Daily Medieval

It must have been a shock when Thorkell the Tall , a leader and warrior of the early 12th-century Danish invasion of England, changed his st...

The Archbishop of Canterbury, Alfheah  (also called Alphege), was captured during an invasion of Vikings in 1011.  Eadric Streona  was suppo...

Eadric, the son of Ethelric, started as a relative unknown. His father was at the court of Æthelred the Unready , but was not distinguished....

Edmund, son of Æthelred the Unready  and his first wife Ælfgifu of York, was likely born between 990 and 993, one of several siblings. He wa...