Daily Medieval

There was more than one period of time called an Interregnum ("between reigns") when a ruler for a specific area was lacking. The ...

The future King Edward I (pictured here with his wife Eleanor and showing his reported blepharoptosis , drooping left eye) did not always su...

When Henry III's eldest son was born on 18 June 1239, he gave him an unusual name. Edward was an Anglo-Saxon name, in a court that spoke...

Evesham Abbey had existed for about five and a half centuries by the time Henry III was captured by Simon de Montfort at the Battle of L...

The skull of Skeleton 180, with sword damage The monks of Lewes Priory ran a Hospital of St. Nicholas in the Middle Ages, now long gone...

The remains of Lewes Castle King John wasn't the only English monarch who had his barons turn against him (forcing him to sign the...