Daily Medieval

Margaret of Wessex was almost 50 years old in 1093 when her husband, King Malcolm III of Scotland, and her eldest son went to war against t...

Margaret of Wessex (c.1045 - 16 November 1093) was born in Hungary while her family was exiled there. Her father was Edward the Exile, heir ...

King Malcolm III of Scotland (c.1031 - 1093) was alternately supporting and attacking English royalty. The tradition that his father had sen...

Almost exactly a decade ago I posted " The Real Macbeth " about how he killed Duncan I of Scotland. Well, let's talk about Dun...

Edgar Ætheling had been through many ups and downs . For the trouble he had caused for William II of Normandy as an "alternate choice...

For Edgar Ætheling , landing in Scotland in 1068—whether by accident or design—was fortuitous. King Malcolm III took a liking to Edgar's...

After the death of King Harold Godwinson on 14 October 1066 at the Battle of Hastings , the witenagemot wasted no time: the very next day, ...

While William in Normandy was preparing to take over England after the death of Edward the Confessor and the coronation of Harold Godwinson...

The first royal wedding too take place at Windsor Castle was that of King Henry I and Adeliza of Louvain.  Henry (c.1068 - 1135) was a young...

I mentioned here that, after the Battle of Hastings, another claimant to the throne of England had to flee to Scotland in the face of Wil...

Edgar and his sister, St. Margaret, landing at Wearmouth after their ship was blown off course Yesterday was the anniversary of the Ba...

Tornadoes usually form when masses of warm, moist air and higher altitude cooler air meet. The cooler air descends, the warm air ascends, an...