vienna.
Chris HaslerHOST
Under the Habsburgs, Vienna would see the foundation of its university in 1365 by Duke Rudolf IV which attracted people from all over Europe.
speaker_0HOST
This is your Farming in 5 daily news update from Farmer's Guardian.
speaker_0HOST
In today's episode of Farming in 5, the Duchy of Cornwall defends tenant action as backlash against Prince William Estate sell-off grows and CO2 pig stunning is to be phased out as the government seeks more humane slaughter methods.
speaker_0HOST
Now the Duchy of Cornwall has been forced to defend its sale of the Bradninch estate in Devon after Prince William was accused of disregarding tenants in a Sunday newspaper.
speaker_0HOST
The 52,000 hectare estate near Exeter has been part of the Duchy since 1337 but in March of this year it was announced the land was set to be sold to raise money for what the Prince sees as other priorities including homelessness and climate change.
speaker_0HOST
Reporting on that news, Farmers Guardian heard from residents, tenant farmers and local councillors who all expressed their disappointment that the estate was set to broken up.
speaker_0HOST
Speaking at the time, Tenant Farmers Association Chief Executive George Dunn said the organisation had been left disheartened by the farm's sale.
speaker_0HOST
However, comments in yesterday's Observer newspaper accused the Duchy of betrayal as local residents feared jobs and homes will be lost.
speaker_0HOST
One of the residents, Mary Wrighton, told reporters, "...people draw attention to the irony of Prince William talking about his concern for mental health and for homelessness, while at the same time very badly affecting the mental health of people who live and work here." and potentially making families homeless.
AndyHOST
Charles' claim received the support of the French crown.
AndyHOST
The other was John of Montfort, who claimed the Duchy through his father, and whose cause attracted the support of Edward III of England.
AndyHOST
This became the War of the Breton Succession, a conflict closely connected to the larger struggle between England and France.
AndyHOST
It's worth pausing here because this is the political background that makes Jeanne's story comprehensible.
speaker_0HOST
The Reformation takes hold, especially in northwestern Europe.
speaker_0HOST
From Germany across into the little kingdom of Holland and the Duchy.
speaker_0HOST
Over toward Luxembourg and over into the British Isles.
speaker_0HOST
Here he's raising us up.
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