Daily Medieval

St. Dunstan's life had its ups and downs, as the Wheel of Fortune predicts. Driven from one king's court because of the jealousy of...

There were three men in the 10th century in England who were called the "Three English Holy Hierarchs" for their work in reviving ...

Hywel ap Cadell was known as Hywel Dda ("Howel the Good"), a Welsh king who accomplished so much that his name is attached to the ...

King Æthelstan (c.890s - 27 October 939) united England under a single ruler, prevented invasion, reformed the law, and donated to the Churc...

A sign of Viking presence in Ireland: a Viking ship built in Dublin c. 1042 As alluded to in the post on King Edmund I , Ireland was th...

from a  genealogy of the kings of England Edmund I Edmund the Magnificent Edmund the Just Edmund the Deed-Doer It isn't often...