He agreed to lead the rebels partly because he had no other option, and partly in an effort to curb the excesses of the rebellion. The ship did not get a proper name before the departure; only a formal name was given - a number. Photo source: ( Public Domain ), Karl of Germany, 2016. Mount Shasta: Spirits and Danger on a Sacred California Mountain, Mysterious Worlds: Travels to the Faerie and Shamanic Realms, Pharaoh Akhenaten: An Alternative View of the Heretic King, Excavations turn up medieval bones which may be a knight and his family, The discovery of 4,000-year-old Siberian knight armor made of bone, Archaeologists discover remains of medieval knight with extensive jousting injuries, Battered remains of medieval knight who died in bloodiest battle of England go on display, Medieval Knight Wielding ‘Excalibur’ Stopped By Armed Police, The Missing Pieces: Unraveling the History of the Lewis Chessmen, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight’s Beheading Game, Lost Medieval Chapel Unearthed 370 Years After Destruction, The Strange Story of the Black Prince of Canterbury. [Online]Available at: http://www.karlofgermany.com/Goetz.htm, MilitaryHistoryNow.com, 2015. [Online]Available at: http://militaryhistorynow.com/2015/07/06/the-iron-hand-meet-the-middle-ages-toughest-knight/, Morton, E., 2015. He was active in numerous campaigns during a period of 47 years (1498–1544), including the German Peasants' War, besides numerous feuds; in his autobiography he estimates that he fought 15 feuds in his own name, besides many cases where he lent assistance to friends, including feuds against the cities of Cologne, Ulm, Augsburg and the Swabian League, as well as the bishop of Bamberg. In the early 1800s, on a golden Hebridean beach, the sea exposed an ancient treasure cache: ninety-two game pieces carved of ivory and the buckle of the bag that once contained them. In 1497, Berlichingen entered the service of Frederick I, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach. In spite of this injury, Berlichingen continued his military activities. A relief of Götz von Berlichingen in Germany, containing the famous phrase. He fought in the defence of Möckmühl, but eventually was forced to surrender the town, owing to a lack of food and ammunition. In the subsequent years he was involved in numerous feuds, both of his own and in support of friends and employers. His fellow knights Georg von Frundsberg and Franz von Sickingen successfully argued for his release in 1522, but only after he paid a ransom of 2,000 gulden and swore not to take vengeance on the League. In 1516, in a feud with the Principality of Mainz and its Prince-Archbishop, Berlichingen and his company mounted a raid into Hesse, capturing Philip IV, Count of Waldeck, in the process. He had two prosthetic arms created for himself – and one of them could still hold his sword or shield. The mysterious 14th century Bek’s Chapel that was lost at the beginning of the English Civil War has been rediscovered and excavated at Auckland Castle in England. Unity in Diversity: Studies Reveal Surprising Stories for the Genes of Ancient Hindus and Jews, 3 Problems to Remember When Trying to Find Atlantis. A scholarly edition of the manuscript text was published in 1981 by Helgard Ulmschneider as Mein Fehd und Handlungen. Götz von Berlichingen, imperial knight (Reichsritter), romanticized in legend as a German Robin Hood and remembered as hero of J.W. In 1497, Gotz entered the service of Frederick I, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach. In 1498, he fought in the armies of Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I, seeing action in Burgundy, Lorraine, and the Brabant, and in the Swabian War the following year. It should not be forgotten that in Germany he is famous for the usage of the "Swabian salute". Before arriving at the final point the Captain asked through the telegraphist that the ship should be named "Michel". So the captain instead chose the name "Götz von Berlichingen". Unlike his old prosthesis, von Berlichingen’s new one had joints on its fingers, which offered him a better grip of his weapon. In 1512, near the town of Forchheim, due to a long running and bitter feud with Nuremberg he raided a group of Nuremberg merchants returning from the great fair at Leipzig. The most obvious was that he lost an arm to cannon fire in the heat of battle. The knight seized merchant shipping, kidnapped nobles for ransom, and raided towns around Germany as a means of making money. He was not impressed by it at all. [Online]Available at: http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/object-of-intrigue-the-prosthetic-iron-hand-of-a-16thcentury-knight, Puiu, T., 2016.