Before I opened this blog, I wanted to do the Crazy King Series. In world history, there are brilliant virtuosos and incredible idiot kings. I wanted to write an article about such idiot kings. Actually, the first one was the second emperor Tiberius, but after investigating various things, it tu
In the year 1134 the king of Aragon, Alfonso I el Batallador dies. . The king had no offspring and his will and succession raised blisters between the nobles and the Church: In the name of the greatest and incomparable good that is God. I Alfonso, King of Aragon, of Pamplona […] thinking of my fat
In 554 AD an army of 75,000 Franks, Alamanni, Thuringians, and other Germans, under the dukes Lothario and Butellinus, crossed the Po and marched into lower Italy. General Narses, the regent of Italy, however, upon hearing the news of the Frankish invasion, moved swiftly, at the head of powerful for
After the death of Michael Palaiologos and the restoration to the throne of his son, Andronikos II, the empire now entered the final course towards its end. Andronikos had nothing to do with military matters and did not give due importance to the army. However, until around 1300 the Byzantine Army,