The first of a two-part series on Maximilian's wives. 

This is the loved one.  And we look at all the men she could have married..... and there are a lot of them!

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Relevant Episode - S1 - 023 Emperor Maximilian - Part One | Tudoriferous

S1 - 046 Margaret of York, Duchess of Burgundy, Part 1 | Tudoriferous (podbean.com)

S1 - 021 - Philip the Fair, Part 1 | Tudoriferous (podbean.com)

Charles the Bold, Part One | Tudoriferous on Patreon

Here is a man who thinks that when it comes to marriage you should keep it in the family.  More exploration, more upsetting the good folk of Calicut and an elephant.

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Relevant Episodes - Cameo 72 - Vasco da Gama | Tudoriferous

Cameo 71 - King Joao II of Portugal. | Tudoriferous

Listener discretion is advised.  Da Gama was a terrible individual who did terrible things.  That said, he's also fascinating.

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The first of three trips to Portugal.

Exploration, murder, incest, Communism and my appalling Portuguese pronunciation.

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Relevant Episodes - S1 - 025 - Ferdinand of Aragon - Part One | Tudoriferous

S1 - 018 - Isabella of Castile | Tudoriferous (podbean.com)

For the 200th episode of Tudoriferous, we present a full performance of "Fulgens and Lucrece" the masterpiece of the first known English playwright, Henry Medwall!

Who will Lucrece, the wise and beautiful daughter of Roman Senator Fulgens, marry? Will she choose the noble but morally dubious Cornelius, or the common but upstanding Gaius? And will their servants, the oddly-named A and B, stop making metatheatrical jokes and chasing her maid Joan for long enough to help? Be warned, we've put the explicit tag on this episode for a reason, the humour of the 1490s was sometimes rather direct...

Thank you so much to the History Podcast Players!

As well as David and Lucy from Tudoriferous, playing A and Joan respectively, this performance features the voices of:

B - Michael from Quest for Power

Fulgens - Quinn from Nobelesse Oblige

Cornelius - Simon from The History of Venice

Lucrece - Meredith from The Alexander Standard

Gaius - Roberto from Tsar Power, and The History of Saqartvelo Georgia... and Quest for Power too! 

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Relevant Episodes - Medieval and Early Tudor Drama

Cameo 64 - Henry Medwall

With the death of Edward IV, Dorset's life is plunged into chaos. Will he be the power behind the throne? A despised and morally dubious rebel? An unreliable royal ally? A significant patron? Or just a quiet family man with a sideline in visiting famous prisons? Listen on to discover just how unlucky Thomas Grey can be...

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Relevant Episodes - S1 - 42 - Edward Woodville, feat. The Woodvilles

S1 - 042 - Edward Woodville- Part Two

Cameo 51 - Richard Grey, 3rd Earl of Kent

Cameo 10 - Roger Machado

Image: Detail from an illumination from Volume 6 of the Anciennes Chroniques d'Angleterre by Jean de Wavrin (15th Century)

Almost a prince, almost a duke, almost a kingmaker, almost a rebel - this man teeters on the edge of history, but will Elizabeth Woodville's son, stepson to Edward IV and brother-in-law to Henry VII, be able to escape from the shadow of his incredibly dramatic family? Maybe if we can just work out what a Marquis actually is...

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Relevant Episodes - S1 - 42 - Edward Woodville, feat. The Woodvilles

S1 - 042 - Edward Woodville- Part Two

Cameo 51 - Richard Grey, 3rd Earl of Kent

Image: Detail from King Edward IV and His Queen, Elizabeth Woodville at Reading Abbey, 1464 by Ernest Board (1877-1934) Copyright Reading Museum

A Life in Ten Battles.

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Relevant Episodes - S1-049 Anne de Beaujeu, Part Two | Tudoriferous

S1 049 - Anne de Beaujeu, Part Three | Tudoriferous

S1 - 022 - Louis XII of France | Tudoriferous

CATERINA SFORZA, PART FOUR | Patreon

Pietro Aretino - Part One | Patreon

Duke Francis of Brittany's loyal right-hand man or the Svengali to Francis' Trilby?  He quickly came to discover that the nobility doesn't like tailors' sons.....unless they're measuring them up for a suit.

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Relevant Episodes - S1-049 Anne de Beaujeu, Part Two | Tudoriferous

S1 - 003 - Jasper Tudor, Duke of Bedford and Earl of Pembroke | Tudoriferous

We've covered all of the popes who ran the Catholic Church during Henry VII's reign (and at least one who didn't), and who better to tell us how we've done than Bry and Fry from "Pontifacts - ranking all of the Popes from Peter to Leo XIV"!

Listen on to hear why we let Sixtus IV off far too lightly, why pious men don't make good Renaissance Popes, and why Julius II was just so, so obsessed with Alexander VI.

And why didn't they listen to Burchard?

Find Pontifacts here! https://pontifacts.podbean.com/ And on many, many other podcatchers.

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Relevant Episodes of Tudoriferous - Pope Sixtus IV

Pope Innocent VIII

Pope Alexander VI

Pope Pius III

Pope Julius II (though this one is mostly on the Alum trade - to get properly into Julius II's story, start here with part two)