Daily Medieval

When the report of the Second Council of Nicaea  (in 787 CE) was written up approving the use of icons for religious purposes, it mentioned ...

Although there once existed an agreement between the papacy and the Lombards, the desire of King Aistulf to take more land on the Italian P...

Liutprand was King of the Lombards from 712 - 744. During his reign he conquered much of the Italian Peninsula, made an agreement with Pope...

In order to preserve Western Europe for Christendom and repel the Muslim invasions, Charles Martel enlisted the aid of Liutprand, King of t...

First, let me say that there was more than one Eadburh. Eadburh was the name of King Alfred the Great's mother-in-law (Alfred's wife...

Italy was not unified as a country until 1861; before then, the separate regions/cities saw themselves as unique sovereign entities. This le...

The Vatican is considered the "Smallest Country in the World." Its 0.17 square-mile size (110 acres) makes it the smallest recogn...

The Eastern Emperor Justinian's (482-565 CE) attempt to conquer the Western Empire left it bruised and open to invasion. The Lombard Kin...

To round out the Merovingian/Carolingian week we've been having, let's take a look at some of the other women and children whose liv...

Bertrada of Laon, first introduced here , was the wife of Pepin the Short and mother of Charles (later Charlemagne) and Carloman.* She was...