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125. Saint Canute IV is Murdered, Odense, Denmark 1086 AND Blessed Charles the Good is Murdered, Bruges, Flanders 1127
Jun 9, 2026
37m 02s
124. Béla of Macsó is Murdered, Margaret Island, Hungary 1272
May 15, 2026
45m 44s
123. Westminster Abbey Runs a Forgery Ring, Westminster, England 12th Century
Feb 25, 2026
40m 30s
122. Special Winter Episode: Vikings Raid Iona, Iona, Scotland, Christmas Eve 986
Jan 22, 2026
38m 03s
121. Special Episode: Steve Tibble Discusses Crusader Criminals, Holy Land, 12th - 13th Centuries
Jan 7, 2026
59m 15s
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| Date | Episode | Topics | Guests | Brands | Places | Keywords | Sponsor | Length | |
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| 6/9/26 | ![]() 125. Saint Canute IV is Murdered, Odense, Denmark 1086 AND Blessed Charles the Good is Murdered, Bruges, Flanders 1127✨ | medieval crimesacrilegious murder+5 | — | — | Odense, DenmarkBruges, Flanders | Saint Canute IVBlessed Charles the Good+6 | — | 37m 02s | |
| 5/15/26 | ![]() 124. Béla of Macsó is Murdered, Margaret Island, Hungary 1272✨ | medieval historytrue crime+4 | — | — | Margaret IslandHungary | Béla of MacsóMargaret Island+5 | — | 45m 44s | |
| 2/25/26 | ![]() 123. Westminster Abbey Runs a Forgery Ring, Westminster, England 12th Century✨ | forgerymedieval history+3 | — | Westminster Abbey | Westminster, England | forgerymedieval+5 | — | 40m 30s | |
| 1/22/26 | ![]() 122. Special Winter Episode: Vikings Raid Iona, Iona, Scotland, Christmas Eve 986✨ | VikingsIona+5 | — | — | Iona, Scotland | VikingsIona+5 | — | 38m 03s | |
| 1/7/26 | ![]() 121. Special Episode: Steve Tibble Discusses Crusader Criminals, Holy Land, 12th - 13th Centuries✨ | CrusadersHoly Land+4 | Steve Tibble | Crusader Criminals: The Knights Who Went Rogue in the Holy Land | — | Crusader criminalsHoly Land+5 | — | 59m 15s | |
| 12/20/25 | ![]() 120. Vikings Besiege Paris, Paris, France 845 and 885-886✨ | Vikingssieges+4 | — | — | Paris | VikingsParis+6 | — | 41m 32s | |
| 11/3/25 | ![]() 119. A Werewolf Craze Leads to Torture and Executions, Western Europe 16th-17th centuries✨ | werewolvestorture+4 | — | — | Western EuropeParis | werewolftorture+6 | — | 46m 01s | |
| 10/27/25 | ![]() 118. Henry V Orders the French Prisoners Killed, Agincourt, France October 25 1415✨ | battlewar crime+4 | — | — | AgincourtFrance | Henry VAgincourt+5 | — | 1h 08m 54s | |
| 10/16/25 | ![]() 117. Columbus Captures Arawaks and Demands They Tell Him Where the Gold Is, Guanahani (in the Bahamas) October 12, 1492✨ | ColumbusArawaks+5 | — | Spanish | ArawaksGuanahani | ColumbusArawaks+5 | — | 1h 01m 42s | |
| 10/8/25 | ![]() 116. The Great German Peasants' War, Central Europe 1524-1525✨ | peasant revolt16th century+4 | — | — | Central Europe | German Peasants' WarCentral Europe+5 | — | 44m 19s | |
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| 9/26/25 | ![]() 115. The Janissaries Briefly Break the Truce, December 24, 1522, Rhodes✨ | JanissariesOttoman Empire+5 | — | Knights HospitalerOttoman Troops | Rhodes | JanissariesSuleiman the Magnificent+6 | — | 1h 04m 54s | |
| 9/13/25 | ![]() 114. Beehive Stolen, Portugal 1435✨ | beekeepingmedieval laws+3 | — | — | PortugalFrance+1 | beehivestheft+3 | — | 1h 00m 05s | |
| 8/17/25 | ![]() 113. Rogallach mac Uatach Is Assasinated By Máel Brigte mac Mothlachán , Connacht, Ireland 649 | If you read the Annals of Tigernach, you will find that Máel Brigte mac Mothlachán killed Rogallach mac Uatach, King of Connacht, in battle, because the Uí Briúin tribe had been encroaching on the territory of the Corco Cullu, and so it was one of those normal murders. However, if you read the renowned and beloved Geoffrey Keating, you will discover that no, Rogallach, riding his white horse, was killed by servants, after a dispute about who had actually killed a deer, but before that Rogalla... | 47m 27s | ||||||
| 7/29/25 | ![]() 112. Sverker the Elder is Murdered, Alebäck Bridge, Sweden, December 25, 1156 | The first ruler of the House of Sverker, Sverker the Elder, had come out as the winner among contenders for the position of Ruler of Sweden, even though he wasn't from royal roots. He was the ruler of the country, but various pieces of Sweden were considering themselves under or not under his authority, and other countries altogether were also working on taking Sweden or bits of it (that would be Denmark and Russia), and what with one thing and another, life wasn't very restful. And the... | 33m 56s | ||||||
| 7/2/25 | ![]() 111. Massacre of the Latins, Constantinople, Byzantine Empire, April 1182 | In the beginning, by which I mean before 1054, the Church was united, though the Eastern and Western pieces had lots of theological differences, which they could just not iron out. But then it was 1053, and the Patriarch of Constantinople closed all the Latin churches in the city, and after that, the Pope of Rome tried to get the Patriarch to recognize him (the Pope) as the head of the Church, which he wouldn't, and then they excommunicated each other, and we had The Great Schism of 1054. But... | 53m 03s | ||||||
| 5/20/25 | ![]() 110. St. Mikhail of Chernihiv is Assassinated by the Golden Horde, Batu Khan's Camp, Kyivan Rus, 1246 | Mikhail of Chernihiv, the Grand Prince of Kyiv and Prince of Chernihiv, went to several neighboring states to ask for help fighting the Golden Horde -- he had the idea that there would be strength in alliance -- but nobody would help, on account of they were too busy fighting each other, and also the Mongols had not actually gotten to their houses yet, so why should they care. Then the Golden Horde destroyed Kyiv, and told Mikhail he had to come give obeisance to Batu Khan, and he did that, b... | 34m 52s | ||||||
| 4/29/25 | ![]() 109.King Duncan Gets Killed, Pitgaveny, Scotland 14 August 1040 | King Duncan did indeed get killed, in 1040, and Macbeth was around, and maybe even was near him at the time, but Duncan wasn't old, he wasn't asleep in bed, and there was no crime, because Macbeth's forces slaughtered Duncan's forces in battle, and Duncan was one of the slaughtered. In this episode, Anne explains all of the history that can be explained -- it's a slippery bunch of facts, but there was a King Duncan, he did die, and Macbeth was king after him. Michelle explains the historical ... | 33m 18s | ||||||
| 4/29/25 | ![]() 108. April Fool's Episode: Pope Joan, Rome 855-857 | For all of the middle ages, almost everybody believed that earlier in church history, there had been a pope who was, instead of being male, a woman, who met, alas, a Bad End. She wasn't there, as some people suspected then, and as we know now, but the story is so damn good it's hard to let go of. Whichever version of the story you're dealing with. Anne explains the different versions of Pope Joan and how we know she wasn't there, and Michelle is delighted by the vast amount of pop... | 33m 11s | ||||||
| 3/26/25 | ![]() 107. Church Sanctuary in the Middle Ages | As we all know, if you were accused of a crime in the middle ages, or if you were in danger, and you ran to a nearby church, you could have sanctuary, and then you were safe. Well, this is true, more or less, but exactly what you needed to do, and how the whole thing worked, changed over time and across the continent. Michelle and Anne wanted to know more about the mechanisms of sanctuary, so they went to find out, and will tell you all about it. Anne can explain to you the ceremony you would... | 40m 39s | ||||||
| 3/17/25 | ![]() 106. Special Episode: Axlar-Björn Pétursson is Executed for Serial Murder, Snæfellsnes Peninsula, Iceland 1596 | There's not a lot of murder in Iceland -- there was a disconcerting spike in the number of homicides last year, 8 altogether -- so, obviously, there aren't a lot of murderers. And none of the murderers of Iceland are serial killers. With one exception. In the last part of the 16th century, not long after Iceland had been forced to institute the death penalty for capital crimes (this was Denmark's idea), Axlar-Björn Pétursson, who lived out on the west coast, on the Snæfellsnes Peninsula... | 40m 52s | ||||||
| 3/12/25 | ![]() 105. St. Adalbert of Prague is Martyred, Truso, Poland 997 | Adalbert of Prague wanted very much to go Christianize the Prussians, but they were just not having it, so they hacked him up and cut his head off, and that is why he is a Saint, with an enormous number of churches around the globe dedicated to him. Anne spends time thinking about what was the snack that we are told Adalbert and his companions were eating before the murder, and Michelle considers the recently discovered account of Adalbert that is older than the one we had, although really wh... | 38m 11s | ||||||
| 12/29/24 | ![]() 104. Special Episode: Abd Allah ibn Ali invites the Umayyades to a Banquet and Slaughters Them, Palestine 750 | Usually our special episodes move out of our 1000 year time zone, but for this one we stay in the middle ages and move off of the European continent, to one of the incidents in the fall of the Umayyad caliphate and the rise of the Abbasid caliphate, a blood feast! We haven't had one of those for a while, and we were very excited, but then we did our due diligence and discovered that it probably didn't happen. That is, the Umayyades were slaughtered, alright, but probably not at a banquet wher... | 40m 08s | ||||||
| 11/9/24 | ![]() 103. Pino III Ordelaffi Poisons a Whole Lot of People, Forli, Northern Italy, 1463-1480 | From the 12th century to Renaissance, the Ordelaffi family ruled the commune of Forli, in Northern Italy. On and off. Also, on and off again. When they weren't fighting others for the commune -- Florence, the Emperor, the Pope -- they were fighting each other, and in 1376, poison became a favorite weapon, when Sinibaldi I Ordelaffi poisoned first his uncle and then his cousin, so that he could have Forli. He's not even our protagonist, though, because we lit, for this episode, on Pino III Ord... | 46m 59s | ||||||
| 10/1/24 | ![]() 102. William de Burgh Starves his Cousin Walter to Death, Greencastle, Ulster 1332 | William Donn de Burgh, the 3rd Earl of Ulster, was, alas, not so great at being the Earl of Ulster. Starving his cousin Walter Liath de Burgh to death led to Walter's sister Gylle (also of course a cousin of William's) getting her husband to have him murdered. And then, the whole succession problem -- there were several cousins wandering around, and William's heir was a girl, and that was right out -- led to the Burke Civil War. What with one thing and another, though the de Burghs married in... | 40m 13s | ||||||
| 8/6/24 | ![]() 101. Defenestrations of Prague, Prague, Bohemia 1419, 1483, 1618 | Humans have been throwing each other out of windows pretty much as long as humans have had windows more than one story or so off the ground, but only Prague is famous for them. Two of them actually led to wars, even. We are very happy to tell you about the famous defenestrations, wherin all sorts of officials got thrown out of windows, and Michelle is happy to tell you about the tourist trade. Oh, and also Susan Howe's poem "Defenestration of Prague," which is, of course, about Ireland. Becau... | 41m 25s | ||||||
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