Ludwig II of Bavaria
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Sep 17, 2026
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
His cousin Frederick of Austria, only a few years older than himself, whose estates were at this time occupied by Ottokar, King of Bohemia, offered to share his danger.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
After taking an affecting leave of his mother and wife at Hohenschwangau, that romantic nest of lakes in which the ill-fated Ludwig of Bavaria found a congenial home, Conrad crossed the Brenner and arrived at Verona toward the end of the year 1267 with an army of 3,500 men.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
He traversed Lombardy without difficulty and was soon encouraged by two unexpected advantages.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
Rome and Sicily declared for his cause.
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Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
Elizabeth, the second daughter of Wenceslaus II, married John, the son of Henry of Luxembourg, who was recognized as King of Bohemia from 1310 to 1346.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
Thus in supporting the Bavarian claimant to the empire, he was preventing the crown of Bohemia from passing to the house of Austria.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
Of the claimants, Albert represented the house of Habsburg, Ludwig the house of Hohenstaufen.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
Two diets were held for the election of an emperor, one at Renza on the Rhine, which was the regular place of meeting for this purpose, and the other at Sachsenhausen in the neighborhood of Frankfurt.
JessicaHOST
And that clue says, find the inspiration for Sleeping Beauty's castle.
JessicaHOST
Teams must figure out that they're looking for the Neuschwanstein Castle, home of Bavarian King Ludwig II, whose bedroom is where the team will find their next clue.
SadieHOST
I knew that before they even had to ask people.
SadieHOST
Neuschwanstein Castle.
JessicaHOST
Yeah.
JessicaHOST
And it became a royal capital filled with palaces, monuments, museums, and grand avenues.
JessicaHOST
One of the most famous kings was Ludwig II, who came to the throne in 1864.
JessicaHOST
Germany didn't exist as a unified country for most of European history.
David WalesNARRATOR
The late spring of 1864 brought two events which, though seemingly unrelated, actually had a kind of mystic kinship and were to stir the surfaces of music.
David WalesNARRATOR
Early in May of that year, Richard Wagner was summoned to Munich to become the friend and protégé of the young Bavarian sovereign, Ludwig II, whose real mission on earth was to save the composer for the world.
David WalesNARRATOR
Hardly more than a month later, there was born in the same city a boy, likewise named Richard, who was destined in the fullness of time to become in a sense an heir and continuator of the old master, though by no means a vain copy of his artistic and spiritual lineaments.
David WalesNARRATOR
And long before the span of his days reached its end, he had taken an undisputed place in history as a seminal force in music for all the disagreements and conflicts his art was to engender through a large part of his more than four score years.
Mikko KetovuoriGUEST
That's why I, I really think in, in small way, everyone can affect their own lives, but social mood, it's much, much bigger thing and, and unfortunately we cannot control that.
Andrew KeenHOST
What does history teach us? I know you write about all sorts of intriguing historical figures, everything from the [sighs] very controversial Richard Wagner, who was very popular with the Nazis, to the mad Ludwig II of Bavaria.
Andrew KeenHOST
What does the, the 19th century teach us about social mood?
Mikko KetovuoriGUEST
Well-
Gerald AugerHOST
Um, German beer can only have four ingredients, German purity law, et cetera.
Gerald AugerHOST
Uh, Lagrad thinks Bavaria, he thinks of the Mad King Ludwig, Oktoberfest pretzels and lederhosen.
Gerald AugerHOST
All right, there we go.
Gerald AugerHOST
And there is your, um, social studies moment, uh, here at Simply Cyber.
Peter GousisHOST
And we've even talked about this in games like earth.
Peter GousisHOST
I think we covered it there or games like mad King, whatever castles of mad King Ludwig.
Peter GousisHOST
Yeah.
Peter GousisHOST
Yeah.
Peter GousisHOST
that game, which isn't necessarily a tableau builder, right? You're building stuff in front of you.
Peter GousisHOST
But a lot of these games, sometimes the interactions can get to be too much, is what I'm saying.
Peter GousisHOST
And Mad King Ludwig is one where I'm like, okay, if this is next to this, you do this or whatever.
Peter GousisHOST
And I feel like Earth had a little bit of that.
Charlotte VosperHOST
No.
Lucy WorsleyGUEST
It was built by King Ludwig of Bavaria, and it's the crazy castle from the film Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.
Charlotte VosperHOST
Oh, my goodness.
Lucy WorsleyGUEST
The one with all the mad turrets.
Thom HartmannHOST
Look up that clip.
Thom HartmannHOST
He thinks he's king, and he's behaving like Mad King Ludwig.
Thom HartmannHOST
I mean, you know, when I lived in Germany, I saw the result of this in Bavaria.
Thom HartmannHOST
He built some beautiful castles, but a lot of people starved.
DocHOST
Ben.
DocHOST
Yeah, it's Disney-ish, slightly in the style of Mad King Ludwig of Bavaria.
DocHOST
That's Baron Bomberst's castle in Chichibangbang, for those of you out there who struggle when we turn all cultural, such as Mark saying, you know, what are those castles with the pointy bits? Ugh.
RevHOST
Talking of traitors, though,
Rachel McElroyHOST
I will just say when I was doing the research, wave pools go back to the 19th century.
Rachel McElroyHOST
There was a castle builder in Bavaria, Ludwig II, who electrified a lake to create breaking waves.
Rachel McElroyHOST
Yes.
Griffin McElroyHOST
That doesn't sound real.
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