#35 A Knight Who Ruled With An Iron Fist & A Man Who Loved Books (Göhtz Von Berlichingen & Sir Thomas Phillipps)

This week on Mostly Unsung, your favourite comedy history podcast, we’re back with two brand new tales about the weird, wonderful, and wildly overlooked people your school history lessons definitely skipped. If you love funny history stories, unsung historical figures, and the kind of trivia that makes you shout “WAIT...WHAT?”, you’re in the right place.First up, Andrea dives into the world of European knights, but not the shiny, maiden rescuing, honour obsessed ones you’re picturing. No, this knight of the Holy Roman Empire preferred feuds to fairy tales. He loved a fight, thrived on legal disputes, picked battles like hobbies, and still somehow found time to write the occasional poem. Truly a medieval multitasker.Then Annie brings us the tale of a man whose life mission was collecting everything. Well… books and manuscripts, specifically. Enough to build a legendary library that scholars travelled across continents to see. But what happens to a priceless collection when the collector dies? Cue  a chaotic family feud, a will that’s basically a historical booby trap, and decades of drama at the auction house.Andrea used these sources:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6tz_von_Berlichingenhttps://www.burg-hornberg.de/geschichtswelt/goetz-von-berlichingen/https://www.zeilenabstand.net/auf-den-spuren-von-goetz-von-berlichingen/Annie used these sources:https://ies.sas.ac.uk/news-events/blogs/sir-thomas-phillipps-1792-1872-manuscript-collector-his-legacyhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_PhillippsWhere you can find us:https://www.instagram.com/mostlyunsung/https://www.facebook.com/share/16J4vuMy1h/https://www.tiktok.com/@[email protected] you next Wednesday!