Daily Medieval

Once he was firmly established as Sultan of Egypt in 1310 (after two previous reigns), al-Nasir Muhammad became more aggressive to his neig...

France and Scotland were two very different countries: different climates, languages, cuisines, cultures. They had one important thing in co...

Yesterday's post introduced Geoffroi de Charny , a third son with no prospects from his family who set out to make a name for himself. H...

Geoffroi de Charny (c.1306 - 19 September 1356) was an extremely accomplished and well-known French knight. He was a third son, which meant ...

The Bubonic Plague's first appearance in medieval Europe from 1348-1351, and it was terrifying. At least one-quarter to one-third of the...

To sum up yesterday's post : France considered Flanders their territory, Flanders under Count Robert III fought a war about that and los...

Simply put, the Hundred Years War was an argument over the rightful ruler(s) of England and France. Officially, it ran from 1337 to 1453, ma...

When John of Montfort was captured by France during the War of Breton Succession and imprisoned in the Louvre, his wife took up arms to def...

Between 1341 and 1364, while the Hundred Years War was contesting the right of the English king to rule France (or, at least, parts of it...

The Burghers of Calais, by Rodin The story of the Burghers of Calais is one of those that "everyone knows" and no one bothers...

Lower classes revolting against taxation and economic unfairness is as old as taxation itself. In 14th century France, a situation arose th...

A 1552 map depicting the Bastille Yesterday was Bastille Day, the anniversary of French peasants storming the Bastille to release priso...