Daily Medieval

First thing first: no one called him "the Fat" in his lifetime that we know of; it certainly wasn't in any contemporary record...

Charlemagne's son and successor as emperor, Louis the Pious , had several children. Several of them were with his first wife, Ermengarde...

I believe and confess that omnipotent and unchangeable God foreknew and predestined saint angels and elect men to eternal life gratis and th...

We saw here how Charlemagne captured his ex-father-in-law, King Desiderius of the Lombards, and imprisoned him in the Benedictine Abbey of...

Notker Balbulus (the Stammerer) Yesterday's post on cheese included an anecdote about Charlemagne, attributed to Notker the Stammer...

Charlemagne's grandsons were not satisfied with the way their father, Emperor Louis the Pious, divided up his realm while still alive so...