Daily Medieval

Yesterday's post introduced Geoffroi de Charny , a third son with no prospects from his family who set out to make a name for himself. H...

Geoffroi de Charny (c.1306 - 19 September 1356) was an extremely accomplished and well-known French knight. He was a third son, which meant ...

When Charles VI died in October 1422, the Treaty of Troyes determined that the Crown would pass to Henry V of England or his successor. Henr...

Charles was born on 22 February 1403, the third "Charles" of his father's sons. His father was King Charles VI, and had a son ...

During the Battle of Neville's Cross , when King David II of Scotland heeded France's request to attack England as part of their Aul...

Scotland's relationship with England has always been an issue on the island of Great Britain. They were "friendly enemies," si...

From his beginnings as a bishop and persecutor of heretics, Jacques Fournier was enthroned as Pope Benedict XII in January 1335. Although h...

England and France were at war for a long time, and neither side was in great shape in the late 1380s. England had been unsuccessful in seve...

From October to November 1386, the Wonderful Parliament took place in Westminster Abbey . Its initial purpose was to discuss King Richard II...

In listing the Great Twelve Livery Companies of medieval London in the order of preference given to them, I deliberately skipped over explai...

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

Primogeniture is actually a "generic" term for different systems of inheritance. The desire by human beings to create a system tha...

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...

To sum up yesterday's post : France considered Flanders their territory, Flanders under Count Robert III fought a war about that and los...

King John the Good of France was captured during the Battle of Poitiers in 1356 and taken to England as a hostage, hosted by King Edward. He...

Historic periods rarely have well-defined dates, unless they can point to a specific event that created definitive change. One can say there...

(If you want to see parts  one  and  two  and three .) If we follow Shakespeare's themes, King Henry V surprised his subjects when his c...

(If you want to see parts one and two .) The second part of the Hundred Years' War was the Caroline Phase, named after Charles V of Fra...

In what can be called the Edwardian Phase of the Hundred Years' War, King Edward III of England fought to keep what territory he had on ...

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...