Daily Medieval

There were many reasons why someone would become a pirate, I suppose. It was probably rare that a monk would do so, however. Eustace Bu...

When Philip IV of France convinced Pope Clement V that his campaign against the corruption of the Templars needed to be extended to all Te...

In 1307, on Friday the 13th of October, King Philip of France ordered the head of the Knights of the Temple, Jacques de Molay, arrested alo...

The Wash, with Norfolk on right and Lincolnshire on left King John of England (1166-1216) has so many misfortunes attached to him that i...

Henry, the young king. For a time, the Capetian Dynasty in France had the habit of naming and actually crowning the king's heir in t...

One of the men who went on the Third Crusade (talked about here and here ), wrote accounts of some of the events of that adventure, notably...

The Second Crusade (1145-49) had put a great deal of the Holy Land under European rule, but Saladin (Salah ad-Din Yusuf ibn Ayyub, 1138-1193...