Daily Medieval

Ranulf de Blondeville died in October 1232 without leaving an heir to the title Earl of Chester , so King Henry III needed to choose one. Fo...

When John de Coupland apprehended King David II of Scotland during the Battle of Neville's Cross  in 1346(see illustration), his future...

Alexander de Bicknor had a distinguished career that lasted through three kings of England, Edwards I, II, and III. A person of the same nam...

Sometimes, zeal can backfire. The man who presided over the trial that created the first condemnation for witchcraft in Ireland went a littl...

In 1325, Queen Isabella went to see her brother, King Charles IV of France, to negotiate over Charles' seizing of King Edward II's ...

"High above the river Thames and on the edge of a Saxon hunting ground" William of Normandy built a motte-and-bailey structure fro...

  When King Edward III sent his son Lionel as viceroy of Ireland, there were issues on the agenda regarding the presence of the English in I...

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 ...

On the 28th of May in 1378, a small expedition of 16 men set out from the City of London. In the financial records that manage their pay, on...

[Click here for the start, here for part two.] The Battle of Auray, from an edition of Froissart's Chronicles Things were not l...

When John of Montfort was captured by France during the War of Breton Succession and imprisoned in the Louvre, his wife took up arms to def...

Between 1341 and 1364, while the Hundred Years War was contesting the right of the English king to rule France (or, at least, parts of it...

A page at work Lionel, the son of King Edward III of England and Queen Philippa, was born in Antwerp in Flanders in 1338 during the s...

To Froissart she was "the most beautiful woman in all the realm of England, and the most loving"; in her own right she was the ...

This is the story of a man who got everything he wanted...and possibly more than he deserved. Ralph de Stafford was born 24 September 1...

The Burghers of Calais, by Rodin The story of the Burghers of Calais is one of those that "everyone knows" and no one bothers...

Philippa of Hainault, finally becoming Queen of England Philippa of Hainault has been mentioned as a minor part of the story of the Bat...

Lower classes revolting against taxation and economic unfairness is as old as taxation itself. In 14th century France, a situation arose th...

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...

A 1552 map depicting the Bastille Yesterday was Bastille Day, the anniversary of French peasants storming the Bastille to release priso...