Daily Medieval

Bernard of Septimania, whose fate interweaves the recent posts on Carolingian civil wars, married Dhuoda on 24 June 824. She bore him two so...

Uzés was founded around an early Roman aqueduct Back here I mentioned that Bernard of Septimania married a woman named Dhuoda, whom he ...

Charlemagne's grandsons were not satisfied with the way their father, Emperor Louis the Pious, divided up his realm while still alive so...

Lothair, rebel with a cause After Louis the Pious dealt with an insurrection by his three sons (see yesterday's post ), Bernard of S...

Coronation of Louis the Pious, by Jean Fouquet (1455) Yesterday's post about William of Gellone didn't mention his family at al...