Daily Medieval

At a time when Christian priests could marry, a French priest named Odelerius of Orléans came to England following his patron, who became th...

While Anselm was still abbot of Bec and avoiding the journey to England to become Archbishop of Canterbury because of William II's auth...

The dog pictured here is the Talbot Dog or Talbot Hound.  The Talbot was a hunting dog popular in the Middle Ages. I saw was  because the br...

The picture in this post shows the 1st Earl of Shrewsbury presenting a book to Margaret of Anjou, wife of King Henry VI. The earl, John Tal...

Why was the 1st Earl of Shrewsbury (pictured to the left on his knees and mentioned here ) the second  1st Earl of Shrewsbury? That is becau...

The image to the left shows Alton Towers in 1880, designed by Augustus Pugin , near the town of Alton in Staffordshire (not the Alton where ...