Daily Medieval

With the change of reign in England in 1066, Duke William of Normandy saw his opportunity to become king of a country, believing that it wa...

When Edward the Confessor died on 5 January 1066, he supposedly made a deathbed statement committing his kingdom into the care of Harold God...

William of Poitiers (c.1020 - 1090) was born into a family of knights, and trained as a knight himself until his late 20s when he decided to...

Norman cathedral design wasn't the only architectural style introduced into England after 1066. The fortification style called motte-an...

We have looked at the influence on the language in England when it suffered an influx of Norman-French population and administration. This ...

Many of you already know about the Norman Invasion of 1066 when William the Conqueror became ruler of England and the Anglo-Saxons within. T...

In the previous post, I mentioned that a certain name showed up in the Liber Vitae , a title which literally means "Book of Life" ...

William , Duke of Normandy, who won the Battle of Hastings and conquered England, has been brought up many times in this blog. He ruled f...

When Leofric , Earl of Mercia, died in 1057, his estate of Kingsbury passed to his widow, the Countess Godgifu, better known to later genera...

In 1085, Duke William of Normandy had been ruling England as King William for twenty years (it all started here ). He decided it was finally...

When Edward the Confessor died, he supposedly made a deathbed statement committing his kingdom into the care of Harold Godwinson. As the m...