SEASON 6: The Other Norman Conquest

Miniseries: Pope Gregory VII & Matilda of Canossa

EPISODE 121: The Firebrand & the Reluctant Wife

A man who couldn’t be stopped. A woman who refused to bend. The Firebrand & the Reluctant Wife tells the origin story of two titans of 11th-century Italy: Hildebrand—soon to be Gregory VII—and young Matilda of Canossa, whose forced marriage lit a fuse that would burn across Europe. They didn’t just play the papal-imperial game—they rewrote the damn rules. Oh, and yes... Roger Borsa is now a duke, sooooo...

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