Daily Medieval

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

Catherine of Siena (25 March 1347 - 29 April 1380) wanted to join the Dominicans and retire from the world. This was not only discouraged b...

Galgano Guidotti (1148 - 3 December 1181) was born at Chiusdino in Tuscany. He became a knight with a reputation for cruelty and arrogance. ...

John Hawkwood (c.1323 - 1394) was an English soldier who became famous as a mercenary leader. Many Italian city-states hired foreign mercena...

Pope Gregory XI arriving in Rome in 1377 Fresco by Giorgio Vasari Pope Gregory XI wanted land. He was the last pope to reside in Avigno...

Funerary monument to Hawkwood This is the story of how an English soldier of no particular background rose to such prominence that a mo...