Mostly Unsung
The weekly comedy history podcast that brings you bitesize biographies of the extraordinary, eccentric, outrageous and occasionally ordinary lives that until now have gone mostly unsung... mostly. Join your hosts Annie and Andrea as they bring you stories that your history teacher never taught you!
If you like stuffy lectures then you're not going to be a fan, sorry! But if you are looking to hang out with two old friends who love story telling, a good laugh and forgotten figures from history then welcome!
Covering everything from scientists to Grandmothers, survivors of wars to eccentric millionaires, all via ghost stories, anecdotes and terrible impressions of Hollywood legend Tim Curry. Come and hang out, have a giggle and join us every Friday.
Mostly Unsung
#35 A Knight Who Ruled With An Iron Fist & A Man Who Loved Books (Göhtz Von Berlichingen & Sir Thomas Phillipps)
This week on Mostly Unsung, your favourite comedy history podcast, we’re back with two brand new tales about the weird, wonderful, and wildly overlooked people your school history lessons definitely skipped. If you love funny history stories, unsung historical figures, and the kind of trivia that makes you shout “WAIT...WHAT?”, you’re in the right place.
First up, Andrea dives into the world of European knights, but not the shiny, maiden rescuing, honour obsessed ones you’re picturing. No, this knight of the Holy Roman Empire preferred feuds to fairy tales. He loved a fight, thrived on legal disputes, picked battles like hobbies, and still somehow found time to write the occasional poem. Truly a medieval multitasker.
Then Annie brings us the tale of a man whose life mission was collecting everything. Well… books and manuscripts, specifically. Enough to build a legendary library that scholars travelled across continents to see. But what happens to a priceless collection when the collector dies? Cue a chaotic family feud, a will that’s basically a historical booby trap, and decades of drama at the auction house.
Andrea used these sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6tz_von_Berlichingen
https://www.burg-hornberg.de/geschichtswelt/goetz-von-berlichingen/
https://www.zeilenabstand.net/auf-den-spuren-von-goetz-von-berlichingen/
Annie used these sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Phillipps
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