Daily Medieval

There flourished around 540 CE a ruler in Britany called Conomor the Cursed, so notorious for his cruelty that some think he provided the se...

The War of Breton Succession (see immediately previous entries) included an interesting military interlude. A new book on the subject!...

[Click here for the start, here for part two.] The Battle of Auray, from an edition of Froissart's Chronicles Things were not l...

When John of Montfort was captured by France during the War of Breton Succession and imprisoned in the Louvre, his wife took up arms to def...

Between 1341 and 1364, while the Hundred Years War was contesting the right of the English king to rule France (or, at least, parts of it...