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Sep 12, 2026
LucaHOST
the prayers of Archbishop Turpin, where he goes on to say, when Roland sees that now must be combat, more fierce he's found than lion or leopard.
LucaHOST
The Franks he calls and Oliver commands.
LucaHOST
Now say no more, my friends, nor thou, comrade.
LucaHOST
That emperor who left us Franks on guard, a thousand score stout men he set apart.
LucaHOST
And well he knows, not one will prove coward.
LucaHOST
man for his lord should suffer with good heart of bitter cold and great heat bear the smart his blood let drain and all his flesh be scarred strike with thy lance and i with dorandal with my good sword that was the king's reward so if i die who has it afterwards noble vassals here well may say it was from the other part is the archbishop turpin he pricks his horse and mounts upon a hill calling the franks sermon to them begins My lords barons, Charles left us here for this.
LucaHOST
So, though you die, blessed martyrs shall you live.
LucaHOST
Thrones you shall win in the great paradise.
speaker_8NARRATOR
THE GODS OF THE TUTANS.
speaker_8NARRATOR
in the little volume called the famous men of rome you have read about the great empire which the romans established now we come to a time when the power of rome was broken and tribes of barbarians who lived north of the danube and the rhine took possession of lands that had been part of the roman empire These tribes were the Goths, Vandals, Huns, Franks, and Anglo-Saxons.
speaker_8NARRATOR
From them have come the greatest nations of modern times.
speaker_8NARRATOR
All except the Huns belong to the same race, and are known as Teutons.
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speaker_12NARRATOR
King from 481 to 511 AD.
speaker_12NARRATOR
Part 1.
speaker_12NARRATOR
While the power of the Roman Empire was declining, there dwelt, on the banks of the River Rhine, a number of savage Teuton tribes called Franks.
speaker_12NARRATOR
The word Frank means free, and those tribes took pride in being known as Franks, or freemen.
speaker_12NARRATOR
King Vitiges made no effort to obstruct his approach.
speaker_12NARRATOR
He had received news that the Franks were threatening an invasion of northern Italy, and went north to oppose an imaginary danger in the Alps, when he should have been defending the line of the Tiber.
speaker_12NARRATOR
Having staved off the danger of a Frankish war by ceding Provence to King Theodoric, Vitiges turned back, only to learn that Rome was now in the hands of the enemy.
speaker_12NARRATOR
The troops of Loidorus, the Gothic general, who had been left with 4,000 men to defend the city, had been struck with panic at the approach of Belisarius, and were cowardly and idiotic enough to evacuate it without striking a blow.
speaker_12NARRATOR
5,000 men had sufficed to seize the ancient capital of the world.
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Zena Marie YuleNARRATOR
Though containing little that is memorable in itself, the reign of Irene must be noted as the severing point of that connection between Rome and Constantinople, which had endured since the first days of empire.
Zena Marie YuleNARRATOR
In the year eight hundred, Pope Leo III crowned Karl, king of the Franks, as Roman Emperor, and transferred to him the nominal allegiance which he had hitherto paid to Constantinople.
Zena Marie YuleNARRATOR
Since the Italian rebellion in the time of Constantine Copronymus, that allegiance had been a mere shadow, and the papacy had been in reality under Frankish influence.
Ryan CherickNARRATOR
It seems that he had himself married a second wife.
Ryan CherickNARRATOR
the daughter of the King of the Franks, a powerful continental people, and as, in consequence of his own approaching death, his son would come unexpectedly into possession of the throne, and would need immediately all the support which a powerful alliance could give him.
Ryan CherickNARRATOR
He recommended to him to give up the Saxon princess, and connect himself instead with the Franks, as he himself had done.
Ryan CherickNARRATOR
The prince entered into these views.
Ryan CherickNARRATOR
His father died.
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Ryan CherickNARRATOR
He married, however, a Danish princess, and thus Ragnar acquired a sort of hereditary right to a Danish kingdom, the territory including various islands and promontories at the entrance of the Baltic Sea.
Ryan CherickNARRATOR
There was, however, a competitor for this power, named Harald.
Ryan CherickNARRATOR
The Franks made common cause with Harald.
SoniaNARRATOR
They turned to Spain, destroyed the Visigothic kingdom, crossed the Pyrenees, and reached the center of Gaul before they were at last checked.
SoniaNARRATOR
The Franks, under Charles Martel, defeated them at Tours in 732, and perhaps by that victory saved Christendom.
SoniaNARRATOR
Had the Arabs succeeded in this last ordeal, who knows what the result might not have been.
SoniaNARRATOR
As Gibbon characteristically wrote, A victorious line of march had been prolonged above a thousand miles from the rock of Gibraltar to the banks of the Loire.
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SoniaNARRATOR
Spain and the House of Habsburg In the sixteenth century, with the House of Tudor on the English throne, the perennial struggle of the English sovereigns against France became complicated by the appearance of a new continental power that might under given circumstances join hands with the older enemy.
SoniaNARRATOR
This was Spain.
SoniaNARRATOR
Since their defeat by the Franks at Tours in 732, the Arabs had steadily lost ground.
SoniaNARRATOR
For several centuries, however, they had prospered in Spain, and there they had developed learning and the arts with splendid success at a moment when Christian Europe was still plunged in darkness.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
Pavia was taken after an obstinate resistance.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
Desiderius vanished into a monastery, the native line of Lombard kings came to an end, and northern Italy became a part of the Frankish dominions.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
The pope, the Roman clergy, the senate, the nobles, and the people hailed Charles as a deliverer.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
He was embraced by the pope on the steps of St. Peter's, he devoutly attended the ceremonies of Holy Week, and at the close he solemnly ratified the donation made by his father Pippin.
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Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
The change did not indeed come suddenly.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
There were sixteen years of stable government under Louis the Pious, but with the rebellion of his sons about 830, the break-up began.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
The Frankish dominions were divided amongst them, and the remainder of the century was filled with strife between them and their descendants.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
The imperial crown was shifted from one branch of the family to another.
Nick HolmesHOST
Nevertheless, he saw his opportunity and seized it, organising excellent logistical support for the huge numbers that poured into the western provinces of the Byzantine Empire.
Nick HolmesHOST
He showered the Frankish nobility with gifts and required them to swear oaths of allegiance.
Nick HolmesHOST
Impressed by the size and splendour of Constantinople, in particular the Franks and even Byzantium's former Norman enemies, who'd been fighting Alexius only ten years earlier, accepted his authority.
Nick HolmesHOST
Overawed by Constantinople, one crusader recorded, Oh, what a noble and beautiful city is Constantinople! How many monasteries and palaces it contains, constructed with wonderful skill! It would take too long! to describe all the wealth that's there of every kind of gold, silver, all types of clothes and holy relics.
Nick HolmesHOST
So with the crusaders entrenched in front of the walls, Kilij Arslan gathered an army to face the crusaders in battle, and in May 1097 he attacked.
Nick HolmesHOST
Advancing out of the hills to the south of Nicaea, thousands of Turkish horsemen thundered towards the crusaders.
Nick HolmesHOST
Based on their experience of the people's crusade, the Turks were contemptuous of the Frankish knights and charged the first group of crusaders they met head on.
Nick HolmesHOST
These were Raymond of Toulouse's knights, but the Provençal knights held their ground, and when Beaumont's Normans charged the Turks in the flank, The Turks broke and retreated.
Simon WhistlerHOST
Before he even became king, Richard's dearest ambition was to embark upon a crusade to the Holy Land.
Simon WhistlerHOST
The Egyptian Sultan Saladin had captured Jerusalem from the Frankish crusade estates in 1187, and Richard wanted to reclaim it for Christianity.
Simon WhistlerHOST
It was to be a massive pan-European effort, with Richard being joined by King Philip of France, as well as the Holy Roman Emperor, Frederick Barbarossa.
Simon WhistlerHOST
Richard raised vast sums of money through the sale of royal lands and officers, as well as taxes to raise an army and equip it, but equally important was to make sure his kingdom didn't fall into chaos while he was gone.
LynnaeHOST
Bjorn Ironside was a completely real, highly documented 9th century warlord.
LynnaeHOST
Terrified Frankish monks recorded his brutal longship raids up the River Seine in real time, and he eventually retired from the shield wall to become the founding father of the Munso dynasty, the very first verified line of historical kings to rule Sweden.
CJHOST
Oh, wow.
LynnaeHOST
Yeah.
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LynnaeHOST
No single Viking king matches Ragnar of the sagas.
LynnaeHOST
But if you look across the English Channel to the year 845, history uncovers a terrifying ghost that just might be our man.
LynnaeHOST
Spring 845, a monstrous Viking armada of 120 longships screams up the River Seine, cutting deep into the heart of the Frankish Empire.
CJHOST
Screams.
Lauren MackayHOST
The list of overnight stops he made on the journey home is the earliest detailed record of the road later known as the Via Francigena.
Lauren MackayHOST
the road that comes from the land of the Franks.
Lauren MackayHOST
Running from Canterbury across northern France, over the great St Bernard Pass into the Aosta Valley, and then south through Lombardy and the hill country of Tuscany.
Lauren MackayHOST
And for centuries it carried pilgrims, merchants, armies, and the towns strung along it were shaped by that traffic.
Jeni RydeGUEST
They counted about 20,000 people last year travelling it, but they think that actually 50,000 did various sections of it.
Lauren MackayHOST
What about the etymology of the name Via Francigena? Why is it called that and when did it get that name?
Jeni RydeGUEST
Via Francigena literally means the road originating from France or roads of the Franks.
Jeni RydeGUEST
So it comes from the Latin words francus, meaning Frankish, and gena or born originating from Francigena.
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