Daily Medieval

Ferdinand III of Castile and his queen, Joan the Countess of Ponthieu, had two children together. One, a son named Ferdinand, went on to bec...

When Alfonso X of Castile looked northward over the Pyrenees and cast his eye on Gascony, Henry III of England decided he needed to do somet...

When Henry III's eldest son was born on 18 June 1239, he gave him an unusual name. Edward was an Anglo-Saxon name, in a court that spoke...

North of the Pyrenees in what we now think of as southwestern France is an area the Romans called Aquitania from the Latin aqua , "wate...

Although we associate the feudal system in the European Middle Ages with a way in which knights and soldiers were provided for the king'...

Simply put, the Hundred Years War was an argument over the rightful ruler(s) of England and France. Officially, it ran from 1337 to 1453, ma...

Diagram of the layout of a  bastide . [ source ] Say you are a king who has conquered a wide territory. Most of it is uncultivated, unu...

The brothers on Bayard arrive in Dordogne. c.1470 Yesterday I mentioned that the Ardennes region in northeast France was a wild area pro...