Daily Medieval

The awkwardness about antipopes is that they take names that are later taken by official popes. One has to keep them straight in the histor...

William IX, Duke of Aquitaine and Gascony (1071 - 1127), also Count of Poitiers, had a shaky start in life. He was the son of Duke William V...

You would think that the name "Battle" for a religious house must be an abbreviation of some more appropriate term, and you would ...

Tomb of Remigius, Lincoln Cathedral [ link ] A "ship list" exists of the ships used by William of Normandy when he conquered E...

Kiev is in the news a lot lately, and it makes me think of Anne of Kiev, whose name at birth was Anna Yaroslavna, an 11th century queen of F...