SEASON 7: All Roads Lead to Clermont

Miniseries: Popes, Emperors, Kings & A Countess

EPISODE 161: Rise of Pope Urban II

Pope Urban II’s story begins long before he was pope, when he was simply Odo of Chatillon, but this episode will focus on his impressive ascendancy through the Catholic ranks to be the answer to what the Christian world was looking for as the 11th century came to a close.

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