Daily Medieval

A mistranslation of the word "Israel" in a record from the court of King Æthelstan made it sound that there was a Jew working in ...

Like his grandfather Alfred the Great (and to a lesser extent his father, Edward the Elder), Æthelstan had close ties to the Church. He no...

After the story of Gregorius  by Hartmann von Aue , I became curious if there ever was a pope who was the product of incest. The only pope I...

William Longsword, Count of Rouen and chieftain of Normandy, had one son, Richard, with his Breton concubine Sprota. William was assassinate...

The Ottonians, the Ottonian dynasty, the Ottonian Period in Germany—all these refer to the same topic: a Saxon dynasty of German monarchs (t...

It is not fair to suggest that there was a "feminist movement" in the Middle Ages, but there were many examples of women who did n...

It all started when a knight, Ritter Ramm, was sent by Emperor Otto I to find game while visiting Harzburg. It was winter, with snow everyw...

St. Stephen I, King of Hungary Today's date is important in the history of medieval Hungary for two separate events decades apart. ...