Daily Medieval

John of Brienne never expected to be a king, or even a lord. He was born about 1170 to Count Erard II of Brienne and Agnes of Montfaucon, a ...

Francis of Assisi , prior to his episode on the Fifth Crusade , traveled to Rome with his followers to request of the pope permission to fou...

When Francis of Assisi  looked for inspiration about how he should be organizing his new-found life of devotion to God—and because he was d...

It seems unfair that I mention Jacques de Vitry here and here and here , and don't really tell much more than he was a cardinal. He wa...

Were the Crusades successful? If the objective as stated was to put Jerusalem under Christian rule and maintain  that rule, then the Crusade...