Daily Medieval

We know little of Thomas Usk's early life except that he was born in London. The name Usk appears in several records, but we cannot link...

After the populist mayor of London John Northampton was defeated in the election of 1383 by Nicholas Brembre , Brembre worked to overturn a...

Proving that "what goes around comes around"—although we should probably just allude to the medieval concept of the  Wheel of Fort...

Despite his past as a troublemaker being involved in public brawls, even being imprisoned in the Tower for a time because of one in 1371, Jo...

1376 was a time of unrest in England under King Edward III. The court was considered corrupt, the wealth gap was increasing, the common peop...

John Northampton was a citizen of London his whole life, from a decent-sized family (two brothers and two sisters). He became a cloth mercha...

When the Mayor of London says you have to dress for dinner, you dress for dinner . On the Feast of Pentecost in 1382, the Mayor of London an...