Daily Medieval

St. Patrick had sisters. One of them was discussed yesterday, Derarca , called the "mother of saints" because she had so many chil...

Richardis of Swabia (c.840 - c.895) was the daughter of a count. That and her reputation for piety made her a suitable choice to marry Charl...

So Peter Bartholomew was about to undergo Trial by Ordeal to verify whether he was being honest about his visions and   discovering the Ho...

After the "finding" of the Holy Lance , the Crusaders in Antioch felt emboldened to break the siege around the city by Kerbogha, t...

Trial by Ordeal took many forms in the ancient world and the Middle Ages. In a sense, it was an appeal to God to reveal the culprit. In Old ...

The post Charlemagne and the Popes  mentioned Pope Leo III taking an Oath of Purgation to "prove" his innocence of accusations ma...

King Henry II of England had problems. The period known as The Anarchy was over, but the mercenaries employed during it were causing tro...

Holding hot iron in a Trial by Ordeal. In the post on Margaret Eriksdottir we saw an example of how Trial by Ordeal doesn't always ...

Retrieving an object from boiling water without suffering burns would prove innocence. Margaret (or Margareta) Eriksdottir of Sweden (c....