Daily Medieval

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

Gregory of Tours mentions, regarding an event in which the body of King Clovis I was exhumed, "Though I did not know who he was, I reco...

The idea of actual Papal States  giving the pope serious temporal power really took off in 756 when Pepin the Short , king of the Franks, ga...

The franc was coined by King John the Good in 1360 to help stabilize the currency in France and try to generate the millions he needed to pa...

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

Statues of the two Ewalds, in the church at Cologne. Although the Saxons were not converted to Christianity until Charlemagne did it by...

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...

Bertrada of Laon Properly speaking, the Carolingian Era started with Carolus Martellus, Charles "the Hammer" Martel (c.688-741...

Nicknames: so easy to get, so hard to get rid of. When Mayor of the Palace and military genius  Charles Martel presented his 12-year-old s...

Kings cannot run every administrative detail of their household themselves, so they appoint people to do it for them. Chamberlain, senescha...